Spanish Girona have rented a 20-year-old midfielder from English Manchester City Claudio Echeverri. The agreement is valid until the end of the season.
The Argentine also spent the first part of the season on loan, playing for Bayer Leverkusen.
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Quotes by Ferguson and Mourinho entered the Oxford Dictionary
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Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and Roma manager Jose Mourinho have been included in a new version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ESPN.
“The FIFA World Cup kicks off in November, and while the Oxford Dictionary has already covered a large number of football terms, this select batch of additions fills a few gaps in our wording,” the addendum says.
According to the publication, Ferguson’s phrase “squeaky bum time” (“squeaky ass time”) and “park the bus” (play in such a way that they could just as well put their team’s coach in the goal) from Mourinho are included in the dictionary.
The Scottish specialist used the expression in 2003, when Manchester United were battling Arsenal for the English title, to refer to intense moments in competitive sports.
“They have a cup replay against Chelsea and if they win, they have to play in the semi-final three days before the league match with us. But then they said they were going to win the treble, didn’t they? They are having a squeaky boom time, we have the experience to deal with this situation,” Ferguson said at the time.
Also included in the dictionary are the phrases “total football” (an attacking style of football popularized by the Netherlands), row Z (back of the stadium), “false nine” (centre forward who often drops closer to midfield), “trequartista” (attacking player, which operates in the zone between midfielders and forwards), “panenka” (penalty style), “tiki-taka” (playing style), “rabona”, “gegenpressing”.
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Head coach of Krasnodar Murad Musaev shared the team’s plans for winter training:
The work ahead is hard. Six games are scheduled during the training camp (from 14 to 28 January). The training program doesn’t change much. Everyone knows more or less what we will do.
Ideally I would like to play against foreign teams, but so far one opponent is from Kazakhstan, the rest from Russia. Strong opponents, but I would like some variety.
A match with Zenit is scheduled, there is an agreement on the 120 minute format. This is an important match because we have a lot of guys who need to train and some who have returned from injury.
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The discussion about a possible boycott of the 2026 FIFA World Cup against the German national team in light of opinion polls has no basis in reality. This opinion was expressed by the honorary president of the Russian Football Federation (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov.
The Bild newspaper previously reported that almost half of Germans would support a boycott of the 2026 World Cup if Greenland joined. USA. According to a study by the INSA Institute, 47% of respondents support the idea of a boycott, 35% are against it and another 18% find it difficult to answer.
“This is nonsense. Whatever they come up with. What do Greenland and the World Cup have to do with anything? This is just a poll,” Koloskov said. “Another thing is if the German Football Association officially said that it will not send its team, then it would make sense to talk about it. We have to keep in mind that this will never happen. It’s all empty talk.”
The 2026 World Cup will be held in USAMexico and Canada from June 11th to July 19th.
Trump has repeatedly stated the need for Greenland to join USA. Already during his first presidential term he proposed the purchase of the island and in March 2025 he expressed confidence that it could be annexed.
Greenland is part of Denmark as an autonomous territory. In 1951, Washington and Copenhagen, in addition to allied commitments BORN signed the Greenland Defense Treaty. According to him USA they took charge of defending the island from possible attacks.
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