BARCELONA: Police in Spain on Thursday searched
the headquarters of the country football referee committee as part of a
probe into payments made by Liga giants Barcelona to a firm owned by a former
official of the body.
Prosecutors suspect the club paid millions of euros to the company of Jose
Maria Enriquez Negreira, the former vice-president of Spanish football
refereeing committee, between 2001 and 2018, to try to influence referee
decisions.
HANGZHOU, China: New York based Bangladeshi boxer Zinnat Ferdous eliminated from the 19th Asian Games boxing event losing to her Mongolian rival Esugen Oyuntsetseg by 5-0 point in the 50kg weight category pre quarterfinal held at Hangzhou Gymnasium on Wednesday.
The judges announced the results after the three rounds and in that result Mongolian boxer Esugen Oyuntsetseg won the match easily. All five judges gave their favor to the Mongolian boxer in every round. As a result Zeenat lost the pre quarterfinal match by 5-0 points.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the
squad for the ICC Men Cricket World Cup India 2023 today.
The Bangladesh side will travel to Guwahati tomorrow for two practice matches
of the World Cup on September 29 and 2 October 2 against Sri Lanka and
England respectively before moving to Dharamshala for the tournament opener
against Afghanistan on October 7.
With Bangladesh at the knife-edge of an ODI
series defeat to New Zealand at home den for the first time after 2008,
Najmul Hossain Shanto, who was appointed as the captain in the crucial third
and final game, was unfazed by the challenge ahead.
He rather stressed upon the requirements of enjoying the game and ending the
series on a good note for a World Cup boost.