TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014 SPORTS

F-Marinos face Photo of the day punishment for banana-waving

TOKYO: Japanese club F-Marinos face a “Japanese Only” banner earlier this year. punishment after fans racially abused a black play- Yokohama president Akira Kaetsu said: “It’s unfor- er at the weekend, following strong condemnation givable. We do not tolerate any sort of discrimina- by the J-League yesterday. J-League boss Mitsuru tion.” Renato himself called the incident “regret- Murai promised swift action after a video showing table”, while Kawasaki’s striker Yoshito a fan waving a banana at Kawasaki Frontale’s Okubo called for even harsher measures to be Brazilian striker Renato lit up social media on dished out to Yokohama. Saturday. “We want a quick decision,” Murai told “It should be a heavy punishment-heavier even reporters. “The standard was set in 2010,” he than for Urawa,” he told the Nikkan Sports daily. added, referring to a 5 million yen ($50,000) fine “That punishment should not just be the support- levied at Urawa Reds after their supporters hurled er. The club has a responsibility. If they don’t act, it’s racial abuse at an away player. “We will take into all over for the J-League. People need to be edu- full account the changes in society since then and cated.” Yokohama defender Yuji Nakazawa blasted how clubs deal with these issues. We have made the F-Marinos fans. “(Racism) has become a world- great efforts to get rid of discrimination. This is a wide problem but everyone is supposed to know real disappointment.” that it’s not all right to have this sort of behavior Yokohama could be ordered to play behind here too,” said the former Japan centre-back. “It’s a closed doors based on the results of a J-League tri- shame, it’s pathetic.” Yokohama and Kawasaki have bunal, despite having identified the banana-wield- a history of bad blood, with their fans clashing ear- ing fan and banned him for life. Urawa, Japan’s lier this year. Incidents of racial taunts directed at best-supported club, had to play a match in an opposition players have crept into the rivalry empty stadium as punishment after fans unfurled between the regional neighbors. — AFP Australia thrash Zimbabwe in ODI Ken Roczen competes in the AMA Pro Motocross Championships at Unadilla Valley Sports Center in New Berlin, New York, USA. — www.redbull.com HARARE: A brutal onslaught by Mitchell Marsh Clarke, failed to get going, but his dismissal and George Maxwell carried Australia to a crush- brought Marsh and Maxwell together and the ing 198-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first results were spectacular. “I just had the role to get game of a one-day triangular series yesterday. us as deep as I could, and obviously if we had Marsh stroked 89 from 83 deliveries after coming wickets in hand at the end, with the batting we Algerian revulsion at Ebosse in at No 3, while Maxwell hammered a 46-ball 93 have we could apply some pressure to their as the pair added 109 runs for the fourth wicket bowlers,” Marsh said. “I thought ‘Maxi’ and the in just nine overs to help Australia post 350 for others guys at the end batted really well to get us six in their 50 overs. In reply, Zimbabwe were to a great total.” The pair at one point added 63 in death, league cancels games bowled out for 152 in 39.3 overs, with Hamilton four overs, with Maxwell producing the shot of Masakadza’s 70 the only score of note as the the day when he reverse-swept Sean Williams for hosts crashed to their biggest ever defeat six over the longest boundary, and Australia ALGIERS: The death of Albert Ebosse, the Cameroon against Australia. added 147 in the final 10 overs despite both men player killed by a missile thrown from the stands, has The Australians picked up a bonus point for getting out for career-best scores. Mitchell sparked widespread revulsion in Algeria where this their efforts, and will be pleased to see their bats- Johnson’s unbeaten 20 came from just 10 deliver- weekend’s league program will be cancelled in men take some form into Wednesday’s clash ies, and included a monstrous six that smashed protest at the fatal attack. The Algerian Football with South Africa. Australia hit a record 15 sixes the window in the commentary box, spraying Federation (FAF) in a strongly-worded statement in their innings, with Marsh and Maxwell broken glass over former Zimbabwe seamer yesterday, decried the growing violence blighting accounting for nine of them, as the tourists easily Mpumelelo Mbangwa in the commentary chair. the national game while FIFA boss Sepp Blatter beat their previous best of five in an innings Zimbabwe’s only meaningful partnership was demanded a stop to violence. against Zimbabwe. It was also Australia’s highest the 63 put on by Sikandar Raza Butt and The federation said it had called off this week- score in an ODI against Zimbabwe, eclipsing the Masakadza for the second wicket, as the pair end’s league games “in protest at the irresponsible 344 for seven made in Hobart during a triangular attempted to provide some sort of foundation. actions of certain fanatics and hooligans who resort series in January 2004. However when Raza swept a Nathan Lyon deliv- Although Australia started slowly after they ery straight to backward square leg to depart for to violence in the stadiums which has reached an were asked to bat first on a sluggish pitch, Aaron 33, the procession began. Brendan Taylor guided unacceptable level”. The Cameroon forward was Finch and Brad Haddin laid a solid platform with a Mitchell Johnson lifter to slip, while Elton fatally hit following his side JS Kabylie’s 2-1 loss to an opening stand of 98. Haddin was bowled by Chigumbura’s top edge was taken by wicket- USM Alger. Fans pelted the pitch with missiles as the Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura for 46, keeper Brad Haddin and Sean Williams hit man players returned to their changing rooms at the Tizi while Finch went for 67 when he steered a deliv- of the match Marsh to extra cover. Part-time Ouzou stadium. Last season’s top goalscorer was ery from off spinner John Nyumbu to backward spinner Steven Smith ran through the tail to pronounced dead after he was rushed to a hospital square leg. George Bailey, who was leading record figures of 3 for 16, while Mitchell Starc at Tizi Ouzou, east of the capital Algiers. Australia in the absence of the injured Michael took 2 for 23. —AFP Ebosse, 24, succumbed to “a violent head injury”, confirmed hospital director Abbas Ziri. Blatter joined those resorting to socal media to express their out- rage. “Intolerable that a fan causes a player’s death. Stop the violence. My emotional thoughts go to Albert Ebosse’s family. RIP,” the FIFA president wrote on twitter. The FAF said it was planning further action, including the expulsion of the club at fault “from all competitions”. The Algerian league is hold- ing an extraordinary meeting on Monday where management from both clubs and officials at Saturday’s match will be interviewed. Algerian daily El Watan suggested “this tragedy surprises nobody”.

Climate of fear It explained: “For years now violence has crept into the stadiums and spills over sometimes onto the streets, bringing with it a climate of fear and insecurity in our cities.” The newspaper linked the rise in violence to Islamist extremists “who train Algerian youth in terror and horror”. Another daily, Liberte, suggested Saturday’s tragic incident “could HARARE: Australian batsman GJ Bailey (centre) plays a shot on the first day of the have happened in any Algerian stadium” as “vio- ODI series against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club yesterday. —AP lence is general and systematic”. For psychiatrist Mahmoud BoudarËne, Ebosse’s death under a del- uge of missiles was “a collective murder” in a nation SCOREBOARD where violence “has become the norm”, fed “by mis- ery, unemployment, lack of activities, corruption, TIZI OUZOU: JS Kabylie’s Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse warms-up ahead of his team’s HARARE: Final scoreboard for the one-day international between Zimbabwe and Australia and social injustice”. match with USM Alger in the city of Tizi-Ouzou, in the mainly Berber region of Kabylie east of yesterday: The El Khabar daily argued that Ebosse’s death the capital. Ebosse died on August 23, after he was hit by a projectile thrown from the stands meant “Algeria was not qualified to host the 2017 Australia Sikandar Raza c Marsh b Lyon 33 following his team’s loss in the Algerian football championship. — AFP A. Finch c sub (Sibanda) b Nyumbu 67 H. Masakadza st Haddin b Smith 70 Africa Cup of Nations” in place of Libya. “How can we B. Haddin b Chigumbura 46 B. Taylor c Finch b Johnson 10 protect the thousands of guests at the Nations Cup tainted with a Machiavellian cruelty that took the life ing to Ebosse’s family almost 100,000 euros. The M. Marsh c Raza b Chatara 89 E. Chigumbura c Haddin b Faulkner 0 if the Confederation of African Football give Algeria - on a football pitch - of one of its members”. It family will also receive the perished player’s salary G. Bailey c Utseya b Williams 14 S. Williams c Maxwell b Marsh 1 the right to stage this competition?” the paper called for all Cameroonian players and especially until the end of his contract with Kabylie. Ebosse G. Maxwell c Mawoyo b Chatara 93 R. Mutumbami lbw b Lyon 11 asked. Ebosse will be remembered by a minute’s those based in Algeria “to remain calm”. joined Kabylie in 2013, reaching the Algeria Cup S. Smith run out 1 P. Utseya c Starc b Smith 9 silence with players’ wearing black armbands in all “Our football family and the nation is crying at final last season with his 17-goal haul helping the J. Faulkner not out 5 T. Panyangara b Starc 1 matches this Sunday staged in his country of birth, the loss of such a young talent, savagely killed whilst side finish second in the league. Algerians have tak- M. Johnson not out 20 J. Nyumbu c Faulkner b Smith 1 T. Chatara not out 6 the Cameroon players union announced. In a state- living his dream of playing football,” the Cameroon en to social media to express their sense of guilt and Extras (lb, 4lb, 7w, 3nb) 15 Extras (2lb, 7w) 9 ment the union “expresses in the strongest terms its federation said. shame, with some calling for the league to be Total (6 wkts, 50 overs) 350 Total (all out, 39.3 overs) 152 outrage and condemnation at this despicable act, The FAF and league announced they were donat- stopped or boycotted. — AFP Fall of wickets: 1-98 (Haddin), 2-145 (Finch), Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Mawoyo), 2-64 (Sikandar 3-178 (Bailey), 4-287 (Marsh), 5-298 (Smith), Raza), 3-83 (Taylor), 4-86 (Chigumbura), 5-88 AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PREVIEW 6-317 (Maxwell). (Williams), 6-117 (Mutumbami), 7-138 Did not bat: M. Starc, K. Richardson, N. Lyon. (Masakadza), 8-144 Bowling: Panyangara 7-1-68-0, Chatara 9-0- (Panyangara), 9-144 (Utseya), 10-152 77-2, Nyumbu 8-0-64-1, Williams 10-1-59-1, (Nyumbu). Lippi’s ban weakens Guangzhou title grip Chigumbura 6-0-33-1, Utseya 10-1-44-0. Bowling: Johnson 6-2-7-1, Starc 6-1-23-2, Richardson 5-2-28-0, Marsh 5-0-15-1, Lyon 7- SINGAPORE: Guangzhou Evergrande face a seri- said. “We have a slight advantage but we are just in become the first club since Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad Zimbabwe 1-42-2, Faulkner 6-0-19-1, Smith 4.3-0-16-3. ous test of their resolve this week after a triple play- front at half-time. “Of course we anticipate a really in 2005 to successfully defend the Asian title. The T. Mawoyo lbw b Starc 1 Result: Australia won by 198 runs. er suspension and touchline ban for coach difficult game, but they go home knowing they winners will face either last year’s runners-up, FC Marcello Lippi loosened their grip on the AFC anticipate a difficult game as well.” Seoul, or 2009 champions Pohang Steelers in the Champions League title. A 1-0 quarter-final first-leg The Chinese Super League side are trying to semi-finals. —AFP Shoulder surgery for deficit against Western Sydney Wanderers does not seem insurmountable at Guangzhou’s Tianhe stadi- um, but disciplinary woes have complicated the Australia’s Campbell Chinese champions’ task tomorrow. Last week’s red cards to Zhang Linpeng and GOLD COAST: Australia’s Cate Campbell said freestyle world title in Barcelona last year, said Gao Lin have robbed Guangzhou of two of their she’s willing to sacrifice her world sprint the surgery would remove a bone spur that was most dependable players, while Lippi earned a freestyle title in order to be fit for the 2016 pinching a nerve on her right shoulder, ensuring touchline ban for storming onto the pitch in Olympics after announcing a shoulder operation she would miss the rest of the year and perhaps protest at the late dismissals. The Chinese champi- to end months of chronic pain. The world, beyond. ons will be further weakened by the loss of Korean Commonwealth Games and newly-crowned Pan She said she was prepared to miss defending centre-back Kim Young-Gwan, who is ineligible Pacific 100m freestyle champion said next year’s her 100m freestyle title at next year’s world after picking up his second yellow card of the world championships in Russia were “not a championships in Kazan, Russia if it meant she knock-out rounds in Sydney. major drama” compared to the Rio de Janeiro was fully fit by the 2016 Rio Olympics. “If the Zhang and Kim have started every game for Olympics a year later. Olympics were next year I’d hold off, definitely, Guangzhou in this season’s competition, while Gao “I’m actually getting shoulder surgery next but I can’t struggle through another two years has played in eight of their nine matches. However, week,” she told reporters, after winning the 50m with a bad shoulder,” she said. they will take comfort from playing the second leg freestyle gold and sealing Australia’s 4x100m “If I’m not back to full capacity by next year of the quarter-final at their home stadium, which medley gold win over Olympic champions the it’s not a major drama, Rio is really the end goal.” has become something of a fortress for Lippi’s United States late Sunday. Campbell, 22, was the Campbell revealed she had been in “chronic team. Wanderers head coach Tony Popovic remains dominant women’s sprinter at the Pan Pacs, pain” for months. “I’ve been keeping it under which finished on the Gold Coast Sunday, win- wraps because I’m not one to complain or make wary of the Chinese club, who still have former ning the 50m and 100m freestyle events and excuses but now that I’m finished (the season) Italian internationals Alessandro Diamanti and YOKOHAMA: Guangzhou Evergrande coach Marcello Lippi (right) waits for the start of his helping Australia win the 4x100m freestyle and you probably won’t be seeing me for the rest of Alberto Gilardino available. “There is no one get- team’s match against Yokohama F Marinos during their group stage soccer match of the AFC medley relays. Campbell, who won the 100m the year,” she said. —AFP ting carried away in our dressing room,” Popovic Champions League in Yokohama. — AP