World Soccer - UK (2019-11)

LINDA CAICEDO

The 14-year-old scored the goal that won

America their first Colombian Women’s League

title. America lost 2-1 to Independiente Medellin

but won 3-2 on aggregate. Both teams will now

represent Colombia in the Copa Libertadores

Feminina, although the minimum age to play in

the competition is 16, so Caicedo will have to

watch from the stands.

ESTEBAN

PAREDES

Became the

leading all-time

goalscorer in the

Chilean top flight

with 216 goals

in 387 games.

The 39-year-

old Colo Colo

forward beat the

previous record

set in 1975.

JOHN McGINN

The Aston Villa midfielder’s goals against San

Marino meant he became the first player to

score a first-half hat-trick for Scotland since

Lawrie Reilly against USA in a friendly in April

1952, 67 years ago.

OSCAR TABAREZ

The 72-year-old became the first coach to lead

a national team in 200 matches as Uruguay

drew 1-1 away to Peru. Suffering from a nerve

disorder that forces him to use crutches to walk,

his record does not include internationals during

his reign when he was unable to sit on the

bench either through illness or suspension.

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HEROES VILLAINS

LAMINE DIABY-FADIGA

The France under-18 striker was sacked by

Nice after he admitted stealing a watch worth

a reported £62,000 from team-mate Kasper

Dolberg. The teenager wrote on Twitter: “My

situation of failure contrasted with the success

and aura of Kasper. I lashed out at him for no

reason, perhaps out of jealousy.”

SAYED ALI REZA AGHAZADA

The former Afghanistan FA chief received

a five-year ban after he failed to report and

prevent sexual abuse of female players despite

their complaints.

JUAN BAUTISTA SOLER

The former Valencia president was jailed for two

years for attempting to kidnap Vicente Soriano,

the club’s former vice-president who later

succeeded him as president.

DOMINGO MITUY EDJANG

The former president of the Equatorial Guinea

Football Federation was banned from the

game for four years after being found guilty

of diverting FIFA development grants into his

own bank account. He left the federation a

reported £1.2million in debt and with salaries

unpaid for almost a year.

boycott the proposed expanded event.

The choice of China was criticised by

human-rights campaigners but FIFA president

Gianni Infantino said: “We have a social

responsibility due to the magnitude and the

power that football brings with it, but we don’t

do that by attacking, criticising anyone.”

The meeting also confirmed that the host of

the 2030 World Cup will be decided in 2024,

with the bidding process starting in 2022.

Jailed...Soler

Top goalscorer...Esteban Paredes

Landmark...Uruguay’s veteran coach Oscar Tabarez

Invited...Liverpool (in red) and Chelsea will play in 2021

Robbery...Nice sacked Lamine Diaby-Fadiga

“[Frank] Lampard rang to ask me not to pick Kante.

Fine, but sometimes it should go the other way too.

Maybe I should ask Lampard to play Giroud more”

France coach Didier Deschamps on the club-versus-country conundrum