Wednesday July 10

AFCON: With the Video Assistant

Referee system introduced from the

quarter-finals, Sadio Mane has two

goals disallowed for offside after

VAR checks but Senegal still beat

Benin, thanks to a goal from Idrissa

Gueye. William Troost-Ekong gets a

last-minute winner as Nigeria win

2-1 against South Africa.

Thursday July 11

AFCON: Algeria blow a 1-0 lead

and miss a penalty in normal time

before scraping past Ivory Coast in

a shoot-out. They are joined in the

semi-finals by Tunisia, who beat

Madagascar 3-0.

ENGLAND: Arsenal’s Laurent

Koscielny, who will be out of

contract next summer, refuses

to travel on the club’s pre-season

tour of the USA.

ITALY: Milan give Atalanta

permission to play their home

Champions League games at San

Siro as their own stadium is being

renovated to meet UEFA standards.

SPAIN: Barcelona sign 16-year-old

Louie Barry from West Bromwich

Albion and the striker will play for

their under-19 Juvenil A side.

UKRAINE: Next season’s Ukrainian

Premier League will return to 14

teams before a further increase to

16 the following year.

Friday July 12

ALBANIA: The Court of Arbitration

for Sport dismisses Skenderbeu’s

appeal against a 10-year exclusion

from European competitions – the

longest ban ever imposed on a club

by UEFA for match-fixing.

FRANCE: Lyon complete the

signing of defender Joachim

Andersen from Sampdoria for

a fee rising to a club record €30m.

SPAIN: Barcelona meet Antoine

Griezmann’s €120m buyout clause

and sign the 28-year-old French

striker from Atletico Madrid.

Saturday July 13

ITALY: Bologna’s Sinisa Mihajlovic

reveals he is to receive treatment

for leukaemia but will remain as

coach during the process.

Sunday July 14

AFCON: Both sides have penalties

saved in normal time before

Senegal beat Tunisia in extra-time

with an own goal from Dylan Bronn.

In the second semi-final, Riyad

Mahrez scores with a free-kick in

the last minute of extra-time as

Algeria beat Nigeria 2-1.

EURO U19s: Spain kick off the finals

with a 4-1 win over hosts Armenia.

IRAQ: Despite losing 1-0 away at Al

Minaa, Al Shorta claimed the Iraqi

Premier League title as closest

challengers Air Force Club also lose.

KYRGYZ REPUBLIC: Dordoi beat

Alay Osh 2-1 to win the Super Cup.

SPAIN: Valencia sign Celta Vigo

striker Maxi Gomez for a reported

club record fee of €50m.

Monday July 15

SOUTH AFRICA: Former Kaizer

Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and

Mamelodi Sundowns striker Marc

Batchelor is shot dead near his

home in Johannesburg by two

men on a motorbike.

Tuesday July 16

CAMEROON: Clarence Seedorf

and his assistant, Patrick Kluivert,

are sacked after Cameroon failed

to defend their AFCON title.

GUINEA: Belgian coach Paul Put

is dismissed following elimination

from the Africa Cup of Nations

amid what the country’s football

federation calls an “atmosphere

of mistrust”.

UEFA CHAMP LEAGUE: On their

home European debut, Saburtalo

lose 3-1 to Sheriff but win 4-3

on aggregate. Former European

champions Red Star Belgrade beat

Suduva and also advance to the

second qualifying round.

Wednesday July 17

AFCON: Odion Ighalo’s fifth goal of

the tournament gives Nigeria third

place with a 1-0 win over Tunisia.

ENGLAND: Two days after resigning

at Sheffield Wednesday, Steve

Bruce takes over as manager of

Newcastle United. West Ham United

break their transfer record for the

third time in little over a year with

the £45m signing of Sebastien

Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt.

THAILAND: Ex-Japan coach Akira

Nishino takes charge of Thailand’s

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Own goal...the ball hits Tunisia’s Dylan Bronn (second from right) and sends Senegal into the AFCON Final

JULY 10-31, 2019