Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sports News In Brief

Neil Lennon, the Celtic Glasgow manager is targeting an unbeaten run for his club till the end of the season of the Scotish Premiership. He has also challenge his players to make the dream happen.

The Italian Serie A club FC Napoli managed by former Liverpool and Valencia coach, Rafael Benitez, has booked their place in the final of the Coppa Italia by beating AS Roma on a 5 - 1 aggregate.

Roy Hodgson, the England manager said, that it will be a bit hard for Ashley Cole of Chelsea, to secure a place in his starting eleven. He said that, the fact that Cole is not playing often in his club, does not mean that he can be written off. ''I certainly wouldn't write Ashley Cole out of any plans, because he wasn't playing in his club team.'' He said that for a long time other players have been studying him and now is his turn to sit back. '' For years people have been understudy to Ashley. Now it's Ashley's turn to sit back,'' the English coach said.

The 20 year old Ajax Amsterdam striker and Dutch Under - 21 star Davy Klaasen, has been attracting a huge interest from some big clubs in English Premier League (EPL) such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Man United, Tottenham and Aston Villa. But according to report, the Ajax director of football and former Ajax and Arsenal star Marc Overmars, the youngster is not for sale. The talented boy is already being hailed by many as the new Dennis bergkamp.

In spain, the Spanish giant Barcelona has reached Copa Del Rey final against the other Spanish giant club Real Madrid by beating Real Sociedad with an aggregate of 3 - 1.
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The England manager, Roy Hodgson, said in an interview with Skysports that he will not recall the Chelsea captain, John Terry to the national team.
Mr Hodgson said that inspite of the fact that Terry is doing well with his club, he will not recall him. He said that the team has done very well without him. The manager said that as far as he is concerned, John Terry has retired from international football, and that is the end of the matter.

Sochi 2014 Table Standing So Far
                    
                         Gold     Silver    Bronze    Total

1.  Germany         7         2           1              10
2.  Canada            4         4           2              10
3.  Norway           4         3           6              13
4.  Netherlands     4         3           5              12
5.  USA                4         2           6              12
6.  Switzerland     3         0           1               4
7.  Russia             2         5           4               11
8.  China              2         1           0               3
9.  France             2         0           2               4
10 Poland             2         0           0               2
11 Austria            1         4           0               5
12 Slovenia          1         1           2               4
13 S. Korea          1         0           1               2
14 Belarus            1         0           0               1
14 Slovakia          1         0           0               1

This is the table as at today. But you notice that it is only countries that has won Gold medal were included here. It is due to space, so please bear with me.

      
 

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