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The newly elected President of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Giovanni Malago, gives a press conference after his election in Rome on June 22, 2026. (AFP)…
Manchester United announced on Monday that they had acquired a 25-acre (10 hectare) site close to their current Old Trafford home. Manchester United have secured the majority of the land needed to build their proposed new 100,000-capacity stadium.United announced on Monday that they had acquired a 25-acre (10 hectare) site close to their current Old Trafford home.The land purchase is a major step forward in United’s plans to build Britain’s biggest sporting arena.The triangular-shaped plot 350 metres to the north west of Old Trafford means adjacent land owned by Freightliner will not be required.The location of the nearby freight terminal had previously been a complicating factor.Collette Roche, chief executive of the new stadium development, said: “Today’s news highlights the progress we’re making towards a world-class new home for Manchester United and represents a significant milestone as we move into the next phase of development.”Being able to build so close to Old Trafford allows us to preserve the heritage, traditions and rituals that are so important to our fans.”Securing the right land for our new home has been absolutely critical and the land we’ve acquired gives us the stage to deliver a truly world-class stadium that honours our past and is ready for our future.”United first unveiled plans for their ambitious £2 billion ($2.6 billion) stadium in 2025.The venue will be the centre-piece of a wider 370-acre regeneration project featuring 15,000 new homes and creating 48,000 new jobs locally and 90,000 nationally.A master-plan for the Old Trafford regeneration is scheduled to be unveiled on July 9.United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said it was a “no-brainer” to rebuild Old Trafford after buying a stake in the club in 2024.United have played at Old Trafford for 115 years but the 74,000-capacity stadium has fallen into disrepair in recent years. Related Story Source link
French Open champion Alexander Zverev said a malfunctioning glucose sensor left him feeling unwell during his Halle Open semi-final defeat by Taylor Fritz on Saturday. Zverev, who came into the match with a poor recent record against the American after losing their previous six meetings, lost 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 in a contest lasting two hours and 39 minutes. ‘I had huge problems with the sugar because the sensor I use gave me a completely incorrect reading. It indicated very high values when they were actually low, so I injected much more insulin than I should have,’ the world number three said after the match. ‘During the match, or rather during the first 45 minutes, I had to consume about 350 grams of sugar. I felt absolutely terrible.’ Despite the setback, Zverev said Fritz deserved the victory. ‘Nevertheless, I fought, gave it my all, and in the end, it must also be acknowledged that Taylor (Fritz) deserved the win. He played better than me today.’ The German, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, uses Medtronic technology to help regulate his glucose levels and support his diabetes management on and off the court. ‘This is the first time something like this has happened to me. I've been using these sensors since 2016 or 2017, and in nine years, I had never seen such a big error,’ he said.Zverev added that the issue was not a concern ahead of Wimbledon, which runs from June 29 to July 12. Source link
Former World No.4 Holger Rune. Former World No.4 Holger Rune, who hasn’t played since injuring his left Achilles in October, has told AFP that he is still not ready to return to the courts. The 23-year-old insisted, however, he still has “great confidence” in his ability to bounce back and beat the world’s top two Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.”Before, maybe you have a few problems here and there and you make them a bigger deal than they maybe are,” said the Dane.”And now you understand, okay, this is a real tough moment and this is hard to come back from. But I always have big faith in myself that I’m able to come back from anything.”A Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2023, Rune pulled out of the coming championships a few days ago and has now dropped to 63 in the world.There is no sign of an immediate return but he hints that it may not be far off.”Things are looking good now so it’s really when I feel ready, I’ll be back,” he said.”I’m not going to put a date on it. It’s when I’m ready.”Things are evolving well. We are playing points now and everything. And my knee and Achilles are both holding up well.”So it’s a process. We’re not there yet, but we’re close.”Rune regrets the heavy playing load he took on last year, saying it was “too tough”.He went straight from the US Open to training in Monaco, then to the Davis Cup on clay, followed by the Laver Cup on hard court in San Francisco, then Japan, China and finally Stockholm, where he got injured in the semi-finals.”Everything in a row was just too much for me. And I think at the end my body got the answer of that.”Obviously now, coming back from an injury, I feel no pressure really.”I just want to go out there and enjoy myself, enjoy being back and try to be the biggest beast I can and deliver.”I want to come back better than before.”The plan when he does return will be to focus on the Grand Slams and Masters 1000.”That’s the level I want to be playing at,” he explained.And he is not intimidated by the dominance of Sinner and Alcaraz.”I know I can beat both of them. I’ve done it. The last time I played Carlos, I won. I just need to learn how to do it every week.” Related Story Source link
Wyndham Clark of the United States poses with the trophy after winning the 126th US Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, on…
Seven-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez won the Czech Grand Prix in Brno on Sunday, scoring a second straight win after dominating in Hungary two weeks ago. Pole sitter Ai Ogura of Japan finished second ahead of Marquez’s factory Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia. Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi sat out the race as a penalty for slapping a track steward in the face following a crash in Saturday’s sprint. But the Italian on a factory Aprilia still leads the MotoGP rankings with 180 points, ahead of his teammate Jorge Martin with 172, Fabio Di Giannantonio on a Ducati with 157 and Marc Marquez with 140. On a scorching hot day in the second Czech city of Brno, pole sitter Ogura on an Aprilia took the lead on the first lap with Bagnaia and Marquez tucked behind him.Bagnaia struck first in the second lap and Marquez followed seconds later, the two factory Ducatis settling down at the top with Ogura third. Marquez circled patiently behind Bagnaia, narrowing his gap on his teammate to a tenth of a second by the 11th of 21 laps. The seven-time MotoGP champion struck in lap 16, overtaking Bagnaia and immediately getting away to seal his fifth MotoGP victory on the Brno circuit. Moments later, Bagnaia also gave in to mounting pressure from Ogura. Ogura closed in on Marquez in the final laps but settled for second, while Bagnaia held off Di Giannantonio in fourth. The three also topped Saturday’s sprint won by Bagnaia ahead of Ogura and Marquez.”A super important victory,” said Marquez. “Super happy.” ‘A tough one’ Marquez came back to racing in Hungary after sitting out two Grand Prix with a broken foot, and ahead of Brno he admitted he was not entirely fit yet. “You know that I never give up, in the last laps I was suffering a lot. The bike was there but I was empty and then I just tried to keep the pace,” said the 33-year-old Spaniard. “I saw that Ogura was pushing, but not enough to catch me. They were the longest six laps of the year,” he added. Ogura said the race was “a really tough one”. “I think I got a good pace towards the end but he (Marquez) has something more,” the 25-year-old Trackhouse MotoGP Team rider said. “Overall the quality of the weekend was a lot better than the other races so we can be happy about that. Time to celebrate!” Bagnaia, the world champion in 2022 and 2023, said he had a hard time holding on to Marquez and Ogura after they had overtaken him. “I needed to slow down a bit and then the last three laps I tried to be back on my pace to try to control (Di Giannantonio) who was arriving very fast,” the 29-year-old Italian added. It was a dark weekend for the Aprilia Racing team – besides Bezzecchi’s ban, Martin finished ninth after serving two long-lap penalties for causing a crash in the Hungarian GP in which he took out four riders including Bezzecchi. The MotoGP circus has two races to go before the summer break, resuming in the Netherlands next weekend. Earlier on Sunday, Spain’s Ivan Ortola took his maiden win in the Moto2 class despite serving a long-lap penalty, while Malaysia’s Hakim Danish also relished his first-ever win in the Moto3 category. Related Story Source link
England’s Ben Stokes in action during the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, Britain, on June 7, 2026. (Reuters) Captain Ben Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson will return for England’s third Test against New Zealand in Nottingham following the conclusion of a disciplinary hearing, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Sunday.The pair were suspended from the second test after a curfew breach at a London nightclub and were reportedly present when a member of England’s security staff was involved in an incident with a Saracens rugby player following England’s first-Test win.Stokes missed England’s second match as New Zealand levelled the series with a 253-run victory at The Oval on Sunday.Earlier, head coach Brendon McCullum had said England were expecting Stokes to return for the third Test after the 35-year-old withdrew from Durham’s County Championship match against Northamptonshire at the ECB’s request.”Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson have been included in the England Men’s squad for the third Rothesay Test against New Zealand following the conclusion of an ECB disciplinary hearing in relation to their conduct in the early hours of Monday 8 June,” the board said in a statement.”Stokes and Atkinson were found to have breached specific contractual obligations that require England players to at all times maintain the highest standards of conduct and act in the best interests of England cricket.”The ECB said both players had received written warnings but were not blamed for the violence, noting that Stokes was not present during the violent conduct and that Atkinson was subjected to unprovoked attacks but did not retaliate.Joe Root has deputised as captain in Stokes’ absence and reached the milestone of 14,000 Test runs, becoming only the second player to do so after India great Sachin Tendulkar.Stokes impressed for Durham, scoring 95 off 118 balls against Northamptonshire.The BBC reported on Sunday that Atkinson has also been withdrawn from his County Championship fixture. He had taken four wickets for his county side Surrey against Glamorgan.The third Test match between England and New Zealand begins on June 25 at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. England Men’s third Test squad Ben Stokes (C), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, Ollie Robinson, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue Related Story…
Matt Henry did the damage as New Zealand thrashed England by 253 runs in the second Test at the Oval on Sunday for a series-levelling victory as England confirmed Ben Stokes would return as captain for the deciding third Test.Stokes was dropped for breaching a team curfew following his side's win in the series opener at Lord's.’Ben will be back. He'll be back as captain,’ said England head coach Brendon McCullum after the match.Fast-medium bowler Henry's sensational spell of four wickets for no runs in 12 balls saw England, who were 182-5 overnight, collapse to 192-9.Henry finished the match by bowling Jordan Cox as England, who were chasing a record-breaking 463 to win, were dismissed for 209.New Zealand needed just 48 minutes play on Sunday's fifth day at the Oval to square the three-match series at 1-1 ahead of next week's decider in Nottingham.Henry's superb second-innings return of 6-29, allied to his five-wicket haul in England's first-innings 5-80, gave him overall figures of 11-109.Henry's maiden 10-wicket haul in a Test was also the best by any New Zealand bowler against England, surpassing Dion Nash's 11-169 at Lord's back in 1994.’I probably didn't expect things to unfold like that today,’ said Henry, the player of the match. With the ball, we talked about being relentless. We stuck at it and it was nice to get the rewards.’'SPEARHEAD'New Zealand captain Tom Latham added: ‘We thought hitting the top of off stump repetitively was the way to go on this surface and Matt Henry is a good exponent of that…He has been a spearhead for some time.’Shortly before play started on Sunday, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced that both Stokes and Gus Atkinson, also omitted this week for breaking curfew, had been withdrawn from county action with Durham and Surrey respectively.It was a clear hint the duo would be recalled to England duty at Trent Bridge and they were each included in a 15-man squad announced later Sunday for the third Test.But the ECB added that they both been given written warnings after breaching ‘specific contractual obligations’ that require England players at all times to maintain the highest standards of conduct and act in the best interests of England cricket.Nevertheless, they cleared the pair of responsibility for a violent altercation in a London nightclub with Saracens rugby player Totoa Auvaa.The ECB said Stokes had no part in and did not witness Auvaa's two attempts to confront paceman Atkinson, whom it added was ‘the victim of unprovoked attacks’ to which he did not retaliate. ENGLAND RESUMED ALL BUT BEATENEngland resumed all but beaten at 182-5, needing a further 281 runs for victory.Their hopes of an improbable win rested with stand-in captain Joe Root, 75 not out overnight.But Root had added just two runs to his score when he was plumb lbw to Henry.With an England side showing five changes, including three debutants, from the one Stokes led at Lord's, a lengthy tail was exposed by Henry.Two balls after Root's exit, the 34-year-old clean bowled Jofra Archer for a duck, with a delivery that kept low.New batsman Matthew Fisher had made a maiden Test fifty in the first innings, but on Sunday he was clean bowled for nought by Henry.With the next ball, the paceman had new batsman Josh Tongue edging to Daryl Mitchell in the slips for a golden duck, with England on the brink at 192-9.A double-wicket maiden (a bowler removing two batsmen in the same over without conceding a run) is rare in Test cricket, but Henry, hampered by back spasms at Lord's, now had two in a row.The end was not long in coming as Henry bowled Cox to seal an emphatic victory which saw both New Zealand all-rounder Glenn Phillips and Henry Nicholls, who replaced retired batting great Kane Williamson, hit hundreds. BRIEF SCORES New Zealand 391 (Phillips 101, Blundell 51, Bethell 3-26) and 362 (Nicholls 121, Ravindra 76, Mitchell 68) beat England 291 (Gay 53, Fisher 50*, Henry 5-80) and 209 (Root 75*, Brook 54, Jamieson 3-37) by 253 runs Source link
India’s teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in action against Sri Lanka A in the tri-nation series final in Dambulla on Sunday. India’s teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashed the fastest half-century in List A cricket history on Sunday, reaching the milestone in just 11 balls in Dambulla but staying unfazed after his breakout season.The 15-year-old blazed 94 off 29 deliveries in India’s 66-run win over Sri Lanka A in the tri-nation series final, striking 10 fours and eight sixes to power his side to 377-9.Sri Lanka were dismissed for 311 in reply, handing India victory.Sooryavanshi, who earned his maiden India A call-up for the one-day international tri-series, is fresh off a standout Indian Premier League season, where he topped the scoring charts with 776 runs in 16 matches and set a new benchmark with 65 sixes, surpassing Chris Gayle’s record.”I didn’t think too much. I just wanted to make the most of the first 10 overs and execute my plans,” he told reporters.”There was no pressure. I worked on areas that weren’t going well, and today everything came together.”I’ve learned a lot. I’ve played 50-over cricket quite a bit, even if people don’t realise it. The conditions were different, but it was a good experience.”His performances for Rajasthan Royals made him the first player in IPL history to be named both Most Valuable Player and Best Emerging Player. India have named him in their squad for the upcoming Twenty20 International series against Ireland and England, where he could become the youngest player to represent India in men’s internationals, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar, who debuted aged 16. BRIEF SCORES India A 377 for 9 (Sooryavanshi 94, Tilak 67, Gaikwad 40, Sahan 2-39) beat Sri Lanka A 311 (Sahan 62, Samarawickrama 52, Thakur 3-45, Nigam 3-60) by 66 runs Related Story Source link