AMSTERDAM: Ajax Amsterdam will have to change their playing style after the sale of Hakim Ziyech to Chelsea and the possibility of up to six others leaving before the new season in the Netherlands starts, coach Erik ten Hag said as they began pre-season training. Ziyech was one of the […]
Month: August 2020
Official figures from Brazil have shown a big increase in the number of fires in the Amazon region in July compared with the same month last year. Satellite images compiled by Brazil’s National Space Agency revealed there were 6,803 – a rise of 28%. President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged agricultural […]
TOULOUSE: Italian sprinter Sonny Colbrelli of the Bahrain-McLaren team won a bunch sprint on stage two of the four-day French Route d’Occitanie race on Sunday after a 174.5km run from Carcassonne to Cap Decouverte. Britain’s Chris Froome and Colombian Tour de France champion Egan Bernal are warming up on the […]
REUTERS: When Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte faces the cameras after a match, it is a case of lighting the blue touch paper and standing well back. In his first season at Inter, the 51-year-old former Juventus, Italy and Chelsea coach has railed against his own club’s “poor planning” and […]
SILVERSTONE: Daniil Kvyat escaped unhurt when he crashed heavily after suffering a puncture on lap 13 of Sunday’s British Grand Prix, wrecking the rear end of his Alpha Tauri car. The Russian driver’s car lost both rear wheels in the impact, which saw him spinning off at the high-speed Maggots […]
NEW YORK: A record high percentage of US companies are beating analysts’ forecasts this earnings season, giving investors a glimmer of hope in what is still expected to be the slowest profit period since the financial crisis. More than halfway through second-quarter earnings, 82.1 per cent of companies reporting have […]
Global soccer body FIFA has said there is no reason for Swiss authorities to launch criminal proceedings against its president Gianni Infantino who will continue in his role as normal. BERN: Global soccer body FIFA has said there is no reason for Swiss authorities to launch criminal proceedings against its […]
McLaren are in good financial shape after a troubled start to a year turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Formula One team’s chief executive Zak Brown told reporters at the British Grand Prix. SILVERSTONE, England: McLaren are in good financial shape after a troubled start to a year […]
REUTERS: Manchester City’s struggle to prevent the best teams from scoring against them and their central defenders could be targeted in Friday’s (Aug 7) Champions League clash against Spanish champions Real Madrid, former England skipper Wayne Rooney said. Pep Guardiola’s City lead Real after they won the away leg of […]
VfB Stuttgart are ready to part ways with their top scorer Nicolas Gonzalez as long as the price is right, the club’s sports director Sven Mislintat said on Sunday. BERLIN: VfB Stuttgart are ready to part ways with their top scorer Nicolas Gonzalez as long as the price is right, […]