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sports Diahuebs 8 september 2022

Defending Vuelta champion Roglic withdraws after crash

(AP) — Primoz Roglic's quest gap on overall leader Remco Evene-
to win an unprecedented fourth poel, who now has a clear path to win
straight Spanish Vuelta title end- his first ever Grand Tour race.
ed Wednesday when he withdrew
from the race because of a crash The 22-year-old Belgian rider from
the day before. team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl had an
advantage of 1 minute, 26 seconds
Roglic went down hard 75 meters over Roglic. He is more than two
(80 yards) from the finish while go- minutes in front of Spanish rider En-
ing for the victory in Tuesday's 16th ric Mas of Movistar, who now is his
stage, crossing the line with bruises closest challenger entering the 17th
and bleeding from his right shoulder, stage.
arm and leg.
The Spanish Vuelta remains the only
The injuries did not appear serious Grand Tour event won by Roglic,
but the team and the rider decided it whose preparations this year were
was better not to continue as the race hindered by a crash at the Tour de
entered the tough final stages. France. The team didn't know if he
was going to participate until a couple
Roglic had been slowly reducing his of days before the start.

Iran hires coach Carlos Queiroz for 3rd World Cup together

(AP) — Carlos Queiroz worked for several years. He
was rehired as Iran coach Iran is the second World had two spells at Manchester
on Wednesday to take the Cup team to fire the coach United as assistant to Alex
national soccer team to its who achieved qualification Ferguson, and between those
third straight World Cup, for the tournament in Qa- coached Real Madrid in the
where the squad will face tar. Morocco removed Vahid 2003-4 season.
the United States, Eng- Halilhodžić last month.
land and Wales. Quieroz's first prepara-
Two more World Cup coach- tion games with Iran will be
Queiroz was hired to replace es, Ghana's Otto Addo and friendlies against Uruguay
Dragan Skocic, and he will be Tunisia's Jalen Kadri, got on Sept. 23 in Austria and
reunited with Iranian soccer their jobs only this year. Both Senegal four days later.
federation president Mehdi were appointed weeks ahead
Taj, who was re-elected last of winning in the African The federation is also report-
month. playoffs. edly in talks with playing
Russia in a warm-up game in
Queiroz will now go to his Iran has never advanced to November. Although FIFA
fourth World Cup — he the knockout stage of the and UEFA have banned Rus-
coached his native Portugal World Cup. The team's first sian teams from international
in 2010, then Iran in 2014 match this year will be on competitions because of the
and 2018 — after failing to Nov. 21 — the second day war in Ukraine, the national
lead Egypt to this year's tour- of the tournament — against team can seek permission to
nament. England, where Queiroz play friendly games.

Tuchel fired by Chelsea in ruthless call by US ownership

(AP) – Chelsea's new ident Vladimir Putin's "bru- Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in its first the Champions League title Pochettino has experience
American owners are tal and barbaric invasion" of group match of the Champi- less than six months after tak- of overseeing a locker room
proving to be just as ruth- Ukraine. ons League. Chelsea has also ing over as manager in Janu- of egos — he was recently
less as the man they re- lost two of its first six games ary 2021, as the replacement coach of a Paris Saint-Ger-
placed. Boehly was the face of the — to Leeds and Southamp- for Frank Lampard. Tuchel main team containing Kylian
consortium that bought ton — in an underwhelming only had one full season at Mbappé, Lionel Messi and
Thomas Tuchel was fired by Chelsea for 2.5 billion start to the Premier League the helm and that saw Chel- Neymar — and has been out
the Premier League club on pounds ($3.1 billion) in May that has seen the team's new sea eliminated in the quar- of work since parting ways
Wednesday, only one month and, despite having little soc- signings fail to gel. terfinals of the Champions with the French champions
into the season and just days cer experience, quickly made League — to eventual cham- in July.
after Chelsea's recently in- himself chairman as well as Tuchel has been a frustrat- pion Real Madrid — before
stalled ownership — fronted interim sporting director in ed and prickly figure after finishing third in the Premier
by Los Angeles Dodgers part- charge of transfers. matches this season. League, 19 points behind
owner Todd Boehly — con- champion Manchester City.
cluded a Europe-high spend- Not only has he overseen a In a feisty Premier League
ing spree of nearly $300 mil- record splurge on new play- game against Tottenham, British media has already
lion in the transfer window. ers, Boehly has now decided Tuchel was sent off — along linked Graham Potter, cur-
Tuchel — the coach who led with rival manager Antonio rently manager of in-form
Chelsea was renowned for Chelsea to the Champions Conte — and later fined after Premier League club Brigh-
regularly changing managers League title last year — is they went head-to-head in a ton, and Mauricio Pochet-
in the 19-year tenure of Ro- no longer the right person to post-match scuffle because tino, with the vacancy.
man Abramovich, the Rus- lead the team in the new era. Tuchel failed to let go of his
sian oligarch who had to sell grip in the traditional hand- Potter has no real experience
the London club after being The decision to fire Tuchel, shake. of handling a squad of star
sanctioned by the British who was manager for 20 players but is highly regard-
government for what it called months, came a day after After all, the 49-year-old ed for his tactical astuteness
his enabling of Russian Pres- Chelsea surprisingly lost to German guided Chelsea to and entertaining style of play.