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sport">Football: Mascherano decides career
sport">11:44 pm The Argentinian football player Javier Mascherano has ended his career immediately. He told this during a press conference at his club Estudiantes de La Plata.
sport">The 36-year-old Mascherano played no fewer than 147 international matches. He prevented a possible winning goal from Arjen Robben in the semi-final of the 2014 World Cup against the Dutch national team with a sliding.
sport">Mascherano played football in Europe for West Ham United, Liverpool and FC Barcelona. He twice won Olympic gold with Argentina.
Football: Almere City loses the lead
sport">9:51 PM Cambuur handed Almere City its first defeat of the season with a huge beating (7-2). The visitors have therefore lost the lead in the Kitchen Champion Division to De Graafschap.
sport">In the goal-scoring festival, Cambuur once again underlined that he was the most scoring team in the division. At half time it was already 4-1 for the team from Leeuwarden thanks to hits from Mitchel Paulissen, Erik Schouten, Jamie Jacobs and Michael Breij. Delvechio Blackson did something in return on behalf of Almere City.
sport">After the break, the team of trainer Henk de Jong scored three times in five minutes. Two goals from Robert Mühren and one from Giovanni Korte added to the misery at Almere. Damon Mirani set the final score in injury time at 7-2.
sport">Almere City has 27 points after twelve games. Cambuur has 2 points less, but also played a match less. De Graafschap is the new leader with 28 points.
Motorsport: Dutch success in Formula 4
sport">Thomas ten Brinke won his first race in a so-called single seater at the Circuit de Catalunya. The 15-year-old driver, who is accompanied by Giedo van der Garde and who became world champion in karting in the OK class last year, was the fastest during the final race in the Spanish Formula 4 championship.
sport">His 16-year-old fellow countryman Kas Haverkort finished second. Haverkort had previously secured the title in the championship.
sport">Ten Brinke only started halfway through the season, but still finished third in the title fight.
Football: MRI scan should clarify serious knee injury Busquets
sport">5:35 PM Sergio Busquets may miss Spain’s home game against Germany in the Nations League on Tuesday. The midfielder has a knee injury from Saturday’s game against Switzerland (1-1).
sport">An MRI scan should clarify what is going on with Busquets’s left knee. Barcelona trainer Ronald Koeman will also eagerly await the results of the scan. Barcelona will play against Atlético Madrid on Saturday.
Tennis: Sabalenka beats Mertens and takes title in Linz
sport">5:15 pm Tennis player Arina Sabalenka has won the Linz tournament. The first-seeded Belarusian in Austria won in two sets against the Belgian Elise Mertens: 7-5 6-2.
sport">The tournament in Linz got the dream final with the first seeded Sabalenka and the second seed Mertens. In the first set the breaks went back and forth. Sabalenka broke her Belgian opponent three times, once more than she turned in her serve herself. In the second set, the Belarusian quickly took a break and held on to it. After she conquered the storage of the Belgian for the second time, the game was over.
sport">For the number 11 in the world from Belarus, it is the third WTA title this year. She previously won the Doha tournament in February and the Ostrava tournament in October.
Golf: Van Dam finishes fourth in Saudi Arabia
sport">4.12 pm: Anne van Dam finished fourth at the Ladies International in Saudi Arabia thanks to a strong final round of 68 strokes (-4). During her closing round at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, the 25-year-old from Arnhem had five birdies and a bogey recorded. It was her best lap during the first edition of the event, which had a prize pool of 1 million dollars. Van Dam left over $ 34,000 for her performance in Saudi Arabia.
sport">After a difficult start (74 strokes) she got better and better at her game. Thanks to scores of 69, 70 and 68 Van Dam still managed to end up in the top regions. With a grand total of 281, she was three strokes short of the Danish Emily Pedersen and the English Georgia Hall. Pedersen, the number 1 in the European league table, won on the first hole of the play-off and earned her second overall victory this season in the amount of more than $ 125,000. In August she also won the Ladies Open in the Czech Republic.
Motorsport: Mir new world champion MotoGP
sport">3:06 pm: Spaniard Joan Mir is the new world champion in MotoGP. The 23-year-old Suzuki driver finished seventh in the Valencia Grand Prix and that classification was enough to take an unbridgeable lead over the competition in the championship in the penultimate race of the year.
sport">The Italian Franco Morbidelli, who was still a contender for the title, did what he had to do. The Yamaha driver won the race after a spectacular duel with Australian Jack Miller, but Mir scored enough points with his classification to secure the title. He succeeds Marc Marquez, the six-time world champion who broke his right arm at the start of the season and stopped playing.
Football: Orange women practice against United States on November 27
sport">2.39 pm: The Dutch women’s team will play an exhibition game against the United States on November 27. Orange meets the world champion in the Rat Verlegh Stadium in Breda.
sport">It is the first time that both countries play against each other after the final of the 2019 World Cup in Lyon, in which ‘Team USA’ was 2-0 too strong. The kick-off in Breda is at 6.35 pm.
sport">The American football women are first in the FIFA ranking and are the most successful team in the history of women’s football. They attended all editions of the World Cup and each time took a medal: four golds, one silver and three bronze. The ‘Oranje Leeuwinnen’, currently fourth in the FIFA rankings, have been unbeaten for twelve games in a row since the lost World Cup final with nine international matches and three draws.
sport">“Now that the European Championship qualification has been received, we can fully focus on next year’s Olympic Games,” says national coach Sarina Wiegman. „We cannot wish for a better start to that preparation with such a top opponent; it is really a measurement moment to see where we are. Of course it is also extra special because it is the repeat of last year’s World Cup final. ”
Football: Go Ahead Eagles beats FC Den Bosch
sport">2.36 pm: Go Ahead Eagles has booked the fifth win of the season against FC Den Bosch. Coach Kees van Wonderen’s team was 3-0 too strong for FC Den Bosch in-house in Deventer. Go Ahead rises to seventh place in the Kitchen Champion Division with 19 points.
sport">Antoine Rabillard opened the score for the home team after more than fifteen minutes. Shortly afterwards Go Ahead came to 2-0 through an own goal by Daniel Noels. Just before half time, Bas Kuipers made the 3-0 with a hard low shot from the left. In the second half, both teams were unable to score.
Tennis: Russian takes double title with Zidansek in Linz
sport">2.32 pm: Arantxa Rus has won the doubles title with her doubles partner Tamara Zidansek from Slovenia at the tournament in Linz. The duo defeated first-seeded Czech players Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova in the final in the Austrian city in two sets: 6-3 6-4.
sport">For Rus it is the third time that she has won a doubles title on the WTA Tour. In August she also won the doubles at the Palermo tournament together with Zidansek. In 2017 she won the doubles tournament in the Swedish Bastad with fellow countryman Quirine Lemoine.
sport">In singles, Rus was eliminated in the second round of the Linz tournament this week. The 29-year-old tennis player lost to the Russian Veronika Kudermetova. Despite this, the tennis star can look back on a successful season in which, in addition to the two doubles titles, she reached the semifinals in singles in Monterrey in Mexico and at the WTA tournament in Cincinnati, which was played in New York this year, but narrowly lost to Serena. Williams.
sport">In the world rankings she rose to 72nd place this year, bringing her close to her highest position again. In August 2012, Rus took 61st place.
Motorsport: Bendsneyder eighth in Moto2 Valencia, victory Martin
sport">1.50 pm: Motorcycle racer Bo Bendsneyder has achieved his best result of the season in Moto2 with eighth place in the Grand Prix of Valencia. The 21-year-old Rotterdammer, who has to leave the racing team of Roelof Waninge after this season, started ninth and managed to improve a place. The victory went to the Spaniard Jorge Martín.
sport">Marco Bezzecchi took the lead at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo early in the race, but the Italian gave it up to his compatriot Fabio di Giannantonio in the final lap. However, it fell shortly afterwards. In the last part, Bezzecchi was overtaken by Martín and Héctor Garzó, while Martín was just ahead of his fellow countryman at the finish. Third place remained for Bezzecchi.
sport">Enea Bastianini, the world championship leader, finished sixth. With one race to go, the battle in the world championship is not over yet. Bastianini has reached 194 points. The Italian ended up with Sam Lowes. The British number 2 in the World Cup only finished fourteenth and has 180 points. Luca Marini, who finished fifth in the race, is third with 176 points.
sport">Bendsneyder took World Cup points on the same circuit last week at the Grand Prix of Europe by finishing 14th. In the first race of the season in Qatar, the NTS RW Racing driver finished eleventh. He now has 15 points.
Motorsport: Moto3 driver Arbolino competes with first season victory in the World Cup
sport">12.39 pm: Motorcycle racer Tony Arbolino has won the Grand Prix of Valencia in Moto3. The Italian was the fastest in the race on the circuit in the Spanish city, ahead of the Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Raul Fernandez. For Arbolino it is the first victory this season.
sport">Albert Arenas remains in the lead in the world championship standings. The Spaniard finished fourth and comes to 170 points in the World Cup standings. He ended up with the Japanese Ai Ogura, who crossed the finish line eighth and is now on 162 points. Arbolino only moved up third in the standings due to his victory. The Italian has 159 points.
sport">The last race of the season in Portugal will follow next weekend.
Football: Ukraine is sending infected internationals home
sport">09.39 am: National coach Andrej Shevchenko of the Ukraine national football team has sent home his four players who are infected with the corona virus.
sport">With the rest of his selection, the team will take on Switzerland in Lucerne on Tuesday, the coach said after the defeat (1-3) against Germany in the Nations League on Saturday in Leipzig.
sport">Four players and a staff member tested positive for the corona virus on Friday. One of them was top gunner Andrej Jarmolenko. It was uncertain whether the team could play against Germany, but after all other players tested negative in the next test round, the game could continue. “It was a nerve-racking day,” said Shevchenko. “We no longer keep the infected players with the team. They fly back to Kiev. ”
sport">Germany took the lead in group 4 of the A division in the Nations League with the victory. Ukraine is third.
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