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The National
12-07-2025
- Sport
- The National
Celtic 'fighting' to sign Portugal U21 international left-back
The 21-year-old, along with Paulo Bernardo, was part of the Portuguese under-21 squad that reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 European Championships this summer. Nazinho only joined Cercle permanently last year, penning a four-year deal after an initial spell on loan from Sporting CP. Read more: After a standout campaign in which he scored two goals and registered six assists in 39 games from left-back, he is now 'expected' to depart Belgium, claims Portuguese outlet Record, who say that Celtic are 'fighting' with La Liga's Real Sociedad and Serie A outfit Roma for his services. The Parkhead club will undoubtedly be in the market for another left-back this summer to provide cover for the returning Kieran Tierney. Recently speaking on the Official Celtic FC Podcast, he outlined how much he can't wait to be back playing for his boyhood team. Tierney said: "I've not been to a game at Celtic Park, but I went to Hampden for a semi-final, which we unfortunately did not win. "That was the only game I got back to because the schedule when I was away as well is just as mental. "I've thought about it [Celtic Park], though. We've parked at Celtic Park to come here, and the feeling you get is something that I've not had for a while. "That'll be a special day, it really will. "My family are so proud, and they always are, but I think coming home is something special, because it is the dream that I have worked towards for all my life. To come back is amazing, and I think if I'm being honest with myself, it was always a matter of when. "I just can't wait to get back in action."
Scottish Sun
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Celtic join race to sign ‘sought after' defender who impressed at Euro Under 21 championships with Portugal
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Celtic are reportedly interested in signing Cercle Brugge full-back Flavio Nazinho. Media in Portugal say the 21-year-old is being monitored by the Scottish champions, but they face stiff competition for the defender's signature. Sign up for the Celtic newsletter Sign up 2 Flavio Nazinho impressed for Portugal U21s Credit: Getty 2 He played against Kilmarnock last season Credit: PA Brendan Rodgers is looking to strengthen his options at left-back for competition with Kieran Tierney after Greg Taylor moved to PAOK. New signing Hayato Inamura showed up well in his first appearance in Hoops in this week's pre-season friendly against Cork City and could fill in at left-back if needed. His performance has even made Rodgers reconsider sending him out on loan to gain first-team experience this season, but it is being claimed by Record they're in the hunt for another defender. Nazinho spent a year on loan at Brugge from Sporting Lisbon before making the move to Belgium permanent last summer in a €1million (£900,000) deal. The club's sporting director Rembert Vromant at the time, said: 'We are convinced that Nazinho, based on his matches and training, has the potential to take Cercle to the next level with his speed, excellent mentality and his versatility." He made 39 appearances for Cercle last season which included both legs against Kilmarnock in a Europa League second round qualifier. He missed the Conference League clash with Hearts later on due to a hamstring injury. Despite competing in Europe, Cercle Brugge narrowly avoided relegation from the Belgian top flight last season winning the play-off against Patro Eisden to stay up. And reports in Belgium suggest they need to sell players as they face a €15m deficit, with no income from European competition to fall back on. Having also impressed at the Under 21 Euro Championships, Cercle are bracing themselves for offers for the talented 21-year-old. Nazinho assisted Portugal team-mate and Celtic midfielder Paulo Bernardo in the 5-0 win over Poland, but they exited the competition to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals. Cercle Brugge's club's CEO Klaas Reynaert admitted: "Nazinho played a brilliant European U21 Championship and is highly sought after. "We are not in a position to refuse a good offer. A good offer must always be considered to remain financially sound." According to the report in Portugal, Celtic face competition from Serie A giants Roma and La Liga outfit Real Sociedad for his signature. The Hoops are in Portugal currently at their pre-season camp in Lisbon as Rodgers puts his men through their paces. They have their third game in seven this month in a closed door friendly against Estrela Da Amadora on Saturday, before facing Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Los Angeles Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
This otherworldly concert series ignites all the senses — and it just landed in L.A.
1 French collective Cercle is known for producing musical performances in awe-inspiring locales around the globe: French DJ and producer Sébastien Léger played in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Ben Böhmer spun a DJ set from a hot air balloon as it flew over Cappadocia in Turkey and Mochakk performed at the bustling Plaza de España in Sevilla, Spain, and electronic duo Bob Moses playing in front of the Griffith Observatory. Now the company has taken on its most ambitious project yet — and it's bringing L.A. audiences along for the ride. Cercle Odyssey, landing at the Los Angeles Convention Center today, is billed as the world's first 360-degree nomadic concert series. Imagine the visual explosion of the Sphere in Las Vegas with the intimacy of a Boiler Room set, all inside a cube-shaped structure. The L.A. shows — featuring performances by Paul Kalkbrenner, Empire of the Sun, Moby, the Blaze and Black Coffee — incorporate immersive 8K projections, spatial soundscapes, an electric light show and other multisensory components. Each event is capped at 5,000 guests and no phones are allowed (more on that below). Want to check it out? Here are five things to know. Cercle Odyssey is being marketed as the world's first 360-degree nomadic concert series. 2 While one could easily mistake the otherworldly visuals featured in the show for AI, all of it was actually shot with a 360 drone camera in various locations around the world. Cercle founder and creative director Derek Barbolla teamed up with Neels Castillon, a film director who bridges storytelling and the human connection to nature, to direct and shoot an art film loosely inspired by Homer's 'Odyssey.' For the film, Castillon traveled to hard-to-reach sites including the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, the Namib Desert in Namibia and Salar de Uyun (the world's largest salt flat) in Bolivia, and formed a narrative surrounding four characters who embark on a journey that takes them through four elements: ice, the ocean, the forest and the desert. The story was designed to be nonlinear, so it can be chopped and edited, and each performance can be different. Some headliners like Moby were particularly hands-on in curating visuals for their shows, while others collaborated with Cercle to curate their visual set. Cercle Odyssey includes light effects. 3 To create an enveloping experience, Cercle Odyssey taps into your senses, including smell via a machine that sprays handcrafted fragrances to match the scenery and music. But one element that remains a priority for Barbolla is the sound, of course. For Cercle Odyssey, he tapped in with L-Acoustics to use their cutting-edge L-ISA immersive sound technology, which features more than 15 speakers above and around the stage and subwoofer arrays, all of which help make the sound powerful and crisp. The technology not only elevates the music you're hearing, but it also makes the natural sounds such as birds chirping and ocean waves — which Castillon recorded during his travels — sound real. 4 Upon arrival, guests are instructed to put their phones into a secure pouch. The reason? So concertgoers can stay in the moment and truly immerse themselves in the experience, which can't be done with a small screen in your hand, Barbolla says. But if you're still concerned about not having a physical memory from the show to rewatch later or post on social media, Cercle sends video footage from each of the shows to attendees afterward. In fact, some of the footage they share is shot on iPhones to create the authentic experience of being in the audience. However, if you need to access your phone for an emergency, you can go to one of two areas on each side of the venue. 'The possibilities are infinite,' says Derek Barbolla. 'We [maybe] explored 1% of what we could do in this room.' 5 Shortly after he launched Cercle in France in 2016, Barbolla planned to start a chapter in L.A. as well. To do this, he reached out to a few of his friends who were studying in Santa Barbara, brought them the necessary film equipment and taught them how to produce live stream shows for the company. But in the end, his idea was 'too ambitious' at the time, he says, and Barbolla abandoned the idea. He went on to host a handful of shows in L.A. including Bob Moses' set at the Griffith Observatory during the pandemic, but he's always wanted to host more events in the city, he says. So bringing Cercle Odyssey to L.A. was an obvious choice. 'It's kind of a dream because the music industry in L.A. is one of the biggest cultural landmarks, but also the cinema industry,' he says, 'so it was meant to be.' Mura Musa performing at Cercle Odyssey on April 26 in Mexico City. 6 While Cercle's in-person shows over the years have required fans to get on an airplane and travel to historical and remote destinations such as the Sisteron Citadel in France, Barbolla wanted Cercle Odyssey to be more accessible to fans. 'We wanted to bring nature to the city,' he says. It was also a goal for Barbolla to make the massive production as sustainable as possible, so he he used projected screens instead of lead screens. That way his team only has to travel with the custom-made canvas they use for the projections, which 'is very small' and can be folded up. For everything else, the Cercle team rents the sound, light and camera equipment and hires local crews to work in each city, making the project more economical and ecological. For now, the Cercle Odyssey tour, which kicked off in Mexico City last month, will wrap in Paris on June 1, but Barbolla says he wants to expand it and bring it to more cities in the near future. It's also a dream of his to give the art installation he created to other creators and artists, so they can add their interpretation to it as well. 'The possibilities are infinite,' he says. 'We [maybe] explored 1% of what we could do in this room.'
