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Tennis stars Broady and Ostapenko is row over ball boy
With two days left for the 2016 Auckland Open’s women’s event in New Zealand, it was not a fortunate event for 18-year-old Latvian tennis player Jeļena Ostapenko
Luis Enrique attacks espanyol match officials
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique was angry at match officials during the Catalonian derby game between Barcelona against Espagnol (4-1) in the first leg in round 16 for Spanish cup Copa del Ray
Egyptian Kharaba competes in African CAF best promising talent award
Egyptian international player Mahmoud Abdel Moneim, known to his fans as “Kahraba”, 21, entered as a candidate as final best talent list for the CAF African Football Association for 2015. CAF will announce the award results Thursday at an annual event in the International Conference Centre in Abuja, Nigeria
Egypt’s Ramadan Darwish participates in the Judo Grand Prix Havana 2016
Egyptian 27-year-old judo champion Ramadan Darwish is preparing to travel to Cuba’s capital, Havana, to participate in the Judo Grand Prix Havana 2016, to be held this January on the 22nd and will last for three days. The Egyptian Federation for Judo, presided over by Sameh Mobasher, hopes that Darwish will set new records in …
Egyptian men’s national volleyball team flies to Congo for Rio 2016 Summer Olympics qualifications
The Egyptian men’s national volleyball team flew to the Congo on 5 January to participate in the African qualifications for Rios’s 2016 Summer Olympics, which will end on 15 January. As announced by the management staff and trainers and led by Italian manager Flavio Gulinelli, the list of 14 players who will participate in the these …
Rehab Gomaa: Youngest Egyptian handball female professional
Rehab Gomaa, 21, is the youngest female handball player in the history of Egyptian handball. Gomaa started at Nasser’s Club but when the club frizzed its activities, she moved to Shabab El-Sahel sports centre. Gomaa received many offers from popular clubs in Egypt, including Zamalek Sporting Club, El-Shams Club and, Smouha Sporting Club, but she …
Nadal current priority is the Qatar ExxonMobil Open Tennis Tournament
The 29 years-old, Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal Parera jumped from the 19th place to be ranked this year as world No.5, with 5,230 points. Due to his high performance on the clay-court, he was titled “The King of Clay”. Recently Nadal, who plays Left-handed (two-handed backhand), expressed that he will prepare for Rio’s 2016 Summer Olympics …
Pep Guardiola: ‘I want to coach in the Premier League’
Manchester City remain the front-runners to sign Guardiola, but city rivals Manchester United and London side Chelsea are reported to also be keen
#Zidane viral with more than 1m tweets for being Real Madrid manager
The hashtag #Zidane was used by millions of users spreading the news online and commenting on the sacking of Rafael “Rafa” Benitez.
Leicester City near the top of Premier League table
Leicester City sits near the top of the Premier league table with 42 points and 11 wins after 20 rounds this season.
AFC moves location of Saudi-Iranian match
AFC found the Saudi Football Federation’s request reasonable due to the sensitive nature of the two countries’ current diplomatic ties.
Real Madrid sacks Bentiz, picks Zidane as new manager
This decision made Rafa Benitez the sixth manager to be sacked this season in Spanish la Liga and the tenth head coach at Florentino Perez.
Chelsea versus Fiorentina in Salah’s Fifa arbitration courts
AC Roma player Mohamed Salah, 23, is in the spotlight of Fifa’s arbitration courts, as Chelsea goes up against the Italian Fiorentina. Salah was loaned to Fiorentina from Chelsea on the condition that he would not be able to play for other Italian Series A clubs. However, Chelsea relaxed the terms on unilaterally resulting in …
Brazil gears up for 2016 Summer Olympics
Brazilian metropolis Rio de Janeiro has a lot to do before hosting the Summer Games, including overcoming economic crisis and cleaning up its harbor. Eight months before the Games begin, here’s a progress report.
Despite injury to Curry, Warriors defeat Nuggets in overtime
The reigning MVP of the league has averaged 29.7 points per game, 5.5 rebounds per game, and 6.4 assists per game so far this season.
Mido: Zamalek’s new manager
The Zamalek board assembled an important meeting and stated officially hiring Mido to be the third manager this season after Portuguese Jesualdo Ferreira, who won the double (League and Cup) last season to Elsad club in Qatar.
Egypt’s national female taekwondo team acquires first place at MasTKD
The sports’ most famous magazine MasTKDsports, specialised in taekwondo, placed Egypt’s women national team for taekwondo as the best women’s team in 2015 in accordance to its readers’ votes which reached 62.321. Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth places went for Thailand, South Korea, China, the US, the UK, Turkey, and Taiwan, respectively.
Cristiano Ronaldo: ‘I’m not a god to please everyone!’
He made these comments when the Santiago Bernabeu crowd whistled at him as he missed a penalty in Madrid’s 3-1 wins over Real Sociedad Wednesday.
Only club committee has right to let us go: Mahmoud Taher
President of Al-Ahly FC Mahmoud Taher held a press conference Sunday, following the court ruling to dissolve Al-Ahly board last week. “Only the club committee has the right to let us go and we demand government officials to disclose who has been causing administrative irregularities in the elections which have lead to this problem. We have …
First Dakar Rally stage cancelled due to weather
More bad news for the 2016 Dakar Rally. One day after an accident in the prologue left spectators seriously wounded, the first official stage of the race was cancelled because of weather conditions.
Prevc wins Innsbruck event at Four Hills tournament
Peter Prevc has won the third leg of the Four Hill tournament ahead of Severin Freund. The Slovenian is now in the pole position to take the overall title at the event.
Only club national committee has right to let us go: Al-Ahly president
Mahmoud Taher, president of Al-Ahly FC, said Saturday in a press conference that only the club’s committee has the right to dismiss the board. The board held the press conference is response the court ruling to dissolve its last week. The board stated, in the conference: “We held this press conference to explain our next …
Heliopolis Sporting Club wins first Cairo Water Polo Festival
13 Egyptian clubs participated in the inaugural event. HSC player Karim Abu Dawud won the award for the competition’s best player.
Heliopolis Sporting Club’s success at the Talae El-Geish Squash Championship
HSC’s Ahmed Emad Ragheb won first place over-35 individual male competition, while HSC’s Abdallah Yaser Al-Masry placed second in the 19-year-old junior men’s category.
Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool ends 2015 level with Manchester United
Liverpool match Manchester United’s point total at the halfway point with the club’s fifth win under Jürgen Klopp. However, an end-of-game skirmish between Klopp and Sam Allardyce is what has the town talking.
Djokovic and Williams: Kings of tennis in 2015
Serbian Novak Djokovic ended the season in the top ranks for tennis players in 2015, repeating his achievements during ATP world tour of 2014. Djokovic achieved more than one championship this year, adding several new records to his already admirable profile. He won the Australian Open championship for the fifth time to become the player …
Egyptians dominate the world of squash in 2015
Egypt has always been associated with its achievements in squash. A number of Egyptian players have held the world title, including Amr Shabana and Ramy Ashour, although no female players won the title so far. The year 2015 was nonetheless witness to the brilliance of Egyptian player Raneem El-Weleily, who ended the year topping the …
Leading boxers’ death in 2015
The world mourned when professional US boxer of Yemeni descent, Hamzah Aljahmi, passed away during a tournament in Connecticut in the US. Aljahmi, 19, collapsed after he received a direct hit to his head during an opening match in Ohio on 19 December that caused him to bleed internally. He died at St. Elizabeth Hospital …
Egypt’s El-Mahdi wins men’s individual championship at 2015 Golf Croquet World Championship
For El-Mahdi, this victory represents the culmination of several years of dedication.
IOC president calls for change after scandal-filled year
IOC chief Thomas Bach wants change after a scandal-filled year across the sports world. He hopes his “Olympic Movement” can provide “new answers to new questions.”