Italy: concern about health of goalkeeping icon Zoff

Italy is worried about the health of goalkeeping icon Dino Zoff. For more than three weeks, the 73-year-old is due to a neurological problem in a clinic in Rome, reported the newspaper Il Messaggero Rome on Saturday days. 

 The long-time captain of the Italian national team have trouble walking. After an initial phase of anxiety about the state of "Dino Nazionale" the situation is now under control. 

Doctors spoke of "light signals" to recovery. Zoff is one of the most popular footballer in his home. As the only players in the country, he won with the Azzurri the World and European championships. 

In 1982 he became world champion in the proud age of 40 years as the oldest professional history. In 2000 he led the Azzurri as coach to the European Championship final against France.

Mascherano returns to Real Sociedad

The presence of Argentine Javier Mascherano is the main novelty in the FC Barcelona for the game this Saturday at the Camp Nou (16.00 / Canal + Liga), after the player the Champions League victory against Roma has lost the Tuesday (6-1). 

 Mascherano has already been recovered from a concussion suffered at the Bernabeu (0-4) and has received medical clearance to occupy the place of Sergi Roberto , with a bruised right ankle. Striker Sandro Ramirez also returns to the call after not entering the last match of Champions League. 

The other absentees are the injured Douglas and Rafinha, more Jordi Masip , left out of the squad for technical reasons. 

 Thus, the list of 18 players compose Ter Stegen, Bravo, Pique, Rakitic, Busquets, Dani Alves , Iniesta, Suarez , Messi , Neymar , Mascherano, Bartra, Munir, Jordi Alba , Sandro, Adriano , Vermaelen and Mathieu .

The Chinese giant Wanda creates a company devoted solely to sport

The Chinese giant Wanda has decided to create a company just for sports, Wanda Sports, integrating the sports rights company Infront, acquired in February as Triathlon Corporation, owner of the rights of tests as Ironman endurance sports, which it bought in August.

Published today by the official news agency Xinhua, Wanda, who started his career as a real estate company, will put at the controls of the sports company to Philippe Blatter, nephew of the president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, and who looked after Infront.

"The importance of creating Wanda Sports not only lies in integrating the interests of Wanda in sports, but to expand the strength of Wanda in the industry," said company chairman, billionaire Wang Jianlin, as reported by Xinhua.

Wanda bought the Swiss Infront, one of the largest global companies of sports rights, by 1,050 million euros (1,200 million dollars) in February, and months later, in August, took Triathlon Corporation, which owns the rights to sports events resistance as Ironman, for $ 650 million.

Earlier this year also announced its entry into the capital of Atletico Madrid, current champion of the Spanish Football League, with a share of 20%. "Wanda Sports plans to become the first global sports company with annual profits of more than 10,000 million dollars," Wang moved.

The businessman said that although the sports industry is still in its infancy in China, the government has launched a plan to promote and reach 5 trillion yuan (813,000 million dollars) for 2025, a scenario that looks "promising" .

That reef seems to have also seen the e-commerce giant Alibaba, which this year paid $ 192 million to acquire 50 percent of Guangzhou Evergrande, the Chinese football's most successful team, and also created a subsidiary in September devoted solely to sports.

Liga Adelante: Córdoba seeks to defend second place before a grown Oviedo

Cordoba, runner of the Liga Adelante, Sunday received a grown Real Oviedo, which he hopes to defend his position for promotion, in a fifteenth day of competition in which the Ponferradina in La Romareda, and Nastic , in Anduva they seek settle ascent promotion.

 In the New Archangel, those of José Luis Oltra , 24 -a two points Osasuna , leader, and one advantage over Alaves - expect to end a run of three games without a win and two consecutive draws, the last of them last weekend against Tenerife (1-1), which made ​​them leave of coliderato.

For this, the caliph should set rid of Real Oviedo, fifth with 22 points, that if he could win even if other results meet, displace the second position. Asturian accumulated two wins in a row against Nastic (2-0) and against Huesca (0-1).

Pending on what happens in Cordoba will Ponferradina, two points of Andalusia and with the same 22 units and Nàstic Oviedo. The El Bierzo not lost for eight days and have since garnered three wins and four draws, that keep them rooms.

His opponent will be the Real Zaragoza , which seeks to forget home defeats against Valladolid and Alcorcón and not lose rope with promotion posts, now only two points.

Meanwhile, sixth-placed Gimnastic Tarragona, travels to Miranda de Ebro to try to add another victory after that achieved in the derby against Llagostera (2-0). There they find a Mirandes leading scoring four days and is one unit away from positions of privilege.

Meanwhile, Lugo , after two consecutive draws, wants to take off before the Real Valladolid , which fell last week against Osasuna, and enter the promotion.

In addition, Tenerife and Girona are faced with the aim of further increasing the distance with below--two drop points, as sought by the Albacete , who host Elche .

--PROGRAMA OF THE DAY.

-Saturday.

Osasuna - Alcorcon 18:00.

Leganes - Athletic Bilbao 18:00.

Almería - Numancia 18:00.

Llagostera - Huesca 18:00.

Alaves - Mallorca 20:15.

-Sunday.

Lugo - Valladolid 12:00.

Tenerife - Girona 17:00.

Albacete - Elche 17:00.

Mirandes - Gimnastic 17:00.

Córdoba - Real Oviedo 19:15.

Zaragoza - Ponferradina 17:00.

Vidal: "Bayern Munich is clearly stronger than Juventus"

Arturo Vidal believes that Bayern Munich is considerably stronger than Juventus. The Chilean argued that now feels surrounded by the "greatest players in the world",  even highlighting the quality of his former club. 

 "At the moment, Bayern Munich is definitely stronger than Juventus. The greatest players in the world are here and I hope to help them," said the Chilean 28 years to Tuttomercatoweb.com. "

Juventus is good, it is a great team, but there is a difference between her and Bayern Munich, which places it at a lower level," he added. 

 The Chilean changed the Turin club the Bavarians in the last transfer window, after playing a key role in consecutive Italian titles.

Accused of having account in Switzerland, Romario calls for tax investigation

Involved in several issues in the Senate, including the establishment of football CPI, Senator Romario (PSB-RJ) said, on Friday, on the bank account which supposedly keeps in Switzerland.See the report target, speculation was treated naturally by Romario, who sent a request asking the Attorney General to speed up the investigations.

In an interview with O Globo, Romario revealed that the account holder was Swiss bank BSI at the time that he served in Europe during the 1990s "When I played in Europe, had account in BSI. Just do not know what year. I do not remember but I believe that if the account is not busy, it is automatically closed, "said the former athlete, who lived in Europe between 1988 and 1994, when he defended Ajax of the Netherlands and Barcelona.

Romario wrote letter to Dr. Rodrigo Janot, the Attorney General, to the Swiss prosecutors begin investigation into the alleged undeclared goods by the Brazilian in foreign territory. "I request to be officiated to the prosecutor of Switzerland to initiate investigation procedures in order to ascertain whether the alleged bank account really exists and has been busy some value," said the statement.

Recently, the former athlete's name was mentioned in an Edson Ribeiro recording, lawyer of former director of Petrobras, Nestor Cervero, about an alleged favoritisms scheme that combines the succession of Mayor Eduardo Paes in Rio de Janeiro to the blind of any funds obtained from Swiss bank and not declared to the tax authorities by Romario.

An operation of the Federal Police (PF), including, arrested on Friday lawyer Edson Ribeiro, placed in the hands of police after landing at Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro.Romario, which should support the candidate Pedro Paulo in City Hall if they do not compete, was defended by the current mayor, Eduardo Paes.

"I have an understanding with Romario senator that if he does not come candidate will support the Pedro Paulo" he said, taking the opportunity to reject the statements of Delcídio Amaral and Edson Ribeiro in the recordings. "I think unfortunate these charges that have been denied to the press vehicle that published them," said Paes, referring to the withdrawal of View after disclosure of the rumor in July.