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RIYADH: Lionel Messi struck on his return to international duty Friday following a three-month ban as Argentina defeated fierce rivals Brazil 1-0 in a friendly in Riyadh. The Barcelona forward was suspended by CONMEBOL for accusing South American football´s ruling body of “corruption” after he was sent off in July´s third-place play-off with Chile at the Copa America. Messi netted ...

FARO: Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo scored another treble, moving closer to 100 international goals, as he led the European champions to a 6-0 drubbing of Lithuania in a Euro 2020 qualifier on Thursday. Ronaldo, whose hat-trick was the 55th of his career and ninth for Portugal, has 98 goals and could become only the second player to score a century ...

Star striker David Villa, Wednesday announced he will retire next month, ending a glittering career in which he won the World Cup, European Championships and Champions League. The 37-year-old Vissel Kobe striker said he will call it a day at the end of the 2019 J-League season after a 19-year career that took in Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Valencia while ...

KARACHI: Captain of the national women’s football team Hajra Khan has expressed anger over the lack of professionalism displayed during the ongoing National Games in Peshawar. In a series of Tweets, Khan, who is leading the Army’s women team, highlighted Pakistan Football Federation’s failure to inform her team regarding a change in a match schedule after which she was left ...

Roger Federer kept alive his hopes of a seventh ATP Finals crown on Tuesday, beating Italian debutant Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 at London’s O2 Arena. The Swiss third seed put himself under enormous pressure by losing his first match on Sunday in straight sets in Group Bjorn Borg to Dominic Thiem. The six-time champion was not at his fluent ...

By Ijaz Ahmad PESHAWAR, : Pakistan Army girls have set up two new national records on the first day while Sami Ullah and Najma of Wapda declared as the fastest Men and Women Athlete after grabbing gold medal in 100m in the Athletic Meet of the 33rd National Games being played at Qayyum Sports Complex on Monday. The first record ...

ISLAMABAD: Shooter Gulfam Joseph has become the latest Pakistani shooter to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after Khalil Akhtar and Ghulam Mustafa Bashir. “Joseph who is only 19 years old has qualified for the air pistol event of the Olympics. He had shown extraordinary talent by participating in the national senior category only a few months back,” Javed Lodhi ...

LAHORE: Punjab’s women hockey team showed excellent performance and reached in the semifinal stage of 33rd National Games women hockey event on Monday. Punjab thrashed HEC by 2-0 margin and booked a place in semifinal match. Punjab women team set up semifinal clash against Wapda while Railways will face Army in other semifinal encounter. The semifinals of women hockey will ...

In an attempt to test and boost the knowledge of local athletes regarding Pakistan’s sporting history, the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has staged a digital quiz for the participants of the ongoing National Games in Peshawar. The quiz, the first-ever in the history of National Games, is aimed at raising the athletes’ awareness about their well-being and also about the ...

Unbeaten Devin Haney successfully defended his WBC lightweight title for the first time with a unanimous decision over Alfredo Santiago on Saturday night. American Haney, who turns 21 on November 17, knocked Santiago down in the fifth round of a surprisingly close fight at Staples Center Arena in Los Angeles. This was Haney´s first defence of the 135-pound title which ...