SPORTS Wednesday September 13, 2017 21 Bahrainis ready Shanghai SIPG for Asian Games into AFC semis Guangzhou hanghai SIPG survived an Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid Al Khalifa almighty scare to sneak DT News Network Mansoor, Nejad Al Gusaibi Sinto the semi-finals of the Manama and Ali Monfaradi. AFC Champions League he first batch of the Head Coach Tawfeeq 5-4 on penalties and break Bahrain delegation head Nuwaiser will lead the Guangzhou Evergrande hearts toT Turkmenistan today for taekwondo team, which yesterday. the Fifth edition of the Asian departs on Friday and includes, Midfielder Yu Hai was the Indoor and Martial Arts Wala Al Dossary, Juana Mousa hero for Andre Villas-Boas’s Games in Ashgabat which start and Jumana Mousa. side, holding his nerve to on Sunday and conclude on Adam Batirov will be the bury the decisive spot-kick September 27. only athlete representing and SIPG will face either of Bahrain will compete in Bahrain in wrestling and the Japanese teams Kawasaki three sports disciplines – jiu the former Asian wrestling Frontale or Urawa Reds in the jitsu, taekwondo and wrestling. champion, is being coached by last four. The jiu jitsu team will be the Mahmood Magomedov. It was a thrilling game of first in Ashgabat and the squad Bahrain Royal Equestrian high drama between the top includes administrator Ahmed and Endurance Federation two teams in the Chinese Janahi, coach Reza Monfaradi, president Shaikh Faisal bin Super League (CSL). athletes Ali Ibrahimi, Rashid Al Khalifa will head the Hosts Evergrande won 5-1 Mohammed Abu Idris, Ahmed Bahrain delegation. on the night in extra time, the quarter-final tie ending 5-5 on aggregate. The Brazilian Ricardo Shanghai SIPG’s Akhmedov Odil (L) fights for the ball with Guangzhou Evergrande’s Xu Xin Goulart scored a hat-trick stepped up on 110 minutes SIPG defending to give smelling blood. Villas-Boas IOC readies to for Evergrande, forcing extra to slam the ball into the net Evergrande a glimmer of had seen enough and made time with his second and then with a blockbuster of a free- hope on 21 minutes when two changes at half time. rescuing the game at 5-5 on kick and make it a scarcely he rounded Yan Junling, The Portuguese, who like crown Paris, 118 minutes. believable 5-4 on aggregate. who was a bundle of nerves Scolari is a former Chelsea But it was he who missed But just when SIPG thought throughout. manager, raged on the Evergrande’s penalty in the they were going through, the It was just a taste of the sidelines as Evergrande shootout, hitting the post, Brazilian Muriqui was felled drama to come. pushed for a third. Los Angeles leaving him in tears afterwards in the box, Wang Shenchao On 35 minutes the Brazilian Goulart stooped to make it as the SIPG players and staff was sent off and Goulart was at it again, darting in to 4-3 on aggregate with seven celebrated on the pitch. buried the penalty with two head home and make it 2-0 minutes left and then headed The battered visitors SIPG minutes left on the clock for on the night, 4-2 to SIPG on home again in the first minute played most of extra time with 5-5 on aggregate, his hat-trick aggregate. It was game on of injury time to drag the IOC President Thomas Bach 10 men after Wang Jiajie was and penalties. and Evergrande, odds-on to game into extra time. booked for a second time and The 28-year-old winger retain their CSL title with It is a first Champions Lima, Peru “It’s a big win and we they finished the game with Alan was chief tormentor in SIPG a distant second, and League semi-final for he International are here to really enjoy it,” nine men. the first half of normal time, their manager Luiz Felipe Shanghai SIPG in their short Olympic Committee said Paris 2024 bid co-chief The Brazilian bruiser Hulk punishing some slapstick Scolari went into the break history. (AFP) (IOC)T will crown Paris and Tony Estanguet, reflecting Los Angeles as hosts for the the triumphant mood among 2024 and 2028 Olympics the French delegation as here Wednesday, delivering Wednesday’s vote neared. Sport leadership Madene named BSA a welcome feel-good factor Los Angeles 2028 officials amid a gathering storm of meanwhile insisted they are corruption allegations. satisfied with the deal which skills set for today For the first time since means the Californian city will DT News Network Technical Advisor the awarding of the 1984 have to wait 11 more years Manama DT News Network by HH Shaikh Nasser Olympics, when only one before it stages the Olympics presentation on effective sport Manama bin Hamad Al Khalifa, to city was in the race, the for a third time. leadership skills is all set to take ahrain Swimming facilitate Madene’s services traditional frenzy of last- The city will receive roughly Aplace today with representatives of Association (BSA) at the association. minute lobbying, politicking $100 million more than Paris sports clubs and federations expected Bnamed Lounes Madene as Swar also noted the and schmoozing will be in IOC funding for the Games, to take part. their technical advisor as support of BOC general strikingly absent in Lima. a financial sweetener that This day-long event is organised part of their new strategy to secretary Abdulrahman In a historic move, the delivers “a frankly much better by the Bahrain Olympic Academy, develop water sports in the Askar for his contributions IOC brokered an agreement economic result”, according under the BOC and will be presented kingdom. in this regard, and the BSA that will see Paris handed the to 2028 bid chief Casey by Dr Don Clark of Canada, a Madene, the Bahrain achieve their aspirations. 2024 Games with Los Angeles Wasserman. Director of the National Coaching Olympic Committee’s Under BSA president awarded 2028, an outcome “We think the result is Institute in Saskatchewan Province in projects and technical Shaikh Mohammed that all sides are declaring as extraordinary,” Wasserman Canada and has a 30-year career as director, has vast experience bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, victory in a “win-win-win” said. a Professor, Coach, Researcher, and in setting up short and long a series of pioneering deal. IOC members will ratify IOC President Thomas Administrator and a member of the distance strategic plans Lounes Madene training programmes have the agreement following Bach, the driving force Coaching Association of Canada. The and will be responsible for been announced, with 25-minute presentations by behind the double award, presentation will cover specialities in the providing his consultancy BSA general secretary and registration for four major Paris and Los Angeles, the described the candidacies of field of sport, including team managers, services to the association technical supervisor Faisal programmes underway, last two cities left in the race Paris and Los Angeles as a club managers and technical directors. to run their upcoming Swar noted the cooperation with the deadline being next for the 2024 Olympics. “golden opportunity.” (AFP) programmes. from the BOC, headed Monday and open to all.