Brazil has been hit hard by the pandemic, with nearly 463,000 deaths. with the competition due to start next week, the South American Football Association (Conmebol) has received widespread criticism after they announced on Monday that Brazil would be hosting the event.
President Bolsonaro said the decision was not up for discussion and that the tournament, which involves players across South America, did not pose a health risk. He said on Tuesday that he had spoken with the health minister and they had agreed to host the event.
Criticism come from Sen Otto Alencar who appealed to Neymar for assistance and Neymar replied by saying ” I want to tell you something: You shouldn’t agree with the holding of this America’s Cup in Brazil! Don’t agree to this. It is not this championship that we need to now compete in. We need to compete in the vaccination championship,” he said.
The Copa America was originally set to be co-hosted by Argentina and Colombia in 2020 but the tournament was pushed back a year due to the pandemic.
Colombia were removed as hosts last month amid widespread protests against the government, with Argentina later stripped of the role too due to rising Covid-19 cases.
In a tweet he said I would like to thank Everton FC, my players and the supporters for giving me the opportunity to manage this fantastic and historical club. I decided to leave as I have a new challenge with a team that was always in my heart, Real Madrid.
The 61-year-old Italian, who managed Real Madrid for two years between 2013 and 2015, has left Everton after 18 months in charge at Goodison Park. He succeeds Zinedine Zidane at Real and the move leaves Everton searching for a sixth permanent manager in five years.
Ancelotti has signed a three-year deal at Real and said the move represented “an unexpected opportunity”.
Real will present Ancelotti to the media on Wednesday, while Everton said they “will begin the process of appointing a new manager immediately”. The usual suspects are being linked, such as Eddie Howe after he turned down Celtic, former Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo and ex-Everton boss David Moyes
The four-time Grand Slam tournament winner wrote on twitter that she had suffered from bouts of depression since 2018 and will “take some time” away from the tennis court.
Naomi on twitter
Naomi Osaka dropped out of the French Open one day after officials threatened to expel her from the season’s second Grand Slam tournament if she continued to refuse to attend news conferences after her matches.
The move was a dramatic turn in the high-stakes standoff between the most powerful officials in tennis and Osaka, the world’s highest paid female athlete and a generational star who has quickly evolved into the most magnetic new figure in the sport.
The striker joined Nottingham Forest on a short-term deal in February but was released at the end of the campaign and has decided to bring his playing career to an end after 16 seasons.
Murray said on Twitter: ‘To all the clubs, players and fans that I’ve come across on this life changing journey… thank you from the bottom of my heart. It’s been a pleasure, hanging them up from 31/05/21.’
After a stint in non-league with Workingham Reds and with Wilmington Hammerheads in America during the infancy of his career, Born in Cumbria, Murray first made a name for himself after he fired Brighton to the Sky Bet League One title in 2011 with 22 goals. A move to Crystal Palace followed and he scored 30 times during the Eagles’ promotion winning season to the Premier League in 2013, which was a Championship record until Brentford’s Ivan Toney eclipsed him this term.
Glen at Palace
Murray returned to Brighton in 2016 and helped them go up to the Premier League for the first time in their history with 23 goals in the first season of his second spell with the Seagulls.
Overall, the forward found the net 111 times for Brighton to place him second on the club’s all-time scoring list, won promotion on four occasions and scored more than 200 career goals.
‘I feel as though the time is right and I wanted to retire at a good level,’ Murray, who is set to go into the media industry, told the official club website. ‘I’ve had a lot of good years in the game, but this seems the right time to call it a day.
‘Give me six months, a year and I might miss it so much that I want to give back to the club in some capacity as a coach. But at the moment that isn’t the route I am going down.’
Sergio Agüero ended his Premier League career on 275 appearances, scoring 184 goals.
This goal tally was is one more than record-scorer Alan Shearer netted (183) after the same number of matches & having played 3,922 mins more over these 275 games. Shearer played 3,922 mins more in his first 275 PL games than Agüero did.
Dupasquier, 19, was struck by another bike after falling and slid along the track at the Mugello Circuit. He was flown to a Florence hospital. “Despite the best efforts of circuit medical staff and all those subsequently attending to the Swiss rider… Dupasquier has sadly succumbed to his injuries,” MotoGP said.
“On behalf of the entire MotoGP family, we send our love to his team, his family and loved ones You will be sorely missed, Jason. Ride in peace.” The MotoGP grid held a minute’s silence before Sunday’s Grand Prix.
France’s Fabio Quartararo, who won the race, dedicated his victory to Dupasquier, while he and the other two riders to finish on the podium – Portugal’s Miguel Oliveira and Spain’s Joan Mir – held up the Swiss flag as a tribute.
Prustel GP, his team, posted: “We’re devastated, and at this time all of our thoughts are with Jason’s family. You’ll be sorely missed and never forgotten.”
The Frenchman left La Liga power house for a second time in his coaching career on 27 May after they failed to win a trophy during the 2020-21 season. He previously managed Real from 2016-2018 before returning 10 months later in March 2019. “I’m going, but I’m not jumping overboard, nor am I tired of coaching,” said the 48-year-old.
In an open letter to fans, published by Spanish media outlet AS, he added: “I’m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term.
“I understand football and I know the demands of a club like Real Madrid. I know when you don’t win, you have to leave.
“I’m a natural-born winner and I was here to win trophies, but even more important than this are the people, their feelings, life itself and I have the sensation these things have not been taken into account.
“There has been a failure to understand that these things also keep the dynamics of a great club going. To some extent I have even been rebuked for it.”
He played for Real from 2001 to 2006, winning three consecutive Champions League titles and a La Liga title in his first period as manager.
He secured a second La Liga title during his second spell in charge in 2019-20 and had a year remaining on his contract when he left.
Zidane said his 20 years at the Bernabeu were “the most beautiful thing that’s happened” in his life and that he would “always be grateful” to Real president Florentino Perez.
“I wasn’t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more.
“For it to last longer the human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame, more important than everything. They need to be nurtured.”
Colombia, who were removed on 20 May after protests in the country were to co-host the Copa America with Argentina.
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) said Argentina has been removed because the country is currently experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases.
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez told reporters on Friday that priority had to be given “to the health of human beings”.
The confederation will meet on Monday to decide on the next steps for the tournament, analysing the offer of other countries that showed interest in hosting the 10-team competition, which is scheduled to run from 13 June to 10 July.
Brazil are defending champions, having won the tournament in 2019. Copa America 2021 will be played in Brazil.
Chelsea are the 2020/21 Champions league winners, as Thomas Tuchel and Chelsea celebrated. Pep Guardiola walked straight past the Champions League trophy without giving it a single glance. Manchester City were outplayed in a 1-0 Champions League final defeat, and this was the closest Guardiola would get to touching the European Cup since he last won it 10 years ago. Guardiola might as well have been a million miles away as runners-up medal in hand, the City manager kept his head down. It was probably through a mixture of anger and exasperation, but there was also likely to be a heavy dose of regret, given how not for the first time — he overthought his line-up and tactics, when simplicity would have been sensible. “I did what I thought was the best decision [with my selection],” Guardiola said after the game. But this was further evidence that, coaching genius though he undoubtedly is, the two-time Champions League winner has a habit of picking the wrong time and the wrong place to experiment.
Instead, it was Tuchel who took the spoils, having kept his approach simple and stuck to tried and tested methods. In the stadium where Guardiola’s old rival Jose Mourinho built his first Champions League-winning team with FC Porto, Chelsea used a counterattacking game, based on rapid breaks from defensive positions, to land a knockout blow on City for the third time in less than 2 months. They ended City’s hopes of a domestic treble when they triumphed in the FA Cup semi-finals in April and delayed their title celebrations with victory in Manchester.
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Now, in a final watched by a limited crowd of just over 14,000 fans who created a raucous atmosphere, they have denied City the first Champions League crown they and Guardiola so crave. “It was an incredibly tough fight, what a fight. Today they were determined to win this. We wanted to be the stone in their shoe,” Tuchel told BT Sport Timo Werner should have done better than shoot straight at Ederson in the 14th minute. Chelsea then suffered an injury blow as an emotional Thiago Silva was forced off hurt, Andreas Christensen taking the Brazilian’s place in central defence.
Yet it was they who opened the scoring in the 42nd minute, Mason Mount’s ball splitting the City defence, allowing Havertz a long ball dribbling pass Ederson and converted into an empty net. City now needed to break down a Chelsea defence that has been exceptional under Tuchel. But they lost De Bruyne just before the hour mark, the Belgian taken out in a collision with Antonio Ruediger that appeared to leave him concussed. He came off in tears, and Guardiola instead turned to Sergio Aguero for the latter stages, but there was to be no glorious send-off as a City player for the Argentine, as a Riyad Mahrez shot sailed just over in the sixth minute of injury time. A decade on from his last European Cup triumph, there was to be no third for Guardiola. He remains one adrift of the record for the coaches with most wins in the competition, held jointly by Bob Paisley, Carlo Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane. :Euro Next.
Manchester City will be a “completely different beast” to the side beaten twice by Chelsea in the past few weeks when the two meet in the Champions League final, says Jermaine Jenas.
Chelsea have defeated Premier League champions City in the FA Cup and the league in the past six weeks. “I don’t think Chelsea can take much from those games,” said Jenas.
Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea overcame City 1-0 in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on 17 April before coming from behind to beat Pep Guardiola’s side 2-1 at Etihad Stadium on 8 May.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Friday Football Social, former Tottenham and England midfielder Jenas said those defeats would not be weighing heavily on City’s minds.
“In the semi-final, City had Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling and Ferran Torres up top,” he added. “All three didn’t get a kick. They were terrible really.
“It was such a different make-up compared to what Chelsea are going to come up against on Saturday.
“This City team is a juggernaut. This is a completely different beast Chelsea are coming up against.”
“But if City put out their strongest team I think Chelsea are in big trouble.” Former Chelsea forward Chris Sutton, speaking on the same show, said he feared for his old club.
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