6 October 20, 2020 Trio Announces Joint 2027 Azmoun Chosen AFC National Women’s World Cup Bid Team Player of Week TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran national team forward Sardar Azmoun was chosen as the AFC National Team Player of the Week. Azmoun defeated his compatriots Mehdi Taremi and Ali Gholizadeh in the poll. One of Asia’s top strikers celebrated his return to the international stage by finding the back of net, with Iran’s Azmoun playing a key role in his side’s 2-1 win over Uzbekistan last Thursday. The Zenit Saint-Petersburg star was arguably the best known of the Iranian arrivals in Tashkent, and he lived up to his billing when he USA’s players celebrate with the trophy after the France 2019 Women’s rocketed the ball past Eldor Suyunov from 25 yards just before half- World Cup football final match between USA and the Netherlands, on July time, helping Team Melli to a first win under new head coach Dragan 7, 2019, at the Lyon Stadium in Lyon, central-eastern France. Skočić. AMSTERDAM (Dispatches) World Cup in 2011, while the - Germany, the Netherlands and Netherlands staged the Women’s Iran national team forward Sardar Azmoun He won the poll with 32 percent of votes. Belgium have announced a joint Euro 2017 championship. Bel- bid to host the 2027 Women’s gium has never held a major World Cup. women’s tournament. Go Top in Spain as Both Real The three countries’ football “Women’s football in our coun- associations said they had pre- tries is indeed in differing phases , Barca Lose sented plans to world governing of development, but we share MADRID (Dispatches) -- Real Sociedad difference. body FIFA and will draft further the aspiration to give the sport a went top of the table after the sixth round of Valencia sold Dani Parejo to details, such as the host cities, in boost nationally and globally by matches in the this weekend thanks join Villarreal in the summer to try and the coming months. Organising this World Cup,” said to a 3-0 win away to Betis. cut their wage bill but it worked out to be Last year, Norway, Sweden, the three countries in a joint state- The side from San Sebastian produced an expensive when Parejo scored Villarreal’s Denmark, Finland, Iceland and ment. excellent all-round display in a game be- winning goal in the east coast derby. the Faroe Islands said they were England will host the next Euro- tween the teams who had started the week- Paco Alcacer’s penalty put Villarreal working on a joint bid. pean Championships in 2022. The end second and third in the table. ahead in the sixth minute. Although Gonca- The 2023 edition will be held in tournament was due to be played Sociedad opened the scoring when lo Guedes’ 37th minute thunderbolt leveled Australia and New Zealand. in 2021 but has been delayed by Germany hosted the Women’s the coronavirus pandemic. headed home ’s cross two the score, Parejo’s deflected shot in second minutes before halftime. half still gave the three points to Villarreal. Oyarzabal scored his team’s second goal Cadiz produced the shock of the weekend from the penalty spot in the 74th minute af- on Saturday with a 16th minute goal from Kubica Reflects on First Circuit ter Marc Bartra was penalized for pulling striker ‘Choco’ Lozano giving the recently back Real Sociedad striker . promoted side their first ever away win Racing Podium Since 2010 Adan Januzaj then rounded off an em- against Real Madrid. phatic win with a thumping shot 14 minutes Barca fared no better than Madrid as they later. Real Sociedad have gone to the top of the table lost 1-0 in Getafe. After a 2-1 home victory over Valencia, after the sixth round of matches in the La Liga Real Madrid now sits in third while the Villarreal climbed to the second place on last weekend, thanks to a 3-0 win away to Betis. Barca is in ninth place. Salah Becomes Third Fastest Liverpool Player to Reach 100 Goals LIVERPOOL (Dispatches) - Egypt superstar Mohamed Salah became the third fastest Liverpool player to reach 100 goals by putting the Reds ahead a second time in a drawn Merseyside thriller against Everton at the weekend. Robert Kubica says he was delighted to end a circuit racing The 28-year-old, who moved to Anfield from Roma three years ago, is podium drought the third quickest goals centurion after Roger Hunt and Jack Parkinson. BRUSSLES (Dispatches) - Rob- packed race that saw six retire- The Egypt forward reached his 100 goals milestone as the champions ert Kubica has qualified 10th on the ments played a part in his rostrum drew. Salah fired Liverpool into a 2-1 lead when he met Yerry Mina’s grid for the second of the two races finish, but felt the result was “pay- Egypt superstar Mohamed Salah became the third fastest Liverpool player to reach 100 poor clearance with a superb strike into the far corner. at the Belgian venue, and took ad- off” for the mechanics who rebuilt vantage of the ensuing chaos ahead his car overnight following techni- of him to jump to sixth place early cal troubles in Saturday’s Race 1. Roglic Set to Retain Vuelta as Chris Froome Bids on. “Yeah, for sure it’s unexpected,” The Polish driver decided to ex- Kubica said after the race. “I think Farewell to Ineos Chapter tend his first stint and was last of today we used our opportunities. PARIS (Reuters) - Primoz Roglic test positive for COVID-19 within the drivers to come into the pits on Of course we were not able to fin- will be looking for more redemp- a one-week period. lap 18, with the strategic gamble ish on the podium [on merit alone], tion after his Tour de France heart- No rider tested positive on the allowing him to leapfrog the Audis but [apart from] what happened in break as he prepares for a COV- Tour de France in September, but ID-19-threatened Vuelta a Espana this month’s Giro d’Italia has seen of Mike Rockenfeller and Jamie front of us [we] also [showed] quite as Chris Froome bids farewell to two teams, and some top riders, Green to move up to fourth. good pace in crucial moments. Ineos-Grenadiers after 11 years leave the race after being infected Equipped with fresher tyres, Ku- “After yesterday we had a DNF with the British outfit. by the virus. bica reeled in the WRT Audi of with some technical issues, I think Slovenian Roglic, who lost the Jumbo-Visma was one of them Ferdinand Habsburg with ease 12 it’s great payoff for hardwork from Tour on the last competitive stage but they are expected to be at full laps from the finish, eventually fin- the guys. to his compatriot Tadej Pogacar, strength for the Vuelta, with Ro- ishing third behind championship “It feels as a podium. It’s been a won the Liege-Bastogne-Liege glic co-leading the team alongside protagonists Rene Rast and Nico long time I haven’t been on the po- ‘Monument’ classic and is in former Giro d’Italia champion Muller. dium. Still third is not a win, but prime position to retain his title Dutchman Tom Dumoulin. It marked Kubica’s first podium realistically we couldn’t expect in Spain when the race begins on “During the Vuelta it will be- finish in his rookie DTM season this. We take it home. Tuesday. come clear who will be our main Backed by a strong Jumbo-Vis- man. Our team is at the start with with customer BMW squad ART, “Quite important moment be- ma team featuring top climbers Primoz Roglic two favourites for the final victo- and his first in a top-level racing cause in the end we joined the Sepp Kuss and George Bennett, finishes after the planned Grand Spain has been hit hard by the ry, one of them is last year’s win- series since his drive to third place DTM this season and we had really Roglic is well armed for one of Depart from the Netherlands was novel coronavirus and organisers ner”,” said sports director Grisha in the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix difficult start of the year. I think the toughest first weeks in a grand scrapped amid the COVID-19 cri- have ruled teams will be ejected Niermann ahead of the first stage with the Renault F1 team. this podium is great feeling, great tour, featuring three mountain-top sis. from the race should two riders in Irun. Kubica admitted that an incident- day.