{{Summary}}
-* Man Utd sack David Moyes
-* Ryan Giggs to take charge on “interim basis”
-* Moyes’s backroom staff also leave
-* Old Trafford club announce decision on Tuesday morning
Category: Sports
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Man United Sacks David Moyes
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Football Fans Warned Against Misconduct
{{The Rwanda National Police warns football fans and other sports fanatics over misbehavior during sports activities.}}
This follows the Sunday incident at Amahoro National Stadium during a football match between Rayon Sport and AS Kigali where fans allegedly attacked match officials and tried to vandalize facilities by throwing stones and other objects resulting into breaking some window glasses at the stadium.
Police intervened immediately and controlled the situation. All officials were evacuated unharmed and 12 people were arrested and detained in connection with this incident.
They are currently detained at Remera Police Station as investigations continue.In the same framework, the Police is working jointly with FERWAFA and other Sports Associations to prevent such mis-conducts in all sports activities.
Such unruly behavior causing insecurity in such an event is charged with Articles 529 and 530 of the Rwandan Penal Code.
RNP
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Liverpool will never forgive themselves if they fail to win title
{{Liverpool stand three steps from Premier League heaven after all the qualities required to win titles were put to the test by Norwich City at Carrow Road.}}
Brendan Rodgers’s side – it is still just too early to call them champions-elect – showed their attacking brilliance, resilience and enjoyed a little good fortune to hold out for a win that at one stage looked a formality.
Early goals from Raheem Sterling and Luis Suarez were examples of the fluidity and brilliance that have become Liverpool’s trademark this season, but those other factors were at work as they dug in to go five points clear at the top of the table with a 3-2 victory.
With all the other cards falling into place this week as Sunderland took four points off Manchester City and Chelsea, it was a result that completed another perfect weekend for Liverpool – and for supporters heady on the anticipation of their first title in 24 years.
Liverpool – who host Chelsea, visit Crystal Palace and return to Anfield to face Newcastle – may not even need their three games to complete the job.
If they do not win the title now, though, it will be regarded as one of the biggest missed opportunities in their history.
Once again, captain Steven Gerrard led by example at Carrow Road, especially late on when struggling Norwich got the scent of an unlikely point. And his message was the same as after the win against Manchester City a week ago – one more obstacle successfully cleared, on to the next.
The reaction of every member of Liverpool’s camp at the final whistle told the tale. After Chelsea’s shock defeat at home to Sunderland, this was an opportunity to be grabbed with both hands. How nervously they clung to it during those tense final moments in Norfolk.
Adding to a sense that this will be Liverpool’s title season at last, even those Rodgers has sent away from Anfield have been making crucial contributions.
wirestory
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Usain Bolt Hails Bale’s Final Stunner
{{Olympic champion Usain Bolt has hailed Gareth Bale’s brilliant winner for Real Madrid in Wednesday’s Copa del Rey final against Barcelona, saying it was the kind of goal any sprinter would be proud of.}}
Wales winger Bale picked up the ball wide on the left on the halfway line five minutes from time and galloped away from Barca centre back Marc Bartra before slipping the ball between the legs of goalkeeper Jose Manuel Pinto to secure a 2-1 victory.
“It was a great goal,” the Jamaican was quoted as saying in Spanish sports daily Marca on Friday.
“He showed the fantastic speed he has to leave the defender behind and then incredible calm to put the ball between the keeper’s legs,” added the keen Manchester United supporter who retained the 100 and 200 metre titles at the London Games in 2012.
“It’s the kind of goal any sprinter in the world would want to score one day.”
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Injured Ronaldo Out of Cup Final
{{Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo will miss his side’s Copa del Rey final against rivals Barcelona on Wednesday.
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed that Ronaldo, 29, would not play in Valencia because of a hamstring injury.}}
“Cristiano is not available because we don’t want to take risks and we have other very important games to come this season,” said Ancelotti.
Madrid face holders Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, 23 April.
Ronaldo has missed Real’s last three games with the injury but Ancelotti believes his side will be able to cope in the final, having lost just one of the 10 games the World Player of the Year has missed this season.
“We are going to lose a player with an incredible quality, but his absence has provided motivation for the team to run more and play more as a team,” added Ancelotti.
Madrid have lost twice to Barcelona in their league meetings this season but those results have been high points in a disappointing campaign for the Catalans.
Barcelona are third in La Liga – behind Real and leaders Atletico Madrid – following a shock defeat by Granada last weekend and last week went out of the Champions League to Atletico.
That was the first time in seven seasons Barcelona, who have also been hit by a transfer ban by Fifa, had failed to reach the Champions League semi-finals but midfielder Andres Iniesta is hoping to to add to their record tally of 26 Copa del Rey wins.
“We would all like to live in a world of roses where everything is wonderful, but reality is not like that,” said the Spain international.
“This is a title, it is something for the fans and us to cheer.”
Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino has defensive problems with Gerard Pique, Marc Bartra and Carles Puyol all serious doubts.
As well as Ronaldo, Madrid are likely to be without Brazilian full-back Marcelo but central defender Sergio Ramos is expected to play after recovering from a neck injury.
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Sierra Leone Marathon Runner Missing in London
{{An elite runner failed to catch her flight home after going missing following the London Marathon.}}
Mami Konneh Lahun was due to fly home on Monday but did not return to her temporary accommodation in Greenwich on Sunday and has not been seen since.
Ms Lahun 24, of Sierra Leone, is on a six-month visa that was issued on 7 April on arrival, the Home Office said.
An official confirmed all runners who come to the UK to race get these sportsperson visit visas.
However, the athlete is not thought to have any links to the UK and is believed not to have a mobile phone.
On Monday, the Met Police announced Ms Lahun, who finished the women’s race in 20th place, had been found safe and well but later retracted their statement.
BBC
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Two in three Americans Do Not Plan to Follow Soccer’s World Cup
{{When the U.S. men’s soccer team lines up in Brazil to play their first game of the soccer World Cup in June, their home support may be tepid at best.}}
Two in three Americans do not plan to follow this year’s tournament, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. Only 7 percent said they anticipated following it closely.
It’s been 20 years since the United States hosted the World Cup, an attempt at the time to bring soccer to a mass American audience.
Two years later, a new professional league – Major League Soccer (MLS) – began. The league has grown from 10 to 19 teams.
The arrival of international stars such as David Beckham and Thierry Henry to play for MLS teams in recent years has boosted the sport’s popularity.
The owners of successful English Premier League team Manchester City, in partnership with the New York Yankees, are due to debut the New York City Football Club for the 2015 MLS season.
A Beckham-backed Miami team is also in the process of being established in order to join the league.
But soccer still has a long way to go before its marquee event can stake a claim alongside football’s Super Bowl, the National Basketball Association finals, and baseball’s World Series in American minds, the poll shows.
Eighty-six percent of Americans said they either know nothing or only a little bit about the World Cup, and more than two-thirds did not know Brazil is the 2014 host nation.
Jose Vargas, 48, does plan on watching the World Cup in Houston, where he has lived since coming to the United States in 2003. But he will be supporting his birth nation: Colombia.
And while he says that soccer is popular among his Hispanic friends, he does not think a diversity of Americans is that enthused. “Soccer is really a sport that’s followed in Latin America and Europe,” he said.
ABC/ESPN paid $100 million in 2005 for the broadcast rights in English to FIFA events from 2007 to 2014, including this year’s World Cup, while Univision paid $325 million for the Spanish-language rights.
The poll does show that one-third of Hispanic Americans will be following the tournament or some teams closely, double the percentage for respondents overall.
Hispanics comprised 16 percent of the total U.S. population in 2010, according to census data.
Kelli Cousineau, 33, and her family will not be watching the World Cup at home near Phoenix despite her having played soccer in junior high.
She switched to volleyball for a chance at a college scholarship and says that soccer still isn’t taken as seriously. “It’s just not a sport that has a lot of following,” she said. “The other sports like basketball, baseball and football are considered all-American.”
The results were taken from an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos online poll and include the responses of 1,416 adult Americans from April 7-11. The credibility interval, a measure of precision, is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
reuters
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Kenya’s Kipsang Wins Second Title in London
Mo Farah finishes eighth on full London Marathon debut
British Olympic champion Mo Farah finished eighth on his marathon debut as Kenyan world record holder Wilson Kipsang won his second title in London.
Farah, 31, failed to break Steve Jones’s 29-year-old British record of two hours, seven minutes 13 seconds and finished in 2:08:21.
Kipsang set a course record 2:04.27 with compatriot Stanley Biwott second.
Edna Kiplagat pipped fellow Kenyan Florence Kiplagat in the women’s race with debutant Tirunesh Dibaba third.Farah elected to sit among the second pack of elite runners, but soon found himself 38 seconds behind the lead group, headed by Kipsang, at the halfway mark.
That gap increased to 49 seconds after 15 miles and then over a minute by the time they reached 19 miles.
The Briton, who won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the 2012 Olympics and last year’s World Championships, also made errors at two drinks stations when he tried to pick up fluids.
Despite missing out on the British record, Farah recorded the fourth fastest time by a Briton and set the fastest time by an Englishman.
Asked if he would do another marathon, Farah, who finished almost four minutes behind the winner, said: “Yeh, definitely, 100%. I’m not going to finish it like this. I will be back.
“I would have been disappointed to do my first marathon somewhere else. I gave it my all but I just wish I gave a little bit more to the crowd and all the supporters.
“It was pretty tough. I’m quite disappointed but you try things and if they don’t work, at least you gave it a go. It was really just the pace – I should have gone with the front group. The pacemakers I had were slightly ahead of me but you learn – life goes on.”
Former British world champion Paula Radcliffe believes Farah made the correct decision in choosing to make his marathon bow in London.
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Nigeria Athletics Appoints Maurice Greene as Relay Coach
{{Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) yesterday announced the appointment of former Olympics and world champion, Maurice Greene, as the relay coordinator of Team Nigeria track and field athletes.}}
In a statement signed by the federation’s Secretary General, Olumide Bamiduro, Greene’s contract with AFN begins at the Mt. Sac Relay in California later this month, and it terminates after the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Africa Athletics Championships in Marrakesh, Morocco in August 2014.
In his acceptance letter to the AFN, Greene said he is excited at the prospect of working for Team Nigeria and that it is his own way of giving back to Africa.
Born 39 years ago in Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Greene is a retired American track and field sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He is a former 100m world record holder with a time of 9.79 seconds.
During the height of his career (1997–2004), he won four Olympic medals and was a five-time world champion. These include three gold medals at the 1999 World Championships, a feat which had previously only been done by Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson and has since been equaled by three others.
Following his track career, he has become an ambassador for the IAAF and a TV personality, appearing on Identity, Blind Date, and Dancing with the Stars.
Most recently he volunteered as a track coach at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for the 2012-2013 session.
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Footballer Anelka signs with Brazil’s Atlético Mineiro
This latest tweet follows several others about Anelka that Kalil has posted over the past few days but is the most concrete so far.
Atlético Mineiro will be the 12th club for which Anelka, 35, has played. His career has been dogged by controversy.
Most recently, he was dropped from England’s West Bromwich after his use of the “quenelle” gesture, which is often criticised anti-Semitic.
Because Anelka does not have a club, it was possible for him to be signed even after the Brazilian exchange officially closed on April 1. He will be able to play immediately.
At Atlético Mineiro, Anelka will be reunited with his former PSG team mate Ronaldinho.
