2010 World Cup semi-finalists Uruguay defeated Portugal 2-1 in a World Cup last-16 clash on Saturday.

Countries of both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were eliminated during the same day after Messi’s Argentina suffered a 4-3 defeat against France during the earlier game.

PSG striker Edinson Cavani was the star of the day. He put his country ahead during the 7th minute before veteran defender Pepe drew level for Portugal at the 55th minute. Cavani then went on to curl home a superb strike during the 62nd minute.

Uruguay will now play against France on Friday in what promises to be a pulsating encounter. While France is one of the favorites to win the tournament, Uruguay is capable of beating any team if the likes of Cavani and Luis Suarez are able to shine.

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England defender Gary Cahill is confident that his side will learn from their 1-0 final Group stage game defeat against Belgium on Thursday.

The game was a fairly boring game and both sides opted to rest their key players as both had already qualified for the round of 16 even before kickoff.

The result, however, means that Belgium are the group winners and they will play against Japan in the last 16. England meanwhile will play against Colombia in what will be a testing encounter for Gareth Southgate’s men.

While England are out of the group and have bettered their performance from 2014 where they were knocked out during the group stage, the result will be frustrating to many die-hard England fans.

Many critics of England have also criticized them for failing to rise up against the big guns and this result will do nothing to silence their doubters.

Cahill said: “The Belgium game was a reminder to us of the standard of teams we are coming up against from now on. No disrespect to Panama, but that was a different test. The way they (Belgium) moved positions and kept the ball – it was a good benchmark for what is to come. We made eight changes, nine if you include the substitution at half-time. Things were always going to be a little bit disjointed.”

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During the 2017-18 season, the Oklahoma City Thunder had a mixed bag of results.

One of their best players during the season was guard Corey Brewer. During that time, Brewer enjoyed some success on the field and appeared to be enjoying his football.

That has been confirmed by his admission that he would love to join the team again.

The 32-year-old started off the season as part of the Lakers side. However, he was struggling to play well his time with the Lakers as evidenced by the fact that he only managed to log 12.9 minutes per contest for the Lakers side which is very young and inexperienced.

After he was struggling this season, both Brewer and the Lakers came to an agreement on a buyout so that he could have a better chance of playing regularly again.

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Belgium stars Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard scored two goals apiece to guide their country to the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup as they punished Tunisia 5-2 on Saturday.

The result leaves the Belgians as the favorites to win Group G and also adds impetus to their status as one of the favorites to win the World Cup.

Belgium was the top team throughout the game against the Africans who have extended their winless World Cup run to 13 games.

Belgium found the lead during the 13th minute after Tunisian goalkeeper Syam Ben Youssef brought down Hazard in the area and the Belgian captain made no mistake in converting the resulting spot-kick.

Lukaku doubled the lead during the 16th minute following a brilliant pass from Dries Mertens. Tunisia, however, managed to pull one back just two minutes later as Dylan Bronn took advantage of some shaky defending from the Belgians.

The Belgians scored their third and put the result beyond doubt during first-half stoppage time as Thomas Meunier fed in Lukaku who scored his second for the game.

Hazard completed the rout six minutes into the second half as he linked up with Kevin de Bruyne.

Lukaku’s brace took his tally for the tournament to 4 goals. He is level with Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo as the top scorer of the tournament.

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South African star David Miller has become the latest high-profile cricketer to sign up to play in the first-ever Canada T20 League.

Miller is regarded as one of the best T20 batsmen in World cricket and recently won the KFC Colonel’s Always Original Award for his fastest T20 century against Bangladesh.

He follows in the footsteps of disgraced Australian cricketers Steve Smith and David Warner. Both Smith and Warner were handed lengthy bans from international cricket after being found guilty of ball-tampering during Australia’s recent test series in South Africa.  Other players who have signed up for the League include West Indies and Chennai Super Kings star Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Shahid Afridi, Lasith Malinga, Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell.

The tournament will take place between 28 June-15 July and will feature team’s from Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, and Winnipeg as well as a team from the Carribean all competing.

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The USMNT suffered their first defeat under new interim manager Dave Sarachan as they conceded a 90th-minute goal to go down 2-1 against Ireland in a friendly international on Saturday.

The match also served as a farewell for John O’Shea, who ended his Irish international career aged 37, though he intends to play on in club football.

The US defeated Bolivia 3-0 last week through goals from Josh Sargent, Tim Weah, and Walker Zimmerman. For this match, a number of changes were made. Wonder-kid Christian Pulisic was left out while DeAndre Yedlin was called up.

Bobby Wood gave the US the lead with the final kick of the first half after Matt Miazga headed the ball from Will Trapp’s free-kick and Wood leaped to poke the ball into the net.

Ireland found an equalizer during the 57th minute from a corner as Graham Burke scored.

Alan Judge came off the bench to score a winner for Ireland as he beat goalkeeper Bill Hamid with a left-footed blast.

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The US national team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

Not only was this an embarrassment, but it also proved that the efforts which are being put in towards growing the game in the country are not paying dividends.

Some believed that the US’s failure to qualify for the World Cup was due to Jurgen Klinsmann’s habit of using foreign-born players while others feel that it was due to Bruce Arena’s decision to mainly rely upon MLS players, many of them who were old and well past their prime such as Tim Howard, DaMarcus Beasley, Clint Dempsey and Chris Wondolowski.

During an interview with ESPN, one anonymous “former U.S. international” highlighted that the downfall of US soccer may be due to the selection of dual-national players.

“There was definitely a thought process that [the German-Americans] were great when the World Cup came around, but they didn’t want to go down and fight in a game like Trinidad or in Honduras or Guatemala, the travel and that kind of stuff,” the former U.S. international said. “A guy like Fabian Johnson, in big games, in qualifiers, at times it just looked like he was going through the motions.”

The US certainly look like they are going in a different direction from learning from their failures. The team that recently defeated Bolivia featured many American born youth who are playing for big clubs across Europe.

The future looks bright for American soccer.

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Golden Boy Promotion’s Oscar De La Hoya is threatening that Canelo Alvarez will not fight against GGG on September 15th.

De La Hoya has suggested that the Mexican could end up fighting against Spike O’Sullivan rather than Golovkin.

A fight against O’Sullivan would likely struggle to sell more than 250,000 views and should be an easy win for Canelo. On the other hand, a fight between Canelo and GGG would easily attract more than 1.5 million viewers due to the fact that both fighters are considered to be the best of this generation.

Last September, the two fighters fought to a controversial draw which sold 1.3 million buyouts. The two were meant to have a rematch on May 5th, however, Canelo had to pull out after he tested positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol.

The fight was supposed to be split 65-35 in Canelo’s favor.

Golovkin should not be accepting anything less than 50-50. He is a respected fighter and Canelo was the reason why the first fight did not go ahead so he should be the person who makes a sacrifice.

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DeAndre Yedlin was added to the United States Men’s national team roster for upcoming friendly internationals against Ireland and France.

The Newcastle United defender was added to the squad along with midfielder Tyler Adams and striker Bobby Wood while Christian Pulisic, as well as Walker Zimmerman, Alex Bono, Ethan Hovarth, Matt Olosunde, Alejandro Guido and Lynden Gooch were all dropped, as coach Dave Sarachan looks to experiment with different combinations and players.

The US are currently trying different styles and combinations as they prepare for the 2022 World Cup cycle. They suffered heartbreak late last year as they failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the 1986 event.

The Americans first play against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. The Irish also did not qualify for the World Cup.

They then face a tough test on June 9th as they play against France. France is one of the pre-tournament favorites to win the World Cup in Russia and their players will be looking to impress during the game.

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South African cricket coach Otis Gibson has revealed that the retirement of AB De Villiers came as a shock to him.

De Villiers shockingly announced last week that he would be retiring from all forms of international cricket with the World Cup just a year away. He will continue to play franchise and T20 cricket.

During his 14-year international career, De Villiers established himself as one of the best South African batsman and fielders of the modern era as well as one of the most entertaining batsmen of the modern era.

Gibson has since revealed that he had a conversation with De Villiers a day before the announcement was made, but was unable to change the mind of the 34-year-old.

“He called me the morning before he made the announcement,” said Gibson.“We had a long conversation about whether he was making the right decision.”

Gibson said De Villiers’ decision had been a shock to him. “He is one of the best players in the world. He could have made a huge difference in the World Cup.”

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2010 World Cup semi-finalists Uruguay defeated Portugal 2-1 in a World Cup last-16 clash on Saturday.

Countries of both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were eliminated during the same day after Messi’s Argentina suffered a 4-3 defeat against France during the earlier game.

PSG striker Edinson Cavani was the star of the day. He put his country ahead during the 7th minute before veteran defender Pepe drew level for Portugal at the 55th minute. Cavani then went on to curl home a superb strike during the 62nd minute.

Uruguay will now play against France on Friday in what promises to be a pulsating encounter. While France is one of the favorites to win the tournament, Uruguay is capable of beating any team if the likes of Cavani and Luis Suarez are able to shine.

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England defender Gary Cahill is confident that his side will learn from their 1-0 final Group stage game defeat against Belgium on Thursday.

The game was a fairly boring game and both sides opted to rest their key players as both had already qualified for the round of 16 even before kickoff.

The result, however, means that Belgium are the group winners and they will play against Japan in the last 16. England meanwhile will play against Colombia in what will be a testing encounter for Gareth Southgate’s men.

While England are out of the group and have bettered their performance from 2014 where they were knocked out during the group stage, the result will be frustrating to many die-hard England fans.

Many critics of England have also criticized them for failing to rise up against the big guns and this result will do nothing to silence their doubters.

Cahill said: “The Belgium game was a reminder to us of the standard of teams we are coming up against from now on. No disrespect to Panama, but that was a different test. The way they (Belgium) moved positions and kept the ball – it was a good benchmark for what is to come. We made eight changes, nine if you include the substitution at half-time. Things were always going to be a little bit disjointed.”

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During the 2017-18 season, the Oklahoma City Thunder had a mixed bag of results.

One of their best players during the season was guard Corey Brewer. During that time, Brewer enjoyed some success on the field and appeared to be enjoying his football.

That has been confirmed by his admission that he would love to join the team again.

The 32-year-old started off the season as part of the Lakers side. However, he was struggling to play well his time with the Lakers as evidenced by the fact that he only managed to log 12.9 minutes per contest for the Lakers side which is very young and inexperienced.

After he was struggling this season, both Brewer and the Lakers came to an agreement on a buyout so that he could have a better chance of playing regularly again.

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Belgium stars Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard scored two goals apiece to guide their country to the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup as they punished Tunisia 5-2 on Saturday.

The result leaves the Belgians as the favorites to win Group G and also adds impetus to their status as one of the favorites to win the World Cup.

Belgium was the top team throughout the game against the Africans who have extended their winless World Cup run to 13 games.

Belgium found the lead during the 13th minute after Tunisian goalkeeper Syam Ben Youssef brought down Hazard in the area and the Belgian captain made no mistake in converting the resulting spot-kick.

Lukaku doubled the lead during the 16th minute following a brilliant pass from Dries Mertens. Tunisia, however, managed to pull one back just two minutes later as Dylan Bronn took advantage of some shaky defending from the Belgians.

The Belgians scored their third and put the result beyond doubt during first-half stoppage time as Thomas Meunier fed in Lukaku who scored his second for the game.

Hazard completed the rout six minutes into the second half as he linked up with Kevin de Bruyne.

Lukaku’s brace took his tally for the tournament to 4 goals. He is level with Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo as the top scorer of the tournament.

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South African star David Miller has become the latest high-profile cricketer to sign up to play in the first-ever Canada T20 League.

Miller is regarded as one of the best T20 batsmen in World cricket and recently won the KFC Colonel’s Always Original Award for his fastest T20 century against Bangladesh.

He follows in the footsteps of disgraced Australian cricketers Steve Smith and David Warner. Both Smith and Warner were handed lengthy bans from international cricket after being found guilty of ball-tampering during Australia’s recent test series in South Africa.  Other players who have signed up for the League include West Indies and Chennai Super Kings star Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Shahid Afridi, Lasith Malinga, Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell.

The tournament will take place between 28 June-15 July and will feature team’s from Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, and Winnipeg as well as a team from the Carribean all competing.

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The USMNT suffered their first defeat under new interim manager Dave Sarachan as they conceded a 90th-minute goal to go down 2-1 against Ireland in a friendly international on Saturday.

The match also served as a farewell for John O’Shea, who ended his Irish international career aged 37, though he intends to play on in club football.

The US defeated Bolivia 3-0 last week through goals from Josh Sargent, Tim Weah, and Walker Zimmerman. For this match, a number of changes were made. Wonder-kid Christian Pulisic was left out while DeAndre Yedlin was called up.

Bobby Wood gave the US the lead with the final kick of the first half after Matt Miazga headed the ball from Will Trapp’s free-kick and Wood leaped to poke the ball into the net.

Ireland found an equalizer during the 57th minute from a corner as Graham Burke scored.

Alan Judge came off the bench to score a winner for Ireland as he beat goalkeeper Bill Hamid with a left-footed blast.

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The US national team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

Not only was this an embarrassment, but it also proved that the efforts which are being put in towards growing the game in the country are not paying dividends.

Some believed that the US’s failure to qualify for the World Cup was due to Jurgen Klinsmann’s habit of using foreign-born players while others feel that it was due to Bruce Arena’s decision to mainly rely upon MLS players, many of them who were old and well past their prime such as Tim Howard, DaMarcus Beasley, Clint Dempsey and Chris Wondolowski.

During an interview with ESPN, one anonymous “former U.S. international” highlighted that the downfall of US soccer may be due to the selection of dual-national players.

“There was definitely a thought process that [the German-Americans] were great when the World Cup came around, but they didn’t want to go down and fight in a game like Trinidad or in Honduras or Guatemala, the travel and that kind of stuff,” the former U.S. international said. “A guy like Fabian Johnson, in big games, in qualifiers, at times it just looked like he was going through the motions.”

The US certainly look like they are going in a different direction from learning from their failures. The team that recently defeated Bolivia featured many American born youth who are playing for big clubs across Europe.

The future looks bright for American soccer.

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Golden Boy Promotion’s Oscar De La Hoya is threatening that Canelo Alvarez will not fight against GGG on September 15th.

De La Hoya has suggested that the Mexican could end up fighting against Spike O’Sullivan rather than Golovkin.

A fight against O’Sullivan would likely struggle to sell more than 250,000 views and should be an easy win for Canelo. On the other hand, a fight between Canelo and GGG would easily attract more than 1.5 million viewers due to the fact that both fighters are considered to be the best of this generation.

Last September, the two fighters fought to a controversial draw which sold 1.3 million buyouts. The two were meant to have a rematch on May 5th, however, Canelo had to pull out after he tested positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol.

The fight was supposed to be split 65-35 in Canelo’s favor.

Golovkin should not be accepting anything less than 50-50. He is a respected fighter and Canelo was the reason why the first fight did not go ahead so he should be the person who makes a sacrifice.

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DeAndre Yedlin was added to the United States Men’s national team roster for upcoming friendly internationals against Ireland and France.

The Newcastle United defender was added to the squad along with midfielder Tyler Adams and striker Bobby Wood while Christian Pulisic, as well as Walker Zimmerman, Alex Bono, Ethan Hovarth, Matt Olosunde, Alejandro Guido and Lynden Gooch were all dropped, as coach Dave Sarachan looks to experiment with different combinations and players.

The US are currently trying different styles and combinations as they prepare for the 2022 World Cup cycle. They suffered heartbreak late last year as they failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the 1986 event.

The Americans first play against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. The Irish also did not qualify for the World Cup.

They then face a tough test on June 9th as they play against France. France is one of the pre-tournament favorites to win the World Cup in Russia and their players will be looking to impress during the game.

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South African cricket coach Otis Gibson has revealed that the retirement of AB De Villiers came as a shock to him.

De Villiers shockingly announced last week that he would be retiring from all forms of international cricket with the World Cup just a year away. He will continue to play franchise and T20 cricket.

During his 14-year international career, De Villiers established himself as one of the best South African batsman and fielders of the modern era as well as one of the most entertaining batsmen of the modern era.

Gibson has since revealed that he had a conversation with De Villiers a day before the announcement was made, but was unable to change the mind of the 34-year-old.

“He called me the morning before he made the announcement,” said Gibson.“We had a long conversation about whether he was making the right decision.”

Gibson said De Villiers’ decision had been a shock to him. “He is one of the best players in the world. He could have made a huge difference in the World Cup.”

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