Khaled Mahmud to be Bangladesh assistant coach

Khaled Mahmud has been appointed assistant coach for the national side, while bowling coach Champaka Ramanayake’s contract was extended to March 2010

Cricinfo staff14-Sep-2009

Khaled Mahmud took charge of a ten-day camp for the national side ahead of their successful West Indies tour•Bangladesh Cricket Board

Khaled Mahmud, the former Bangladesh captain, has been appointed assistant coach of the national side, while bowling coach Champaka Ramanayake’s contract has been extended to March 2010.Mahmud, who took charge of a ten-day training camp for the national side ahead of their successful West Indies tour in the absence of national coach Jamie Siddons, had been operations manager of the National Cricket Academy.With the Asia Cup scheduled for next June, the Bangladesh board has agreed in principle to reschedule its tour of England also slotted for the same month. The two boards are yet to finalise the new dates.The board extended the contracts of age-group selectors Ehsanul Haque and Sajjad Ahmed till June 30 2010 but will review fielding coach Mohammad Salahuddin’s contract after the home series against Zimbabwe in November.The agreement between the board and the national team sponsors Grameenphone will be extended to November 15, 2009 since its original expiry date fell between the Zimbabwe series.

Ismael must turn to WBA’s Tom Fellows

West Brom’s first Championship match in December sees them take on Coventry City away from home at the weekend.

Albion have racked up an incredibly mixed bag of results throughout October and November with the Baggies heading into the match at Coventry with three draws and a defeat in their four previous league games with just one goal scored.

In terms of what XI Valerien Ismael could pick to start the match, there’s one area of the pitch that could give the boss some cause for concern on this occasion.

With Jake Livermore and Jayson Molumby serving bans and Robert Snodgrass seemingly out of the frame altogether, it seems as though Ismael could have a decision to make over who will play alongside Alex Mowatt in central-midfield.

Opportunity knocks

One player that could take advantage of this situation and make his mark on the team is 18-year-old Tom Fellows, who has been on the substitutes bench for West Brom’s two previous league games.

Despite predominantly playing on the right-hand side of the pitch or left-hand side on occasions in the past, this could be the opportunity that Fellows has been waiting for to show Ismael what he can do in the senior team to see if he can do a job for them in a new central role.

With West Brom u18 manager Peter Gilbert previously saying that Fellows has “physical aspects which can hurt teams, no matter which position he plays in,” this suggests that the youngster could have what it takes to at least fill in for the missing senior central-midfielders on this occasion and possibly even transform how the team plays altogether.

Indeed, with four goal involvements in Premier League 2 this term, there is certainly a case to be made that he could influence proceedings in the final third for the Albion first-team.

However, given how West Brom could really do with a win to get their season back on track and keep them in the race for a promotion place back to the Premier League, Ismael may see it as too much of a risk to play an inexperienced youngster in an unfamiliar position against senior opposition.

That said, if Ismael took the gamble and put Fellows in from the start against Coventry and he manages to make the most out of the opportunity and impress his manager, this could well spark the start of his senior career at The Hawthorns, which would surely be incredibly exciting for the fans.

In other news: “Industrious” WBA monster with 12 key passes was Ismael’s shining light in November – opinion

لوكا يوفيتش: ظننت أنني أحلم حين رأيت ليفاندوفسكي للمرة الأولى في الملعب

روبرت ليفاندوفسكي هو حديث عالم كرة القدم الأوروبية بعد ظهوره الرائع في دوري أبطال أوروبا بقميص برشلونة.

وفي مقابلة مع وسائل الإعلام الرسمية بالاتحاد الأوروبي لكرة القدم، استذكر لوكا يوفيتش مهاجم ريال مدريد السابق تأثير الظهور لأول مرة في المسابقة القارية ضد ليفاندوفسكي.

وقال المهاجم الذي يلعب الآن مع نادي فيورنتينا الإيطالي: “أتذكر ظهوري الأول مع بنفيكا في دوري أبطال أوروبا أمام بايرن ميونخ بشكل جيد للغاية”.

وتابع: “كان عمري 18 عامًا وقد وصلت للتو من صربيا، دخلت في الدقيقة 85 ولم أفهم شيئًا، كانت هناك ركلة ثابتة حيث كنت أقف وأنا أنظر إلى ليفاندوفسكي، أرتورو فيدال.. كنت أنظر إليهما وأفكر هل هذا كل شيء؟ كنت أنظر إليهما وأفكر هل هذا صحيح أم أنا أحلم؟ سأتذكر ذلك لبقية حياتي”.

اقرأ أيضًا | جارسيا: ليفاندوفسكي يتوقع الأشياء في الملاعب قبل حدوثها.. ويمكن مقارنته بسواريز وليس هالاند

يوفيتش الذي لم يثبت نفسه في المواسم الأخيرة مع ريال مدريد، يريد العودة إلى صدارة كرة القدم الأوروبية مع فيورنتينا.

وأفاد: “أنا مستعد للعودة إلى مستواي القديم، ولهذا، من المهم جدًا اللعب في أوروبا، نود جميعًا أن نكون في فريق يلعب دوري أبطال أوروبا، لكن دوري المؤتمرالأوروبي يمنحنا فرصة جديدة وأعتقد أن فيورنتينا من بين المرشحين للفوز بها، لدينا الجودة للوصول إلى النهائي”.

Sidão foca 47 pontos, lembra Bota e celebra: 'Agora, posso ter vida social'

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Sidão curte nesses dois dias de folga dados por Dorival Júnior a consequência de sua grande atuação na vitória por 1 a 0 sobre o Sport, no domingo, que tirou o São Paulo da zona de rebaixamento do Brasileiro. O goleiro celebra que tem vida social, passeando com a família. Mas pede pés no chão e lembra de quando atuou no Botafogo, no ano passado, que não perdeu de foco a busca pela pontuação que garante o clube na Série A e chegou à Libertadores.

– Foi uma lição que tive no Botafogo. Se puder, vou passar aqui. É focar nos 47 pontos para afastar de vez esse fantasma. Aí, vendo onde estamos na tabela, podemos brigar por coisa melhor. Mas é fazer logo essa pontuação para encerrar o assunto de rebaixamento. Está muito embolado. Com qualquer resultado negativo, a gente pode voltar para a zona de rebaixamento. É manter o foco para continuar subindo na tabela – disse Sidão ao Sportv.

O Tricolor passou 13 rodadas na zona de rebaixamento, mas, agora, com 31 pontos, está em 14º lugar, a um ponto da faixa de descenso. Como o elenco só se reapresenta na tarde desta quarta-feira, cabe a Sidão, o herói do São Paulo no fim de semana, curtir a vida com tranquilidade, finalmente.

– Dá para sair de casa, né? Eu até estava passeando no shopping com a minha esposa agora pouco. Dá para ter vida social. Na zona de rebaixamento, nós nos privamos disso, por respeito ao torcedor. Agora, fora da zona de rebaixamento, tenho vida social – comentou, feliz com sua reviravolta no clube, após sofrer com críticas.

– A vida ensina muita coisa. Já me bateu bem forte. Cheguei ao São Paulo no começo do ano pegando pênalti, todos falando bem para caramba de mim, depois tive uma fase bem ruim, sofri bastante. Passei um tempo difícil pessoalmente, no tempo em que fiquei fora por conta da lesão, incapacitado de fazer o que gosta, mas voltei trabalhando forte. É trabalhar sério, com pés no chão, para ajudar o São Paulo.

Nesse momento de alta, Sidão não cansa de falar em Rogério Ceni, responsável por sua contratação, no começo do ano. E o Mito, que viaja pela Europa para continuar se especializando na função de treinador, fez questão de felicitar o camisa 12 pelas defesas que fez contra o Sport.

– Sou grato ao Rogério. Sei como é difícil ter contato com o Rogério. É, realmente, um privilégio poder trocar mensagens com ele. Ele me mandou parabéns da Inglaterra. Sou grato a Deus por tê-lo colocado no meu caminho e a ele por ter aberto as portas do São Paulo para mim, ainda mais sendo o maior ídolo, tendo jogado na posição. E teve um pouco de paz, vendo que acertou no cara que trouxe – comentou, rindo ao se comparar com Ceni.

– O Rogério, em um jogo como esse, faria um gol de falta ou de pênalti e salvado no fim. Não fiz gol, mérito do Marquinhos (Marcos Guilherme), mas fiz minha parte, graças a Deus, junto com companheiros, com a galera ajudando na área para tirar a bola.

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Dropped catch adds to Younis' woes

Questions will be raised over whether it was right that Younis Khan took part, carrying an injury

Osman Samiuddin in Johannesburg04-Oct-2009

Younis Khan turned in a series of stuttered innings holding back whatever start Pakistan’s openers often provided•AFP

Younis Khan has not had, personally, a tournament to remember. He fractured his finger in a warm-up game and missed his side’s opening game. Despite being advised four weeks rest, he returned to play against India with hopes of a memorable contribution and played in the rest of their games with the injury.But he struggled with the bat, a series of stuttered innings holding back whatever start Pakistan’s openers often provided. The injury – to the small finger on his right and bottom hand – visibly hindered his batting and his 15 against New Zealand completed a tournament where he made just 53 runs. More pertinently tonight, the injury led to Younis dropping a sitter, off Grant Elliott, at a crucial moment in the game.Elliott was struggling along on 42 in the 40th over when Mohammad Aamer came back into the attack as Pakistan searched for wickets. Elliott drove limply to short cover, where Younis tried to take, awkwardly, with fingers pointing up, but dropped. New Zealand were 165 for 4 at the time and the drop had about it the feel of a match-turning moment. Soon after Elliott finally opened up, and with solid help from Daniel Vettori saw his side through to the final.Younis, usually a safe catcher and Pakistan’s most reliable slip fielder, agreed later that it was an important miss. “Actually it was very crucial. It was a simple one but I just dropped it. Maybe after that catch, things would’ve changed. It’s the broken finger more than anything. I was trying to save the finger.”Questions will be raised over whether it was right that Younis took part, carrying an injury. But if he had not played there would likely have been outrage at him shirking responsibility. This one battle, he wasn’t going to win.”I dropped that catch and I will remember it because maybe the situation would’ve changed,” said Younis. “But if you play for the country with a broken finger…in previous matches I got a run-out and a good catch and people praised it, saying he is doing it with a broken finger. Today we made some mistakes and lost and paid for it so, I am not worried just about dropping the catch.”

رسميًا.. المصري يعلن عن رابع صفقاته الصيفية

أتم مجلس إدارة النادي المصري برئاسة كامل أبو علي، إجراءات التعاقد مع عمرو سعداوي مدافع فريق الجونة بعقد يمتد لأربعة مواسم اعتبارًا من الموسم الجديد 2023/2022 وحتى نهاية موسم 2026/2025.

وقام اللاعب بالتوقيع على تعاقده مع القلعة الخضراء بعد إنهاء كافة الإجراءات المتعلقة بإتمام الصفقة مع إدارة فريق الجونة.

طالع | المصري يعلن التعاقد مع مهاجم نيجيري جديد قادمًا من الدوري القطري

الجدير بالذكر أن اللاعب عمرو سعداوي والبالغ من العمر 25 عامًا يشغل مركز الظهير الأيسر، وقد سبق اللعب لصفوف كافة منتخبات مصر للناشئين والشباب وكذلك المنتخب الأولمبي.

ولعب السعداوي بناشئي النادي الأهلي قبل أن ينتقل إلى صفوف فريق الجونة ويتألق بين صفوفه، ليتلقى اللاعب وناديه عددًا من العروض، إلا أن اللاعب فضل الانتقال لصفوف القلعة الخضراء.

وكان المصري قد نجح خلال فترة الانتقالات الصيفية الحالية في ضم مروان حمدي والنيجيري أنتوني أكبوتو وحسين السيد لاعب الأهلي وبيراميدز السابق.

Bruno Silva quer 'fazer história' e promete Botafogo na Liberta 2018

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As grandes possibilidade do Botafogo disputar a Taça Libertadores pela segunda vez consecutiva, algo inédito na história do clube, animam o volante Bruno Silva. Ele revelou que a chance de fazer história motiva o elenco e prometeu a vaga em 2018.

– A Libertadores foi um Campeonato em que muitos de nós (do elenco) disputamos pela primeira vez e gostamos muito de jogar. Será umfeito inédito para o Botafogo e vamos atrás disso. Queremos marcar história e brigar por títulos. Esse ano ficamos muito perto, mas temos que continuar o trabalho está sendo bem feito. Somos muito fechados, um cobra o outro, brincadeira e alegria independente do resultado. A gente vai atrás dessa vaga – comentou Bruno.

O Botafogo está em sexto, com 43 pontos. O time Alvinegro é o vice-líder do returno, com seis vitórias em oito rodadas e 18 pontos. O Cruzeiro lidera, com 20, mas a Raposa tem um jogo a mais. No próximo sábado, às 19h, o time de Bruno Silva e comandado por Jair Ventura visita o Vasco, no Maracanã, em jogo da 28° rodada do Brasileirão.

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India retain squad for next two ODIs

The Indian selectors have named an unchanged squad for the next two ODIs against Australia

Cricinfo staff28-Oct-2009SquadMS Dhoni (capt/wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Amit Mishra, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, Sudeep Tyagi, Yuvraj SinghThe Indian selectors have named an unchanged squad for the next two ODIs against Australia. India’s selection chairman, Kris Srikkanth, announced the squad in Nagpur after India squared the series at 1-1.India’s fast bowlers have had some problems of late but bounced back in the second ODI in Nagpur to help level the series. The selectors have retained faith in Ishant Sharma, about who there had been plenty of criticism coming into the series. Munaf Patel and Sudeep Tyagi, yet to feature, have been retained.”The team’s performance today was outstanding,” Srikkanth said. “All of them played well without exception. The old MS Dhoni was seen today. He was brilliant. So too were Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and others. Beating a team like Australia by 99 runs is not a joke. This would give India the confidence to do well in the rest of the series.”The third and fourth ODIs are in Delhi and Mohali on October 31 and November 2.

NUFC dealt potential DoF setback

Since the new owners at Newcastle United took charge of the Tyneside club back in early October, the Toon have only managed to win one league game.

Taking the focus away from the players on the pitch and how the team are getting on, with it being well documented in recent weeks that Newcastle are looking to appoint a director of football to take the club forward off the pitch, it seems as though they could be set to miss out on one of their potential candidates.

What’s the latest?

It was recently reported by Newcastle journalist Craig Hope in the Daily Mail that ex-Swansea recruitment chief Andy Scott has been mentioned with the role

However, in a fresh twist, a different report from Football Insider has now claimed that Scott has agreed a deal to join Championship club Middlesbrough instead.

He left his role at Swansea only a few days ago after being appointed back in July 2019 by ex-Swansea chairman Trevor Birch, around a month after Steve Cooper was named head coach at the Championship club.

Huge blow

If this report from Football Insider is true and Scott does end up joining Middlesbrough in the coming days, this surely won’t be good news for Amanda Staveley and co as one of their targets will have to be chalked off the list and therefore narrow down their remaining options for the role.

Moving forward, it would be in the club’s best interest if they secured a director as soon as possible but make sure they get the right person in to give them the best chance of not only potentially securing the best possible incoming transfers in January but to make sure the club is running how it should be and how the owners want it to be run for the foreseeable future under their reign.

It’s a shame because Scott would have been an impressive capture by the Magpies. He helped steer the Swans to consecutive play-off finishes while acquiring the likes of Ryan Manning and Jamal Lowe. Per SofaScore, the former ranks as the club’s seventh-best performer this term while Lowe bagged 14 in his debut campaign in Wales.

Thus, he evidently has a keen eye for spotting talent and surely could have brought a great deal of expertise to St James’ Park. In turn, Staveley will quite understandably be gutted if he moves elsewhere, especially to a rival in the northeast.

Nonetheless, they will have to find somebody else and with the Toon managing to concede 30 league goals in their 15 games so far this season, they need to identify a candidate quickly to fix their vast issues.

In other news: NUFC could land the next Xavi with £31.5m-rated gem who “always finds the best escape” – opinion

Jair valoriza atuação em casa e lembra polêmica do primeiro turno

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Não basta vencer. Tem que convencer. Enfim, ter uma atuação de gala. É essa a cobrança que torcedor faz ao seu time de futebol. E Jair Ventura garante: não faltou nada disso ao Botafogo no triunfo de 2 a 1 sobre o Corinthians, na noite desta segunda-feira, no Nilton Santos. O técnico do Alvinegro foi além e classificou a partida como uma das melhores do time na temporada.

– A partida está entre nossos melhores jogos do ano. Foi uma grande apresentação. Gostei mais do primeiro tempo do que do segundo. No primeiro tivemos mais o controle, no segundo conseguimos logo o gol, quando fizemos o segundo botaram dois homens de área, aí acabou o jogo. Mas também há jogos que a gente tem mais posse, mas não vence – comentou o treinador do Botafogo, antes de completar:

– Vimos duas equipes buscando o jogo, finalizamos quase o dobro do que nosso adversário, jogamos melhor e merecemos a vitória. Vencemos muitos times que estão acima da gente, temos feitos bons resultados contra essas grandes equipes também. E contra o líder – completou Jair.

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Arbitragem
​Quem conhece o treinador do Botafogo sabe: ele não gosta de falar de arbitragem. No jogo do Nilton Santos, mais uma vez, ela roubou a cena: no fim do jogo, os corintianos ficaram na bronca por um pênalti de Igor Rabello em Jô, no último lance.

O técnico do Botafogo até tentou deixar a arbitragem de lado, para manter o padrão, mas acabou lembrando de polêmicas do primeiro turno, quando o Corinthians venceu por 1 a 0. Na ocasião, o time paulista teve um pênalti mal marcado e desperdiçado pelo mesmo Jô.

– Sigo minha linha de não falar de arbitragem. Tirar essa vitória do Botafogo por um lance no último minuto seria injusto. Não existe justiça no futebol, mas é algo que faz parte. Lá também teve um lance meio duvidoso… Ah, não posso falar (risadas). Teve um pênalti fora da área que foi marcado dentro, mas isso já passou… – finalizou o comandante.

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