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ALG : Un marché avec Navsi dans la discrétion
Un avis d’appel d’offres avait été publié dans le quotidien national El Moudjahid du 17 août pour la production et la retransmission des rencontres de la L2 amateur, dans le cadre du dispositif lié à FIFA+. Depuis, une information relayée dans les réseaux sociaux et le milieu sportif annonce l’attribution du marché à l’agence NAVSI, société algérienne spécialisée dans l’audiovisuel, basé à Kouba. Curieusement, la FAF n’a, à notre connaissance, publié aucune communication officielle confirmant cette attribution, ni précisé les conditions dans lesquelles le choix a été effectué. Qui étaient les soumissionnaires ? Quels critères ont présidé à la sélection ? Quel est le montant du marché ? Et quel est exactement le montage entre la FAF, la FIFA et le prestataire retenu ? Autant de questions légitimes qui ne mettent nullement en cause, à ce stade, la société bénéficiaire. Elles relèvent simplement de la transparence d’un marché concernant le football amateur. La balle est désormais dans le camp de la FAF
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Stormers ready to splash cash on Pead
The Stormers are reportedly willing to pay the Lions a big transfer fee to bring scrumhalf Haashim Pead to Cape Town. amunra-opinie.pl
According to Rapport, the Cape club is eager to secure the services of the highly rated 21-year-old, despite him being contracted to the Lions until 2028.
The Lions were reportedly willing to release Pead in exchange for Stormers prop Sazi Sandi, but John Dobson was unwilling to sanction the move. Sandi is contracted in Cape Town until June 2027 and has already agreed to join the Bulls thereafter.
That has left the Stormers facing the prospect of buying Pead out of his Lions contract. Rapport claims that the fee could be the largest yet paid for a player moving between two South African teams, beating the R800,000 paid to facilitate Siya Kolisi’s move from the Sharks to the Stormers.
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Pead, who hails from the Bo-Kaap and attended Bishops, was named Player of the Tournament at last year’s Junior World Championship and has attended a Springbok alignment camp.
However, Pead is behind Morné van den Berg and Nico Steyn in the Lions’ scrumhalf pecking order.
The Stormers, meanwhile, are looking to strengthen their scrumhalf stocks following Dewaldt Duvenage’s retirement and Asad Moos’ move to the Lions. They are also currently without Imad Khan, who suffered a serious knee injury against the All Blacks last month, while Cobus Reinach is regularly away on Springbok duty.
“He is a Cape boy. We would love to have him back,” Dobson told Rapport of Pead.
“It’s a matter between him and the Lions. We would love to have him, but it’s subject to the Lions because he is their player.”
Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
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Rybakina triumphs in US Open, denies Sabalenka three-peat
Elena Rybakina denied Aryna Sabalenka a third straight US Open title on Saturday, punctuating her rise to world number one with a victory over the player she’s replacing at the summit.
Rybakina, already assured of supplanting Sabalenka atop the rankings by reaching the semi-finals in New York, triumphed 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to claim her third Grand Slam title.
She won her first at Wimbledon in 2022 and beat Sabalenka in the Australian Open title to claim her second in January.
“It feels amazing,” Rybakina said. “It’s still so difficult to process what happened. Too much achievements these few weeks. I’m super happy, very proud of all the work. It’s just amazing.”
She ended Sabalenka’s 20-match winning streak in Flushing Meadows, where the 2024 and 2025 champion hadn’t lost since falling to Coco Gauff in the 2023 final.
“I wish I could have performed a little better,” Sabalenka told the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd, her voice breaking, “but I guess next year.”
She had been vying to become just the third woman, after Chris Evert and Serena Williams, to win three straight US Open titles.
The 28-year old from Belarus clawed back courageously in the second set, breaking Rybakina for the first time in the final game to force the third.
But with her trademark aplomb, Rybakina roared back to finish off a frustrated Sabalenka.
With an early break in hand in the third set, Rybakina roared to the finish line. There was a final hiccup with two double faults as she served for the match before she secured the win with an ace.
“I feel like the match was so close,” Rybakina said. “Even first set I got early break. Then it was kind of a little bit easier to step in, to be aggressive.
“Then in the second, we were taking our serve. She just played in these same important moments more aggressive.
“I had some little opportunities. Made couple of mistakes. But then in the third set, I told myself that I can still do it. I need to focus on my serve and just risk a little bit more when I have the chance.”
A disappointed Sabalenka exchanged a quick hug with the victor at the net, then smashed her racquet as she sat in her courtside seat as Rybakina absorbed the cheers of the crowd.
“I’m obviously not really happy with the level I played today,” Sabalenka said. “But she served incredible. She played really aggressive, great tennis.
‘Better player today’
“She was simply a better player today than me,” said Sabalenka, who will end the year without a major title for the first time since 2022.
The two biggest hitters in the women’s game came out swinging. Rybakina, owner of perhaps the most fearsome serve on the WTA Tour, was struggling to put her first serve in play, but it was devastating when she did.
She pressured Sabalenka’s serve throughout, piling up a dozen break points and converting three.
Rybakina seized control in the fifth game of the opening set, relentlessly pushing Sabalenka back with her deep groundstrokes.
Unsettled, Sabalenka double faulted on break point, then smacked a ball skyward to draw a code violation warning for ball abuse.
Sabalenka was looking increasingly desperate. Serving to extend the set at 5-3, she crushed an overhead several feet beyond the baseline and had to regroup before closing the game with an ace and a service winner.
But Rybakina wouldn’t be denied, and she polished off the set 6-4 with a screaming backhand winner before Sabalenka sailed a shot long to end the deciding rally.
The second set started much the same, Sabalenka saving a pair of break points in the third game before thumping down a massive serve to hold.
She had yet to make any headway against Rybakina’s serve, but she seemed to have found something on her own, twice holding to love as she took a 5-4 lead.
Sabalenka’s first break points of the match gave her a chance to close out the set, but she couldn’t convert.
Nevertheless, Sabalenka was gaining in confidence. She held for a 6-5 lead then broke Rybakina with authority to force a third set — but it proved only a brief reprieve.
Springboks Claim Historic 3-1 Series Triumph Over All Blacks in Baltimore
In front of a record-shattering crowd of 68,173 at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium—the largest attendance ever to witness a rugby match on North American soil—the Springboks produced an emphatic, six-try masterclass to outclass the All Blacks 43-28.
The victory sealed a 3-1 triumph in the inaugural ‘Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry’ series, marking three consecutive Test wins over New Zealand after dropping the opening encounter in Johannesburg. Exactly fifty years after South Africa defeated the All Blacks by the identical 3-1 margin in 1976, history repeated itself across the Atlantic in fitting fashion: an unforgettable spectacle celebrating head coach Rassie Erasmus’s 100th Test match at the helm.
High Stakes and First-Half Comms Drama
The contest ignited immediately following a spine-tingling Ka Mate Haka, with South Africa drawing first blood through a Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu penalty. New Zealand struck back in breathtaking fashion inside eight minutes, cleverly manipulating the Springbok rush defence to put hooker Codie Taylor over in the corner for a 7-3 lead.
South Africa responded through sheer forward brutality. Spearheaded by Damian de Allende—who registered a staggering 18 carries on the night, the Boks repeatedly hammered the gain line until De Allende bulldozed his way across the whitewash to restore a 10-7 advantage.
The match took a bizarre turn midway through the half when the match officials’ communications system failed entirely. With no TMO or ear-piece assistance, both teams formally agreed to play on under old-school refereeing. South Africa capitalized on the disruption almost immediately: off the tail of a 22nd-minute driving maul, scrumhalf Morné van den Berg sold a dummy to Sam Darry to dot down under the posts and stretch the lead to 17-7.
New Zealand refused to yield. In a breathtaking 32-phase passage right before the interval, the All Blacks ground their way to the line, allowing Will Jordan to slice through for his 55th Test try and send the teams into halftime finely poised at 17-14.
The Power of the Pack and the 'Bomb Squad'
If the first forty minutes were an arm wrestle, the second half was a showcase of South African forward depth. South Africa pulverized New Zealand in the collisions, amassing an astonishing 523 post-contact metres to the All Blacks’ 362 off virtually identical carry counts.
Malcolm Marx set the tone in the 49th minute, steering a trademark rolling maul over the whitewash. Barely four minutes later, an Andre Esterhuizen charge set the platform for Pieter-Steph du Toit to crash over. Van den Berg added the conversion, handing the Boks a commanding 29-14 cushion.
Ethan Blackadder pulled one back for the All Blacks with a determined finish to make it 29-21, and when Feinberg-Mngomezulu was forced off with a hamstring strain, New Zealand seemed poised to mount a late charge.
Arendse and Hanekom Deliver the Knockout Blow
The decisive moment arrived in the 73rd minute. As New Zealand looked to unleash their backline, an aggressive, simultaneous tackle by Cameron Hanekom dislodged the ball from Jordan’s grasp. Kurt-Lee Arendse pounced on the loose ball, flashed his trademark footwork, and sprinted 70 metres untouched under the crossbar.
Four minutes later, Hanekom crashed over from short range to put the result beyond any doubt at 43-21, rendering Beauden Barrett’s late try nothing more than cosmetic consolation.
Man of the Match honours belonged to Morné van den Berg, whose incisive running, composed goal-kicking, and pinpoint tactical box kicks dismantled New Zealand’s back three in the air. Backed by an aerial masterclass from Ethan Hooker and Damian Willemse, the Springboks won 91% of their own restarts, denying the All Blacks any loose transition ball to attack.
With the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry trophy firmly in their grasp and a 3-1 series victory locked in, the world champions depart the United States having reasserted their standing at the summit of world rugby.
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