Friday 47 Sports Friday, October 12, 2018 Monaco sack coach Jardim after poor Ligue 1 start Aston Villa appoint Smith and Terry as new coaches MONACO: Monaco, languishing 18th in out of the club in lucrative transfers. Ligue 1, said yesterday that they have sacked Monaco lost their last game 1-0 at home to Leonardo Jardim, who led them to a French humble Angers and have not won in Ligue 1 title in 2017. Monaco wished Jardim, who since their opening match and have lost both also led the club to a Champions League their Champions League group games. semi-final in 2017, and his staff “the best for Against Angers, the only key members of the the future.” title-winning team to feature were skipper The club from the principality would not Radamel Falcao and the defensive trio of Je- comment on a replacement, but their former merson, Kamil Glik and Djibril Sidibe. player Thierry Henry has been linked to the Meanwhile, a summer spending spree job. Henry was youth player with the club and headed by the signing of Russian World Cup scored seven goals in the 1997-8 Champions star Aleksandr Golovin has not yet produced League as another talented Monaco team, this positive results for a club owned by Russian one coached by Arsene Wenger, reached the billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. semi-finals, where they lost to Juventus. “I would like to salute Leonardo with the He was then sold to the Turin club and utmost respect for all the work done,” AS went on to a successful spell with Arsenal in Monaco Vice-President Vadim Vasilyev said England and World Cup and Euro-2000 win- in a statement. “His brief time will remain as ners medals with France. Henry is an assistant one of the most beautiful pages in the history File photo shows Monaco's Portuguese coach Leonardo Jardim talks to the players during a training session coach with Belgium, which finished third in of the club. Leonardo will always be part of on the eve of the UEFA Champions League group A football match Borussia Dortmund against AS Monaco in the summer’s World Cup. the family of AS Monaco.” Dortmund, western Germany on October 2, 2018. — AFP He has recently been linked with jobs at Monaco’s next match, after the interna- Aston Villa and Bordeaux, but in both cases tional break, is on October 20 away to Stras- with Chelsea, captained second-tier Aston tles, five FA Cups, as well as the Champions negotiations broke down after initial meet- bourg in Ligue 1. In London, Former England Villa last season. Capped 78 times by Eng- League and Europa League, although he did ings. Jardim was at Monaco since 2014 and captain John Terry took his first steps into land, the central defender recently rejected a not play in the two European finals. was under contract until 2020. coaching on Wednesday when he was named chance to play for Spartak Moscow, saying a Smith joins from Brentford who are just The 44-year-old Portuguese coach had to as right-hand man to new Aston Villa boss move to Russia was not right for his family. one place off the play-off places while Vill are cope with the sale of many of the stars of his Dean Smith. The second-tier English club also His last game as a professional was Villa’s marooned in mid-table. “These three appoint- title-winning squad over the last two seasons. appointed Jesus Garcia Pitarch as sporting 1-0 Championship play-off final defeat by ments represent the start of a new era and di- This summer Thomas Lemar, Joao Moutinho director as the former European champions Fulham in May-a loss that denied Villa a re- rection at Aston Villa and we are delighted to and Fabinho followed earlier departures moved to replace Steve Bruce who was turn to the Premier League. But his club ca- secure their services after an extensive Kylian Mbappe, Benjamin Mendy, Bernardo sacked last week. reer will be best remembered for his time at search,” said Villa chief executive Christian Silva, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Valere Germain Terry, 37, who spent the bulk of his career Chelsea where he won five Premier League ti- Purslow. —AFP Mbappe is Time magazine’s Health and Dementia Risk”, is funded by the Football seeks Football Association and the Professional Foot- ballers’ Association, with the aim of gathering ‘Future of Soccer’ hard evidence on an emotive subject. answers over It was Stewart who in 2014 said that Astle PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian had died aged 59 from chronic traumatic en- Mbappe’s rapid rise to global fame has earned cephalopathy (CTE) stemming from head in- the teenaged World Cup winner an appear- dementia link juries after examining the former player’s brain. ance on the cover of Time magazine’s interna- The condition is normally associated with box- tional edition, to appear today. to heading ers. But he is cautious in his approach and said Time said Mbappe was a global superstar GUINGAMP: France’s forward Kylian Mbappe (L) delving into big data is crucial because the who “is the future of soccer.” Mbappe made and France’s midfielder N’golo Kante eye the ball GLASGOW: Does heading a football give you issue is currently clouded by anecdote and headlines in September 2017 when he moved during a training session in Guingamp, western dementia? That’s the question neuropathologist speculation. He cites the example of three mem- from Ligue 1 side Monaco to Paris Saint-Ger- France yesterday, on the eve of their friendly Willie Stewart is attempting to answer by com- bers of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning main for a staggering 180 million euros ($207 football match France vs Iceland. —AFP paring the health of thousands of former foot- team who developed Alzheimer’s disease-Mar- million), a deal that saw the then 18-year-old ballers with non-players. tin Peters, 74, and Ray Wilson and Nobby Stiles, player handed a reported monthly salary of Blues eliminated the highly-fancied South Football authorities have been accused of both deceased. 1.5m euros ($1.8m). Americans 4-3 in the last 16 knockout round. dragging their feet on the matter since former “The problem is that bad science comes from But the 19-year-old’s stock skyrocketed In doing so, Mbappe became only the sec- England player Jeff Astle died in 2002, with the anecdotes and they are all we have got,” he told AFP at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in during this year’s World Cup, where a series ond teenager, after Pele in 1958, to score two coroner citing industrial disease as the cause of Glasgow. “Anecdotes are quite persuasive as of phenomenal displays drew compliments goals in a World Cup match. When Mbappe death. Ex-England and Newcastle captain Alan quite a lot of the 1966 winning team have de- from Brazil legend Pele on his way to helping scored with a five-yard strike in the final, a 4- Shearer, famed for his prowess in the air, has mentia and other football teams have been France end their 20-year wait to win another 2 win over Croatia, he became only the second helped raise the profile of the issue by speaking brought forward with high rates of dementia but World Cup trophy. teenager to do so, after Pele, in 1958. of his dementia fears after years of heading balls. Mbappe became the youngest French The man tasked with investigating whether there we don’t fully understand.” With a total of four goals in the tournament, Stewart says it is not a simple matter of goalscorer in World Cup history when he Mbappe received Fi Fa’s award for Best Young is a direct link is Stewart, whose research team is comparing the medical histories of 10,000 cause and effect. “One has to know whether for struck in a 1-0 win over Peru in the group Player of the World Cup. Arguably better still former professional footballers with 30,000 instance the other teams in the 1966 World stages. The teenager from the gritty Parisian were the plaudits from Pele himself, who said: members of the general population. Cup, do they have similar levels of dementia?” suburb of Bondy then tore apart Argentina, “If Kylian keeps on equalling my records, I’m The study, “Football’s Influence on Lifelong he said. —AFP scoring twice and earning a penalty as Les going to have to dust off my boots.” —AFP.