Mexico wins 7th Gold Cup title
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Indian wrestler Anuj Chowdhry, right, walks with a model on the ramp at the launch of Pro Wrestling League, in New Delhi, Monday, July 27. Wrestlers from across the world are likely to participate in this event scheduled to be held Nov. 8-29 in India with a prize money of 3 million USD. (AP Photo)
16th NSF Martyr’s Cup from Sept 14 KOHIMA, JULY 27 (MExN): The Angami Students' Union (ASU) will be organising the 16th Edition of the NSF Martyrs' Memorial Trophy, 2015 from September 14 to October 14 Kohima Local Ground. The forms will be available to the interested teams by the 2nd week of August. A press note informed that the 16th Edition of the NSF Martyrs' Memorial Trophy, 2015 will be the first major tournament of the state for the year 2015.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 27 (AP): Andres Guardado scored again, with no penalty kick needed this time, and his teammates finally managed some goals, too. Mexico ensured the final wouldn't come down to any calls in the last minutes with a 3-1 victory over upstart Jamaica for the CONCACAF Gold Cup title Sunday. Guardado had his fourth goal of the knockout rounds, and Jesus Corona and Oribe Peralta also scored as El Tri won its seventh Gold Cup. It was a convincing performance for coach Miguel Herrera and his team after some shaky play and contentious moments in the previous two games. Jamaica had made a rousing run to the final, stunning the U.S. in the semis to become the first Caribbean nation to reach the Gold Cup's championship match. And the Reggae Boyz looked as though they belonged in the opening minutes, keeping the pressure on Mexico with several promising scoring chances but never putting a shot on goal. But then El Tri started to find the gaps in the defense, and a yellow card for Jamaica helped lead to Mexico's first goal. The Reggae Boyz hadn't trailed since early in the second half of their Gold Cup opener. Mexico, which already held the record for most Gold Cup titles, is 7-1 in finals. El Tri will face the U.S., the 2013 Gold Cup champ,
Mexico players celebrate their 3-1 win over Jamaica in the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship soccer match on July 26, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)
on Oct. 9 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, for CONCACAF'S spot in the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia. "We won a game today, but we don't accomplish our goal yet," Herrera said. The only way Mexico had been able to score in the knockout rounds before Sunday was on penalty kicks, all three by Guardado. And two of those came on late, questionable calls. Against Costa Rica in the quarterfinals, a scoreless game was moments from going to a shootout when Guardado converted his penalty in the final min-
ute of extra time. Mexico had been the better team that day, but that wasn't the case in the semifinals. Down to 10 men, Panama was on the verge of victory when a disputed hand ball set up a penalty for Guardado in second-half stoppage time, and he scored on another for the winner in extra time. Mexico had gone 272 minutes since one of its players scored on anything other than a penalty when Guardado put El Tri ahead for good Sunday. Jonathan dos Santos found Paul Aguilar out wide on a free kick, and Aguilar crossed it to
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NEw DELHI, JULY 27 (REUTERS): South Africa will play four test matches in India for the first time as part of their longest ever tour to the sub-continent later this year, the country's cricket board announced on Monday. The Proteas will also play five One-Day Internationals and three Twenty20 matches between Oct. 2 and Dec. 7 in Oct. 2: 1st T20, Dharamshala what has been de- Oct. 5: 2nd T20, Cuttack scribed as a land- Oct. 8: 3rd T20, Kolkata mark tour by Cricket Oct. 11: 1st ODI, Kanpur South Africa (CSA). Oct. 14: 2nd ODI, Indore "This will be the Oct. 18: 3rd ODI, Rajkot longest tour that we Oct. 22: 4th ODI, Chennai have undertaken to Oct. 25: 5th ODI, Mumbai India and the first time we will play a Nov. 5-9: 1st Test, Mohali four-Test series," CSA Nov. 14-18: 2nd Test, Bangalore CEO Haroon Lorgat Nov. 25-29: 3rd Test, Nagpur said in a statement. Dec. 3-7: 4th Test, Delhi "Both countries are now working to develop this into an icon series. Another first is that we will be playing our first Twenty20 International match against India in India." If fit, leading South African batsman AB de Villiers will play his 100th test in Bangalore, a city he represents in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition. South Africa have drawn their previous two test series in India, the last in 2010, but did claim a 2-0 series win in 2000, their only success in five visits since readmission to international cricket in 1992.
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IOA appoints commission for development in northeast
NEw DELHI, JUL 27 (PTI): The Executive Council of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today appointed a commission for development of sports and Olympic movement in northeastern India. The Executive Council Meeting of IOA was held today at the Olympic Bhavan here. Member of Parliament Bhubaneswar Kalita was nominated as chairman of the North East Commission of the IOA. He will hold the office in the rank of vice president, IOA. Kalita, and executive council member, was earlier associate vice president (1999-2009), vice president (2008-14) of IOA. He was the Chef de Mission of the Indian contingent at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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FIFA welcomes legal win for ban on third-party ownership
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ZURICH, JULY 27 (AP): FIFA has welcomed a legal win in a Belgian court which upholds its ban on thirdparty investors owning players' transfer rights. FIFA says the local court in Brussels rejected legal arguments that the ban which took effect in May broke European Union competition laws. The case to suspend implementing the ban was brought by lawyers for the Doyen Sports Investments fund and Belgian second-division club Seraing United. Third-party ownership (TPO) was most popular with agents, investors and clubs in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. They argue it let clubs sign players who otherwise cost too much. Critics said the investment model sucked money from football, caused players to be transferred for profit-taking rather than sporting reasons and threatened the game's integrity. The FIFA ban followed a campaign by UEFA.
MANCHESTER, JULY 27 (AP): Manchester United has signed Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero to a three-year deal on a free transfer. The 28-year-old Romero previously played for United manager Louis van Gaal at Dutch club AZ Alkmaar. Romero will provide competition for Spanish 'keeper David De Gea — currently pursued by Real Madrid — while Victor Valdes is set to be sold after Van Gaal said he refused to play in the reserves. "Sergio is a very talented goalkeeper," Van Gaal said. "He was a young keeper
during my time at AZ Alkmaar and I am delighted he is joining Manchester United." Romero has played 62 matches for Argentina and played in the 2014 World
Cup final against title-winner Germany. He made his senior club debut at Racing Club in 2007 before moving to AZ and most recently Italy's Sampdoria.
Villa double helps NY City FC beat Orlando City
NEw YORK, JULY 27 (AP): David Villa scored either side of halftime to help New York City overcome a hat trick by Cyle Larin and beat Orlando City 5-3 in Major League Soccer on Sunday. Villa's second goal, his 12th of the season, broke a 2-2 deadlock in the 67th minute, Thomas MacNamara added another in the 71st and city led the rest of the way. Larin's final goal pulled Orlando City to 4-3 in the 85th, but after Kaka hit the post on a free kick that would have equalized it in stoppage time, Mix Diskerud broke out and capped the scoring seconds later. The teams combined for seven second-half goals, the most in a half in the MLS this season. After Villa opened the scoring in the 45th, Larin scored in the 50th from just inside the top of the box, breaking a scoreless drought of 316 minutes for Orlando City. But Javier Calle put away a cross from Thomas MacNamara, just two minutes later, to put New York City back on top. In Washington, Fabian Espindola scored the winner and set up another goal as D.C. United overcame an early two-goal deficit
Guardado, whose left-footed volley made it 1-0 in the 31st minute. It was his sixth goal of the tournament, one behind Clint Dempsey of the U.S. Guardado, voted top player of the tournament, had also been the last Mexico player to score on anything other than a penalty with his goal in the 88th minute against Trinidad and Tobago in the final group stage match. Any chance of a Jamaica comeback quickly evaporated after halftime. Just over a minute in, Corona, who had failed to convert two good chances
in the first half, stole the ball from Michael Hector and pushed forward. The 22-year-old forward slid his left-footed shot from the edge of the area under the legs of Wes Morgan for a 2-0 lead in the 47th minute. Corona was selected top young player of the tournament. Another mistake by Hector in the 61st minute put Mexico up 3-0. He whiffed on an attempted clearance, and the ball went right to Peralta for an easy goal. Shortly after, Guardado came off to a thunderous ovation from the pro-Mexico crowd of 68,930 at Lin-
coln Financial Field, home of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. "We really managed the game in the correct way," Herrera said. D a r re n Ma t t o c k s scored in the 80th minute to pull the Reggae Boyz within 3-1. A magical tournament over in defeat, Jamaica coach Winfried Schaefer proudly held out the medal hanging around his neck. "For me, this is not the silver, this is gold," he said. "Nobody gave us a shot." NOTES: Brad Guzan of the U.S. won Golden Glove as top goalkeeper.
india's cricket series with Pakistan in jeopardy, says BCCi
NEw DELHI, JULY 27 (IANS): Condemning the terrorist attack in Punjab's Dinanagar town, BJP MP and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur on Monday said "cricket and terror cannot go hand in hand", thereby placing a question mark over India's upcoming series against Pakistan in December. India and Pakistan played a bilateral series last time in 2012-13 and there was a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of six series which is applicable until 2022. "I condemn the terrorist attacks, specially in the Gurdaspur region. If you talk
about cricket with Pakistan, we must understand that life of every Indian is very important to us. As I see my responsibility as BCCI secretary, as a Parliamentarian, life of every Indian is very important to me. It's not only about cricket, it's about my country," Thakur, a lawmaker of India's ruling party BJP told a Television channel. "Cricket and terror cannot go hand in hand. Earlier also there was no such decision that the series will take place. Only the PCB has reached out to the BCCI. We were talking on those lines but when you see such attack on India time and again, the Jammu
region, now Punjab, where Indians are losing their lives, as an Indian I don't see a possibility to that," the Hamirpur MP added. Thakur's words comes after six people -- a senior police officer, two home guards personnel and three civilians -- were killed in the attack. Pakistan was to play host to India in December 2015 as part of the new Future Tours Programme (FTP) system of cricket's world governing body, ICC. The series involved three Tests, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
New York City FC's David Villa (7), of Spain, scores against Orlando City SC during the first half of an MLS soccer game at Yankee Stadium, Sunday, July 26 in New York. (AP Photo)
to beat the Philadelphia Union 3-2. C.J. Sapong opened the scoring seconds into the match and Sebastien Le Toux gave Philadelphia a 2-0 lead in the fourth minute, but DC United took control from there. Alvaro Saborio, who was traded to D.C. United from Real Salt Lake on July 16, put away a right-footer from just outside the box to make it 2-1 in the 37th. After Nick DeLeon equalized it in the 66th minute, Espindola headed in a Chris Korb cross in the 79th minute to give D.C. United the win. Vancou-
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