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https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/wolfsburg/preview/preview-wolfsburg-vs-hoffenheim-prediction-team-news-lineups_421341.html by  Brett Curtis   Wolfsburg host Hoffenheim on Sunday as the 2020-21 Bundesliga continues, with the two sides separated by a single point and place in the table. The hosts are one of only two sides left unbeaten in the German top flight, having drawn five of their opening six matches , while Hoffenheim are without a win since beating Bayern Munich prior to the international break. Match preview It has been a curious start to the season for Oliver Glasner 's side. Not many sides in recent history can have remained unbeaten after six games yet occupy a place in the bottom half of the table, but that is where Wolfsburg find themselves having only won once all season. That win came against Arminia Bielefeld a couple of weeks ago, but was promptly followed up with another draw at Bruno Labbadia's Hertha Berlin last weekend. Glasner replaced his opp...

2 Nov 2020 - Arab News AFP New York In Central Park or along the Hudson River, runners will complete the storied New York City Marathon — just not along the same course. The annual race, originally set for Sunday, was one of many events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but diehard runners are not missing their shot in what would have been the marathon’s 50th year. “The day they announced that it wasn’t going to happen, that’s the day I said I’m going to run it anyway,” said Paul Casino, 55, who has competed every year since 2004. “If I stop, I’m going to regret it.” Casino, who is originally from the Philippines, even joined hundreds of people who ran the marathon in 2012, despite its cancelation following the direct hit from Superstorm Sandy. Organizers canceled the marathon on June 24 but, like many other major road races, offered runners the option of completing the 26.2 miles between Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 — anywhere in the world. A smartphone app measures the distance covered...

https://peterrmiles.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/confidemus/ February 4, 2014 A scenic if somewhat soggy drive through Dumfries and Galloway and into Ayrshire brings forth rolling hills and pastoral land nicely portrayed in a wall mural on a house not far from Kilmarnock. The countryside eventually gives way to not unpleasant suburbia and soon into view comes Rugby Park, its blue roof supports and squat floodlights peeking almost nervously over residential rooftops. A truly ancient club, Killie can date their formation to 1869 initially playing rugby before adopting the football code four years later when they became founder members of the Scottish Football Association . After a somewhat hermetic period playing at borrowed pitches at Wards Park, The Grange and Holm Quarry, the club moved into the original Rugby Park (on the current Charles Street) in November 1878 . This ground would stage a Scotland international in March 1894 but by 1899 election to Division One meant a rebuild was ne...

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/kilmarnock/preview/preview-kilmarnock-vs-rangers--prediction-team-news-lineups_420413.html By Oliver Thomas Rangers travel to Kilmarnock on Sunday as they look to keep up their impressive run of form by winning their 11th Scottish Premiership match of the season. The home side will be hoping to pull off a shock result against the league leaders and bounce back from last weekend's home defeat to Hibernian . Rangers continued their impressive run of results on Thursday night with a narrow 1-0 victory over Polish side Lech Poznan in the Europa League, maintaining their unbeaten start to the season. Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos scored his 21st goal for the Gers in European competitions, which draws him level with former forward Ally McCoist . Despite a magnificent start which has seen Rangers win 15 of their opening 17 matches in all competitions (drawing the other two games), Steven Gerrard remains wary of Celtic's chances of clos...

https://www.amazon.it/Football-Portraits-Ritratti-calcio-Agbonlahor-ebook/dp/B01KI1XRO6 Don “Francis” Cornejo è stato il primo allenatore di Maradona e suo maestro di calcio e di vita. In queste splendide pagine, racconta un Diego inedito e commovente, ancora puro come il suo talento di Christian Giordano  © , Guerin Sportivo  © Location (come oggi va di moda dire): un campo da golf di L’Avana, Cuba. Data: novembre 2003. Personaggi e interpreti: un inviato di “Sin casette”, programma della Tv via-cavo argentina TyC Sports, e Maradona. «Diego, ti piacerebbe che il nuovo stadio dell’Argentinos Juniors fosse intitolato a te?». «No, il campo non va intitolato a Diego Armando Maradona. Devono dargli il nome di Francisco Cornejo». Prego?  Avesse risposto “El Negro” (il nero) o “El Zurdo” (il mancino) o anche solo “Francis”, qualcuno, nell’ambiente del calcio, avrebbe capito e, magari, collegato. Migliaia di miglia più a sud, nella sua casa di Buenos Aires, il...

https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2020/10/30/10-storie-sul-giro-2020-piu-una-sui-van/ Pallini rosa, speciali, dedicati al Giro d’Italia 2020.  Dalla Sicilia a Milano, cronache di una follia autunnale che regala ancora più spunti di quella che si sarebbe corsa, in tempi di normalità apparente, a maggio. Chiudiamo dando i numeri (...) al nostro taccuino. 1. Non poteva che concludersi così, nella stagione asteriscata dei giovani, della nuova generazione. Jai Hindley, 24 anni, e Teo Geoghegan Hart, 25 , appaiati all’ultima cronometro: un unicum nella storia (bislacca) del ciclismo. L’australiano correva da under 23 con Umberto ("Umbertone") Di Giuseppe, alla Aran, e da noi vinse il GP Capodarco. Il londinese, partito dal nuoto, quando era juniores lo vedemmo dominare un Giro della Lunigiana. Prima dell’armata di Dave Brailsford, del professionismo, fece praticantato con Axel Merckx nell’Axeon. Al pari di João Almeida (22 anni, forte e futuribile sul serio…), Jhonatan Manuel Narváez...

https://www.football-oranje.com/eredivisie-2020-21-season-preview-feyenoord/ Football-Oranje  - September 11th, 2020  Jaap Stam’s appointment as Feyenoord head coach last summer turned out to be a big error by the club, but Dick Advocaat turned their fortunes around when he took over in January . Feyenoord went unbeaten from January and looked like they could mount a late title challenge before the season was ended early, and they were forced to settle for third . Now, Advocaat will remain in charge for a full season and is aiming to take the title before he retires in a years time. Transfers It’s been an excellent summer for Feyenoord so far, who managed to convince Orkun Kokcu to remain despite interest from Arsenal. Steven Berghuis has also stayed. Renato Tapia has departed, but Feyenoord has managed to bring in Mark Diemers, Bryan Linssen, Christian Conteh, and João Carlos Teixeira , while they still remain in the hunt for a new defender. Crysencio Summerville was set t...

Ali watches the fallen Foreman,  while referee Clayton prepares to count the 10 seconds. https://www.wbaboxing.com/boxing-news/46-years-since-ali-bomaye Boxing News , Featured Stories by Jesús Cova , translated by WBA Press October 27th, 2020 October 30th marks the 46th anniversary of the fight for the WBA and WBC belts between the legendary Muhammad Ali and the brutal puncher George Foreman, the defending champion, at the 20th of May stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire -- today Democratic Republic of Congo -- filled with 60 thousand expectant spectators of that fight which has surely been the most publicized by the media , which brought together nearly 300 million fans and viewers of all over the world in front of their TVs, the highest legion of followers of a sports event of any kind, then and now, only surpassed by the arrival of man to the moon in Apollo XI on July 20th, 1969 , which was seen by some 600 million people . The fight, considered the best in history (it can hardly be com...

  Un Giro per i posteri, quello numero 103. Mai il Giro era arrivato all'ultima tappa con zero secondi - zero -  di distacco tra i primi due della generale. Già questo basterebbe per definirlo storico, figuriamoci in tempi di Covid e a ottobre. Lo ha vinto per la seconda volta (dopo Chris Froome 2018) un inglese, il 25-enne Tao Geoghegan Hart, in rosa solo all'ultimo giorno. L'unico che conta. Non sono bastati 3345,2 km per assegnarla prima, quella maglia. Servivano i 15,7 km della crono conclusiva, da Cernusco sul Naviglio a piazza Duomo in Milano. Al via in rosa c'era, per il secondo giorno e soli 89 centesimi, il 24-enne australiano - cresciuto ciclisticamente in Italia - Jai Hindley, sulla carta però sfavorito rispetto al capitano della Ineos Grenadiers, diventato tale su strada dopo il ritiro di Geraint Thomas al via della prima tappa in linea, verso Enna, per quella maledetta borraccia. Da lì il Team Ineos Grenadiers s'è reinventato: sette tappe vinte su 21, q...

https://www.amazon.it/Maestri-calcio-allenatori-stranieri-Portraits-ebook/dp/B01ARVU5JC «I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business.  But I was in the top one.» – Brian Clough di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO © - Guerin Sportivo ©  Rainbow Sports Books ©        OBE.  Officer of the British Empire , ufficiale (dell’Ordine) dell’Impero Britannico (quartultima fra le cinque classi dell’onorificenza istituita da re Giorgio V nel 1917), per i suoi fan più accaniti;  Old Big ’Ead , vecchio testone, per i suoi – altrettanto irriducibili – detrattori. Comunque si voglia interpretare, la sigla identifica un manager che ha scritto la storia del calcio (non solo) britannico degli anni Settanta-Ottanta. E l’ha fatto in realtà pressoché amatoriali che, dopo il suo trionfale passaggio, sono ripiombate nell’anonimato.  Mai avute mezze misure: adorato o detestato come capita a chiunque provi (e magari riesca) ad affrancarsi...