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THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Published by: Arab Times Publishing House Editor-in-Chief AHMED AL JARALLAH Editorial Office: Airport Road, Shuwaikh P.O. Box 2270, 13023 Safat, Kuwait Telephones: 24813566 & 24849144 Fax: 24818267 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising: Tel: 24816326/7 Fax: 24833628 E-mail: [email protected] Annual Subscriptions: Individuals KD 45/- Companies and Official Departments KD 75/- Airmail charges extra for overseas Tel: 24919620 Fax: 24839487 ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 44 PRIME TIME thursday— (all times are kuwait local) 07:30 australia vs brazil/futsal ................. bein sports 8 hd 08:15 milan vs udinese/soccer .................. bein sports 4 hd 09:00 orioles vs red sox/baseball ............ bein sports 13 hd 10:00 barcelona vs celtic/soccer ................ bein sports 2 hd 11:45 genoa vs fiorentina/soccer ............... bein sports 4 hd 12:15 rennes vs caen/soccer ...................... bein sports 6 hd 14:30 swansea vs chelsea/soccer ............... bein sports 2 hd 18:30 al ain vs lokomotiv/soocer ............. bein sports 10 hd Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Graziano Pelle of Shandong Luneng (right), kicks the ball next to Osmar Barba Ibanez (back) and Lee Seokhyun (left), of FC Seoul during their AFC Champions League football match in Jinan, in China’s Shandong province on Sept 14. (AFP) FC Dallas captain Mauro Diaz holds the trophy as he, coach Oscar Pareja (second from left in front), and the rest of the team celebrate a 4-2 win against the New England Revolution in the US Open Cup soccer final on Sept 13, in Frisco, Texas. (AP) Dallas edge Revolution for US Open Cup title Slovenian vows to review deal over CL places for major clubs Ceferin elected as new UEFA president ATHENS, Sept 14, (AFP): UEFA overwhelmingly elected sur- prise candidate Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia as its new presi- dent Wednesday and he vowed to review a deal over Champions League places for major clubs. The 48-year-old lawyer, who has only headed the Slovenian federation since 2011 and was little known in international sport until he emerged as a UEFA candidate in June, beat Dutch foot- ball chief Michael van Praag by 42 votes to 13 at a special con- gress of the 55-member European body. “The wind of change is blowing through European football. It is the end of one era and the start of a new one,” said Ceferin who will replace Michel Platini after the Frenchman was suspended from the game over a suspect $2 million payment. Ceferin had the overt backing of Germany, France, Italy and Russia while smaller nations flocked to his cause as he spoke of the need to stop the wealth gap widening between rich and poor football nations. Ceferin said his top priority would be to head off a dispute over a new deal announced by the UEFA executive last month guaranteeing England, Spain, Germany and Italy four places each in the Champions League group stages from 2018. Smaller nations, who will lose out, are angry at the accord. “UEFA is a very good and very strong organization. It was without leadership for sometime and I think that in a way was a problem dealing with those things,” Ceferin said. “We should show that we are the ones who are the governing body,” he added. “At the same time we have to speak, we have to have dialogue with the clubs and I think the situation can be solved.” He said football faces many problems ranging from match- fixing and doping to racism. But he told the Congress: “I am not here to emphasise the negativities that surround us. I don’t want to live in an empire of fear where every day we wake and see another negativity surfacing.” Ceferin said UEFA’s members wanted a return to calm after the storm that surrounded Platini but that the body has to be a leader in good governance and transparency. “We should stop with politics, plots, intrigues, lack of trans- parency, self interest, it is football first. It is what I promise to all of you today.” On top of the absence of Platini since October, UEFA has also faced disquiet over changes to the Champions League and speculation that major clubs could break away to form their own tournament. Van Praag had called for a new look at the extra places offered to the major football nations. Ceferin did not say that he outright opposed the measure however. “Whether I want it or not, I will have to deal with it and that will be the first thing to deal with,” the new president said. According to English Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn whether the plan goes ahead will be “the first big decision’ facing Ceferin. At the start of the Congress, Platini was given respectful applause for a farewell speech in which he said he felt no guilt about the payment which destroyed his career as a sports leader. Seoul power as Magath’s Shandong sent crashing El Jaish set up Al Ain showdown JINAN, China, Sept 14, (AFP): FC Seoul sent Felix Magath’s Shandong Luneng crashing out of the AFC Champions League and ended Chinese interest in the competition as they powered into the semi-finals on Wednesday. Substitute Yun Ju-Tae provided the coup de grace on 83 minutes, sealing a 1-1 draw in the second leg after Walter Montillo’s opener on 59 minutes had raised hopes among Shandong’s home fans. After Seoul won the first leg 3-1, they ran out 4-2 aggregate winners and completed another Korean victory over Chinese opposition after Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors thrashed Shanghai SIPG 5-0 on Tuesday. The result also denies China a third Champions League title in four sea- sons, after Guangzhou Evergrande won in 2013 and 2015, despite Chinese clubs’ large-scale spending spree on players and coaches this year. Ex-Bayern Munich and Fulham man- ager Magath was brought in mid-cam- paign to replace former Brazil boss Mano Menezes, but he couldn’t prevent an all-Korean semi-final with FC Seoul now set to face Jeonbuk later this month. The visitors were content to sit back and let Shandong make the running in a first period which saw little goal- mouth action until a frantic few min- utes just before half-time. Shandong’s Montillo flashed a free- kick wide on 44 minutes and in first- half injury time, Seoul’s ex-Arsenal forward Park Chu-Young shot tamely when one-on-one with goalkeeper Wang Dalei. Five minutes after the break, Shandong’s star signing Graziano Pelle came close to breaking the dead- lock but the ex-Southampton striker put his glancing header wide. It was Shandong stand-out Montillo who deservedly grabbed the opener when he nodded home Hao Junmin’s cross on 59 minutes to put Shandong one goal away from the semis. Hao whipped a turn-and-shot just over the crossbar, but Yun then broke Chinese hearts when he finished from close range after Dejan Damjanovic’s perfectly placed cushion-volley. FC Seoul completed the win without even turning to tournament top-scorer Adriano, who is one away from a record-equalling 13 goals but remained on the bench. Meanwhile, in Dubai El Jaish beat Al Nasr 1-0 to advance to the semifinal on 4-0 aggregate. Al Nasr won the first leg 3-0 but the results was reversed when the Asian Confederation ruled that Al Nasr fielded an ineligible play- er. El Jaish semifinal opponents will be Al Ain who earlier edged Lokomotiv 1-0. The semifinal legs are scheduled for Sept 27-28 and Oct 18-19. The two-leg final is set for Nov 19 and Nov 26. Lokomotiv’s hopes of making the Asian Champions League semi-finals for the first time were dashed after Brazilian winger Caio’ 38th minute strike clinched Al Ain a 1-0 win in Tashkent. The Uzbek side were in pole posi- tion to book a last four berth following their goalless draw in the UAE three weeks ago in their quarter-final first leg encounter. But they encountered fierce opposi- tion in Al Ain who dominated the match and came away deserving win- ners to stay on course for a second possible continental title after winning the inaugural tournament in 2003. Lokomotiv’s loss also saw Uzbek- istan’s run in the Asian Champions League scuttled in the knockout stages yet again, with no team from the Central Asian nation ever progressing to the final so far. Pakhtakor bowed out after semi- final losses in both 2003 and 2004, while Bunyodkor exited during the same stage in 2008. For several Lokomotiv players it was a case of déjà vu because they were members of either Pakhtakor or Bunyodkor when they missed out dur- ing the previous decade, including twice AFC Player of the Year Server Djeparov, captain Timur Kapadze and goalkeeper Ignatiy Nesterov. Zlatko Dalic’s Al Ain, who were smarting after a 5-1 thrashing by bitter domestic rivals Al Ahli in the UAE League Cup last week, were deter- mined to make amends, and they did so with some degree of comfort. Goalkeeper Khalid Eisa was forced into action several times, but it was Al Ain who came up with the more threat- ening moves. UAE star Omar Abdulrahman was in the thick of the action with his immense ball skills, while Danilo Asprilla and Douglas went wide in the first half. The deadlock was broken with seven minutes remaining in the first half when former Kashima Antlers star Caio ran down the centre before slipping the ball to the onrushing Douglas. Douglas’ shot was blocked by goal- keeper Kaki Makharadze, but Caio was alert for the rebound and scored with a high shot for the only goal of the match. Al Ain went on to create more chances in the second half but were denied a better winning margin because of poor finishing. Al Ain coach Dalic was full of praise for his team. “We played fantastic in this game. Lokomotiv played very well tonight but we were much stronger than our opponents,” he said. “Our tactical style gave us this win and sometimes we were lucky. We tried to keep the result after we scored, and we were able to do it. I have never lost in Uzbekistan and I am happy to continue the tradition.” Maximiliano Urruti scored twice and Mauro Diaz had a goal and three assists to help FC Dallas beat the New England Revolution 4-2 on Tuesday night for the US Open Cup title. Dallas won its first Open Cup cham- pionship since 1997 — which was under its previous name of the Burn — to earn a spot in the 2017 CONCACAF Champions League. Urruti tied it at 1 in the 15th minute. He settled Diaz’s cross with his left foot and one-touched it home with his right. Matt Hedges made it 2-1 in the 40th. A corner kick was deflected out- side the 18-yard box and Diaz’s chip found the head of Hedges. Diaz put Dallas in front 3-1 when he rolled a penalty kick under Chris Seitz’s arm in first-half stoppage time. Urruti finished a breakaway in the 61st for a 4-1 lead. New England’s Juan Agudelo opened the scoring in the sixth min- ute. After a Dallas turnover deep in its own end, Gershon Koffie played a through ball and Agudelo spun his defender to send a shot into the back of the net. Agudelo tapped home a deflected cross in the 73rd. (AP) SOCCER Ceferin SOCCER
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THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Published by: Arab Times Publishing House
Editor-in-ChiefAHMED AL JARALLAH
Editorial Office:Airport Road, ShuwaikhP.O. Box 2270, 13023 Safat, Kuwait
Telephones: 24813566 & 24849144Fax: 24818267E-mail: [email protected]
Advertising: Tel: 24816326/7Fax: 24833628E-mail: [email protected]
Annual Subscriptions:Individuals KD 45/- Companies and Official Departments KD 75/- Airmail charges extra for overseas
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E thursday— (all times are kuwait local)07:30 australia vs brazil/futsal ................. bein sports 8 hd08:15 milan vs udinese/soccer .................. bein sports 4 hd09:00 orioles vs red sox/baseball ............ bein sports 13 hd10:00 barcelona vs celtic/soccer ................ bein sports 2 hd11:45 genoa vs fi orentina/soccer ............... bein sports 4 hd12:15 rennes vs caen/soccer ...................... bein sports 6 hd14:30 swansea vs chelsea/soccer ............... bein sports 2 hd18:30 al ain vs lokomotiv/soocer ............. bein sports 10 hd Sports
Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com
Graziano Pelle of Shandong Luneng (right), kicks the ball next to Osmar Barba Ibanez (back) and Lee Seokhyun (left), of FC Seoul during their AFC Champions League football match in Jinan, in
China’s Shandong province on Sept 14. (AFP)
FC Dallas captain Mauro Diaz holds the trophy as he, coach Oscar Pareja (second from left in front), and the rest of the team celebrate a 4-2 win against the New England Revolution in the US Open Cup soccer final on Sept 13, in Frisco, Texas. (AP)
Dallas edge Revolution for US Open Cup title
Slovenian vows to review deal over CL places for major clubs
Ceferin elected as new UEFA presidentATHENS, Sept 14, (AFP): UEFA overwhelmingly elected sur-prise candidate Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia as its new presi-dent Wednesday and he vowed to review a deal over Champions League places for major clubs.
The 48-year-old lawyer, who has only headed the Slovenian federation since 2011 and was little known in international sport until he emerged as a UEFA candidate in June, beat Dutch foot-ball chief Michael van Praag by 42 votes to 13 at a special con-gress of the 55-member European body.
“The wind of change is blowing through European football. It is the end of one era and the start of a new one,” said Ceferin who will replace Michel Platini after the Frenchman was suspended from the game over a suspect $2 million payment.
Ceferin had the overt backing of Germany, France, Italy and Russia while smaller nations flocked to his cause as he spoke of the need to stop the wealth gap widening between rich and poor football nations.
Ceferin said his top priority would be to head off a dispute over a new deal announced by the UEFA executive last month guaranteeing England, Spain, Germany and Italy four places each in the Champions League group stages from 2018. Smaller nations, who will lose out, are angry at the accord.
“UEFA is a very good and very strong organization. It was without leadership for sometime and I think that in a way was a problem dealing with those things,” Ceferin said.
“We should show that we are the ones who are the governing body,” he added. “At the same time we have to speak, we have to have dialogue with the clubs and I think the situation can be
solved.”He said football faces many problems ranging from match-
fixing and doping to racism. But he told the Congress: “I am not here to emphasise the negativities that surround us. I don’t want to live in an empire of fear where every day we wake and see another negativity surfacing.”
Ceferin said UEFA’s members wanted a return to calm after the storm that surrounded Platini but that the body has to be a leader in good governance and transparency.
“We should stop with politics, plots, intrigues, lack of trans-parency, self interest, it is football first. It is what I promise to all of you today.”
On top of the absence of Platini since October, UEFA has also faced disquiet over changes to the Champions League and speculation that major clubs could break away to form their own tournament.
Van Praag had called for a new look at the extra places offered to the major football nations. Ceferin did not say that he outright opposed the measure however.
“Whether I want it or not, I will have to deal with it and that will be the first thing to deal with,” the new president said.
According to English Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn whether the plan goes ahead will be “the first big decision’ facing Ceferin.
At the start of the Congress, Platini was given respectful applause for a farewell speech in which he said he felt no guilt about the payment which destroyed his career as a sports leader.
Seoul power as Magath’sShandong sent crashing
El Jaish set up Al Ain showdown
JINAN, China, Sept 14, (AFP): FC Seoul sent Felix Magath’s Shandong Luneng crashing out of the AFC Champions League and ended Chinese interest in the competition as they powered into the semi-finals on Wednesday.
Substitute Yun Ju-Tae provided the coup de grace on 83 minutes, sealing a 1-1 draw in the second leg after Walter Montillo’s opener on 59 minutes had raised hopes among Shandong’s home fans.
After Seoul won the first leg 3-1, they ran out 4-2 aggregate winners and completed another Korean victory over Chinese opposition after Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors thrashed Shanghai SIPG 5-0 on Tuesday.
The result also denies China a third Champions League title in four sea-sons, after Guangzhou Evergrande won in 2013 and 2015, despite Chinese clubs’ large-scale spending spree on players and coaches this year.
Ex-Bayern Munich and Fulham man-ager Magath was brought in mid-cam-paign to replace former Brazil boss Mano Menezes, but he couldn’t prevent
an all-Korean semi-final with FC Seoul now set to face Jeonbuk later this month.
The visitors were content to sit back and let Shandong make the running in a first period which saw little goal-mouth action until a frantic few min-utes just before half-time.
Shandong’s Montillo flashed a free-kick wide on 44 minutes and in first-half injury time, Seoul’s ex-Arsenal forward Park Chu-Young shot tamely when one-on-one with goalkeeper Wang Dalei.
Five minutes after the break, Shandong’s star signing Graziano Pelle came close to breaking the dead-lock but the ex-Southampton striker put his glancing header wide.
It was Shandong stand-out Montillo who deservedly grabbed the opener when he nodded home Hao Junmin’s cross on 59 minutes to put Shandong one goal away from the semis.
Hao whipped a turn-and-shot just over the crossbar, but Yun then broke Chinese hearts when he finished from close range after Dejan Damjanovic’s perfectly placed cushion-volley.
FC Seoul completed the win without even turning to tournament top-scorer Adriano, who is one away from a record-equalling 13 goals but remained on the bench.
Meanwhile, in Dubai El Jaish beat Al Nasr 1-0 to advance to the semifinal on 4-0 aggregate. Al Nasr won the first leg 3-0 but the results was reversed when the Asian Confederation ruled that Al Nasr fielded an ineligible play-er. El Jaish semifinal opponents will be Al Ain who earlier edged Lokomotiv 1-0.
The semifinal legs are scheduled for Sept 27-28 and Oct 18-19. The two-leg final is set for Nov 19 and Nov 26.
Lokomotiv’s hopes of making the Asian Champions League semi-finals for the first time were dashed after Brazilian winger Caio’ 38th minute strike clinched Al Ain a 1-0 win in Tashkent.
The Uzbek side were in pole posi-tion to book a last four berth following their goalless draw in the UAE three weeks ago in their quarter-final first leg encounter.
But they encountered fierce opposi-tion in Al Ain who dominated the match and came away deserving win-ners to stay on course for a second possible continental title after winning the inaugural tournament in 2003.
Lokomotiv’s loss also saw Uzbek-
istan’s run in the Asian Champions League scuttled in the knockout stages yet again, with no team from the Central Asian nation ever progressing to the final so far.
Pakhtakor bowed out after semi-final losses in both 2003 and 2004, while Bunyodkor exited during the same stage in 2008.
For several Lokomotiv players it was a case of déjà vu because they were members of either Pakhtakor or Bunyodkor when they missed out dur-ing the previous decade, including twice AFC Player of the Year Server Djeparov, captain Timur Kapadze and goalkeeper Ignatiy Nesterov.
Zlatko Dalic’s Al Ain, who were smarting after a 5-1 thrashing by bitter domestic rivals Al Ahli in the UAE League Cup last week, were deter-
mined to make amends, and they did so with some degree of comfort.
Goalkeeper Khalid Eisa was forced into action several times, but it was Al Ain who came up with the more threat-ening moves.
UAE star Omar Abdulrahman was in the thick of the action with his immense ball skills, while Danilo Asprilla and Douglas went wide in the first half.
The deadlock was broken with seven minutes remaining in the first half when former Kashima Antlers star Caio ran down the centre before slipping the ball to the onrushing Douglas.
Douglas’ shot was blocked by goal-keeper Kaki Makharadze, but Caio was alert for the rebound and scored with a high shot for the only goal of the match.
Al Ain went on to create more chances in the second half but were denied a better winning margin because of poor finishing.
Al Ain coach Dalic was full of praise for his team.
“We played fantastic in this game. Lokomotiv played very well tonight but we were much stronger than our opponents,” he said.
“Our tactical style gave us this win and sometimes we were lucky. We tried to keep the result after we scored, and we were able to do it. I have never lost in Uzbekistan and I am happy to continue the tradition.”
Maximiliano Urruti scored twice and Mauro Diaz had a goal and three assists to help FC Dallas beat the New England Revolution 4-2 on Tuesday night for the US Open Cup title.
Dallas won its first Open Cup cham-pionship since 1997 — which was under its previous name of the Burn — to earn a spot in the 2017 CONCACAF Champions League.
Urruti tied it at 1 in the 15th minute. He settled Diaz’s cross with his left foot and one-touched it home with his right. Matt Hedges made it 2-1 in the 40th. A corner kick was deflected out-side the 18-yard box and Diaz’s chip found the head of Hedges.
Diaz put Dallas in front 3-1 when he rolled a penalty kick under Chris Seitz’s arm in first-half stoppage time.
Urruti finished a breakaway in the 61st for a 4-1 lead.
New England’s Juan Agudelo opened the scoring in the sixth min-ute. After a Dallas turnover deep in its own end, Gershon Koffie played a through ball and Agudelo spun his defender to send a shot into the back of the net. Agudelo tapped home a deflected cross in the 73rd. (AP)
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