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Daily Mirror
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Zara Tindall's Superga trainers she wore to the F1 Grand Prix are reduced to £21
Zara Tindall was the epitome of cool and casual when she attended the F1 Grand Prix in Bahrain, and you can shop her exact £70 Superga trainers with a huge £50 saving right now The Formula 1 Grand Prix is well underway for another year, and even the royals can't resist attending the world renowned event. Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall made a pit stop in Bahrain at last year's event, where the equestrian and daughter of Princess Anne was snapped next to one of the cars competing in the race. For the event Zara opted for a monochrome outfit that included a white blazer and black trousers, which she kept casual with a pair of cool and casual Superga trainers. The exact trainers Zara was wearing were the Superga 2630 Cotu, which is one of the brand's signature styles and is currently on sale with a huge £50 off. Usually priced at £70, they're currently on sale for £21 and still available in several sizes. You can pick them up in all sizes from a 2.5 to a 5.5, with larger sizes from 6 upwards currently out of stock. Although there are a few sizes of the white pair out of stock right now, there's plenty of other colourways in the same style which are all on sale, with a range of sizes available. We also spotted similar versions at Converse, with the Converse Cruise trainers currently reduced to £41.99 from £75. They have a similar cotton canvas upper with chunky rubber sole, with OrthoLite cushioning to make sure they stay comfortable all day. Meanwhile the Lace Up Flatform Trainers from Dune are now £69, down from £99. These have slightly more of a chunky platform, and are available in all-white, like Zara's Supergas, as well as various other patterns and colourways like leopard print, pink tweed and gold sequins. Zara's all-white sneakers, on the other hand, are made from a breathable cotton upper that's perfect for keeping your feet cool and comfortable during the summer heat. They have a reinforced rubber toe cap that gives them a utilitarian look, with ribbing details. The Superga 2630 Cotu trainers also have a chunky platform sole that balanced masculine and feminine style, making them perfect for a more casual, laid back look. The vulcanised rubber sole is also hard wearing and sturdy whilst still being comfortable and flexible, making them a great pick if you're planning on being on your feet all day. Superga also has several other all-white platform style trainers available, if you want to get a similar look to Zara. Shop Zara's Superga 2630 Cotu on sale now.
New York Times
11-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
How Uruguay won the 1950 World Cup: A truncated group stage, Ghiggia's illogical finish and an epochal clash with Brazil
This is the fourth in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each men's World Cup. Previous articles have looked at Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934 and then again in 1938. In 1950, Uruguay were crowned champions again to make it 2-2 between the two countries. Due to the Second World War, 12 years had passed since the previous World Cup in France — during which time the Jules Rimet Trophy had supposedly been stashed underneath the bed of Ottorino Barassi, president of the Italian football federation. As they retained their world title in 1938, his nation had held the game's most prestigious piece of silverware for 16 years. Uruguay had been the only other winners of the tournament in its inaugural staging. And they would come out on top again here. Advertisement Brazil were awarded the hosting rights for World Cup 1950, and therefore they were considered favourites to win it on home soil, just as Uruguay and Italy had done in 1930 and 1934 respectively. There was still something of an issue in terms of general participation. Only 31 of the 73 FIFA member nations entered, with Argentina refusing to compete in a tournament they'd wanted to host, West Germany banned from FIFA so soon after the war, previous finalists Austria and Czechoslovakia simply not entering, and Italy present but badly affected by the Superga air disaster in May 1949, in which several of their best players had died. Then France withdrew, after realising the considerable travelling that would be involved between games in a country as huge as Brazil. Brazil's downstairs neighbours Uruguay, obviously, didn't have to come far, and while the European nations struggled with the South American climate, it wasn't really an issue for the competition's 1930 winners. The structure of this tournament was somewhat bizarre, with Uruguay the major beneficiaries. The previous World Cup in 1938 had been contested as a straight-knockout tournament, but FIFA — controversially at the time — voted to move to a system featuring four groups of four, with the winners of each one progressing to the next stage. But withdrawals left the World Cup with only 13 competing teams, not 16. It was too late to conduct another draw, so Uruguay were fortunate to be placed in a two-team group alongside Bolivia (they had qualified without playing a game after Argentina withdrew), who they thrashed 8-0. Contemporary reports suggest the scoreline could have been much greater, had the Uruguayans — three up after 23 minutes — not eased off. Furthermore, no actual final was scheduled. The top four were to be decided on round-robin results in another (four-team) group, and therefore the organisers simply got lucky that Uruguay and Brazil, the two sides in contention for the trophy going into the final pair of games, met then at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. A draw would have been enough for Brazil to finish top of the final group and so lift the World Cup, which would have been a quite unsatisfactory climax. Uruguay needed a win. That final game was therefore not literally the final, but has come to generally be considered as such. While doubt persists about whether Uruguay's victorious manager in 1930 was truly a manager by today's definition of the job, there is scepticism about whether their manager in 1950 had complete authority over his side. While Juan Lopez Fontana had that role officially, the players grew unhappy with his defensive approach. Ahead of that final game against Brazil, the team held a meeting where they were encouraged by captain Obdulio Varela to be braver than Lopez Fontana had requested. Advertisement Indeed, at this stage in football's development, a team's captain was often considered more influential than the manager. Varela was commended for his pre-match team talks, for ordering his team-mates to behave in certain ways at key moments, and, after the tournament, for disobeying orders not to leave the team hotel, and going out drinking with Brazilians instead. Lopez Fontana, in fairness, was a highly-respected figure who was still in his job come the 1954 World Cup, then served as an assistant to several subsequent Uruguay managers. While other national teams had shifted towards a system featuring a third defender — the centre-half dropping back — Uruguay's base formation was more closely related to the system used by previous World Cup-winning sides: two physical defenders, three half-backs, two creative inside-forwards, two quick wingers and a centre-forward. That said, left-half Victor Andrade (nephew of fellow World Cup winner Jose Andrade from 1930) was written about in almost purely defensive terms, and right-half Schubert Gambetta is also sometimes listed as a defender, too. As other nations beefed up their defence by having the centre-half drop back, Uruguay were gradually moving their right-half and left-half in the same direction. This is why — as Jonathan Wilson notes in his book Inverting The Pyramid — Uruguay are unique in using the No 4 and No 6 as their full-backs in their traditional numbering system. Like every successful side in these early years of the World Cup, Uruguay 1950 had an outstanding centre-half in Varela, who was physically dominant and also a key attacking weapon. His late, long-range equaliser to secure a 2-2 draw with Spain in their opening match of the final group stage was crucial in allowing them to challenge for the trophy. Juan Alberto Schiaffino had all the hallmarks of a legendary South American attacker: slender, elegant, highly creative. He was regularly described as a 'genius' and played as the inside-left in Uruguay's five-man attacking line. He was a clever passer, an elusive dribbler and a prolific goalscorer all in one, notching three goals in this World Cup — including their second-half equaliser in the final. Advertisement He was also highly influential four years later at the next World Cup in Switzerland — Uruguay held Hungary, the outstanding side of that tournament, to a 2-2 draw after 90 minutes in the semi-final, but once Schiaffino got injured, they ran out of ideas. Schiaffino spent the majority of his career with Penarol, who he later managed, in his hometown of Montevideo. Upon his move to Milan following that 1954 tournament, he adopted a deeper role, roughly in the Andrea Pirlo mould, before eventually dropping back even further to become a renowned sweeper for Roma. Like many South Americans of this period who moved to Serie A, he also switched international allegiance and began to represent Italy rather than his homeland. He only played 21 times for Uruguay but is probably their greatest ever footballer. Brazil versus Uruguay. Bookmakers offered odds of just 1/10 for Brazil to lift the trophy, and there was such confidence across the host country after demolishing Sweden and Spain 7-1 and 6-1 respectively in their first two matches of the second group stage that various newspapers printed front pages on matchday hailing the anticipated triumph. The modern convention is for opponents to pin these pages up on the dressing-room wall as motivation. Uruguay took things a step further and used them to line the floor of their bathroom. This didn't help their inside-right Julio Perez, who was so intimidated by the crowd (174,000 officially, possibly around 200,000 unofficially, and probably the largest in football history) he wet himself as the anthems were being played. Foreshadowing Brazil's collapse, shortly before the game, their flag was raised… upside-down. Once the match kicked off it was all Brazil, with Uruguay defending their box manfully, and hoofing the ball clear rather than putting together any notable counter-attacks. But both sides hit the post before half-time — Oscar Miguez for Uruguay, Jair for Brazil. Advertisement Brazil went ahead barely a minute into the second half, with Friaca firing a low shot into the far corner from the right flank. This prompted Uruguay captain Varela to pick an argument with George Reader, the English referee, over a non-existent offside, which included him requesting an interpreter at one stage. Varela knew there had been no offside, he simply wanted to halt Brazil's momentum. Uruguay hit back, and their key player was now Alcides Ghiggia, who constantly motored past Brazil's hapless left-half Bigode. Midway through the half, he beat Bigode, looked up and found Schiaffino making a run to the near post for a cutback. The ball bobbled slightly before Schiaffino hit it, but this meant he produced a shot with both power and curl inside the near post, although he later admitted he hadn't intended to strike it quite in that manner. No matter, it was 1-1. That result would still see Brazil crowned champions. But the momentum was now with Uruguay. Ghiggia was the star player in the final, and having galloped down the Uruguay right to create the opener, he threatened to do the same thing 11 minutes from the end of the 90. Schiaffino was waiting to score a carbon-copy goal, and that's what Brazil goalkeeper Moacir Barbosa expected. But Ghiggia could also fire home at the near post, as he'd done a week earlier in that draw with Spain. That's what he did here, rifling home the winner. Barbosa was regarded as Brazil's best-ever at his position but got harshly blamed for what was, by the goalkeeping standards of the time, a relatively minor error, including having to flee his home after receiving death threats, He and Brazil's other Black players received disgraceful abuse after this loss, being labelled unpatriotic. Following this World Cup, Barbosa worked in an administrative role at the Maracana, scene of his disastrous moment. Several years after the event, he was presented with the goalposts he'd allowed the ball to squeeze between. He sawed them up, took them home and burned them, as a form of exorcism. Advertisement But that wasn't the end of his pain. Brazil's treatment of him was despicable, considering he was possibly the country's best goalkeeper of the 20th century. More than 40 years after this match, in a country big on superstition, he was both removed as a commentator from the broadcast of a Brazil game and shunned when visiting the national team's training camp, because of fears he would bring them bad luck. He died in 2000, aged 79, after years of loneliness. Amid all the anger they directed at their own team, Brazilians reacted sportingly to Uruguay's victory. They applauded the winners at their trophy presentation. Ghiggia was always respected in Brazil, returning to the Maracana in 2009 to be inducted into the stadium's walk of fame. He died in 2015 — 65 years to the day after his famous World Cup-clinching goal. All sorts of quotes have been attributed to Ghiggia, some of which seem a bit too Hollywood to be taken seriously. But his summary of the key moment is a nice analysis of the risk-and-reward of shooting for the near post, rather than crossing. 'Barbosa did the logical thing,' he reportedly said. 'And I did the illogical thing.' Surely not. Uruguay only played four games — two fewer than Brazil. Not only did they have the fortune to compete in a two-team opening group against minnows Bolivia, they didn't perform particularly well in the second one, having to come from behind in that 2-2 with Spain and only squeezing past Sweden 3-2 thanks to an 85th-minute goal. In contrast, Brazil had beaten the same opponents by a combined score of 13-2, having previously finished top of their (four-team) first-round group via clean-sheet wins over Mexico (4-0) and Yugoslavia (2-0) and a 2-2 of their own with Switzerland. In his history of the World Cup, Ian Morrison says their 1950 side played 'some of the finest football ever played at international level', while Brian Glanville described the Brazilians as playing 'football of the future — tactically unexceptional but technically superb'. Their three central attackers, in particular — Jair, Zizinho and Ademir — received rave reviews for their combination play. Advertisement But ultimately Brazil, as a nation, exuded overconfidence going into the final game, and the players themselves suffered from nerves — not for the last time in a World Cup. Often, knockout competition can produce the 'wrong' winners, but this World Cup was decided by a league table, which tends to favour the better sides on paper, and Brazil still couldn't get over the line. They would have to keep on waiting. By the time of the next World Cup, they had ditched their white kit, now associated with this 1950 failure, in favour of the yellow, green and blue strip known worldwide today. Four editions in, the World Cup had still been won by only two nations, with Italy and Uruguay crowned champions of the two tournaments played on their home continents of Europe and South America respectively. But things were about to change in 1954. (Top photos: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton)
Fashion United
30-04-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
BasicNet: consolidated revenue at 98.3 million euros in first three months
Today, the board of directors of BasicNet spa reviewed the group's performance as of March 31, 2025. Based on the figures, aggregate sales of products bearing the group's brands, developed worldwide by the network, totalled 268.8 million euros, compared to 261.2 million euros for the first three months of the previous year (plus 2.9 percent). Sales by commercial and direct licensees amounted to 203.2 million euros (198.1 million euros as of March 31, 2024, plus 2.6 percent), while sales by production licensees totalled 65.6 million euros (63.1 million euros as of March 31, 2024, plus 4.0 percent). Sales by commercial and direct licensees increased by 4.6 percent in Europe. Sales in other regions increased by 3.3 percent in Asia and Oceania, and by 7.0 percent in the Middle East and Africa, while the Americas saw a slowdown of 27.7 percent. Consolidated revenue totalled 98.3 million euros (101.6 million euros as of March 31, 2024, minus 3.3 percent). The Superga store in Turin Credits: BasicNet spa On February 28, BasicNet and Permira signed an agreement for Permira to acquire 40 percent of the share capital of K-way spa. The transaction had a significant impact on consolidated shareholders' equity and the consolidated net financial position, according to the note, 'which benefited from an increase of 169.9 million euros. In order to provide a more accurate representation of the group's economic performance in the quarter, the indicators below have been prepared on the basis of a pro forma consolidated balance sheet, which excludes the extraordinary economic effects resulting from the disposal and, in particular, the related costs (amounting to 16.7 million euros)'. The capital gain from the sale, provisionally amounting to 141.5 million euros, is only recognisable in the separate financial statements of BasicNet spa. EBITDA totalled 12.7 million euros (12.4 million euros as of March 31, 2024, plus 2.2 percent); EBIT amounted to 7.5 million euros (8.2 million euros in the first three months of 2024, minus 7.5 percent), after allocating depreciation of tangible and intangible assets of 2.5 million euros and depreciation of rights of use of 2.6 million euros, an increase due to new openings as part of the development of the retail sector. In an evolving environment, influenced by a variable geopolitical and macroeconomic scenario, the group, the note specifies, continues to focus on medium-to-long-term growth with the aim of creating brand value, through the development of the network of stores and continuous investment in communication to support the brands. This article was translated to English using an AI tool. FashionUnited uses AI language tools to speed up translating (news) articles and proofread the translations to improve the end result. This saves our human journalists time they can spend doing research and writing original articles. Articles translated with the help of AI are checked and edited by a human desk editor prior to going online. If you have questions or comments about this process email us at info@
Daily Mirror
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Kate Middleton-loved trainers that 'look good with everything' have been slashed by £35
Schuh's spring sale has discounted hundreds of styles, including knocking £35 off of Kate Middleton's go-to Veja trainers that 'look good with everything' Sustainable footwear brand Veja has a few major A-list celebrity fans, from Em Rata to Emma Watson and Meghan Markle. The brand even has the royal stamp of approval from Kate Middleton. Princess Kate has been wearing Veja trainers for years, favouring the Esplar Trainers in white and gold. And we've found where you can shop the exact style for £35 less. Originally priced at £120, these classic trainers are now £84.99 in Schuh's spring sale. The white and gold colourway favoured by Kate are only available in a few remaining sizes. However, the white and silver colourway that look pretty similar are available in all sizes, with the £35 discount. Veja's are often hard to come by on sale, especially with all sizes available, so this is a bit of a rare occurrence, and we think they won't last for much longer. Arguably one of Kate's 'trendiest' pairs of trainers, the Princess has worn these trainers on multiple different informal royal occasions. And it seems when she's not sporting a more athletic pair, she keeps her trainers sleek and polished by opting for clean, white ones rather than anything too loud. Featuring premium leather uppers and EVA cushioned insoles, these VEJA trainers are known for providing all-day comfort. And not only are they comfy, but they pair well with everything. Thanks to the simple white colour and simple metallic V logo, these stylish kicks are the perfect 'smarter-looking' trainer for casual events and even work, if your office allows it. Another pair of trainers Princess Kate is a big fan of and has been spotted wearing multiple times is Superga's Unisex Cotu Classic Trainers, and they are currently reduced on Amazon from £50 to £39.99. Alongside the white Superga's, Kate is also a fan of the 2750 Cotu Classic in khaki. She teamed the pair with a khaki gilet, blue button-up shirt and slim-leg jeans back in 2020 during her visit to Fakenham Garden Centre in Norfolk. You can shop the Superga 2750 Cotu Classic Trainers in Khaki for £100.
Al Etihad
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Al Etihad
UAE Team Emirates claims victory in 2025 Milano-Torino race
20 Mar 2025 10:50 ROME (WAM) Playing the final few kilometres to perfection, UAE Team Emirates-XRG's young Mexican star Isaac del Toro claimed victory in the 2025 Milano-Torino on Wednesday 21-year-old recently impressed in Tirreno-Adriatico in service of eventual race winner Juan Ayuso, but given his own opportunity in Turin, the young climber rose to the fore and picked off his first ever one-day victory was no less than UAE Team Emirates-XRG deserved, with each and every rider of the Emirati squad producing a sterling display to set up Del Toro for the finale. It was Del Toro who provoked the race-winning attack alongside Ben Tulett (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling), before the Mexican outsprinted both rivals to the a well-deserved bow as he crossed the line, Del Toro became the first winner of the world's oldest Classic to triumph atop the Superga since the climb was last used in 2021. He becomes the first UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider to ever win the race, and ensures that the team enacts revenge after finishing 2-3-4 in last year's making Milano-Torino his first career one-day victory, Del Toro also becomes the first Mexican winner of the race in its 149-year shortly after the finish, Del Toro could not contain his delight at getting off the mark for Toro said, "I am super happy about it, the team worked really hard for this. I am super happy, really. I realise my first victory this year and I cannot be more happy. I really enjoy and I really like this race, and I cannot believe I made it. In the end, I played my cards and it is so special."It was with a little over 200m to go that Del Toro stole a march and powered around Tulett, with Halland Johannessen's hopes extinguished and the Visma-Lease a Bike climber unable to produce a response. Del Toro claimed UAE Team Emirates-XRG's 19th victory of the campaign and did so with the fastest-recorded ascent of Superga in recent years. Milano-Torino Results 1. Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 3:56:492. Ben Tulett (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1″3. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling) +9″ 4. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +24″
