تعادل فريق الزمالك مع فريق كايزر تشيفز الجنوب إفريقي، في إطار منافسات دور المجموعات من بطولة الكونفدرالية الإفريقية.
وواجه فريق الزمالك نظيره فريق كايزر تشيفز، في الثالثة من عصر اليوم السبت، في الجولة الثانية من دور المجموعات من بطولة كأس الكونفدرالية الإفريقية.
طالع.. فيديو | سيف الجزيري يسجل هدف الزمالك الأول أمام كايزر تشيفز
وتعادل فريق الزمالك مع فريق كايزر تشيفز بهدف لكل فريق، تقدم للفارس الأبيض لاعبه سيف الجزيري في الدقيقة الثالثة من الشوط الأول بعد عرضية من بيزيرا من ركلة حرة مباشرة لينجح في متابعتها وإحرازها هدف.
وفي الدقيقة 93 وفي الوقت بدل الضائع، نجح فريق كايزر تشيفز في إدراك التعادل بخطأ كارثي من محمد صبحي حارس مرمى الزمالك بعد عرصية من لاعب كايزر تشيفز ليفشل صبحي في اللحاق بها.
وفي الدقيقة 20 من الشوط الأول، كاد أن يسجل فريق كايزر تشيفز هدف التعادل من تسديدة من سيرينو من منتصف الملعب ولكن القائم يتعاطف مع الأبيض.
وفي الدقيقة 70 من الشوط الثاني، أهدر عدي الدباغ إنفرادا بعد تمريرة من أحمد فتوح، لتمر الكرة خارج مرمى فريق كايزر تشيفز.
وبهذا التعادل رفع فريق الزمالك رصيده إلى 4 نقاط، في المركز الثاني في ترتيب المجموعة خلف المتصدر فريق المصري البورسعيدي الذي يمتلك 6 نقاط، بينما رفع فريق كايزر تشيفز إلى نقطة في المركز الثالث في ترتيب المجموعة.
يذكر أن الزمالك يقع في المجموعة الرابعة في كأس الكونفدرالية رفقة أندية المصري البورسعيدي وكايزر تشيفز وزيسكو يونايتد الزامبي. أهداف مباراة الزمالك وكايزر تشيفز الجنوب إفريقي
Hall of Famer and Major League Baseball's career steals leader Rickey Henderson has died at the age of 65, according to multiple reports, and confirmed by the
Henderson, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest leadoff hitters and base stealers in the history of the sport, played for nine different teams in his 25-year career, compiling 3,055 hits, 297 home runs and 1,115 RBI. His 2,295 career runs and 1,406 stolen bases remain Major League records.
Henderson was a 10-time All-Star, and won the league MVP in 1990 with the Oakland Athletics, when he hit .325 with 28 home runs, 61 RBI and 65 stolen bases. He also boasted a 1.016 OPS (on-base plus slugging) that season and a .439 OBP. He won two World Series titles in his Hall of Fame career, one with the Athletics in 1989 and another with the Toronto Blue Jays in '93.
He was inducted into Cooperstown as a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2009.
Left-arm spinner Zanden Jeh produced a tidy spell in his first professional game of cricket
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Matt Renshaw capped an impressive one-day series•Getty Images
Matt Renshaw has well and truly put his hat in the ring for an ODI call-up after producing yet another big knock for Australia A in their series-deciding one-day win over Sri Lanka A.Sri Lanka A recovered from 8 for 2 to reach 213 for 9 in Darwin, with Sahan Arachchige (47 off 65), Nuwanidu Fernando (40 off 69) and Sonal Dinusha (36 off 40) leading the way.Jack Nisbet, Bryce Jackson and Henry Thornton all chimed in with two wickets apiece in an even bowling display for the home side. Left-arm spinner Zanden Jeh, who has not played a professional game of state cricket, snared 1 for 27 off seven overs on his Australia A debut.In reply, Australia A cruised to 215 for 3 with a whopping 105 balls to spare.Jason Sangha top scored for the home side with an unbeaten 79 off 76 deliveries, while Renshaw blasted his way to 62 off 36 balls, his blistering knock including eight fours and two sixes. Opener Campbell Kellaway set up the run chase with 56 off 62 balls.The seven-wicket win secured a 2-1 series victory in the one-day component of the clashes between Australia A and Sri Lanka A, with the teams now to face off in two four-day matches.Renshaw produced scores of 80, 106 and 62 across the three one-dayers, putting him at the front of the queue for an ODI call-up. The 29-year-old has already played 14 Tests for Australia, but is yet to feature at international level in any form of white-ball cricket.The ODI retirements of Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith have opened the door for Renshaw to cement a spot in the one-day side and his performances for Australia A will further boost his case.Sangha, who posted two half-centuries across the three games, also gave his hopes a big lift.
Liverpool won the Premier League last season and then underwent major surgery throughout the summer transfer window.
Perhaps you could frame the Reds as a team in transition. This could be asserted for the 2024/25 campaign, when Liverpool pranced their way through the term and, yes, won the league title in Arne Slot’s first year at the helm.
Maybe it could also be argued that this is a transitional year for Liverpool. After all, many ins and outs occurred down Anfield Road this summer.
Regardless of which side of the fence you stand on, none can argue that Slot’s Liverpool are not title contenders once again, having won all five of their opening Premier League fixtures to establish a five-point lead at the summit. It took them until November to achieve that last year.
It is early days, of course, but the Merseysiders are shaping into quite the force, having signed Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz and many more.
However, they are hardly impregnable, with Liverpool’s defensive issues made worse by the ACL injury sustained by Giovanni Leoni against Southampton on Tuesday evening in the Carabao Cup.
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Leoni must be gutted. Impressive on his Liverpool debut after leaving Parma in the summer, the 18-year-old will now recover across his first campaign in England, unlikely to be match fit until the business end.
Liverpool centre-back Giovanni Leoni
He had looked calm and assured and confident on the ball. Sadly, this is a significant setback for one so young. It’s about now that sporting director Richard Hughes might lament Crystal Palace’s failure to sign a Guehi replacement at the end of the transfer window, thus ending a move that looked all but complete and a summer in the making.
Such is football, but there’s no question the Premier League champions are now one Virgil van Dijk injury away from alarm bells to start ringing, with a four-front charge for silverware currently underway.
Guehi, too, may be frustrated at how things have panned out, with his chances of regular football at Liverpool almost certain had he indeed finalised that last-minute move.
Crystal Palace'sMarcGuehilooks dejected.
Hughes and Slot may also be tacitly frustrated that they sold Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen for £35m, with the hierarchy unable to promise the homegrown talent regularity of minutes for the club.
But then there will also be much confidence in Liverpool’s capacity to pull through. The backline has been refashioned over the past few months.
However, Quansah’s isn’t the only signature that may have left with an air of ruefulness. In fact, far more regret could be attributed to the mood when Trent Alexander-Arnold left for Real Madrid in June.
Alexander-Arnold's value after leaving
Liverpool were hamstrung. Noise coming from the concerning contract situations of Van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Alexander-Arnold dominated the 2024/25 campaign, Slot’s first at the helm.
It’s small wonder that many felt the Reds would fall apart following Jurgen Klopp’s departure, with the ‘big three’ all slated to follow him out the gates.
That wasn’t the case. The skipper and the attacking talisman both renewed their Liverpool vows, but Alexander-Arnold, 26, left for pastures new and is now a member of Xabi Alonso’s Real Madrid team.
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Hailed as a “generational” talent by content creator Asim Mahmood, Trent’s range of passing and his vision and inventions on the ball have
He might not be the answer to Liverpool’s central defensive issues right now, but it’s an underpinning of the upheaval that has beset Slot’s backline in recent months.
Having refused FSG’s offers, the England international was set to sign for Real Madrid on a free transfer before Florentino Perez decided to bring him over for the Club World Cup, paying the English outfit an £8m fee to release him from his contract several weeks early.
This is some distance below the figure Liverpool recouped from Quansah’s sale, and does at least highlight the club’s expertise at the negotiating table, spending heavily this summer but banking a pretty penny too.
Alas, what’s done is done, but Alexander-Arnold is one of the world’s best, even if he is struggling to click from the off with Los Blancos, in and out of the starting line-up before a cruel injury that has ruled him out of action for the foreseeable.
For Liverpool to have got anything from a player imminently out of contract is a testament to Hughes’ prowess behind the desk, but, as Transfermarkt record it, his market value has already shot back up to £66m, which stands taller than the £35m figure the Reds were willing to pay for Guehi.
Moreover, when Alexander-Arnold brings it all together in Spain – and he will – this value will only skyrocket further.
In spite of the signing of Frimpong, the continued development of Conor Bradley and Dominik Szoboszlai’s interesting rebrand into a right-back, when called upon, none of them is Trent.
Dominik Szoboszlai in action for Liverpool
He was truly one-of-a-kind, and the most painful part of all is that all of a red persuasion across Merseyside and beyond felt that he was on the pathway to immortality at Liverpool, sure to replace Van Dijk as club captain and then take his seat, one day, on a plinth beside Steven Gerrard.
“He’s been a superstar,” Alan Shearer said, acknowledging the Three Lions man at the end of his Premier League career.
Alexander-Arnold must always be treasured for his contribution toward a sustained period of success, but he sadly joins a different category now, and it’s one the fans will look back at regretfully for many years.
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Ella McCaughan swings one away over the leg side•PA Images/Getty
Hampshire Hawks won the battle of the two in-form sides in women’s county cricket this summer as three wickets for impressive spinner Bex Tyson set up a commanding Vitality Blast win over Lancashire Thunder at Emirates Old Trafford.Left-armer Tyson returned an excellent season’s best three for 27 from four overs as Thunder scrambled to 122 for eight, including 37 not out off 20 balls for Ailsa Lister. The Hawks then sealed their second successive win at the start of the Blast, this one by eight wickets with one over remaining, as opener Ella McCaughan top-scored with eight fours in an unbeaten career best 68 off 57 balls.Hampshire currently lead the Metro Bank One-Day Cup standings from second-placed Lancashire, both sides having won six from eight in that competition. Thunder also won the Vitality County T20 Cup late last month. Thunder have now won one, lost two in the Blast.McCaughan scored a century in a 50-over win against Lancashire at Southport in April.As one left-arm spinner in Tyson impressed, Lancashire were missing England’s Sophie Ecclestone because of a quad injury.Having been inserted, Thunder were suffocated by some tight Hampshire bowling and excellent fielding, with five of eight wickets falling to spin.They reached only 20 for one after the six-over powerplay.Departing Australian overseas batter Katie Mack – she will be replaced by compatriot leg-spinning all-rounder Alana King from this weekend – was bowled for a five-ball duck as she tried to ramp the seam of Freya Davies.Seren Smale attempted to break free with a couple of boundaries, including one reverse swept off Tyson. But, later in the over, she played on for 20 trying to repeat the dose – 36 for two in the ninth.Opener Tilly Kesteven was run out for 28 and captain Ellie Threlkeld chipped the off-spin of her opposite number Georgia Adams to cover as the hosts stuttered to the 15-over mark at 77 for four.Off-spin struck again as Australian Charli Knott had Fi Morris, for 20, caught at short third attempting a reverse hoick, and Lancashire were in danger of not even reaching 100.They did that, but their total was always unlikely to trouble a Hampshire side who totalled 215 for three in their competition opener against Essex on Friday.Tyson had Tara Norris caught at long-on and bowled Darcey Carter in the 18th over – 99 for seven – before Lister hoisted a couple of late sixes over midwicket. Grace Johnson was then the second home player run out.Maia Bouchier set the tone for a routine chase by clipping the first ball behind square for four, though McCaughan was quickly into her stride as she twice drove the left-arm seam of Norris through the covers in the third over.Grace Potts had Bouchier caught off a top-edge for 12, leaving Hampshire 30 for one in the fourth over. But it already felt like a consolatory strike.Hampshire reached the 10-over mark at 69 for one, with McCaughan on 42.Knott holed out for 21 to Carter’s off-spin shortly before McCaughan, who also hit 68 against Essex last week, reached 50 again. This came off 40 balls.
Sai Sudharsan and Gill continue to be the one-two at the top of the Orange Cap table
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Will Brevis and Noor be central to CSK’s plans next season?
Purple Cap tableNoor Ahmad finished his season with 24 wickets from 14 matches after taking 3 for 21 in CSK’s last league game to go clear at the top of the table. Noor has one more wicket at this stage than Prasidh Krishna of GT, who picked up 2 for 22 and now has 23 wickets from 14 innings. For Prasidh, though, there are more games left in the competition with GT having progressed to the playoffs, unlike is the case with CSK.Prasidh’s team-mate, R Sai Kishore, moved to No. 5 after his 1 for 23 from two overs took his tally to 17 wickets from 14 games. Varun Chakravarthy of KKR also has the same number of wickets from 13 innings after he went wicketless in Delhi on Sunday – he had figures of 0 for 54 from his three overs as SRH blasted their way to 278 for 3. Varun slid down to No. 6 as a result.Mumbai Indians’ (MI) Trent Boult, who has 19 wickets and is at No. 3, and Josh Hazlewood of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) is at No. 4 with 18.Orange Cap tableDespite a 83-run loss in Ahmedabad, GT openers B Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill continued to be the one-two at the top of the Orange Cap table. Chasing CSK’s mammoth 230 for 5, GT were skittled for 147. Sai Sudharsan was still their top-scorer, having made 41 off 28, and took his overall tally to 679 runs from 14 matches, while Gill, who fell for a nine-ball 13, remained second with 649 runs.MI’s Suryakumar Yadav, Mitchell Marsh of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Yashasvi Jaiswal of Rajasthan Royals (RR) round off the top five while Virat Kohli of RCB, currently No. 6 with 548 runs, gas a great shot to move up the table.Here’s what ESPNcricinfo’s MVP table looks like.And here are some other IPL 2025 tables that show the season’s best performers in different aspects of the T20 game. Highest batting strike rates Best bowling economy rates Most sixes Best bowling figures in a match
Arsenal summer signing Viktor Gyokeres has impressed since arriving from Sporting Lisbon in a deal which could rise to £64 million, but only in certain Premier League games.
Mikel Arteta’s long wait for a prolific striker was brought to an end by sporting director Andrea Berta in the Italian’s first window at the Emirates, and supporters eagerly awaited the Swede’s debut whilst expecting big things.
Gyokeres bagged an unbelievable 97 goals in 102 appearances for Sporting before his switch to north London – spearheading the Primeira Liga champions to a domestic double last season – and Arteta is hoping his new number nine can replicate those heroics on British shores.
Despite Arteta’s fondness for Benjamin Sesko, who Arsenal tried to sign in the summer of 2024 and in January, Berta reportedly swayed Arsenal chiefs into moving for Gyokeres instead (The Athletic).
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Thus far, the signs have been fairly promising, but some criticism has surrounded Gyokeres’ lacklustre link-up play compared to the likes of Liverpool star Alexander Isak, who was also once a “dream” target for Arteta.
Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville also believes that Gyokeres won’t be a big-game player for Arsenal, with the 27-year-old failing to make an impact against both Man United and Liverpool this season.
His goals so far have come in a 5-0 win over Leeds United, and most recently, the Gunners’ 3-0 dispatching of Ange Postecoglou’s Nottingham Forest last Saturday.
Troy Deeney tips Arsenal to replace Viktor Gyokeres with Kai Havertz
Once £280,000-per-week star Kai Havertz is back from injury, talkSPORT pundit Troy Deeney is convinced that Arteta will bench Gyokeres for the big games in favour of their versatile German.
Football is often reactionary at the best of times, and we believe that Gyokeres simply needs more time to settle in Europe’s most competitive division.
Viktor Gyokeres to deliver on big stage for Arsenal in time
The striker’s lack of impact against Man United and Liverpool is a concern, but that could simply be put down to Gyokeres finding his feet at brand-new club amid plenty of pressure to deliver.
At Sporting CP last season, the Swede produced 54 goals and 13 assists across competitions, thriving under the pressure of title races and European nights. His record shows he doesn’t just score against weaker opposition, either.
Gyokeres regularly delivered goals or assists in decisive matches, including against Porto and Benfica, where his work rate, strength, and ability to lead the line stood out.
His six goals in eight Champions League games for Sporting last season, including a stunning hat-trick against Man City, also work wonders to highlight that Gyokeres can indeed deliver on the biggest occasions.
The duo’s unbeaten 90-run stand helped Vidarbha overcome a top-order collapse in the second innings
Shashank Kishore19-Feb-2025An unbroken 91-run stand for the fifth wicket between Yash Rathod and Akshay Wadkar helped Vidarbha overcome a top-order collapse in the second innings, as they ended Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Mumbai on 147 for 4, which effectively is a lead of 260.Rathod was unbeaten on 59, his second fifty-plus score in the match, while Wadkar’s 31 not out was a typically gritty effort in which he batted out 102 deliveries. The left-right combination was the perfect balm for a nervy Vidarbha dressing room as spinners Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian began making the ball talk on a Nagpur deck that had begun to show signs of variable bounce.Mumbai’s day could’ve been far worse if not for wicketkeeper-batter Akash Anand, who brought up his second first-class century, to help whittle down their deficit. Anand, 29 who opened the innings nearly batted through, and had been on the field right from the start of the game until he was the ninth batter dismissed. Anand had earlier made his maiden ton last month in the final group fixture against Meghalaya. Unlike that knock, this one was a stonewalling effort that took him 247 deliveries to construct.Resuming on their overnight 188 for 7, Anand put together a 69-run stand for the eighth wicket with Kotian, who made 33. Kotian should’ve been out on 6 when he was dropped early in the day by Wadkar off Yash Thakur. After his dismissal, to Parth Rekhade who did a bulk of the damage on the second evening with his left-arm spin, Mumbai managed to add just 23 more as they were bowled out for 270, thereby conceding a 113-run lead.Vidarbha’s second innings was off to the worst possible start as Shardul Thakur struck second ball to remove Atharva Taide at the stroke of tea. Danish Malewar, and not Rekhade, who walked out to bat at No. 3 built the lead with a brisk 29 before chipping one back to Mulani as he looked to flick against the turn.The game came alive when Karun Nair and Dhruv Shorey fell in the space of three overs as Vidarbha slipped to 56 for 4, with their lead just 169. Both Nair and Shorey were out lbw, to Mulani and Kotian respectively, as they were defeated by sharp turn from the rough.Mumbai were denied from there on for the large parts of the final session as Wadkar and Rathod blunted a tiring attack to take the fight into the fourth day, with the hosts well in control of proceedings. Shivam Dube, who picked up a five-for in the first innings, was only called in to bowl after the 40th over, by which time Wadkar and Rathod had seemingly stemmed the damage.This leaves the defending champions, the 42-time winners, needing to make big inroads early on Thursday to have any chance of staying alive.
Newcastle United are set to make a bid “imminently” for one of their top striker targets, as they look to reinforce the front line before the end of the transfer window next Monday.
Howe: Newcastle "running out of attacking options"
Newcastle’s meeting with Liverpool was always expected to be full of drama, but not a single onwatching fan could have predicted the spectacle that took place at St James’ Park. The Magpies, down to 10 men and 2-0 down, valiantly fought back to level at 2-2 courtesy of William Osula from the bench. The young striker, who is full of potential, sent a timely reminder of his quality.
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Ultimately, however, it was a night that saw another young player shine as Rio Ngumoha emerged from the bench to become Liverpool’s youngest-ever Premier League goalscorer in the 99th minute. He was left in dreamland. St James’ Park was left in silence.
Eddie Howe couldn’t hide his disappointment in the result either. Barring the end of the first-half and the start of the second, the Magpies were the side on top. Just like against Aston Villa, however, they lacked a clinical goalscorer to take advantage and Howe admitted that his side are “running out of attacking options”.
Newcastle now have less than a week to solve that attacking problem in a summer that has already seen several targets come and go. That said, one reporter does now expect those at St James’ Park to finally welcome one of their top targets before the deadline.
Newcastle set to make "imminent" new bid for Strand Larsen
Despite reports that their first offer worth £50m was turned down, Jan Åage Fjørtoft now expects Newcastle to sign Jorgen Strand Larsen this week with another bid “imminent”, which “should be enough” to complete a deal.
At this stage of the transfer window, Newcastle have very little time to negotiate small details and simply must go all out to finally welcome a striker.
Strand Larsen’s far from a bad choice, either. Whilst Yoane Wissa has been the name mentioned for most of the summer, the fact that he’s back in Brentford training is not an encouraging sign for Newcastle, who look to be turning to a younger forward with more potential.
Described as “fantastic” by Wolves boss Vitor Pereira last season, Strand Larsen ended the campaign with 14 Premier League goals and could now be on his way to Tyneside as a result.
A criação da liga de clubes do futebol brasileiro é um dos temas frequentes na Sports Summit, eventoque reúne a indústria do esporte em São Paulo nesta semana. Em palestras distintas nesta quarta-feira, executivos da LaLiga e da Liga Portuguesa falaram sobre o tema e defenderam a importância da união entre os clubes.
Octavi Anoro, diretor internacional da LaLiga, foi o primeiro a falar. O dirigente reiterou não poder fazer uma recomendação sobre o processo que está acontecendo no Brasil, mas argumentou que a venda centralizadados direitos televisivos centralizadas permite um crescimento sustentável para o produto, beneficiando todos os clubes.
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– Consideremos que é necessário centralizar os direitos audiovisuais, pensar de forma coletiva.Isso irá multiplicar a arrecadação. É preciso construir um produto digital, adaptado aos novos tempos, com o potencial esportivo que há no Brasil, que lidera o esporte sul-americano nos últimos tempos.A parte esportiva reforçada com a parte de negócios potente e bem estruturada irá criar um coquetel explosivo que potencializará a liga brasileira como uma das melhores do mundo – disse o Anoro.
O executivo também contou como foi o processo de formação e consolidação da liga espanhola, em que há a presença de dois clubes dominantes: Barcelona e Real Madrid. Segundo Anoro, para que o negócio da LaLiga pudesse crescer, foi necessário mostrar aos dois gigantes que o fortalecimento da competição não os prejudicaria, mas sim faria o mercado como um todo crescer em ritmo mais acelerado.
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– Na Espanha, temos sorte de contar com dois dos clubes mais potentes do mundo, Barcelona e Real Madrid, que estão em um nível de negócios distinto em relação aos outros times da Espanha. Entendemos que temos 42 clubes, não só Barcelona e Real Madrid. Acreditamos em trabalhar de forma unificada, para criar um produto muito sólido. Não queremos fazer com que Barcelona e Real Madrid ganhem menos. Queremos que eles continuem crescendo. Mas queremos que outros clubes também cresçam – comentou Anoro.
A visão é compartilhada por Pedro Proença, presidente da Liga Portuguesa. Para ele, a venda centralizada dos direitos de transmissão resulta em uma menor disparidade entre as receitas dos clubes. Ele falou, inclusive, sobre a situação específica do futebol português,no qual o Governo precisou intervir e obrigou unificação dos clubes, prevista para acontecer a partir de 2028.
Por conta da experiência com a liga portuguesa, Proença defende que seja adotado um modelo semelhante no Brasil. Para ele, é inviável exportar a futura liga brasileira se times como Flamengo e Corinthians venderem seus direitos de maneira individualizada.
-A grande razão (para a importância da centralização) é não termos um produto homogêneo. Não temos um modelo, em que o primeiro e o 18º colocado cumprem exatamente as mesmas regras. Não temos um modelo de controle econômico dos clubes que obrigue que as verbas que recebemos sejam investidas nomeadamente em infraestrutura, gramado, iluminação, na qualidade do produto.A recomendação que eu dou para o futebol brasileiro é: quanto mais cedo fizerem, mais cedo haverá o produto – analisou Proença.
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Como estão as negociações no Brasil?
O Brasil vive um processo de formação da liga de clubes desde meados de 2021. A atuação da liga está prevista para começar em 2025, quando o atual contrato de direitos de transmissão da Série A do Brasileirão terá terminado.
Por enquanto, os clubes estão divididos em dois blocos: a Liga do Futebol Brasileiro (Libra), que tem a adesão de 18 times, e a Liga Forte Futebol (LFF), que conta com a participação de 26 equipes.
Ainda não houve entendimento para unificar os dois grupos. Os principais pontos de discordância atualmente são cláusulas de proteção para Flamengo e Corinthians e questões de governança, como a regra de unanimidade presente no estatuto da Libra.
Clubes da Libra (18): Bahia, Botafogo, Corinthians, Cruzeiro, Flamengo, Grêmio, Guarani, Ituano, Mirassol, Novorizontino, Palmeiras, Ponte Preta, Red Bull Bragantino, Sampaio Corrêa, Santos, São Paulo, Vasco e Vitória.