14 Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Sports Al Gharafa & Mexico star Moreno on Generation Amazing Instagram Live

Sc.qa Moreno played for RCD stagram Live for our youth in been watched by over 130,000 implement teaching resources Doha Espanyol, PSV Eindhoven as the programme here in Qatar people worldwide. in the workshops. In efforts to well as AS Roma and Real So- and for his fans everywhere Notable female football ensure the programme is in- Al Gharafa and Mexico na- ciedad before joining Qatari who are itching to catch a stars who have featured in- clusive, GA are further adapt- tional team star Hector More- top division side Al Gharafa Al Gharafa and glimpse of the Mexico star’s clude Lianne Sanderson, ing their programme cur- no will be this week’s special in 2019. The centre-back has Mexico national recipe for success, his football- Amalie Thestrup, Anouk riculum to children and youth guest on Generation Amazing’s over 100 caps for his country, team star ing practices and values.” Hoogendijk, Nadia Nadim and with special needs. (GA) Instagram Live at 4 PM Mexico, including appearanc- Hector Moreno. Moreno is the latest to join Allyson Swaby. As a Supreme Commit- Doha time (GMT +3) today. es at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 GA on Instagram Live since the This past week, GA has tee for & Legacy (SC) The Qatar Stars League FIFA World Cups™. Moreno programme launched its series also held a Disability Aware- social and human legacy pro- (QSL) player will talk about his has won four domestic titles of streams back in April 2020, ness workshop in collabora- gramme, Generation Amazing international experience in foot- including two league titles when the COVID-19 pandemic tion with Qatar Foundation has now reached over 500,000 ball and share advice with young with both AZ Alkmaar and first gripped the world. (QF). Those in attendance in- beneficiaries. The programme viewers hoping to get ahead in PSV Eindhoven. He joins stars includ- cluded a select number of par- continues to work towards sport and their careers. Ahead of the live session, ing Xavi Hernandez, Samuel ticipants, in accordance with achieving its goal of teaching The player will also discuss Generation Amazing Pro- ball and Hector Moreno is one this special Generation Amaz- Eto’o, Cafu, Tim Cahill and re- current social distance safety values and life skills like in- footballing values, which is a grammes Director, Nasser Al of those special players that ing Instagram Live and to hear gional legends Khalid Salman, measures, from the Paris clusion and gender equality, key football for development Khori said: “The QNB Stars have played such a tremen- about his time at Al Gharafa as Ibrahim Khalfan and Younis Saint-Germain Academy and leadership, organisation and tool that GA uses, that have League has brought to Qatar dous role in football on and off well as his success in Europe.” Mahmoud, who have all ap- GA coaching teams. Coaches teamwork, through unique helped him carve out a name many highly esteemed players the pitch. We are thrilled to get Al Khori added: “This will peared in the live social media learnt how to use accessible football training sessions in for himself on and off the pitch. and international stars in foot- a chance to get to know him in be a particularly inspiring In- broadcasts which have so far equipment as well as ways to Qatar and globally. Bennett in the green as Tour de France survives Covid test AFP Jumbo’s Slovenian leader Saint-Martin-de-Re (France) Primoz Roglic holds on to the overall lead with Colombia’s Irishman Sam Bennett was defending champion Egan left in tears after sprinting to a I want to bring this shirt Bernal in second place in the Royal Challengers Bangalore . (AFP) maiden stage win on the Tour home for Ireland, but general classification, 21 sec- de France on Tuesday after an onds adrift. Atlantic coast run between the Peter Sagan is a master Roglic will now go in to a ‘Never felt so calm’: islands of Oleron and Re. of this game. third day in the leader’s jersey. The Deceuninck team Team Deceuninck rider “If I’m honest I’m relieved rider’s stage 10 victory, on Sam Bennett of Ireland I wasn’t positive and I’m still Kohli expects IPL his Tour debut, ensured he here, but I never really thought reclaimed the sprint points I was positive,” said Roglic green jersey, a similar shade to about Monday’s Covid tests challenge from RCB the rugby and football shirts of that were delivered Tuesday. the Ireland national team. “We are all healthy (the AFP ing played outside India because It also followed a dramatic riders) and it’s beautiful the New Delhi of coronavirus meant his side start to the day as Tour direc- race goes on. For the director would be “disconnecting with tor Christian Prudhomme I wish him a speedy recovery.” Virat Kohli says he has “never things that have happened in tested positive for Covid-19 The spectacular run be- felt so calm” going into an Indi- the past and not taking that bag- while the entire peloton re- tween the two Atlantic Islands, an Premier League season as the gage, as we have done that way turned negative tests. There both of which are connected to Royal Challengers Bangalore too many times. was a negative test result, the French mainland by road skipper chases an elusive title in “Just because we’ve a bunch however, for French Prime bridges, was largely free of the the tournament. of players that are so skilled... Minister Jean Castex, whom cross-winds that could have Kohli’s Bangalore finished people have had so much ex- Prudhomme had sat alongside Team Deceuninck rider Sam Bennett of Ireland celebrates as he crosses the finish line at the end of the blown the race wide open. runners-up in the 2016 edition pectation,” he admitted. in his car for Saturday’s stage. 10th stage of the 107th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 170 km between Le Chateau d’Oleron But Bernal’s Ineos made but have since disappointed Bangalore’s other imported Wearing his Irish cham- and Saint Martin de Re, on Tuesday. (AFP) two assaults from the front of and were bottom of the eight- talent includes South African pion’s tunic Bennett narrowly the peloton when there was team table last year. But the pace bowler Chris Morris and edged Australia’s Caleb Ewan Surrounded by his team- line to get the win but I was so Bennett now has stage wind, on the narrow roads that world’s leading ODI batsman little-known Australian - while peloton superstar Peter mates Bennett watched a re- excited I almost forgot to do wins on all three Grand Tours, were ram-packed with specta- expects a turnaround from a keeper-batsman . Sagan came third to cede the play before clenching his fist it,” he said. his stage win here following tors most of the way. team containing big names “Morris brings in a lot of green jersey on a sunny day and cheering. “It hasn’t sunk in yet,” stage victories on the Giro The 23-year-old usually such as South Africa’s explo- balance,” said Kohli. “Some of attended by more fans than on “It’s almost a relief,” said Bennett added at the finish d’Italia (three) and the Vuelta clean-cut Colombian appeared sive AB de Villiers and Aus- the youngsters we have picked any previous day in the region the 29-year-old who had four line before bursting into tears a Espana (two). with a peculiar haircut on Tues- tralia’s big-hitting white ball this time are quite exciting too famous for its huge, luscious near misses before finally and thanking his team and his He said his next goal would day. “I’ll be honest about this,” skipper . like Josh Philippe, a very excit- oysters and other shellfish in clinching this win after a fran- family. be a Tour de France final day Bernal said, a little abashed. “I (have) never felt so calm ing player.” the mud flats. tic 168.5km-long stage 10 that “I don’t want to be a cry win on the cobbled Parisian “I did it myself and I started going into a season before,” The IPL will be played After the finish line on the featured 78 roundabouts. baby,” said the powerfully streets of the Champs-Elysees, in there and cut off too much. I Kohli said during an interview across three venues within chic Island of Re Ewan quickly Bennett said he could built Belgian-born sprinter. before concentrating post- had to keep going so, you can posted on his side’s YouTube relatively close proximity – rode alongside the winner to hardly think straight at the “I want to bring this shirt Tour on the Milan-San Remo see the result,” he said having channel on Monday ahead Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi fist bump in a rare show of em- end of the stage. home for Ireland, but Peter Sa- race and the World Cycling a good laugh at himself. It’s of the tournament beginning – and Kohli feels that will lead pathy between sprinters. “I threw my bike over the gan is a master of this game.” Championships. more aerodynamic like that!” September 19 in the United to consistent playing condi- Arab Emirates. tions across the tournament. “He (de Villiers) is com- “It (the usual home and ing from a very different space away system in India) gets and he is enjoying his life and hectic, conditions change... is very relaxed and fit as ever. This time, it’s more of a level I feel I am in a much better playing field and everything Dustin Johnson wins Tour Championship space, much more balanced, would now boil down to skill when it comes to environment level rather than home advan- of (the) IPL. tage,” he said. “Aaron Finch is someone “We have unpacked all and $15mn FedEx Cup playoff crown who has experience of playing bags and stacked clothes in the international .” wardrobe. We go, practise, live AFP Rahm, who edged John- Kohli has captained Banga- in our own bio-bubble... It’s a Washington son in a playoff at the BMW lore since 2013 and said IPL be- more settled and calm feeling.” Championship a week ear- World number one Dustin lier, finished alone in third on Johnson capped a two-under- 17-under after closing with his par 68 with a birdie at the last to second straight 66. seal a three-stroke victory in the Schauffele actually had CONCACAF confirm postponement US PGA Tour Championship the week’s lowest 72-hole to- and earn the $15 million FedEx tal of 15-under 265, but under of World Cup 2022 qualifiers Cup playoff title on Monday. the staggered start format he Johnson finished with a started the week seven adrift. AFP CONCACAF president Vic- 21-under-par total at East Johnson played 72 holes in Miami tor Montagliani had signalled Lake Golf Club in Atlanta -- 11-under 269. the probable postponement in three shots clear of Americans Prior to his dramatic near The governing body for foot- remarks last week, saying the Xander Schauffele and Justin miss at the BMW Champion- ball in North America, Cen- games were unlikely to take Thomas. ship, Johnson won the North- tral America and the Carib- place in October. “I hit the fairways when ern Trust by 11 strokes to bean (CONCACAF) confirmed Under a new-look CON- I needed to coming down the seize the world number one Tuesday that 2022 World Cup CACAF qualifying format un- stretch,” said Johnson, who ranking. qualifiers due to take place in veiled last month, 30 teams started the day with a five-shot In June, he won the Trave- October and November would have been placed into six lead. lers Championship -- his first be postponed until 2021 be- groups with the group winners He rolled in an 18-foot title since February 2019. cause of COVID-19. advancing to three two-leg birdie putt at the third, a “I’m definitely playing CONCACAF said in a state- play-off games originally set 10-footer at the fifth and a probably the best I’ve ever ment the games would now for March. three-footer at the sixth. played,” the 2016 US Open take place next March, saying The winners of those ties But bogeys at the seventh champion said. “I really feel the decision had been taken in would join the final eight-team and eighth -- where he was in Dustin Johnson of the United States celebrates with the FedEx Cup Trophy after winning in the final round like everything is dialed in conjunction with world gov- round-robin group for home a fairway bunker -- opened the of the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday. (Getty Images/AFP) pretty well.” erning body FIFA. and away matches starting in door just a crack for Thomas The Tour Championship “Many parts of the region June 2021 under the current and Schauffele. I didn’t,” said Schauffele, who He was in the fairway at the season-ending showdown for marked the official end of the continue to have very chal- schedule. Neither could do enough, bogeyed the 13th. “That was a par-five 18th, but his approach the $15 million (12.6 million US tour’s pandemic-disrupted lenging public health situ- The United States, Mex- never getting the deficit below pinnacle moment, I think.” hit the bank in front of the euro) playoff prize. 2019-2020 season. ations, and that has been a ico, Costa Rica, Jamaica and two strokes as Johnson parred “Obviously it’s a very tough green and bounced back into Johnson had a head start The 2020-21 season starts key factor in this decision,” Honduras are already into nine straight. trophy to win. This time I did the greenside bunker. He blast- coming into Eastlake. He be- this week with the Safeway CONCACAF said. the final round by virtue of That run included a 21- control my own destiny, I ed out to five feet and made the gan the week on 10-under Open, and while Johnson “Additionally, several world rankings. foot par-saving putt at the knew what I had to do. putt for a closing birdie. thanks to his season points won’t be there he and the countries across the con- The three top teams 13th, where he was in the left “But I still had to go out and The 36-year-old claimed edge. world’s other top golfers won’t federation have travel re- among the last eight would rough off the tee and right of play well today. I had a lot of his 23rd US PGA Tour title Spain’s second-ranked Jon be settling down for some rest strictions and quarantine advance to Qatar 2022 with the green and hit a poor chip great players right behind me and his third since the tour Rahm was next on 8-under with the rescheduled US Open requirements, which would the fourth-place team facing but drained the putt to push and they played some good golf resumed in June after a three- with third-ranked Thomas on coming up at Winged Foot make international football a playoff against a squad from his lead back to three over today. I knew I was going to month coronavirus shutdown. 7-under and others up to 10 September 17-20. involving 30 national teams another region in June 2022 Schauffele. have to come down the stretch He’s the first overall points shots adrift in the staggered “You’ve only got a few extremely difficult.” for a final spot. “He made that putt, which and hit some golf shots.” leader since 2009 to win the start system. days,” Johnson said.