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2023 WWC: Cancer Survivor Seals Victory for Columbia in a 2-0 win over South Korea.

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Tuesday morning sealed a win for the Powerpuff Girls of Columbia over South Korea 2-0 in a group H encounter of the women’s world cup at the Allianz Stadium, Moore Park in Australia.

Jet black complexioned 18year old Linda of Real Madrid playing for the first time for Columbian senior team in shirt number 18 had Ovarian Cancer from age 15. She had pounced on a weak goal kick shot, beat two defenders in a row and curled the ball that slipped through the hands of Korean goalkeeper in the 39th minute into the net.

Catalina Usme had opened goals account for Columbia in the 30th minute from the penalty spot sending the ball into the bottom –left corner and making the Korean goalkeeper go the wrong way.

S. Shim had handled the ball in the box, bagging a yellow for stopping a goal bound shot though unintentionally.

Columbia has never conceded a goal after 70 minutes of their games. They dismissed Korea here with their first half performances.

The Powerpuff girls are now level with Germany on points though inferior by goals aggregate. Germany had whipped Morocco in the highest scores so far at the tournament 6-0 in the group opener yesterday Monday.

Koreans have lost their opening games in each of their four appearances at the mundial failing to score in each of those games and conceding a total 11 goals now.

South Korea and Columbia met twice on 10th November 2017 when South Korea won 2-1 and on 26th of March 2019

Columbia nicknamed THE POWERPUFF GIRLS, seem to have been fired up while on preparation for the tournament defeating Paraguay 2-0 on 20th November 2022; played goalless with USA on 29th January 2023; defeated Japan 2-1 on 28th March 2023; piped Iraq 1-0 on 16th June 2023 and on 20th June unbelievably beat Germany 2-0.

South Korea had beaten Portugal in a World Cup game 2-1 on 2nd December 2022 but lost to Brazil 4-1 in another world cup game on 5th December 2022. South Korea lost to Uruguay in a friendly match 1-2; lost to Peru 0-1 on 16th June 2023 and played 1-1 with El Savador on 26th June 2023.

Columbia is in her third appearance at the world cup but her best performance was to place 12th at the games in Canada 2015 after losing to USA 0-2 in the Round of 16 at Edmonton on 22nd June.

South Korea , THE ASIAN TIGERS are in their 4th appearance but her best performance too was in the Round of 16 at the same games in Canada 2015 where France stopped the Tigers by 3-0 on 21st June at Montreal.

Still expected are New Zealand versus Philippines at 0630 hours and Switzerland versus Norway at 0900 hours.

Morocco will try to redeem their image against South Korea on 30th July in the second round match at Hindmarsh Stadium Adelaide while Germany will same day meet Columbia at Sydney Football Stadium. The last group matches will be between South Korea and Germany at Lang Park, Brisbane on 3rd August with simultaneous matches seeing Morocco and Columbia at Perth Rectangular Stadium.

On Wednesday, 26th July Japan will meet Costa Rica in a group C second round match at 6000 hours at Forsyth Barr Stadium. Sane day at 0830 hours it will be the turn of Spain and Zambia also in the second round matches of Group C. Canada will slug it out with Ireland at 1300 hours at the NIB stadium in a group B second round match where Nigeria is to earn her first win.

By Eniola Olatunji

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Barca Pissed As Yamal Caught In All Night Romp With Strange Model

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Recently, Barcelona’s young star Lamine Yamal has once again found himself embroiled in off-field controversy. Just days after the defeat in the Clásico, on Monday local time last week, he was photographed travelling to Milan with several friends.

 

According to renowned paparazzo Jordi Martín, Yamal attended a party with a prominent Italian model during his trip and spent the night with her – a woman who is not his current girlfriend. Rumours suggest Yamal had previously shared an ambiguous relationship with this model before he began dating his current partner.

During his stay in Milan, Yamal attended a party with a prominent model who was not his current girlfriend Nicki Nicole. It is understood that this model, Anna Gegnoso, is Italian and rumoured to have had a prior romantic connection with Yamal before his relationship with Nicki Nicole began.

According to the photographer, Yamal first attended the party with Anna that evening before the pair spent the night together at Milan’s Armani Hotel – an incident that would undoubtedly displease Nicki Nicole should it prove true. Furthermore, Yamal and his accompanying friends deliberately obstructed media personnel from capturing photographs and footage at the scene.

Jordi Martin further disclosed that this behaviour has provoked considerable displeasure among Barcelona’s club hierarchy. They have grown weary of Yamal’s lifestyle. Several weeks prior, whilst injured, he flew to Croatia for a holiday with Nicki Nicole, publicly sharing photos of their trip on social media – an act that already drew criticism.

This latest incident – reportedly flying to Milan for revelry within hours of the Clásico defeat – has only exacerbated the situation. Particularly given his lacklustre performance against Real Madrid, he now finds himself dominating headlines for off-field reasons.

These successive off-field incidents, coupled with his earlier controversial remarks about Real Madrid at an event, have increasingly raised concerns within Barcelona’s ranks. Club officials fear he is becoming increasingly overwhelmed by this “noise,” drifting away from his core focus on football

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Ronaldo , Messi Top Penalty Misses Ranking List

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According to the statistics in 2025/10/13, here are the top 7 players who miss most of the penalty.

 

Ranking of the number of missed penalties:
1. Cristiano Ronaldo: Missed 34 penalties, a total of 211 penalties taken, penalty kick success rate 83.8%

2. Lionel Messi: Missed 32 penalties, a total of 145 penalties taken, penalty kick success rate 77.9%

3. Neymar: Missed 22 times, a total of 113 penalties, penalty kick success rate 80.5%

4. Francesco Totti: Missed 20 times, a total of 106 main penalties, penalty kick success rate 81.1%

5. Ciro Immobile: Missed 19 penalties, a total of 105 penalty kicks taken, penalty kick success rate 81.9%

6. Zlatan Ibrahimović: Missed 17 penalties, a total of 104 penalty kicks taken, penalty kick success rate 83.6%

7. Ronaldinho: Missed 16 penalties, a total of 85 penalty kicks taken, penalty kick success rate 81.1%

Note: This data does not include penalty kicks missed in penalty shootouts

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Former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has been named Norwich City caretaker manager

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Wilshere will take charge of the Sky Bet Championship club following the sacking of Johannes Hoff Thorup.

Thorup’s number two, Glen Riddersholm has also left Carrow Road on Tuesday.

Wilshere, who was part of the coaching crew under Thorup will be assisted by Tony Roberts and Nick Stanley.

Norwich City have two games left in their Championship campaign.

Sporting director Ben Knapper said: “Whilst we made this appointment with a long-term focus and in line with our wider club strategy and direction, unfortunately recent results and performances have deemed it necessary for us make a change.

“I’d like to place on record our sincere thanks to Johannes and Glen. They are both fantastic people who worked tirelessly to help improve and move our football club forward.

“We all wish the two of them the best in the next stage of their respective careers.

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