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VAR has been a success in La Liga, say Spanish referees
MADRID — The Spanish Referee's Committee (CTA) has said Video Assistant Refereeing (VAR) in La Liga has helped in all aspects of the game after their first season with the new system.VAR checked 4,293 actions — an average of 12 per match — in the 380-game La Liga season, intervening a total of 121 times (3.14 per game) and leading to 114 changed decisions.This included the awarding of seven red cards that on-field officials missed, with 60 goals awarded by video technology.The CTA also said player protests were down 17.3%, while simulation dropped by 68% following the introduction of VAR."Our officials have adapted very well to the changes, but so have the fans and media, too. It's like we've always played with VAR," said CTA president Carlos Velasco...
May 22, 2019

VAR has been a success in La Liga, say Spanish referees

The logo of FIFA is seen in front of its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland in this file photo. — Reuters
FIFA faces fan backlash over seating at women's World Cup
PARIS — World soccer governing body FIFA is facing a backlash on social media from fans who bought multiple tickets for next month's women's World Cup in France only to discover that their seats were not together.Supporters with tickets for the June 7-July 7 showpiece were allowed to download and print them on Monday and a number of parents have since complained that seats have been allocated in such a way that they cannot sit with their children.The tournament organizers initially released a statement saying they could not change seat allocations except for parents with children under the age of 18 who were not seated together.In a subsequent statement organizers said less than 1% of fans with tickets for the semi-finals and final were facing seat-allocation issues."The...
May 22, 2019

FIFA faces fan backlash over seating at women's World Cup

Gaelle Dule Asheri, 17, a soccer player, who is amongst the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy, gets dressed to attend the training session of the female U17 team at the Rail Football Academy field in Yaounde, Cameroon. — Reuters
Cameroonian girls defy prejudice to pursue soccer dreams
YAOUNDE — When Gaelle Asheri first started playing soccer in the dirt streets near her home in Cameroon's capital, she was the only girl on the informal neighborhood teams which used stones for goal posts and kept score by chalking results on a wall.Asheri, 17, and her teammate Ida Pouadjeu, 16, are now among the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy (RFA) in Yaounde. It was set up in January to foster female soccer talent in a country where many still see the sport as a man's game."I used to train with boys, so with boys there were some exercises I was not allowed to do because I am a girl," Asheri said, describing how she was seen as more fragile than her male counterparts."But reaching here it was just another world,...
May 22, 2019

Cameroonian girls defy prejudice to pursue soccer dreams

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone before the La Liga match against Espanyol at the  RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain,  recently. — Reuters
Simeone pledges future to Atletico despite player exodus
MADRID — Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has pledged his future to the Liga club despite an expected exodus of senior players from the Estadio Metropolitano in the close season.Argentine Simeone, 49, has said he will oversee the changing of the guard as he looks to rebuild the 2014 La Liga winners, who came second this term behind runaway champions Barcelona."I like my job, I feel very identified and committed to the club. I know that year-on-year it's always more difficult and that makes us see our real selves and generate enthusiasm," he told a news conference after a friendly with Beitar Jerusalem."Next season we’ll bring in players with great enthusiasm and hopefully adapt to the responsibility that means being at Atletico. We’ll need a new defence with a...
May 22, 2019

Simeone pledges future to Atletico despite player exodus

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri during training for the Europa League at the Cobham Training Centre, Stoke D'Abernon, Cobham, Britain, on Wednesday. — Reuters
Europa win would complete wonderful season says Chelsea's Sarri
LONDON — Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has said victory over Arsenal in next week's Europa League final would complete a wonderful season for the club, despite speculation about his future.The Italian came in for fierce criticism from the Stamford Bridge fans during his first campaign but ended up steering Chelsea to a third-place finish in the Premier League.They also reached the League Cup final and former Napoli boss Sarri said the club deserve some silverware."I think we had a good season with a lot of problems of course. We lost two or three matches very badly but we had a good season in the end," he told reporters as he looked ahead to next week's clash with Arsenal in the Azerbaijan capital Baku."Now we have the Europa League final so the season is a good...
May 22, 2019

Europa win would complete wonderful season says Chelsea's Sarri

Toyota Motor Corp.'s JPN Taxi cars are parked in Tokyo, Japan, in this file photo. — Reuters
Designed by committee, Toyota's Japan Taxi becomes an expensive Olympic symbol
TOKYO — Toyota Motor's Japan Taxi, born in a government committee and designed to be an all-things-to-all-people cab, has become a high-priced icon of Tokyo's budget-busting 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.Launched in 2017, the indigo car is the realization of a government project to put a taxi on Japan's roads that could carry wheelchair users, luggage-laden travellers and foreign visitors of all sizes.It includes a wheelchair ramp, heated seats, smartphone chargers, an array of anti-collision sensors and even virus-killing air conditioning. But the liquefied petroleum gas-hybrid taxi doesn't come cheap, selling for 3.5 million yen ($31,786.40) — almost a third more than the Crown model it replaces."We wanted to build something that tried to please as many...
May 22, 2019

Designed by committee, Toyota's Japan Taxi becomes an expensive Olympic symbol

Bahrain's Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa celebrates after finishing second at the Women's Marathon during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro in this file photo. Kirwa has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test. — Reuters
Record London Marathon entries pass 450,000
LONDON — More than 450,000 runners have entered the ballot for next year's London Marathon, breaking the event's own world record for registrations, organizers said on Tuesday.The final total of 457,861 applicants from Britain and overseas represents a 10.5% increase on last year's 414,168 bidding for a place in the world's most popular marathon.More than 56% of British entries were from people who have never run a marathon, and the majority of those are women."One of our goals is to inspire people to take up sport and it's fantastic that more than 210,000 people from the UK have been inspired to apply to run a marathon for the first time in 2020," event director Hugh Brasher said in a statement."At the first London Marathon back in 1981, fewer than 300...
May 22, 2019

Record London Marathon entries pass 450,000

St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington (50) makes a save on a shot by San Jose Sharks left wing Evander Kane (9) during the third period in game six of the Western Conference Final of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Enterprise Center. The St. Louis Blues won 5-1. — Reuters
Blues KO Sharks in Game 6, reach first final since '70
NEW YORK — The worst team in the entire NHL a few days into the new year completed an astounding turnaround Tuesday as the St. Louis Blues advanced to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1970.The club that fired its coach in November and sat dead last in the NHL when the sun rose on Jan. 3 dispatched the San Jose Sharks in a six-game Western Conference finals, capped by a 5-1 home-ice victory on Tuesday.The Blues will meet the Boston Bruins in the championship round."A lot of us felt we were in games and close and couldn't find a way to win them," St. Louis captain Alex Pietrangelo said. "We had some good honest conversations and knew we had to be better. We looked each other in the eye, and we did it."The Blues dominated the undermanned Sharks in the...
May 22, 2019

Blues KO Sharks in Game 6, reach first final since '70

Chelsea's So-Yun Ji celebrates scoring their first goal against Olympique Lyonnais during the Women's Champions League semifinal second leg at the Kingsmeadow, London, Britain, recently.  — Reuters
South Korea's Ji targets women's World Cup knockout stages
SEOUL — South Korea are hopeful of qualifying for the knockout stages of the women's World Cup in France next month despite being placed in a tough group, midfielder Ji So-yun has said.The Asian nation is set for its third appearance at the quadrennial event but has never gone beyond the last-16 and is pitted against higher-ranked teams in hosts France and Norway in Group A.Hosts France are ranked fourth in the world, 10 places above Korea, while Norway are 12th but without Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg, who has refused to play for the national team.Nigeria, ranked 38th, are the fourth team in the group. "Our first goal is to reach the second round," Ji said in an interview on world soccer governing body FIFA's website."I know that will be difficult, but we...
May 22, 2019

South Korea's Ji targets women's World Cup knockout stages

United States Women's World Cup team members Brandi Chastain (L) who scored the winning penalty kick, Julie Foudy (C) and Carla Overbeck celebrate the United States victory against China in the World Cup Final July 10 at the Rose Bowl. The United States won the final 5-4 on penalty kicks. — Reuters
US '99 World Cup win should have done more for women's game — Foudy
NEW YORK — The United States' World Cup triumph on home soil in 1999 was a watershed moment for the sport but midfielder Julie Foudy had hoped it would help the women's game grow at a much faster pace.The third edition of the tournament was held in the US in massive stadiums for the first time and new heights were reached for attendance, media coverage and television audiences."It was a chance for us to show the United States and the world what a women's sporting event should look like," Foudy, who went on to become US captain from 2000 to 2004, told Reuters in a telephone interview."We knew that there was still a resistance to supporting young girls playing sports and participating in sports so if we could give an example of why it's so important then we...
May 22, 2019

US '99 World Cup win should have done more for women's game — Foudy

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