Categories: Football

Top 5 sports news this morning

REAL MADRID

Paco Gento, legend of Real Madrid, dies

very sad day in Real Madrid. He passed away this Tuesday, January 18, Mr. Francisco Gento, known in the world of football as Paco Gento, at 88 years of age after a life linked to football and Real Madrid where, between 1953 and 1970, he garnered numerous great titles and managed to become the only player in history to add six European Cups.

This is how Gento broke defenses: power, speed, feint and a lot of goals


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Gento was a legendary footballer, extremely fast with great technical ability and vision, who broke through defenses with a change of pace never seen at the time


FC BARCELONA

El Mundo: The independence movement asked Barça for financing with ghost contracts

The newspaper El Mundo has surprised in this Tuesday’s edition with exclusive information in which they assure that leaders of the Catalan independence movement pressured Barça to obtain financing through ghost contracts before October 1, 2017, when it was held independence referendum organized by Carles Puigdemont. According to said newspaper, the then president of Barça, Josep Maria Bartomeu, refused to withdraw from the Barça box 2.6 million that they were asked to pay the bail of Artur Mas for the 9-N that was required of him as “patriotism”.

Eleven of gala finally of the Barça in Bilbao

The same desire for revenge or more will have the team of Xavi Hernandez, who yesterday completed his third tactical session after losing in extra time in Riyadh. The man from Egar will face two more training sessions to delve into various aspects with almost the entire squad at his disposal and the goal of achieving once and for all a victory that represents a tangible turning point with the ticket to the quarterfinals of the KO tournament. The current champion will wear his best dress to take revenge on Athletic, who kicked him out in the 2020 quarterfinals in a single match at San Mamés.

COPA DEL REY

Betis sends evidence to the RFEF that implicates Lopetegui

The Real Betis has sent all the videos and audios in its possession to the RFEF Competition Committee to try to clarify the events that occurred on Saturday that led to the suspension of the Copa del Rey round of 16 derby against Sevilla FC, which It resumed the following day at the Benito Villamarín behind closed doors and ended with a 2-1 Verdiblanco victory.

“Today Lopetegui comes from the street. He hasn’t had time to dry his tracksuit,” they commented from COPE during the broadcast of the match between Betis and Sevilla that had been suspended this Saturday for the attack on Joan Jordán. “Well, the woman is too bad, the woman should have her tracksuit washed and ironed,” answered another of the journalists.

TENNIS

Official statement on the Djokovic case of the Australian Open

Tennis Australia (TA), the Australian tennis federation that owns an Australian Open that it also organizes, issued an official statement on the Novak Djokovic case, which it does not mention in the note. Unequivocal sign of the coldness of it, of balls out.


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Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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