LONDON (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur striker Alejo Veliz is expected to be out for a couple of months with a knee injury, manager Ange Postecoglou said on Thursday as his team's growing injury list and one of 10 who will be missing from Friday's third-round FA Cup match. The 20-year-old Argentine was helped off the pitch...
PETALING JAYA: Johor Darul Ta’zim’s Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak is ready to begin a new chapter with his football club as a coach. The 36-year-old player, who has won 26 titles and is the only player to have lifted 10 straight Super League titles, has ended his career as a player but decided to stick with...
PETALING JAYA: Mixed doubles shuttler Cheah Yee See is set to follow her partner Chan Peng Soon and hang up her racquet next year. The 28-year-old Yee See plans to compete for the last time in the Malaysian Masters in May with Peng Soon, 35. “I plan to retire from the sport together with Peng Soon after...
PETALING JAYA: Mixed doubles shuttler Tan Kian Meng is not one to throw in the towel easily. The odds might be heavily stacked against Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing in the race for a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics but the former is not giving up just yet. The independent pair had dropped from No....
PETALING JAYA: Men’s singles shuttler Justin Hoh (pic) has set his sights on winning a spot in the Thomas Cup Finals squad next year. The prestigious team event is set to take place from April 27-May 5 in Chengdu, China. World No. 67 Justin, who will turn 20 in April, is keen to earn the right to...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia football coach Kim Pan-gon wants all Harimau Malaya players to play with full passion as they will carry the nation’s name on the international stage in the Asian Cup Finals in Qatar next month. The South Korean said it is also his dream to go to the main stage of the showpiece tournament...
PETALING JAYA: Partnering each other in November 2016 saved Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Lai Jemie’s careers from early retirements and the pair could be in a similar situation currently after their constant struggles on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) tour this year. Ranked as high as world No. 6 in mid year, the pair have...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s singles shuttler Ng Tze Yong (pic) will have to be at his sharpest to prevail in two back-to-back first-round openers against Japan’s Koki Watanabe at the Malaysian and Indian Opens. Tze Yong is down to face Watanabe in the home tourney from Jan 9-14 before clashing again in New Delhi from Jan 16-21. World...
(Reuters) - Japan's Naoya Inoue became the second male boxer to be a four-belt undisputed champion in two weight divisions with a 10th-round knockout of Marlon Tapales in Tokyo on Tuesday. Inoue unified the super-bantamweight titles of all four major sanctioning bodies, taking the WBA and IBF crown from Tapales and retaining the WBC and WBO...
NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) -Nottingham Forest striker Chris Wood scored a superb hat-trick against his former club Newcastle United at St James' Park on Tuesday to give his struggling side a much-needed 3-1 victory in the Premier League. Forest's first win under new coach Nuno Espirito Santo lifted them to 16th in the table on 17 points,...
