26 Jul 2020

Manchester City vs. Norwich City Football Match in Premier League 26 July 2020

EPL , Football
Manchester City vs. Norwich City Football Match in Premier League 26 July 2020

Manchester City welcomes Norwich City to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening as Pep Guardiola's men expect to end a genuinely frustrating Premier League season in winning design. The Citizens have followed Liverpool practically all season and with runner up ensured, the Citizens will be searching for a triumph to keep up some energy for the Champions League.

Match Schedule:
Manchester City vs. Norwich City
Premier League
Date: 26 July 2020; Kickoff: 8.00 PM
Stadium: Etihad Stadium


Norwich is the most out-of-structure group in the division, with the as of now consigned the Canaries having lost their last nine games and scoring only once in that time. The side from East Anglia recorded a stun 3-2 win when different sides met at Carrow Road back in September and bet365 offer them to finish an improbable twofold.

Manchester City, as far as concerns them, have dominated 14 home games this term and are evaluated at only for another achievement, with the draw at. The Citizens were merciless in midweek as they dispatched a battling Watford side 4-0 and there is no purpose behind them to show any benevolence against as of now consigned adversaries.

Guardiola will need his players to be an in winning mentality in front of the European confrontation with Real Madrid in a little while, and he is probably not going to endure a bringing down of instruments despite his side having nothing in question on Sunday.

Norwich will simply need to bow out from the Premier League in good style; likely by endeavoring to hold the score down as opposed to winning, however, this is something they have neglected to do since the restart against any semblance of Southampton, Arsenal, and West Ham.

At the base, Aston Villa travels to West Ham in post position to endure the drop. Watford - away at Arsenal - and Bournemouth - away at Everton - trust the Hammers will help them out in their battle to spare their Premier League status.

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30 Apr 2020

The Government will Close Series A If There is No Agreement on Protocol

Champions League , Europa League
The Government will Close Series A If There is No Agreement on Protocol
Vincenzo Spadafora, Italian sports minister, assured this Thursday that the Government is seeking an agreement with the country's Football Federation (FIGC) on the protocol for the resumption of training and that if it is not found, it will order the final closure of the Serie A for the 2019-2020 season.

"These days the Scientific Technical Committee is meeting with the various parts of the world of football, not only with the FIGC, to deepen the protocol that it presented to us. If we find an agreement, the training sessions may be resumed and this will also be positive for the eventual resumption of the championship, "said Spadafora in an interview on national television" Rai ".

"Otherwise, the Government will decide, for reasons of an obvious health emergency, to close the championship, creating, as far as possible, the conditions so that the world of football has the least possible damage," he added.

Spadafora stressed that, in the latter case, the Government will assume its responsibilities and called for "the controversy to end now, because football must be a symbol of carefreeness, passion and fun."

At the moment, the government considered insufficient the protocol presented two weeks ago by the FIGC, in which it was requested to resume training on May 4, and prohibited activity in the sports centers of football clubs until May 18.

This decision was strongly criticized by the Italian soccer world and the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, assured late on Wednesday that he would refuse to sign the final closure of the season.

"I protect the interests of the world of soccer and I refuse to sign a total blockade of the season, except if objective conditions linked to the health of the players, coaching staff and collaborators exist, but someone has to tell me clearly and should prevent me keep going, "Gravina said late Wednesday after participating in an online event hosted by Ascoli Calcio.
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24 Apr 2020

The Return of the Bundesliga, Ongoing But Undated

Bundesliga , Football
The Return of the Bundesliga, Ongoing But Undated
German football is on the way to return, but the exact date on which it will return is unknown at the moment. The DFL (German Football League) presented this Thursday the plan to resume both the Bundesliga and the Bundesliga 2, announcing that it will take place with games behind closed doors, but regarding when this return will be effective, the doubt remains in the air. "It would be pretentious of us to set a date," said DFL Administrative Director Christian Seifert.

It is ruled out, however, that it will start playing on the first weekend as previously speculated. The process for German football to resume is underway, but will not be completed as quickly. In this sense, Seifert pointed out that it does not depend only on the DFL, and everything points to the fact that the specific date will just be decided at a meeting that will take place next week with the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the different federal states of the Germanic country.

With all this, the intention would be to finish the championship before June 30, but at the same time it is not ruled out that, if necessary, it will also be played during the month of July.

Finally, it is said that a total of 20,000 tests could be carried out so that the remaining games to be played can be played in acceptable security conditions.
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19 Apr 2020

This is How Serie A Prepares Its Return

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This is How Serie A Prepares Its Return
A serological examination ensures that the players are not infected by the coronavirus and armored concentrations in disinfected sports centers are part of the plan prepared by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) for the return of Serie A.

The FIGC Medical Commission, made up of elite doctors and virologists, met this week to reason about the steps to be followed and gradually return to normal, when it is 40 days since the last Serie A match played.

The Italian Government ordered confinement until May 3 and according to the latest decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, athletes will be able to re-train in sports centers from day 4.

If Italian volleyball, rugby or basketball have already definitively renounced the 2019-2020 season, soccer, which faces losses that can touch the billion Euros, is determined to take extreme measures in order to resume competition and avoid losses millionaires.

Among them, the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, also considers the extreme hypothesis of competing only in the center and in the south of the country, without organizing parties in the northern regions, those most affected by the coronavirus.

The doctors and virologists who analyzed the country's medical situation advised resuming football following three phases: first Serie A, which has superior financial resources and can more easily, respect health requirements, and then Series B (Second category) and the Series C (Third category).

The plan foresees to summon all the squads about 72 or 96 hours before to subject players, technicians, managers, press officers and collaborators to a serological examination that confirms their refusal with complete certainty.
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13 Apr 2020

The Major League Baseball Plan Return to Play.

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The Major League Baseball Plan Return to Play.

There are plans to bring all the teams to Arizona and have they played behind closed doors as long as necessary. Last Monday the leaders of the Major League Baseball, the North American baseball championship, met with the players association to evaluate the proposals that could allow the start of the championship in a national emergency for the spread of coronavirus in the United States.

According to Associated Press sources, during the meeting one of the ideas that would have most intrigued the teams involves moving the entire organization of the championship - therefore match officials, coaches, players and managers - to the state of Arizona for a while indefinite. The teams would be quarantined in a limited area that includes the capital Phoenix to start the championship (which was supposed to start on March 26) and continue playing until the end of the emergency.

The games would be played behind closed doors in ten different baseball fields within a radius of about fifty kilometers, from the main stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks to those of the Minor League teams, the semi-professional level of North American baseball. About fifteen games a day would be played in as many stadiums, with the Phoenix Chase Field used as the main field thanks to its less wear synthetic turf.
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8 Apr 2020

The Olympics never played: London 1944

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The Olympics never played: London 1944

Compared to Berlin 1916 and Tokyo 1940, the cancellation of the London Olympic Games was almost obvious: there was never the full belief that they could actually be played. The Games were assigned by the IOC in 1939, the year in which the first fights of the Second World War began, however only a few months after the move of the Tokyo 1940 Olympics to Helsinki due to the war events in Asia.

The move to Helsinki also proved unnecessary, because the winter war of 1939 between Finland and the Soviet Union immediately led to the definitive cancellation of the Games scheduled for the following year.

The IOC also preceded in its candidacy assessment procedures for 1944 - just as the various national Olympic committees also committed themselves to formulating their nominations - because it was his job to do so. Not being able to predict the duration of the conflicts, the IOC continued to guarantee the four-year organization of the Olympics stopping only in the face of the impossibility dictated by the events.

The London nomination was chosen in 1939 after being preferred to those of Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal. At the same time, the IOC assigned the Winter Olympics to Cortina d'Ampezzo, which however followed the same fate as the summer event, soon being canceled. London 1944 had little hope of disputing immediately, considering the evolution of the situation in Europe.

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