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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 SPORTS Milan fire coach Seedorf Hooper new Wallabies captain England’s Pietersen at peace ITALY: AC Milan fired coach Clarence Seedorf yesterday after less than five SYDNEY: Openside flanker Michael Hooper has been elevated to the Australian rugby team’s captaincy after hooker Stephen Moore LONDON: Kevin Pietersen is at peace after coming to terms with the fact his months in charge and replaced him with youth team boss Filippo Inzaghi, a England career is over and says the dressing room was not “a pleasant place” move that had been on hold for two weeks. “AC Milan have dismissed coach was ruled out for the season due to a knee reconstruction. The 22-year-old Hooper had been widely expected to take the during the 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia. Clarence Seedorf and handed over the first team to Filippo Inzaghi until June The 33-year-old former captain’s central contract was terminated by 30, 2016,” the Serie A club and seven-times European champions said in a role after Moore tore his anterior and medial cruciate ligaments in his left knee in the opening minute of the Wallabies’ 50-23 victory England after the calamitous tour and the team will walk out to play their first statement. Former Netherlands midfielder Seedorf, who had no previous test on Thursday, against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, since the sacking of the prolific coaching experience and spent 10 years of his playing career at Milan, quickly over France in Brisbane on Saturday. Hooper, who had been appointed by coach Ewen McKenzie as run-scorer. fell out of favour despite overseeing a significant improvement in results. “I will have no anger, no negative thoughts whatsoever when England walk Milan won 11 out of 19 Serie A matches under the Dutchman compared to one of his two vice-captains before the three-test series with France, led the side at Lang Park when Moore limped off. out without me at Lord’s,” the South Africa-born cricketer wrote in a column for only five of the previous 19 under predecessor Massimiliano Allegri on their the Daily Telegraph yesterday. way to an eighth-place finish, missing out on the Europa League by “It’s a massive honour to captain your country and I’m confident Michael has all the right leadership qualities to lead this team mov- “I am grateful for what I have had and have moved on with my life. I one point. Seedorf, 38, was playing for Botafogo in Brazil when he have scored 13,500 international runs for England and it would be he was offered the Milan job and cut short his playing career to ing forward,” McKenzie said in a statement. “I couldn’t have been more impressed with his performance on greedy to want more so I am at peace with everything. accept what he clearly felt was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “I wish my friends in the England team well.” Portrayed as a brash A crushing 5-1 aggregate defeat by Atletico Madrid in the the weekend after Stephen went down, so we know the added responsibility won’t impact the high-level of play we all expect from cricketer and frequently labelled a disruptive dressing room influ- Champions League round of 16 appeared to turn the tide against ence, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said Pietersen Seedorf, who as a player won the Champions League with Ajax, him each week.” Hooper is McKenzie’s fourth test captain since he replaced Robbie Deans in the job less than a year ago.—Reuters was axed because captain Alastair Cook needed to be able to Real Madrid and Milan. —Reuters trust and rely on the support of all his players.—Reuters Mariners blank Rays ST. PETERSBURG: Felix Hernandez struck out a career-high 15 in seven innings before Endy Chavez keyed a five-run ninth with a tiebreaking RBI single, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 5-0 vic- tory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. James Jones had a two-run triple for the Mariners, who have won seven of eight. King Felix scattered four hits over seven innings. After Brad Miller hit a two-out triple and Willie Bloomquist walked against Grant Balfour (0-2), the left-handed hitting Chavez slapped a two-strike single to left for a 1-0 lead. Jones had his triple before Kyle Seager added a two-run double. Yoervis Medina (3- 1) threw a scoreless eighth for the win. ROYALS 2, YANKEES 1 James Shields kept making critical pitches to escape trouble, Lorenzo Cain and Mike Moustakas drove in runs and the Royals squeaked out a win over the Yankees. The Royals have won the last seven games that MONTREAL: Red Bull Racing’s Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo celebrates on the Shields (7-3) has started, and he’s earned the win in podium after winning the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix. —AFP four of those. The veteran right-hander lasted six innings in his latest effort, giving up six hits to the punchless Yankees but only allowing only one Ricciardo wins Canada GP unearned run. The Royals scored both of their runs off Hiroki MONTREAL: Australian Daniel Ricciardo every race and finished one-two in the Kuroda (4-4) in the second inning. Aaron Crow celebrated his first Formula One victory last five. Red Bull, who won the last nine escaped a jam in the seventh inning, and Wade on Sunday in a Canadian Grand Prix that races of 2013 with Vettel, have been rac- Davis recorded the 500th strikeout of his career put Red Bull back on top of the podium ing to catch up after engine partner during a perfect eighth before Greg Holland sur- and dealt Mercedes a first defeat of the Renault started the year on the back vived a shaky ninth for his 18th save. season. An afternoon of high drama at foot. the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve ended “It’s the first time we have beaten ASTROS 14, TWINS 5 ST. PETERSBURG: Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano (right) follows the flight of his two-run single behind the safety car after Brazilian Mercedes this year and we managed to Chris Carter and Jon Singleton hit their first off Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher David Price during the third inning of a baseball game. —AP Felipe Massa’s Williams smashed into the get a victory,” said Horner. “We’re realists, career grand slams to power the Astros to a victory Gallardo (4-4) gave up four hits and a walk. He won seven straight in 2006. back of Sergio Perez’s Force India as they we know we have a massive challenge over the Twins. Carter’s slam in the seventh inning struck out a season-high eight. Francisco Rodriguez Justin Upton, Freddie Freeman and Ramiro Pena entered the final lap. Ahead of them, ahead of us but there is still a long way to sailed over the limestone overhang in right field and gave Houston a 9-3 lead. Singleton lined a fast- got four outs for his 19th save. homered for the Braves, who lost two of three in Ricciardo cruised to the chequered flag go in this championship. We’re not even Jeff Locke (0-1) also pitched seven solid innings Arizona. Aaron Harang (4-5) issued six walks in six with championship leader Nico Rosberg at the halfway point.” ball off Glen Perkins over the right-field wall that made it 14-5 in the ninth. in a spot start for the Pirates. The left-hander plus innings, and was charged with three runs and second for Mercedes after starting on McLaren’s Jenson Button, winner in The only other time two Astros players hit grand allowed three hits, struck out five and walked one. four hits. Brad Ziegler gave up a leadoff homer to pole position in what turned out to be a Canada in 2011, benefited from the last slams in the same game was July 30, 1969, at New Lucroy led off the seventh with a liner down the Pena but retired the next three for his first save of thriller in Montreal. lap chaos to take fourth followed by Nico York when Denis Menke and Jimmy Wynn both hit left-field line that was grabbed by a fan while it was the season. Last year’s winner Sebastian Vettel, Hulkenberg in a Force India and Ferrari’s slams in an 11-run ninth inning against the Mets. in play. Lucroy was awarded a ground-rule double the quadruple world champion, was Fernando Alonso. Dexter Fowler and George Springer also home- on the interference. Lucroy went to second on DODGERS 6, ROCKIES 1 third for Red Bull. “I’m still a bit in shock,” Perez and Massa, who a few laps earli- red for the Astros. Darin Downs (1-0) got the last Carlos Gomez’s lineout to center and scored on Hanley Ramirez homered, Clayton Kershaw beamed Ricciardo from the podium, er had looked capable of getting on the eight outs as the third reliever to follow starter Ramirez’s bouncer to first. struck out nine and the Dodgers won a game cut where he was interviewed by 1995 podium, were both reported to be Colin McHugh, who fanned six and allowed one short by rain in the sixth inning. The Dodgers broke Canadian GP winner Jean Alesi. “It’s an unscathed after their heavy impact with run over 4 1/3 innings. Houston batted around in MARLINS 4, CUBS 3 it open with four runs in the top of the sixth.