12 Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Sports Ancelotti, Mourinho join coronavirus battle AFP a phonecall to Mark Cruise, a Everton games, insisting that Love Your Doorstep, Enfield, to London 52-year-old Everton fan diag- he should address him as “Car- help people in our club’s local nosed with motor neurone dis- lo”, not “Mr Ancelotti”. community,” said the 57-year- Carlo Ancelotti surprised ease last year. “Usually in Italy, Mr is a old, who was photographed an Everton fan with motor In a video posted on Ever- man of great importance. I’m packing up supplies wearing a neurone disease while Jose ton’s Twitter feed, Ancelotti not so important, I’m just a face mask and gloves. Mourinho helped deliver care initially caught the disbeliev- manager,” joked the boss. “It is a difficult time for packages as Premier League ing supporter by surprise. He revealed his fears for everyone right now, particu- managers joined in the battle “Hi Mark, how are you? friends and his sister in Italy, larly among the elderly, so I against the coronavirus crisis. I’m Carlo,” Ancelotti, 60, said. which has been hit hard by want to offer my assistance in The English top flight has “Who is it?”, Cruise replied. the virus. any way I can.” been suspended until at least “I’m the manager of Ever- Tottenham boss Mourinho Tottenham’s London ri- April 30 due to the pandemic ton. I know that you are a fan has been working with Age UK vals Arsenal have pledged but clubs and managers are of Everton,” said Ancelotti be- and community group Love £100,000 ($117,000) to local Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho pitching in to help vulnerable, fore Cruise responded: “I’m Your Doorstep to deliver vi- charities fighting the virus. has been using his time to vol- isolated people. a big fan of you Mr Ancelotti, tal supplies such as food and Gunners manager Mikel Ar- unteer so that elderly people Everton manager Ancelotti you are a top fella.” medication to those in need. teta tested positive for the vi- in Enfield get all the items they Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti has joined the club’s campaign to joined his club’s “Blue Family” The Italian chatted with “I came to give some sup- rus earlier this month but has need while they stay indoors. help the vulnerable. (AFP) community campaign, making Cruise about his favourite port to Age UK, Enfield and now recovered. (Pic: Twitter)

Togo’s Adebayor stuck in How Europe’s football media quarantine in Benin: Club AFP to make the long journey from Asuncion (Paraguay) Paraguay to Togo. is keeping the fans occupied Like much Latin America, Former Manchester City, Paraguay is in partial shut AFP Real Madrid and Togo inter- down and has imposed a night- London national forward Emmanuel time curfew. Adebayor is stuck in quarantine The former Togo forward, From impassioned debates in Benin over the coronavirus who also played for Arsenal, around the kitchen table to pandemic, his Paraguayan club Tottenham and Crystal Palace detailed reports about match- Olimpia said on social media. during a decade-long stay in the es that never happened, Eu- The 36-year-old “took the English Premier League, made rope’s football media are decision to return to his coun- a surprise move to the Para- working overtime to give fans try for the duration of the quar- guayan champions in February a welcome distraction during antine period declared by the having left Turks Kayserispor in the coronavirus crisis. government” of Paraguay, said December. Former Tottenham, Bar- Olimpia late on Monday. “It’s like being at home. celona and England striker However, in trying to re- It doesn’t bother me at all,” Gary Lineker, a keen ama- turn home he was put in quar- Adebayor told reporters on teur chef, even opened up his antine in a hotel in the port his arrival in Benin, which home in a bid to satisfy the of Cotonou, the largest city in borders Togo. British football public’s appe- Benin, alongside another 84 Adebayor is Togo’s most tite for sports talk. travelers, Olimpia said. famous player and scored 32 As the presenter of long- “His decision was to spend goals in winning 87 caps, and running English top-flight high- this time with his family,” Olim- helped his country qualify for lights show Match of the Day, pia said of Adebayor’s attempts the 2006 World Cup. Lineker, ignoring social dis- tancing guidelines, played host to regular studio guests Alan Shearer and Ian Wright around Kane hopes to feature if Premier his kitchen table last week. Match of the Day was League returns after virus chaos screened as a panel show rather than highlights on Sat- AFP the team in two or three weeks’ urday, with Lineker, Shearer London time,” Kane told Tottenham’s and Wright debating the website on Tuesday. greatest captains of the Pre- Harry Kane says he is on “I’m at a good stage, pretty mier League era. track to be fit when the Pre- much doing everything, now it’s For once there was no talk mier League returns as the about building up my fitness. So of VAR as ex-Newcastle and broadcast Italy’s matches on raising money for charity. night Canal Plus filled the Tottenham striker urged peo- from my personal point of view, Blackburn star Shearer de- their way to victory in the slot that should have been ple to “stay safe” from the cor- I’m in a good place. tailed his memorable battles 2006 World Cup. Nostalgic highlights dedicated to live coverage of onavirus. “From a rehab point of view with Manchester United’s The schedule for Monday Much of the weekend’s Marseille v PSG by showing Kane has been sidelined and personal point of view, I’m Roy Keane and former Arse- was “a whole day spend to- Nostalgia has been a French sports coverage was highlights of games between since suffering a torn hamstring doing really well. I’m at a good nal striker Wright described gether with Italian coaches recurring theme and on given over to the big clash the teams in the last decade. tendon in Tottenham’s New stage now and just working his use of “Franglais” to make who have left their mark in Sunday night Canal Plus filled between Marseille and Paris BeIN Sports showed Year’s Day defeat at South- hard, doing a lot of recovery, a conversation with team-mate England”. the slot that should have Saint-Germain, which was France’s 2018 World Cup fi- ampton. The England captain lot of rehab and just waiting to Patrick Vieira. There were segments on meant to be played on Sunday. nal win against Croatia at the needed surgery on the injury in see what happens to the season.” In what was due to be FA Claudio Ranieri, who master- been dedicated to live Sunday morning’s edi- same time. January and Tottenham boss Like everyone around the Cup quarter-final weekend, minded Leicester’s fairytale coverage of Marseille v PSG tion of leading sports daily Sky’s Germany television Jose Mourinho did not expect world, Kane has been following the BBC also filled the void Premier League title triumph, by showing highlights of L’Equipe had a front-page channel spent the weekend re- him back until the last games of the pandemic crisis and he ad- of what would have been live Roberto Mancini, who won games between the teams in photo montage of current running Bundesliga compila- the season. mitted working his way back to games with classic last eight the title at Manchester City, the last decade. BeIN Sports PSG defender Marquinhos tion packages featuring great But the enforced break due fitness during such an alarm- matches from the competi- and Carlo Ancelotti, a double showed France’s 2018 World giving chase to Chris Waddle goals and dramatic late winners. to the virus has given Kane ing global health situation has tion’s past. winner at Chelsea. Cup final win against Croatia in a Marseille shirt. Streaming service DAZN an opportunity to play more been strange. Kane has a home Linker, 59, has since gone In Spain, La Liga club Le- at the same time. Inside, the paper pitched have put up every single Cham- matches if the Premier League gym and is doing his rehabili- into self-isolation after his ganes live tweeted their game together a dream team for pions League Final since 1992. is able to conclude the cam- tation there, while Tottenham 28-year-old son George told that wasn’t against Vallado- each side (Marseille with Newspaper Bild summed paign eventually. have given individual training him he may have contracted lid and newspaper AS did a Ser -- three of Spain’s most Waddle, Didier Deschamps, up the desperation for some The 26-year-old has stepped plans to each player during the the virus. match report on it, while Ca- famous commentators -- all Didier Drogba and Jean- sporting drama the best. up his rehabilitation and should lockdown. In Italy, one of the coun- dena Ser also broadcast com- commentated on La Liga’s Pierre Papin et al, versus PSG They teamed up with the be fit by the time the season “My family is well, and obvi- tries worst hit by the pan- mentary of the “goal”. playstation tournament over with Rai, Ronaldinho, Zla- Chess24 website to livestream can restart, with the top-flight ously everyone is thinking about demic, the football media Manolo Lama from Ca- the weekend, which was tan Ibrahimovic and George the World Chess Champion- schedule currently postponed coronavirus at the moment and have been focused on boost- dena Copa, Miguel Angel won by Real Madrid’s Mar- Weah among others). ship Candidates Tournament until at least April 30. it’s a time to be together, to stay ing national pride. Roman from Movistar and co Asensio and drew over Nostalgia has been a re- from Russia, under the head- “I’m not too far away, I’d safe and hopefully everything Sky Sports have already Antoni Daimiel from Cadena 170,000 online fans while curring theme and on Sunday line: “Finally, some sport!” normally hope to be back with will be alright,” he said. Only outbreaks of war have forced cancellation of Olympics

AFP stops, opening a stadium with wife were assassinated in Sara- pressure grew for Japan to give Churchill called the “gather- Tokyo a capacity of around 33,000 jevo, starting a chain of events up the Games and the military ing storm” over Europe due in western Berlin’s leafy that would led to the outbreak began to question why resourc- to Nazi Germany, the IOC met The Olympic Games has suf- Grunewald district in 1913 to of World War I. es should be diverted from the in London in July 1939 to de- fered political boycotts (Mos- celebrate 25 years of Kaiser It is not clear when the war effort to fund Olympic con- cide which city would host the cow 1980) and terrorism Wilhelm II’s reign as head of Games fell victim to the war struction. 1944 Olympics. (Munich 1972), but has only the German Reich. but the founder of the modern The Japanese Olympic They plumped for London, ever been cancelled due to out- The stadium took only Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, Committee eventually bowed which beat bids by Rome, De- breaks of war. 200 days to build, according decreed that the Berlin 1916 to the inevitable and in 1938 troit, Lausanne and Athens. With the announcement to the German Olympic Com- Games still be counted as the told the IOC it would not be But only three months lat- that the 2020 Games will be mittee (DOSB) and featured sixth Olympiad, even though hosting the Games, euphemis- er, Britain had declared war on postponed over the coronavi- a 100-metre-long swimming they never took place. tically citing the “trouble with Germany and the 1944 Games rus pandemic, here is a look pool on its northern side. The next Games -- the sev- China” as the reason. was a non-starter. back at Berlin 1916, Tokyo 1940 The sporting programme enth Olympiad -- were award- They also abandoned the The winter Games were and London 1944 -- when glob- was to feature athletics, wres- ed to Antwerp in recognition winter Games, planned in the due to be held in Cortina al conflicts forced the Games to tling, fencing, shooting, mod- of the horrors suffered by Bel- northern city of Sapporo. d’Ampezzo in Italy but these be scrapped. ern pentathlon, cycling, gym- gium in World War I. The IOC awarded the sum- were also scrapped. The city nastics, swimming, rowing, A flag with the famous ing 2011 earthquake, tsunami ing, including persuading Ital- mer Games to Helsinki instead hosted the 1956 Winter Olym- Berlin 1916 hockey and golf. Olympic rings symbol was and nuclear meltdown, Tokyo ian dictator Benito Mussolini and the winter Games to St. pics and is due to co-host the At the IOC meeting in For the first time, women raised for the first time and cast a bid for 1940 as a chance to pull out of the race. Moritz in Switzerland, but 2026 Winter Games with Mi- Stockholm in July 4, 1912, the were invited to participate in doves were released at the to show it had recovered from The Games were supposed these too fell victim to World lan. sixth Olympic Games were swimming, diving, tennis and opening ceremony as a sign of a catastrophic earthquake in to celebrate the 2,600 years War II. Just three years after the awarded to Berlin, with the netball, the DOSB said in its peace. Germany was excluded. 1923. since the enthronement of Ja- Tokyo eventually became war ended, and with the world German capital beating out history of the 1916 Games. Spearheaded by legendary pan’s mythical first emperor the first Asian city to host the began gradually getting back competition from Alexandria, A two-day test event was Tokyo 1940 Japanese figure Jigoro Kano, Jimmu, but they became un- Olympics in 1964. onto its feet, London hosted Amsterdam, Brussels, Buda- held on June 27 and 28, 1914 In the same way Tokyo the founder of judo and the tenable because of the coun- what became known as the pest and the US city of Cleve- in the Berlin stadium. On the 2020 officials have framed country’s first IOC member, try’s military aggression in London 1944 “Austerity Games” in 1948. land. second day, Archduke Frank the Games as the “Recovery Tokyo was awarded the 1940 China. With Japan at war with Despite what British Neither Germany nor Japan Germany pulled out all the Ferdinand of Austria and his Olympics” after the devastat- Games after ferocious lobby- China from 1937, diplomatic Prime Minister Winston were invited to participate.