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Al-Ahram Weekly
13 hours ago
- Sport
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Zamalek newly appointed coach Yannick Ferrera vows to meet fans' expectations - Egyptian Football
Zamalek's newly appointed coach Yannick Ferrera said on Friday he is determined to meet the expectations of the club's passionate fanbase and restore the team's status as a continental powerhouse. The 44-year-old Belgian signed a one-year deal with the Cairo giants, replacing interim coach Ayman El-Ramady ahead of the 2025/26 Egyptian Premier League season, which begins on 8 August. 'I held quick negotiations with Zamalek's management as we shared a mutual desire to work together,' Ferrera said in comments published on the club's official website. 'Zamalek is one of the biggest clubs in Egypt. I read that they were the best club of the 20th century, and I hope now to make them the best of the 21st century,' he added. The Belgian coach pledged full commitment from day one. 'If we work together, we will achieve victories. I promise Zamalek's supporters that the players will fight from the first day to the last,' he said. Ferrera arrived in Cairo late on Thursday to finalise the deal and begin preparations for the new season. He brings experience from Belgium's top flight, having previously managed Standard Liege and Sint-Truiden. He won the Belgian Cup with Standard Liege in the 2015–16 season and led Sint-Truiden to promotion from the Belgian Second Division in 2014. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.) Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Al-Ahram Weekly
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Zamalek appoint Belgian Yannick Ferrera as new coach - Egyptian Football
Egyptian giants Zamalek have appointed Belgian coach Yannick Ferrera as their new manager on a one-year contract, replacing interim coach Ayman El-Ramady. The 44-year-old Ferrera arrived in Cairo late on Thursday to finalize the deal and begin preparations for the upcoming Egyptian Premier League season, which kicks off on 8 August. Ferrera, who has previously managed Standard Liege and Sint-Truiden in Belgium, brings valuable experience to the Cairo-based club. He won the Belgian Cup with Standard Liege in 2015-16 and led Sint-Truiden to promotion by claiming the Belgian Second Division title in 2014. Managerial career highlights His coaching career began in 2004 with Anderlecht's youth team, where he worked alongside future stars Romelu Lukaku and Adnan Januzaj. He later served as assistant coach to Michel Preud'homme at AA Gent and followed him to Saudi Arabian club Al-Shabab. Ferrera took charge of Sint-Truiden in 2013, guiding them to top-flight promotion. He then managed Standard Liege starting in September 2015. More recently, he gained experience in the Saudi Professional League, leading Al-Fateh in 2019 and Al-Riyadh in 2023. In 2024, he joined Belgian side RWD Molenbeek in a relegation battle, but the club was ultimately demoted. Zamalek's search for a new coach Zamalek have been searching for a permanent coach since the departure of Portuguese manager José Peseiro last season. Peseiro was hired in February to replace Swiss coach Christian Gross, becoming the club's third coach that season. Under interim coach Ayman El-Ramady, Zamalek won the Egypt Cup but finished third in the Egyptian Premier League with 47 points, eleven behind champions Ahly. They have qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup for the upcoming season. The Egyptian Premier League is scheduled to run from 8 August through late May next year. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.) Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
America Ferrera Marks Her 20-Year Love Story with Husband Ryan Piers Williams: 'Let's Party On!'
America Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams celebrated 20 years together on Friday, June 27, with respective tributes on Instagram "Still no one else I'd rather dance with in the club till 5am," the actress wrote in her post Williams and Ferrera tied the knot in 2011, and later welcomed two children togetherAmerica Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams are celebrating two decades of love! In honor of their 20th anniversary, the Barbie actress shared two photos to her Instagram grid on Friday, June 27: a throwback selfie from their early days as a couple, and then a similarly casual shot of herself and her husband on a more recent outing. "20 years together today for these babies. Still no one else I'd rather dance with in the club till 5am 🪩🍾 let's party on @ryanpierswilliams," Ferrera, 41, wrote in the caption. Ryan, 44, shared his wife's post to his Instagram Stories, tagging her between two heart-face emojis and writing, "20 years of love, laughter & dancing until sunrise!" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories. Comments of support from fellow celebrities poured in on Ferrera's post, including one from Brie Larson, who wrote, "Love you both!!!" "Happy Anniversary you two ❤️❤️," Vanessa Williams chimed in. After dating for five years, Ferrera and actor-director Ryan got engaged in June 2010. A year later, the pair married in Chappaqua, New York, at the home of her Ugly Betty costar Vanessa, 62. The couple went on to welcome two children together: son Sebastian in May 2018 and daughter Lucia in May 2020. Ryan previously posted a tribute to his wife in May to celebrate her 41st birthday, writing, "Such a beautiful weekend celebrating and dancing with my Queen! Happy Birthday @americaferrera." Ferrera was joined by her husband in her 2023 blockbuster Barbie, in which she played Gloria, a Mattel employee who meets Margot Robbie's Barbie with her daughter Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) and is brought to Barbie Land. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Ryan had a few hilarious appearances as Gloria's husband, too busy practicing Spanish with the Duolingo app to notice his family's disappearance to the fictional Barbie neighborhood. "We didn't tell anybody, any of our friends or family," Ferrera told PEOPLE in January 2024 of her husband's cheeky cameo. And it all started with an early Zoom call she had with Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig. "I was telling her all my favorite parts of the script and all the parts that made me laugh out loud," the Emmy winner recalled. "And I said, 'Oh my God, I laughed so hard when you cut to the dad doing his Spanish lessons,' because my husband was literally in the other room doing his Spanish lessons." "Right away she was like, 'Oh my God, does he want to play your husband?' And I was like, 'I don't know, you'll have to ask him,' " Ferrera continued — and when Ryan said yes, "It was really fun and it a family affair, and it was great." Read the original article on People
The Herald Scotland
11-05-2025
- Science
- The Herald Scotland
Heriot-Watt team achieves a revolution in photonics
This is a phenomenally specialist area of scientific endeavour, and to be entirely honest I was worried that I just wouldn't be able to get my around it; phoning an editor to tell them a story has fallen through is one thing, but having to admit that it has happened because you're not clever enough to understand what on earth is going on is something else entirely. But that phone call wasn't necessary because Dr Ferrera, somehow, found a way to help a man with a degree in poems and Frankenstein get to grips with nanophotonics, transparent conducting oxides, and – this isn't a joke – temporal engineering. This whole discovery is about being able to manipulate particles of light, but at the most basic level we're (apparently) talking about making waves do things. The trouble is that this is hard for people to conceptualise when we're talking about light waves, but Dr Ferrera encouraged me to start working it all out by thinking instead of sound. If you've ever been in a recording studio you'll have seen the different kinds of materials on the walls and ceilings, all of which are designed to make the room – and subsequent recordings – sound a certain way. That happens because we know how to use static materials to change the behaviour of sound waves. We can also do this dynamically, which actually means adding time to the equation. By developing materials that can vibrate to match sound waves, we have been able to, for example, produce readily available noise-cancelling headphones. So far, so simple…ish. But what about light, which is both a wave and a particle (known as a photon)? Read more: Well we can certainly manipulate light using static materials that do a similar job to the panels in the recording studio, but doing this dynamically has remained an elusive, theorised, but potentially world-changing possibility. Until now? It may sound an exaggeration, but what this team at Heriot-Watt has discovered really could change the world. The Heriot-Watt University laboratory where Dr Ferrera and his team work. (Image: James McEnaney) Their major breakthrough came about thanks to experiments with those aforementioned transparent conducting oxides, which are a special type of glass that can be used to manipulate the behaviour of light. The compounds can be made incredibly thin – thinner, in fact, than the wavelength of visible light – but are widely used in everyday life. You've seen solar panels that use them, and may well be reading this on a touchscreen phone that incorporates the technology. Dr Ferrera's team has basically managed to find a way to control the reaction of this type of material in order to control both the direction and the energy of photonic particles. The findings have been published in the peer reviewed journal, Nature Photonics, and attracted attention from around the world. It has been a collaborative effort. Professors Alexandra Boltasseva and Vladimir M. Shalaev from Purdue University in the USA were involved in material synthesis, while Professor Andrea Di Falso of St Andrews University was responsible for device fabrication. Alongside Dr Ferrera were Dr Wallace Jaffray, a postdoctoral researcher, and PhD candidate Mr Sven Stengel. But how does impossibly thin glass that guides photons change the world? Well, for one thing, it could allow for a transformation in the speed at which devices are able to process data. Dr Ferrera explained to me that, while this isn't necessary for handheld or household devices (for which electrons are sufficient) it could completely revolutionise high-powered computing systems. One of the more obvious areas in which this could have major consequences is artificial intelligence. At present, the expansion of this technology is being driven by the consumption of incredible amounts of energy and water, making the systems inherently, even dangerously, inefficient. Optical computing, I'm told, would make the data-centres that sit behind this sort of technology not just cheaper, but much more environmentally friendly. And there's more. Dr Ferrera explains that, eventually, these technologies are going to hit a hard barrier that electrical computing simply cannot overcome, which will make it impossible to create neural nets that really do work like human brains. An optical computer, however, could obliterate those barriers. This is just one example from a list that is only likely to get longer over time. So, what happens next? Part of the reason that the breakthrough by the Heriot-Watt team is so important is that the materials they are using are readily available, which means it will be possible for lots of different teams in lots of different countries to start their own experiements. 'It's not a material that we are the only ones in the world to have access to,' Dr Ferrera explains. 'So it will be a global effort to further develop this technology.' 'And in my opinion it's going to go very, very fast.'
