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The Guardian
21 minutes ago
- The Guardian
João Pedro leaves it to Chelsea fans to celebrate after double against old side
This time last week, João Pedro was on a Brazilian beach; now he's in the Club World Cup final, handed a standing ovation by old fans and new. The 23-year-old forward had been on holiday in Rio de Janeiro when they called to say his £60m transfer to Chelsea had been completed and could he come straight here. Two days and a single training session later, he made his debut in Philadelphia, more than 4,000 miles north of home, a promising glimpse of a future. Four days after that, he was given his first start in New Jersey. It took 18 minutes to get a glorious goal. By the time he headed off, an hour in, he had another. He didn't celebrate either, but there will be another chance soon. He'll be back here on Sunday, Chelsea delivered to the final day. He, perhaps more than any of them, knows what this means. 'I can't stop doing my job,' he had said the day before this semi-final against Fluminense; no one expected him to start doing it quite so quickly, and definitely not quite so well. Yes, he had prepared – 'I was in Brazil with friends but I have a personal trainer; imagine if I didn't train and Chelsea called me to come,' he said – but still. This was something else, certainly compared to the Chelsea strikers who have gone before. He might not even have had the chance to play at all but for the suspension of Liam Delap – but by the time he walked his work was done, a case made to start on his own merits. As he departed, João Pedro applauded the Chelsea fans to his left. Then he applauded the Fluminense fans to his right. Please allow me to introduce myself. And: sorry about that. Both applauded back, from Rio de Janeiro to the MetLife and a whole new life, this was his moment. He had scored two, both of them brilliant strikes, and had been as good as his word. The first bent into the top corner; the second battered off the bar and into the net. No, he had not promised to score, still less like that, but he had promised not to celebrate if he did. And so after each, up went the hands, in apology. The team he had just defeated was his boyhood club. He had joined Fluminense at 10, travelling to live in Rio with his mother. 'I went there and I didn't have nothing. They gave me everything and they showed me to the world. I am very grateful,' he said after the match. 'I am very sorry what happened to them, but I am a professional.' The last of the Brazilian sides that have given this tournament so much, that have made it feel a little like, well, like a World Cup, now he it was who halted their journey. 'It's not about trying to end that,' he had said the day before. 'I know how important it is for Fluminense and I believe it's also very important for us. I'm so grateful for everything Fluminense have done for me, but I can't stop doing my job. May the best team win, and may it be a great spectacle.' The best team did win, although Marc Cucurella did clear one off the line and Chelsea did need a VAR interception to avoid a Fluminense penalty at 1-0. But in truth it wasn't especially spectacular. The game wasn't, anyway. The goals really were. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Out across the Hudson, in a place that is more parking lot than anything else, supporters had begun early occupying the vast, exposed expanses surrounding the MetLife. Heat rose from the floor, the smell of hot Tarmac mixing with tailgate barbecues the Brazilians brought. Huge great grills of meat under gazebos. Fluminense fans outnumbered Chelsea supporters but there were a lot of blue shirts, too. There was no sign of João Pedro's 20 among them yet. Cole Palmer, who looks out over Times Square accompanied by the slogan 'Scary Good', appeared the most popular. Others brought a nostalgic touch – there were lots of Lampards out there. By the time they had gone through the gates, past the sign warning that no weapons were allowed inside, they had missed the US national anthem, belted out to empty stands an hour before kick-off at every game here. They weren't entirely full by the time the teams came out one player at a time – João Pedro wasn't the most cheered then, but he would be – but with tickets on sale 17 times cheaper than for Madrid against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, it got quite close: 70,566 came. There was the countdown to kick-off, 3pm on a working day. And then they played. This wasn't always the fastest game, nor the most dramatic. It was hot down there – that was shown when it wasn't just the players who escaped inside at half-time but the fans, too – and it never truly felt like Chelsea would not win. Nor was it a surprise. The identity of the man who carried them there was, and it was written. 'We're the ugly duckling,' the Fluminense coach, Renato Gaúcho, had said, but one of them had grown, and flown, something beautiful celebrated all round this stadium, his moment shared with everyone.
Daily Mail
32 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Joe Burrow reveals he canceled plan to buy $3million piece of iconic movie memorabilia after home burglary
NFL star Joe Burrow has revealed the one reason why he did not go through with a stunning $3million purchase of a Batmobile replica. Last season, the Cincinnati Bengals star revealed to teammates - in an episode of the documentary series 'Hard Knocks' - that he planned to splash out on the car. However, Burrow never received the Batmobile replica - of which there are just 10 in the world - and has now shed light on the reason why. In an episode of Netflix 's 'Quarterback' documentary, Burrow revealed that he cancelled the purchase after his home had been burgled. The producers of the show then asked Burrow as to whether the burglary was the main reason why he opted out of buying the vehicle. 'Yeah,' Burrow told producers. 'Yeah, that was, uh, you know, that's… I didn't end up getting the Batmobile because I had other things that I wanted to deal with at that point.' The replica Batmobile - or 'Tumbler' - was not street-legal but it did, however, include bespoke seating, one-way mirrored glass screens and an original-style dashboard. The burglary of the quarterback's $7.5million mansion is covered in the new season of the NFL docu-series, which also features Jared Goff of the Detroit Lions and the Atlanta Falcons ' Kirk Cousins. He later said: 'Of f***ing course this happened to me right now. When you're on cloud nine, something's gonna bring you right back down. It just felt like the kind of year that it was'. Footage captured by Netflix's cameras showed the moment Burrow found out about the incident, moments after he led the Bengals to a win on the road against the Dallas Cowboys. The locker room footage from Episode 6 of the season showed Burrow, 28, scrolling through his cell phone with his head in his hands. He was still wearing some items of his Bengals uniform, showing just how soon after he left the field it is. The incident was initially shrouded in mystery after it emerged that the 911 call was made by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Olivia Ponton rather than the quarterback's longtime partner Olivia Holzmacher. Although Holzmacher is no longer believed to be involved with Burrow, Ponton has stayed silent on her relationship with the quarterback, refusing to address the topic when asked by paparazzo at last month's Met Gala. However, the two were recently spotted out late in New York. Ponton - who boasts eight million followers on TikTok - is said to have told officers that she noticed 'a shattered bedroom window and the room ransacked' when she arrived at Burrow's property on December 9. Burrow was out of town at the time. Chilean nationals Bastian Morales, 23, Jordan Sanchez, 22, and Sergio Cabello, 38, and Alexander Chavez, 24, were later stopped and arrested by police on suspicion of robbery. Police found the group in possession of LSU and Bengals gear, which is believed to have been taken from Burrow's home. Officers said the men were in the country illegally after overstaying their permission. Three of the men - Morales, Sanchez and Cabello – are facing federal charges for allegedly transporting stolen goods and falsifying record in a federal investigation. Those three are suspected by investigators of orchestrating similar robberies at the homes of Kansas City Chiefs stars Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes.
Reuters
an hour ago
- Reuters
Marlins stomp Reds to win 11th straight on the road
July 9 - Xavier Edwards had two hits and three RBIs for the visiting Miami Marlins in their 12-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of their four-game series on Tuesday night. Jesus Sanchez, Agustin Ramirez and Heriberto Hernandez also had two hits each, Kyle Stowers and Dane Myers both had two RBIs and Ramirez, Connor Norby and Liam Hicks each scored twice for the Marlins, who have won 11 straight road games Miami starter Eury Perez (2-2) allowed one run and two hits over five innings, striking out eight without a walk. The 6-foot-8 right-hander has surrendered just four runs and five hits over his past three starts covering 15 1/3 innings (2.35 ERA). Reds starter Nick Martinez (6-9) was looking to win his third straight outing, but was tagged for a career-high 10 runs and seven hits in 5-plus innings. He struck out two and walked three. Cincinnati has lost four in a row to match its longest losing streak of the season. Reds second baseman Matt McLain lined the first pitch he saw from Perez over the fence in the left to give the Reds a 1-0 lead. Martinez retired the first six batters before the first seven reached base in the Marlins' seven-run third inning. Hicks walked to start the inning and beat the throw to second from shortstop Elly De La Cruz after he backhanded a grounder in the hole by Hernandez. Myers then lined a single up the middle to score Hicks and tie it 1-1. Edwards doubled off the base of the wall in right to score two more runs and give the Marlins a 3-1 lead. Sanchez followed with a broken-bat single off the glove of De La Cruz, two more singles by Otto Lopez and Ramirez plated another run, and Stowers and Norby followed with sacrifice flies to make it 7-1. The Marlins loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth off Martinez, ending his afternoon. The bullpen couldn't bail him out, as Scott Barlow walked the first batter he faced to force in a run, another scored on a double-play groundout and Edwards made it 10-1 with a single to left. Miami loaded the bases again in the eighth with no outs and the Reds brought in catcher Jose Trevino, who limited Myers to a sacrifice fly that made it 11-1. After the Marlins added another run off Trevino in the ninth, the Reds scored an unearned run in the bottom of the inning. --Field Level Media
