44 NEW VISION, Friday, May 3, 2013 SPORT

WORLDF CUS Bale named footballer of the year LONDON

As Gareth Bale sweeps all the awards so the specu- lation about his future Whitewash intensifies but Tottenham Bayern rout Barca, inspired by last year’s Chelsea defeat Hotspur will not be selling their most prized asset, SOCCER according to coach Andre Villas-Boas. hunger for success.” took a year out to rest after Welshman Bale was Euro Champions League four trophy-filled years in BARCELONA named Footballer of the Bayern Munich began to Barcelona 0 Bayern 3 Guardiola takes over charge of his boyhood club Year by England’s soccer Bayern advance to final 7-0 Heynckes is stepping down and handed the reins to his Barcelona’s Champions lay the foundations for this League humbling by Bay- writers on Thursday after season’s impressive run to on aggregate at the end of close friend Tito Vilanova. picking up the PFA Young the current Heynckes has set the bar ern Munich on Wednesday the Champions League final will not prompt wholesale Player and Player of the immediately after their defeat could tell that everyone was campaign high for him and he will find Year last weekend and he determined to change things,” and will it tough to match Bayern’s changes to the squad and to Chelsea in last year’s show- the 7-0 aggregate reverse is regularly linked with piece, coach Jupp Heynckes the experienced 67-year-old be re- success this term Europe’s top clubs. added. placed even if they are would have been avoided said on Wednesday. had the team not been dec- Tottenham’s determina- After Bayern inflicted the by thwarted by tion to keep a player who A power shift in offing? former Dortmund in imated by injury, coach Tito biggest aggregate defeat on Vilanova said. has scored 24 goals in all Barcelona in European com- Bayern’s humbling of Barca, Barca the Champions competitions this season who have won two of the last coach Pep League and VfB Barca suffered their worst petition, a jubilant Heynckes ever European defeat over will be severely tested if said the painful reverse on four editions of Europe’s elite Guardiola. Stuttgart in the they fail in their bid for club competition, prompted Guar- domestic Cup two legs against the Ger- penalties to Chelsea at their man champions but were Champions League qualifi- own Allianz Arena in Munich suggestions that the German diola final. cation, but Villas-Boas says club are poised to take over missing their Argentine had given him the motivation World Player of the Year Li- he has received assurances to try to go one better this as the continent’s pre-eminent that the winger’s future is force. onel Messi for the 3-0 sec- term. ond leg defeat at the Nou not dependent on a top- The Bundesliga champions Their commanding perfor- four finish. mance over both legs, par- Camp. thrashed Barca 4-0 in last Top scorer in Europe’s “The information I week’s semi-final first leg ticularly the way they closed have from the club that out World Player of the Year elite club competition the in Germany before ending past four seasons, Messi was mistakenly written the club’s 21-match in Munich, was about last week is that the hugely impressive and they had not recovered suf- unbeaten run at home in the ficiently after straining a player will remain here Champions League with a remain on course for a treble irrespective of Champions of Bundesliga, Champions hamstring last month and crushing 3-0 win to set up had to watch from the League qualification being an all-German final against League and German Cup. achieved or not,” Villas- “We are a team that has bench as Bayern ended Borussia Dortmund at Wemb- Barca’s 21-match unbeat- Boas told reporters at Tot- ley on May 25. a tremendous unity,” said tenham’s training ground Heynckes, who knows Barca en run at home in conti- “I was bitterly disappointed nental competition. on Thursday. after losing the final last sea- well from his time coaching Bale is the first Spurs at their La Liga rivals Real Pre-tournament favourites son but we started working Barca were also without player to win the world’s straight away,” Heynckes told Madrid and Athletic Bilbao. oldest individual award “We work fantastically well defencive Sergio a news conference. Busquets and longer-term since David Ginola in 1999 “From the first day, you together and have a huge and the first Wales inter- injury casualties Carles national to claim it since Puyol and Javier Mascher- Everton goalkeeper Neville ano. Southall in 1985. “I don’t think we need to “I’ve been very fortunate change any players,” a sub- to play in such a fantastic dued Vilanova told a news team and I owe a lot to my conference. team-mates and obviously “What we do need is to the manager who has get our injured players back shown such faith in me,” because they are top per- Bale told the FWA formers,” he added. FWA chairman Andy “I am convinced that if we Dunn told Reuters: “In a Bayern’s Frank Ribery and Thomas Mueller celebrate had been at 100 percent we contest for votes that took one of the goals as (left) club president Uli Hoeness would have competed in a so many late twists and checks his watch during the Nou Camp drubbing different way.” turns, Gareth’s penchant for the spectacular cap- tured the imagination. “He is a player who is rising inexorably towards Two lucky lady fans to watch Europa final the rarefied levels of world stars such as Lionel Messi SOCCER and Cristiano Ronaldo. BY SHAFIK SSENOGA by Western Union. ducted at SMS Empire in Kamwokya. an all-expense paid trip. Lets hope he lights up the In the promotion that has lasted 45 According to Samuel Muyingo, the Muyingo reiterated Western Union’s Premier League for many Diana Nyago and Elizabella Asiimwe days, one needed to send or receive customer service manager of Diamond commitment to developing sports. seasons to come.” are the two lucky fans who will watch money through Western Union and sms Trust Bank, they did this to pay back to When contacted, Asiimwe at first He will receive the pres- live the final of the UEFA Europa the last five digits of the money transfer their customers who have been loyal thought it was a joke. tigious FWA trophy at a League in Amsterdam on May 15. control number (MTCN) to 8111 on the over time. “I am so excited about the opportu- gala dinner in London next The two were yesterday randomly day of the transaction. The promotion Nyago and Asiimwe will have to be in nity because I never expected it,” she Thursday. picked in a draw following a promotion ended April 30, and the draw was con- Amsterdam two days before the final in screamed.