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DELHI THE HINDU 22 SPORT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ‘A reminder of the magic sport brings to our lives’ Tendulkar dedicates Laureus award to all champion athletes who have inspired youngsters
sary, it’s incredible what the LAUREUS AWARDS Academy has been able to Stan Rayan achieve in the last 20 years, BERLIN how much it has impacted so The other day Onkar Singh, a many lives through various journalist with Deutsche mediums for gender equality, Welle in Bonn, spoke about education etc.” how football changed peo He also spoke about the ple’s lives in Germany. moment he met Nelson “Whenever there is a ma Mandela. jor football competition, the “I had the honour of meet Germans are all happy. And ing the great man Nelson when Germany won the FIFA Mandela when I was only 19. World Cup, people were so His hardship did not aff ect his happy that they were even leadership. Out of the many hugging strangers in the big messages that he left be street,” said Onkar, who was hind, the most important I at the 20th Laureus World felt was that sport has the Sports Awards function here. power to unify everyone,” When Sachin Tendulkar said Tendulkar. Atalanta rides wave won the Laureus Sporting “Today, sitting in this room Moment of the last 20 years with so many greats, some of at the Verti Music Hall here them did not have the best of of remarkable run on Monday, he spoke about a Making a point: Boris Becker and Steve Waugh are all ears as Sachin Tendulkar stresses that the sporting moment from the everything but they gave the similar feeling, how it unites 2011 ICC World Cup, which won the Laureus on Monday, was worth voting for. * GETTY IMAGES best of everything they had to Milan.” his countrymen back home. and have gone on to become CHAMPIONS LEAGUE The team’s stunning run “This is a reminder of how an incredible feeling, someth tem open to the public and (aptly titled, ‘Carried on the hope. I was merely lifting that champion athletes. I want to Agence France-Presse comes despite losing its powerful sport is and what ing beyond words,” said Ten with India’s huge population shoulders of a nation’) that trophy on behalf of my coun thank all of them for inspiring Milan opening three Champions magic it does to all our lives. dulkar. and Tendulkar’s massive pop we saw on the screen, was trymen and India. I couldn’t youngsters to pick up a sport Gian Piero Gasperini’s Ata League group games, in We experience the power of Everybody who had come ularity back home, it was worth voting for,” said Ten have asked for anything of their choice and chase lanta is counting on the cluding 40 away to Dinamo sport and even now, as I for the Laureus ceremony, es clear that the Master Blaster dulkar. “There is a tricolour more.” their dreams. I feel this tro wave of enthusiasm generat Zagreb before a 51 loss at watch this fi lm (about India’s pecially the Germans, clearly would be the big favourite. in my hand in the image, this Tendulkar saluted Laureus phy belongs to all of us for ed by the Italian outsiders’ Manchester City. 2011 ICC World Cup triumph understood the feeling. The “I’d like to thank the Lau was obviously the proudest for its impressive work to having inspired youngsters remarkable run in its Cham and how his teammates car Laureus Sporting Moment reus Academy members and moment of my life. I had wait change people’s lives. and it’s not just about me.” pions League debut season The revival ried him around the stadi 20002020 was decided also for the people who voted ed for this trophy for 22 but I “With everyone celebrat (The author was in Berlin to surge past Spanish club But a 11 draw against Man um), it is really amazing. It is through an online voting sys and felt that the moment never gave up, I never lost ing Laureus’ 20th anniver at the invitation of Laureus) Valencia in the knockout City in the San Siro sparked rounds. the revival of ‘La Dea’ (The The team from Bergamo Goddess) who fi nished se in the foothills of the Italian ven points behind the Pre Alps takes on Valencia on mier League side in second ‘Made people with two diff erent mindsets believe in each other’ Wednesday in the last 16, to reach the knockout stage. fi rst leg, at the 80,000sea Atalanta’s confi dence has from Kashmir. We were able the 201314 season. tered someone’s window. ryone wanted unity,” says ter San Siro, which has near been further boosted after RANJI TROPHY to unite them. We know that On the fi eld, Mewada and They had fun, they felt to Mewada. ly four times the capacity of seeing off AS Roma 21 in a Shreedutta Chidananda no sportsman likes to lose. Irfan operated with a serious getherness and brother At the start of the season, its home stadium, 55 kilo cauldron in front of its home Jammu [But] there were two teams, ness and professionalism the hood.” he and Irfan handed every metres away. crowd at Atleti Azzurri d’Ita Very early into his tenure as two diff erent colours, two J & K players had not perhaps Then there came the player a questionnaire. One “This is a game that we lia stadium on Saturday. the Jammu & Kashmir coach, diff erent mindsets. We made known previously. Off it, they drawings. Groups of four of those questions was how have been waiting months The win consolidated its Milap Mewada realised one them believe in each other.” organised continual team players had to produce a long J & K had been playing for,” said Gasperini. fourth place in Serie A. thing: this was not a united That Mewada, a former building sessions. “We made handdrawn picture that in the Ranji. Players made va “Being able to play on “This victory gives us team. So when Mewada and Ranji Trophy cricketer and it mandatory for players to summed up the team best: rious guesses. front of so many of our fans confi dence for the next Irfan Pathan drew up a plan coach from Baroda, and Ir eat dinner in groups of four — one came up with a bunch of The next one was how ma at a venue like San Siro is a games, it was a fundamental for the future last year, they fan, currently the J& K men we picked players from diff e logs bound together; another ny titles the side had won. beautiful achievement that clash to be won,” said Mario quickly decided that one tor, were able to achieve rent parts of the State, those drew a river feeding a tur “Nobody got that wrong,” we have been waiting a long Pasalic who came off the thing had to happen. “We their objective is evident in who did not know each other bine, except the river had a smiles Mewada. “So I told time for. bench and hit the match needed to remove the ‘and’ the results this campaign. J & well,” says Mewada. Milap Mewada. few minor streams that them, ‘You have been play “The Champions League winner 19 seconds later. in Jammu and Kashmir and K fi nished on top of Group C, “They had to learn some * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT branched off , weakening it; a ing for 50 years and you have is a dream which we’ll try to make it JK,” says Mewada. advancing to the quarterfi secrets about one another, third saw the squad as a tiger not won anything. So don’t carry forward as much as Tottenham vs Leipzig “There were always two nals of the Ranji Trophy for something fun they had meone’s tyre, someone had hiding inside a goat. “All this play just another season this possible. Tottenham meets Leipzig in parts in this team — players only the third time in its his done. For example, someone pursued [a girl] and been made it clear what the time. Make it a mission in “The whole city of Berga the other match on from Jammu and players tory and the fi rst time since admitted to puncturing so slapped, someone had shat players were thinking. Eve stead.’” mo is practically travelling Wednesday.
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