ميدو: اختبرنا مدرب الزمالك الجديد حال هجوم مرتضى منصور.. وأقود جبهة لنكون مثل الأهلي

كشف أحمد حسام ميدو مدرب الإسماعيلي الأسبق تفاصيل اختيار المدير الفني الجديد للزمالك هايكو هيرليتش، موضحًا دوافع مساندته لمجلس إدارة القلعة البيضاء برئاسة مرتضى منصور.

وكان الزمالك قد تعرض لهزيمة ثقيلة بالأمس أمام المصري بنتيجة 3-2 ضمن منافسات الدوري المصري.

وقال أحمد حسام ميدو في تصريحات إذاعية عبر أثير “الشباب والرياضة”: “لم أتدخل في تعيين مدرب الزمالك الجديد هايكو هيرليتش وكانت هناك منافسة بينه وبين الإسباني أوسكار جارسيا”.

وأردف: “أنا وأمير مرتضى منصور عقدنا اجتماعات عبر تقنية زووم مع 8 مدربين لمعرفة طريقة إدارتهم في بعض الأمور سواء بالتعامل مع ضغط المباريات أو الظروف المختلفة”.

طالع | منها طرد الجهاز الفني.. مرتضى منصور يصدر 6 قرارات عقب خسارة الزمالك أمام المصري

وتابع: “كما اختبرنا موقهم حال الهجوم من رئيس الزمالك وانقسام بعض اللاعبين داخل غرفة الملابس ومطالبة بعض اللاعبين اللعب بصفة أساسية، وقدمنا قائمة مختصرة من 4 مدربين للاختيار من بينهم لتولي تدريب الزمالك”.

وأردف: “أنا أقود جبهة من أجل الحفاظ على استقرار مجلس إدارة الزمالك حتى انتهاء مدته الانتخابية مثل ما يحدث في الأهلي، وأنا مع المجلس المنتخب حتى نهاية دورته ولا أدعم أي شخص”.

واستطرد: “في الوقت الحالي لا أفكر في أي عمل داخل الزمالك ومن الممكن أن أحلم في المستقبل بالتواجد في رئاسة النادي، وأنا مع وجود مبادئ والحفاظ عليها وعلاقتي جيدة مع أحمد سليمان وهاني العتال وممدوح عباس”.

واختتم: “انتقدت التصريحات الماضية بشأن التشاؤم من اللعب على استاد القاهرة، وهناك لاعبين كانوا يقولون أنهم يروا المنافس مرتين وقدموا حجج لتراجع أدائهم”.

بعثة الرجاء تتجه إلى القاهرة استعدادًا لمواجهة الأهلي في أبطال إفريقيا

تغادر بعثة نادي الرجاء المغرب متجهة إلى القاهرة، استعدادًا لمواجهة الأهلي في بطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا.

الأهلي يواجه الرجاء، يوم السبت المقبل، على استاد القاهرة الدولي، في ذهاب دور ربع النهائي من بطولة دوري الأبطال.

وأعلن نادي الرجاء عبر حسابه على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي “تويتر” أن الفريق يغادر المغرب متجهًا إلى القاهرة.

وكان موقع “البطولة” المغربي قد أكد أن الرجاء استعاد خدمات ثلاثي الفريق المصاب محمد زريدة وإسماعيل مقدم ومحمد الناهيري قبل السفر لمواجهة الأهلي المقبلة. طالع

بدلاء الأهلي أمام الهلال السوداني.. حمدي فتحي يجاور الشحات

استقر مارسيل كولر المدير الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي، على بدلاء فريقه أمام الهلال السوداني في المباراة التي ستقام بعد قليل.

الأهلي يستضيف الهلال، على ملعب استاد القاهرة الدولي، في إطار الجولة السادسة والأخيرة من دور المجموعات للبطولة الإفريقية.

ويحتل الأهلي المركز الثالث في ترتيب المجموعة الثانية بدوري الأبطال، برصيد 7 نقاط ويحتاج للفوز بهدف على أقل تقدير للتأهل إلى دور الـ8.

طالع | فيديو | محمد أبو تريكة يتوقع نتيجة مباراة الأهلي والهلال السوداني في دوري أبطال إفريقيا

ويتواجد فريقا الأهلي والهلال السوداني في المجموعة الثانية بالبطولة الإفريقية، رفقة صن داونز الجنوب إفريقي والقطن الكاميروني. بدلاء الأهلي اليوم أمام الهلال السوداني

علي لطفي وخالد عبد الفتاح وياسر إبراهيم وحمدي فتحي ومحمد شريف وحسين الشحات وأليو ديانج وأحمد قندوسي ومحمد الضاوي كريستو.

Spinners put India in charge

New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country’s slow, low turners, but batting on them

The Report by Sharda Ugra24-Aug-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsPragyan Ojha dismissed Brendon McCullum in his first over•AFP

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Cheteshwar Pujara’s 159 is the fifth-highest score by an Indian No.3 batsman against New Zealand. It is also the 16th time an Indian has passed 150 against New Zealand.

The aggregate for India for the No.3 and No.5 positions (217) is the second-highest in a single innings since the start of 2005. The highest in the period is 295 against West Indies in Kolkata in 2011.

Pujara’s 159 is the third 150-plus score by an Indian batsman against New Zealand since 2010. Of the previous ten 150-plus knocks by Indian batsmen, nine have come in home Tests with Sachin Tendulkar scoring the only away one.

MS Dhoni’s 73 is his 20th fifty-plus score as captain. Only Sunil Gavaskar (25) has most fifty-plus scores in matches as captain of India.

The 127-run stand between Dhoni and Pujara is the third-highest sixth-wicket stand for India against New Zealand. Dhoni has featured in three of the top five partnerships.

The aggregate of 55 runs for the first four wickets is New Zealand’s second-lowest in Tests since the start of 2011. In the same period, they have failed to aggregate more than 100 runs for the first four wickets in nine of 22 innings.

India have lost only three times at home after scoring more than 400 in their first innings. The last two such occasions came in Tests in Bangalore against Australia and Pakistan.

New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country’s slow, low turners, but batting on them, against the pressure of a sizeable total and the hypnosis wrought by spin. In reply to India’s first – innings total of 438, New Zealand ended the second day of the Hyderabad Test at 106 for 5.At the crease at stumps were James Franklin on 30 and keeper Kruger van Wyk, who is yet to score. Franklin was one half of the only decent partnership for New Zealand . He came at 55 for 4 and with Kane Williamson put up 44 for the fifth wicket, the two being the most confident against spin. They sent out a message to their floundering team-mates on the basics that work against playing spin in India – the use of the crease, the precision of movement either forward or back and the willingness to score rather than defend.When Williamson fell with three overs to go before stumps, incorrectly cutting Pragyan Ojha into Virender Sehwag’s hands at slip, it sent out another message. That New Zealand would need to play the best they have over the last month in order to take this game to the fifth day.The Indian spinners hit their stride quickly and turned the Hyderabad pitch into a turning trampoline for the opposition. After eight overs of pace, MS Dhoni turned to spin in the eighth over bringing on left-arm spinner Ojha in place of Umesh Yadav. The rewards were instant. Brendon McCullum had taken 20 runs in 21 balls off Zaheer Khan, including all his three spanking boundaries. Ojha, off the third ball, floated one away from McCullum, had him reaching for the ball and hitting it straight to Virat Kohli at cover. Ojha two for 35 at the end of the day included the wicket of Kane Williamson, 15 minutes before stumps, exposing, far too early, New Zealand’s lower order.Two overs later, R Ashwin got a wicket off his first ball and went on to prise out the middle of the New Zealand batting, getting Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor and Daniel Flynn. He ended the day with three for 30, tightening the noose, particularly against Guptill and Taylor, who were trapped in a defensive muddle. Guptill had lunged forward to defend a ball floating up on his middle stump, and inside-edged it to leg slip Kohli. Six runs later, a struggling Taylor was gone. He tried to turn Ashwin over to the leg side, the low edge flying to give a diving Kohli his second catch at leg slip. Flynn had used the sweep well against Ojha but was out leg before playing across to Ashwin, who came round the wicket. The delivery held its line and hit him low.Until his departure shortly before the close of play, if any batsman had looked capable of handling the spinners provided he had company at the other end, it was Williamson. Two years ago, Williamson had announced his arrival in international cricket with a century on debut against India in Ahmedabad. In Hyderabad, for the better part of his innings, he did not allow either the spinners or the men around bat to impose. With stumps approaching and three men around the bat on the off side, Williamson tried to cut the persistent Ojha. The ball was neither short enough nor wide, and the catch went straight to Sehwag at first slip.The batting blues came down heavy over New Zealand, ironically, after a session in which they had produced their best cricket of the Test. If prising the overnight batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara and Dhoni had not been possible before lunch, they cleaned up the remaining five Indian wickets for 67 by tea. It was because they did what teams must do in order to seize control of proceedings – attack.Dhoni and Pujara had waited for the bowling to flag, the first intended boundary coming after 15 overs of play. The last five overs before lunch had them peeled off 23 runs. Pujara went past 150 and Dhoni his half century, each offering a chance before lunch.After the break, Taylor gave his bowlers attacking fields and pulled the men off the straight boundary. Three men around the bat and a couple on the inner ring meant that the hard-working Jeetan Patel could offer enough temptations for the batsmen to rush into their big run-scoring shots.Pujara was the first to do so as he left his crease and tried to tonk Patel over the on-side fence but failed and was caught by Franklin. Pujara left the field annoyed, scoring 159 on his return to the Indian team after 20 months. Dhoni then smacked a flighted one from Patel to Bracewell at mid-off and Patel was to end the innings with four for 100. Once Dhoni was gone, a 37 off 54 balls from Ashwin helped the Indians inch towards 438.The start of the match was delayed by 25 minutes due to a threat of rain. While there are predictions of showers over the next two days, India’s spinners have threatened to ensure an early conclusion.

Slow pitch expected to help medium-pacers

West Indies assistant coach Toby Radford has said that he expected his bowlers to exploit the slow pitch during the Twenty20s in Florida

By Peter Della Penna in Lauderhill29-Jun-2012

Toby Radford: ‘The surface as it is, we believe it will grip a little bit, turn a little bit’•AFP

When Sri Lanka and New Zealand made the first foray by Full Members into cricket in Florida at the Central Broward Regional Park in 2010, many fans bought tickets hoping to see Lasith Malinga bowling bouncers and shattering stumps at 90 mph. However, the most lethal bowling on the weekend came in the form of cutters and canny changes of pace offered by medium pacers Scott Styris and Nuwan Kulasekera.With the wicket expected to be on the slow side once again, West Indies assistant coach Toby Radford feels the conditions will be well-suited to be exploited by medium pace from the likes of captain Darren Sammy and all-rounder Dwayne Bravo.”I think [Sammy] would like bowling on it,” Radford said on Thursday. “The surface as it is, we believe it will grip a little bit, turn a little bit. So those bowlers with skill, Bravo the same, he’s got a lot of clever little slower balls. So I think the Sammys, the Bravos could do a very good job on there. But I also think that it’ll spin so someone like Sunil Narine who’s a world-class spinner should enjoy bowling on it.”Both squads have had to adjust to sticky conditions since arriving at the start of the week, with temperatures above 90 degrees and 60% humidity making it slightly uncomfortable. It’s a far cry from the conditions the West Indies dealt with on their recent tour of England.”It’s been a big change. It was a very cold and damp summer in England. We barely had four or five nice hot days in two months so to come here is a big change but for most of the West Indians I think they’re at home in this.”While seven players in the New Zealand squad took part in the Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka at this venue two years ago, Marlon Samuels is the only player in the West Indies side who has had a chance to play a competitive match on this ground. Samuels was part of a Jamaica squad two years ago that played a series of matches against the USA as part of a double-header with the higher profile contests between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. For everyone else in the West Indies squad, Radford says they have been pleased with what they’ve experienced thus far on their first trip to Florida.”The facility is excellent. Nice ground, nice oval. The pitch is very different obviously to what we’ve just been playing on the last couple of months in England. The nice time to bat on it will be against the new ball here and I do believe it will spin so probably batting in the middle will be a little bit more tricky than first up.”I feel that the States and the people here are taking it seriously, which is great. I know that they’ve put a lot of work into getting this game on and hopefully it will be really well attended at the weekend and I think it’ll do a great thing for cricket in America, so what we want to do is give those who do turn up here at the weekend a really good show and an enjoyable time here.”

Yousuf eager for international return

Mohammad Yousuf, the Pakistan batsman, has said that he’s still passionate about playing cricket and would relish the chance to play Test cricket again

Umar Farooq26-Apr-2012

Mohammad Yousuf hasn’t played domestic or international cricket for nine months•Getty Images

Mohammad Yousuf, the Pakistan batsman, has said that he’s still passionate about playing cricket and would relish the chance to play Test cricket again. He took a fitness test under Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore on Tuesday in a bid to stage a comeback to international cricket.Yousuf, 37, last played a Test in 2010, when Pakistan took on England in the controversial Lord’s Test that was marred by spot-fixing. Yousuf has not featured in international or domestic tournaments in more than nine months due to personal reasons. “I never lost my passion for cricket,” Yousuf told ESPNcricinfo. “There were certain commitments in my life that got higher priority for a while, but now I am hungry to play.”He made his debut 14 years ago and has played 90 Tests (scoring 7530 runs at an average of 52.29) and 288 ODIs (scoring 9720 at 41.71). He says he wants to focus only on Test cricket in the future. “I am least concerned about ODIs. My focus [right now] is Test cricket, I want to play it. My basics are right and I have lots of experience under my belt.”Yousuf, whose career has been plagued by controversy in the past, was banned by the PCB twice in 2010. First, for his poor performance on a winless tour of Australia and then for differences with Younis Khan, which the PCB said was a bad influence on the team. “I don’t want to live in past, people learn from mistakes. I have always tried to do my best, but sometimes things go wrong,” he said. “I can’t change the past, but I can only hope to revive my career.”With younger players like Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq now featuring regularly in the side, some feel Yousuf will find it difficult to break into the team again. “I am not against new blood being inducted in the side – it’s good,” Yousuf said. “No one plays forever, but I still have cricket left [in me] and I have a role to play.”Pakistan are slated to tour Sri Lanka soon after the IPL to play two Twenty20s, five ODIs and three Tests. PCB’s chief selector Iqbal Qasim said that the board would discuss Yousuf’s future during their next meeting in May. “He is training and that’s what all players must do, but that doesn’t mean he will be selected in the team,” Qasim said. “If a coach is interested in a player he must convince the selection committee [first].”

Ballance steers Yorkshire home

Yorkshire’s new Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc made a great impression on his debut with 3 for 28 but it was Gary Ballance’s 77 that propelled the home side to a seven-wicket win against Derbyshire at Headingley.

20-May-2012
ScorecardYorkshire’s new Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc made a great impression on his debut with 3 for 28 but it was Gary Ballance’s 77 that propelled the home side to a seven-wicket win against Derbyshire at Headingley.Ballance, in prime form at the moment, timed his innings to perfection as Yorkshire reached their 220-run target with 14 balls to spare. He faced 60 deliveries and thumped six fours and four sixes, putting on 69 for the third wicket with Phil Jaques and an unbroken 70 for the fourth with Joe Root.Ballance has now scored 121 not out, 76 and 77 not out in his last three innings and his last three partnerships with Jaques have seen them add 203, 149 and 69 together.All of Yorkshire’s five batsmen made telling contributions, skipper Andrew Gale (33) and Adam Lyth (31) sharing an opening stand of 56 and Jaques and Root later weighing in with 47 and 28 not out respectively. But it was Ballance and Root who made it look easy for Yorkshire in the end by cracking 41 off three overs to leave the scores level at the start of the 38th over.Ballance began the onslaught by striking Garry Park for consecutive sixes backward of square leg, following up by steering him for four to third man and Root joined in the spree with two successive boundaries off Tim Groenewald.Yorkshire’s target turned out to be a lot easier than appeared likely while Derbyshire’s openers, Chesney Hughes and Martin Guptill, were putting together a rousing partnership of 137 in 25 overs. But once they had been parted, Yorkshire tightened the screw to such an extent that Derbyshire could only add 82 from 15 overs, during which time they lost eight wickets.Hughes was first to go, bowled leg stump by Moin Ashraf for 50 from 73 balls with four boundaries, but it was Guptill who provided the real firepower with his 89 from 83 deliveries with four fours and five sixes, most of them coming from full-blooded drives.Guptill was third out when he tried to force Anthony McGrath outside off-stump and wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy held on to the catch.Confident batting by Hughes and Guptill had denied Starc a wicket in his opening burst of five overs but he came back strongly later on to claim 3 for 11 in his second spell. His first wicket for Yorkshire was that of Ross Whiteley who was held on the cover boundary by Lyth before Dan Redfern was caught behind attempting an audacious reverse paddle. Starc struck again with the final ball of the innings which knocked back Tom Poynton’s stumps as he went for a wild swing.Former Yorkshire all-rounder David Wainwright, who moved to Derbyshire in the close season, received a generous ovation from the home fans when he went out to bat and his unbeaten 13 included a cheeky six off Iain Wardlaw over the top of Brophy’s head. Wardlaw proved expensive, conceding 63 runs.Yorkshire omitted their out-of-form leg-spinner Adil Rashid but off-spinner Azeem Rafiq enjoyed only limited success in his place. He went for 44 runs from his eight overs and his only wicket came when he held on to a smart low return catch from Durston.

الأهلي يواصل تدريباته استعدادًا لمواجهة الهلال في دوري أبطال إفريقيا

واصل الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي استعداده لمباراة الهلال السوداني المقبلة، في دوري أبطال إفريقيا.

الأهلي يواجه الهلال، مساء يوم السبت المقبل، على استاد القاهرة، ضمن منافسات الجولة الأخيرة من دور المجموعات يدوري الأبطال.

طالع أيضًا | تذكرتي تُعلن نفاذ تذاكر مباراة الأهلي والهلال بدوري أبطال إفريقيا

وعقد مارسيل كولر المدير الفني للأهلي محاضرة مع اللاعبين قبل انطلاق المران للحديث في كافة الجوانب الفنية والخططية، كما عقد المدير الفني جلسة مع معاونيه على هامش المران ضمن الجلسات التنسيقية للتحضير لمباراة الهلال.

وخاض الفريق فقرة بدنية مطولة تحت إشراف اندرياس أندويا مخطط الأحمال، قبل تنفيذ الجزء الفني في تدريبات الكرة.

ويلعب الأهلي ضمن المجموعة الثانية بدور المجموعات والتي تضم معه كلا من صن داونز الجنوب إفريقي والهلال السوداني والقطن الكاميروني.

يان مولبي: محمد صلاح من أساطير ليفربول لكن ينقصه شيئًا واحدًا

علق يان مولبي، أسطورة ليفربول السابق، على أداء وأرقام الدولي المصري، محمد صلاح، نجم الريدز، بعدما أصبح الهداف التاريخي للفريق في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، متخطيًا روبي فاولر.

وقال مولبي في تصريحات نشرها موقع “ليفربول إيكو”: “من الواضح أن هناك شيئًا واحدًا تراه بعينيك عندما يلعب محمد صلاح وكم هو لاعب جيد، وتؤكد ذلك الإحصائيات، لأنه موسم بعد موسم بعد موسم مازال يسجل”.

اقرأ أيضًا.. محمد صلاح يوضح كيف أصبح المسدد الأول لركلات الجزاء في ليفربول

وأضاف: “إنه متاح لكل جلسة تدريبية، وهو متاح لكل مباراة، هو حاضر كل موسم، ماذا يمكنني أن أقول أكثر؟ أعتقد أنه من حيث تأثيره على ليفربول هو موجود هناك مع الأساطير”.

واختتم: “لكن أكبر مشكلة سيواجهها مع مرور الوقت هي افتقاره إلى البطولات عندما تتم مقارنته بالأساطير الأخرى، لكن ليس هناك شك فيما يتعلق بتأثيره أنه يعتبر من بين الأفضل”.

وأصبح محمد صلاح الهداف التاريخي لديربي الشمال الغربي أمام مانشستر يونايتد بعشرة أهداف، وأصبح الهداف التاريخي للريدز في البريميرليج بـ129 هدفًا أيضًا.

ويأمل محمد صلاح في الانفراد برقم قياسي وتاريخي جديد، حيث يتساوى مع مايكل أوين، كأكثر اللاعبين تسجيلًا للأهداف لليفربول خارج الأرض، برصيد 55 هدفًا، وإذا سجل سينفرد بالرقم وحيدًا، بحسب موقع ليفربول الرسمي.

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