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‘Ignorance makes you very bold’ - Ramos slams Hamilton happy with Griezmann attitude

AFP | Madrid UEFA Super Cup in August. The striker posted a picture on team’s performance ergio Ramos has launched a social media of Ramos placing Sscathing attack on Antoine a crown upon his head. Reuters | London Griezmann’s attitude after the When asked about Griez- French forward said he has mann’s comments yesterday, ercedes are over-deliv- his eye on the Ballon d’Or this Ramos said: “Ignorance makes ering in the Formula year and is on a par with Lionel you very bold. MOne title battle and Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. “When I hear this kid talk, I going from strength to strength, In an interview with AS on remember players like (Franc- according to championship Monday, Griezmann admitted esco) Totti, Raul, (Gianluigi) leader Lewis Hamilton. he was disappointed not to be Buffon, (Iker) Casillas, (Paolo) The Briton won convincing- nominated for the Best FIFA Maldini, Xavi or (Andres) Ini- ly in Singapore on Sunday, his Men’s Player award and re - esta who have won everything seventh victory of the season, garding the Ballon d’Or prize, but not a Ballon d’Or. to go 40 points clear of Ferra- he said: “I have it in my head “Everyone is free to express ri’s Sebastian Vettel with six and there are three months to their opinion but I think he races remaining and a fifth title give everything”. should take the advice of (Die- beckoning. Asked if he considered him- go) Simeone, (Diego) Godin or Vettel had gone into the week- self in the same class as Ronal- Koke who represent the values end as clear favourite but Ham- do and Messi, the Atletico Ma- that serve them (Atletico Ma- ilton seized pole position with a drid player said: “Yes I think so drid) well. monumental qualifying lap that and I know other players are “But I have always said that stunned even his team mates. going to come for sure. he is a great player and I wish He then controlled the floodlit “Being at that table is a vi- him the best.” race. sion I have but I also know that Atletico play Monaco in “The car’s true pace is 100 Lewis Hamilton celebrates after his victory in Singapore I can do better.” France yesterday in Champi- and we are putting out 102,” the Griezmann also teased ons League while Madrid be- Mercedes website quoted the I think we’ve got a great ap - unhappy,” he said. Ramos after Atletico beat gin the defence of their title at Briton, who headed to Thailand proach as a team. We have “There is nothing we can do Real Madrid 4-2 to win the home to Roma on Wednesday. after the race for some promo- outperformed often a car about them. All we can do is be tional work before a few days that’s slightly better. We just The car’s true pace the best we can be that week- off, as saying. need to keep doing that,” said is 100 and we are end and hopefully that is good “Our understanding of the Hamilton. putting out 102. Our enough. If it’s not then we will car, how to utilise the tools that The 33-year-old said there understanding of the keep working.” we have — we’re far more com- was no chance of anyone at car, how to utilise Hamilton said he still felt a fortable at our job right now,” Mercedes getting ‘cocky or the tools that we need to win every race and had he added. overly confident’ after stretch- have — we’re far more assured team boss Toto Wolff The jet-setting champion an- ing the gap to Ferrari in both that he would do all he could to swered those who feared his championships. comfortable at our achieve that. lifestyle — with fashion shows “I don’t look at it and think job right now “I just said to Toto: ‘Don’t for a and trips to America — would that we lucked in. We honestly LEWIS HAMILTON second ever believe or let creep affect his bid for a fifth title by don’t waste any time wondering into your mind that I don’t want showing that it was all positive. what they are doing or how they to win this championship more “People have asked me if I are feeling or if they are feeling than anything. That’s my prior- need to change my approach. pressure, if they are happy or ity.’,” he declared. Sergio Ramos and Antoine Griezmann

Maradona makes Mexico debut with win AFP | Culiacan, Mexico na’s useless. There were a lot of stupid people going on tele- iego Maradona won big vision to fill up the time. I hope Din his Mexican coaching they’ll come to the pitch now debut Monday, as the Argentine and look at my record and see legend’s new club, Dorados, KNOW WHAT what we’re actually doing, see routed fellow second-division that I know how to do this,” he side Cafetaleros 4-1. added. Maradona has raised eye- Still, it was hardly a monu- brows with his decision to Maradona, 57, lived mental win: Dorados were 13th coach the struggling team the finest hours of in their league heading into the from Culiacan, Sinaloa, in the match, and Cafetaleros 15th. heart of Mexican drug cartel his playing career in With their newly earned country. Mexico, leading Ar- three points, Maradona’s team But he was all smiles as Ec- gentina to the 1986 doubled their previous total uadoran forward Vinicio An- World Cup title and leapt to 10th place. gulo -- wearing Maradona’s old Maradona vowed it was just number 10 -- scored a hat trick the beginning. Schalke players during their match against Monchengladbach to give the new coach the win. “This was nothing, this was “We played a great match,” just one match,” he said, sport- he told a packed press confer- ing a gold-and-white Dorados Struggling Schalke accused of ‘selling future’ ence afterward. cap. “Some people said Marado- “We’re still going to be play- AFP | Berlin Crystal Palace on free transfers season, which includes Loko- ing in a lot of finals. Let’s not last season. motiv Moscow and Galatasaray. think we’ve achieved anything chalke, who return to the On top of that, centre-back Tedesco says the Champions with this match. This is just the SChampions League yester- Thilo Kehrer, 21, was sold to League offers a fresh start as start of a beautiful dream.” day after a four-year hiatus, Paris Saint-Germain last month Schalke make their return since Maradona, 57, lived the finest have been accused of “selling for a reported fee of 37 million losing to Real Madrid in the last hours of his playing career in their future” for allowing three euros ($42.3 million). 16 of 2014/15. Mexico, leading Argentina to rising stars to leave. “The departures play a big “Obviously recent results are the 1986 World Cup title. The Royal Blues, who fin - role. Perhaps one notices now playing on our minds, but the His coaching career has been ished second in the German that Max Meyer, Champions League is a fresh less stellar, and he has publicly league last season, host Porto in and Thilo Kehrer were the fu- start for us and we have earned struggled with drug addiction, Gelsenkirchen in their Group D ture of Schalke and they sold it,” the right to play these games,” alcoholism and obesity along opener, but are struggling after said Freund, a Euro ‘96 winner said Tedesco. the way. losing their first three Bunde- with Germany, told broadcaster However, Freund, who re- He got a hero’s welcome sliga games. RTL. tired in 2004 after spells with when he arrived in Culiacan Despite finishing second to Schalke are second from bot- Tottenham Hotspur and Borus- last week. Bayern Munich last season, tom in the German league table sia Dortmund, says the prob- But he failed to fill Dorados’s Schalke are already struggling after losing to mid-table sides lems are in both attack and 20,000-seat stadium for his de- this term leaving head coach Wolfsburg, Hertha Berlin and defence. but. under pres- Borussia Moenchengladbach, “Schalke have problems scor- Attendance did more than sure after 15 months in charge. where they were beaten 2-1 on ing goals, they need twenty goal double from the club’s recent Ex-Germany Ste- Saturday. shots to score. You have to com- matches, however: there were ffen Freund has criticised Te- They reached the Cham - pare it with last season - be - 10,133 fans in attendance, up desco’s boss, Schalke’s sports pions League’s semi-finals in cause then they only needed from just over 4,000 on aver- director Christian Heidel, after 2011, bowing out after defeat to eight shots,” said Freund, who Diego Maradona, head coach of Dorados de Sinaloa soccer team, celebrates a age at the previous two home Leon Goretzka joined Bayern Manchester United, but will be spent two seasons at Schalke in goal appearances. and Max Meyer, both 23, left for lucky to get out of Group D this the early 90s.