Tonight, Wembley Stadium will host the long-awaited clash between Argentina and Italy, a match called the Finalicima between the America’s and Europe’s Cup champions and in honor of the late legend Diego Armando Maradona. The 16th confrontation between the two teams will be historic as Italy won 6 times, Argentina 5 times and 4 draws. The match will take place at 21:45 Beirut time.
Shabab Belouizdad, champion of the Algerian league
At the Arab level of the CR, Belouizdad won the Algerian professional football league title for the third time in a row, beating its guest Ittihad Biskra 2-0 in the postponed match of the 26th stage of the competition. The coronation was the ninth in the history of Beluizdad, which became the first Algerian club to win the league title for the third time in a row.
Nadal strips Djokovic of title
In racket, 13-time world champion Rafael Nadal stripped the Roland Garros title from world number one Serbian opponent Novak Djokovic after settling the 59th standoff that brought him to the semi-finals of the second Grand Prix. Slam for the fifteenth time. Nadal defeated Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in a meeting that lasted about four hours.
The athlete decides the first match..
In basketball, in the final of the Lebanese Basketball Championship, the Al-Riyadh club achieved the impossible and made up for the difference of 15 points by beating Beirut with a score of 71:69 and taking the lead with a score of 1:0. The second confrontation will take place between the two sides tonight .
Miscellaneous international and local:
The Toto Mercato network has reported that Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso is close to taking charge of Spanish club Valencia next season. The network indicated that the initial agreement between the two parties is to sign a two-year contract.
The French Football Federation has announced that coach Didier Deschamps has left the national team after the death of his father. “It is with great sadness that I learned of the death of Father Didier this morning. He went to join his relatives and assure them of my friendship and support in this ordeal,” said Noel Le Gras, President of the French Federation.
– Social media pioneers broke the news that the management of Salam Zgharta club suddenly resigned after the team advanced to the first football league. The president of Mir Zgharta, Monsignor Stefan Frangieh, submitted his resignation, and the members of the Administrative Council of Mir Zgharta submitted their resignations to the president of the club.
The Saudi Arabian Pro League has set August 25 as the start date for the Mohammed bin Salman Pro Cup for the 2022-2023 sports season.
Source: El Iktisad