Archive for July, 2024
“I’m a believer in dreams”
England manager Gareth Southgate described himself as an “England fan in the dugout” and a “believer in dreams” ahead of Sunday’s Euro 2024 final against Spain in Berlin.
He also said that, during his eight years in charge, “we’ve changed how English football is perceived around the world” having reached back-to-back Euros finals, a World Cup semi-final and quarter-final. Now they have the chance to win the nation’s first men’s trophy since 1966.
“I want to win so much on Sunday it hurts, don’t get me wrong, but I can handle whatever comes and I know it’s not going to change what the dog thinks when I walk back through the door!”
Southgate missed the decisive penalty as a player in the semi-final shoot-out against Germany at Euro ’96 in England. The 53-year-old has always insisted he would never let that moment “define” him, even if he still carries the scars, he said in a lengthy interview.
But asked about whether this final might do just that, he said: “It will. But in the eyes of others. Where I’m fortunate is that age and experience has made me more comfortable with who I am, what I’m good at, what I need to be better at. I completely understand that, in the end, winning and what that means completely changes how you’re going to be viewed by other people.“
Cockney kit in Kitz
West Ham have been training in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel since Sunday and will kick-off new head coach Julen Lopetegui’s tenure by taking on Ferencváros at the Sportstadion Langau, Kitzbühel, on Monday 15 July at 3pm BST (4pm CEST).
The pre-season game will be streamed live from the Tyrol on the Club’s official Website, App, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook channels, with coverage starting 15 minutes before kick-off.
Monday’s warm-up fixture will see the Irons wear their new 2024/25 Away Kit for the first time. It has been called the Cockney Kit and was launched this week in east London (below).
England through to the final!
Ollie Watkins 90+1 !!!
Euro Halbfinali
Dienstag: Spanien 🇪🇸 – Frankreich 🇫🇷 2-1
Mittwoch: Niederlande 🇳🇱 – England 🏴 1-2
Welche fünf Teams bei der Euro am grausamsten gescheitert sind 👉🏻 Der Standard
England into semi-final 🏴
Victory for Labour
👉🏻 BBC: live reporting
Today‘s the day …
General election polls have opened this morning. In approximately 24 hours the country will learn which MPs have been elected to parliament, which party will govern Britain and who will serve as Prime Minister.
Six weeks on from Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the vote in heavy rain in front of 10, Downing Street, party leaders have completed their final media appearances of the campaign.
Victory for Sir Keir Starmer would see Labour return to power for the first time in 14 years. Triumph for Mr Sunak would mean an unprecedented fifth term of Conservative rule.
Over the course of the campaign, major dividing lines emerged on tax, net zero policy and private education.
There was also a return to frontline politics for Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK. Both Mr Farage and Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, hope to take as many seats as possible.
-> Follow all of today’s election news via The Telegraph here.
Mit dem selben Ergebnis…
… und dem selben Gefühl einer bitteren Niederlage, wie in Gelsenkirchen gegen Schweden beim WM-Quali-Entscheidungsspiel am 27. November 1973, endete das EM-Achtelfinale gegen die Türkei in Leipzig am 2. Juli 2024:
Österreich 1 Gegner 2.
„Selten wurde eine Niederlage des Fußball-Nationalteams als so bitter und schmerzhaft empfunden“, schrieben die Salzburger Nachrichten in einem Bericht 50 Jahre nach dem Spiel in Gelsenkirchen auf Schneeboden. Vier Jahre später qualifizierte sich das österreichische Team aber nach 20-jähriger Abwesenheit wieder für eine WM. Darauf hoffen wir auch diesmal…
Die letzte WM-Teilnahme liegt diesmal schon 26 Jahre zurück (Frankreich 1998). Und mit einer tollen Leistung wie bei dieser EM hat dieses Team alle Chancen, sich diesmal endlich wieder für eine Weltmeisterschaft zu qualifizieren.
Aber derzeit weint und trauert Österreich einmal, wie damals, über eine bittere 1:2-Niederlage in Deutschland! 🇦🇹
EXTRA TIME 
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