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12 hours ago
- Sport
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PSG cruise over Atletico, Bayern thrash Auckland at Club World Cup
PSG too good for Atleti Paris Saint-Germain's Vitinha celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during their Club World Cup 2025 Group B football match against Atletico de Madrid at the Rose Bowl stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday. Photo: Yuri Cortez/AFP Image: Yuri Cortez/AFP Paris Saint-Germain laid down an ominous marker on their march towards global domination at the FIFA Club World Cup on Sunday as Bayern Munich showed no mercy to Auckland's amateurs with a ruthless 10-0 walloping. The first full day of action at the inaugural edition of the 32-team club tournament saw newly crowned European champions PSG produce a scintillating 4-0 rout of Atletico Madrid after Bayern's double-digit drubbing of Auckland City. The New Zealand minnows are one of the Cinderella stories of the tournament, made up of amateur players who had to take unpaid leave to travel to the United States. But Bundesliga Bayern were in no mood to be charitable and duly ran riot in Cincinnati. 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Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad loading Jamal Musiala scored a second-half hat-trick after coming off the bench while Kingsley Coman, Michael Olise and Thomas Mueller all netted twice. Sacha Boey scored the other goal in a Group C game that amounted to target practice for Bayern, who will face tougher tests against Boca Juniors and Benfica. "We have to remain modest but it was important to be able to say that we took the game seriously," said Bayern coach Vincent Kompany. "It was a good first match at the tournament, but of course challenges are going to grow and it's going to become more difficult." Auckland's interim coach Ivan Vicelich admitted that his team had run into the "reality of football against one of the world's top teams." "It is a dream for players coming from an amateur level to play in this environment," Vicelich said. "We knew it was going to be a very difficult game, playing against one of the top teams in the world, potentially one of the favourites for the Club World Cup, so we are just really proud of the players' efforts." 'Hungry' PSG rout Atleti While Bayern were left satisfied with a clinical opening, PSG delivered a statement win over Atleti in front of an 80,619 crowd at a sun-baked Pasadena Rose Bowl -- the venue for the 1994 World Cup final. The French champions shrugged off searing heat -- temperatures reached 31 degrees Celsius (88 Fahrenheit) shortly after the midday kick-off -- to produce the kind of adventurous, attacking display which became their calling card en route to their dazzling Champions League triumph earlier this month. Fabian Ruiz and Vitinha gave PSG a 2-0 lead by half-time before Senny Mayulu and Lee Kang-in sealed an impressive Group B win with late goals against an Atleti team who struggled to cope with the French side's multi-faceted attacking play. PSG are bidding to crown a superb season which saw them win four trophies at home and in Europe. On Sunday's evidence, few would bet against Luis Enrique's side from being crowned world champions. "We had the objective of making history this season, but this is a new chapter," Luis Enrique said in his post-match news conference. "It's a nice challenge for the players and the team, to want to keep winning. "The club is hungry, the fans are hungry, the players and the team are hungry, and that's a good feeling. We have the same objective as in other competitions, which is to go as far as possible and try to win it." Atletico manager Diego Simeone refused to cite the heat as a factor in his team's defeat. "We both played in the same weather conditions," Simeone said. "They played much better than we did. They have amazing players and that's why they've just won everything." Brazilian champions Botafogo hung on for a 2-1 win at a determined Seattle Sounders. The Copa Libertadores holders took the lead in the 28th minute when Jair Cunha rose superbly to head in a cross curled in at pace by Alex Telles. Igor Jesus doubled the advantage on the stroke of half-time with a bullet header. It was a different story after the break. The Sounders dominated possession and put Botafogo's defence under intense pressure, pulling a goal back through a deflected Cristian Roldan header. Seattle pushed forward in search of the equaliser but some desperate defending and fine goalkeeping from John saw the Brazilian club over the line. Palmeiras drew 0-0 with Portuguese giants Porto in Group A at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. AFP Get your news on the go, click here to join the IOL News WhatsApp channel.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Politics
- Forbes
Social Media Posts Claim Israeli F-35I Adir Shot Down In Iranian Raid
The F-35I Adir is an Israeli Air Force variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II (Photo by ... More Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images) Iranian media outlets reported on Friday that one of Israel's most advanced fighter aircraft was shot down during the early morning raid that struck multiple targets within the Islamic Republic. The news has gone viral on social media, claiming that an Israeli Air Force F-35I Adir, a variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter equipped with an Israeli-developed electronic warfare system, was downed by Iranian air-defense missiles. The Israel Defense Forces has not acknowledged losing any aircraft in the opening strikes of its Operation Rising Lion, which involved more than 200 warships that dropped a significant number of munitions, disabling Tehran's nuclear program and killing several high-ranking military officials and atomic scientists. There has been no confirmation of the destruction of one of the world's most advanced fighters. However, as of Friday afternoon, several accounts tied to officials or journalists within Iran have shared images of a downed F-35. Still, others on social media claimed the photos are actually from a United States Air Force F-35A Lightning II that crashed in May 2024 near Albuquerque, New Mexico, during a flight from the aerospace firm's Fort Worth, Texas, facility to Edwards Air Force Base, California. Another image was reported to show an F-35 burning after being struck by an Iranian air defense system may have been an edited image of a Russian fighter that was destroyed over Syria in 2015. This isn't the first time that Iranian media has reported that an F-35I Adir was destroyed, with the news then making the rounds on social media. It was last October that reports said that Iranian missiles struck the Nevatim Air Base, the home of two F-35I squadrons, and that the base and all its aircraft were "completely destroyed." As was the case last October, it is likely Iranian state media presented a fictional narrative and employed operatives on social media to share the story, helping it go viral. Experts have suggested this is part of a coordinated misinformation/disinformation campaign on Tehran's part, partially to draw attention away from the damage and destruction it incurred in its most recent engagements with Israel. Iran's proxies, including the Yemen-based Houthi militants, have also regularly made claims of striking and seriously damaging U.S. warships, shooting down American military aircraft, and even driving the U.S. Navy out of the Red Sea. Each of those reports originated in "official" channels but was amplified on social media, in part because few in the West are likely to monitor Iranian or Yemeni media outlets, but increasingly rely on social media as their primary source of news. This serves to rally those with anti-Western sentiments, while also sowing confusion. Americans who have come to distrust the mainstream media may even believe the reports and become further skeptical that the stories aren't being covered on the nightly news or via cable news outlets. Another consideration is that these reports circulate because there is a wishful thinking that they could be true. The Houthis, for example, did come worrisomely close to striking a U.S. Air Force F-35 earlier this spring while the aircraft was taking part in the Operation Rough Rider aerial campaign against the Tehran-backed group. The U.S. military didn't acknowledge the incident until The New York Times reported it, but that was only after posts on social media already claimed as much. It was also this spring that a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fell off the U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) after the ship was forced to make an evasive maneuver to avoid being hit by an incoming missile. The Pentagon was quick to report the loss of the Super Hornet, but it may have had a choice. In the social media era, it is impossible for such information to be hidden. That fact has been evident in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Even when the Kremlin hasn't acknowledged that its fighter or other aircraft were shot down, its military bloggers have confirmed the losses. That comes as Russian media, both its official channels and social media feeds, have also been overzealous in their claims. Such was the case two years ago when reports circulated on social media that the first German-supplied Leopard 2 main battle tank to Kyiv was destroyed in the fighting. It turned out that wasn't the case, but the claims continued until one was destroyed. The Kremlin hyped that loss as well as the subsequent destruction of the British-made Challenger 2 and American-made M1 Abrams MBTs. Yet, the false claims may have compromised the propaganda value of the actual destruction, as it was difficult to discern whether the reports were merely more misinformation. All of this is also a reminder that the old saying, "the truth is the first casualty of war," still rings true.
