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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Ernesto Pellegrini dead aged 84: Inter Milan's former president dies just hours before Champions League final
Inter are planning to honour Pellegrini against PSG in Munich RIP ERNESTO Ernesto Pellegrini dead aged 84: Inter Milan's former president dies just hours before Champions League final Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) FORMER Inter Milan president Ernesto Pellegrini has passed away aged 84 - just hours before the Champions League final. The Milan native owned the Serie A giants from 1984 to 1995. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Former Inter president Ernesto Pellegrini has died aged 84 Credit: Getty 3 Pellegrini was president at Inter for 11 years Credit: Getty 3 The Milan native was a boyhood fan of the Nerazzurri Credit: X / Inter Pellegrini grew up as a boyhood Inter fan and was the Nerazzurri's 17th president. He made his fortune in the catering business and was first admitted onto the board at the San Siro in 1979. Pellegrini purchased Inter from Ivanoe Fraizzoli in 1984. Under his leadership, Inter won a record-breaking Scudetto just four years later. READ MORE ON FOOTBALL TRANSFER LATEST Liverpool ANNOUNCE Frimpong, Bayern 'confident of Wirtz' Diaz updates They also secured the Supercoppa Italiana and two Uefa Cup titles, with the team including greats such as Jurgen Klinsmann and Lothar Matthaus. Pellegrini was inducted into the Club's Hall of Fame in 2020. He reportedly passed away at 8am on Saturday morning, per La Gazzetta dello Sport. Inter face PSG in tonight's Champions League final in Munich. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK The team will wear black armbands in his honour. Paying tribute on X, the team wrote: "President Ernesto Pellegrini has left us. "For eleven years he led Inter with wisdom, honour and determination, leaving an indelible mark on the history of our Club. "FC Internazionale Milano and all the Nerazzurri fans gather around his family." THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY.. The Sun is your go to destination for the best football, boxing and MMA news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunFootball.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Ernesto Pellegrini dead aged 84: Inter Milan's former president dies just hours before Champions League final
FORMER Inter Milan president Ernesto Pellegrini has passed away aged 84 - just hours before the Champions League final. The Milan native owned the Serie A giants from 1984 to 1995. Advertisement 3 Former Inter president Ernesto Pellegrini has died aged 84 Credit: Getty 3 Pellegrini was president at Inter for 11 years Credit: Getty 3 The Milan native was a boyhood fan of the Nerazzurri Credit: X / Inter Pellegrini grew up as a boyhood He made his fortune in the catering business and was first admitted onto the board at the San Siro in 1979. Pellegrini purchased Inter from Ivanoe Fraizzoli in 1984. Under his leadership, Inter won a record-breaking Scudetto just four years later. Advertisement READ MORE ON FOOTBALL They also secured the Supercoppa Italiana and two Uefa Cup titles, with the team including greats such as Pellegrini was inducted into the Club's Hall of Fame in 2020. He reportedly passed away at 8am on Saturday morning, per Inter face PSG in tonight's Champions League final in Munich. Advertisement Most read in Football Exclusive Breaking BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK The team will wear black armbands in his honour. Paying tribute on X, the team wrote: "President Ernesto Pellegrini has left us. "For eleven years he led Inter with wisdom, honour and determination, leaving an indelible mark on the history of our Club. Advertisement "FC Internazionale Milano and all the Nerazzurri fans gather around his family." THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY.. The Sun is your go to destination for the best football, boxing and MMA news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video . Like us on Facebook at
Scottish Sun
6 days ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Rangers hero says ‘it's hard to envisage me not being back' as he's quizzed on possible Ibrox return amid manager search
He already has coaching experience under his belt - and close ties with Steven Gerrard HERO'S WELCOME? Rangers hero says 'it's hard to envisage me not being back' as he's quizzed on possible Ibrox return amid manager search STEVEN DAVIS nay be just about the only name NOT linked to the vacant managerial post at Rangers at the minute. But the Ibrox legend admits he sees himself returning to the club in some shape or form in the future. Advertisement 3 Steven Davis had a brief spell in caretaker charge of Rangers in 2023 Credit: Willie Vass 3 He was a hero at the club as a player Credit: Getty 3 Davis with the Rangers 2008 Uefa Cup final squad Credit: AP:Associated Press Davis retired from playing just under 18 months ago due to the lingering effects of a knee injury that kept him sidelined for over a year. He stayed on at Gers as a coach and was briefly handed the interim job after the sacking of Michael Beale and before Philippe Clement was appointed. Since then he has been welcomed onto the Northern Ireland coaching staff under boss Michael O'Neill. He was mentioned as a potential addition to Steven Gerrard's backroom team if the former Gers manager returned to Ibrox to take charge of the Light Blues next season. Advertisement But when asked about a possible return to the club he played for a total of 239 times across two spells, Davis insists he hasn't heard anything on that front. He told BBC NI: "At this moment in time it's only rumours. I haven't heard anything else. "Obviously the club are going through the process in terms of who they are going to appoint as manager. "If the opportunity comes up it's obviously a club that's obviously very close to my heart, so let's see what happens in the next few weeks." Advertisement However, Davis explained that he would love to come back to the club one day - regardless of the role or the time frame. He added: "For me it's hard to envisage me not being back at the club in some capacity in the future whatever that may be, but you just don't know in football. Rangers icon Paul Gascoigne makes surprise Match of the Day appearance as footie greats pay tribute to Gary Lineker "You can't sort of plan that, you just have to wait for the opportunities and then once you have a decision to make then you make the decision. "Ultimately I want Rangers to be successful, they had another difficult season, but hopefully they can get back to winning trophies next season." Advertisement Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What is the furthest a footballer has been offside when scoring a goal?
'Leyton Orient's Charlie Kelman was four yards offside ' begins Jessica Hibbert. 'What's the furthest a player has been indisputably offside before going on to score?' In the spirit of Annie Hall, let's get Jeff Astle out the way so that we can relax and digest our offside goals better. His infamous tap-in at Elland Road in April 1971 isn't relevant here because Jessica asked specifically about goal scorers who were offside. In that case the controversy – 'And Leeds will go mad! And they've every right to go mad!' – was about the position of Colin Suggett and whether he was interfering with play. Scoring a goal is possibly the ultimate interference with play, and there are plenty of goal scorers who look bang to rights through modern eyes. Let's start with a couple from the World Cup. Roberto Baggio (Italy 2-1 England, 1990, although he probably should have had a penalty seconds earlier, and don't get us started on Nicola Berti's disallowed goal in the same game) Carlos Tevez (Argentina 3-1 Mexico, 2010) From the World Cup to League One, where Steven Fletcher's winner for Wrexham at Huddersfield this season had not so much a whiff of offside as a stench. Hearts' stirring Uefa Cup run in 1988-89 included a hard-fought 1-0 aggregate win over Austria Vienna, with Mike Galloway scoring the decisive goal in the away leg. We can't be certain because of the camera angles, but both Galloway and the creator, Walter Kidd, look so far offside that they could have done with their passports just in case. While Hearts lost to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals, Longford Town went all the way in the FAI Cup of 2003, beating St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 in the final to win their first major trophy. They would have won anyway, as the second goal from was the last action of the game, but it did not entirely satisfy the requirements of Law 11.1. Thanks to Mike Slattery for explaining the context behind this. The St Pat's keeper Chris Adamson had gone up for a corner, meaning Barrett was six or seven yards offside when he received the ball. 'I can't find a reference to any controversy about the goal,' writes Mike, 'meaning that nobody (including the match officials, apparently) realised there was anything wrong.' Barrett is clearest offside in terms of distance beyond the last defender, but our favourite – sent in by Pete Tomlin and others – is 's goal for Schalke against Basel in the 2013-14 Champions League. Basel's offside trap worked perfectly – or it would have done had the assistant registered that four Schalke players were offside. Schalke 04 indeed. One of them was Matip, who had time to go through the alphabet backwards before putting the ball into the net. Or, as the Uefa website said at the time, 'The Basel defence mistimed their offside trap as the forward's right-wing free-kick swung over, allowing Matip all the time and space he needed to chest down and plant past the stranded Sommer.' Thank goodness we've got VAR now. 'Last week you listed the worst European finals based on league position,' says Richie Farquhar. 'What are the best? How many times have two champions of their country met in the final?' Thanks to the netbusting adventures of Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku, Saturday's Champions League final between Internazionale and Paris Saint-Germain will involve only the champions of France. Nothing new there: only 13 out of 70 European Cup and Champions League finals have been between teams who both won their domestic title the same season. 1964-65 Inter 1-0 Benfica 1972-73 Ajax 1-0 Juventus 1976-77 Liverpool 3-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1990-91 Red Star Belgrade 0-0 Marseille (5-3 pens) 1992-93 Marseille* 1-0 Milan 1993-94 Milan 4-0 Barcelona 1998-99 Man Utd 2-1 Bayern Munich 2008-09 Barcelona 2-0 Man Utd 2009-10 Inter 2-0 Bayern Munich 2010-11 Barcelona 3-1 Man Utd 2014-15 Barcelona 3-1 Juventus 2016-17 Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus 2019-20 Bayern Munich 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain * Marseille were subsequently stripped of their French title but not the Champions League. 'My son is a goalkeeper and he wondered if there has ever been a professional goalkeeper in top-tier football who has worn No 10?' asks Dave Sturges. A number of you mentioned the bald maverick Cristiano Lupatelli, who wore No 10 when he played in Serie A with Chievo from 2001 to 2003. The shirt was vacant after Raffaele Cerbone left the club, which gave Lupatelli an idea. 'According to an interview with Italian goalkeeping website Il Numero 1 he said that it came about because of a bet with friends,' writes Pete Tomlin. 'He said: 'It all started as a joke, and it became a reality. I think it is a funny and nice thing.'' Jim Hearson tells us that, when Lupatelli rejoined Roma in the summer of 2003, he took the No 3 shirt. The No 10 wasn't available, alas, due to some clingy killjoy called Francesco Totti. 'Ignacio 'Nacho' Gonzáles did it for Argentina in the 1997 Copa América,' writes Pablo Zadunaisky. And here's the proof. 'Spurs finished 17th in the Premier League,' notes Paul Savage. 'Has a team ever finished lower while winning a European trophy in the same season?' The short answer is: nope. There have been finalists who finished lower than 17th – see last week's Knowledge – but, excluding the Intertoto Cup for obvious reasons, Spurs are the lowest of the low in this particular sphere. We think only eight teams have won a European trophy while finishing outside the top 10 of their domestic league. And here they are: 17 Tottenham Hotspur (Europa League, 2024-25)14 West Ham (Conference League, 2022-23)13 Internazionale (Uefa Cup, 1993-94)12 Arsenal (Fairs Cup 1969-70), Schalke (Uefa Cup, 1996-97), Sevilla (Europa League 2022-23)11 Aston Villa (European Cup 1981-82), Eintracht Frankfurt (Europa League 2021-22) 'Luis Suárez picked up a championship winner's medal for Ajax while playing for Liverpool against Spurs,' wrote Nick Young in 2011 and yes we did pluck this from the archive because of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia winning the title with Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli. 'Has a player ever won two championship winner's medals in the same season by playing for two different clubs in two different countries?' 'When Suárez was transferred from Ajax to Liverpool last winter, Urby Emanuelson also left Ajax for Milan. Unlike Liverpool, Milan did grab the title, so Urby won two championship titles this season,' writes Stephan Wijnen, who is clearly prepared to overlook the fact that Emanuelson has made only eight appearances for Milan, which wouldn't qualify him for a medal under Premier League rules. 'Wolves striker Kevin Doyle won a League of Ireland medal in November 2005, when my beloved Cork City clinched the title on the final day,' suggests Colin Owens. 'Doyler had left for Reading the previous June for a measly €117,000, where he would go on the fire the Royals into the Premier League, pocketing a Championship medal in the process.' Richard Bald would like to nominate Crawley Town's Scottish midfielder Willie Gibson as another player that fits the bill. 'He picked up winners' medals for Dunfermline in the Scottish First Division and for Crawley Town in the Conference,' he writes, but fails to mention which of the two titles Willie considers more prestigious. 'Sheffield United have lost their last eight games at Wembley,' weeps Darren White. 'Does anyone have a worse streak on that ground?' 'Billy Gilmour, who almost gave Napoli the lead in their title-winning victory on Friday night, has made 146 club appearances in his career without scoring a goal. Are there are any other midfielders with a similarly long drought?' wonders Rob McCluskey. 'The success of Scott McTominay, Billy Gilmour, Harry Kane and Eric Dier means that British players have won three of the big five leagues this season. Has that happened before? And have any countries managed five out of five?' wonders Philipp Lohan. 'Royal Union Saint-Gilloise have just won the title in Belgium – 90 years after their last championship in 1935. Are there any longer gaps between two national titles for any team?' asks Holger Seiffert. with your questions and answers
Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
The imperious finals record held by Spanish teams
Chelsea may be favourites heading into Wednesday's Conference League final against Real Betis, but one factor should make the Blues wary: Spanish teams have been invincible in finals. Since 2002, Spanish teams - including the national team - have played in 27 finals across the World Cup, European Championship, Champions League and Europa League/Uefa Cup and all 27 have had Spanish winners. Four Spanish club sides have been defeated in that time, but in all cases by fellow La Liga sides. The last time a non-Spanish team beat a Spanish one in a major final was in 2001 when Liverpool beat Alaves 5-4 in the Uefa Cup final and and Valencia lost the Champions League final to Bayern Munich. Of the 27 finals since, 10 have seen an English team defeated by a Spanish team - including internationally in the final of Euro 2024 last summer. It is this history that Enzo Maresca's Chelsea will be vying to end in Wroclaw.
