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Cricket City Pharmacy PNG Lewas’ players Vicky Ara’a and Brenda Tau returned home after playing in the 2018/19 Katherine Raymond Shield in Queensland’s Premier Women’s Club competition for Ipswich/Logan Cricket Club for the past couple of months thanks to the support of the ‘Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) Port Moresby sub-branch. … [Read more...] about Cricket PNG thank RSL for cricket partnership

Three English teams will take on three German teams in the last 16 of the Champions League. Liverpool was paired with Bayern Munich in Monday's draw, while Manchester City will play Schalke and Tottenham will face Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund. Also, three-time defending champion Real Madrid will first play at Ajax, while Barcelona was drawn with Lyon. In other matches, Manchester United will play French leader Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus will take on Atletico Madrid and Porto will play Roma. The first legs will be played from Feb. 12-20, with the second legs scheduled between March 5-13. The final is on June 1 at Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid. … [Read more...] about Champions League draw sets up 3 English-German pairs in last 16

Turkey's Europa League competitors learned their round of 32 opponents Monday following a draw in the Swiss city of Nyon. Reigning Turkish champion Galatasaray will play Portuguese club Benfica, while Fenerbahçe is set to meet with Russia's Zenit. The two Turkish clubs will start the first playoff round away from home as both were seeded by the UEFA during the draw. Meanwhile, five-time champion Sevilla has been drawn to face Lazio in the last 32 of the Europa League. Sevilla, which has won all five of its titles since 2006, is in second place in Spain and Lazio is fifth in Serie A. Arsenal landed another long trip and will play BATE Borisov in the first leg in Belarus after group games in Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Napoli and Inter Milan will only have to cross the Italian border into neighboring countries for games against Zurich and Rapid Vienna, respectively. Chelsea, the 2013 champion, is at Malmo and Celtic will host Valencia in the first leg. The first legs will be played from … [Read more...] about Galatasaray to meet Benfica, Fenerbahçe to play Zenit in Europa League round of 32

By Abdul Kerimkhanov Azerbaijani national karate team returned from Venice (Italy) with three medals in the last league tournament. Young Huseyn Mammadli (-57 kg, personal trainer Abulfat Garayev) and Tale Yagubov (-63 kg, personal trainer Jahangir Babayev) won gold medal among 14-15 years old karatekas and Aminaga Guliyev (-61 kg, personal trainer Elnur Hasanov) won a silver medal among 16-17 years old karatekas. Polina Qurenko, one of the leaders of the youth team of 16-17 years old (-53 kg), was unable to fight because of injuries in competitions. As many as 2,652 karatekas from 67 countries were competing in the final competition of the Youth League, which the World Karate Federation started to organize this year. This tournament for national youth team led by coach Anar Allahverdiyev also featured preparation for the European championship in Denmark in February 2019. The WKF Youth League was the last official international tournament in 2018 with Azerbaijani karatekas. … [Read more...] about National karatekas win 3 medals in Italy [PHOTO]

Two years after their defeat against Olympic champions Russia in Brazil, France's women handballers got their revenge Sunday on the team that had deprived them gold, beating them 24:21 to scoop their first European Womem’s Handball Championships title. "We deserve this medal, because we worked so hard," coach Olivier Krumbholz told reporters after the match. France came into Sunday's final on a high after thrashing the Netherlands 27-21 to end a run of three failures at the semi-final stage, with Alexandra Lacrabère scoring six goals. "What we did was incredible (...) considering that we lost Allison [Pineau] (...) we have written history," said Lacrabère, voted one of the best players of the night. Pineau was sent off at the 36th minute for dangerous play, after throwing the ball at a long distance and striking the Russian goalkeeper in the face. The 2009 player of the year left the pitch in tears, leaving her fellow players with a scoreboard of 16-13. On the Russian … [Read more...] about France’s women handballers defeat Russia to win first European title