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| World Sports brief 19H00 GMT |
LONDON - Manchester City on Tuesday placed a temporary leader in his field after beating Aston Villa (15 º) by a comfortable 4-0 in the 20 th date of the Premier League, pending the outcome of his rival, City United, which is measured later in Birmingham (18 th). With a triplet of Ghana-born Italian striker Mario Balotelli and another defender Joleon Lescott, the men of peninsular Roberto Mancini also showed their good form and now pressure their neighbors and arch rivals, wards of Sir Alex Ferguson, who have least three matches to be imposed on his visit to Birmingham. In addition, the City, with 38 points, well ahead of Arsenal (3 º), who beat Chelsea (5 º) on Monday 3-1 at the 19 th date, which will shift the pitch of Wigan (17 °), Wednesday in one of the last matches of the present day. (AFP)ANKARA - The Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday denounced the violent attack perpetrated last week in Nicosia by Greco-Cypriot fans against a club in his country and added that it is an act "racist." Moreover, Erdogan criticized the responses of the European Union and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) for these incidents. "It is disturbing to see that racism and violence against the Turks progress in the Greco-Cypriot, while working in dialogue and reconciliation" between the two communities, said Prime Minister to Parliament. "Even an isolated incident shows who wants peace and who does not give a chance for peace in the island," Erdogan continued. Three young men of fifteen were arrested on 21 December after acts of vandalism recorded in which several people were injured and were in the Eleftheria stadium after the match between Apoel Nicosia and Pinar Karsiyaka, which resulted in victory first by 82-80. (AFP)SANTIAGO - The Argentine Marcelo Bielsa, coach of the Chilean soccer teams, handed the responsibility of leading the U-20 in the South American category to be held in January in Peru, Chile César DT Vacchi said Tuesday the coach local. "He (Bielsa) decided that I was the person. He relied on my job and things were doing well," Vacchi said at a news conference. After renewing his contract after Chile's participation in the World Cup, the Argentine tactician was also in charge of the U-20, in addition to his work with the adult selection. However, Bielsa announced that he would resign if Jorge Segovia Spanish businessman won the elections for the National Football Association (ANFP) at the polls Nov. 4. Segovia won that election but was disqualified from taking office. Bielsa has not returned to talk about it, but relatives have said they would be willing to continue in case of achieving a consensus solution. On January 7 elections will be repeated. (AFP)RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian striker of AS Roma, Adriano, denied on Tuesday having had contacts with the Corinthians with a view to possible links with Brazilian club in 2011. "I received no phone call from the people of the Corinthians. Just talked to Ronaldo who called me when I 'to Brazil, said" The Emperor "to the press.Adriano, who on Thursday will return to Italy, spent much of his vacation in Rio de Janeiro, in the slum where he grew up, Vila Cruzeiro. A week ago the player launched a social project to provide sports activities for 2,000 young people from the favela, located north of Rio and occupied by the police last November, supported by armored vehicles stormed the place looking for drug dealers to leave, they finally fled. (AFP)MONTEVIDEO - The Argentine Juan Sebastian Veron and Andres D'Alessandro, and Brazilian Neymar him out a little ahead of Dario Conca and are favorites to claim the scepter to the best player in America, according to the traditional survey organized by the newspaper El country of Uruguay. Veron, who won the Argentine Apertura Estudiantes de La Plata, D'Alessandro, who won the Libertadores Cup with Inter de Porto Alegre, and Neyman, FIG Santos budding make up the shortlist from which emerge the king of continent, to be announced on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Uruguayan Mauricio Victorino, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Silva, Vélez Sasfield, approached Conca, so surely will have a place in the ideal of the continent, ahead of the newspaper. (AFP)Semmering, Austria - The French Tessa Worley won the giant slalom Tuesday Semmering, Austria, its third consecutive victory in the discipline this season in World Cup skiing, and the fifth of his young career. Worley finished ahead of Germany's Maria Riesch and Kathrin Holzl with a lead of 62 and 68 cents, respectively. For its part, Riesch takes the head of the general classification at the expense of American Lindsay Vonn, who finished in seventh place at 1 seconds and 40 hundredths behind the winner. (AFP)
