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The winger made his international debut aged 18 after a stunning breakthrough with Borussia Dortmund, but a hugely promising career has hit a wall

Manchester United had tried to sign Jadon Sancho for years. And who could blame them? The winger was a generational talent, and after leaving the English game in search of first-team football, he had taken the Bundesliga by storm, averaging more than a goal contribution in every game for Borussia Dortmund.

After tracking him from 2018 and then opting against a move in 2019 after haggling over his transfer fee, United finally got their man in July 2021, paying £74 million for an England regular and one of the most coveted players in Europe. But fast-forward two years and Sancho has gone from being English football's next great hope into a ghost-like figure.

He was absent from the United squad for several months last season and when he did return, he often gave anonymous performances, looking shorn of the pace, power and invention that had made him such a thrilling prospect. And after only being given cameo roles in United's opening three games of the 2023-24 season, he was completely absent from the squad for the trip to Arsenal.

Fans assumed he must have been injured, but after the match Erik ten Hag gave a surprisingly honest response when asked about Sancho's absence. "On his performance on training we didn't select him," he said. "You have to reach the level every day at Manchester United. You can make choices in the front line, so in this game, he wasn't selected."

Sancho was quick to bite back and defend himself, claiming he had been made "a scapegoat for a long time". Sancho risked getting himself into trouble with his response, but it was actually refreshing to see him fight back. For too long it has felt like his career has stalled, that the fire he used to have has burned out.

GOAL charts the rise and fall of one of England's brightest talent, who went to Germany and conquered but appears lost back in his homeland.

Raised on the mean streets of South London

Sancho was born and raised in Kennington, South London. The capital's south has turned into a footballing hotbed in the last decade, with a 2021 study revealing that 10 per cent of Premier League players all hailed from the same, 10-mile stretch below the River Thames.

Joe Gomez, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Eberechi Eze and Tammy Abraham are just some of the players to have emerged from South London's football scene, which was the centre of , a TV series presented by Rio Ferdinand. And Sancho, whose skills were honed in the unforgiving concrete pitches dotted around the area, known as cages, was the area's biggest star.

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Despite being from south of the river, Sancho's first experience of organised football came north of the capital with Watford, where he moved at the age of seven, remaining until he was 15. Even though he left before he could turn professional, he has very fond memories of his time with the Hornets.

“Watford was a lot of fun,” Sancho told United's website in 2022. “I was happy when I was there and I had a lot of freedom when I was playing. That’s what makes me happy and makes me the best player I can be when I’m just free, doing what I love. At Watford I used to work on a lot of skills and I wanted to show people what I can do."

Getty ImagesMoving to the other side of Manchester

Word of Sancho's talents spread across the country and Manchester City came calling in 2015. Sancho said moving to the Blues "was a good opportunity to get out of the hood. There were a lot of bad influences."

He played in the same Under-18s side as Phil Foden and current Real Madrid forward Brahim Diaz, but was itching for a shot at first-team football. When he was left out of Pep Guardiola's squad for the pre-season tour of the United States in 2017 while Foden travelled, Sancho kicked up a fuss and stopped attending training.

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Getty ImagesHopping on a plane to Dortmund

While Guardiola did not think Sancho was ready for first-team football, the player thought otherwise and immediately sought a move. Borussia Dortmund were willing takers, snapping him up for around £8m ($10m) in the summer of 2017 and putting him straight into the first-team squad.

Sancho's belief in his own ability was vindicated when he made his first-team debut against Eintracht Frankfurt in October. His first goal came in a 4-0 win against local rivals Bayer Leverkusen in April 2018, the winger setting up two more on the day.

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A cena é chocante. O gramado do Pacaembu, um palco clássico do futebol brasileiro, mal pode ser visto em imagens aéreas. O que se vê são tendas enormes, improvisadas para receber 200 pacientes a partir de quarta-feira. Do futebol não há mais notícias, é um mundo que parou à espera da passagem de um vírus que tomou conta do planeta.

Jogadores, técnicos, dirigentes e todos os envolvidos no espetáculo estão em casa, confinados, esperando. Não se sabe como será resolvido o calendário, se os estaduais serão encerrados sem campeões, se o Brasileiro terá novamente uma edição em mata-mata, se o calendário será ajustado ao europeu.

Atletas publicam vídeos do que estão fazendo enquanto o tempo (não) passa. Incrivelmente, o esporte mais popular do mundo parou. É como se não existisse. Nas noites de quarta-feira e tardes de domingo, a TV aberta mostra outras atrações e os canais esportivos da TV paga, reprises ou repetições de jogos famosos, porque atémesmo os debates estão comprometidos – e vai se debater o quê, não é?

A imagem que define o futebol, hoje, é o Pacaembu, este belo senhor prestes a completar 80 anos, transformado em hospital. E para que ele volte o mais rápido possível a se parecer com um estádio de futebol, você tem uma missão: fique em casa.

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O domingo foi de estreia no Ceará. Diante do Freipaulistano, válido pela Copa do Nordeste, o torcedor do Vozão pôde acompanhar a primeira partida de alguns reforços, entre eles, o goleiro Fernando Prass.

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Aos 41 anos, o camisa 1 mostrou que está em forma e, apesar do empate amargo contra os sergipanos, Prass deu segurança e praticou ótimas defesas.

Na etapa inicial, quando o Ceará vencia por 2 a 0, o goleiro fez um milagre com a ponta dos dedos em chute de Ramalho, que ficou inconformado ao ver que o arqueiro salvou o Vozão.

Pouco depois, aos 29 minutos, em cruzamento da direita, João Grilo pegou de primeira e Prass, bem colocado, salvou o Ceará.

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Mashrafe Mortaza, the Bangladesh ODI captain, has said he is willing to go the extra mile to play in the 2017 Champions Trophy. Bangladesh sealed a place in the eight-nation tournament after they moved up to No. 7 in the ODI rankings following the series win over India last week.Mashrafe had hinted after returning from the 2015 World Cup that he would decide on his international future after the 2016 World T20 in India, but the recent successes against Pakistan and India have given him more reason to look further ahead.”Even if it was not too seriously, I did have thoughts about the end of my career,” Mashrafe told . “I thought I wouldn’t play for a very long time but now that we have achieved it [qualification for the Champions Trophy], why not work a little harder? Champions Trophy is second only to the World Cup.”It would be good to play the tournament. It is hard to say anything concrete now but I feel a bit of pull towards playing in the Champions Trophy. I want to work harder, keep myself fit so that I can play till then.”Bangladesh last played in the Champions Trophy in 2006, which was their fourth appearance. They have won only one match in the tournament, but missed qualification in 2009 and 2013 for being ranked too low. Before the first ODI against India, Mashrafe had said qualifying for the Champions Trophy would be a “lifetime achievement” for senior players like Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim.While Shakib, Tamim and Mushfiqur have contributed at different times during this upsurge, Mashrafe has been credited with lifting the morale of a crestfallen team since taking over as ODI and T20 captain in November 2014, when the team was ranked No 9.Mashrafe led Bangladesh through a 5-0 ODI series win over Zimbabwe and a World Cup campaign that saw them beat England on their way to a quarter-final spot. Even then, Mashrafe rued not beating New Zealand after running them close in the group stage, contending that a win would have given them more rating points. In April, Bangladesh moved above Pakistan after beating them 3-0 in the ODI series at home, and they climbed to No. 7 for the first time in their ODI history after they took an unassailable 2-0 lead against India.Mashrafe was bemused by the disappointment in the country over Bangladesh not completing a 3-0 whitewash over India. The home side lost the third ODI by 77 runs.”Everyone was saying before the India series that we should at least win one match,” Mashrafe said. “That if we get two wins from the India and South Africa we can qualify for the Champions Trophy, which would be enough.”We ended up winning the series by winning the first two matches. But after the loss in the third match, there was more talk about how we couldn’t do the Banglawash than winning the series.”For Bangladesh to be among the top teams in the world, he contended, they would have to perform at their current level for an extended period.”Listening to some people, it seems like we have won the world. The reality is, we are ranked at No 7 in the ODI table,” he said. “India are still the No 2 side after losing to us, because they have been winning for a long time. If we can win for a longer period, we can reach that place.”

With most English cricket followers absorbed in another engrossing Test match, albeit briefly diverted by Chris Gayle’s unbeaten 151 in the Natwest T20 Blast, there was little attention on Pietersen’s return. Perhaps that was just as well.

Tim Wigmore at The Oval31-May-2015
ScorecardSteven Davies steadied Surrey after Kevin Pietersen’s failure•PA PhotosWhen Kevin Pietersen began his last innings for Surrey three weeks ago, he did so convinced that an England recall was in his hands if only he would score enough runs. He certainly did that, plundering an unbeaten 355 against Leicestershire, but to no avail. When he had advanced to 326 after the second day, he was informed by Tom Harrison and Andrew Strauss that he should consider himself a former England cricketer.Most assumed that would be that in first-class cricket – and perhaps all English cricket. Few had Pietersen marked down as the sort content to play in front of a sparse crowd at The Oval on a gloomy day when floodlights were needed to make cricket possible. Yet, after missing the final stages of the Indian Premier League with calf and Achilles problems, Pietersen told Surrey that he would be available – just as he had originally intended – for Lancashire’s visit in the Championship. Given Pietersen’s first-class average of 99.50 for Surrey, the club were in no mood to resist, especially as Lancashire arrived as the Division Two leaders.With most English cricket followers absorbed in another engrossing Test match, albeit briefly diverted by Chris Gayle’s unbeaten 151 in the Natwest T20 Blast, there was little attention on Pietersen’s return. Perhaps that was just as well.After getting off the mark with a classic Red Bull run first ball, Pietersen lasted just two more deliveries. Few players would have survived the ball that snared him, a Kyle Jarvis delivery that seamed and bounced late, beseeching an edge from Pietersen’s bat en route to Paul Horton at first slip. Pietersen was left to trudge off at an anaemic pace, perhaps wondering how many times he will do so again. After Surrey’s next Championship game – against poor Leicestershire again – he is scheduled to go to the Caribbean Premier League. Do that, and Pietersen risks being out of sight and out of mind to English cricket.He was not the only player in exile from international cricket at The Oval. The nature of Jarvis’s absence is very different: self-imposed rather than enforced. It is a source of great regret to Zimbabwean cricket that Jarvis, who moves the ball at considerable pace and, as Pietersen would testify, can generate surprising bounce, no longer represents the country of his birth. Zimbabwe could rather have done with Jarvis in Pakistan, and Alistair Campbell, the managing director of Zimbabwe Cricket, has made overtures to Jarvis to return, but to no avail. “No, no I’m here in county cricket,” Jarvis said when asked if there was any chance he could yet play for Zimbabwe again.So eight Tests by the age of 24 are likely to remain the extent of his international career. Two years ago, Jarvis showcased his qualities by taking 5 for 54 in a Test in the Caribbean. It should have proved the prelude to a fulfilling international career. Instead a few months later Jarvis retired after a player dispute over salaries with the Zimbabwean board, and signed as a Kolpak player for Lancashire.Finding fulfillment in county cricket has not been easy. After arriving at Lancashire late in the 2013 season, Jarvis spent 2014 failing to make use of his talent, instead alternating between the treatment table and second XI cricket. “There were big expectations when I arrived. I felt the pressure,” Jarvis said. He credits Glen Chapple’s appointment as bowling coach with adding discipline and consistency to his game. If Jarvis can still bowl too full, here inviting himself to be driven through the covers by Steven Davies, the occasional profligacy is well worth it. This season has brought 36 Championship wickets at 22.05 apiece, with Zafar Ansari following Pietersen in nicking to Horton at slip.While Jarvis has shaped up as Lancashire’s attack leader in 2015, Tom Bailey, who has a solid, dependable action, is a fine foil. After Lancashire had inserted Surrey to bat at an overcast Oval, Bailey helped to justify the decision by delivering four consecutive maidens and then inducing Rory Burns to flash behind.If Jarvis’s dismissal of Pietersen was to the best ball of the day, Jordan Clark’s dismissal of Kumar Sangakkara might just have been the most satisfying. With a man at fine leg, Clark delivered a well-directed bouncer, locating a little extra pace that induced Sangakkara to pick out James Faulkner. So there was plenty to justify Alec Stewart’s assertion that Lancashire were “the best bowling attack” Surrey had encountered so far in 2015, even as Davies and Jason Roy combined stylishly while the sun emerged in the final hour of the day.

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that the ACSU did not bring any corruption charges against Al-Amin Hossain, although the agency gave information about the player’s whereabouts to the Bangladesh team management

Mohammad Isam25-Feb-2015BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that the ACSU did not bring any corruption charges against Al-Amin Hossain, although the agency gave information about the player’s whereabouts to the Bangladesh team management.Speaking upon his return to Dhaka from Australia, Hassan said that Al-Amin had given different versions of the events of February 19, when he returned late to the team hotel. Team manager Khaled Mahmud said that Al-Amin had not taken permission from the management to leave the team hotel after 10pm.”ACSU informed us but that doesn’t mean he is involved in match-fixing,” Hassan told . “There are no allegations against him. Every player is under watch in this World Cup. Al-Amin went out late at night. I was really surprised about him. He is not the type of person to go out on his own at night in a foreign country.”Everyone knows that we are very strict with discipline. We have taken a lot of tough decisions in the recent past so it is hard to imagine what just happened. When senior players don’t get out of their room after 10pm, he ventured out so late at night. We don’t even know where he went, that’s the biggest question. He is telling us different versions. It is not a very serious issue but still.”Hassan revealed that he had been asked not to send Al-Amin home but he stuck to the decision to set an example within the Bangladesh team. The BCB had earlier said, in a statement, that it would investigate the matter to zero in on where the bowler went that night.”I was requested to excuse him this time, but I just asked them one question. What if someone does the same thing again? This will remain the example so no question about it,” Hassan said. “This is why he has been asked to return.”A boy like Al-Amin getting out in Brisbane where he doesn’t know anything. I believe that if he is dropped off away from the hotel, he won’t be able to return. He left in a car and returned soaking wet in the rain. It has made us think.”

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Apresentado nesta quinta-feira, o lateral-direito Klebinho é, agora, oficialmente o novo reforço do Tokyo Verdy, do Japão. O jogador ainda pertence ao Flamengo e ficará emprestado ao clube japonês até dezembro de 2020, quando poderá ser adquirido em definitivo após o período.

Motivado com o novo desafio, Klebinho, de 21 anos e que soma seis jogos pelos profissionais do Fla, acredita que será uma grande chance na carreira.

– Estou muito feliz e não vejo a hora de estrear com a camisa do Tokyo Verdy. Fui muito bem recebido por todos no clube e espero retribuir toda a confiança depositada em mim com boas atuações e muita determinação em campo. Será um desafio novo e isso me motiva bastante. Espero conquistar grandes objetivos aqui, disse o jogador.

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Klebinho conquistou a Copa São Paulo, em 2017, pelo Fla, sendo um dos destaques da campanha rubro-negra. No mesmo ano, o lateral também ajudou a Seleção Brasileira sub-17 a vencer o Sul-Americano da categoria.

-Tive minha história no Flamengo, mas agora é foco total no Tokyo Verdy. É um país novo, com uma cultura rica e um povo muito respeitoso. Acho que a experiência aqui será boa para mim em todos os aspectos. Tenho certeza que vou amadurecer bastante e voltar a fazer o que mais gosto, que é jogar futebol.

Former India wicketkeeper-batsman Vijay Dahiya has been reinstated as the chief coach of the Delhi Ranji Trophy side while former Test batsman Yashpal Sharma will head the selection panel, according to a list released by the Delhi and Districts Cricket As

PTI13-Sep-2014Former India wicketkeeper-batsman Vijay Dahiya has been reinstated as the chief coach of the Delhi Ranji Trophy side while former Test batsman Yashpal Sharma will head the selection panel, according to a list released by the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA).Dahiya had coached Delhi in the 2012-13 season before DDCA decided against renewing his contract as assistant coach Sanjeev Sharma was elevated to top post. However, Delhi failed to clear the group stage last season under Sanjeev.Sanjeev is in line to become one of the domestic match referees.Gursharan Singh will be the chairman of selectors for the Under-23 side, which will be coached by Ajay Verma while another former Delhi skipper, Bantoo Singh, will head the U-19 selection panel and Raju Sharma has been appointed chief coach.Anil Jain and Kamal Talwar will be the chairman of the U-16 and U-14 teams. Shikhar Dhawan’s childhood coach Madan Sharma will be in charge of U-16 side while U-14 team will be under S M Khan’s tutelege.

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O próximo sábado (6) terá um duelo decisivo na Série C do Campeonato Brasileiro. O duelo entre o último (ABC) e o penúltimo colocado do Grupo B, o Treze, pode embolar ainda mais a parte de baixo da tabela.

Com uma vitória, o Mais Querido pode alcançar o mesmo número de pontos enquanto o time paraibano, com um resultado positivo, pode subir duas posições na tabela.

– Precisamos da vitória e vamos entrar pensando somente nisso. Estamos trabalhando bem nessa semana, corrigindo alguns erros que cometemos e buscando melhorar outros aspectos da equipe. Acredito que com muito empenho podemos fazer um grande jogo e se Deus quiser, sair com a vitória – disse o meia e camisa 10 do Alvinegro, Anderson Rosa.

Pelo lado do time paraibano, o discurso é o mesmo. Somente a vitória interessa, segundo o meia Júlio Pacato:

– Sabemos da situação que estamos, e é por isso que vamos em busca desses três pontos. Vamos jogar com cautela, e vamos tentar aproveitar as oportunidades que tivermos. Não podemos desperdiçar as chances. Jogo que vai ser decidido nos detalhes, então vamos buscar errar o menos possível para sair de lá com um bom resultado.

O duelo dos “desesperados” acontece pela 11ª rodada da Série C às 18 h (horário de Brasília) no Frasqueirão, em Natal.

Darren Sammy is confident the big-hitters can give West Indies an advantage in their opening match against India

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We have plenty of T20 experience – Sammy

It is no secret that West Indies sometimes love hitting fours and sixes to the point where they can ignore the need to rotate the strike. It is a habit that has hurt them often in limited overs cricket and Suresh Raina said India would be looking to target that on Sunday.”They are a completely different team, they have players who can hits sixes,” Raina said. “They do not know much of rotating the strike against spinners, with ones and twos. It is important we put early pressure.”Darren Sammy’s response to Raina’s opinion was one of casual indifference: “We don’t care much about what Raina thinks. If he thinks we are only six-hitters, then stop us from hitting sixes.”West Indies, the defending champions, the entertainers and a team with some of the leading lights of the T20 format are here. And while Sammy admitted there is pressure going into the tournament with their title on the line, he also said he was pleased that he had at his disposal a balanced, “very good” team.”We have top T20 players who have played around the world. We have [Chris] Gayle, [Sunil] Narine, [Dwayne] Bravo, all of them have a lot of experience playing T20. With the two openers, we have guys who can give us great impetus in the first six overs. Then we have Marlon [Samuels], Bravo and myself to finish the innings.Darren Sammy was confident his top order, led by Chris Gayle, would give impetus to their innings•Getty Images

“The good thing about our team is that we don’t rely on any one player. We have at least four, five, six potential match-winners in our side. Spin will play an important part in this tournament and the team which can handle spin better will come out victorious but I am quite happy about the team we have here. In the short format, the bulk of the runs will come from the top four or five batsmen and I think we are very strong at the top of the order with Marlon, Simmons, me and Bravo.”If you look at our bowling unit, we have Narine who is, to me, the No 1 bowler in this format, (Samuel) Badree, Bravo, and we have a young guy called Krishmar Santokie who could have a great impact in this tournament. He is the leading T20 bowler in the Caribbean and he has played in the Caribbean T20 league and taken a lot of wickets. Most of his wickets are clean-bowled and lbws. He has a lot of variation, not quick, but you will see. You have to see him to know exactly what I mean when he gets his opportunity. So we are happy with the balance of our side. And yes, we are a very good team especially in this format.”For Sammy, the one major change from 2012 is that his players are more experienced. He admitted, however, that the team will still need the big players to step up and help West Indies make it two in two.”There is always pressure. We are the defending champions,” Sammy said. “This time our players are a lot more experienced, the last time our key players had a brilliant tournament. And the key was even though someone did not perform in a match we stuck together as a team. I think this time it is even more important that we have our key guys perform consistently. As a team, we now have more belief that we could come out there and defend the trophy.”Several West Indies players are important cogs for their IPL franchises, and Raina mentioned that India knew the strengths and weaknesses of their opponents. Sammy, though, did not think that familiarity was necessarily an advantage.”Cricket is a game of shifting confidence. You can know your opponent from the last time you have played but he went back and worked on his game,” Sammy said. “To me it is about going out there and using the conditions right, rather than looking at the other’s game. In this time and age they have footage everywhere. You can see the last match played by any cricketer and come up with a formula you think might work. But we have a general idea of what their side is and what they are capable of.”