Soccer, England: Thomas Tuchel has reached the round of 16 in the English League Cup with Chelsea. In the third round, his team beat Aston Villa 4-3 on penalties on Wednesday. At the end of regular time it was 1: 1 (0: 0), there was no extra time. The lead for Blues was scored by the German international Timo Werner with a header (54th minute), Cameron Archer equalized ten minutes later for Villa. Even when Thomas Tuchel came on in the 76th minute for star striker Romelu Lukaku, his team failed to score in regular time. However, the Belgian scored in the subsequent penalty shoot-out.
The third in the table Manchester United was eliminated by a 0: 1 (0: 1) home defeat against West Ham United. Without access Cristiano Ronaldo, who was not in the squad, the hosts had more possession, but were not accurate in the opposing penalty area. An early goal by Argentine Manuel Lanzini in the 9th minute was enough for West Ham to advance.
Motorsport: Mick Schumacher is also driving for the US racing team Haas in his second Formula 1 season. As the Americans announced on Thursday, the 22-year-old will receive a contract for the year 2022. Further details of the cooperation have not been announced. Schumacher has been driving in the motorsport premier class since this year and has recommended himself for at least one more season in the defeated car, even without championship points. The 22-year-old Russian Nikita Masepin remains a team mate of the son of record world champion Michael Schumacher.
“The first year together with Haas is very exciting and instructive. I am sure that I will be able to bring all the experience I have gained into the coming year,” said Schumacher in a press release. Schumacher, who belongs to Ferrari’s junior academy, came into Formula 1 as the champion of the most important junior racing series Formula 2. His best result so far is a twelfth place in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
In the coming season, Haas will continue to move forward, also against the backdrop of a new set of rules and changed cars. The team is already working intensively on the development of the new car and has stopped working on the current vehicle.
Soccer, women: At its meeting in Chisinau, Moldova, the UEFA Executive Committee decided to double the financial distributions to the participants in the 2022 European Women’s Championship in England. As the European Association announced on Thursday, a new distribution model was also adopted. Accordingly, the 16 teams qualified for the European Championship finals in 2022 will receive a total of 16 million euros. At the 2017 European Championships in the Netherlands, only half of this sum was paid out.
The new distribution key provides for an increase in the guaranteed amounts and performance-related bonus payments for the group phase, according to the Uefa. In addition, the Executive Committee approved the introduction of a club distribution program for the first time. Accordingly, the European Association is making a total amount of 4.5 million euros available for those clubs that post players for the European Championship finals in 2022. dpa
Olympia: The USA only wants to send people who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing (February 4 to 20, 2022). This emerges from the guidelines published on Wednesday by the Olympic and Paralympic Committee of the United States (USOPC). The regulations state that starting November 1, all employees, athletes, contractors, and others who have access to USOPC facilities must be vaccinated against the coronavirus. By December 1, the mandate will be extended to all members of the US delegations or potential participants in future games.
At the Summer Games in Tokyo, the USOPC did not mandate the Covid-19 vaccination for its members. Around 100 of the 613 athletes on the US team traveled to Japan without vaccination protection last July. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has also not issued a vaccination mandate for active people who take part in its events. The USOPC said it would review exemptions from the compulsory vaccination on a case-by-case basis. Unvaccinated people who receive an exemption must therefore undergo daily corona tests, which are funded by the USOPC.
Basketball: National player Satou Sabally continues to have Achilles tendon problems ahead of the first playoff game of her WNBA career. Her team Dallas Wings changed the 23-year-old Berliner’s status to “questionable” one day before the game against Chicago Sky on Thursday evening (local time). Sabally also did not take part in the interview rounds before the first round game in Chicago on Wednesday. Sabally had been absent for weeks, but then played for almost 20 minutes in the last main round game on the weekend against Indiana Fever.
Handball: THW Kiel also won the second preliminary round match in the Champions League. After a mixed first half, the German record champion prevailed on Wednesday against the Norwegian champion Elverum HB with 41:36 (20:20). The best throwers were Harald Reinkind from Kiel and Elverums Eric Johansson with seven hits each. The Norwegians initially surprised the Kielers with a lot of speed. Elverum was in the lead 3: 0 (3rd) and 7: 3 (8th). Only gradually did the “zebras” come into play.
Pavel Horak equalized at 11:11 (14th), Steffen Weinhold took care of the hosts’ first lead with 12:11 (16th). The Norwegians countered again, and it wasn’t until the 35th minute that the Kiel team were in the lead for the first time with two goals at 24:22. At Elverum, a wear and tear became noticeable in the course of the second half. In addition, Niklas Landin, who guarded the Kiel goal after the break, showed some strong saves.
Football, Forbes: Even after their spectacular club changes, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are financially the measure of all things in world football. After his return to Manchester United, the Portuguese will receive 125 million dollars a year, the equivalent of almost 107 million euros, according to Forbes magazine. Long-term rival Messi, now in the service of Paris Saint-Germain, earns “only” around 94 million euros a year, last year he still topped the list.
In terms of annual salary, Messi (64 million euros) is ahead of Ronaldo (60 million euros), but CR7 collects around 17 million euros more from advertising income. Behind Messi in third and fourth are his PSG strike partners Neymar (81 million) and Kylian Mbappe (37 million). World footballer Robert Lewandowski from the German record champions Bayern Munich follows in sixth place with 30 million euros. Andres Iniesta, who is now 37 years old, also dives in the top 10 of the US business magazine’s list on. The 2010 world champion’s contract with the Japanese first division club Vissel Kobe is endowed with 26 million euros per year.
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