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Manchester City win Carabao Cup on penalties PAGE 18 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 Al Rayyan spikers win Arab Club Volleyball Championship PAGE 19 ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL WEST INDIES VS ENGLAND Qatar draw Nigeria in U-20 World Cup Hosts Poland to play Colombia in the opener in Lodz on May 23 IKOLI VICTOR DOHA QATAR and Nigeria were drawn together for the 22nd edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland along- side Ukraine and the United Poland will welcome all with States in Group D, following the group stage draw held in open arms: Blaszczykowski Gdynia on Sunday. AKUB Blaszczykowski, selves won’t have a great who, with 105 interna- deal of time to get to know Jtional appearances, is our country as all their focus Poland’s most capped player, will be on training sessions on the eve of FIFA U-20 World and matches. We have lots Cup Poland 2019 draw wel- of things to showcase,” The Qatar U-20 football team soon after booking their ticket to the FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019 during the AFC U-19 Championship comed players and fans from he said. against Thailand in Jakarta last October. all around the world to his On his message to your mes- country for the event. sage to the players who will teams in the group. For 2019’s qualification, Speaking to FIFA.com the be taking part in this tourna- FIFA legends Bebeto, who despite losing their opening Polish player said, “We have ment, Blaszczykowski said, won the U-20 World Cup in match in the 2018 AFC U-19 a lot to offer, but first and “Approach it with a smile on Quote Unquote 1983 and the FIFA World Cup Championship against UAE, foremost, we are blessed your face so that you can just Every World Cup, no matter in 1994; and Fernando Qatar still managed to finish with people who are incred- go and enjoy the tournament. Couto, who lifted the top of Group A along with ibly open, friendly and eager Be charged with positive en- if it is at youth or senior U-20 title in 1989, hosts Indonesia thanks to help others. I’m convinced ergy, so you approach every level, gives a player a made the draw in to the head-to-head re- that Poland will welcome our training session and every tremendous opportunity front of numerous sults. A 7-3 win after ex- guests with open arms and match in a positive way. When to face the best possible coaches and icons tra time in the quarter- that they will feel right at you look at life and a match opponents. of Polish football. finals of the competition home here. with optimism, it makes Qatar will be against Thailand meant “That famous Polish hos- things easier. Smile, go out Germany’s football star making their fourth the Qataris reached Po- pitality isn’t just all talk. onto the pitch and give your Lukas Podolski FIFA U-20 World Cup land 2019 before losing However, I know from experi- all. That’s my way of looking appearance at Poland in the semi-finals against ence that the players them- at it.” (TNN) 2019 after making their Korea Republic. Qatar will open their ac- debut in 1981 when they The star player count of the tournament finished second. They for Qatar going into against Nigeria on May 24 and hosted the competition this World Cup is Ab- face Ukraine three days later back in 1996 but bowed dulrasheed Umar. before their final group match out in the first round The striker scored seven against the United States on and they had a simi- goals in the 2018 AFC in that game, which was the giants Benfica. Miguel moved May 30th. lar outcome twenty U-19 Championship, same number of goals, scored to Qatar in 2015, where he May 23 to June 15 The U-20 World Cup 2019 years later when including a brace in in their run to finish second in joined Aspire Academy, The FIFA U-20 World Cup, a tournament that served as a will take place from May 23 to they finished at the quarter-finals the 1981 FIFA World Youth he was then appointed June 15 in Poland. the bottom clash against Championship. as the coach of the Qatar springboard for players like Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Hosts Poland will play Co- of Group Thailand. Qatar will be guided by U-19 team in February 2017 Paul Pogba and countless other superstars, will be held in lombia in the opening Group A C in New Qatar hit Coach Bruno Miguel. The Por- before the start of the 2018 Poland in 2019.The U-20 World Cup will be held across six match in Lodz on May 23. Ta- Zealand in seven past tuguese had several coaching AFC U-19 Championship venues between 23 May and 15 June. hiti and Senegal are the other 2015. Thailand stints in his country including qualifiers. No stopping Nasser in QCCR z Attiyah wins 3rd successive stage TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Another good day, but it second fastest time in the category behind LUSAIL wasn’t easy at all. We start- Ahmed al Kuwari, holds eighth overall z Rajhi 2nd at the expense of Przygonski ed from the sand dunes and now has a T3 advantage of 1hrs 49min A third successive stage victory for Qatar’s and the navigation was a little bit dif- 15sec over ninth-placed Fedor Yorobeyev. z Brazilian Varela takes commanding lead in T3 Nasser Saleh al Attiyah and French co- ficult. We didn’t make any mistakes. Qatari Khalid al Mohannadi and Italian driver Matthieu Baumel enabled the Toyo- female rider Camelia Liparoti rounded off ta Hilux crew to extend their overall lead in We try to push in some places where I a decimated top 11. 2019 MANATEQ QATAR CROSS-COUNTRY RALLY the Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally to felt good, but I also tried to save our Mohammed al Attiyah ground to a POSITIONS ON SS3 (UNOFFICIAL @ 15.00HRS) 9min 52sec on Sunday. car because that is important. We had halt north of the Inland Sea and fell out 1. Nasser Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hrs 27min 33sec The five-time event winner opened a problem with one tyre (delaminat- of contention for overall T3 honours with 2. Yazeed al Rajhi (SAU)/Dirk von Zitzewitz (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hrs 28min 44sec the road on the longest stage of the en- huge delays, while Omani driver Abdullah 3. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) MINI John Cooper Works Rally 3hrs 30min 16sec ing), but we managed. 4. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) BMW X3 CC 3hrs 46min 06sec tire event (351.98km) and overcame the al Zubair also ruined his chance of winning 5. Bernhard Ten Brinke (NLD)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 4hrs 03min 29sec tricky navigation and a series of unforgiv- Nasser Saleh al Attiyah T3 after turbo-related issues. 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Marek Sykora (SVK) Ford F150 Evo 4hrs 09min 06sec ing sand dunes to card the target time of Al Zubair’s Qatari co-driver Nasser Al- 2019 MANATEQ QATAR CROSS-COUNTRY RALLY – POSITIONS AFTER SS3 (UNOFFICIAL @ 15.20HRS) 1. Nasser Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 7hrs 12min 42sec 3hrs 27min 33sec. Kuwari explained: “It was around 70km in 2. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU)/Dirk von Zitzewitz (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 7hrs 22min 34sec Team-mates Yazeed al Rajhi and Dirk and Konstantin Zhiltsov stopped short of the stage and we were leading the T3. We 3. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) MINI John Cooper Works Rally 7hrs 23min 28sec von Zitzewitz pushed the Qatari hard the second passage control for a short felt there was no power in the car. We try 4. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) BMW X3 CC 7hrs 47min 10sec from the outset and the second fastest time, but finished the stage with the fourth to move again. Varela caught us, but there 5. Yasir Seaidan (SAU)/Laurent Lichtleuchter (FRA) MINI John Cooper Works Rally 8hrs 34min 47sec 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Marek Sykora (SVK) Ford F150 Evo 9hrs 00min 34sec time enabled the Toyota driver to edge in fastest time to hold a similar place in the was white smoke. We knew it was the tur- 7. Bernhard Ten Brinke (NLD)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 10hrs 02min 17sec front of Polish rival Jakub Przygonski and overall standings. Zhiltsov said, “It was a bo. We called the team and we took the de- 8. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) Can-Am Maverick T3 10hrs 21min 56sec his German navigator Timo Gottschalk hard day and we had a small mechanical cision to come back to Lusail.” 9. Fedor Vorobeyev (RUS)/Kirill Shubin (RUS) Can-Am Maverick X3 T3 12hrs 11min 11sec in the overall standings. The two are now problem before PC2 and a puncture. We Russian driver Fedor Vorobeyev lost 10. Khalid Al-Mohannadi (QAT)/Loic Minaudier (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 T3 12hrs 39min 22sec 11. Camelia Liparoti (ITA)/Max Delfino (FRA) Yamaha YZX 1000 R T3 13hrs 01min 13sec separated by just 54 seconds in the fight are happy to be here and will try to do our considerable time digging his way out of a 12. Mohammed Al-Meer (QAT)/Alexey Kuzmich (RUS) Toyota Land Cruiser T2 13hrs 05min 56sec for second place. best over the last two days.” sandy hole in the dunes and Qatar’s Adel 2019 QATAR MANATEQ BAJA – ROUND 2 (UNOFFICIAL @ 14.40HRS) Attiyah said, “Another good day, but Italian Eugenio Amos felt unwell and Abdulla suffered his own time-consuming 1.