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https://fc.de/en/fc-info/news/detailpage/details/the-number-crunch-away-against-frankfurt/ 1. FC Köln head south to take on an in-form Eintracht Frankfurt side on Sunday afternoon. FC will be hoping to maintain a recent run of results, while Frankfurt are keen on preserving their unbeaten run. Here are 10 stats and facts ahead of the game. Elvis Rexhbecaj scored his first-ever Bundesliga brace at the weekend against Gladbach. The midfielder was the first FC player to score twice on derby day since Miso Brecko back in 2009 . FC KOLN FINDING FORM FC have picked up 9 points from a possible 12 in their last 4 Bundesliga games. Only Bayern Munich, VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt have picked up more points in the same period than Markus Gisdol’s side. The win over Gladbach not only secured derby day bragging rights but also meant that FC earned their 13th, 14th and 15th points away from home this season. That is already 1 more than last season with 7 more away trips to come. F...

https://bundesitalia.com/2020/02/04/jhon-cordoba-colonia/ di Stefano Fontana, Bundesitalia.com, 4 febbraio 2020 Nella versione in spagnolo del sito di Deutsche Welle , emittente televisiva tedesca, un occhio di riguardo è sempre rivolto al Sud America, e in particolare agli emigrati latini in Bundesliga. Tra il Super Bowl, Djokovic e Claudio Pizarro, spunta il titolo di un articolo pubblicato ieri pomeriggio: «Jhon Cordoba: el colombiano que conquistò Colonia». Ma come ha potuto Cordoba conquistare Colonia ? Lo stesso giocatore altalenante, considerato incompleto e poco freddo, capace di non segnare in oltre 900' della sua prima stagione in Bundesliga, ora viene celebrato come un re, e definisce addirittura il RheinEnergieStadion come «casa mia». La metamorfosi di Jhon parte da lontano: con l’Espanyol, a vent’anni, accumula 54 presenze , perlopiù fatte di spezzoni, e 8 reti in Liga nel giro di 2 anni . Il talento si intravede, ma è nascosto sotto troppe prestazioni svogliate: il r...

Luka Jovic and Max Meyer are two winter arrivals looking to impact the outcome of Eintracht Frankfurt clash at home to Cologne on Sunday (kick-off: 3.30pm GMT). >> Click here for the Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Cologne live blog! Jovic made a headline-grabbing return to Frankfurt on loan from Real Madrid in the winter transfer window, and although the Serbia international has already scored 3 goals in 5 games, he is yet to start for Die Adler , with Andre Silva goalscorer-in-chief at the point of their attack.  Silva made it 8 goals since the turn of the year in last Sunday's 3-1 win at Hoffenheim - a result which sent Adi Hütter's men into the fourth and final UEFA Champions League qualification spot .  They are without a league defeat since mid-December, and will be confident of extending that run against a side 10 places and 15 points below them in the table.  But for Aymen Barkok and Markus Schubert , who are only slight doubts, Hütter also has a full-strength ...

http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/remembering-stephen-roches-1987-world-championship-victory-video/ Sep 22, 2017    0 By Graham Healy The Bike Come First - Se p 22, 2017 By 1987, Irish riders had come close to the top step at the Professional Men’s Road Race at the World Championships. However, the gold was proving elusive. In 1962, Shay Elliott had finished second behind Jean Stablinski in Salò, Italy . Sean Kelly claimed the bronze medal in Goodwood, England , in 1982, and Stephen Roche did the same in Altenrhein, Switzerland, the following year .  Prior to the 1987 Worlds, Roche had claimed a remarkable double when he won both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France. He had struggled with motivation after the Tour, and instead travelled to Villach, Austria where that year’s race was taking place with the aim of helping his teammate Kelly win the race.  Following on from the Tour, Roche took part in a number of criteriums back in Ireland. However, he crashed toward the...

Ha vinto come il belga Giro, Tour e mondiale nello stesso anno E rivive le emozioni di un finale spasmodico Amara per gli azzurri la sfida iridata Sfugge ad Argentin il bis nel mondiale Vince solo l'argento Rimasto senza compagni di squadra nel momento cruciale della corsa, il campione del mondo uscente ha soltanto sfiorato il primato di Ronde, Van Steenbergen e Van Looy (due mondiali consecutivi) di ANGELO ZOMEGNAN La Gazzetta dello Sport , lunedì 7 settembre 1987 - pag. 21 VILLACH - Verso il cielo azzurro della Carinzia chiazzato di nuvole si alzano tre bandiere. Due sono di colore verde, bianco e rosso. La nostra, quella italiana, è soltanto sul pennone del piazzamento d'onore. L'altra, irlandese, fa commuovere Stephen Roche, gioiello del ciclismo di adesso, nuovo campione del mondo. Da ieri sera nella bacheca del suo 1987, oltre alla maglia rosa del Giro d'Italia e alla maglia del Tour de France, Roche ha messo anche quella iridata che prima era di Argentin. A tanto...

https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2021/02/11/calcio-carne-e-finanza-lara-la-supergigantissima-la-calcistizzazione-del-tennis-marziani-a-ostenda/?fbclid=IwAR2TTGDGxtGCRjf-PxSq0z6Ui3ZWRLCGoIOj-2-m0NPf8hLV2LHto9mlc_Q di SIMONE BASSO Sport e cultura, 11 febbraio 2021 El Mundo pubblica le cifre del quadriennale di Lionel Messi , le spiattella senza escludere i dettagli (che fanno il quadro complessivo dell’ affaire ): 555.237.619 euro, lordi, il contratto – firmato nel novembre 2017 – «...che ha rovinato il Barcellona». Tra fisso e variabile, 139 milioni a stagione: 115 per l’inchiostro (...), 80 per la fedeltà. Il  Barça , anno di grazia 2021, ha 1137 milioni di debiti, 730 dei quali da estinguere entro la fine della stagione. I creditori non sono solo l’Ajax, il Gremio, il Liverpool eccetera, ma Prudential, Goldman Sachs, Allianz. La battuta, tragicomica, è che i blaugrana siano stati prima confiscati dalla Pulce che dalle rate (esose) del calciomercato. Le reazioni alla not...

https://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/9/27/1714556/a-worlds-tale-stephen-roche-villach-austria-1987 The record books only tell you so much. They tell you that Stephen Roche won the World Championship road race in 1987. They may even tell you it was the crowning glory in a year which had already seen him win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. What the record books don't tell you is how he won the race. How he and Sean Kelly and Martin Earley and Paul Kimmage - l'Equipe had punningly dubbed them the nouvelle Éire - formed what was probably the strongest Irish team ever to take the line at a World Championships. By Feargal McKay  -  @fmk_RoI  -  Podium Café - Sep 27, 2010 Put yourself back there. Sunday, September 6th, 1987. Villach, Austria . Ten-thirty in the morning. It's pouring rain. A hundred and seventy-nine cyclists are about to embark on the first of twenty-three laps of a twelve kilometre circuit . Seven hours racing lie ahead of them. They're wearing sho...

Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche Image credit: Getty Images https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/the-most-beautiful-surprise-of-my-life-when-king-kellys-cool-head-set-up-roches-triple-crown_sto7914967/story.shtml Nerves of steel from the Irish underdogs saw Stephen Roche ride to the Rainbow Jersey, becoming only the second man in history after Eddy Merckx to wear it after winning the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France. Felix Lowe remembers the 1987 World Championships in the latest installment of Re-Cycle. BY EUROSPORT PUBLISHED 01/10/2020 AT 18:02 | UPDATED 01/10/2020 AT 19:02 The Irish team that went to Austria in 1987 might have been small, but it was one of the strongest ever fielded by the Emerald Isle at a World Championships. With Martin Earley and Paul Kimmage in support, Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly were carrying the torch for the Irish. Now riding at the peak of their powers, both men had already won bronze medals at the Worlds – Kelly at Goodwood, in 1982, behind Giuseppe Saron...