ناصر الخليفي: النجم الحقيقي هو الفريق

صرّح ناصر الخليفي، رئيس نادي باريس سان جيرمان، عقب تأهل فريقه إلى الدور نصف النهائي من دوري أبطال أوروبا، مؤكدًا أن قوة الفريق تكمن في جماعيته لا في الأفراد، قائلاً: “النجم الحقيقي هو الفريق. خلال السنوات الثلاث عشرة إلى الخمس عشرة الماضية، جرّبنا مختلف الأساليب والنماذج. قبل ثلاث سنوات، ومع قدوم لويس إنريكي وإطلاق المشروع الجديد، بدأنا العمل على بناء فريق شاب برؤية واضحة، وهذا ما نسعى إليه.” وأضاف: “بطبيعة الحال، تبقى النتائج مهمة للغاية، لكن الأهم بالنسبة لنا هو أسلوب لعبنا وهويتنا داخل الملعب؛ أن نكون فريقًا متكاملًا، لا مجرد مجموعة من اللاعبين. النجم هو الفريق، ولا يوجد نجم واحد فوق المجموعة. حتى وإن ضم الفريق اليوم لاعبين كبارًا، بمن فيهم المتوج بجائزة الكرة الذهبية، فإن النجم الأكبر يظل الفريق.”

نظمت الأكاديمية دورة متخصصة بعنوان إدارة القرى الرياضية على مدار ثلاثة أيام، بمشاركة أكثر من سبعين دارساً ودارسة من داخل دولة قطر وخارجها، يمثلون مختلف التخصصات الوظيفية والعلمية. حيث تشكل هذه الدورة تميزاً استثنائياً كونها تُعقد لأول مرة في المنطقة بهذا التخصص الدقيق، ليؤكد إيمان اللجنة الأولمبية القطرية والأكاديمية الأولمبية القطرية بأهمية هذا المجال الحيوي، خاصة مع اقتراب المنطقة من استضافة أحداث رياضية كبرى، وفي مقدمتها دورة الألعاب الآسيوية – الدوحة 2030 وكذلك دورة الألعاب الآسيوية – الرياض 2034.

في افتتاح الدورة ألقى سعادة السيد جاسم بن راشد البوعينين، أمين عام اللجنة الأولمبية القطرية – نائب رئيس مجلس إدارة الأكاديمية الأولمبية القطرية كلمة رحب فيها بالدارسين، مؤكداً سعادته بهذا العدد الذي حرص على التواجد في واحدة من أهم دورات الأكاديمية الأولمبية القطرية، والتي تعقد إيماناً من اللجنة الأولمبية القطرية والأكاديمية الأولمبية القطرية بأهميتها كوننا مقبلين على العديد من الأحداث الهامة في قطر خصوصاً والمنطقة عموماً، والتي تسعى اللجنة والأكاديمية من خلال هذه الدورة لخلق كوادر مؤهلة لإدارة القرى الرياضية في أكبر الدورات والأحداث الرياضية، خصوصاً وأن القرية تضم ما يزيد على 10 آلاف موظف ومتطوع يعملون في العديد من التخصصات

كما شهد افتتاح الدورة الدكتور أحمد بن عبدالله البوعينين، الرئيس التنفيذي للجنة المنظمة لدورة الألعاب الآسيوية – الدوحة 2030، وخليل الجابر المدير التنفيذي للأكاديمية الأولمبية القطرية. saltysenoritaaz.com

Paris Saint-Germain beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield to end the final Champions League campaign for Mohamed Salah at the club.

Mohamed Salah exited the Champions League on Tuesday after Liverpool lost 2-0 to PSG at Anfield. As a result, the English side went out 4-0 on aggregate.

Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembele scored both goals for PSG, taking the French club into the semi-finals.

The defeat marks the final Liverpool Champions League campaign for Salah.

Earlier in the week, Salah had scored in Liverpool’s 2-0 Premier League win over Fulham. However, like the away tie, Salah started the game on the bench, but was subbed in for an injured Hugo Ekitike in the first half.

Meanwhile, the next step in the Egyptian’s career remains unclear, making it uncertain whether he will play in the Champions League again.

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Munich: Late goals from Luis Diaz and Michael Olise earned Bayern Munich a 4-3 win over Real Madrid on Wednesday, securing a 6-4 aggregate victory and sending them through to face holders Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.

The tie was level at the break after a scintillating opening half, with Real going ahead three times on the night.

Arda Guler pounced on a loose Manuel Neuer pass to put the visitors ahead after just 34 seconds and scored again from a free-kick after Aleksandar Pavlovic equalised.

Harry Kane put Bayern ahead in the tie only for Kylian Mbappe to restore parity overall when he put Madrid 3-2 up before half-time.

Eduardo Camavinga was sent off for a second yellow with four minutes left and Bayern pushed forward, Diaz blasting into the corner from outside the box after a crucial deflection.

With Real pressing for an equaliser, Bayern broke and Olise curled in a magnificent shot to rubberstamp their tickets to the last four, where Luis Enrique's reigning European champions await.

Tempers boiled over after the final whistle with Guler picking up a straight red for confronting the referee.

For the first time in Real's long Champions League history, their starting XI did not contain a single Spanish player. Jude Bellingham, who impressed off the bench in the first leg, was one of four changes to Alvaro Arbeloa's line-up for the visitors.

Neuer, widely lauded after a vintage performance in Madrid, gifted Real an opener. The Bayern goalkeeper miscued a pass directly to Guler, who floated a first-touch shot into the unguarded goal in the first minute.

Bayern looked stunned but struck back almost immediately when Pavlovic headed in a Joshua Kimmich corner after Real goalkeeper Andriy Lunin failed to read the flight of the ball.

The match had barely time to settle before Real were ahead once more thanks to a Guler goal, with Neuer again not at his best.

The Turkey international whipped a free-kick into the top corner which Neuer got a hand to but was unable to keep out.

The match continued to seesaw before half-time, with both Kane and then Mbappe getting on the scoresheet.

Kane slotted clinically into the bottom corner in the 38th minute to again haul Bayern level on the night -- and ahead in the tie -- before Mbappe ran onto a Vinicius Junior pass and slotted home just before the break to level the tie 4-4 on aggregate.

With Real regularly cutting into Bayern's high line, Kompany responded by introducing the pace of Alphonso Davies at the interval.

Both sides traded chances in the second half, with Olise particularly dangerous, forcing a fingertip save from Lunin with 20 minutes left.

Camavinga came on midway through the second half but picked up two yellow cards in quick succession to leave his team a man down in the closing stages.

It proved a turning point as Bayern struck three minutes later when Diaz's effort from outside the box took a touch off Eder Militao and flashed beyond Lunin.

Olise made certain of Bayern's progress deep into stoppage time as the German giants took down Real in a knockout clash for the first time since 2012.

Arsenal survive tense Sporting stalemate

In London, Arsenal reached the semi-finals after riding their luck in a nervous goalless draw against Sporting Lisbon that clinched a 1-0 aggregate victory yesterday.

Mikel Arteta's team were well below their best in the quarter-final second leg at the Emirates Stadium.

But they held onto their slender first-leg advantage as Sporting failed to make them pay for the latest in a growing list of angst-ridden performances.

The Gunners will face Atletico Madrid for a place in the final after the Spanish club went through 3-2 on aggregate against Barcelona on Tuesday.

Arsenal crushed Atletico 4-0 in the group stage at the Emirates in October, but they will have to improve significantly to reach the final for the first time since 2006.

Arsenal have reached the Champions semi-finals in two consecutive seasons for the first time in their history.

Berlin: Bundesliga club Union Berlin have named Marie-Louise Eta as manager, making her the first female head coach in Bundesliga history, after Steffen Baumgart was sacked on Sunday.

Eta becomes the first female top-flight coach of a men's team in a major European league. The 34-year-old, who was the first female assistant coach in the Bundesliga, will take over for the remainder of the season.

"I am delighted the club has entrusted me with this challenging task," Eta said in a statement.

Baumgart was sacked early on Sunday morning after the club's form flatlined in the second-half of the season, with Saturday's 3-1 defeat by last-placed Heidenheim the final straw.

Union have won just two games since the winter break and sit seven points above the relegation play-off spot.

"We've had an absolutely disappointing second-half of the season," sporting director Horst Held said in a statement.

"Our situation remains precarious and we desperately need points to stay in the league.

"The performances in recent weeks don't give us the confidence we could turn things around with the current set-up."

As a player with Turbine Potsdam, Eta won the Champions League in 2010 along with three Bundesliga titles. She has already committed to take over Union Berlin's women's Bundesliga team from summer.

Women have managed men's football teams in the lower divisions but never in the top flight. German third tier Ingolstadt FC are currently coached by Sabrina Wittmann, while French second-flight club Clermont were managed by Corinne Diacre for three seasons until 2017.