July 30

Sports
30/07/2018
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Ferguson speaks
for the first time
after recovery
FORMER MANCHESTER United manager,
Sir Alex Ferguson, has spoken for the first
time since recovering from a brain
haemorrhage.
Ferguson, who is regarded as one of the greatest
managers in football history, was on May 5 due to
speak at a dinner
in Glasgow when
he suffered a
heavy nose
bleeding and was
rushed to hospital.
The dinner was
to celebrate 40
years since his
former club,
Rangers, won the
European Cup
Winners’ Cup. The
76-year-old has
made a full
recovery and says
he will be back at
Old Trafford later
in the season.
In a video
posted on
Manchester
United’s official Twitter page, Ferguson said: “Hello,
just a quick message.
“First of all, to thank the medical staff at
Macclesfield, Salford Royal and Alexandra Hospitals.
Believe me, without those people who gave me such
great care, I would not be sitting here today. So, thank
you from me and my family. Thank you very much.
“It has made me feel
so humble, as all the
messages that I have had
from around the world,
wishing me the best and
the good wishes, do
resonate very strongly
with me. So, thank you
for that support that you
have given me. Lastly, I
will be back later in the
season to watch the team.
In the meantime, all the
best to Jose [Mourinho]
and the players. Thank
you very much.”
Sir Alex Ferguson won
38 trophies during his 26
years of being in charge
at United, including 13
Premier League titles and
two Champions Leagues.
Monaco sign CSKA Moscow midfielder
MONACO HAVE signed
Russia midfielder Aleksandr
Golovin from CSKA
Moscow on a five-year
contract for an undisclosed
fee.
Golovin was linked with
Premier League side Chelsea
but has completed a move to
France two weeks before the
start of the 2018-19 Ligue 1
season.
"This is a new adventure
for me," said the 22-year-old.
Golovin was a key
member of the Russia team
which reached the quarterfinals
of their home World
• Sir Alex
Ferguson
Cup this summer.
He started four games and
scored one goal as Russia
made it through their group
and then knocked out 2010
world champions Spain in the
last 16.
Monaco vice president
and chief executive Vadim
Vasilyev said there had been
lots of interest in Golovin
from "very large" European
clubs.
"Aleksandr has chosen the
sporting project of Monaco,
which will offer him the best
conditions to continue his
progress," he added.
•Aleksandr Golovin
scored in the
opening game of
the 2018 World
Cup as hosts
Russia thrashed
Saudi Arabia 5-0
•Jerome Valcke became secretary-general
at Fifa in 2007
Ex-FIFA Sec
Gen loses
appeal against
10-year ban
FORMER FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke
has lost his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for
Sport (Cas) against his 10-year ban from football.
Valcke, 57, was suspended in 2015 when Fifa
ruled he had breached the body's ethics code on a
series of occasions.
The Frenchman was originally given a 12-year
ban and a 100,000-Swiss franc fine (£76,600),
before the ban was later reduced by two years.
Cas said Fifa's punishment was "wholly
proportionate".
In backing the 10-year ban and fine, Cas added
it had "concluded that the offences found to have
been committed by Valcke were cumulatively of a
serious degree of gravity".
Valcke, the former right-hand man of ex-Fifa
president Sepp Blatter, has always maintained he
did "absolutely nothing wrong".
As well as being implicated in a scheme related
to the resale of World Cup tickets, Fifa's ethics
committee said Valcke had "acted against Fifa's
best interests and caused considerable financial
damage" by taking private flights for sight-seeing
trips with his family at the organisation's expense.
It was also critical of his involvement in the sale
of television rights for below market value and
said he "deliberately tried to obstruct the ongoing
proceedings against him by attempting to delete or
deleting several files and folders relevant to the
investigation".
Blatter was banned by Fifa for eight years, later
reduced to six, over ethics breaches when he was
found to have made a £1.3m "disloyal payment" to
ex-Uefa boss Michel Platini.
His appeal to Cas was rejected in December
2016.