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Belfast Telegraph
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
NI star praises former manager's influence after confirming international retirement
The 30-year-old last played for her country in September 2023 and spoke for the first time about her decision to end her Northern Ireland career after winning 59 caps. McGuinness was instrumental in taking Northern Ireland to the Women's Euro 2022 Finals, scoring crucial goals against Belarus and the Faroe Islands in qualifying, and then went on to mark her 50th cap with a goal against Lativa before hitting a memorable hat-trick against North Macedonia. 'I have retired. That's done now. I have more to focus on now, both in terms of football and life," said McGuinness. 'I am happy playing for my club and I want to get everything I have while I still can, and outside of football family and friends are just as important. I gave up a lot over the years for it, so I feel like it's now time to give back what I gave up. 'Whenever Kenny came in I wasn't in the squad and he took a chance on me. He asked me to come back in and I can do nothing more than thank him for giving me that chance because without it I wouldn't have been at the Euros and we wouldn't have got that that unbelievable run in qualification. I wouldn't have got my 50th cap and I wouldn't have scored on it. A big part of it was down to him. 'Whenever he brought me back in he told me how he wanted me to play. He said to me, you're an attacker, I want you to attack and that's all I ever want to do in football. 'As an attacking player, you just want to attack and you want to score and you want to get assists, and he gave me the license to do that and I really, really enjoyed those years with him.'
Boston Globe
30-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Ilia Malinin wins men's free skate at World Figure Skating Championships
Malinin's win makes the 2025 Championships the most successful ever for the US, with gold medals in three events — men's, women's and ice dance. Malinin's free skate to 'I'm Not a Vampire' started as planned, with a quadruple flip. But after that, all bets were off. He followed it with his trademark quadruple Axel, which was determined to be under-rotated but still scored 12.86 points. He continued a skate worthy of his 'Quad God' moniker by landing a quadruple Lutz, quadruple loop, and a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop combination, scoring a 209.15 in the segment. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Skating to an unlikely combination of music (Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' and A-ha's 'Take on Me'), Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov earned a personal best score of 192.70 to claim silver. He became the first skater to land a quadruple jump as the second jump in a combination and the third skater from his country to medal at the World Championships. Advertisement Last year's silver medalist, Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, popped his opening quadruple flip and fell on a quadruple toe loop. He finished 10th in the free skate, but had enough of a buffer from his second-place short program score to win bronze. You could hear a pin drop when Jason Brown of Highland Park, Ill., performed his free skate. The beloved American was in a precarious 12th place after the short program. Brown knew he could do more, and he did. Brown landed eight triples, including a late triple flip-triple toe loop combination, as well some of the event's best presentation marks, to score a 180.68 to move up to eighth place. It was a great time for a great skate. Andrew Torgashev, Brown's US teammate, had a difficult free skate where he admitted that he 'just couldn't get into the ice.' He fell to 22nd place, and it was Brown's finish combined with Malinin's that secured three men's spots for the US at the 2026 Olympics. Advertisement 'This is my third worlds in a pre-Olympic year,' said Brown. 'I've always delivered. I've always been able to do what I needed to do with my counterparts to get those three spots for the team.' Brown stepped up to the plate Saturday evening, and so did Lativa's Deniss Vasiljevs. He was the only men's skater to have also competed at the 2016 Worlds in Boston. A long-time fan favorite, Vasiljevs struggles with consistency, especially this season. He finished a disappointing sixth at the European Championships, and off the podium at two Grand Prix events. In the men's short program on Thursday, a fall landed him in 16th. But it all came together for Vasiljevs Saturday. He skated a grand interpretation of the ballet 'La Bayadere' with a deportment similar to a ballet master. Opening with a quadruple Salchow, he landed all of his jumps. As the music ended, he flung himself onto the ice for his ending pose and the audience rose to their feet. Earning a 172.27 in the free skate, Vasiljevs moved up to 11th overall. His goal all season had been to make it back to the TD Garden to skate at these Worlds, and not only did he do that, he skated his season's best. 'This energy here is not found anywhere in the world,' said Vasiljevs.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
XXXX: How England's players rated?
Thomas Tuchel's England made it two wins of two in World Cup qualifying with a ?? win against Lativa at Wembley. BBC Sport football news reporter Alex Howell rates how the players performed in Monday's World Cup qualifier - and you can see how BBC Sport readers rated them at the bottom of the page too.
BBC News
24-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
XXXX: How England's players rated?
Thomas Tuchel's England made it two wins of two in World Cup qualifying with a ?? win against Lativa at Sport football news reporter Alex Howell rates how the players performed in Monday's World Cup qualifier - and you can see how BBC Sport readers rated them at the bottom of the page too. Starting XI Substitutes How BBC Sport readers rated the players
