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Cesc Fábregas and Tomáš Rosický, two old friends met under the prince’s coat of arms …

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Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, now Monaco. Two European champion titles, one world champion. Career like a bell.

Of course, the old friendship is about diplomacy and decency, yet praise from such a star will please.

So nice to see this good old friend and amazing guy after the game last night. I’m sure he could still play with the quality he had! pic.twitter.com/0fHQNbYPB2

– Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@ cesc4official) August 4, 2021

“Sparta has an impressive team. She got into the 3rd preliminary round because she deserved it. They play very aggressive, direct and demanding football. He goes into one-on-one fights all over the field, “said Cesc Fábregas at a press conference after retaliation, in which his team sealed a clear procedure with a 3: 1 home win.

Tomáš Rosický with his son

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“It simply came to our notice then. In the first half, they could punish us for two or three chances. This is the level of the Champions League. I tell my teammates that the French league is one thing, but in the Champions League the level is always higher. You will make one small mistake and your opponent will easily punish you immediately. That’s why we need to learn quickly and improve, “warns Fábregas, 34.

Kovač also joined

However, another compliment landed at the address of the eliminated team.

Monaco coach Niko Kovac and Ruben Aguilar during the match on Sparta.

Vlastimil Vacek, Right

“We played two challenging matches, especially the outdoor one. Sparta moves high, attacks very well and is physically very strong. We saw the data after the match in Prague, even though we were physically better off. I like the style of their play. In my opinion, they will do well in the season, “predicts coach Niko Kovač.

“Sparta and Slavia are the biggest favorites for the title, maybe Pilsen will talk about it. Now the basic group of the European League awaits them, just like last season, in which they played with Lille or AC Milan. I think they will do well in it. Like all the other teams we played with, I will also watch Sparta, “Kovač, a 43-year-old player, a former player and coach of the Croatian national team and Bayern Munich, proves his knowledge of Czech conditions.

In the end, it became a reality and just for the mere fact of feeling football as I felt it playing false 9 with you and seeing the connection that there was, it was all worth it.
You go like him like the best player of all time.
It will never be the same to see barça without you. pic.twitter.com/X4ijt53NGX

– Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@ cesc4official) August 7, 2021

Unlike Sparta, Monaco can look forward to another great attraction. League duels with Paris St. Germain and his star reinforcement Lionel Messi.

“Since I’m from Barcelona, it will be difficult for me to watch her without Leo, but that’s life. I’m glad Messi is in Paris. The quality of Ligue 1 will rise with his arrival. All his teammates ask me a lot about him. They are really looking forward to playing against him. At the same time, it is a challenge for us. I can’t wait to play against Paris. I’m looking forward to it more than last season, “Fábregas smiles.

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Cesc Fábregas and Tomáš Rosický, two old friends met under the prince’s coat of arms …

sparta.cz

Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, now Monaco. Two European champion titles, one world champion. Career like a bell.

Of course, the old friendship is about diplomacy and decency, yet praise from such a star will please.

So nice to see this good old friend and amazing guy after the game last night. I’m sure he could still play with the quality he had! pic.twitter.com/0fHQNbYPB2

– Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@ cesc4official) August 4, 2021

Tomáš Rosický with his son

Sport.cz

Kovač also joined

However, another compliment landed at the address of the eliminated team.

Monaco coach Niko Kovac and Ruben Aguilar during the match on Sparta.

Vlastimil Vacek, Right

In the end, it became a reality and just for the mere fact of feeling football as I felt it playing false 9 with you and seeing the connection that there was, it was all worth it.
You go like him like the best player of all time.
It will never be the same to see barça without you. pic.twitter.com/X4ijt53NGX

– Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@ cesc4official) August 7, 2021

Unlike Sparta, Monaco can look forward to another great attraction. League duels with Paris St. Germain and his star reinforcement Lionel Messi.

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It is unclear when the superstar will play for PSG for the first time. “I dont know. I’m back from vacation, I haven’t been on the pitch for a month, ”said the Argentine, who first went on vacation to Florida and Ibiza after winning the Copa America with the national team. He certainly needs some preparation before he can play again, said Messi. “I hope it will be as early as possible.”

PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi spoke next to the new superstar in the star ensemble of the French capital’s club of a “wonderful and historic day for the club and the football world”. Messi makes football magical and he is a winner, said the 47-year-old proudly and delighted with the coup. “But also for the other clubs, the league and the city of Paris.”

Messi’s move to PSG fixed

After 21 years at FC Barcelona, superstar Lionel Messi signed a two-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain. The lavishly endowed working paper also includes an option for another season in the French capital.

“I hope this will be a great year”

Messi has signed a contract until 2023. After that there is an option for a further year. He should earn at least 35 million euros a year, and he has big plans for sport. “I hope this will be a big year,” said Messi, whose new club has never won the premier class despite great financial efforts. In 2020 they lost the final against Bayern (0: 1), in 2021 they were eliminated in the semifinals.

PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi with his latest transfer coup: Superstar Lionel Messi

As at his farewell press conference in Barcelona on Sunday, Messi was accompanied by his wife and three sons, who were already wearing the new jersey of their famous dad with the number 30. During the appointment, fans celebrated their new star. Messi then went outside to wave to the fans.

“Madness since my arrival”

The “Messimania” had already reached Paris on Tuesday. Several hundred fans had received the superstar at the small Le Bourget airport before PSG made the transfer official the evening after a successful medical check. Messi was now celebrating almost in awe. “I thank the Parisians, it’s been madness since I arrived. That is the icing on the cake, ”emphasized Messi. After the tears when they said goodbye to Barca, joy followed again. “I’ve been very lucky since I arrived here,” said Messi.

In front of the Paris Club shop in the city, the fans lined up patiently and excitedly in a long queue to buy another jersey from the new superstar. Initially, only the original version for women was available in the PSG online shop.

Messi will wear the number he once had on his debut at FC Barcelona: 30. He wanted to leave Neymar’s 10 for his former and now congenial Brazilian strike partner.

Reunited with Neymar

With a Parisian superstar group, only all possible titles can be the goal and the claim. Messi’s decision for PSG was made easier in addition to a certainly very well paid contract, which allegedly also guarantees him the right to be treated by the Argentine national team doctors and to fly to Barcelona when he wants, through those he already knows well from PSG squad. Neymar (formerly also FC Barcelona), Angel di Maria (national team) or coach Mauricio Pochettino.

“That played a role, yes,” said Messi. With Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, he could now form the new dream storm of world football. If Mbappe stays. Al-Khelaifi said: “He’s a Paris player. He wants to win. He has said publicly that he wants a high-performing team. He has her. We can’t do more. “

Lionel Messi and Neymar. — Last opponent at the Copa America, now reunited at the club: the superstars Messi and Neymar

Messi is the masterpiece of the Qatar club owners. 35 titles during his time – with the youth totaling 21 years – at FC Barcelona speak for themselves. “I still remember the first day ten years ago. People asked what we were up to, ”said Al-Khelaifi. Neymar came in the summer of 2017 for the record transfer of 222 million euros, a year later Mbappe for 145 million – Messi comes free and promotes the club to even higher spheres.

Messi is forever grateful to Barcelona

Messi played for Barcelona for 21 years, scoring 672 goals in 778 games for the Catalans. Negotiations had failed after his return last week. PSG announced the commitment on Tuesday evening. He was forever grateful to FC Barcelona and its fans, stressed Messi again. “You know I like to win, that I am a winner. I want to pursue that further. “

His era in Barcelona ended for financial reasons. The club, which was in debt with almost 490 million euros, had gotten itself into a hopeless situation – probably also due to its lavish salary. “If we sign Leo, it will be because we can,” said PSG President Al-Khelaifi, “otherwise we would not have done it.” You know the rules of financial fair play and adhere to them.

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Messi’s move to PSG fixed

“I hope this will be a great year”

PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi with his latest transfer coup: Superstar Lionel Messi

“Madness since my arrival”

Messi will wear the number he once had on his debut at FC Barcelona: 30. He wanted to leave Neymar’s 10 for his former and now congenial Brazilian strike partner.

Reunited with Neymar

Messi is forever grateful to Barcelona

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Due to the dramatic deterioration in the security situation in Afghanistan, Germany is no longer deporting rejected asylum seekers there.

A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday: “Due to the current developments in the security situation, the Federal Minister of the Interior has decided to suspend deportations to Afghanistan for the time being.”

A deportation of six Afghans that was postponed last week will initially not be made up for.

Within a very short time, after the international troop withdrawal, the Taliban overran the country and captured Kunduz, among other thingsPhoto: -/AFP

The security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated dramatically since the decision to withdraw international troops from Afghanistan in mid-April.

The militant Islamist Taliban have now brought nine provincial capitals under their control – on Wednesday they captured Kunduz airport and, after fierce fighting, the city of Faisabad.

► The Taliban now also control the borders in the north of the country: According to this, the Islamists have taken control of the borders with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Taliban had promised not to cross the borders, the newspaper “Kommersant” quoted on Wednesday as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The EU ambassadors represented in Kabul had only spoken out in favor of stopping deportations on Tuesday. 26 organizations, including Amnesty International, Pro Asyl, Caritas and Diakonie, pleaded for it in a joint statement.

The Federal Foreign Office is currently preparing a new asylum situation report for Afghanistan, which is usually the main basis for decisions about deportations. However, this report is not yet available. More than 1,000 migrants have been returned to Afghanistan since 2016, mostly criminals.

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Due to the dramatic deterioration in the security situation in Afghanistan, Germany is no longer deporting rejected asylum seekers there.

A deportation of six Afghans that was postponed last week will initially not be made up for.

Within a very short time, after the international troop withdrawal, the Taliban overran the country and captured Kunduz, among other thingsPhoto: -/AFP

The security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated dramatically since the decision to withdraw international troops from Afghanistan in mid-April.

The militant Islamist Taliban have now brought nine provincial capitals under their control – on Wednesday they captured Kunduz airport and, after fierce fighting, the city of Faisabad.

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Edin Dzeko is about to become a new player of Inter. Roma gave the green light for the transfer of the striker e has filed out the final details with the Nerazzurri club. The Bosnian reached Milan in the morning to carry out the medical visits and sign a two-year contract that will tie him to his new team. Accompanied by his agent Alessandro Lucci, Dzeko left with a flight from Ciampino around 10:30: “A message to the fans? Let’s talk later”, the first words of the Bosnian, who arrived in Milan about an hour later. The former City will carry out the medical tests at the Humanitas clinic, then will go to Coni for thesports fitness. After the sale of Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea for 115 million euros, with the Belgian earning between 12 and 13 million per season, Steven Zhang’s club thus offers the first offensive reinforcement to Simone Inzaghi.

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Dzeko, who will sign a two-year contract for around 5 million euros per season, does not rule out the arrival in Milan of another striker. Tobacco Zapata, in fact, it remains an objective of the Nerazzurri club: Atalanta, however, is not forced to sell and has a very high demand for the Colombian’s card, which would only leave with a player ready to replace him. The discussion with Lazio remains standing for Correa, with the request of the Biancocelesti starting from a base of 37 million plus bonuses. Two other viable routes are those that lead to Scamacca ea Moses Kean, with the latter being assisted by the same agent as Dumfries, right winger that the Nerazzurri would like to bring to Milan.

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After a few weeks of stalemate, the AC Milan transfer market returns to record many movements, both inbound and outbound. In the next few hours, Pioli could have a new right-back and a new vice-Bennacer at his disposal. In the meantime, Maldini and Massara are also thinking about thinning out the squad: after Hauge and Caldara it will be up to Conti, Pobega (on loan) and Castillejo.

THE MOVE OF GETAFE – According to the Madrid newspaper AS, Manuel Garcia Quilon, own representative of Samuel Castillejo, yesterday was a Getafe, in the metropolitan area of the Spanish capital, to negotiate the contract of the Andalusian outsider with the Azulones. The meeting was positive and decisive: club, player and entourage have found an agreement and now the management of Getafe will proceed to inform Milan. In the next few hours he should present an official offer to the club in via Aldo Rossi.

THE POSITION OF AC MILAN – So far the player’s will had been decisive, that he didn’t want to know about leaving Milan. Since the beginning of the transfer market, many mid-table teams in La Liga, like Espanyol, Valencia, Celta Vigo and Betis Sevilla, and including Getafe, they had asked Milan for information. The Rossoneri consider the Spaniard to be on the market, but they value him between 8 and 10 million, figures considered too high by all the contenders.. Now, however, with the closing of the market approaching and thanks to the agreement reached with the player, Getafe is confident to close on more favorable terms.

FUTURE SCENARIOS – After the arrival of Vitolo from Atletico Madrid, the new manager Michel could have another outsider with international experience, who in his previous Spanish adventure, al Villarreal, he had done very well. He could thus free Cucurella, who has many requests and is ready to make the leap in quality. Milan, on the other hand, would finally free up the place with one or two grafts, to build a Champions League trocar.

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Sean Zak

August 11, 2021

Jon Rahm has been the World No. 1 for a total of four weeks.

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The Official World Golf Ranking is getting a facelift. After three years of internal discussions, an analytically-focused approach is set to deliver a more bias-free ranking than ever before.

The OWGR board announced the move Wednesday morning, which will go into effect in August 2022, starting with an omission of bias within the current system.

“Through the use of assigned values in its strength-of-field calculation, which includes tour minimums, flagship tournaments, and the home tour rating, there was some level of bias in the system,” said Billy Schroder, OWGR Technical Committee member. “Which means that there was some level of performances that were either being undervalued or overvalued.”

While the board did not delve into specifics, much has been made of the current system’s bias against PGA Tour players, including a popular 2012 report from Mark Broadie and Richard Rendleman, Jr. The new adjustments to the system are set to address such biases.

Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy have been perennially ranked in the top 10 throughout their careers.

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Updating the system is not exactly a novel decision. As chairman Peter Dawson pointed out in a video conference Tuesday, the OWGR has been adjusted no less than 17 times in its history. The new system, which will debut August 14, 2022, will have new figures involved, like Strokes Gained World Rating, Performance Points and Field Rating. The figures and their impact are each explained below.

Strokes Gained World Rating: a number based entirely on the actual scores in stroke-play events worldwide over a rolling, two-year period. This number will be weighted to include an emphasis on the most recent scores during that two-year period, much like the current system does for recent performances.

Performance Points: a number that correlates directly to a player’s Strokes Gained World Rating, that is used to determine how much world ranking value they bring to a given event.

Field Rating: The total sum of performance points from an event’s field of players. This number will determine how many ranking points are distributed to players at the end of a given event, as is customary in the current system.

Confused? That’s okay. In short, the best players in the world will have the highest Strokes Gained World Rating and will carry with them the highest number of Performance Points to the events they play. Therefore, those events will benefit from having a higher Field Rating. High Field Ratings imply strong events, more world ranking points distributed and more impact on the Official World Golf Ranking. The OWGR board does not expect major changes among the top 10 players in the current system, but could see ranking changes of two to five spots for those closer to 50th in the ranking.

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The aforementioned bias was based in the current system awarding a minimum number of points distributed for various tours across the world. For example, the European Tour’s “flagship” event, the BMW PGA Championship, would always dish out a certain minimum number of ranking points, regardless of who was in the field. That minimum has been eliminated. The updated system will also take into account how players are currently playing, with an emphasis on each event and each round. In other words, Dustin Johnson winning by eight will be worth more to his world ranking than it ever has before. In the past, DJ winning the Masters by one would have been just as valuable to his ranking as an 8-stroke win.

Schroder included on important example of that, just from this past weekend’s WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Cam Davis finished 60th at five over, while Si Woo Kim finished 65th at 13 over. The current system awards no difference between those performances, but the updated system would punish Kim more for finishing in last and for his inability to break par the entire event. Also included in the update is that every player who makes the cut will be rewarded with some ranking points. The current system did not reward every player who made the cut.

A fully analytical approach would simply consider Strokes Gained to be the ultimate law of the land, but the OWGR board was keen to maintain the value of what they called “commonly accepted golf norms.” Things like how professional golf culture puts a premium on winning, and how four events are considered the “pinnacle of the game”: the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship.

This new system will also help add significance to the lower portions of the world ranking, outside the Top 100. As the OWGR board included in its FAQs, “SG World Rating is made possible by the interconnectivity of professional golf. In a given two-year period, there are approximately 2,800 rounds in which 8,600 players post 250,000 scores. With so many rounds in common, professional golfers are interconnected at and through all levels of play.”

As Schroder pointed out, there are currently “thousands of players tied for 1,882nd position with zero ranking points.” The new system will certainly provide substance to that part of the ranking that didn’t exist before.

Sean Zak

Golf.com Editor

A senior editor for GOLF.com, Zak joined the GOLF staff three weeks after college graduation. He is the utility infielder of the brand, spanning digital, print and video. His main duty is as a host for various GOLF.com video properties and its award-winning podcasts. When the Masters comes around, be sure to tune in to hear him and fellow staffers recount the most memorable tournaments in Augusta National history on A Pod Unlike Any Other.

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By:

Sean Zak

August 11, 2021

Jon Rahm has been the World No. 1 for a total of four weeks.

Getty Images

The Official World Golf Ranking is getting a facelift. After three years of internal discussions, an analytically-focused approach is set to deliver a more bias-free ranking than ever before.

The OWGR board announced the move Wednesday morning, which will go into effect in August 2022, starting with an omission of bias within the current system.

Strokes Gained World Rating: a number based entirely on the actual scores in stroke-play events worldwide over a rolling, two-year period. This number will be weighted to include an emphasis on the most recent scores during that two-year period, much like the current system does for recent performances.

Performance Points: a number that correlates directly to a player’s Strokes Gained World Rating, that is used to determine how much world ranking value they bring to a given event.

Field Rating: The total sum of performance points from an event’s field of players. This number will determine how many ranking points are distributed to players at the end of a given event, as is customary in the current system.

Sean Zak

Golf.com Editor

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Will Zalatoris has strong ties to North Carolina as a former standout at Wake Forest. After four career victories while a Demon Deacon, Zalatoris turned professional a semester early in December 2017 to head out on Tour.

Back in town for the Wyndham Championship this week, the last regular-season stop on the PGA Tour’s 2020-21 schedule, Zalatoris already has visited with his college coach Jerry Haas as well as taken a stroll around campus with his fiancée. It’s where the two met.

“I saw Webb (Simpson) in the locker room earlier and we were kind of joking that there’s a pretty good chance we’ll end up getting paired together,” Zalatoris said of a fellow former Deacon. “Yeah, it’s going to be great. Obviously I played on the Arnold Palmer Scholarship here at Wake and I had a really great time here. Every time I come back, it’s almost spiritual in a weird way.

“Obviously we all love our alma mater, but it was really fun walking around campus yesterday.”

Will Zalatoris watches his approach shot on the 10th hole during a practice round for The 149th British Open at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Andy Buchanan-AFP via Getty Images)

It’s a win-or-die kind of week for Zalatoris at the Wyndham, where he’s playing on a sponsor exemption. As a Special Temporary Member on the PGA Tour, he is not eligible for the playoffs, which begin next week, unless he wins at Sedgefield Country Club this week.

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After injuring himself hitting out of thick rough at the British Open—he ultimately withdrew after the first round at Royal St. George’s—the 24-year-old said it’s “still a pretty big effort every day to get moving.” Before last week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational (where he finished T-8, by the way), Zalatoris was 50-50 on playing out the regular season.

“I hadn’t touched a golf club since the British at that point,” he said. “I just said, you know what, the docs said here’s your parameters, this is what you need to look for, and I went out and actually played on that Sunday and actually felt pretty good, was moving a lot better than I thought. I’m not really getting off my right side. I mean, when you see the distances that I’m hitting balls, you’re thinking, oh, he’s fine, but I typically like hitting kind of a cover cut a lot and I’m just kind of hanging on my back foot and hitting a really high draw.

“I’m getting my speed up and it’s been consistent, but I’m doing okay. I mean, it’s kind of one of those things where I’m just going to keep listening to my body in terms of future plans. Obviously this week, it’s win or go home. Second means as much as missing a cut, so I’ve got nothing to lose this week, but obviously were I not to win, I’m going to keep listening to my body, but as a backup plan, definitely looking at going to Europe.”

There’s a comfort factor at Sedgefield this week that may work to Zalatoris’s advantage. Despite not having played here since 2018, he calls Sedgefield’s greens some of the best on Tour. He’s particularly partial to fast greens (see example: Zalatoris’s run at the Masters title in April at Augusta National).

Zalatoris has a new Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 putter in play, too. Chalk up the switch to needing to pass the time while not hitting full shots for a couple of weeks because of injury.

“The boredom was kicking in and hitting a few putts whenever I could,” he said. “It’s been a great switch.”

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“Obviously we all love our alma mater, but it was really fun walking around campus yesterday.”

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Zalatoris has a new Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 putter in play, too. Chalk up the switch to needing to pass the time while not hitting full shots for a couple of weeks because of injury.

“The boredom was kicking in and hitting a few putts whenever I could,” he said. “It’s been a great switch.”

[date_timestamp] => 1628682760 ) [7] => Array ( [title] => Dodgers Ball Girl Goes Viral After Tackling NFL Fan Who Took The Field [link] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/dodgers-ball-girl-goes-viral-after-tackling-nfl-fan-who-took-the-field/ [comments] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/dodgers-ball-girl-goes-viral-after-tackling-nfl-fan-who-took-the-field/#respond [dc] => Array ( [creator] => Susan Hally ) [pubdate] => Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:36:35 +0000 [category] => NewsballDodgersfanfieldgirlNFLtacklingViral [guid] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/dodgers-ball-girl-goes-viral-after-tackling-nfl-fan-who-took-the-field/ [description] => Los Angeles Dodgers fans have recently been the note of MLB, since there have been... [content] => Array ( [encoded] =>

Los Angeles Dodgers fans have recently been the note of MLB, since there have been recent episodes in which there are fights, bad behaviors and other situations involving the fans of the current World Series champions, such as in the series against the Houston Astros where his behavior left a lot to be desired. And in the face of all this, incidents keep happening.

On August 8 at the meeting between the Angels and the Dodgers in the so-called “Freeway Series”, a fan jumped onto the field of play and began to run through the outfield avoiding the security of the stadium that was trying to catch him. Upon reaching the right field foul line, that section’s ball girl, Marissa Rohan, tackled the madman who was looking to jump into the stands again and escape.

Spectacularly, the fan bucked against the fence and practically did a full flip to the front to land in a sitting position ready for security to catch him and carry him away, with Rohan receiving a standing ovation from the other fans present. at Dodger Stadium before his great tackle.

Rohan is a 24-year-old student at California State University and played softball and was a gymnast at her university, while she is a ball girl for the Dodgers, her boyfriend works at the stadium box office.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and am going for my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils, and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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[date_timestamp] => 1628681795 ) [8] => Array ( [title] => Lionel Messi dreams of Champions League win at Paris St-Germain [link] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/lionel-messi-dreams-of-champions-league-win-at-paris-st-germain/ [comments] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/lionel-messi-dreams-of-champions-league-win-at-paris-st-germain/#respond [dc] => Array ( [creator] => Susan Hally ) [pubdate] => Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:20:41 +0000 [category] => NewsChampionsdreamsLeagueLionelMessiParisStGermainwin [guid] => https://worldsportsnews.xyz/lionel-messi-dreams-of-champions-league-win-at-paris-st-germain/ [description] => PSG are ‘ready to fight for all the trophies’ – Messi Lionel Messi said he... [content] => Array ( [encoded] =>

Lionel Messi said he dreams of winning the Champions League once more after joining Paris St-Germain, adding: “I think we have the team to do it here.”

The Argentina captain, 34, won four Champions League titles with Barcelona, the last of which came in 2015.

PSG are still searching for their first title in the competition, having lost to Bayern Munich in the 2020 final.

“My goal and my dream is to win the Champions League once more,” Messi said as he was unveiled as a PSG player.

Messi left Barcelona – who he joined aged 13 – as they were unable to afford a new deal under La Liga’s financial fair play rules.Considered one of the greatest players of all time, he scored a record 672 goals in 778 games for the Catalan giants.

He won the Ballon d’Or a record six times and lifted 35 trophies during his time at the Nou Camp, but said he is excited to “begin this new moment of my life” after a “difficult” departure from Barcelona.

“It was a difficult change after so long a time,” he told reporters at the Parc des Princes. “But the moment I arrived here, I felt very happy and I really want to begin the training sessions. I want it to be quick.

“My only will now is to begin the training sessions. I want to work with the staff and team-mates and begin this new moment of my life.

“I have this will to play. I am really impatient. I still want to win, as I did the first moment of my career.

“I feel this club is ready to fight for all the trophies. This is my goal, I want to keep growing and keep winning titles and that is why I came to this club.”

‘It would be nice to go back to Barcelona’

Adding Messi – who has signed a two-year contract with the option of a third – to an already talent-rich squad is a major step in PSG’s quest to reach the European summit.

After losing to Manchester City in last season’s semi-finals, the Parisians – who also lost their Ligue 1 crown to Lille last term – have recruited Champions League winners in Sergio Ramos, Georginio Wijnaldum and Messi.

However, Messi is aware that in order to lift the trophy for a fifth time, he may have to face Barcelona along the way, and admits that playing at the Nou Camp in PSG’s colours would be “very strange”.

“Barcelona is my home – I have been there since I was a kid and I’ve lived so many things there,” he added.

“I don’t know if we are going to face each other – it would be very nice to go back to Barcelona.

“It will be very strange to play at home there in Barcelona with another shirt but it can happen and we will see.”

‘We have the most competitive team in the world’

Messi’s arrival in the French capital completes one of the most formidable attacking lines in history. The South American is poised to play in PSG’s frontline alongside the two most expensive players of all time – former Barcelona team-mate Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi believes that recruiting Messi will be decisive in keeping Mbappe at the club, with the 2018 World Cup winner’s contract set to expire in 2022.

“He wanted a competitive team and I think we have the most competitive in the world, so there is no excuse for him now – he can’t do anything else but stay,” said Al-Khelaifi.

Defending the club’s spending, Al-Khelaifi added: “What you as a media need to focus is not only the negative side but the positive side he will bring to the club.

“We checked with our financial people and knew that we could sign him. Through it all we look at financial fair play and always we will fulfil financial fair play regulations.”

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Lionel Messi said he dreams of winning the Champions League once more after joining Paris St-Germain, adding: “I think we have the team to do it here.”

The Argentina captain, 34, won four Champions League titles with Barcelona, the last of which came in 2015.

PSG are still searching for their first title in the competition, having lost to Bayern Munich in the 2020 final.

“My goal and my dream is to win the Champions League once more,” Messi said as he was unveiled as a PSG player.

“My only will now is to begin the training sessions. I want to work with the staff and team-mates and begin this new moment of my life.

“I have this will to play. I am really impatient. I still want to win, as I did the first moment of my career.

“I feel this club is ready to fight for all the trophies. This is my goal, I want to keep growing and keep winning titles and that is why I came to this club.”

‘It would be nice to go back to Barcelona’

Adding Messi – who has signed a two-year contract with the option of a third – to an already talent-rich squad is a major step in PSG’s quest to reach the European summit.

“Barcelona is my home – I have been there since I was a kid and I’ve lived so many things there,” he added.

“I don’t know if we are going to face each other – it would be very nice to go back to Barcelona.

“It will be very strange to play at home there in Barcelona with another shirt but it can happen and we will see.”

‘We have the most competitive team in the world’

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi believes that recruiting Messi will be decisive in keeping Mbappe at the club, with the 2018 World Cup winner’s contract set to expire in 2022.

“He wanted a competitive team and I think we have the most competitive in the world, so there is no excuse for him now – he can’t do anything else but stay,” said Al-Khelaifi.

Defending the club’s spending, Al-Khelaifi added: “What you as a media need to focus is not only the negative side but the positive side he will bring to the club.

“We checked with our financial people and knew that we could sign him. Through it all we look at financial fair play and always we will fulfil financial fair play regulations.”

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Obviously, no transfer will come close to that of Lionel Messi. The arrival at Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) of the best player in the world, six-fold Golden Ball, made official on Tuesday August 10, crushes everything in its path. However, the summer transfer window is not limited to this exceptional transfer. Thus, some clubs in the world of football have not hesitated to relinquish substantial sums to attract the most promising African players.

The Moroccan Achraf Hakimi, new recruit of Paris-Saint-Germain, at the Parc des Princes, in Paris, on July 8, 2021.

PSG, again, paid Inter Milan 60 million euros (plus 11 million euros in bonus) to acquire the Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi (22 years old), a player trained at Real Madrid. His former captain in the national team, Mehdi Benatia (34 years old), has meanwhile decided to leave the Al-Duhail club (Qatar) to return to Europe. The former defender of Bayern Munich and Juventus Turin has signed up with the modest club of Fatih Karagümrük (Turkey), where he will receive an annual salary (excluding bonuses) of 2 million euros, significantly less than during his three seasons in the Persian Gulf, where he broke 5 million euros.

If Mehdi Benatia leaves Qatar, other African players arrive. This is the case of the Tunisian Ferjani Sassi (29 years old), recruited by Al-Duhail from the prestigious Zamalek club in Cairo. Algerian Djamel benlamri (31 years old) left Lyon to join the Qatar Sports Club. This is also the case forAndre Ayew (31 years old): the Ghanaian, at the end of his contract with Swansea City (Wales), will play in a club against which his father, Abedi Pelé (ex-Marseille player), played in 1983 when he was playing under the colors of Al-Sadd Sports Club.

John Obi Mikel (34), the former captain of the Nigeria Super Eagles, also left the UK and Stoke City to land in Kuwait SC. The 2013 African champion will discover his eighth club there. This training also recruited the Congolese veteran Dieumerci Mbokani (35 years old), at the end of his contract with Royal Antwerp. As for Ben malongo (27), striker of the Leopards of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he chose Sharjah SC, after two full seasons at Raja Casablanca. The Emirati club paid 3.5 million euros in transfer fees.

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But it is in Europe that the transfer market is most lively. Thus, the Ukrainian club of Chakhtar Donetsk paid 10 million euros to Ajax Amsterdam to acquire the Burkinabé striker Lassina Traore (20 years). In Spain, Villareal, winner of the 2020-2021 Europa League, found the arguments to convince Betis Sevilla and Stade de Reims to release the Algerian defender respectively Aïssa Mandi (29 years old) and the Senegalese striker Boulaye Dia (24 years). The sale of the first brought in 8 million euros to the Andalusian club, while 14 million euros arrived in the Champagne coffers.

Free since his tumultuous departure from Galatasaray in March – he had criticized the Istanbul club and its leaders in an interview – the Moroccan Younes Belhanda (31 years old) decided to stay in Turkey. He will play this season at Adana Demirspor, promoted to Ligue 1, where he will earn 1.5 million euros per year. Gabonese midfielder Mario Lemina (27 years old) is back in France. The former Olympique de Marseille and Juventus Turin player left Southampton for Nice. The English club have recovered 4.5 million euros.

However, the amount of transactions can be much larger, including for players without much notoriety. Thus, Stade Rennes bought the young Ghanaian striker Kamaldeen Sulemana (19 years old) 15 million euros at FC Nordsjaelland (Denmark). England’s Brighton have paid € 23m to lure the Zambian midfielder to the Premier League Enock Mwepu (23 years old), from Salzburg. As much as Bayer Leverkusen for the Ivorian defender Odilon Kossounou (20 years old), who until then played at FC Bruges.

The Ivorian Maxwel Cornet in Lyon, August 3, 2020.

The last three weeks of the transfer window should be particularly busy. Thus, the Ivorian Jeremiah Boga (24) is courted by Nice, Marseille, Lyon and Atalanta Bergamo, which has sent an offer of 23 million euros to his club in Sassuolo (Italy). His compatriot Maxwel Cornet (24 years old), to whom Lyon granted an exit voucher, interests the English of Burnley and the Germans of Hertha Berlin. The transfer is expected to be negotiated around 12 million euros.

Senegalese Mbaye Niang (26 years old), under contract with Rennes, has no shortage of suitors. Besides Nantes and Venice, Anderlecht, Celtic Glasgow and Nottingham Forest are interested in the Lion of Teranga, which is estimated to be worth 5 million euros. His teammate in selection, Keita Balde (26), whose future seems blocked in Monaco, could engage with Inter Milan. Algerian Islam Slimani | (33) could leave Lyon for the benefit of Sporting Lisbon or the Saudis of Al-Hilal or Al-Ittihad Jeddah.

Read also Football: the tops and flops of the African selections in 2020-2021

Moroccan Hakim Ziyech (28) will he tread the Italian lawns this season? Under contract with Chelsea, the midfielder was for a time targeted by Lyon, but the French club, cooled by the player’s monthly salary (500,000 euros) and the amount of a possible transfer (40 million euros), withdrew from the race. Today it is AC Milan which seems best placed to welcome him.

Finally, the Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly (30 years old) has no shortage of suitors: PSG, Everton, Real Madrid, Manchester United … But Naples does not plan to give up his player for less than 50 million euros, while no offer greater than 35 million has not yet reached the desk of Aurelio de Laurentiis, the president of the club, hard in business …

Alexis Billebault

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