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BBC News
3 days ago
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- BBC News
Chelsea quartet named in Conference League team of the tournament
Four Chelsea players have been named in the UEFA Conference League Team of the Tournament, chosen by the UEFA Technical Observer Blues won the trophy after defeating Real Betis 4-1 in the final on Wednesday Jorgensen, Tosin Adarabioyo, Enzo Fernandez and Cole Palmer all made the team, despite Palmer not being named in the Blues squad for the league Betis midfielder Isco was named Player of the full team is as follows:Goalkeeper: Filip Jorgensen (Chelsea)Defenders: Youssouf Sabaly (Real Betis), Tosin Adarabioyo (Chelsea), Natan (Real Betis), Robin Gosens (Fiorentina)Midfielders: Svit Seslar (Celje), Isco (Real Betis), Enzo Fernandez (Chelsea)Forwards: Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Afimico Pululu (Jagiellonia), Tokmac Nguen (Djurgarden)
Daily Mail
4 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Real Betis 1-4 Chelsea PLAYER RATINGS: Who was pure class? Which Blues star improved hugely after a difficult start? And how did Man United flop Antony fare?
Chelsea came from behind to beat Real Betis 4-1 and win the Conference League in Poland on Wednesday night. The Blues fell behind inside nine minutes when Isco teed up Abde Ezzalzouli, with the winger producing a smart finish to beat Filip Jorgensen.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Meet Chelsea and Real Betis WAGs ahead of the Conference League final: A Portuguese model, a Dutch sales tax employee - and a law graduate who gives legal advice to prisoners
Chelsea and Real Betis will face off to decide who is the latest winner of UEFA's newest club competition in a final that will be held in Wroclaw, Poland. While they also have aspirations of qualifying for next season's Champions League by finishing in the top five of the Premier League, the Blues will still be looking to become the first club win the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League. Star players on show will include the likes of Cole Palmer for Chelsea, while Betis have Manchester United loanee and former Arsenal right-back Hector Bellerin in their ranks. They will be supported in the stands by wives and girlfriends, who will likely be seen in the VIP section of the Stadion Wroclaw. But who are the WAGs in question set to be in attendance? Mail Sport takes a look at some of the wives and girlfriends who will be cheering on their partners on Wednesday. Noemie Romee - Filip Jorgensen (Chelsea) Filip Jorgensen is the latest to join the never ending list of Chelsea 's bursting player catalogue. The 22-year-old goalkeeper signed for the Blues from LaLiga side Villarreal for £21m and will look to beat out stiff competition from the likes of Robert Sanchez and Djordje Petrovic to claim the number one shirt. The Dane will be cheered on and supported this season by his partner Noemie Romee who is his biggest fan. The stunning brunette is the 22-year-old's loudest cheerleader and often shares footage of her watching her boyfriend in action on her TikTok. Noemie also has an accomplished career of her own and works as a sales tax employee at the Ministry of Finance in Holland. It is believed that she has occupied the role since November 2021, having previously worked at a Dutch estate agent. Connie Grace - Cole Palmer (Chelsea) A nail technician who regularly travels, Cole Palmer's partner Connie Grace regularly posts updates on her Instagram profile, which boasts over 36,000 followers. Cole regularly likes her uploads, including sultry bikini snaps from her idyllic holidays to Ibiza and Bali. Her most recent glamorous photo was taken at Stamford Bridge - with the caption: 'Fur season'. He regularly likes her uploads, including sultry bikini snaps from her holidays to Ibiza and Bali The couple are said to have flown to Ibiza via private jet last August, where they enjoyed a 'quick trip' together, dining out on the harbour where they shared a romantic candlelit meal. Connie was also seen posing alongside the Chelsea star after he picked up the PFA Young Player of the Year award in September 2024. However, the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London was their first official outing. Mia McClenaghan - Reece James (Chelsea) While Reece James has struggled for minutes in recent seasons due to being blighted by injury troubles, he has been fortunate enough to have a supportive partner by his side. Mia finished her Law Degree at Royal Holloway University in the summer of 2022 after three years of studying. She often shares glamorous photos on Instagram, where she has more than 23,000 followers, also shows off snaps of her in designer clothes. In one sweet selfie with the defender she wrote 'love of my life' as the glamorous pair posed up a storm. She already works with prisoners at HMP Coldingley in Surrey, giving inmates legal advice. It appeared that the relationship was going from strength-to-strength after a year of dating In November 2020 Reece went public with his girlfriend for the first time and shared a glamorous Instagram snap for her birthday in which he described her as his 'best friend'. It appeared that the relationship was going from strength-to-strength after a year of dating with the couple posing in matching baby blue tracksuits in what appeared to be the kitchen of their new home together. Rosilene Silva - Antony (Real Betis) Antony, who joined Real Betis on loan from Manchester United in January, and girlfriend Rosilene Silva announced their engagement via Instagram in September. Antony and his childhood sweetheart - who have known each other since their school years in Sao Paulo - uploaded a joint post featuring three photographs. One of the pictures showed the 24-year-old footballer proposing on bent knee. Another featured Antony kissing his bride-to-be on her cheek. The other photo was of a heart-shaped flower arrangement that framed the words 'Case Comigo?', meaning 'Marry Me?' in Portuguese. Rosilene accompanied the post with the message: 'What God has in store for us is far more than we can imagine...' Carolina Silva - Pedro Neto (Chelsea) Carolina Silva, who has her own claim to fame by working as a model, is currently dating Chelsea speedster Pedro Neto. It is unclear how and when the pair met but the Portuguese beauty first appeared on Neto's Instagram feed in 2022. The couple have also been seen jetting off on holiday together on social media, as they travelled to various locations around the United States including Orlando, Disney World, Universal Studios and Miami. After Neto left Molineux for Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2024, Carolina thanked the Wolves faithful with a poignant Instagram message. She wrote: 'I will never forget the moments and people that this place brought me. We were very happy here. 'Half of my heart will always be with you. Thank you everyone, we will miss you Wolves family.' Claudia Rodriguez - Marc Cucurella (Chelsea) Cucurella and Rodriguez met in 2018 while the Spanish international, who won the Euros for his country last summer, was playing for Barcelona. However, further details of how the pair met are unclear, but there is a clue about what Claudia does for a living. According to her Instagram, she is believed to work in the field of communications and marketing - but further details of her relationship with Cucurella have not yet emerged. Rodriguez was candid about the challenges her family has had to overcome as part of Cucurella's rocky start after moving from Brighton for £60million in the summer of 2022. 'It was difficult,' Rodriguez exclusively told Mail Sport at a screening of the first episode of Amazon's Married To The Game Season 2. 'The first year was very difficult because we didn't have the best year. 'So was very difficult for him and for me, also family, and now just the best part is we managed it, and I'm very proud. 'We need, sometimes chapters like that, you know, so today I'm proud of all of it.' Rodriguez is one of five partners of Premier League stars to feature in the second season of the documentary series, which aims to give viewers insight into the reality of life under football's microscope. Cucurella and Rodriguez allowed cameras to follow their daily lives, with the impact of their son Mateo's autism on the family one of the emotional flashpoints of the programme. The reality series also sees Rodriguez open up on the impact of a burglary which the family suffered shortly after the move to the west London club.
CNA
20-05-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Maresca fumes as Betis get 48-hour Conference League final advantage
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca said on Tuesday that he was unhappy after LaLiga accepted a request from Real Betis to move their final league game forward two days to Friday, giving the club more time to prepare for the Conference League final. Chelsea visit fellow Champions League hopefuls Nottingham Forest for their final Premier League game of the season on Sunday, two days after Conference League final opponents Betis play Valencia. "I'm not happy, 100 per cent, you cannot allow another team 48 hours more when you play a European final," Maresca told reporters. "(Either we play Friday) or they play Sunday like us. I don't know if it is from LaLiga, the Premier League or UEFA, but if you ask people in this room if it is normal to play a final where another team has 48 hours more to prepare, it is not normal." Maresca also confirmed that Filip Jorgensen would start in goal for Chelsea in the Conference League final. The 23-year-old Swedish-Danish keeper has started all but one game in the competition. Spaniard Robert Sanchez has been Chelsea's first-choice keeper in the Premier League, playing 31 games this season. "Filip is going to play the final because he played all the competition. It will be unfair now if he doesn't play the final. For sure, Filip is going to play because he deserves to play," Maresca said. Strikers Christopher Nkunku and Marc Guiu remain doubtful for the showdown in the Polish city of Wroclaw on May 28 due to injury. "Guiu and Nkunku are in the sessions but are still not 100 per cent," Maresca said. "For each game, we try to play our strongest XI. In the Conference League, we have played with different players and we will see for the final," he added. Chelsea, fourth in the Premier League with 66 points, are chasing their first trophy under Maresca. The West London club appointed the Italian in June after he guided Leicester City to the English Championship title in his first season in charge. The final is also a chance for Chelsea to add another major European trophy to their collection, having won the Champions League, Europa League, Cup Winners' Cup and Super Cup all twice each.
The Sun
20-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Chelsea files: Blues stars to get varying bonuses if they win Conference League
MONEY TALKS and Chelsea is no different to any other Premier League club. The players will receive a bonus if they beat Real Betis next Wednesday and win the Conference League for the first time. Enzo Maresca leads his men into the Conference League final next week Credit: Reuters Cole Palmer will be available after sitting out the first portion of the tournament Credit: PA The payments have been set out on a sliding scale depending on appearances which means some of the top stars won't be paid as much although they'll hardly go hungry as a result. And as if we needed reminding of Chelsea's priorities, if Champions League qualification is achieved at Nottingham Forest this Sunday then the players' pay packets will be considerably more full. Cole Palmer was deliberately kept out of Chelsea's Conference League squad for the first half of the campaign and so has made just five appearances in the competition this season. Keeper Filip Jorgensen, who has been confirmed as a starter in the final next week, has played 13 times in the tournament. DESPITE harbouring bigger ambitions than the Conference League, Chelsea fans are flocking to Poland in their thousands to lap up the final. The club's official allocation of 12,300 tickets has been gobbled up. Blues supporters were understandably confident that their billion quid squad would reach the June 28 date in Wroclaw, so many booked hotels and flights weeks, sometimes months in advance. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK It's common practice in the travel industry and can mean saving a decent whack of money by getting in early. But as is the case in this horrible old world, some of those loyal punters who took a punt on Chelsea going all the way, are now coming unstuck. Chelsea star Cole Palmer admits he threw up in the pool on holiday and got his hand stuck in a Pringles tube We have heard numerous worrying reports that a number of fans are receiving emails from hotels in the city, claiming there has been a 'technical' or 'admin' error with their initial reservation. And yes, you guessed it, those issues mean the prices of their accommodation has increased - sometimes tripling the original room rate. Fans are reluctant to name the hotels but some are fighting back. One supporter, who booked eight rooms in a 3* hotel has been told the cost is now three times what it was. But the person involved has since found a 5* place that is cheaper! He is keeping the first hotel hanging on and will cancel last minute in the hope they end up losing out altogether. Unfortunately, there is little the club can do to help frustrated fans. Todd Boehly is a director on ticket resale site Vivid Seats Credit: Alamy AND right on time, Uefa has chosen this week to publish its latest call for fans to avoid 'unofficial' ticket agencies as next week's final draws closer. The directive reads: "UEFA warns fans not to purchase tickets on the secondary market, from unauthorised third parties, websites, agencies or from touts. "Such tickets may be cancelled by UEFA at any time and fans are likely to be refused entry or be ejected from the stadium. In addition, fans may not receive the tickets which they have purchased from these unauthorised third parties. "UEFA reminds fans that ticket sales to the general public and fans of the teams who have reached the UEFA club competition finals are carried out exclusively via All well and good but as we know, Chelsea's own chairman Todd Boehly has his fingers buried deep in this pie with his stake in US ticket resale site Vivid Seats. Supporters are already on the club's case over how so many fans of Swedish side Djurgarden were able to buy seats in the home end of Stamford Bridge for the Conference League semi-final second leg. Awkward. REECE James' position at Chelsea was called into question last week, with Romeo Lavia back fit, Chelsea's abundance of midfield options, and Moises Caicedo seeming to take up his spot in Enzo Maresca's favourite starting XI. But the Blues' captain showed that he's not going anywhere vs Man Utd, back in the side at right-back and stealing the show with an incredible spin and cross to set up fellow full-back Marc Cucurella. Enzo Maresca said previously that he sees Reece as a midfielder, as he was used on loan at Wigan Athletic, rather than a marauding right-back as he has always been at Chelsea. Questions over James have never been over his ability, but his fitness, and against Manchester United he completed 90 minutes in the Premier League for only the second time since November 2024. What's more, this season he's played a part in 21 games since January, a consistent run for his side and is proving that he has a key part to play in this side. If he can keep this up, he can surely establish himself as one of the best in the world in his position once more and work his way back into Thomas Tuchel's England setup. His versatility in Maresca's system could make him a key cog in this Chelsea machine, with his ability to be a danger out wide and in the middle allowing the Italian gaffer to remain unpredictable and adapt to different game states at different times. Reece is deserving of a start away to Nottingham Forest, a fixture in which he got the match-winning assist on the final day of last season. MOISES Caicedo was named Chelsea's player of the season last week, and wonderkid Kendry Paez is touted to be a star player for the Blues in seasons to come. Ecuadorian greatness could become a common theme at Stamford Bridge. Caicedo and Paez were both academy graduates of Independiente Del Valle in Ecuador, and this could be somewhere BlueCo continues to shop in the coming transfer windows. Independiente have also produced PSG star defender Willian Pacho, and invincible Bayer Leverkusen centre-back Piero Hincapie, both of whom have previously been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge. Moises Caicedo bagged the Blues' player of the season award Credit: PA Ecuador was perhaps for too long a nation with heaps of untapped potential, with Brighton reaping the rewards of building a link with the South American nation, signing talents such as Pervis Estupinian, Caicedo and Jeremy Sarmiento. With Chelsea appointing Brighton's transfer guru Sam Jewell last year, don't be surprised to see The Blues do more summer shopping in Sangolquí in the upcoming window. WITH two games to go in Ligue 1, and having just beaten Paris St. Germain, BlueCo-owned Strasbourg looked destined for European football, with a dream of playing in the Champions League very much alive. However, Chelsea's sister club went and bottled it. After the PSG match, they took on Angers and Le Havre, the teams who finished just outside of the relegation zone in 14th and 15th place, and lost both... That means the French side finished 7th place in Ligue 1, outside of any European spot, including the Conference League, which Chelsea may be about to win. And it hasn't gone unnoticed by sceptical Blues fans amid all sorts of conspiracy theories. Were Strasbourg to end up in the same competition as Chelsea then it could massively affect this summer's transfer market with trading between the two BlueCo stablemates banned. Strasbourg's Liam Rosenior was left stunned as his side lost crucial back-to-back games Credit: AFP Given Chelsea could virtually fill Stamford Bridge with the amount of young players they have sent to Strasbourg on loan that would be a bit of an issue. Of course, it's all just cynical, light-hearted and nobody really thinks it's an intra-club carve up. And Liam Rosenior's men DO still have a chance to play in Europe next campaign. If PSG can get the better of Reims in the Coupe De France final on Saturday, then Lyon (who finished in 6th will be upgraded from a Conference League play-off spot and into the Europa League, meaning Strasbourg will take their place in the play-offs. Last time the two sides met, they shared a point each, but with PSG on the cusp of a potential treble they will surely not take this game lightly. REAL BETIS against Chelsea is a reunion of sorts. The two clubs met in the last eight of the now-defunct Cup Winners Cup in 1998. Chelsea won 3-1 with Blues legend Gianfranco Zola having the last word. The team sheet is a historian's dream: Ed de Goey in goal, Dennis Wise in midfield along with Roberto di Matteo - he would later achieve the ultimate and win Chelsea's first Champions League trophy as manager in 2012 - and was sacked the following November.
