Hints and tips:
...Manchester City’s stars Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne are the envy of every football club....
...Despite the off-pitch distractions, manager Pep Guardiola led City to its first triumph in the Uefa Champions League, Europe’s top club competition, a third consecutive Premier League title, and victory...
...Playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, who had left the 2021 final against Chelsea injured, limped off here after 35 minutes....
...“At the moment, Gilinski . . . doesn’t control anything,” said Daniel Guardiola, an analyst at BTG Pactual in Bogotá. “And you don’t invest over $2.5bn not to control anything.”...
...Pep Guardiola’s team looked so imperious after swatting aside Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final this week that some are wondering if the Premier League has its own Bayern Munich problem bubbling...
...Looking to finish the trip with a proper mountain hike, I called Eduard Casajuana of active tourism specialists Mallorcalpina....
...For Argentina, that means Enzo Fernández and Rodrigo De Paul....
...Guardiola added: “The longer it takes, the worse for him....
...While Manchester City have won England’s Premier League title four times in the past five years, European success has eluded Pep Guardiola’s team....
...Slovakia’s Prime Minister Eduard Heger said he would introduce a three-week “lockdown of the unvaccinated” from Monday....
...Prince Mohammed is a close ally of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s de facto ruler and brother of Sheikh Mansour, the Manchester City owner....
...After France v West Germany in 1982, TV commentator Georges de Caunes could still say that for Frenchmen of his generation, the kick with which German keeper Toni Schumacher felled France’s Patrick Battiston...
...Pep Guardiola once benched Thierry Henry for moving out of place in a sequence of passes. The fact that it had netted him a goal was scant mitigation....
...The women’s Tour de France revealed a new eight-stage route next year, seeking to raise the profile of women’s cycling which has long been in the shadow of men’s road racing....
...The beefs between men such as Wenger, José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola generated worldwide daily interest. It wouldn’t work if they were speaking German. From 2003, club owners internationalised too....
...Look, for instance, at the formal similarity between Torre de Benidorm and Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard Street in New York....
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...Indeed, in the informative catalogue, the curators of the Basel exhibition, Yina Jiménez Suriel and Pablo Guardiola, describe the Basel peace accord as an exercise in “historical futility”....
...City’s coach Pep Guardiola, who believes that only dribbles can unlock tight modern defences, considered De Jong the footballer of the future....
...Team Ineos, the road cycling team funded by chemicals billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, announced that its team for the upcoming Tour de France will be led by Colombian rider Egan Bernal....
...body, to ban the club from the Champions League for the next two seasons after “serious breaches” of so-called financial fair play rules has raised questions over whether its much-admired manager, Pep Guardiola...
...There were no books at home in the rue du Général de Gaulle. He grew up in the bistro, among adults, watching the local farmers argue, laugh, lie, get drunk and sometimes brawl....
...After all, footballers use less energy per match than rugby players, not to mention cyclists riding a Tour de France. Clubs and nutritionists can be left looking on in helpless horror....
...In a further sign of the international dimension of the dispute, Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City football club, made a video appeal in English circulated by a Catalan activist group....
...Their team included two great batsmen, Virat Kohli and AB De Villiers. “They were doing things I’d never seen before,” he says....
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