أعلن الاتحاد المصري لكرة السلة برئاسة عمرو مصيلحي، عن تعيين الكابتن إيهاب الألفي مديراً فنياً لمنتخب السيدات في لعبة 3×3، وذلك خلال الاجتماع الأخير لمجلس إدارة الاتحاد.
وقد تم اختيار إيهاب الألفي لهذه المهمة من قبل لجنة كرة السلة 3×3، برئاسة نيرة محمد أنور، عضو مجلس الإدارة، نظراً لخبراته الواسعة في مجال التدريب، حيث سبق له قيادة منتخب السيدات وكذلك العديد من الأندية.
طالع.. رسميًا | منتخب مصر يتأهل لـ كأس أمم إفريقيا لكرة السلة
وفي نفس الاجتماع، قرر الاتحاد إضافة فئات عمرية جديدة إلى دوري كرة السلة 3×3، تشمل فئة تحت 21 عاماً للذكور والإناث، وفئة تحت 14 عاماً للبنين والبنات.
كما سيتم التنسيق مع وزارة الشباب والرياضة لإدراج هذه الفئات ضمن الحافز الرياضي، وذلك تماشيًا مع التعديلات الجديدة في النظام العالمي لمسابقات 3×3.
وتسعى لجنة كرة السلة 3×3 إلى تطوير المنتخبات في كافة الفئات العمرية، سواء للرجال أو السيدات، بهدف تعزيز قدرات اللاعبين والمنافسة بقوة في البطولات العالمية القادمة.
As if Russell Martin wasn’t dealt enough of a blow by Leicester City’s dramatic 3-2 comeback victory, Southampton already have an injury concern to deal with ahead of the Manchester City game next weekend.
Southampton injury news
It looked as though the Saints finally kicked into gear to get their Premier League campaign going once and for all when Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo put them into a commanding lead after just 28 minutes. That 2-0 lead is where the problems started for Martin’s side, however, who completely capitulated to allow Leicester back into the game.
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Levelling things up courtesy of Facundo Buonanotte and Jamie Vardy in the second-half, summer arrival Jordan Ayew became the hero of the hour when he squeezed his effort beyond Aaron Ramsdale to turn the game on its head in the 98th minute. Beaten and left watching the visitors wheel away in celebration, defeat against Leicester may just be the first nail in the coffin for Martin’s tenure.
The Saints haven’t exactly been handed positive news since that result either, especially on the injury front. As confirmed by Martin, Will Smallbone is an early doubt to face Manchester City next weekend after tweaking his hamstring in his first game back from injury against Leicester. The midfielder came on only to suffer yet another setback.
Martin confirmed the “disappointing” news, telling the Southern Daily Echo: “Will played the last 15 minutes with an injury. It looks like he’s tweaked his hamstring again which is really disappointing for him and for us. He soldiered on and battled through the last 10-15 minutes with that for the team because that’s the kind of guy he is.”
With a trip to face the Premier League champions up next, things couldn’t get much more difficult for a Southampton side desperately in need of a turnaround.
"Gifted" Smallbone adds to Southampton's woes
After missing the last four Premier League games, Smallbone’s return handed Southampton a much-needed boost that they would have been hoping to see play a part in turning a sinking ship around. One game later, however, the midfield is seemingly back on the sidelines to once again add to the woes of those at St Mary’s. As Martin battles for his job, he desperately needs his £25,000-a-week star to make a swift return.
The Saints boss was full of praise for Smallbone after his part in Southampton’s 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday last season, telling reporters, as relayed by the Daily Echo: “He’s a really outstanding footballer and his performances so far have justified why I wanted to sign him at Swansea – so we must have got one right.
“He will play in different roles for us as well. He really is a gifted footballer with some good Championship experience after last season. I hope he enjoyed that tonight because I really enjoyed watching him.”
As things stand though, Southampton look likely to square off against Manchester City – of all sides – without their midfielder.
يستعد فريق الهلال السعودي، لخوض مواجهة هامة اليوم الثلاثاء أمام منافسه باختاكور الأوزبكستاني، وذلك في اللقاء الذي يجمع بينهما ضمن منافسات بطولة دوري أبطال آسيا.
وتقام المباراة بين الهلال ومنافسه باختاكور على أرضية استاد الأول بارك، في إياب دور الـ16 من دوري أبطال آسيا.
وكان باختاكور قد حقق فوزًا صعبًا على الهلال في لقاء الذهاب بهدف وحيد، باللقاء الذي أقيم في أوزباكستان.
وكان الهلال السعودي قد حصد بطاقة تأهله إلى دور ثمن النهائي، بعدما تصدر مجموعة الغرب من مرحلة الدوري برصيد 22 نقطة من 8 مباريات.
على الجانب الآخر، تأهل فريق باختاكور الأوزبكي إلى الدور ذاته محتلاً المركز الثامن في جدول ترتيب دوري أبطال آسيا، ولديه 7 نقاط.
طالع.. فيديو | رونالدو ودوران يقودان النصر للفوز على استقلال طهران والتأهل لـ ربع نهائي دوري أبطال آسيا موعد مباراة الهلال وباختاكور اليوم في دوري أبطال آسيا
تنطلق المباراة اليوم الثلاثاء 11 مارس 2025، في تمام الساعة العاشرة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، الحادية عشر بتوقيت السعودية. القنوات الناقلة لمباراة الهلال وباختاكور اليوم في دوري أبطال آسيا
تُنقل المباراة بين الهلال ونظيره باختاكور، عبر قناة SSC HD1، كما تُذاع على فضائية beIN Sports AFC 1 HD، وقناة أبو ظبي الرياضية آسيا 2، وقناة الكأس 10. معلقو مباراة الهلال وباختاكور اليوم
– SSC HD1 كل من فارس عوض وحاتم بطيشة.
– beIN Sports AFC 1 HD علي سعيد الكعبي.
-ويتولى بلال علام مهمة التعليق على المباراة عبر قناة أبو ظبي الرياضية آسيا 2.
-قناة الكأس 10 سيتواجد سمير المعيرفي.
ويمكنكم مطالعة مواعيد ونتائج جميع المباريات لحظة بلحظة عبر مركز المباريات من هنا
Anything less than three wins from three games is unlikely to be enough for Samson’s side
Matt Roller01-Oct-20211:40
Is it the end of the road for Raina?
Big pictureChennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals propped up the points table in IPL 2020, finishing seventh and eighth respectively, but their seasons have contrasted in 2021: CSK were the first team to secure their knockout spot when they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday while Royals’ hopes are hanging by a thread.Super Kings’ success has been built on two key factors: stability and batting depth. With the luxury of lower-order hitters like Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar carded at No. 9 and 10, their batters have had license to play aggressively throughout, particularly in the period immediately after the powerplay when most teams have looked to play low-risk shots. They resisted a complete overhaul after last year’s disappointment and have instead backed a similar core of players, using only 14 across the season (four fewer than any other team).Royals, meanwhile, have struggled to cope with the absence of three key overseas players in Jofra Archer (elbow injury), Jos Buttler (paternity leave) and Ben Stokes (mental-health break). Evin Lewis and Mustafizur Rahman have both impressed but Chris Morris has struggled in the UAE leg and Liam Livingstone is yet to make an impact from the middle order.By the time they get onto the pitch for the second game of Saturday’s double-header, they will have a much clearer picture of their chances of qualifying but the message from the camp has been that anything less than three wins from three is unlikely to be enough. Their final two games are against Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians, both pushing for a qualification spot; they need to win on Saturday to ensure they still have a realistic chance ahead of those two fixtures.Watch IPL on ESPN+ (US only)
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Qualification chancesA win against Super Kings will keep Royals in the hunt, as 14 points could lead to qualification without NRR coming into play. Even with 12 points, Royals could go through as the fourth team if Knight Riders, Kings and Mumbai Indians lose all their remaining games and stay on 10 points each. That, though, is an unlikely scenario. If it comes down to NRR, Royals will struggle as their rate is the worst among the teams in contention.For Super Kings, a win will almost certainly ensure a top-two finish. Currently, it’s possible for three teams to finish on 20 or more points, but Super Kings’ NRR of 1.002 is so far ahead of Royal Challengers’ -0.200 that it is almost impossible for Super Kings to fall behind. Even if Royal Challengers win each of their last three matches by 40 runs (after scoring 160), their NRR will only improve to 0.29. Thus, a win against Royals will pretty much ensure CSK finish in the top two.In the newsWith their season on the line, will Royals stick to their guns or make changes? Kumar Sangakkara, their director of cricket, admitted after their defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore that Morris “has not done the job as well as he would like to or we would have liked him to in the second half – he knows it and we know it”. Oshane Thomas and Tabraiz Shamsi are the candidates to replace him. Livingstone, meanwhile, could come under pressure for his spot from Glenn Phillips or David Miller, and Riyan Parag is clinging onto his spot after 93 runs in 10 innings across the season.Super Kings may take the opportunity to rest a couple of players after sealing their qualification, with Sam Curran a candidate to return to the side if Dwayne Bravo or Josh Hazlewood’s workloads are managed, though head coach Stephen Fleming said they “won’t be too experimental” as they look to confirm a top-two finish.Sanju Samson vs MS Dhoni: who will come out on top?•BCCI/IPL
Likely XIsRajasthan Royals (possible): 1 Evin Lewis, 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Sanju Samson (capt&wk), 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Mahipal Lomror, 6 Riyan Parag/Shivam Dube, 7 Rahul Tewatia, 8 Chris Morris/Oshane Thomas, 9 Chetan Sakariya, 10 Kartik Tyagi, 11 Mustafizur RahmanChennai Super Kings (possible): 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 MS Dhoni (capt&wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Sam Curran/Dwayne Bravo, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Josh HazlewoodStrategy punt Super Kings have scored 8.67 runs per over in the middle overs this season, second only to Rajasthan, and are the fastest-scoring team at the death in the competition. With that in mind, could Royals find a way to pick Oshane Thomas as a middle-over enforcer? Thomas bowled with pace and hostility in the recent CPL season and his short balls could match up well against Moeen Ali and Suresh Raina in the post-powerplay phase. Moeen has only bowled four overs in four games for Super Kings in the UAE leg of the season but could be a good option on Saturday. Lewis has scored at a strike rate of just 102.76 against offspin since the start of 2019 and with a left-handed opening partner in Yashasvi Jaiswal, it would be no surprise to see Moeen thrown the ball inside the powerplay to turn the ball away from the outside edge.Stats that matter Deepak Chahar has been the leading powerplay bowler in IPL 2021 by a distance. He has taken nine new-ball wickets, four more than anyone else. Royals’ squad contains the three most prolific six-hitters in T20 cricket this calendar year: Glenn Phillips (87), Liam Livingstone (82) and Evin Lewis (72). MS Dhoni has won five tosses out of 11 this season, and Super Kings have won all five of those games. Sanju Samson has scored 452 runs in IPL 2021, and needs 71 more to break KL Rahul’s record for the most in a single season by a wicketkeeper-captain.
Há duas semanas em pré-temporada no Ninho do Urubu, o elenco profissional do Flamengo está vivendo um dia a dia diferente em relação a 2021. As mudanças na rotina dos atleta, como a necessidade de registrar a chegada e saída no ponto eletrônico, não partiram exclusivamente de Paulo Sousa, informou Marcos Braz. Ao portal “ge”, o vice-presidente de futebol afirmou que “mais cobranças” já estavam previstas antes mesmo do acerto com o técnico.
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– Já tínhamos conversado ainda no ano passado de que neste ano a margem para manobras seria menor e teria mais cobrança. Todos sabiam que seria um ano diferente, com mudanças que vão seguir acontecendo gradativamente. Nosso planejamento já previa um dia a dia diferente e isso foi conversado e alinhado em parceria com o novo treinador nas reuniões após o acerto. Passamos para eles o que queríamos para que a reestruturação do departamento fosse encaixada com a metodologia do Paulo e de sua comissão – relatou Marcos Braz ao “ge”.
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Além da volta do ponto eletrônico, outra regra que foi reestabelecida no Ninho do Urubu é a obrigatoriedade de realizar as refeições no CT antes e depois das atividades. Uma prática comum no futebol, que auxiliar na recuperação dos atletas, e utilizada por Paulo Sousa e sua comissão técnica em seus trabalhos.
A necessidade de mudança de postura no elenco também já havia sido cobrada por David Luiz, ainda na reta final do Brasileirão de 2021. O zagueiro, contratado em agosto, afirmou após derrota para o Santos, no Maracanã, que o “grupo precisava amadurecer”. A declaração de David Luiz foi uma semana após a derrota do Flamengo para o Palmeiras na decisão da Libertadores.
Birmingham City have been blessed with a number of top talents coming through their academy over recent years, away from the star-studded quality at Chris Davies’ disposal currently in League One.
Jordan James was the latest breakout star from the Blues youth structure when he departed for Rennes this summer, costing the Ligue 1 club a sizeable £4m to pick up, after he had exploded into life for his boyhood club from the middle of the park.
Of course, there is a more notable midfield ace who used to call Birmingham his home as a starlet learning the ropes before a major move took place, in the form of Real Madrid superstar Jude Bellingham.
Bellingham's time with Birmingham
Before all of that occurred for the former Blues youngster, Bellingham was the cream of the crop for the EFL club when it came to top homegrown prodigies rising up the ranks, with the then-teenager making his Birmingham debut back in 2019 at just 16 years of age.
The rest is obviously now history, with Bellingham going on to tally up four goals and two assists from 44 first-team appearances at St. Andrew’s, before leaving his boyhood side behind for Borussia Dortmund only a season into his men’s team development.
At least Birmingham managed to salvage back some pretty pennies from Bellingham’s sad departure though, which even saw the club retire his number 22 jersey, with Dortmund paying up a hefty fee around the £25m ballpark.
Now, the 21-year-old has reached unbelievable heights at the Santiago Bernabeu to fully justify Birmingham’s decision to set aside his number 22 strip, with a sublime 23 goals and 16 assists next to his name now from 52 clashes in Spain.
He would also become a national treasure this summer at the Euros for England by scoring this dramatic overhead kick, further cementing himself as a world-beater away from being adored in Madrid and the West Midlands.
Birmingham haven’t always been so fortunate in raking in lots of money off the back of selling some of their top academy products, however, with this low sale in 2013 no doubt irking those looking back.
Nathan Redmond's time at Birmingham
Nathan Redmond was arguably the original Bellingham before the teenager left his mark on proceedings at St. Andrew’s, having also been launched into the first team set-up from a young age.
He too made his debut in the men’s fold at the tender age of 16 in 2010, before going on to become a regular under the likes of Lee Clark in the Birmingham dug-out.
Top five youngest players in Birmingham’s history
Player
Age when making debut
1. Jude Bellingham
16 years, 1 month + 8 days
2. Jobe Bellingham
16 years, 3 months + 16 days
3. Nathan Redmond
16 years, 5 months + 20 days
4. Jordan Mutch
16 years, 8 months + 24 days
5. Romolle Donovan
16 years, 10 months + 25 days
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In illustrious company in the table above with the well-known Bellingham brothers, Redmond would go on to make far more appearances at St. Andrew’s than the now La Liga star managed, with an impressive nine goals and 11 assists notched up from 82 overall games.
You would think that would result in a club having to break the bank to land Redmond’s services, therefore, but in the wake of Birmingham’s disappointing 12th placed finish in the Championship during the 2012/13 campaign, top-flight Norwich City swooped in to land him for a cut price.
The Canaries would land the pacey winger from Clark and co for only £3m, with the Birmingham-born attacker going to become a Premier League regular for both Norwich and then Southampton for many seasons, amassing 276 Premier League appearances mainly donning a Saints strip.
The Blues must wish now that they had driven a harder bargain, but will strive to find their next Bellingham and Redmond in the here and now, with St Andrew’s obviously fertile ground for youngsters to prosper from.
Clotet struck gold selling Birmingham star who's now worth millions less
Birmingham City raked in the cash with this substantial sale.
أعلن الحكم محمود بسيوني، نهاية لقاء الأهلي والزمالك، بعد انتظار لمدة 20 دقيقة، في ملعب استاد القاهرة، لعدم حضور النادي الأهلي لخوض المواجهة.
وكان من المقرر أن يلعب الأهلي ضد الزمالك، في تمام الساعة 9:30 مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، ضمن مواجهات الجولة الأولى من عمر المرحلة الثانية لبطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز.
وشهدت مباراة الأهلي والزمالك أزمة كبيرة منذ مساء أمس الإثنين، بسبب إعلان اتحاد الكرة المصري عن إسناد مباراة القمة لطاقم تحكيم مصري، هو ما اعترض عليها النادي الأهلي، وقرر عقد اجتماع طاري صباح اليوم الثلاثاء.
طالع | عماد متعب يٌعلن انتهاء علاقته بـ رابطة الأندية.. ويصرح: كان يمكن حل مشكلة حكم القمة بعد خطاب الأهلي
وبعد الاجتماع أعلن النادي الأهلي موقفه بأنه لن يستكمل بطولة الدوري المصري هذا الموسم، إذا أصر اتحاد الكرة على تواجد طاقم مصري لإدارة المباراة.
وحضر فريق نادي الزمالك إلي ملعب استاد القاهرة، وأعلن الجهاز الفني بقيادة البرتغالي جوزيه بيسيرو تشكيل فريقه لخوض اللقاء. حضور الزمالك وطاقم التحكيم وغياب الأهلي في موعد انطلاق المباراة
وبعد مرور 20 دقيقة، أطلق الحكم محمود بسيوني صافرة لنهاية المباراة دون أن تلعب، في انتظار قرارات اتحاد الكرة ورابطة الأندية بشأن موقف المباراة.
إعلان الحكم إنهاء مباراة الأهلي والزمالك بعد عدم حضور النادي الأهلي
A vontade do Flamengo de manter Andreas Pereira em definitivo já saiu do discurso e foi para o papel.Nesta semana, o Rubro-Negro oficializou uma proposta ao Manchester United para comprar o meio-campista, que está emprestado até junho de 2022. Dessa forma, abaixo, veja motivos que explicam o interesse do Fla na permanência do jogador.
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Incialmente, vale lembrar que Andreas não teve dificuldades para se firmar no Flamengo. Logo na partida de estreia, contra o Santos, na Vila Belmiro, o meia marcou o primeiro gol com a camisa do Fla e, alguns jogos depois, desbancou Diego e conquistou a posição de segundo.
Além disso, Andreas é um meio-campista polivalente, como o próprio Renato Gaúcho, ex-técnico do Flamengo, destacou em entrevista coletiva realizada em setembro, após uma vitória sobre o Grêmio, pelas quartas de final da Copa do Brasil. Assim, pelo Rubro-Negro em 2021, o camisa 18 atuou tanto como segundo volante quanto como um meia mais avançado.
– Ele é polivalente, é um jogador que conversei antes mesmo de chegar ao Flamengo. É um jogador que foi testado em várias posições lá fora pela qualidade dele. Mas ele me falou que gosta de jogador como segundo volante. Então, é nessa posição que eu tenho colocado ele, nessa posição que ele tem nos ajudado, tem jogado bem.
– Eu não gosto de improvisar o jogador, a não ser que o jogador da posição não esteja dando conta do recado.Ele está jogando na posição dele, na posição que ele gosta. É um jogador que sabe defender, sabe atacar também, tem qualidade para isso.
Outro ponto que vale ser destacado é em relação às bolas paradas. Ter Andreas dentro de campo permite ao Flamengo ter um cobrador de faltas. Na última temporada, contra o Juventude, o meiafindou um jejum de 1.221 dias sem um gol de falta do Fla. A cobrança, inclusive, foi muito elogiada por Júnior, um dos maiores ídolos da história do Rubro-Negro, em entrevista concedida ao LANCE! no ano passado (clique aqui para ler).
– Realmente, ele fez um golaço. Uma batida seca, forte e precisa. E também tem a batida de mais perto, que acabou acertando a trave. É um grande batedor – disse Júnior, atualmente comentarista da Rede Globo, emendando:
– Acho que tirou um peso, que acaba caindo nas costas do time como um todo, por passar tanto tempo sem um gol de falta. Ainda mais com os antecedentes do Flamengo, com Zico, principalmente, que resolveu muitos jogos nessa situação. Isso incomodava a torcida, e os jogadores de muita qualidade sabiam disso, por isso a comemoração efusiva.
Por fim, a vontade recíproca é um ponto que deve ser levado em consideração. Andreas já declarou publicamente a vontade de ficar no Flamengo, assim como o Flamengo já externou a vontade de garantir a permanência de Andreas. Assim, as negociações foram abertas já em janeiro para garantir o quanto antes que o meio-campista continue no Rio de Janeiro por mais tempo.
Twin success in first season augers well as Warwickshire demonstrate strength in depth
George Dobell01-Oct-2021
Will Rhodes holds aloft the Bob Willis Trophy•Alex Davidson/Getty Images
Warwickshire have completed their first double since 1995 with an emphatic victory in the Bob Willis Trophy at Lord’s.The club, which wrapped up the LV= Insurance County Championship title a week ago, completed an innings victory over Lancashire within 70 minutues of the start of day four. They won the 2nd XI T20 competition, too. Whichever way you look at it, really, that’s a fine season.It was noticeable that there were no Warwickshire players in the PCA’s Championship team of the season named earlier this week. You could argue there should have been – certainly Rob Yates, who made more first-class centuries than anyone else and Liam Norwell, who passed 50 first-class wickets in this match, are worth a mention in dispatches – but it wasn’t an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Nobody in the side claimed 50 wickets or scored 900 runs in the Championship, after all.But it is a team game. And five players claimed at least 20 wickets and five scored at least 500 runs. The depth of Warwickshire’s squad allowed them to spread the burden of performance, with current and former England players like Chris Woakes, Dom Sibley, Tim Bresnan, and Olly Stone playing vital roles at various times. Having beaten Essex, Somerset, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Nottinghamshire (home and away) in first-class cricket over the course of this season, it would be churlish to deny them full credit for their success.There is talk – particularly around the Warwickshire camp – that Danny Briggs should be considered for the Ashes tour party. And it is true, with his improved batting, his calm head and his reliable left-arm spin, he would not let England down. It must be remembered, however, that he hasn’t taken a first-class five-for since 2016, and he hasn’t taken one in Division One of the County Championship since 2011. If he goes, expectations of what he can achieve should be realistic. Jack Leach could feel justifiably aggrieved if Briggs were selected ahead of him.Briggs has been a terrific acquisition for Warwickshire, though. Given how successful Luke Wells – who is a terrific slip fielder and averaged 40 in the Championship despite the challenges of batting in the top order – has been at Lancashire as well and it’s hard not to scratch your head at some of the decision-making at Sussex in recent times. The club, which deemed both Briggs and Wells surplus to requirements at the end of 2020, finished 2021 at the bottom of Division Three.Their supporters might take some solace in the success of those former players and of Mark Robinson, who developed his coaching career at the club, and has just become a rare example of winning the Championship as head coach at two different clubs. Peter Moores, another Sussex graduate is the only other man to have done so. Robinson’s appointment at Edgbaston, as an outside voice at a club which may have become something of an echo chamber of former Warwickshire players in recent years, has been proved wise.Michael Burgess claimed the catch that sealed the Bob Willis Trophy•Alex Davidson/Getty Images
Sussex, indeed any organisation or individual, could probably do far worse than look at Robinson’s phlegmatic attitude to the ups and downs of his own career. His previous visit to Lord’s was as coach of the England Women’s side which won the 2017 World Cup. But, in between times, he was sacked and spent some time on the periphery of the professional game. He looks at it now as something of a blessing.”Having a year out of the game was really good for me,” Robinson said. “You recharge. You think differently. I worked with an Associate Nation; I did some consultancy work with first-class counties; I worked with the England Deaf team. I did private coaching with eight-year-old girls and 55-year-old men. And the thing I learned was, I absolutely love coaching.”But yes, you do wonder if you’ll ever get to come places like this again. So coming here was really special for me. Maybe, the older we get, the wiser we get and we learn to savour everything we’re given.”At Sussex I was lucky enough to inherit a very good team. The success with England’s women was so special because it was such a monumental day for the sport.”So, how special was this? Well, I had to come back. And I hope it reflects well on the women’s game because I’m a better coach for the experience. They taught me a lot. So, yes, it is different and it is special. I’m a happy bloke.”Robinson believes the key moment in the season came early. In the second match, at Trent Bridge, Warwickshire spent the best part of three days clinging on against a Notts team which looked better than them. But they snatched a win there and backed it up with almost an equally unlikely victory against Essex at Edgbaston.Related
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“We stayed alive in a game in which we were being bullied,” Robinson said of the Trent Bridge encounter. “And then we stole it. And from moments like that, players get belief.”This club has lost great players like Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Jeetan Patel and Tim Ambrose over the last few years. So, I’ve said to the team ‘this is your time, this is your chance to create the habits and behaviours of a successful team’. You never want to get too carried away, but this success should give them further confidence and we’ll look to build on that.”He remains concerned, however, about the first-class game in general. In particular, he warned that the proliferation of low-scoring surfaces will compromise the development of Test players in the long-term. “There were always difficult pitches at the start of the season,” he says. “But you had better ones in July and August. We miss out on those now and there’s less pace in the game as a result. You generally only want a medium-pacer who can hit batters on the shins. Batters get a bad press, but it’s really tough for them now.”In Robinson’s view, a return to two divisions with promotion and relegation would be welcome. “The draw becomes really important in that scenario,” he says. “What we saw this season was a scramble for results at the end of the conference system with result wickets all over the place. There were 25-wickets in a day. It can’t be right.”It was probably fitting, then, that this match was defined by events within the first hour of the first day. Having been put in on a late-September morning, Lancashire found themselves 12 for 6. It’s a long way back into a game from that position. Just as we found when we played limited-overs finals on this ground so late in the season, the toss becomes disproportionately important. The integrity of matches played in such circumstances has to be open to question.Much the same could be said about the scheduling of the Championship season. While it is routinely suggested the ECB has prioritised white-ball cricket as it more importantly financially, it is a naïve understanding of the situation. Instead, the bulk of broadcast revenues still come from the Test game so, by compromising the value of the domestic competition which produces Test players, you might argue the ECB is risking the sport’s financial security.Certainly, until the ECB starts prioritising the scheduling of first-class cricket, claims that Test cricket remains paramount feel hollow. An end to white-ball windows in the prime weeks of summer would be the easiest way to achieve better scheduling, but centrally contracting groundstaffs and even allowing first-class cricket to be played on hybrid pitches might also be worth exploring. At present the value of most Championship cricket as a breeding ground for Test players is minimal. And if counties render themselves irrelevant – and one or two are certainly flirting with that definition – they will be in real trouble. We live in pragmatic times.It might be noted that the vote the ECB originally hoped to hold this week into the structure of the 2022 and 2023 season has been delayed amid uncertainty it would be carried. A significant number of counties – at least seven, it seems – favour an immediate return to two divisions with promotion and relegation rather than another season of conferences.Whether the Bob Willis Trophy has a future is also open to debate. It might well have a place as the curtain-raiser to a season and it could, perhaps, be incorporated into the MCC’s Champion County fixture which has traditionally served that purpose. But squeezing it on to the end of a season serves very little purpose and threatens to compromise the validity of the Championship title. There’s a good reason first-class cricket hadn’t been played in October for more than 150 years.
O São Paulo vem vivendo uma ‘disputa’ pela titularidade na posição de primeiro volante da equipe neste começo de temporada. Sem Luan, lesionado, Gabriel e Rodrigo Nestor foram escalados na posição nos três primeiros jogos do Campeonato Paulista.
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O uruguaio foi escolhido para o primeiro jogo da temporada, diante do Guarani, em que o São Paulo foi derrotado por 2 a 1. Na ocasião, Gabriel foi substituído aos 16 minutos do segundo tempo. Rodrigo Nestor entrou no seu lugar em Campinas, já mostrando a tendência de ‘disputa’ da dupla. Nestor, inclusive, cometeu a falta do segundo gol do Bugre.
Já no empate sem gols contra o Ituano, Rogério Ceni escalou Nestor entre os titulares. O camisa 25 foi substituído aos 33 do segundo tempo, mas quem entrou em seu lugar foi Pablo, volante e capitão do São Paulo na Copinha. Gabriel não saiu do banco de reservas.
Por fim, na derrota para o Red Bull Bragantino, por 4 a 3, Rodrigo Nestor foi mantido como titular. Porém, diferentemente dos dois primeiros jogos, ele disputou os 90 minutos. Na ocasião, Gabriel entrou aos 36 do segundo tempo, no lugar de Igor Gomes, que havia sido colocado no intervalo.
Números dos volantes em 2022 Rodrigo Nestor – três jogos e 197 minutos Gabriel – dois jogos e 70 minutos