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O secretário-geral da CBF, Walter Feldman, declarou em entrevista exclusiva ao “Esporte Interativo” que não mudará o formato do Campeonato Brasileiro, tampouco adequará o calendário do futebol nacional ao europeu, devido ao surto mundial de coronavírus.

No entanto, o advogado especialista em Direito Desportivo, Rafael Cobra, avaliou a declaração como prematura, diante da falta de perspectiva quanto ao término da pandemia.

– Talvez tenha sido uma declaração que não possa corresponder com a realidade um pouco à frente. Acho que pela falta de noção exata do tempo que ficará suspenso as competições esportivas, é absolutamente prematuro afirmar que não adotará nenhuma outra medida – afirmou.

O especialista tirou como base a China, local onde foram registrados os primeiros casos da doença. Lá, o pico da enfermidade chegou ao fim nos últimos dias e o país começou, de forma lenta, a retomar as suas atividades, após cerca de quatro meses de paralisação geral para erradicação do COVID-19. Segundo Rafael, caso o prazo a nível nacional seja o mesmo, não haveria forma de adequar o calendário a não ser modificando o formato do Brasileirão ou estendendo a competição a 2021.

– Se formos usar como parâmetro China e Coreia, onde iniciou a disseminação do vírus, lá para o final de novembro, início de dezembro, agora que eles estão iniciando o controle e fazendo os primeiros movimentos para reativar as atividades esportivas. A gente tá falando de um período de aproximadamente quatro meses de suspensão de atividades. Se a gente usar essa mesma referência aqui pro Brasil, as competições esportivas voltariam em data que seria absolutamente impossível a manutenção de um Campeonato Brasileiro de turno e returno, pontos corridos, não haveriam datas pra isso. Então, obrigatoriamente uma das duas medidas precisarão ser adotadas: ou mudar a fórmula do campeonato ou, como última e única alternativa, restaria a adequação do calendário, terminando a competição no ano que vem – disse.

Para Cobra, os estaduais foram os mais atingidos com a pandemia. O advogado crê que a possibilidade de cancelamento das competições é grande. No momento, todos os 27 campeonatos estão suspensos.

– Caso haja a continuidade dos campeonatos estaduais, o que eu acho de pouca probabilidade, eles não se encerrarão nas datas anteriormente previstas. Este conflito terá que ser analisado de forma muito contundente pelas entidades que administram as competições esportivas e talvez até com alguma alteração legislativa com vigência momentânea – pontuou.

De acordo com o Ministério da Saúde, até o momento, o Brasil registrou 1.546 casos e 25 mortes devido o coronavírus.

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Nesta quarta, o Corinthians entra em campo pela primeira vez na temporada 2020. Reforçado com a chegada de Luan, Sidcley, Victor Cantillo e Davó, o Timão estreia contra o New York City FC, dos Estados Unidos, em jogo válido pela Florida Cup. Por estar no meio de sua pré-temporada, o Alvinegro jogará com uma formação diferente em cada um dos tempos da partida. O duelo será disputado às 20h (horário de Brasília).

Ainda não há certezas sobre a escalação do Corinthians para esta partida. No entanto, o técnico Tiago Nunes – mais um estreante da noite – chegou ao clube com um discurso de jogo ofensivo, com maior equilíbrio entre a defesa e o ataque. É a grande aposta do Timão para 2020.

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Data-Hora: 15de janeiro de 2020, às 20h (horário de Brasília)
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Cássio; Fagner, Pedro Henrique, Gil e Sidcley; Camacho e Victor Cantillo; Ramiro, Luan e Janderson; Vagner Love. Técnico: Tiago Nunes

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Walter; Marllon, Bruno Méndez, Avelar e Lucas Piton; Gabriel e Richard; Madson, Mateus Vital e Gustagol (Davó); Boselli. Técnico: Tiago Nunes

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Two female umpires will officiate at the Women’s World T20 for the first time in the tournament’s history next month, after Kathy Cross and Claire Polosak were named in a 31-person list of officials for the concurrent men’s and women’s events in India.Cross, from New Zealand, has prior experience of an ICC event, having officiated at three Women’s World Cups in 2000, 2009 and 2013. She will be the first of the two to officiate in the forthcoming tournament, when she takes charge of Pakistan’s match against Bangladesh at Chennai on March 16.Polosak, however, will be making her first appearance in a global tournament, having overseen the women’s World Cup qualifiers in Thailand recently. At 27, will be the youngest official on duty in India, with her first match coming at Mohali on March 18, when New Zealand take on Ireland.A Sydney-based schoolteacher by profession, Polosak made another slice of history last year when she became the first woman to officiate in Australia’s Matador Cup, standing as third umpire for Queensland v Cricket Australia XI in October 2015.”When I started umpiring at 15, I really didn’t think I’d have the opportunities that have already been presented to me at 27,” Polosak said.Her ultimate ambition is join the ICC Elite Panel and officiate in a Test match. “It’s ultimately about working your way through the pathway but at the moment I’m just concentrating on being the best I am for the game that’s in front of me. If I continue to work hard the opportunities will come,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.”There is a really good statistic that there has been more astronauts than there has been Test umpires. So it’s a very tight tunnel to get through. But like the players you always want to go to the next level if possible.”

فرض فريق بي إس في آيندهوفن التعادل الإيجابي على ضيفه آرسنال بنتيجة 1/1 خلال المباراة التي جمعتهما اليوم في دوري أبطال أوروبا

وحل نادي آرسنال ضيفاً على فريق آيندهوفن، ضمن منافسات الجولة السادسة من دور المجموعات لدوري أبطال أوروبا، على ملعب “فيليبس”.

اقرأ ايضاً.. فيديو | محمد النني يغادر مباراة آرسنال وآيندهوفن للإصابة

ودفع المدير الفني لفريق آرسنال، ميكيل أرتيتا، بالدولي المصري محمد النني في التشكيل الأساسي في مواجهة آيندهوفن. أهداف مباراة آرسنال وآيندهوفن (1-1) دوري أبطال أوروبا 

وأنتهي الشوط الأول بتقدم فريق آرسنال بهدف نظيف على آيندهوفن، حينما نجح نيكيتاه في تسجيل الهدف الأول للجانرز عند الدقيقة 42 بعدما تلقى تمريرة حاسمة من نيلسون ليسددها مهاجم آرسنال بالقدم اليسري في شباك أصحاب الأرض معلنا تقدم الجانرز بهدف مقابل لا شئ.

وفي الشوط الثاني، وعند الدقيقة 50 نجح يوربي فيرتيسين في إدراك هدف التعادل بعد تسديدة مميزة ارتطمت في القائم الأيمن ثم تدخل شباك رامسديل.

وشهد الشوط ذاته خروج الدولي المصري محمد النني من اللقاء بداعي الإصابة ودخول زميله مارتن أوديجارد بدلًا منه، لينتهي اللقاء بالتعادل الإيجابي بهدف لكل فريق.

وبهذا التعادل، ارتقى رصيد آرسنال إلى النقطة 13 في صدارة ترتيب المجموعة الثانية بدوري أبطال أوروبا، ووصل آيندهوفن إلى النقطة 9 في المركز الثاني، ليعبر الفريقان سوياً إلى منافسات الدور الـ16 من دوري أبطال أوروبا.

Sri Lanka have enlisted the assistance of sports psychologist Jeremy Snape, for a second stint with the team, during the upcoming World Cup. Snape, a former England offspinner, had already worked with Sri Lanka during the home series against England last November and December. SLC had hired him for that first stint with a view to employing him again during the World Cup.”Jeremy Snape will be with the Sri Lankan team for 14 days, from February 24 to March 9,” an official release said. “Jeremy will be able to enhance individual performance of the national team. This move is bound to add value to the system at this crucial stage and will support to derive the maximum output of players to face any challenges in the upcoming World Cup 2015 in particular.”Sri Lanka’s record at recent World Cups had been a catalyst for the decision to sign a sports psychologist, with a pattern of failure in high-pressure matches having developed over the past seven years. Sri Lanka lost four major finals between 2007 and 2012, and though the team has since won the 2014 Word T20, there had been a substantial push to employ a sports psychologist to buttress the World Cup effort.An offspinning-allrounder in his playing career, Snape played 10 ODIs and a T20I for England, in addition to 121 first-class matches. He has a masters degree in sports psychology, and has worked with England, South Africa, as well as teams in the IPL and Big Bash League.He is the second member of support staff to join the team for part of the tournament. Coach Rumesh Ratnayake was also recently sent to New Zealand, to work as a consulting coach until February 20.

Mitchell Johnson will ask Australia’s captain Steven Smith and coach Darren Lehmann for shorter spells akin to those he fired down at England last summer

Daniel Brettig in Sydney02-Jan-2015Mitchell Johnson will ask Australia’s captain Steven Smith and coach Darren Lehmann for shorter spells akin to those he fired down at England last summer, after admitting he has throttled back his pace due to the longer stints asked of him against India.Save for an influential spell on the final morning of the Gabba Test, Johnson’s returns have trailed off this summer, while his pace has also been down by around 10km/h on what England and South Africa were subjected to. Key to this high speed were the short bursts of around three overs that Michael Clarke kept Johnson fresh for.However there have been numerous longer spells this season, something Johnson has responded to by reducing his pace in an effort to maintain his energy levels. In a frank admission, Johnson said he wanted to get back to the way he was used by Clarke, and intends to take it up with Smith and Lehmann.”I’ve been bowling longer spells,” Johnson said. “That’s been at the back of my mind where I know I’m going to be bowling four, five, six over spells that I can’t be flat out every ball. It has dropped off a little bit. It’s been a big 15 months as well so it’s tough cricket.”We go out there day in and day out and we work really hard and to be able to bowl 150 every game I’d be dreaming if I could do that. But I’d like to be going back to bowling shorter spells again. Hopefully I can do that in this Test. At the moment I’m just doing what the team needs me to do and that’s bowling those longer spells.”I’ll speak to Steve Smith and Darren Lehmann and see if we can go back to those three over sharp spells because I think that worked really well for us in the past. But that’s just me speaking. They might want me to bowl those longer spells again. Be happier with me bowling an average of me bowling 140 again, and occasionally get it up there as well.”There are several reasons why Smith and Lehmann have been using Johnson differently this summer. Chief among them is that the pitches for the India Tests have been by and large more amenable to batsmen than they were for England, lacking the sort of pace and bounce that promotes batting collapses. But the dropping of Peter Siddle and the need to take care of Ryan Harris’ creaking body have also been factors leading to Johnson being called upon for more draining shifts at the bowling crease.”You like a wicket to break up, that’s what you expect from a five-day wicket. And it looked like a three-day wicket by the end of it,” Johnson said of Melbourne’s seemingly indestructible surface. “And it happened in Adelaide as well, obviously just had the footmarks there which was helpful for Nathan Lyon, but the middle of the wicket, it’s a little bit disappointing.”We played over there [in India] and lost four-nil on some pretty ordinary wickets, I thought, and we were hoping for them to come over here and play on some good, bouncy wickets. I even thought the Gabba wasn’t the normal Gabba. A bit of bounce there but it just wasn’t the same. Wickets have been suited for the batters more than anything I think.”Johnson can be expected to have an extended break during the early part of the triangular ODI series that follows the Sydney Test, before resuming ahead of the World Cup. He said some time away would be needed by all the fast bowlers, not just him, once the SCG match has run its course.”Definitely, all us bowlers feel like we need to have a bit of a freshen up,” Johnson said. “So we’ll just see what happens after this match here. And then we’ve got some tri-series one-dayers, so hopefully I can get a bit of a break at some stage there. If not, I’ve just got to go out there and keep trying to do the best I can.”We’ve just seen that in the last little period, bowlers have been getting a break. I had a break after one-dayers in Perth earlier, which was to freshen me up, and that was really helpful.”One major contributor to the drain of the summer has been the emotional and mental toll of losing Phillip Hughes. Johnson said the team had come a long way since the last time they sat together in the SCG dressing room, when discussing how it would be possible to come back and play cricket at all following Hughes’ death at the ground.”We all didn’t know how we were going to go out there and play, and we weren’t sure if we had enough time and all that stuff and too close to go out there and play again,” Johnson said. “But everyone is sticking together. I remember the first fielding session we had we had a bit of fun, did a bit of dancing, [strength and conditioning coach] Damian Mednis made us do a dance and stuff when he stopped the music or whatever it was. He got us together and we really enjoyed each other’s company.”[The SCG is] going to be difficult for a lot of guys, but the guys who were out there [when Hughes was hit] it’s going to be very tough for them, but everyone has handled it very well and in their own ways, they’ve done it very well. So we’ve been really happy to get a result that we have against India after the passing of Phil and we haven’t been at the SCG yet so we don’t know how everyone’s going to feel.”I don’t know how it’s going to be like afterwards. I guess it will probably be hard, you’ll be able to sit down and think about things. You still find it difficult when you see little tributes around. It still brings a tear to the eye, so it’s been emotional for everyone but I think everyone sticking together has been the best thing.”

Sri Lanka Cricket has begun a campaign to stamp out bowlers with illegal actions from the domestic game

Sa'adi Thawfeeq24-Aug-2014Sri Lanka Cricket has begun a campaign to stamp out bowlers with illegal actions from the domestic game. The drive, which includes schools, started a month ago and has brought encouraging results.Umpires officiating in the ongoing Under-23 division I and 2 tournament were asked to report bowlers with suspect actions. Around 20-25 bowlers have been reported till date, the majority of them offspinners.”This has been an ongoing issue with our cricket and we are now taking radical steps to eradicate this menace which is like a cancer spreading to all corners of the country,” SLC umpires educator Tyron Wijewardene said. “Since we started to crack down on illegal bowling from last month there have been encouraging signs. Bowlers who have been reported once or called during a match have shown a big improvement.”The procedure for reporting of a bowler in Sri Lanka is slightly different to that of the ICC. “If a bowler is reported twice in succession he will be banned from bowling and referred to the SLC coaching department for remedial action,” Wijewardene said. “Similarly if a bowler is called for chucking on three occasions in a match he will not be able to bowl until he is cleared by the coaching department.”The coaching department is headed by Jerome Jayaratne, a former fast bowler, and also has former Sri Lanka spinner Piyal Wijetunge supported by district coaches.After a bowler is reported by the umpires and match referee, a copy of the report is handed either to the bowler or the team manager at the end of the match. The match referee’s copy is sent to Wijewardene who subsequently updates what is called ‘the Grid’ and sends a copy each to the coaching department, the illegal bowling action review committee and to all the umpires and match referees officiating in the tournament.The committee is headed by former national selector Shabir Asgerally and comprises former Sri Lanka fast bowler Graeme Labrooy and PR Paranavitana.Wijewardene, who took up the position in April, said he has conducted workshops in Kandy, Kurunegala, Colombo and Galle in educating umpires on illegal bowling and held a workshop at Ananda College, Colombo for school coaches. He hopes to expand the campaign to Under-19 level prior to the start of the next schools season and later go to the grassroots level of Under-13.”Provincial coaches have also been briefed to rectify suspect bowling actions rather than bring them all the way to Colombo,” said Wijewardene, a former ICC international panel umpire and first-class cricketer.”It’s the fault of the system that from junior levels they don’t detect a bowler’s defective action early in their careers and correct it. These bowlers get exposed once they reach the Under-19, Under-17, provincial or national levels. We hope to completely eradicate this growing menace in the next two to three years.”The reporting and banning of Sri Lanka offspinner Sachithra Senanayake for an illegal action was the trigger for SLC’s campaign. Senanayake was reported in May during the ODI series in England and has since been tested in Cardiff and undergone remedial action in Perth.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsJermaine Blackwood’s 63 on debut helped West Indies stretch their lead•Associated Press

A half-century on debut from 22-year-old Jermaine Blackwood was the key performance on the third morning, during which West Indies stretched their first-innings lead to 239 in the Trinidad Test. Blackwood added 47 for the seventh wicket with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, then followed it up with a 76-run association with captain Denesh Ramdin to thwart New Zealand’s plans of limiting the damage. In response, New Zealand were set back by the early loss of Brendon McCullum but held fort till the end of the day with old-fashioned attritional cricket. With two days remaining and a 166-run lead, West Indies are in pole position to square the series.West Indies owed much to Blackwood, who was circumspect to start with and went hard at swinging deliveries. One inswinger from Boult cut him in half, but his response was to launch the next delivery over long-on for six. He was lucky early in his innings when Tom Latham could not hold on to a low chance at short leg. Blackwood was on 11 then. With the spinners serving up a regular dose of easy deliveries, he grew in confidence.Ish Sodhi, the legspinner, went on to pick up four wickets, including those of Blackwood and Chanderpaul, but his inconsistency meant New Zealand neither controlled the flow of runs nor looked like taking a wicket in between. Blackwood found it easy to score runs off him – the full deliveries were smashed down the ground for a six and a four – and apart from the delivery that took the outside edge of his bat to slip, he didn’t appear in any trouble and reached his maiden fifty off 93 balls. His dismissal spelt a quick end for the West Indies innings, but a healthy lead was already on the board.And Sodhi was not the only bowler who struggled – Mark Craig, the hero of the Jamaica Test, went for 111 runs in 29 wicketless overs, Jimmy Neesham’s seam-ups served no purpose, while Williamson was just steady at best.While the ball was still new in the morning, New Zealand would have hoped to pick up early wickets. They were already behind by 89 runs, and Chanderpaul’s stubborn presence meant West Indies continued fortifying their position.Seventeen runs came in the first eight overs of the morning, a period during which Trent Boult and Tim Southee generated enough movement from the pitch to keep New Zealand interested. They beat the bat a number of times but the early breakthrough, that of nightwatchman Kemar Roach, took 9.1 overs to come.Blackwood’s partnership with Chanderpaul then helped West Indies take the game further away from New Zealand. Until he was dismissed, Chanderpaul maintained his usual stoical stance to frustrate the bowlers. His 33rd run took him past Kumar Sangakkara in the list of leading run-getters in Tests. Out of nowhere, though, he fell padding up in the same way to the same bowler, Sodhi, as in the previous Test.Ramdin joined Blackwood and the increased urgency caught New Zealand somewhat offguard. Ramdin’s three consecutive boundaries on the first three balls after lunch, off New Zealand’s most threatening bowler, Boult, unravelled their intent. The partnership between the two batsmen inflated to 50 in 67 balls. By that time, the Netherlands had reasserted their supremacy over Australia in the football World Cup match and West Indies’ lead was past 200 too.Faced with a survival situation similar to what defending champions Spain were facing against Chile, New Zealand also had to adjust their batting order because Hamish Rutherford was not available due to an illness. McCullum promoted himself to open with Latham, but the move didn’t work as the New Zealand captain was trapped lbw by Jerome Taylor in the seventh over. New Zealand were 9 for 1.Both Taylor and Roach stuck to impeccable lines around off stump and with the ball darting around just enough, another wicket didn’t seem too far. Taylor was particularly impressive, starting up with an opening burst of 7-3-8-1 while Roach complemented him with a spell of 6-3-9-0.Only two boundaries came in the first 14 overs as New Zealand trudged to 19. Sulieman Benn and Shannon Gabriel kept up the pressure once the two frontline bowlers were off. Benn kept pegging around the off-stump line, while Gabriel’s disconcerting bounce troubled Williamson more than once. Still, both Williamson and Latham made most of the infrequent loose deliveries. Two fours in the 27th over, bowled by Chris Gayle, took New Zealand past 50. While Spain withered away from Brazil, Williamson and Latham took the fight to another day.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis has been appointed national coach for a period of two years. He will join the team in June

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No problem working with Afridi – Waqar

Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis has been appointed national coach for a period of two years. He will join the team in June, having previously served as bowling coach of the Pakistan side in 2006-07 and briefly in 2009, and as head coach in 2010-11.”I am extremely pleased to have been selected as the head coach,” Waqar said. “My immediate aim would be to prepare the team for the upcoming busy cricket season including the next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.”A committee comprising Intikhab Alam (director domestic cricket operations), Haroon Rashid (director game development) and Moin Khan (chief selector) met today in Lahore to review the applicants for the coaching job and “unanimously” recommended Waqar, a choice that was endorsed by the PCB chairman.After Dav Whatmore’s contract with Pakistan ended in February, Moin, who had been the team manager, was named coach and was in charge until the World Twenty20 in April, when the same PCB administration under Najam Sethi that had appointed him, gave him the dual roles of team manager and chief selector of the national team.Waqar had previously quit as Pakistan coach reportedly because of personal reasons, but his differences with former captain Shahid Afridi were a factor during Ijaz Butt’s term as PCB chairman. When asked last week if he was okay with working with Afridi, Waqar said: “Pakistan cricket is like my family and differences aren’t the end of life, so things get better. I am here to serve cricket and want to return what I have learned from my playing career.”During Waqar’s previous stint as Pakistan coach between March 2010 and August 2011, Pakistan endured several off-field controversies – the spot-fixing scandal in England and Zulqarnain Haider fleeing to the UK mid-way through a tour – but their performances were satisfactory. They drew a Test series against South Africa, won one in New Zealand and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Cup. After his term came to an end, Waqar applied for the Australia job but did not make it past an interview with Cricket Australia.

Sri Lanka will anticipate stiffer resistance from Bangladesh in Chittagong, despite the feebleness of their Mirpur loss, batsman Kumar Sangakkara said

Andrew Fidel Fernando in Chittagong02-Feb-2014

Sri Lanka will anticipate stiffer resistance from Bangladesh in Chittagong, despite the feebleness of their Mirpur loss, batsman Kumar Sangakkara said. The hosts had failed to exert pressure on Sri Lanka for significant periods in the first Test, and were bowled out cheaply in both innings as they continued to offer rash strokes. The Bangladesh bowlers had only dismissed six Sri Lanka batsmen – one of them a nightwatchman who was slated to come in at No. 11 – as the visitors amassed 730.Bangladesh had been more spirited in the two-match Test series the teams had played in Sri Lanka last year, drawing one match and stringing together impressive periods in the second, which they eventually lost.”We are pretty much used to Bangladesh putting up a pretty good fight usually,” Sangakkara said. “They pushed us in the Test series over there, and we walked away 1-1 in the one-day series. More often than not, they are more competitive in the one-day version of the game, so in the shorter formats of the game, we know we’re in for the fight. We won’t expect anything less than that from them here. The earlier game was easier than we thought it would be, but we expect it to be different here.”Whether we are complacent or not can only be seen when we start playing. The guys usually are very good in their preparation. Complacency is not something we think about or pay much attention to. We just go through our preparation process really well.”Sri Lanka’s fast bowlers had blasted Bangladesh out with the short ball in Mirpur, but a change in tack may be required for a drier Chittagong pitch, Sangakkara suggested.”It’s hard to use the same strategy, because the wicket looks quite different from there to now. But even on this track a short ball can be useful,” he said. “We don’t really know what we will plan for the batsmen, but our job is to do the basics well – put the ball in the right areas. If we have a specific strategy, to make sure the bowlers bowl to that field and that strategy.”There’s not much grass, and not much moisture in the pitch. I’m not that great at predicting exactly what happens on a wicket, but we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out over the five days.”Kithuruwan Vithanage and Kaushal Silva had made maiden hundreds in the first Test, as Angelo Mathews continued his fine stretch of form with 86. Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene are the towering figures in that top order, but contributions from the younger men do not necessarily ease their burden, Sangakkara said.”Whoever scores runs, it doesn’t take that expectation away from any other player. Pressure is something that’s constant,” he said. “It’s not really something you think about. If you can’t handle pressure, it’s no use walking out there in the middle. There’s no guarantee that you’ll score every time you go out, but chances are every time you walk in, after a good start – whether you’re in form or not, your job is to score runs.”