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Patri, Cata y Graham se mojan sobre el Balón de Oro

Patri, Cata y Graham se mojan sobre el Balón de Oro

El Balón de Oro se coló inevitablemente en el Media Day del Barça. Las azulgrana tienen la cabeza puesta en el Clásico del domingo (17 h./DAZN y Movistar +) ante el Real Madrid, pero el debate por el premio individual era inevitable. Y más en un Barça que cuenta con seis nominadas al Balón de Oro: Esmee Brugts, Cata Coll, Caroline Graham Hansen, Patri Guijarro, Ewa Pajor y Claudia Pina.

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El Barça respira tras las pruebas a Raphinha: estará contra el Getafe

Raphinha podrá jugar contra el Getafe el sábado 10 (18.30 h.) en el Spotify Camp Nou en el próximo encuentro de Liga del intratable Barça, líder con 21 puntos de 21 posibles. El delantero brasileño fue examinado en la Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper con resultado positivo tras el edema en el muslo derecho que le hizo retirarse del amistoso ganado en Australia (2-4) el pasado martes con un gol suyo de penalti.

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Manchester City bekrefter: Har anket Premier League-dom

Manchester City har levert inn anken i saken der klubben er kjent skyldig i en rekke brudd på Premier Leagues økonomiregler.
Avgjørelsen fra en uavhengig kommisjon kom som et sjokk for fotballverden for en uke siden.
Kommisjonen hevder å kunne slå fast at Manchester City i årevis hadde kunstig høye sponsorinntekter. Ordet «falskt» ble brukt flere ganger i rapporten.
Klubben ble felt på 114 av 115 anklager om regelbrudd.
Storklubben skal ha blåst opp kommersielle inntekter og underrapportert utgifter for å komme seg innenfor grensene for pengebruk. Kjernen i saken er beskyldninger om at Citys eiere i realiteten betalte mesteparten av klubbens bokførte sponsorinntekter.
City varslet tidlig at de kom til å anke, og fristen går ut fredag. På sitt nettsted bekrefter klubben at anken er innlevert.
(NTB) rocore.sbs

WRC Sardinia: Adrien Fourmaux heads Hyundai 1-2 after puncture-filled morning

Adrien Fourmaux has moved into the lead of Rally Italy Sardinia to head a Hyundai 1-2 after a punishing opening loop that featured several punctures for World Rally Championship Rally1 crews.
Fourmaux was among those who managed to avoid tyre dramas and reached Friday’s midday service with a 4.6s advantage over team-mate Thierry Neuville.
Fourmaux claimed the opening stage of the day which ...Keep reading

Kalen DeBoer Is Unreal vs. Top-25 Teams On The Road — But Ryan Day Isn't Far Behind

To paraphrase one sage intellectual of our time, Tiffany Gomas, a woman pushed beyond the brink of this reality, beyond the fabric of this mortal world, before declaring what was so clear to her before a captivated airplane audience: THAT (redacted) IS NOT REAL. Neither is Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer — not against AP top-25 teams on the road. He is not real. In fact, DeBoer is so unreal that he invites abject skepticism from otherwise ball-knowing folks, forcing them to question what they're seeing with their own eyes, similar to Ms. Gomas' viral outburst three years ago. But as we understand, at this moment in time, when clocks still turn right, the sun continues to rise in the east and intelligent lifeforms beyond our blueberry-colored planet have yet to be discovered (or made themselves known), we must contend with the rather sobering Disclosure Day-level facts: Among active FBS head coaches, he is the absolute best at winning in hostile environments against teams most of us believe are good (ranked!). And it's not actually that close. DeBoer included, there are only four head coaches with winning percentages higher than .500 in road games against top-25 opponents (with a minimum of five games). Ohio State coach Ryan Day ranks second with a 7-4 record against top-25 teams in true road games, Georgia coach Kirby Smart ranks third (8-6) and Oregon coach Dan Lanning ranks fourth (3-2). Notably, Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman owns a 4-4 record in top-25 true road games. But you, a ball-knower, have intuitively figured out that among those coaches, all five have reached the College Football Playoff, and all five have reached the CFP semifinals. Four have had their teams advance to the national championship game (DeBoer, Day, Smart, Freeman), and two have won it all (Day, Smart). Success against ranked teams with tremendous home-field advantage isn't the kind of stat that gets to hide, either. Like a good edition of the Resident Evil franchise, that stat is captivatingly hideous upon viewing. In fact, being terrible in this category is one of the major reasons Penn State canned James Franklin, whose Nittany Lions were 2-13 against AP top-25 opponents on the road and 0-10 at top-10 ones. DeBoer’s Alabama is my pick against Mississippi State on Saturday in Starkville. This is not just because he’s found a way to get the best out of his teams against some of the sport's most competitive programs and away from the friendly confines of Bryant-Denny Stadium. It's also because — not unlike the Bulldogs with dynamo quarterback Kamario Taylor — Crimson Tide quarterback Keelon Russell can probably match just about anyone. Both quarterbacks are completing at least 69% of their passes, both have thrown just two interceptions apiece and both are throwing for at least 282 yards per game. The only way I could feel even better about my pick is if DeBoer wears his long-sleeved, black hoodie, in which he has an impressively high win percentage when wearing what Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz once called "the Black hoodie of death." See? This is how we all become Tiffany Gomas: Superstition becomes supposition, and supposition gets willed into fact because we cannot do without a narrative fallacy to, as we Millennials say, Make it [clap] make [clap] sense [clap]. Some things are just not real, and Kalen DeBoer's demolition of ranked opponents in their own backyards isn't real — even if it is.

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Martin Brundle shares Christian Horner's response to Ferrari F1 links Sky Sports Formula 1 commentator and former driver Martin Brundle has dismissed recent paddock speculation linking former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner to a management role at Ferrari, following direct contact with the Briton.Rumours surrounding Horner's future surfaced after he told The Times that Ferrari …

Nå er nykomlingens toppserie-søknad sendt: – Kun detaljer gjenstår Fet IL får etter alle solemerker godkjenning til å overta LSK Kvinners plass i Toppserien i fotball. Det bekrefter daglig leder Atle Søgård til NTB. Fristen for å sende inn søknaden var torsdag. Papirene ligger nå hos Norges Fotballforbund. – Det er bare detaljer som gjenstår, sier Søgård. Det ble

Englands fotballforbund om City-skandalen: – Påvirker fotballens integritet Det engelske fotballforbundet uttrykte fredag bekymring for at bråket rundt Manchester City vil kunne få en ødeleggende effekt på hele fotballen. Et uavhengig panel har konkludert med at City har gjort seg skyldig i å blåse opp egne inntekter med over ni milliarder kroner i en periode på ti år