Carlos Alcaraz’s hopes of third straight French Open title ended by injury
Carlos Alcaraz’s hopes of winning a third straight French Open title have been shattered by injury.
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Alcaraz won't defend French Open title due to wrist injury - ESPN
MADRID — Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz won't attempt to defend his French Open title due to a right wrist injury.
Carlos Alcaraz pulls out of French Open title defence due to wrist injury
Carlos Alcaraz will not defend his French Open title.
Ranieri's Roma role ends after spat with coach Gasperini: club
MILAN: Claudio Ranieri has left his role as senior advisor to Roma's billionaire American owners, the Serie A club said on Friday, after a public row with coach Gian Piero Gasperini meant only one of the pair could stay. In a brief statement, Roma said that "the relationship with Claudio Ranieri has ended", and gave full backing to Gasperini who was brought to the club last summer in the hopes of ending a long absence from the Champions League. "We have full confidence in the path ahead under Gian Piero Gasperini, with the shared objective of growing, improving, and delivering results worthy of our history," added Roma. Last summer Gasperini left Atalanta after nine hugely successful years to replace Ranieri and was hailed by his predecessor in the dugout as the "right man" to take one of Italy's best supported clubs to the top. But their relationship fractured as Gasperini, a notoriously spiky character, publicly criticised Roma's transfer activity and even suggested that he wasn't involved in the purchase of some players. Ranieri insisted before last weekend's 3-0 thumping of Pisa that Gasperini was consulted for every signing since he arrived in June, and during the interview the 74-year-old suggested he could step aside after the end of the season. That decision appears to have been made for him ahead of time, and brings to an end his role advising the Friedkin family after less than a year. Ranieri, a born-and-bred Roman and lifelong Roma fan, moved upstairs last summer following his third spell in charge of the club, during which he came close to guiding his boyhood team into the Champions League after replacing Ivan Juric. Roma haven't played in Europe's top club competition since being knocked out by Porto in
Former Juventus president Agnelli launches sports investment fund Gamma Waves
April 24 : Andrea Agnelli, the president of Serie A football club Juventus for 12 years until 2022, has launched capital fund Gamma Waves to invest in sports-related intellectual property and technology, the company said in a statement on Friday.
Trafford says Man City return hasn’t gone to plan
April 24 : Goalkeeper James Trafford said his return to Manchester City this season had not worked out as he had hoped after finding first‑team opportunities limited with the arrival of Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Italy rules out replacing Iran in World Cup: 'Qualification is done on the pitch'
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US says Iran players welcome at World Cup amid Italy uproar
WASHINGTON: Iran’s footballers will be welcome at this year’s World Cup, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, distancing the US government from a proposal that Italy could take their place in the tournament. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Rubio denied that Washington had asked the Iranian team not to come to the World Cup — but warned the United States may yet bar entry to members of the Iranian delegation it judged to have ties to Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is regarded as a terrorist organization by Washington and several other governments. No-one “from the US has told them they can’t come,” Rubio said of Iran’s World Cup participation. “The problem with Iran, it would be not their athletes, it would be some of the other people (they) would want to bring with them, some of whom have ties to the IRGC. We may not be able to let them in, but not the athletes themselves,” Rubio added. Rubio was responding to a reported proposal from Italy-born US special envoy Paolo Zampolli, who told the Financial Times he had floated the idea of Italy taking Iran’s World Cup place to US President Donald Trump and football’s world governing body FIFA. The proposal was dismissed out of hand by the Italian government and sports officials earlier Thursday. Rubio said the proposal did not reflect the US government’s position. “I don’t know where that’s coming from, other than speculation that Iran may decide not to come, and Italy would fill their spot,” Rubio said.