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Football legend backs Liverpool to win Champions League

ENGLAND: Liverpool are the favourites to win the Champions League title when they face off Tottenham Hotspur in the finals in Madrid on June 1, former England striker and television pundit Gary Lineker said. Lineker, who spent three seasons at

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Qatar brings first new World Cup stadium to life

DOHA: Qatar inaugurated the first of seven new World Cup 2022 stadiums yesterday, weeks before a crucial FIFA summit that will decide whether to expand the tournament and push it beyond the Gulf state’s borders to accommodate a larger format.

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Football: U.S. women beat Kiwis in World Cup warm-up

FRANCE: Carli Lloyd scored a brace of goals as the United States women trounced New Zealand by 5-0 in a friendly match in St Louis on Thursday, to extend their winning run to five games ahead of their World Cup

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Real Madrid signs Luka Jovic for 60 million Euros

MADRID:  Real Madrid have signed Serbian striker Luka Jovic from Eintracht Frankfurt for 60 million euros (£52.39 million). Jovic, 21, scored 10 goals for the German side in their run to the Europa League semi-finals, where they were knocked out

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TFC coach speechless over loss to PJ City

KUALA TERENGGANU: Terengganu FC coach, Irfan Bakti Abu Salim finds it hard to stomach TFC’s 3-5 loss to PJ City FC in the second round of Super League on home ground last night. This was because his squad was leading

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Twenty athletic athletes qualify to SEA Games

KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty national athletics athletes in 13 events have surpassed the qualifications to the 2019 Philippines’ SEA Games from Nov 30 to Dec 11. Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF) president Datuk Karim Ibrahim said that, in the effort to defend

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‘Dad ate food kept for cows so I could train better’

The Asian Athletics Championship gold medalist Gomathi Marimuthu spoke about her journey so far, her father and the road ahead. Speaking to reporters, Gomathi says she was confident about winning a gold medal despite not getting help from the Indian

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South Korean stint for national sepak takraw squad

KUALA LUMPUR: The national sepak takraw squad will be flying to South Korea for its early preparatory training for the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines in November. National sepak takraw chief coach, Abdul Talib Ahmad said the east Asian

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Liverpool ‘giants’ stun Barca to make Champions League final

Liverpool produced one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history to beat Barcelona 4-0 and progress to the final for the second consecutive year on Tuesday as stand-in striker Divock Origi and substitute Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice. Liverpool went

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Malaysia’s new breaststroke queen aims for Olympics

KUALA LUMPUR: Alicia Li Ann Soosai was a hit with the crowd after she defeated Hong Kong’s Natalie Kan Cheuk Tung for the gold in the 50m breaststroke at the recent 2019 Malaysia Open Swimming Championships. The 15-year-old recorded a

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