7 Hearts & Rangers stars of the Youth Cup final - ace linked with Liverpool, goalkeeper hope, Kane inspiration
Rangers collected the club’s eighth Scottish Youth Cup victory earlier this week with a 2-1 win over Hearts.
Russia Sport News
Exiled Ukrainian athletes chase dreams in Albania and fret about home
Albania, but eight young Ukrainian track and field athletes are continuing to chase their sporting dreams. As the four teenage girls and four boys try to honour their homeland with sporting success, they are inevitably worrying about their loved ones back in Ukraine. "This war changed our lives but did not destroy our dreams," said Mariya Larina.
Pagliuca out of running for Chelsea, Ratcliffe makes bid
MANCHESTER, England : American investor Steve Pagliuca's group is out of the running to purchase Premier League side Chelsea, his spokesperson said on Friday, but British businessman Jim Ratcliffe says he has made a late bid to buy the London club.
In the muddy woodlands of a Baltic island, Sweden’s soldiers are getting ready for Russian attack
Wet snow turns into drizzling rain. Thanks to some diplomatic backing and the security clearance of the German and French embassies in Stockholm, I got finally authorization from the Swedish armed forces headquarters to enter the military facility on Gotland, a strategically important island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Crouching down into the muddy soil I try best as I can to catch the tense faces of the young soldiers deployed across the coniferous woodland, passing a hidden tank, pausing behind some rocks for a few seconds, then silently moving further towards a trench that separates a small ridge from a large open meadow. It’s like a choreographed war-ballet, every single fighter fitting smoothly into the well-trained mechanism of their squad. Suddenly some dark silhouettes appear in the grassland ahead. Squad leader Benjamin commands: “Open Fire!”
What Jim Ratcliffe has said about Manchester United ahead of potential £4bn Chelsea takeover
Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe has submitted an offer of £4 billion to buy Chelsea.
UK's richest man Ratcliffe tables Chelsea bid
Jim Ratcliffe has tabled a last-minute bid to buy Chelsea, a spokesperson for the Ineos chief has confirmed. Ratcliffe is understood to have held talks with Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck on Thursday and submitted a major offer for the Stamford Bridge club on Friday. The 69-year-old explored in detail a possible bid for the Blues back in 2019, only to buy French club Nice instead.
23.5 million tickets sought in latest World Cup sale: FIFA
FIFA said on Friday that 23.5 million World Cup tickets were requested in the latest round of sales for the tournament that starts in Qatar in less than seven months. Applications from Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Mexico, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United States dominated, the world body said, highlighting the "enormous demand". The most popular games are the final on December 18 alongside some of the group games which are already known: Argentina v Mexico, Argentina v Saudi Arabia, England v United States and Poland v Argentina, FIFA said in a statement.
The life of former world tennis number 1 Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker was born in Leimen, a town in north-west Germany, in 1967.