 | Qatar beats KSA to enter
Asian men handball final DEFENDING champion Qatar
packed many a punch to rout
Saudi Arabia in the semi-finals
of the Asian Junior Men´s
Handball Championship on
Wednesday.
The Qatar Sports Club hall
reverberated with shouts of
cheers every time the home
team netted.
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| | All-Egyptian
finals in world
junior squash
today |  IT will be an all-Egyptian show
in the final of both the men and
women´s classes at the Doha
WSF World Junior Squash
Championship at the Khalifa
International Tennis and
Squash Complex on Thursday.
Three of the four matches on
Wednesday provided the
expected winners. The only
upset result came when
Yathreb Adel defeated second
seed Emily Whitlock in three
games after the English player
needed medical attention following
a mid-court collision.
Adel had won the first game
and was ahead 9-7 at that
point. Later, when Whitlock
returned to the court to resume
the fight, she could not find the
same mobility and strokes and
the Egyptian won by 11-8 13-11
11-7 in 45 minutes.
Adel will clash with top seed... | | | I have learned from
Chelsea flop, says AVB |  TOTTENHAM manager
Andre Villas-Boas believes
the painful lessons of his dismal
spell in charge at Chelsea
will help him succeed at
White Hart Lane.
Villas-Boas was the surprise
choice to replace Harry
Redknapp at Spurs following
a turbulent period with
Chelsea that ended with the
Portuguese coach sacked
after just eight months.
At the time of Villas-Boas´s
dismissal, Chelsea were a club
in crisis following reports of
rifts between the manager
and a host of senior players
including Frank Lampard,
Ashley Cole and Nicolas
Anelka.
But the Blues improved to
such an extent after his exit
that they were able to win the
Champions League and FA
Cup. The 34-year-old
acknowledges he made mistakes
during his time at
Stamford ... | | | Maradona needed more time: UAE FA chief |  THE FIRING of Diego
Maradona as coach of Al Wasl
will be a loss for professional
football in the United Arab
Emirates, the head of the country´s
Football Association said
on Wednesday, after the former
Argentina great helped
put the league on the global
map. Yousuf al-Sarkal, said
he was "disappointed" to hear
that Al Wasl had fired
Maradona and said he should
have been given more time to
turn around the Dubai club.
He said that the club´s failure
to win any trophies and its
eighth-place finish in the 12-
team league cannot be solely
blamed on Maradona, adding
it was a "collective work involving
the coach, players and
management." Maradona
was fired on Tuesday after one
season in charge, having
signed a two-year deal ... | |
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