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Betindex.bet: Guardiola is confident that City will participate in the Champions League next year

Pep Guardiola is confident that Manchester City will win the appeal against the two-year ban outside European club tournaments.

The “Citizens” are waiting for the decision of the Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) on July 13. The club was banned outside Europe for two years by UEFA in February after being found guilty of violating the Financial Fair Play rules. Their case was heard by the CAS last month, but the decision was postponed to mid-July. “We’re ready. I have great confidence and trust in the people who will be allowed to play in the Champions League, because we want to participate in the tournament in the coming seasons. On July 13, we will understand the decision, I hope, for the club, all employees, players and staff – to continue to grow as a club in the coming seasons, “said the Spaniard.

 

Beyond these problems, City continue in this year’s edition of the Champions League, which will be renewed in August. The team has a 2-1 lead against Real Madrid after the first round of 16 at the Santiago Bernabeu. It is still unclear exactly where the rematch will take place – the second match will be played in Portugal if City cannot accept the match at the Etihad, but Guardiola is determined to keep the team in the best possible shape for the clash with the Royal Club. Betindex.bet reminds that Manchester City was dethroned by Liverpool in the Premier League, but the teams’s form after the resumption of the season after a three-month break due to the coronavirus is excellent. On Thursday, they convincingly defeated the newly crowned champion with 4: 0 and Guardiola believes that this is a positive sign.


“Every game is different, but I can’t deny that beating Liverpool 4-0 in the way we did was great. Football is about feelings, moments. Sometimes your mood rises, sometimes you are disappointed, but we can safely conclude that we beat probably the best team in the world at the moment. So we can do it. But every match is different. Arsenal, which is our rival in the semifinals for the FA Cup, Real Madrid – they all play differently. What I want is to enter the matches in the best possible conditions and then to show mental resilience on the field. These matches are not won with tactics or ideas, but with passion. We want to do it. ”Guardiola concluded before visiting Southampton on Sunday.

Sheridan named as Waterford FC boss

Waterford FC have named John Sheridan as their new manager for the up and coming season.

The former Republic of Ireland international made 34 appearances and played a part in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups. He is not unknown to management. He has managed Oldham, Plymouth, Newport, Notts County, Fleetwood and Carlisle. Sheridan also had two spells at Chesterfield who operate in the National League. His last spell of management at the club ended in January 2020.

Sheridan made over 600 appearances for various sides in England. The majority of them appearances coming for Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday. The league is set to begin on July 31st.

Speaking to Waterford.fc.ie, Sheridan said he was “under no illusions of the task I hand”. He continued, “Speaking to [chairman] Lee [Power] and others around the club, I am more than aware of what the club means to fans, and those involved”. He said the club will be “looking to hit the ground running” and getting sharp again ahead of the league resumption.

Sheridan stated that him and the chairman have met a couple of times and have set goals and will now look to pushing the players to make sure they achieve these goals. Chairman of the club Lee Power said he was delighted with the appointment. He said, I’ve known John for over 20 years and am delighted that he has agreed to help me and the club out.

Power continued, “To have someone with John’s calibre managing the club is fantastic for the supporters and the city and will also put to bed a number of silly rumours that have surrounded my families commitments and ownership of the club.”

Stephen Kenny has also finalised his backroom staff

Ahead of the return to international football in the autumn, Ireland manager Stephen Kenny has also finalised his backroom staff as he counts down to September and UEFA Nations League games against Bulgaria, in Sofia, and Finland, in Dublin.

Ennis native Gary Seery has been appointed Assistant Analyst and makes the step up from the Irish Under-21 squad to work with Head Analyst Ger Dunne. The FAI Development Officer for Offaly, Gary is a UEFA A Licence holder and has also coached with the Clare District League representative side and St Kevin’s Boys Academy.

Danny Miller will join Kevin Mulholland as a Chartered Physiotherapist with the Senior squad for the new campaign with Colum O’Neill and Sam Rice joining the set-up as Athletic Therapists.

The current Dundalk FC physio, Danny is an Associate Lecturer at University College Dublin and completed his Masters Degree in Manipulative Physiotherapy in 2001 at Curtin University, Perth. He achieved the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists of Australia Student of the Year Award (Manipulative Therapy) and the Vice-Chancellors Prize for Most Outstanding Research Project.

A graduate from the University of Ulster, Derry man Colum O’Neill moves up to his new Athletic Therapist role from a similar position with the Ireland Under-21 squad. Colum has also worked as a physiotherapist with Finn Harps, Derry City and Dunfermline Athletic.

Like Danny Miller, Termonfeckin native Sam Rice worked alongside Stephen Kenny at Dundalk for four years and with the Irish Under-21 squad for the Toulon Tournament. A graduate of Dublin City University, Sam has studied and worked in Ireland and Australia.

Completing Stephen Kenny’s backroom staff are Shamrock Rovers equipment manager Mal Slattery, on the Equipment and Kit Team where he is joined by Under-21 team kitman Fergus McNally. Mal has also worked with Shelbourne while Fergus has been kit manager with Bohemians and Longford Town.

Eligibility Process begins for Rotherham winger Chiedozie Ogbene

Rotherham United winger Chiedozie Ogbene has expressed his desire to represent the Republic of Ireland at international level to national team boss Stephen Kenny.

The FAI have now begun the paperwork on the eligibility process for 23-year-old Ogbene who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, but moved to Cork aged seven with his family in 2005.

Chiedozie played schoolboy football in Cork with College Corinthians, Kilreen Celtic, Tramore Athletic and Everton before he was signed by Cork City in 2015 and then moved to Limerick in January 2017. After a move to England and Brentford in 2018, Ogbene spent a season on loan with Exeter City before a transfer to Rotherham in August 2019.

A mainstay of Rotherham’s successful push for promotion in the season just ended, Ogbene was an ever present for the Millers in the shortened campaign and scored one goal as they finished runners-up in League One.

Irish ‘Amateur’ Olympic Boxing in crisis – who is to blame?

Boxing has long been Ireland’s most successful Olympic sport, especially in the last 25 years

Yet the ‘best’ young Irish boxers – the ‘future’ Katie Taylor’s, Michael Carruth’s, Mick Conlan’s, Paddy Barnes’s, Joe Ward’s, John Joe Nevin’s have deserted the sport to seek better rewards in the Pro game.

A  few will make the grade but most will not and end up having to persuade ‘family & friends’ to buy tickets and subsidise travel costs to tournaments, increasingly in the UK, in the United States and further afield.

A worrying number of young boxers have left the ‘amateur’ sport and the IABA in recent months, far too many to name but just a few include Regan Buckley Daly, whose club in Bray is shut since landlords sold the premises without even telling the club. Similar events have happened elsewhere. That apart he was not on funding anyway so how could he have thrived with no income, no club premises?

Of those who have turned pro let’s just name but a few – Monaghan’s  U.S based McKenna brothers, Aaron and Stevie, Gary Cully, Lewis Crocker, John Joyce, Paddy O’Donovan, Jason Harty, Pearce O’Leary and Conor Wallace Then there’s Athy’s Willie Donoghue, one of the country’s greatest prospects who won many International  AIBA medals/trophies at different age groups. I could name another ten or more – not all would have made the grade at Elite level internationally of course but many would, according to experts.

So what is the problem and what does the future hold? Andrew Duncan President of the Leinster ABA and a member of the IABA Board of Directors believes that the system must be overhauled and quickly. As he said at the weekend: the drop-out rates are akin to a “haemorrhage, as he explained to Sean McGoldrick at the weekend.

The REAL problem is how the available funding is distributed and who by.? As we have reported on SportsNews IRELAND so often in recent years there is no ‘love lost’ – to put it mildly-  between the IABA, Central Council and its  Board of Directors and the  Abbotstown-based HPU. with disputes at other levels too. Duncan believes that the system can be – and hopefully – will be – quickly reassessed with Sport Ireland who funds the sport anyway taking overall control of the HPU’s  Abbotstown team and the IABA funding all other tiers of the sport since they too have had adequate funding from Sport Ireland which they have never passed on directly to boxers up to now.

September’s International AIBA rankings 2020 have a few Irish boxers included but few in the world’s top 10. Worse still only one boxer – Kurt Walker – is ranked as high as no.2. and he has NOT even qualified, yet, for Tokyo 2021. Surprisingly Brendan Irvine – our only qualifier thus far is “unranked” – the AIBA rankings never cease to amaze! Let’s hope for Irvine’s sake that they re-issue another more up to date list pre-Tokyo. Let’s be clear that the Tokyo Olympics boxing will be controlled by the IOC Task Force since the AIBA’s “suspension” will not be lifted before Tokyo – if indeed it ever will be, thus the”Task Force’  will use the latest AIBA rankings

The Irish female squad (no one has yet qualified)  has three in the top 10, Kellie Harrington ranked 3 at 60kg with Christina Desmond at 9th in 69kg and Aoife O’Rourke at 10th (75kg) – others lower down in the rankings include Michaela Walsh, (15),  Grainne Walsh (19th) and Amy Broadhurst (25th) in their respective weight categories.

Time for Sport Ireland’s “big hitters”, who control the purse strings, John Treacy, Kieran Mulvey and Paul McDermott to be joined by Olympic Council President and I.O.C delegate Sarah Keane and take control of what is now an increasingly worrying situation in Irish boxing. If not the future of Irish boxing is “dark”, “very dark”

Rowe facing tough call on AFL future

RTE Sport state that AFL footballer Sarah Rowe is facing a tough call on her AFL future. She says she will have to think and may a tough call on her AFL future. A return to the AFL with Collingwood would mean little hope of lining out for Mayo in 2021.

Rowe has had a spectacular two season thus far in the AFL. She has come back to Ireland though the past two seasons to feature for Mayo in the championship. She was named AFLW Irish Player of the Year in April. RTE report that under normal circumstances Rowe would come home in the Spring to train with Mayo but the Covid 19 pandemic has put a halt to this meaning Mayo will likely now be playing in the winter months, when Collingwood incidentally begin their pre-season training for 2020 campaign.

Mayo manager Peter Leahy has sent out a warning that he will no longer pick player who combine inter-county football and Australian rules. Speaking to Midwest Radio, Leahy said,”We’ve made a decision that anyone who wants to go to Australia or whatever, we’d have to omit from the panel and carry on regardless because [it’s] what’s best for Mayo”. “There’s no other sport that I know of that you can play both in the same season. The demands of inter-county football is so high.”

Speaking to RTE Sport, Rowe is still uncertain what to do. She said, “The signing date for AFL is between 1 and 17 August so I have a bit of time yet. I don’t even know if they’re allowed to have conversations yet with people because everything is so unforeseen”. She continued, “It’s very up in the air as to what the future holds. For me at the moment, I’m just focusing on my club… then I’ll focus on Mayo, and then I’ll turn my sights to whatever the future holds for me but at the moment it’s all very uncertain”. “Peter has to do what he thinks is best for Mayo and what’s best for Mayo is best for me. It just means it is now more of a decision going forward.

However, Rowe is loving been back home with her club Kilmoremoy. She told RTE Sport,You really miss that side of things,” she said.  “You can train as much as you want on your own but it’s never the same as the way you train when you’re with a group of people. You’re pushed that bit harder as well. She continued, “To be back with your club is a lovely thing to do as well. “It’s very refreshing because normally you’re coming in off the back of an inter-county season, you haven’t really been there as such but now you’re with them group of players, starting with them from the start of the season, you can build that good team culture”.

Alonso to return to F1 with Renault in 2021

Fernando Alonso will return to F1 with Renault in 2021. The Spaniard, who is a two time World Champion and will be 39 later this month has signed off on the deal and will be confirmed soon.

Alonso will return to Renault whom he won his World Championships with in the past. He left F1 in 2018 to pursue other adventures, but he is due to make a third bid to win the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren in August. BBC Sport report that a spokesperson for Renault “declined to comment on the rumours”. When the news is confirmed Alonso will partner French man Esteban Ocon, with Australian Danny Ricciardo leaving Renault to move to McLaren next season.

Many will probably ask why is Alonso coming back to sport seen that he said “he felt he had nothing else but achieve in the sport”. However, he obviously now feels he has plenty more to achieve if he is signing to Renault. He also said, “It’s time to achieve bigger things outside of F1”. However, we reported in May that Alonso was in talks with Renault since November 2019. With the Spaniard’s advisor Flavia Briatore stating that Alonso was “motivated and ready to return to F1”.

As the old saying goes though never turn your back on something your good at and Alonso’s record speaks for itself. In addition to his 2 World Championship titles, he has amassed 32 Grand Prix wins. Since leaving F1 he has gone to become a two time winner of Le Mans 24 hours, he has also competed in the Dakar Rally. He has also race in the Indy 500 and has set himself the target of winning this.

 

Neville signs contract with Man United

Harry Neville, son of former United player Phil has signed his professional contract with Manchester United according to the clubs official website.

Harry who is only 18, made his Republic of Ireland debut last October in the Showgrounds when they faced Denmark. Neville has been playing with the United U18 side. He will now look to work his way into the U23 side. He has been previously apart of the Valencia youth set up in 2018. Neville revealed the news on his Instagram and was delighted with the news. He said, “Proud to have signed my first professional contract with Man Utd”. “Thank you to all my family and all my coaches for their support”.

United have said they have retained all under 18 players due to the impact of Covid 19. Neville has signed a one year deal at the club.

Meanwhile, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has given some early team news ahead of the Old Trafford’s based side game against Aston Villa. He told Manunited.com, that Victor Lindelof who was withdrawn at half time in the win over Bournemouth, will likely miss the game. Asked if there was news on his injury he said,  Not yet, no. It’s not too bad. He’ll play soon.I’m not sure if he’ll manage the Villa game”.

Axel Tuanzebe and Phil Jones remain sidelined due to injury. Youth-team skipper Teden Mengi has been training with the senior squad but Tim Fosu-Mensah and Luke Shaw are also capable of performing at the heart of the defence, if required.

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Three new teams to make Basketball League debut

RTE Sport that three new teams will make their National Basketball debut. Team Kerry, Drogheda Wolves and Malahide have all been ratified to join Division 1 of the men’s league which begins on the weekend of the 17th of October. 

The Men’s Super League will see six teams, with two conferences. Four teams in total will be added to Division 1 as Titans Basketball are also returning after a year’s absence. RTE state that the Super League format will be used for the upcoming season only. The Men’s National Competitions Committee (MNCC) have confirmed that Belfast Star, the defending Super League Champions, will be in the North Conference, which will see UCD, Templeogue, Eanna, Killester and DCU Saints.

In the South Conference, Ballincollig, will be joined by Neptune, along with Kerry sides KCYM and Tralee Warriors. Maree and Moycullen of Galway will also be in the South Conference. Three of the new teams will operate in the Division 1 North conference. These will be Drogheda Wolves, Titans and Malahide, who will come up against Dublin Lions, LYIT, Ulster University, Sligo All-Stars and Tolka Rovers.

The Division 1 South conference will see the two Killarney based clubs Team Kerry and St Pauls operate. Limerick Celtics, UL Eagles, Fr Matthews, WIT Waterford, Portlaoise Panthers and IT Carlow will also be in this conference. RTE Report the joining fee to join the league have been halved owing to the Covid 19 pandemic.

Chairperson of the National Competitions Committee, Bernard O’Byrne said, “We are delighted to welcome four new teams to Division One. All four clubs made impressive presentations to the MNCC at the weekend and we’re looking forward to seeing them in National League action”. He continued, “We have decided to reduce the entrance fees for Super League and Division One, as we recognise what clubs are going through financially.”

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