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            <title>Karim Benzema signs 3-year deal with Saudi champions Al Ittihad</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;I am excited to experience a new football league,&rsquo; Benzema said after signing with the club for an undisclosed fee.

The announcement on Tuesday comes a day after the Gulf kingdom revealed plans to privatise its biggest football clubs in a bid to increase revenue and attract big-name players.

Without disclosing details of the deal or Benzema&rsquo;s salary, the club said in a statement that Benzema had undergone a medical examination and completed the signing in Madrid on Monday.

&ldquo;I am excited to experience a new football league in a different country,&rdquo; Benzema was quoted as saying in the club statement.

&ldquo;I have been fortunate to achieve amazing things in my career and achieve everything I can in Spain and Europe. It now feels the time is right for a new challenge and project,&rdquo; the Ballon d&rsquo;Or holder said.

The 35-year-old Frenchman completed the move from the Spanish league to the Saudi Pro League two days after playing his last game for Real Madrid.

He joins his former Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo in the Saudi Pro League after the five-time world player of the year moved to Al Nassr from Manchester United following last year&rsquo;s World Cup.

&ldquo;Al Ittihad has an amazing history, incredibly passionate fans and big ambitions in football to be a force in Asia after winning the league,&rdquo; the former France international said referring to his new club&rsquo;s ninth Saudi League title.

&lsquo;Historic milestone&rsquo;
Al Ittihad&rsquo;s President Anmar Bin Abdullah Alhailae, who was present at the signing in Madrid, said &ldquo;all eyes will be on Karim&rdquo; when he puts on the number nine shirt and makes his Saudi League debut next season.

&ldquo;To sign the current Ballon d&rsquo;Or holder from Real Madrid is [a] historic milestone for this special club,&rdquo; Alhailae said.

Benzema joined Madrid in 2009 from Ligue 1 side Lyon.

During his illustrious 14-year career at the club, Benzema won five Champions Leagues, four LaLiga titles and three Copas del Rey.

He made 648 appearances and is second on Real&rsquo;s all-time goalscoring list with 354. Only Ronaldo has more.

Al Ittihad called Benzema&rsquo;s arrival &ldquo;the most impactful transfer in the club&rsquo;s history&rdquo;, as it competes with Riyadh-based clubs Al Hilal and Al Nassr in their bid to sign football&rsquo;s biggest names.

On Monday, the kingdom announced plans to privatise its top football clubs, including Al Ittihad, in a move that will allow companies and development agencies to invest and take over.

The move is aimed at increasing the revenue of the Saudi Pro League to 1.8 billion riyals ($480m) annually by 2030.

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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:43:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Ronaldo 'happy' in Saudi Arabia, wants other top players to join him</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ronaldo signed a 2-1/2 year contract estimated by media to be worth more than 200 million euros ($220.16 million) with Al Nassr, making his debut in January.

He scored 14 goals in 16 games but it was not enough to help his side win the Saudi Pro League (SPL) title, with Al Nassr finishing second behind Al Ittihad.

The 38-year-old, who missed the final matchday due to injury, said the league was very competitive but that there were many opportunities to grow.

&quot;We have very good teams, very good Arab players, but the infrastructure - they need to improve a little bit more. Even the referees, the VAR system, should be a little quicker,&quot; he said in an SPL interview.

&quot;But I&#39;m happy here, I want to continue here, I will continue here.&quot;

Ronaldo said he had adapted to life at the club, though there were many differences from his time at Europe where he played for elite teams such as Manchester United, Juventus and Real Madrid.

&quot;In Europe we train more in the morning and here we train in the afternoon, or night. When you start Ramadan, we train at 10 o&#39;clock in the night. It was so strange,&quot; he added.

Since Ronaldo&#39;s arrival, several other top players have been linked with a move to the Saudi league, with Lionel Messi receiving a formal offer to join Al-Hilal next season.

Ronaldo&#39;s former team mate and Ballon d&#39;Or winner Karim Benzema has reportedly received an offer worth more than 100 million euros from Al Ittihad.

&quot;If they are coming, big players and big names, young players, &#39;old players&#39;, they are very welcome,&quot; said Ronaldo.

&quot;If that happens, the league will improve a little bit. Age is not important.&quot;

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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:20:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Tears of relief and joy as Messi lifts World Cup for Argentina</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[They leaped into the air. Their fists pumped in delight. Finally it was all over, and they had won.

Gonzalo Montiel had just scored the decisive penalty for Argentina to defeat France in the dramatic final of the World Cup in Qatar and become champions once again after their last triumph in Mexico 36 years ago.

In the stands of packed Lusail Stadium on Sunday, those in blue and white screamed and hugged in an explosion of relief and jubilation. What had preceded were 120 minutes of nail biting normal time and extra-time action, which saw France twice come from behind to send the 3-3 deadlock into a penalty shootout.

&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t describe the feelings I have right now,&rdquo; Argentina fan Pablo Ramirez told Al Jazeera with tears in his eyes shortly after captain Lionel Messi lifted the trophy.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best day of my life,&rdquo; said the 34-year-old, who made the journey to Qatar from Argentina&rsquo;s capital, Buenos Aires.

&ldquo;Finally, we are champions again,&rdquo; the businessman said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been too long. &hellip; I thought France would win after that comeback. I was shaking so much.&rdquo;

He wasn&rsquo;t the only one.

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni was also visibly emotional as he dedicated the victory to his parents.

&ldquo;I cannot believe that we have suffered so much in a perfect game,&rdquo; he told reporters after the final. &ldquo;Unbelievable, but this team responds to everything.&rdquo;

&ldquo;I am proud of the work they did. With the blows we received today, this makes you emotional. I want to tell people to enjoy. It&rsquo;s a historic moment for our country.&rdquo;

The match &ndash; arguably the most thrilling World Cup final ever &ndash; had almost everything.

Argentina took the lead in the 23rd minute when Messi scored from the penalty spot to become the first player to find the net in all four knockout rounds at the same World Cup.

They widened their lead in the 36th minute when winger Angel Di Maria finished a superb team move that started on Argentina&rsquo;s half.

La Albiceleste remained in control until about 10 minutes before the end of normal time when French superstar Kylian Mbappe pulled one back from the penalty spot.

And less than two minutes later, Mbappe stunned the Argentina fans with a second goal, which sent the game into extra time.

Messi responded with his second goal of the night in the 108th minute to put Argentina up 3-2, but a handball in the box by Montiel gave Mbappe the chance to convert his second penalty and France to level again.

In the shootout, Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez saved Kingsley Coman&rsquo;s spot kick while Aurelien Tchouameni also missed the target for France before Montiel scored Argentina&rsquo;s fourth penalty to end it all.

Argentina fan Carlos Ruiz said he had never felt so nervous in his life.

&ldquo;My heart was in my throat,&rdquo; he said in describing his emotions after France&rsquo;s equaliser during normal time.

&ldquo;I could barely sit still,&rdquo; said Ruiz, who grew up near Buenos Aires but now resides in Tampa, Florida. &ldquo;It was a nerve-wrecking but an incredible match, and for Messi to win it finally in his last World Cup, &hellip; he is definitely now as big as Diego [Maradona].&rdquo;

The seven-time Ballon d&rsquo;Or winner had won all there is to win as part of a football team &ndash; except the most coveted prize of all.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s insane that it happened this way,&rdquo; Messi, 35, told reporters after the match. &ldquo;I really wanted this. I knew God was going to give it to me. Now I will enjoy it.&rdquo;

&ldquo;Look at this trophy,&rdquo; the Paris Saint-Germain forward said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s beautiful. We suffered a lot, but we did it. I can&rsquo;t wait to be in Argentina to see how crazy this is going to be.&rdquo;

Argentina fan Augusto Fasio felt the same.

&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t wait to fly back home,&rdquo; the Mar de Plata resident told Al Jazeera in Qatar. &ldquo;I want to be with my people when the team comes home. We will be partying for a week.&rdquo;

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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:24:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Manchester United target Martin Dubravka after Kevin Trapp’s snub</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trapp, who started 46 games for Eintracht last season and won his sixth Germany cap, had been targeted to compete with David de Gea. The 32-year-old former Paris Saint-German player explained his decision in a message to his club&rsquo;s fans on Instagram.

&ldquo;In the past few days there have been a lot of reports on the interest from Manchester United,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;It is true that there was an official offer. Manchester United is a world-renowned club and faced with such an offer I had to think about it, which I hope that everyone understands.

&ldquo;But yesterday I told the people in charge of both clubs that I have decided to stay with Eintracht. I have experienced so many unforgettable moments here and we have written history together. The start of the season has been uneven but I have absolute belief [in the team].&rdquo;

United have proposed taking Dubravka on loan with an option to buy for about &pound;5m. He has been on the bench for Newcastle&rsquo;s first three Premier League games, with Nick Pope starting, and Karl Darlow was selected for Wednesday&rsquo;s Carabao Cup tie at Tranmere.

Newcastle, who are waiting for the striker Alexander Isak to undergo his medical to seal a club record initial &pound;59m move from Real Sociedad, will decide soon whether to allow the Slovakia international to go.

Erik ten Hag&rsquo;s priority is to secure Antony from Ajax. United have told the Brazil forward they plan to submit a new offer after an &euro;80m (&pound;67.5m) bid was rejected. Personal terms on a five-year deal have been agreed and the player has asked Ajax to allow him to move to Old Trafford.guardian

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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:36:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>'Halo saved me today' says Zhou; as Sainz claims maiden win at Silverstone</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&#39;Halo saved me today&#39; says Zhou; as Sainz claims maiden win at Silverstone

Carlos Sainz claimed his maiden Formula One win on his 150th start in a thrilling British Grand Prix at the Silverstone race track on Sunday.



The Ferrari driver kept his cool to beat Sergio Perez of Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.

World champion Max Verstappen finished seventh but retained the series lead in a race marred by a multi-car pile up at the opening corner.

&quot;I don&#39;t know what to say, it&#39;s amazing. First race win 150 races later with Ferrari at Silverstone, it&#39;s a very special day,&quot; said Sainz, who won from pole.

&quot;I think a first win is always a bit of a relief, I&#39;m not going to lie,&quot; he said. &quot;The same way the pole position didn&#39;t feel like it yesterday, today the win does feel like a bit of a relief. There you have it, you have a win in F1 and for sure I&#39;m going to keep fighting for more.&quot;

Behind Sainz there was an epic closing laps battle between Perez, Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.

For Hamilton, this was his 11th race without victory, the seven-time champion&#39;s longest losing sequence.

Hamilton, paying tribute to 130,000 fans, said, &quot;I was in amongst that battle but the upgrade we brought here made us closer to them.&quot;

&quot;Those final laps were a great fight with Lewis &ndash; it has been so long since we had a good fight so it was great to have him back and also with Charles, he was very aggressive but fair and I&#39;m sure the fans enjoyed it,&quot; said Perez.



&#39;Halo saved me today,&#39; says Zhou

The race at Silverstone began with carnage at the first corner after Zhou Guanyu&#39;s Alfa Romeo flipped upside down, hurtling over the circuit&#39;s safety barrier.

George Russell&#39;s Mercedes, Alpine&#39;s Esteban Ocon, Alpha Tauri&#39;s Yuki Tsunoda and the Williams of Alex Albon were also involved.

The Chinese racer&#39;s head was saved by his car&#39;s roll hoop-halo as it skidded off across a gravel trap and over tire barriers into the catch fencing, where it bounced back to finish semi-upright in a stationary position.

Both Zhou and Albon escaped serious injury in the smash which caused a one-hour delay.

What is halo?

Zhou is not the only driver to have benefited from the life-saving halo.

Also on Sunday, drivers Roy Nissany and Dennis Hauger collided on opening F2 race and were saved by the halo at Silverstone.

Halo is made of titanium and consists of a curved bar surrounding the driver&#39;s head. It is connected by three points to the vehicle&#39;s frame.

It has been protecting F1 and F2 racers as a mandatory cockpit-fixed safety device since 2018.

&quot;This is not a light piece of work; it is several kilos of titanium that needs to be put in the car,&quot; Mercedes technical chief James Allison said in 2018, formula1.com reports.

&quot;We needed to make sure it would be strong enough to withstand the type of event it was designed to protect the driver against.&quot;

According to Mercedes, the titanium structures are capable of holding the weight of one of London&#39;s iconic double decker buses, which is the equivalent of 12 tonnes balancing on a 7-kilogram metal frame.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 05:02:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran female karateka becomes finalist in Asian competitions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Iranian team attended two categories of kata and kumite.
The event will also bring about quota for 2020 Olympic.
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
Khaksar earlier defeated India and the Philippines.
After hitting Nepal and Indonesia, she advanced to final match.
She is scheduled to stand against Uzbekistan on Saturday.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:11:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran judo fighters grab 2 silvers in Kazakhstan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The event was held with the attendance of 232 fighters.
Iranian squad consisting of 5 athletes participated in the event.
Iran&rsquo;s Mahdi Fathi Pour in the weight category of &ndash; 81kg and Mohammad Malek Mohammadi in &ndash; 90 category were overpowered by Russia and Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile, Ramin Sufieh in &ndash; 100 kg was removed from the competitions.
Alireza Khojasteh in &ndash; 66 kg and Mohammad Mahdi Berimanlou in &ndash; 73kg snatched silver medals.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:04:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran becomes champion in Asian freestyle wrestling</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the first day of the games, taking place at the Xi&rsquo;an Electronic Science and Technology University Gymnasium, Iran&#39;s freestylers bagged three gold and two bronze medals.&nbsp;

And on the second day, Iran has four wrestlers in the final matches and one the third-place playoff match.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:53:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran’s Ganjzadeh into WKF Karate1-Premier League final</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ganjzadeh will meet Turkey&#39;s Alparslan Yamanoglu in the final.
Aliasghar Asiabari had already booked a place at the -75kg final match. He will face Ukraine&rsquo;s Stanislav Horuna in the final.
The Karate1-Premier League- is the most important league event in the world of Karate. It comprises of a number of the most prominent Karate competitions and endeavors to bring together the best Karate athletes in the world in an open championships of unprecedented scale and quality.
Initiated in 2011 with two tournaments held in Paris and Istanbul, the Karate1-Premier League- has made exponential progress in terms of magnitude and status of the tournaments as well as the number of participants and countries represented.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 19:50:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran's female weightlifters in China for fierce contest</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The championship to be hosted by the Chinese eastern coastal city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province from April 17 to 29, which serves as the qualifying event for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Iranian women will be participating in the contest of seven weightlifters.&nbsp;
The first competition of Iranian women athletes was held in Urgench, Uzbekistan in 2018 in the context of Asian Junior Women Weightlifting Championship.

The taboo of Iranian women&#39;s participating in weightlifting competitions was definitely broken at the games, and the athletes proved that they can win medals, like men, in every sport fields in an Islamic cloting.

IRNA sports correspondent said that they have a long way to go for landmark success in Asia, the world and the Olympic Games.&nbsp;
He said that Iran&#39;s Weightlifting Federation shoulders the responsibility to hire experienced coaches with full authority to transform the country&#39;s women weightlifters nurturing their talents with a focus on bodybuilding.

The Iranian junior female weightlifters with 234 scores in Uzbekistan were ranked 9th in Asia. Now, in addition to the importance of their presence in international competitions, the team and individual rankings can be considered a ground to build on for more hits in the global and Olympic Games.

Iran will have two Olympic quota places for women, and given that the number of quota places for male weightlifters in the games has been decreased to two, the federation should take measures for women&#39;s progress in the field.

Therefore, the presence of Iranian athletes to the Asian Championship, as their first Olympic qualifying event, is of great importance and can be regarded as a starting point for the Iranian female weightlifters

Vice President of Iran&#39;s Weightlifting Federation for women affairs Bahar Bahrami has said that the deficiency of budget to build infrastructures required for women weightlifters in provincial towns deprived them of training as they have to work with men&#39;s equipment that might endanger their health.

She said that coaches must help develop talents of the female athletes as per programs of Iran&#39;s Ministry of Sport.
She assured that other provinces have already launched investment in younger talents so that they would be discovered and invited to national training camps.

She pledged that in cooperation with the ministry, the talented athletes from across the country would have access to training facilities in their own hometowns after returning from the camps.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
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