Due to coronavirus outbreak, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers have agreed to postpone the Tokyo 2020 More... event. As in the case of EURO 2020, the Olympics will take place in the summer of 2021. According to the Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this will help the athletes to play in their best condition. The postponement of the one year refers to the Tokyo Paralympic Games too.
24/03/2020 10:18A fundraiser campaign has been launched by Zlatan Ibrahimovich for raising money for Humanitas hospitals More... aimed at "kicking away the coronavirus". Over 8,900 people have died from the COVID-19 with Italy, where Ibrahimovic is playing in Milan, massively impacted. The total number of cases in Italy is over 35,000 with nearly 3,000 deaths. Ibrahimovic has launched a fundraiser on Wednesday and have collected over 150,000 euros. His aim is to reach 1 million euros. Serie A has been suspended until April 3, and Italy is in lockdown due to COVID-19.
2020-03-19 06:04The Times reports that from Thursday on, all the football matches in the UK will be played behind closed More... doors. As a response to the coronavirus pandemic, the UK government's Cobra committee's meeting this morning is expected to move its response from contain to delay, which means that all the matches will be played behind the closed doors. It will also mean that: - The current season will not be postponed and instead the PL matches and theat of lower division will be played behind the closed doors; - The Premier league season-ticket holders and that of individual ticket holders shall be able to stream the matches into their homes; - No games will be shown in pubs to avoid congregation of people; - PL matches will not be shown live in the 3pm slot on Saturdays; - Broadcasters will have the right to screen more than one PL game during the lunchtime and tea-time TV slots on Saturday and scheduled slots of Sunday and Monday; - Football League Clubs individual games and season-ticket holders will be allowed to watch the matches on iFollow. This plan shall be implemented once the number of coronavirus cases passes 500. Now, the number is 460.
12/03/2020 03:07Wendesday's Premier League match of Manchester City with Arsenal has been postponed as a safety measure More... and several Gunners players are in self-isolation after Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis contracted coronavirus. Arsenal reports that Marinakis has met several players when the Gunners hosted Olympiakos in Europa League match 2 weeks ago. Marinakis, who has tested positive with coronavirus, also owns Nottingham Forest. The Wolves will be hosted by Olympiakos, after Uefa rejected Wolves' request to postpone the last-16 first leg match. According to Premier League, there are no plans to postpone any other matches as all the necessary safety measures are being taken.
11/03/2020 08:11Roger Schmidt, the former Bayer Leverkusen boss has signed a two-year deal to coach PSV from the next More... season. Ernest Faber, who has been an interim coach of PSV, will step aside at the end of 2019-20 to be replaced by Schmidt, who has been unemployed after being sacked by Chinese Super League side Beijing Guoan in July of 2019. Schmidt has won Chinese FA Cup with Beijing and has previously been managing the Leverkusen and Salzburg. While in charge of Salzburg he has won Austrian title in 2013-14 before leading Leverkusen with top-four finishes in Bundesliga. According to PSV director of Football John de Jong, Schmidt has always been their first choice and the club is delighted to announce that he is joining them. Currently PSV are currently 4th in the Eredivisie table, which is 7 points behind the leaders Ajax.
11/03/2020 07:58The left-back of Manchester United Luke Shaw forecasts that there is so much to expect from Bruno Fernandes More... at Old Trafford. Fernandes, after arriving from Sporting CP in January, was a revelation with his two goals and three assists in 5 PL matches. In Sunday's 2-0 derby victory over Manchester City the Portugal international teed up Anthony Martial, and his free-kick assisted to break the deadlock before Scott McTominay's stoppage-time strike. According to Shaw, during times when they think that the team is going to lose the possession they need to risk passes to unlock defenses. Under manager Ole Solskjaer United is unbeaten in 10 games across all the competitions. The Red Devils, having no lost PL games since January, are the fifth in the table and three points behind the 4th placed Chelsea in the Champions League. According to Shaw, during Solskjaer's initial interim last season emotions got over them and they couldn't maintain the United's 11-match unbeaten streak. But he considers the team more experienced now and he is sure that if the boss, the coaches and especially the players keep pushing each other every day they will get where they want to be. He is sure that they will finish the season strong.
2020-03-10 03:57Because of coronavirus outbreak the qualifying games of the 2022 World Cup have been postponed. Being More... already underway, the March and June scheduled games of the Asian qualifying has also been postponed by Fifa and AFC. In the second round of qualifying the countries are at the moment split into eight groups and such regulars as South Korea, Japan, and Australia will all be affected by the decision. There are no reports on when will the postponed games take place.
09/03/2020 07:00The 2nd leg of the CL last 16 tie between Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund shall be played behind More... the closed doors. On Monday, the Paris police prefecture confirmed that such a decision has been made as part of measures to struggle against the spread of the coronavirus.
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