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Hong Kong businessman takes control of Portsmouth

Portsmouth are now under the control of Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai, the struggling Premier League club’s fourth owner this season, it emerged on Thursday.

A spokesman for the club confirmed that Chainrai’s company Portpin have taken a controlling interest in the financially-stricken club from former owner Ali Al-Faraj after exercising provisions linked to a 17-million-pound loan made to the Saudi businessman.

Chainrai hopes to stabilise the club before selling it on to new owners in order to recoup his investment, the spokesman said, adding that Peter Storrie, the chief executive, would continue to run the club.

The move means Portsmouth has become the second Premier League club to be controlled from Hong Kong following Carson Yeung’s takeover of Birmingham in October.

LONDON (AFP)

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Calgiari coach beats ´special one´ Mourinho to award

Cagliari’s Massimiliano Allegri won the coach of the year award for the 2008/09 season on Monday easily beating quadruple defending Serie A champions Inter Milan’s Jose Mourinho.

Allegri, 42, won the award with 40percent of the vote of his fellow coaches after guiding Sardinia-based Cagliari, who are regarded as one of the lesser lights in the league, into a respectable ninth place in last year’s championship.

Mourinho, who refers to himself as the ’special one’, received just 20percent of the vote.

Allegri arrived at Cagliari in 2008 after coaching lower division outfits Grosseto (2005-2007) and Sassuolo (2007-2008).

ROME (AFP)

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Czech midfielder Rajnoch joins Ankaragucu

Czech defensive midfielder Jan Rajnoch is moving from FK Mlada Boleslav to Turkey’s Ankaragucu, the Czech top-flight club announced on their website on Monday.

The 28-year-old Rajnoch, capped four times, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal. The price was not disclosed.

This is Rajnoch’s second contract abroad after he spent last spring on loan at German Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus.

English Championship side Newcastle revealed on Monday that Ankaragucu have also signed their Cameroon international midfielder Geremi on an 18-month deal.

PRAGUE (AFP)

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Edmilson returns to Spain with Zaragoza

Real Zaragoza have signed Brazilian international Edmilson from Palmeiras until the end of the season, with the option of keeping him for a further year, the Spanish club said on Monday.

The 33-year-old defensive midfielder is no stranger to La Liga, having played for European champions Barcelona for four seasons and then spent six months at Villarreal, before returning to Brazil with Palmeiras last year.

Edmilson has Italian as well as Brazilian citizenship so he will not occupy one of the positions reserved for players from outside the European Union, the club added.

He has earned more than 40 caps for Brazil and was part of the Brazilian side that won the World cup in 2002.

The player becomes the seventh new arrival at struggling Zaragoza since the start of the month, following defender Matteo Contini, goalkeeper Roberto Jimenez, strikers Adrian Colunga and Humberto Suazo, and midfielders Jiri Jarosik and Eliseu.

Zaragoza climbed one place to 18th in the table on Sunday after defeating minnows Tenerife 3-1.

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Nigeria beat Algeria to finish third in Africa Cup of Nations

Striker Obinna Nsofor’s second half goal gave Nigeria a 1-0 win over Algeria in the Africa Cup of Nations third-place playoff here on Saturday.

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Judge lifts media gagging order on John Terry

England and Chelsea defender John Terry was named on Friday as the sportsman behind a gagging injunction involving his private life.

Terry’s identity was revealed after a judge gave his reasons at London’s High Court for lifting the order which he originally granted at a private hearing last Friday.

It covered the alleged relationship between “LNS” – as married Terry was referred to in court – and another woman.

It also covered details about the relationship, including certain specific consequences, information leading to their identification and any photographs. Justice Tugenhadt was told that News Group Newspapers – publishers of tabloids The Sun and News of the World – wanted to publish a story about the footballer last Sunday.

The judge said: “I do not consider that an interim injunction is necessary or proportionate having regard to the level of gravity of the interference with the private life of the applicant that would occur in the event that there is a publication of the fact of the relationship, or that the applicant can rely in this case on the interference with the private life of anyone else.”

Terry, 30, who is expected to captain England at the World Cup finals this year, is married and has twins.

LONDON (AFP)

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Zaccheroni replaces Ferrara as Juventus coach

Juventus on Friday named Alberto Zaccheroni as their new coach in place of Ciro Ferrara, who was sacked after a string of poor results.

It is Zaccheroni’s first job since he was fired as coach of Torino in February 2007, and he takes charge of Juve in time for Sunday’s Serie A home clash with Lazio.

The 56-year-old has previously coached Udinese (1995-98), AC Milan (1998-2001) — with whom he won the 1999 scudetto — Lazio (2001-02) and Inter Milan (2003-04).

Ferrara’s departure had long been predicted after the Turin giants slipped to sixth in the league standings following five losses in their last six games.

They have also been knocked out of the Champions League and exited the Italian Cup, for a record of nine losses in 12 games played since the end of November.

Ferrara, a former Italy and Juventus defender, had been handed the job despite his lack of experience just before the end of last season after current Roma coach Claudio Ranieri was fired.

ROME (AFP)

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Ferdinand charged by FA over Fagan clash

Rio Ferdinand was left facing the prospect of a three-match ban after being charged with violent conduct on Tuesday by the Football Association.

The Manchester United defender faces disciplinary action after clashing with Hull forward Craig Fagan during the second half of Saturday’s 4-0 Premier League victory at Old Trafford that saw champions United return to the top of the table.

England international Ferdinand has until 1800GMT Wednesday to respond to the charge.

A regulatory commission will hear the centre-back’s case on Thursday.

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Hartson confident of winning cancer battle

Former Celtic, Arsenal and Wales striker John Hartson believes he is “already over the worst” in his battle against cancer which spread from a testicle to his lungs and brain.

Six months after being left in a critical condition following surgery to remove pressure on his brain, Hartson has resumed work as a football pundit and has established the John Hartson Foundation to promote awareness of the symptoms of testicular cancer and encourage other young men to seek early checks.

“It’s tough but I like to think I’m already over the worst,” Hartson said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper. In it, he revealed that he had undergone 67 sessions of chemotherapy in the space of three months, losing five stones (70 pounds, 32kg) in the process.

“I’ve had some wonderful news about the cancer,” he said. “It came at what I thought might be a horrendous meeting with my oncologist. You just don’t know what he’s going to tell you.

“But when we went in he was smiling. He told us that the cancer is all but gone and that the chemo had shrunk the tumours. When we heard that, the missus and I were crying and hugging each other in his office.”

Hartson, a father of three young children with a fourth due in early March, recently married his long-standing girlfriend, Sarah.

He is due to undergo further surgery on his lungs and brain over the next few months but he is upbeat about the future.

He said: “I was with the kids in the pool the other day and I thought, ‘This is what I want. I want to live’.”

Hartson is also hoping he can ensure that other men do not make the same mistake as he did in failing to see a doctor for four years after he first found a lump on a testicle.

“It was just me being stupid, and boyish, and not mature enough to face it,” he recalled. “I hoped it would just disappear. But the lump got larger.”

LONDON (AFP)

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Man City eye Real’s Gago – report

Manchester City have made an offer for Real Madrid’s Argentina midfielder Fernando Gago, who is desperate to leave the club after spending too much time on the bench, a Spanish newspaper said Monday.

Gago “will try until the end to convince Madrid to let him leave, and for that he is meeting on Monday with (sporting director) Jorge Valdando to discuss his future,” the daily Marca said.

“The best offer is from Manchester City, which is ready to pay 15 million euros.”

But it said Real appear reluctant to let him go.

Gago, 23, joined Real Madrid in January 2007 from Boca Juniors to replace another Argentinian, Fernando Redondo.

But he has spent much of this season on the bench, and is keen for more first-team play ahead of the World Cup in South Africa in June.

MADRID (AFP)

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