Tournaments

Through a statement issued on social media, Nottingham Forest confirmed the departure of Steve Cooper44-year-old coach who arrived at the club at the beginning of 2021/2022, after having been at Swansea City, in Wales.

«Cooper leaves The City Ground after playing a fundamental role in Forest’s return to the Premier League, firmly consolidating himself in the club’s history, after guiding the Reds back to the top division of English football”, the note reads.

Remember that the English team occupies 17th place in the Premier League, as they only have three wins and five draws in 2023/2024. According to the English press, Nuno Espírito Santo is the next name.

Nottingham Forest confirms the departure of head coach Steve Cooper.

Everyone at Nottingham Forest would like to thank Steve for his superb contribution to our football club and wish him well in his future endeavours.

— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) December 19, 2023

Steve Cooper

My name is Steven David Cooper

Birth/Age1979-12-10(44 years)

Nationality

Wales

FunctionTrainer

2023-12-19 20:35:00
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Words are beginning to be scarce to describe what Girona is doing this season. At home to Alavés, Míchel’s team not only won 3-0 but also resumed the lead in La Liga, after overtaking Real Madrid.

The triumph of the Catalan team began to be built after the 23rd minute, when the inevitable Artem Dovbyk made the best of an incomplete defense by the opposing goalkeeper to score a header.

Just before the break, Cristián Portu, with a beautiful shot from outside the area, allowed Girona went into half-time leading 2-0.

In this way, the leader of the Spanish championship faced the second 45 minutes much more calmly. The third goal came in the 59th minute, when Dovbyk didn’t make things easy from the penalty spot and scored twice in the match.

With this triumph, Girona reached the 11th consecutive game without losing.

2023-12-18 22:24:00
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With Pablo Villar’s departure confirmed, Vizela is already beginning to prepare the Spanish coach’s succession. In that regard, Ruben de la Barrera is assumed as a possibility for take over technical command of the Minho team.

The news was advanced by Record and confirmed by zerozero, and the signing of the Spaniard could be made official soon. Currently 38 years old, the coach was introduced as El Salvador’s coach last September.

Despite his “young” age, de la Barrera already has extensive experience in the lower echelons of Spanish football. In addition to these experiences, there are also stints with Ah Ahli, from Qatar, and Viitorul Constanta, from Romania.

At the moment, Vizela occupies 17th place in the Liga Portugal Betclic.

Ruben de la Barrera

2023-12-18 21:46:00
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Portuguese center Neemias Queta took advantage of injuries to the team’s other three posts and showed good form, despite being sent off for fouls, in the Boston Celtics’ 128-day victory over the Orlando Magic from Friday to Saturday. 111.

Expectations increased throughout the day and reached its peak shortly before the start of the game, when it became known that the Celtics were without Al Horford, Porzingis and Kornet (the latter will be out for a week) for the game with the Orlando Magic, leaving Portuguese Neemias Queta as the only free agent available. Joe Mazzulla, however, chose to start the game in small ball and gave the start to winger Lamar Stevens.

This option, however, did not go well and the Boston team had clear difficulties on both sides of the field, both in fighting the boards and in freeing shooters in attack, as there was no more physical player to make blocks. Realizing this, Neemias Queta entered with just seven minutes played in the 1st period and completely changed the game.

From then on, the Portuguese international played nine minutes in a row and the team gained a completely different offensive fluidity, even taking the lead with a pair of triples from Payton Pritchard, and in defense also with clear improvements, such that Neemias He made two great tackles and a steal in his short time on the field. Offensively he had little ball, so much so that he didn’t score in the 1st half, but he freed the team with his blocks and his big mistake was the usual problem with fouls (three in the 1st half), largely due to wanting to be, in excess, in everywhere on defense.

Its impact was such that the Celtics took advantage of it to build a large advantage, always between 15 and 20 points, which allowed for greater rotation from the middle of the 3rd period onwards. Neemias benefited from this and re-entered with five minutes to play in the 3rd period, but quickly made two fouls, reached the 5th and ended up having a 2nd spell on the court that was very brief and more discreet.

With the game resolved, despite the usual problems with fouls, he entered five minutes before the end of the game and even managed to improve his statistical sheet a little, scoring his first points in the match and adding another tackle, before being sent off. with faults. The match ended with more than 18 minutes, 4 points (2/3 FG), 3 rebounds (one offensive and two defensive), 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 tackles, in addition to 9+/-.

2023-12-16 02:48:00
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All that’s left is the great Lisbon derby, between Sporting and Benfica, to complete the second round of the WSE Champions League group stage. The big highlight of this round was FC Porto’s defeat at SC Tomar.

The Nabantines jumped, moreover, to the leadership of group C, with the triumph over the current European champions. Ricardo Ares’ team opened the scoring, but in the first half, SC Tomar turned the result around. One of the most decisive moments of the challenge was when FC Porto managed a 2-2 draw in the second half, but SC Tomar again took the lead in the following seconds.

This was the third time, in just a few months, that the boys by Nuno Lopes managed to beat FC Porto in Tomar: first it was for the Portuguese Cup, this season for the Elite Cup and now for the Champions League. Still, in this group C, Trissino received and beat Lleida by 8-4. The game became unbalanced in the second half of the second 25 minutes, after the two teams were tied until 3-3. In just over five minutes, the Italian champions reached 7-3 and controlled the challenge.

AD Valongo received Amatori Lodi @WSE

In France, Oliveirense had some difficulty during the first half, but ended up naturally beating Saint-Omer by 2-4 and is alone at the top of the group, especially because the French had won in the first round of the competition. In Valongo, Renato Garrido’s team dominated the match, but ended up surprised by Lodi, who managed to save the point, with a two-goal draw.

In Group A, Barcelona and OC Barcelos continue to lead and have further widened the gap to Forte dei Marmi and Liceo da Coruña. In Italy, the Catalan team, with João Rodrigues in good form – another goal, beat the Forte by 1-3 and at Riazor, the Minho team from Barcelos were more effective and calm in their approach to the match, winning 2-4.

Finally, in group B, the group of Sporting and Benfica, whose meeting was postponed, due to the football match at a similar time in Alvalade, they saw Calafell beat Reus 4-1 and reach second place on equal terms.

At the beginning of January, the WSE Champions League will resume its journey and some of the main calculations will already begin to be done.

2023-12-14 23:17:00
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AS Roma, coached by José Mourinho, finished the group stage of the Europa League in second place and, therefore, will have to go through play-off access to the round of 16 of the competition. At the end of the match, the Portuguese coach discussed a possible confrontation with Benfica and showed little interest in a cross with the Eagles.

«Benfica had reached the quarter-finals last season and aimed to remain in the Champions League… They are all teams prepared to stay there: going to the Europa League becomes a responsibility for them», said the Portuguese coach . In addition to the Reds, the Romans can also face SC Braga.

The 60-year-old coach also revealed his dissatisfaction with the fact that his team did not achieve first place: «We are in second because of us. There was only one horrible match, the one played in Prague, which decided first place. We always win at home, just like in the first away game. We paid for our mistakes: the playoff means playing two more games for a team that doesn’t need more games, but fewer. We will have to do it against an important team in the Champions League, but they won’t be happy either.”

AS Roma beat Sheriff, this Thursday, 3-0 and finished group G in second place, with 13 points. The group was won by the Czechs Slavia Prague, who added 15 points and guaranteed direct qualification to the round of 16.

Jose Mourinho

2023-12-14 22:22:00
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