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P19 Layout 1 TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2016 SPORTS Conte to be cleared of fraud, affirm lawyers MILAN: Future Chelsea manager The former Juventus coach is Following a hearing in Cremona on being fixed for betting purposes ended Conte’s lawyers have elected for a Antonio Conte will be cleared of sport- accused of sporting fraud, having Monday, they believe he will be cleared. with a 1-0 away win for Conte’s side at fast-track trial in order to get it ing fraud charges because he is “a total failed to expose an allegedly rigged “He’s a total stranger to the betting Albinoleffe. Siena gained promotion to wrapped up before the European stranger” to the world of sports bet- second-division match in May 2011 world and that’s why he will be cleared Serie A that season, with that success championships begin in France on June ting, his lawyers claimed yesterday. when he was coach of one of the by the judge,” Francesco Arata, one of earning Conte the job at Juventus, the 10. Conte, who steered Juventus to Conte’s appointment as Chelsea man- teams involved, Siena. Conte’s lawyers, was quoted as saying club he graced as a player for 13 years. three consecutive Serie A titles in 2012- ager last week was overshadowed Conte, who denies any wrongdoing, throughout the Italian media following In 2012, when he was in charge of 2014, will take over at Stamford Bridge when an Italian court called for the 46- was also ordered to pay an 8,000 euros the hearing. “The sports betting world Juventus, Conte was hit with a 10- after Euro 2016 in France. He will suc- year-old to receive a six-month sus- ($9000) fine, by Cremona court public and Conte’s world are at opposite ends month ban by the Italian football feder- ceed Guus Hiddink, appointed interim pended prison sentence over match- prosecutor Roberto Di Martino. But of the scale.” ation (FIGC) over the affair, reduced to manager after Jose Mourinho’s sacking fixing allegations. Conte’s lawyers are hitting back. The May 29, 2011 game suspected of four months on appeal. in December. — AFP Van Gaal’s sliding doors moment impacted Man United, Spurs LONDON: What appeared a snub two dugout at just the right time but perhaps years ago could have been a lucky took the United job at the wrong time. escape for Tottenham and a missed Inheriting a team that finished five opportunity for Louis van Gaal. points below Tottenham in 2013-14, Van Had Van Gaal not spurned Gaal did turn that around to a six-point Tottenham’s interest in 2014, the advantage the following May to steer Dutchman could have been managing United back into the Champions League, the London club rather than Manchester but only by finishing fourth. United in Sunday’s Premier League United was then embarrassed in the match. group stage and may not return next Instead, with the smart, ambitious season as it is currently four points Mauricio Pochettino at the helm of a rap- behind fourth-placed Manchester City, idly developing young squad, Tottenham with six rounds remaining. blitzed a ragged United 3-0 and exposed Reviving a fallen power has proved Van Gaal’s flawed tactics and badly-con- beyond the 64-year-old coach despite structed squad. being allowed to spend more than $350 Not only did it end a 15-year drought million on new talent. Young players, without a home win over United but it notably teenage forward Marcus gave Tottenham a 12-point lead over the Rashford, only gained first-team oppor- visitors in the league. tunities due to injuries. Such a gulf would have been unthink- Van Gaal’s 2014 snub led to Spurs able during Alex Ferguson’s United reign resorting to their backup plan. when points were rarely dropped against Pochettino was prized away from Tottenham, which was renowned for Southampton, securing the services of managerial instability and cashing in on an impressive younger coach albeit one its best players. without a trophy on his C.V. The 44-year- “Lads,” former United captain Roy old former Argentina international has Keane recalled Ferguson telling them steadily - without much fanfare or blus- before games. “It’s Tottenham.” ter - steered Spurs up the standings, with Now, while Tottenham is second and only Leicester ahead of them. on course for its highest finish in more than 50 years, United is languishing out- TOP SCORER side the Champions League places in Had Van Gaal taken the Tottenham job MADRID: Wolfsburg’s Carlos Ascues, left, vies for the ball with teammate Dante during a training session at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in fifth. “In the balance we are still ahead,” would he have been as astute as Madrid, yesterday. Wolfsburg will play a Champions League soccer match against Real Madrid today. — AP Van Gaal said, comparing the two teams Pochettino, who has turned academy after Sunday’s loss. “And you take one product Harry Kane into the league’s top match as something that I have to say, scorer, developed third-tier midfielder ‘The challenge is bigger’? The challenge Dele Alli into an England international Zidane seeks patience in is always bigger in a bigger club. and transformed record-signing Erik “But I (would have) liked to also sign Lamela from the flop he inherited into a for Tottenham Hotspur and (chairman) first-team mainstay? Tottenham has been Daniel Levy knows that. But the chal- shedding its chokers reputation and Madrid recovery mission lenge was bigger for me in Manchester holding its own in second place under United and shall always be bigger.” Pochettino. Van Gaal, though, bristled on Undoubtedly, United with its $3 bil- Sunday at suggestions that his sliding MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane games since he took charge in January. “The the Germans were underestimated by Madrid in lion-plus valuation and reputed 659 mil- doors moment in 2014 saw him make insisted he remains positive his side will over- message is patience because we know anything the first leg will certainly not be repeated in the lion global followers is the bigger club. the wrong coaching move. come a 2-0 first-leg deficit to reach the can happen in football,” he added. “As we’ve seen Spanish capital. “If it was the case that Real had But more immediately, it is Tottenham “I’m sorry for Tottenham but Champions League semi-finals against in La Liga-with Barcelona’s goal we were 13 underestimated us in the first leg, they definitely with the more balanced, hungrier Manchester United is a bigger club,” Van Wolfsburg today. Madrid need to end a run of points behind and now we are four. That is the won’t do that again,” he said. However, German younger squad. Gaal told reporters at White Hart Lane. bowing out in the Champions League the last great thing about football. “We have to keep our international Andre Schuerrle claimed his side Van Gaal looked all set to take his job “And I think it is a little bit pathetic that eight times they have lost the first leg, but heads, we are not going to win (the tie) in 10 or were “one million percent ready” to continue in England at Tottenham before the you ask that. Because they have won 3-0, Zidane also stressed the need for patience as an 15 minutes. their historic European run and the former United hot seat became vacant with the it’s easy to ask that. But OK, you enjoy away goal for the Germans would leave Real “It will be much more difficult if they score a Chelsea forward is hopeful of killing the tie off firing of Ferguson’s ill-fated successor, yourself.” needing four to go through. goal. Anything can happen, but we need to be with an away goal. “We have already shown that David Moyes. Van Gaal, preparing to lead Van Gaal doesn’t seem to be enjoying “I am always positive and I achieved some- concentrated from the first minute.” Madrid will we have the quality up front and if we get a goal, the Netherlands into the 2014 World himself at United, with no sign he will thing as a player with this philosophy,” said be at full strength as Karim Benzema has recov- that will make it all a lot easier.” — AFP Zidane, who scored the winner for Real in the ered from a knee knock that forced him off in Cup, naturally chose the record 20-time replicate the trophy success he enjoyed 2002 Champions League final. the first leg. English champions over a club without a at Ajax, Bayern Munich and Barcelona. “What most concerns me is to see the faces of league title since 1961. With a second season ending without my players and they are very focused on the GREAT TEAM Matches on TV “I could have opted for an easier job,” a trophy and United not denying they game, so that eases the pressure. “We need to Captain Sergio Ramos returns from suspen- Van Gaal explained at the time. “If I had are planning a managerial change in the score, but we have 90 minutes or more to do so.” sion, whilst the likes of Gareth Bale, Toni Kroos (Local Timings) gone to Tottenham, the job would not summer, Van Gaal looked doomed. Madrid’s fortunes have turned around dramati- and Luka Modric were rested for Saturday’s 4-0 have been as enormous.” And if United overlooks Jose cally in La Liga in recent weeks as they came thrashing of Eibar.
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