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March 21, 2019
Scots slump to humiliating 3-0 defeat in Kazakhstan
ASTANA, Kazakhstan —Scotland's Euro 2020 qualifying campaign got off to the worst possible start with an embarrassing 3-0 defeat by Kazakhstan in Nursultan on Thursday. The Kazakhs, ranked 117th in the world, struck twice inside 10 minutes through Yuriy Pertsukh and Yan Vorogovskiy to leave an under-strength Scotland shell-shocked. Alex McLeish's men secured the safety net of a playoff to qualify via the Nations League in November and already that looks like ...
March 21, 2019
Kvitova, Pliskova snub Fed Cup playoffs against Canada
PRAGUE — Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova will snub the Fed Cup playoffs against Canada in April, raising the chances of holders the Czech Republic being relegated from the World Group, the team said Thursday. World No. 2 Kvitova and seventh-ranked Pliskova led the Czechs to six trophies in the last eight Fed Cups. But they will miss the playoff tie in the southeastern Czech city of Prostejov on April 20-21, following ...
March 21, 2019
UAE's Al-Romaithi withdraws from AFC presidency race
ABU DHABI — Emirati Mohammed Khalfan Al-Romaithi withdrew his candidacy for the Asian Football Confederation presidency on Thursday, paving the way for the reelection of Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa. The pair said in a statement that they would work together for the "independence and transparency of the AFC". Al-Romaithi announced he would run on March 7, promising change to Asian football's governing body, with the former police chief of Abu ...
March 21, 2019
Japan baseball great Suzuki ends glittering MLB career
TOKYO — Japanese hit king Ichiro Suzuki announced his retirement Thursday, calling time on a record-breaking career that saw him shatter a host of Major League Baseball milestones. The 45-year-old called it quits for the Seattle Mariners after an emotional two-game series against the Oakland Athletics in front of adoring Japanese fans that capped an MLB career stretching back to 2001. After grounding out in his final at-bat, Suzuki was called back ...
March 21, 2019
Sports court delays Semenya verdict until April
LAUSANNE — The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday that it was delaying until next month its ruling on a challenge filed by South African double Olympic champion Caster Semenya against the IAAF. A decision in the controversial case had been due next week, but the world's top sport court said it would not issue a verdict "until the end of April" because both sides had filed additional material since ...
March 21, 2019
Champions Cameroon among 21 teams seeking Cup of Nations places
JOHANNESBURG — Defending champions Cameroon are among 21 countries hoping to fill one of 10 places up for grabs this weekend in the final 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Indomitable Lions will be among the 24 finalists in Egypt this June provided they avoid defeat at home against the Comoros in Yaounde. Other hopefuls include South Africa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang-captained Gabon while Burundi, the Gambia, Lesotho and the Comoros ...
March 21, 2019
New-look Germany make promising start with Serbia draw
WOLFSBURG, Germany, — Germany's new-look team made a promising return to the international stage with a 1-1 draw against Serbia in a friendly on Wednesday, showing signs of improvement following a disastrous 2018. The Germans, knocked out of the World Cup in the group stage and relegated in the Nations League last year, had only one player from their 2014 World Cup victory in the starting line-up and their oldest outfield ...
March 21, 2019
South American bid favorite for 2030 World Cup — CONMEBOL
BUENOS AIRES — A joint bid by Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile is favorite to win the right to host the 2030 World Cup, the president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Wednesday. The original 2030 bid was by Argentina and Uruguay, with neighbors Paraguay and Chile joining later. "Today I think we are favorites to win," Alejandro Dominguez told reporters. "If we do our job at CONMEBOL and ...
March 21, 2019
Chelsea Women's boss Hayes hails landmark Barclays sponsorship deal
LONDON — Chelsea Women's manager Emma Hayes has hailed Barclays' sponsorship deal with the Women's Super League (WSL) as a "watershed moment", saying it gives the Football Association (FA) a perfect platform to sell the broadcasting rights to the competition. The FA said it was the biggest ever investment in British women's sport by a brand, with the BBC reporting it was worth more than 10 million pounds ($13.16 million) over ...
March 21, 2019
FIFA fines and bans former Ecuadorean FA head Chiriboga for life
ZURICH — World soccer body FIFA fined former Ecuadorian Football Association president Luis Chiriboga a million Swiss francs ($1.01 million) and banned him from football for life on Thursday after finding him guilty of taking bribes. Chiriboga, a former member of the CONMEBOL Executive Committee and a former FIFA standing committee member, was handed a 10-year jail sentence in Ecuador in 2016 for corruption. The 72-year-old ran his country's soccer federation for ...
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