Football, Champions League: National player Kevin Volland and AS Monaco suffered a setback on their way to the Champions League. The team of the former Bayern coach Niko Kovac lost the playoff first leg of the qualification in their own stadium with 0: 1 (0: 1) against Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine. The Brazilian Pedrinho scored the winning goal for the guests in the 19th minute. The second leg will take place in Kharkiv on August 25th.
RB Salzburg has created a better starting position for reaching the group stage. The Austrian champions won their home game after a 0-1 break deficit with 2-1 against Brondby Copenhagen. Karim Adeyemi (56th) and Brenden Aaronson (90th) turned the game with their hits. Mikael Uhre had put the Danes in the lead. In the third game of the day, Sheriff Tiraspol caused a surprise. The team from Moldova defeated Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 (1-0) and has the best prospects of making it into the group stage.
Soccer, 2nd Bundesliga: Next prominent entry for Holstein Kiel: The second division has strengthened itself after its unsuccessful start to the season with midfielder Lewis Holtby. The 30-year-old receives a two-year contract with the storks, as the North Germans announced on Tuesday. Holtby was most recently under contract with the English second division club Blackburn Rovers.
“I really wanted to return to Germany,” said Holtby, who played in the Bundesliga for Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV, among others: “The second division is incredibly attractive. There are a lot of teams from the north, there will be many Give derbies. And Holstein has caused a sensation in recent years with an attractive, offensive style of play. ” Most recently, the Kiel, who started with three defeats in the league, had already made headlines with the loan from attacker Jann-Fiete Arp (21 / Bayern Munich).
Tennis: Top player Naomi Osaka burst into tears at a press conference in Cincinnati. The media round at the WTA tournament in the US state of Ohio had to be briefly interrupted on Monday (local time), after the break, the Japanese apologized for it. The reason was apparently a reporter’s question about Osaka’s strained relationship with the media and the balance between sport and private life. “You don’t particularly love dealing with the media,” the reporter had introduced his question. At first, the world number two reacted calmly and with a detailed answer. When a question about the earthquake disaster in Haiti with thousands of victims followed, Osaka burst into tears. Your father is from Haiti.
The presenter stopped the press conference, Osaka wiped the tears from her face and came back to the podium shortly afterwards. “Sorry I went out,” she said. The press conference continued with the same question. The confirmed death toll in the Haiti earthquake has risen to 1,419. Around 6,900 people were injured, the Caribbean state’s civil protection agency announced on Monday. Osaka had announced that it would donate its prize money to those affected in Haiti. The WTA tournament is endowed with a total prize money of more than 1.8 million dollars.
The 23-year-old had skipped tournaments for almost two months before the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Initially, the Australian Open winner at the French Open in Paris decided not to attend any media appointments. After her victory in the first round in Paris, she withdrew from the tournament and made it public that she was suffering from periods of depression. At the Summer Games, Osaka was surprisingly eliminated in the round of 16.
Bundesliga: Bayer Leverkusen has secured the services of the Ecuadorian national player Piero Hincapie. The 19-year-old central defender comes from the Argentine first division club CA Talleres from Cordoba and signed a contract until June 30, 2026. The factory club announced on Monday. Noisy kicker Eight million euros were due for the transfer. In the evening, the Leverkusen team also announced the commitment of Robert Andrich from Union Berlin.
“We are very happy that we were able to win Piero Hincapie, a young but already very self-confident central defender with initial international experience,” said sporting director Simon Rolfes. “His very good performance against absolute world-class players at the major continental tournament in South America confirmed our assessment that Piero has a very promising future.”
The Andrich transfer had already hinted at the weekend. The midfielder was officially not used for the Berlin team in the 1-1 draw between Union and Leverkusen due to minor health problems and has now also received a five-year contract until 2026. “With his professionalism and sense of responsibility, Robert is a character who can lead the way,” said Rolfes.
Basketball, BBL: Successful coach Aito Garcia Reneses (74) is leaving the German basketball champion Alba Berlin after four years and is handing over the post to his previous assistant Israel Gonzalez (46). The Bundesliga team announced on Tuesday. The Spaniard Garcia Reneses, whose contract had expired, is taking a sabbatical. Sports director Himar Ojeda expressly thanked coach Aito, “with whom we have had great pleasure over the past few years and who has helped to develop the club decisively. A door will always be open to him at Alba.”
Under Garcia Reneses, Alba won the championship twice, the cup once and reached the final of the EuroCup in the 2018/19 season. “My time in Berlin was great,” said the Spaniard, “now the time has come for me to take a break as a coach and recharge my batteries. Alba Berlin will always have a special place in my heart.”
With Gonzalez, like Aito Spanier and from the beginning in Berlin as an assistant coach at his side, Alba is opening a new chapter, according to Ojeda. We prepared for this step in the long term, starting with his role as assistant coach and then switching to associate head coach last year Fall.” Gonzalez thanked him “for the trust and the chance to take on the post. Together we want to continue on our successful path.” Gonzalez already had full responsibility for the team. Due to a corona illness of the head coach, he took over his duties for almost a month.