QatarTribune Qatar_Tribune Mehidy Hasan QatarTribuneChannel qatar_tribune excels with the ball as Bangladesh secure maiden ODI series win over Sri Lanka WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2021 PAGE 14 Teams arrive as Total CAF Super Cup tickets go on sale QNA DOHA THE Total CAF Super Cup 2020 Local Organising Com- mittee (LOC) has announced that tickets for the match are on sale on the website of Qatar Football Association (QFA) for 30% of the capacity of the Jas- sim bin Hamad Stadium, the venue for the showdown. The Local Organizing Committee has set a unified ticket price of QR50 with a minimum of one ticket and a maximum of four allowed for each booking. Bookings can be made by following the ticket- ing process instructions and purchasing through the fol- lowing link: tickets.qfa.qa The Total CAF Super Cup 2020 match will be the 29th edition of the game, bring- ing together Egypt’s Al Ahly Members of the Moroccan club RS Berkane – the Total CAF Confederations Cup champions (left) and Egypt’s Al Ahly – the Total CAF Champions League winner (right) on their arrival at the Hamad International Airport – the Total CAF Champions in Doha on Tuesday and Monday respectively for the Total CAF Super Cup to be played at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on Friday. League winner, and the Mo- roccan club RS Berkane – the measures, the stadium’s ca- tendance, the LOC and MOPH in the last 9 months (after Au- tative measures outlined by were won by Egyptian team 2014 when they beat Tuni- Total CAF Confederations Cup pacity has been restricted to have stipulated that only two gust 28, 2020). The second cat- the MOPH. Zamalek SC and Moroccan sian side CS Sfaxien. Berkane, champions. 30% to prevent the spread of categories of fans (12 years or egory is the recovered individu- This is the third year in a side Raja Casablanca. meanwhile, are appearing in The match at Jassim Bin COVID-19. Only fully vacci- older) who can purchase tick- als who have recovered in the row that Doha has hosted the The runners-up on both their first Super Cup. Hamad Stadium on Friday nated people and those who ets to attend the event. last 9 months with last day of Total CAF Super Cup as part occasions were Tunisian side Al Ahly qualified for the (May 28) will kick-off at 7pm recovered from COVID-19 in The first category is the ful- recovery 21 days before match of a collaboration between the Esperance Sportive de Tunis. Super Cup after defeating (6pm Cairo and 5pm Casa- the last nine months will be ly vaccinated individuals given day (Recovery Period: August Qatar Football Association Al Ahly are the Total CAF Zamalek in the Champions blanca time). permitted to attend the match. that the second shot latest date 28, 2020 to May 7, 2021). and the Confederation of Afri- Super Cup record holders hav- League final, while Berkane In line with Qatar’s Minis- To ensure the safety and is May 14, 2021, and that the All spectators and organis- can Football (CAF). ing claimed the title six times, defeated Pyramids FC in the try of Public Health (MOPH) well being of everyone in at- vaccine must have been taken ers must adhere to the preven- The previous two editions the latest of which came in Confederations Cup. Barshim and Stefanidi to soar in Florence in June Hassan and QAF finalises Kipyegon in 1500m preparations for WORLDATHLETICS TWO-TIME world high jump Diamond League champion Mutaz Barshim and Olympic pole vault gold med- allist Katerina Stefanidi are Doha 2021 also among the latest athletes announced for the QNA Golden Gala Pietro Men- DOHA nea, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, on 10th June. PREPARATIONS continue Double world champion at Qatar Athletics Federa- Sifan Hassan and Olympic Olympic pole vault gold medallist tion (QAF) to host the second gold medallist Faith Kipyegon Katerina Stefanidi. round of Wanda Diamond will go head-to-head over League Doha 2021 at the Su- 1500m as they look to fly high record-holder Roberta Bruni. haim Bin Hamad Stadium at in Florence, Italy. Athletes previously an- Qatar Sports Club on Friday. Hassan opened her season nounced for the meeting The event will see the par- with a 14:35.34 5000m and include Malaika Mihambo, ticipation of an elite of stars 2:01.54 800m in the USA ear- Twice high jump world champion and Olympic medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar. Ivana Spanovic, Maryna and legends, who will have lier this month and in Italy she Bekh-Romanchuk, Caterine fierce competitions to qualify will race over the distance at Kenya’s world 3000m steeple- Rome in 2014 and in Florence this year. Ibarguen, Khaddi Sagnia and for the upcoming Olympic which she set the meeting re- chase record-holder Beatrice he will take on local favourite The women’s pole vault Larissa Iapichino in the wom- Games in Tokyo. Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba will cord of 3:56.22 in 2017. Chepkoech, who improved the Gianmarco Tamberi, who set will see Stefanidi, who cleared en’s long jump. The men’s shot Manager of the Tourna- be seen in action in the men’s The Dutch world 1500m world 5km record in February, the Italian record of 2.39m 4.80m to win at the USATF put includes Tom Walsh, To- ment and Board Member of 400m hurdles. and 5000m gold medallist and Britain’s European 1500m in 2016, as well as European Golden Games earlier this mas Stanek, Leonardo Fabbri, the Qatar Athletics Federation will face Kenya’s 2017 world champion Laura Muir. indoor champion Maksim month, go up against world Michal Haratyk and Konrad Khalid Rashid Al Marri noted tional record holder in the 1500m champion Kipyegon, Barshim set the men’s pole Nedasekau and world bronze champion Anzhelika Sidorova, Bukowiecki. that the Qatari athletics team 3000m SC courtesy of her who claimed 2019 world silver vault meeting record of 2.41m medallist Ilya Ivanyuk, who European indoor champion A total of 1000 spectators will participate in eight races World Championships bronze behind Hassan in Doha, plus when the event was held in have both set PBs of 2.37m Angelica Moser and Italian will be able to attend the event. and two competitions. medal-winning performance He noted that the Qatari in 2019 (9:03.30). She raced team will participate in the extensively throughout the high jump with world cham- 2021 indoor season and pion Mutaz Essa Barshim, and opened her outdoor season Champions League final in Porto allowed to host 16,500 fans in hammer throw with Ashraf with a 2:05.76 800m in Ger- Amjad Al Saifi. many on 21 May. She will DPA final was supposed to take Among the most promi- compete in her first 3000m BERLIN place in Istanbul, but was nent participations in Doha SC of the year in Doha as she moved to Porto, Portugal’s will be the participation of prepares for her third Olympic EUROPEAN football rul- port city due to coronavirus Kenyan runner Beatrice Chep- Games this summer. ing body UEFA has said that travel restrictions. koech, the world champion in Chepkoech, who finished 16,500 spectators will be al- Turkey was added to Brit- the 3000-meter hurdles and third over 3000m in the 2020 lowed into the Estadio do ain’s “red list” for travel be- world record holder, along Wanda Doha Diamond League, Dragao in Porto for the Cham- cause of the high coronavirus with the American Emma Co- said: “I’m looking forward to pions League final between infections numbers. burn and the German Gesa competing in Doha. It’s the Manchester City and Chelsea That means those return- Felicitas Krause, who finished place where I became World on Saturday. ing to the country must face second and third respectively Champion. 2021 is a special UEFA said on Tuesday a 10-day hotel quarantine pe- in the last World Champion- year with the Olympics coming that Portuguese authori- riod on their return. ship held in Qatar in 2019. up and I would like to start my ties have confirmed that 33 It’s the second consecu- Chepkoech has already en- outdoor season in a nice way.” per cent of the 50,033 seats tive year Istanbul has been joyed success this year, most The Doha Round enjoys a may be used to welcome fans unable to host the showpiece notably when achieving a 5k large participation of the stars in the final and still comply as planned due to the global (road) world record in Monaco the game and unprecedented with pandemic social-dis- health crisis, with Portugal (14:43) and an indoor person- global and local media cover- tancing guidelines. stepping in. al best for 3000m (8:31.72), age every year, due to the great Both City and Chelsea had Last season, Lisbon staged both in February. Her 3000m facilities provided by the organ- an allocation of 6,000 tick- a mini-tournament culminat- SC world record, also achieved izing committee of the tour- ets reserved for their fans, ing in a closed door final when in Monaco (2018), is an in- nament, and constant keen- UEFA said. Bayern Munich defeated Paris credible 8:44.32. ness on attracting more world The Champions League The Estadio do Dragao stadium in Porto, Portugal, which will host the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday. Saint-Germain. Krause is the German na- champions to come to Doha. Sports Wednesday, May 26, 2021 13 EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL Villarreal seek first trophy glory against veterans United DPA BERLIN THE contrast in Wednesday’s Europa League final could hardly be greater when Man- chester United - three times continental kings - take on a Villarreal side looking to win the first major honour in their history.