MEDI1TV Afrique : Tour d'horizon de l'actualité sportive du 25 septembre 2024 - 25/09/2024
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00:00Hello everyone, welcome to Mediain TV for your daily report on MaxiSport.
00:19The head of the government, Aziz Harnoush, had an interview yesterday in New York with the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez.
00:26Taking advantage of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, these interviews allowed the leaders to continue the discussions about the 2030 World Cup, which will be organized in the two kingdoms, accompanied by Portugal.
00:37This is what Pedro Sanchez himself announced on his social networks when he mentioned his meeting with his Moroccan, ultra-Atlantic counterpart.
00:43An important meeting for the good progress of the planetary competition planned in six years, which will be the first in the history of the round ball to be organized on two different continents.
00:52Four years after the North American edition in Canada, the United States and Mexico in 2026, which will be the second to be played in at least two different countries after 2002, with South Korea and Japan.
01:06Aziz Harnoush also met with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, a meeting intended to highlight the state of progress in the preparations for the 2030 World Cup.
01:15In this regard, the president of FIFA expressed his thanks to His Majesty the King Mohamed VI, a football enthusiast, like all Moroccans, for everything he does for our sport and for the sport of all Moroccans, football.
01:26End of quote.
01:27Recalling that the decision of FIFA on the 2030 World Cup is expected in December, Gianni Infantino indicated that after discussions, and as we know, Morocco is a football country, everything is ready.
01:38We will welcome the world at home, in Morocco.
01:40This is why we are already looking forward to beautiful projects, beautiful stadiums, magnificent cities and people who will welcome everyone, added the president of FIFA.
01:50The Lions of Atlas in Futsal continue their preparation on the side of Bukhara before facing this Thursday afternoon the serious team of Iran, first of the group F in the group stage of this 2024 World Cup in Uzbekistan.
02:03FIFA revealed the list of referees in charge of leading this clash between the Lions of Atlas, sixth in the world rankings, and Team Melly, at the foot of the podium of this same ranking.
02:12The Swiss referee Daniel Matkovic was appointed by the High International Court, alongside his assistants, the Croatian Nicola Djelic, the Brazilian Anlise Schultz, the Venezuelan Oriana Zambrano and the Portuguese Eduardo Fernandes.
02:24So see you tomorrow at 13h30 Moroccan time to see Morocco hope to equal its best course in a World Cup with a quarter-final, as achieved three years ago, but lost to Brazil, which it could also find at the next stage of the competition.
02:42It's official, the French defender Raphael Varane has just announced on social media that he will end his professional career at the age of 31.
02:49After Pepe's success in the physical team, the international tricolor in the 93rd national team will have only played a small match with the Italian formation of Como,
02:56promoted in Serie A this season, which he will not leave as he intends, in a statement in a role in the club's staff, an early retirement for the 31-year-old central defender.
03:05After 14 seasons at the top level, a native of Lille but trained at Lens, Varane will then explode at Real Madrid, with which he will fill his trophy cupboard with four Champions League, three Spanish Leagues or four World Cups.
03:17At Manchester United, which he joined in 2021, he will only lift an FA Cup and a League Cup, but it is with the French team that he stands out at the international level,
03:24by winning the World Cup in 2018, which allows him to place 7th in the Ballon d'Or this year, before going to the Nations League in 2021 and playing the final in 2022.
03:36Paris Saint-Germain has begun negotiations to extend its right-back and Lionel Atalas Achraf Hakimi's contract, which expires in June 2026, according to Fabrizio Romano's information.
03:46Wanting to seal the future of his 25-year-old defender, a little less than two years from the end of his contract, the French capital club hopes to remove a burning file for the next summer transfer,
03:55during which the former Real Madrid player could have studied his options to negotiate a free start the following winter.
04:01This approach also compensates Achraf Hakimi's growing status within the Luis Henrique's team, becoming vice-captain this season, behind the Brazilian Marquinhos.
04:10This season already, the native of Madrid is making an excellent start to the season, with a realisation and two decisive passes to the counter.
04:18In Spain now, with the game in hand, a few minutes from the end, Real Madrid got scared, but ended up winning 3-2 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Matchday 7.
04:29Perfectly launched by Lucas Vazquez's early opening against Alaves in the 54th second of the game, Carlo Ancelotti's men logically dug the gap on a nice goal from Kylian Mbappé,
04:39in the end of a 26-pass sequence, illustrating Real Madrid's collective ambivalence.
04:43From his right wing, the Brazilian Rodrigo made his speed speak at the return of the changing rooms, to score the third Merengue goal on his own,
04:49before the visitors completely relaunched the suspense with the goal from Carlos Benavides in the 85th minute, and Kike Garcia's experiment a minute later, in the 20th minute.
04:58Real Madrid's second team, with 17 points, came back to the Barça 1-1, to extend their series of invincibility in the Champions League,
05:07now with 39 games in one year.
05:12Football is like that. You think you've won the game, you relax, and then they score a goal.
05:17Then, confidence rises in them, and you lose confidence on the other side. It happens, it happened today, it's already happened, but it will happen again.
05:27Obviously, we don't want it to happen to us, but sometimes it happens.
05:32If you look at our first 60 minutes, we played very, very well, and that gives us confidence for the next games.
05:39Mbappé played well, the whole team played well today.
05:43We kept the ball well, we tried to create chances, chances in transition, passes in depth.
05:50I think the team is improving, and that's very good, because the schedule is very demanding.
05:55We started very well after the international break, and I hope we can continue on Sunday against Atletico Madrid,
06:02which will be a very, very difficult game.
06:06For his part, the league's leader and eternal rival of Real, FC Barcelona, hopes to continue his run in the league.
06:12With Getafe's welcome on Wednesday night, Blaugrana remain on an incredible series of six wins in so many games,
06:18led by an attacking side on fire, with 22 goals scored.
06:21Lewandowski, the league's best scorer at the moment, with six goals,
06:24Rafinha, his dolphin, with five goals, tied with Mbappé,
06:28or even Amin Yamal, the best passer, with five free-kicks.
06:31The danger could come from anywhere for the Catalan goalkeeper,
06:34who welcomes a sick Getafe team tonight, 19th, and therefore relegated before this day.
06:38At a press conference before the game yesterday afternoon, German coach Hansi Flick
06:42assured that he had confidence in his second goalkeeper, Iñaki Peña,
06:45to replace Marc-André Ter Stegen, absent for the rest of the season,
06:48while encouraging the club to discuss the need to sign another goalkeeper for the future.
06:58Iñaki is doing really well, during the pre-season, but also in training.
07:01He has always been a professional goalkeeper.
07:04He trained very hard for that, for a second goalkeeper.
07:07It's always difficult to be focused, but what I can see is that he is very focused.
07:12He is absolutely ready to play.
07:14We have confidence in him, but we also have to see what we're going to do.
07:18We'll talk about that later, because behind him we only have very young players.
07:22So if we change anything, we'll have to be very careful.
07:25But we're not under pressure.
07:27We really feel confident with Iñaki.
07:32Amin Yamal is doing well, he's doing well and he feels good.
07:35These are the things I'm looking at.
07:37I don't think he needs to rest tomorrow,
07:39but it's also important that we play at home,
07:41that we have a good start to the season,
07:44and that we start with a very good team.
07:46Yamal, what he's been doing since the start of the season, is really incredible.
07:55He's had a shy start to the season, with only two wins in five days.
08:00Manchester United start their European journey in the Europa League,
08:03this evening at Advente in Old Trafford.
08:05The Red Devils hope to continue their promising dynamic with two wins and one draw.
08:09In the last three official games, no matter the competition,
08:12Dutch coach Eric Tenaert wants to be able to count on his silent attack
08:16against Crystal Palace last weekend in the Premier League,
08:19but a very efficient one against Barnsley,
08:21a retired second-division player in the English League cup.
08:24With a convincing win, seven goals for Zedrow,
08:26United will cross paths with a team from the FC Advente
08:28at the start of their last season,
08:30with a fourth place in the Eurodivision.
08:32After six games played and won by an excellent Sam Steyn,
08:35Batave's best scorer with six goals,
08:38a game to watch this evening at 8pm, Moroccan time.
08:44Let's go back to the Champions League, but this time for 2027.
08:47Marseille decided last night to host the C1 final of the year,
08:52after the UEFA decided to withdraw the match at the San Siro stadium in Milan.
08:56And why not Marseille?
08:57In the most beautiful stadium in France, the Velodrome posted on social media
09:00that the city's sports adjoint, Sébastien Gibraillel,
09:03just a few hours after the UEFA's announcement,
09:05with Mayor Benoit Payan,
09:07will support Marseille's bid to host the Champions League final in 2017.
09:13In the afternoon, the UEFA announced that San Siro,
09:16the usual stadium of AC Milan and Inter,
09:18had lost the organisation of the event
09:20because the capital, Lombardy, could not guarantee
09:22that the field and the surrounding area
09:24would not be affected by the renovation work.
09:26As a result, it was decided to withdraw the final at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium
09:30and to reopen the bidding process
09:32to designate a new stadium,
09:34with a decision expected in May-June 2025
09:37to add the European instance.
09:41Let's go to tennis to close this edition
09:43with two men's tournaments that ended yesterday.
09:45We start with the Croatian Marin Cilic,
09:47who fell to 777th place in the overall standings
09:50at the start of the tournament due to repeated injuries,
09:53as he won the ATP 250 tournament in Hangzhou yesterday evening.
09:57For his first title in almost three years,
09:59the world's number three player had to fight
10:01to suffer the scalp of the Chinese Zeng Ziheng,
10:0443rd in the ATP standings,
10:06in 2-7, 7-6, 7-6,
10:08with two tie-breakers won on the same score,
10:107-5 each.
10:12The last final of the main circuit, won by Cilic,
10:1435 years old and re-operated on his right knee in the spring,
10:17had not won any matches in 2024 on the main circuit
10:20before arriving in China,
10:22to benefit from an invitation from the organizers.
10:24Thanks to this victory,
10:26he won his 21st career title,
10:28also marked by two finals,
10:30in the Grand Slam in Paris-Rouge,
10:32in Wimbledon in 2017,
10:34and in the Olympics in Australia the following year.
10:37In Chengdu, the young hope of Chinese tennis,
10:39Xu Zhengchang, won his first title on the main circuit
10:42in his country on Tuesday evening,
10:44by taking the lead in the final of the ATP 250 tournament,
10:47against the number one series leader,
10:49the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, 7-6, 6-1.
10:52Zhengchang thus became the second Chinese player
10:54to win an ATP tournament,
10:56after Wu Yibing,
10:58who won the Dallas tournament in 2023,
11:00against the 19th world champion,
11:02semi-finalist in Wimbledon and bronze medalist
11:04at the Paris Olympic Games this summer.
11:06The 19-year-old left-hander,
11:08exemplary in defense,
11:10and a rare rise to the judicious ranks,
11:12mainly relied on his particularly solid service
11:14throughout the match.
11:16The Italian conceded his service twice
11:18and was able to convert two rebounds.
11:20Thanks to this success, Zhengchang,
11:22the second youngest player in the top 100,
11:24will be at the doorstep of the top 50
11:26in the next ATP classification.
11:28We are waiting for the 52nd place.
11:31This is the end of this edition of Maxi-Sport.
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