Vigouroux could face Messi, but Eom gets summer off
Eom finished the Championship season in style, looking like a player who was coming to terms with the English second tier, having struggled at times following his move from Gwangju last summer.But he has been left out alongside the likes of Yang Min-hyeok, who was on loan at Queens Park Rangers last season, and Bae Jun-ho of Stoke City.South Korea boss Hong Myung-bo has indicated the Championship players have been left out because they have been inactive for a number of weeks, rather than due to any loss of form.Swansea fringe player Nathan Tjoe-A-On is with the Indonesia squad for games against China and Japan, while striker Zan Vipotnik may go to the Uefa Under-21 European Championship with Slovenia.Ben Cabango, Ollie Cooper and Liam Cullen are part of Craig Bellamy's Wales squad for qualifiers against Liechtenstein and Belgium, while Evan Watts, Sam Parker, Cameron Congreve and Joel Cotterill are in the Wales Under-21 squad.
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Newly engaged Georgina Rodriguez shows off her jaw-dropping curves in tiny white shorts and bra as she flashes dazzling diamond rings in beach snaps
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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
How towering dominance of Bolivia's socialist party came tumbling down
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After nearly 20 years of Mas government, the party's presidential candidate won just 3.16% of the vote in Sunday's election – only a whisker above the 3% threshold set by the electoral court for a party to remain eligible. Bolivia now faces a runoff vote in October between two rightwing candidates: the senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga. Meanwhile, after winning two-thirds of Congress in past elections, preliminary estimates suggest Mas will now have only one member of the lower house and no senators. 'I voted for Mas in the past, but this time I chose the right,' said Ronnyxh Oliver Mamani Figueredo, 34, an Aymara carpenter and pharmacy owner who has a seven-storey, Knights of the Zodiac-themed cholet that cost more than $1m. Figueredo is still repaying the construction loans, but amid Bolivia's worst economic crisis in four decades, he has been forced to cut the rental price of the building's 400-capacity event hall from 5,000 bolivianos (£540) to 2,500 (£270). He voted for the centre-right business tycoon Samuel Doria Medina, who ended up in third place. 'The majority of cholet owners I speak to no longer support Mas,' said Figueredo. A similar impression comes from Ramiro Sirpa, 47, a sought-after sculptor of the giant fibreglass statues that adorn the fronts of the cholets and cost between 25,000 and 60,000 bolivianos. 'The cholet owners tell me that at the start of Mas's government, they were doing well, but in recent times it has been total disappointment,' he said. Gonzalo Chávez Álvarez said that, even though they were seen as Mas's natural constituency, many Indigenous businessmen were never socialists. 'They always followed a popular, cutthroat capitalism,' he said. 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Morales sought a fourth term that was widely seen as unconstitutional in 2019. On election night, he was ahead but not by enough to win outright; after a blackout, the resumed count showed him as the winner. The country erupted in violent protests, he resigned and fled the country. A new election was held in 2020. Morales's former finance minister, Arce, was chosen to stand for Mas and won. Morales returned, but soon fell out with Arce after failing to wield the influence he wanted. The party split, and by 2023 the rupture was clear when Morales announced plans to run in this year's elections; Arce blocked him and seized control of Mas. In the meantime, a case that had surfaced during the 2019 campaign re-emerged: Morales was accused of fathering a child with a 15-year-old girl – an act that, under Bolivian law, constitutes statutory rape. 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- Wales Online
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