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Nationality – Turkish D.O.B – 23rd November 1976 Occupation – Insurance Agent Biggest Game – Champions League Semi Final 2012 Barcelona – Chelsea at Camp Nou. Notable Incidents – In 2007, during a game between Vestel Manisaspor-Sakaryaspor, Çak?r was attacked by goalkeeper Bülent Ataman and had his shirt torn during the attack. Ataman received a 12 match ban from the Turkish Football Association. Profile – Çak?r made his Uefa debut in July 2003, aged just 26 and began his International career three years later....

We look at five key points from the match: Why isn’t Jamie Vardy starting? England manager Roy Hodgson faced a lot of criticism having not played Leicester forward Jamie Vardy in the game against Russia. It was widely believed that he would be starting against Wales. But that did not happen as Hodgson went ahead with Harry Kane and even Raheem Sterling and the latter missed an easy chance early on failing to convert a great cross from Adam Lallana....

In a recent video, he collaborated with Eurosport to talk about a very popular topic at the Euros, Hooliganism. More than one set of fans have been involved in violent clashes and misconduct at the tournament. It started out with Russian fans clashing with the police in France. That set off a chain of fan violence on the streets and in the stadiums. The most violent of these incidents was the clash between the English and the Russian supporters that led to several injuries and many more arrests...

England top the standings with four points from two games, one ahead of Slovakia and Wales with Russia at the bottom on one. “We can be friends before and after the game but on the pitch there is no friendship and I am sure Daniel would tell you the same thing,” Skrtel told a news conference on Sunday. “So if I have to kick him to help my team, I will,” the 31-year old added with a smile....

For FPL, once you pick your captain you can’t change him during the game week but if he doesn’t play then your vice-captain (if he plays) will get the captain’s bonus. However, in Euro fantasy league, you can take advantage of the option to switch captains manually during the matchday to maximize your points. According to the official rules: You can change your captain (if he was not sent off) with a player from your squad whose team is yet to play....

Despite putting up a spirited performance, two moments of individual brilliance from Patrik Schick meant Scotland returned empty-handed from the game. However, luck cannot elude a good team for long, and Scotland’s resilience finally paid off in their second game against England. Steve Clarke’s side were simply phenomenal as they held the Three Lions to a goalless draw. Also Read: Fabrizio Romano’s Transfer Roundup: Barcelona acting decisively in the transfer market; Manchester United working on Sancho, and more....

This leaves Group E at Euro 2020 finely poised, with Spain in 3rd and Sweden leading the table with 4 points in two games. Euro 2020 Group E - Group stage match Spain vs. Poland: First half Poland must have been aware that they were likely to need to take something from the game having lost their opening match 2-1 to Slovakia to keep their hopes alive at Euro 2020....

The first chance of the game fell to Ukraine’s Ruslan Malinovsky, whose shot from the edge of the box was well saved at the near post by Stole Dimitrievski. Minutes later, Ukraine came close again when Roman Yaremchuk raced through before looking to square the ball to Malinovsky. However, superb defending from Stefan Ristovski denied Ukraine. Atalanta’s Malinovsky continued to cause problems for North Macedonia and a delightful pass to Andriy Yarmolenko yielded another good save from Dimitrievski....

Sure, all players make mistakes, but there have been a string of them that happened to involve goalkeepers at this summer’s European Championship. Coincidence that they all happened in the same tournament? Or is there a bigger trend at play with the quality of goalkeeping worldwide? MORE: What’s next for Cristiano Ronaldo after Euros exit? We ranked the seven worst goalkeeper errors we’ve witnessed during the current Euros (all video embeds are cued up):...

When the news broke at the start of the weekend, it rippled around the Western media, but in the subsequent days, coverage has died down and gone away. Yet another sob story from Africa; more lives lost, more incompetence, more corruption, and a continent that will never learn. Angola president Jose Eduardo dos Santos ordered an enquiry in the immediate aftermath of the incident, in order to “establish the cause” of the stampede, but as yet, there’s no clarification on the real reason why so many lives were lost....

The new competition planned for the Games in Minsk, Belarus, called Dynamic New Athletics (DNA), will see Europe’s top 30 countries compete across 10 events in two hours, culminating in a staggered pursuit relay called the “Hunt”. Each team comprising nine women, eight men and six reserves will compete in a knockout format over five days before the quarter-final, semi-final and final rounds. Teams will awarded points ranging from 12 for first place to two for sixth place, and starting positions for the “Hunt”, which determines the overall winner, will depend on how many points a team has accumulated....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eurosport, Discovery Communications Inc’s European sports broadcaster, is in talks with potential partners to broadcast drone racing, making it the latest network looking to experiment with the fledgling sport in which contestants navigate small, remote-controlled aircraft at high speeds through aerial obstacle courses. For television networks and advertisers, drone racing represents an opportunity to combine the live-event attraction of NASCAR and Formula 1 with the digital-age appeal of what has become known as eSports, in which video game players compete while millions of viewers watch online, usually for free....

Unlike Hunter, Jyawook made the catch, feet in the air and all. Watch here: Jyawook’s play became more significant as the game progressed — Evansville eventually won the game, 2-1, in 14 innings.

Wars are common in EVE Online, and the one that has been raging the last few weeks between The Northern Coalition & Pandemic Legion on one side and TEST & Circle-of-Two on the other isn’t even a big one by the 13-year-old game’s standards. That particular honor goes to the battle of Delve, which even has a ballad devoted to it. The current war was covered extensively by PCGamer, but the main prize for the attacking Northern Coalition and its ally was Circle-of-Two’s Keepstar, a space station that housed a superweapon with the power to destroy entire fleets....

MORE: The 23 most hated players in NBA history Like when Dwyane Wade, late in a dominant Game 4 performance in which he scored 30 points in a 94-87 overtime victory Monday, couldn’t get the roll. No, I mean, the ball just didn’t roll at all. We’ve all been there, basketball. That feeling when you’re comfortable and chilling and nothing, not even free pizza, could make you move. The offense was stagnant Monday, as it has been throughout the 2-2 series....

Seems fitting, doesn’t it? MORE: College football from 1 to 99 | QBs on the move The quarterback who led Notre Dame to the BCS title game in 2012 and was a graduate transfer to FSU prior to the 2015 season has played his last snap of college football. The loss means little for the FSU football team. Sean Maguire has been the team’s starter since Golson struggled in the Nov....

A press release from the national park said the suspect, a 33-year-old white male, fired shots at law enforcement rangers along the main park road on State Road 9336, approximately 20 miles from the Homestead entrance at 6.45 p.m. on Sunday. There were no injuries from the shootout. Officials said the shooting appeared unprovoked. After federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies carried out a joint response, the suspect surrendered and was taken into custody at 8:59 p....

The Reds, coming off the back of three draws in five previous games, needed a win to preserve the top spot. However, the Toffees frustrated their mighty neighbors with some brilliant defending though not conjuring up anything special up front. Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Fabinho, and Sadio Mane all came close at various points in the match, but none could find the back of the net. The result knocks Liverpool off their perch and they now trail Pep Guardiola’s title favorites by a point with nine more games to go in the season....

The move has sparked outrage with fans, including ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, who wants to see Ready return to the booth. Nichols shared her thoughts on Ready’s demotion Wednesday on ESPN’s NBA show “The Jump.” MORE: ESPN cancels ‘Barstool Van Talk’ after one episode Nichols says Fox Sports Southeast told her the demotion was because the network wanted to go back to a two-person booth. Fox Sports Southeast senior vice president Jeff Genthner explained the move to The Charlotte Observer by saying “it’s really tough for television” to not have someone courtside during games....

While neither Dan Orlovsky nor Kirk Herbstreit will be placed in time-out for their brief dust-up on Twitter, ESPN has “addressed the issue” with both analysts after Orlovsky’s comments on quarterback Justin Fields, per the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson. Orlovsky made waves last week when he shared some incendiary comments surrounding Ohio State quarterback Fields on “The Pat McAfee Show,” including information from an unnamed source that questioned Fields’ attitude and work ethic....