duminică, 13 decembrie 2015

Dany Garcia and Dwayne Johnson will produce series about the NFL draft


Dwayne Johnson and his partner Dany Garcia - Seven Buck Productions will produce a documentary series on several college football players with dreams of being chosen by professional teams during the draft of the NFL .

The displays show how the players prepare for the draft and the relationships they build with their agents, with those experiencing difficult and exciting times.

"As a former football player at my high school and national champion at the University of Miami, I know well the determination and hard work that these athletes do and are inspired to share their stories. This series shows the commitment and heart needed to achieve your dreams, "Johnson said in a statement.

Garcia said he was very happy to share with the public "these stories at so critical in the lives of these athletes time. Raw, passionate and honest, the documentary series aligns perfectly with the mission of Seven Buck Productions ".

Icardi doublet Inter expands in front of the tip

Argentinian Mauro Icardi silenced his critics with two goals and Inter took a tentative four-point lead at the top of the Italian Serie A, to crush Udinese 4-0 on Saturday.
Another Argentine scored in the day. A goal from Franco Vazquez helped crush Palermo 4-1 Frosinone.
Meanwhile, Bologna continued its upward trajectory under the orders of coach Roberto Donadoni, and secured a 1-0 win at Genoa, another relegation-threatened club.
The comparison between Sassuolo and Torino was delayed by thick fog.
Icardi and Stevan Jovetic took serious failures behind Udinese to give the "Nerazzurri" a 2-0 lead at intermission. Captain Rosario delayed intercepted a lousy service and eluded Bruno Fernandes Maurizio Domizzi before enfilarse in a duel to beat goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis.
Then he was Domizzi who gave the ball to Jovetic. The Montenegrin escaped and defined with a high touch before leaving Karnezis.
Icardi, who shared the tip on the table of the top scorers last season, had been criticized in this campaign, by those who felt that are out of shape. But at the meeting he wore tuned and opportunistic.
"Scoring is their job," said Inter coach Roberto Mancini. "We are never worried about him because in the end he will score goals. It is normal for the front pass through a drought, but tonight he played well, like Jovetic. They begin to understand each other and that's a good sign."
At 83, Francesco Lodi was infected with the trend of the Udinese players and missed the ball. A new Icardi interception preceded the second goal of the Argentine. Marcelo Brozovic closed the account three minutes later.
Inter took an advantage of four points over Fiorentina, Juventus visiting Sunday, the same day that Napoli, which is third, will host the Roma.
"Who will support tomorrow? That does not change anything, it's too soon," Mancini said. "All the teams will continue fighting for the title."
Bologna goalkeeper Antonio Mirante, made several important saves to preserve the victory, and Luca Rossettini scored the winning goal with a header in injury time.
Genoa ended with a man down for the expulsion of Diego Perotti 10 minutes from time.
Bologna has 13 points in six games since Donadoni arrives, and walked five points of the relegation zone.
Vazquez made the second goal in the triumph of Palermo, who also scored by Edoardo Goldaniga, Aleksandar Trajkovski and Alberto Gilardino. The goal of the honor of Frosinone, which is 18th in the league, was handled by Paolo Sammarco.
Palermo overtook Genoa, which now stands at the 17th step.

Euro 2016 draw has been concluded...see full groups


The draw for the group stage of the Euro 2016 finals has been concluded. The continental competition which is set to hold between June 10 - July 10, 2016. 24 countries will be participating in the competition that will be hosted in 10 different cities in France: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse.


For the first time, the European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1990. See final groups below...


The Groups:

Euro2016 Final Draw Groip A - france, romania, albania, switzerland

Icardi reinforces the leadership of Inter Milan


Inter Milan made sure to continue as a leader in the Italian League with an emphatic victory by 4-0 in the field of Udinese (15th) in a match in which shone the Argentine Mauro Icardi a 'double' this Saturday in the 16th round of the Serie A.
Icardi scored in minutes 23 and 83. The other goals for his team were the work of the Montenegrin Stevan Jovetic (31) and the Croatian Marcelo Brozovic (86).
The 'Nerazzurri' fulfilled the mission to get the three points and will relax the direct duels of his pursuers on Sunday (Juventus-Fiorentina and Napoli-Roma), which are sure to strengthen its position.
With the three points, Inter provisionally stands with 4 more than Fiorentina (2nd), five on the Naples (3rd), eight ahead of Roma (4th) and nine of advantage over Juventus (5th).
But beyond the numbers, Inter managed to convey an image of Udine championship team, showing great strength and effectiveness, albeit helped by the candor of the home defense.
Precisely where the Inter defense is not showing fissures received only nine goals since the start of the league season.
In the list of good news for the Lombards it is certainly a return to a starring role Mauro Icardi, top scorer in the last Serie A (22 goals) and the two on Saturday raised its account in the course 6 2015 -2016.
In Inter's first goal, Icardi took control of the ball outside the area and went like a bullet towards the arch rival, ending with a cross shot that hit the goalkeeper, but could not avoid both (23 minutes).Soon after, Jovetic (31), raising a hand to hand with Udinese goalkeeper, scored the second.
Icardi definitely sentenced and in 83, with a new deadly cross shot, and 86 put Brozovic fourth with a superb shot from the edge of the area, a slight list.

- Bologna away from danger -

For its part, the Bologna (12th) won 1-0 at Genoa discount in the first match of the day, between two formations that are struggling to leave the lower classification.
In a game that looked set to zero to zero end, first the expulsion of Argentine midfielder Diego Perotti by Genoa (54), matched with the yellow double the Guinean Bologna Amadou Diawara at the last minute, gave emotion, until it in stoppage time defender Luca Rossettini gave the visitors the three points set with a powerful header off a corner.
With this defeat the hosts (17th) is only two points above the relegation places, marking the Frosinone 14 points (18th), who lost 4-1 at Palermo (15th), thanks to the three points I got four points above the relegation zone.
Goals from the Sicilians in that match were won by Edoardo Goldaniga (5 min), the Argentine Franco Vazquez (17), the Macedonian Aleksandr Trajkovski (60) and Alberto Gilardino (86).
This Saturday was also postponed to Sassuolo-Torino unspecified date because of fog.
Both teams were changing corridor Mapei Sassuolo Stadium when the referee, after twenty minutes of waiting and doubts, decided to postpone the match at the lack of visibility.

- Results of the 16th round of the Italian Serie:

- Saturday:
Genoa - Bologna 0-1
Palermo - Frosinone 4-1
Udinese - Inter 0-4
- Sunday:
(14h00 GMT) Chievo - Atalanta
Milan - Hellas Verona
Empoli - Carpi
(17h00 GMT) Naples - Rome
(19h45 GMT) Juventus - Fiorentina
- Monday:
(19h45 GMT) Lazio - Sampdoria
. Delayed by fog:
Sassuolo - Torino

Van Gaal in trouble after setback of Man U to Bournemouth

On Saturday, the team with the most titles in the history of English football suffered another humiliation losing to the small Bournemouth, a club that six years ago was about to disappear professionalism.

The problems begin to pile up, and fast, to the United manager Louis van Gaal in his second season in charge of the largest in England team.
United, depleted by injuries to several owners, allowed an Olympic goal two minutes in the 2-1 loss to Bournemouth, which knocked his second giant in row after beating champions Chelsea 1-0 last week.
Before this meeting, Manchester City was about to leave on the table points to Swansea, but Yaya Toure scored in injury time to give the team a 2-1 win of Manuel Pellegrini. The City climbed to the top of the standings with the same points as Leicester, but with better goal difference.
Bournemouth's first season in the top flight start having dyes fairytale. The team, based in a small coastal town, come to accomplish the most important in its 116-year history to win Chelsea. Now he has another milestone to celebrate.
"It's about having confidence, whether or not believe in the coach," said Van Gaal, who said Friday that United have to get used to is no longer a giant of Europe after the elimination of Champions.
Against 11,500 fans in Vitality, the smallest stadium in the Premier League, Bournemouth went ahead with an Olympic goal of Junior Stanislas. Marouane Fellaini tied at 24, and Joshua King scored the final of the hosts in the 54th, after another move that started in a corner.
"We are a fantastic week," said the helmsman of Bournemouth, Eddie Howe. For this same date six years ago, Bournemouth Morecambe lost 5-0 in a duel in the fourth division, and was in danger of passing the semi categories.
Despite all its problems, United are just three points behind City, not yet finished foothold in the tip.
Toure firing came after departing arc in Kelechi Iheanacho, and granted the three units at a City that left many doubts in their stadium Etihad. Bafetimbi Gomis had equalized for Swansea at 90.
"Actually we did not play well," Pellegrini said.
Wilfried Bony opened the scoring for City in the 26th with a header against his former team.
In other matches, Crystal Palace won 1-0 at Southampton, Norwich drew 1-1 with Everton, Watford won 1-0 at Sunderland and West Ham's goalless draw with Stoke.

Manchester City is placed provisional leader after winning 2-1 at Swansea

Manchester City temporarily regained the top of the Premier League thanks to their 2-1 win Saturday against Swansea (15th) at the 16th day of the Premier League.
The group led by the Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini took the lead through Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony (26), who headed in a corner. However, the Frenchman of Congolese origin Bafétimbi Gomis seemed to take the final tie to scoring with a powerful header (90).
It was then that appeared already in stoppage time left leg of another African, fellow Ivorian Yaya Toure, who took a left-footed shot from inside the area that played enough in the young up front Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho, who had jumped the field 84 minutes into the game and took an impossible path for the visitors.

- "Three very important points" -

At times the Swansea cornered the Citizens forcing several interventions worthwhile international goalkeeper Joe Hart.
The whole of Manchester is showing irregular in the Premier League, and does not offer the flashy game that characterized the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini team in previous seasons, something the coach blamed the casualties, as the Argentine striker Sergio Aguero or the Belgian Vincent Kompany.
"The Swansea played very well, and is not the way we want to win. Now we have a week to recover, we played too many games with 13 or 14 players," said the coach.
"I knew it would be difficult, because we had three or four players who could not recover," he added stressing the lower of its staff.
"I think the three points are very important, but the way we played," the former Real Madrid coach consoled.
A victory for Manchester United, facing the Bournemouth Saturday or Arsenal three points on their visit to bottom club Aston Villa snatch back the first position to City, which for the moment equals 32 points with Leicester, which Chelsea receives on Monday.
In the 'Foxes' could serve a draw to stand again as leaders based on other results.
After an unexpected defeat in the last round against Stoke City after a poor game, the Citizens, who continue to be without the injured Sergio Aguero, seem to have regained the tone with Mönchengalbach victory against Borussia in Champions League and against Swansea in the English championship.
Swansea, whose coach Garry Monk was dismissed this week, and was led on an interim basis by Alan Curtis and Wales again with another defeat, which is the fifth in the last six games.
- Results of the 16th round of the English Premier League:
- Saturday:
Norwich City - Everton 1-1
Sunderland - Watford 0-1
Manchester City - Swansea City 2-1
West Ham - Stoke City 0-0
Crystal Palace - Southampton 1-0
AFC Bournemouth - Manchester United 2-1
- Sunday:
(13h30 GMT) Aston Villa - Arsenal
(16h00 GMT) Tottenham - Newcastle
Liverpool - West Bromwich
- Monday:
(20h00 GMT) Leicester - Chelsea