Without an opposing candidate won the top job

Yesterday in the Rwandan capital Kigali delegates of the 211 member associations had to pick the boss of the world football organization. Without any difficulties they have chosen the current one because Giovanni Infantino did not had a rival to oppose him. And thus the 52-year-old will lead the house until 2027, with a possibility to extend it as far as 2031.

The administrator took over this job from the suspended Joseph Blatter at 2016. Since this is the second term for the Swiss official, he may easily (if there is no other candidate in the mean time) be vying for the last one. In the statute of the affiliation there is a limit that each president may rule of up to three four-year terms, the first one that started seven years ago (and which was for three seasons) was automatically annulled.

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Paying for the mess (they created)

The last ever game of 2021-22 Champions league tournament was played on 28 May at Stade de France. It supposed to start on 21.00 sharp, however that never happened because before the stadium there was a massive brawl between supporters and security. And thus (for the first time in finals at any competition) this duel had been delayed for 37 minutes than the original schedule. Since then many investigations were launched as many tried to find out who is to blame and why this chaos began. Finally last Tuesday one affiliation has decided to close this case and admit its responsibility.

Independent inquiry has shown that the European football organization is the guilty party for the disorder. No one knows what has triggered the whole thing (that was not disclosed), but what is important, the refund of Liverpool fans who could not enter on the arena that night will commence. In total there was 19.618 tickets issued for them with a different price ranged from 70 to 690 euros...

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Union saga finally ends for the fourth time of 2022-23, and the overall winner is the first club

Europa league 2022-23 season, knockout stage 2 (round of 16), leg 2, single night:

Feyenoord - Shakhtar Donetsk 7:1

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.23) Santiago Tomas Gimenez

               2:0 24 (23.27) Orkun Kokchu

               3:0 38-pen (37.28) Orkun Kokchu

               4:0 49 (48.48) Oussama Idrissi

               5:0 59 (59.13) Oussama Idrissi

               6:0 64 (63.52) Alireza Jahanbakhsh

               7:0 66 (65.57) Danilo da Silva

               7:1 87 (86.33) Kevin Kelsy

Fenerbahche - Sevilla 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 41-pen (40.53) Enner Valencia

Betis - Manchester united 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 55 (55.01) Marcus Rashford

Union Saint-Gilloise - Union Berlin 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 18 (17.50) Teddy Teuma

               2:0 63 (62.34) Jean Lazare Amani

               3:0 90+4 (93.48) Loic Lapoussin

- On 80 (79.44) visiting midfielder Janik Haberer was awarded with his second yellow card.

Arsenal - Sporting 1:1, on penalties: 3-5

Scorers: 1:0 19 (18.42) Granit Xhaka

               1:1 62 (61.21) Pedro Goncalves

- Manuel Ugarte (Sporting) did not finish this game because of two yellow cards at 117.

Real Sociedad - Roma 0:0

- At 90+8 (97.21) Carlos Fernandez (Real Sociedad) received his second yellow card.

Ferencvarosh - Bayer 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 03 (02.40) Moussa Diaby

               0:2 81 (80.25) Amine Adli

Additional information: into last 8 are going Feyenoord, Sevilla, Manchester united, Union Saint-Gilloise, Sporting, Roma, Bayer.

Conference league 2022-23 season, knockout round 2 (phase of 16), leg 2, night 2 out of 2:

Slovan - Basel 2:2, on penalties: 1-4

Scorers: 1:0 10 (09.58) Malik Abubakari

               2:0 17 (16.53) Juraj Kucka

               2:1 52 (52.06) Riccardo Callafiori

               2:2 90+3 (92.29) Zeki Amdouni

Sivasspor - Fiorentina 1:4

Scorers: 1:0 34 (34.11) Erdogan Yesilyurt

               1:1 44 (43.29) Arthur Cabral

               1:2 62 (61.41) Nikola Milenkovic

               1:3 78-own goal (77.52) Dimitrios Goutas

               1:4 89 (88.46) Gaetano Castrovilli

- Hakan Arslan (Sivasspor) on 81 (80.38) had to depart from this game due to direct red card.

Djurgarden - Lech 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 76 (76.14) Filip Marchwinski

               0:2 90 (90.02) Nikoloz Kvekveskiri

               0:3 90+1 (91.19) Michal Skoras

- Direct red card was for Marcus Danielson (Djurgarden) at 44 (43.24).

Villarreal - Anderlecht 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 73 (72.37) Islam Slimani

AZ - Lazio 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 21 (20.47) Felipe Anderson

               1:1 27 (27.15) Jesper Karlsson

               2:1 61 (61.19) Vangelis Pavlidis

Nice - Sheriff 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 (29.04) Gaetan Laborde

               2:0 53 (52.28) Teremas Moffi

               2:1 54 (53.57) Abdoul Tapsoba

               3:1 78 (78.02) Bilal Brahimi

West ham - AEK 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 20 (19.58) Gianluca Scamacca

               2:0 47 (46.22) Jarrod Bowen

               3:0 49 (48.41) Jarrod Bowen

               4:0 65 (64.27) Divin Mubama

- Visiting midfielder Luis Gustavo Ledes at 45 (44.36) saw a direct red card.

Additional information: Basel, Fiorentina, Lech, Anderlecht, AZ, Nice, West ham have qualified for the third knockout round.

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Gave 3 goals in just 204 seconds

Conference league 2022-23 season, knockout round 2 (phase of 16), leg 2, night 1 out of 2:

Bashakshehir - Gent 1:4

Scorers: 0:1 30 (30.02) Gift Emmanuel Orban

               0:2 32 (31.32) Gift Emmanuel Orban

               0:3 34 (33.26) Gift Emmanuel Orban

               0:4 37 (36.52) Hugo Cuypers

               1:4 87 (87.04) Adnan Januzaj

- From this stage Nigerian striker has been written into history books with the quickest hat-trick at all three club international tournaments.

Additional information: Gent has advanced through to the third knockout stage with 2:5 overall victory.

Champions league 2022-23 season, knockout stage 1 (last 16), leg 2, night 4 of 4:

Real Madrid - Liverpool 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 78 (77.54) Karim Benzema

Additional information: the current champion of the competition has qualified into last 8.

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Lack of ideas

Champions league 2022-23 season, knockout stage 1 (last 16), leg 2, night 3 of 4:

Porto - Inter 0:0

- On 90+7 (96.27) the nervous home defender Kepler Ferreira got a red card (following the two yellow) 62 seconds before the game finishes.

Additional information: in this boring pair (on this level) and after lots and lots of backpass towards the goalkeeper the current football Portuguese champions Porto was deservedly thrown out from the competition with just one received goal over 180 minutes of play.

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