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Fox Sports
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Brazilian Paulo César hired as coach of PSG women's team
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paulo Cesar was hired as coach of the Paris Saint-Germain women's team on Monday, having played for the men's team during his career as a midfielder. PSG said in a statement that the 47-year-old Brazilian signed a two-year contract. He previously coached the club's under-19 women's team, which won the title last season, and he took charge of the women's senior team on an interim basis after Fabrice Abriel was fired last May. 'I'm deeply attached to this club,' César said. "It's with a lot of enthusiasm and determination that I take on this role.' César made 67 appearances for the men's team from 2002-07, winning the French Cup in 2006, and also played in Ligue 1 for Toulouse. He won three caps with Brazil. ___ AP soccer: in this topic
Winnipeg Free Press
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Brazilian Paulo César hired as coach of PSG women's team
PARIS (AP) — Paulo César was hired as coach of the Paris Saint-Germain women's team on Monday, having played for the men's team during his career as a midfielder. PSG said in a statement that the 47-year-old Brazilian signed a two-year contract. He previously coached the club's under-19 women's team, which won the title last season, and he took charge of the women's senior team on an interim basis after Fabrice Abriel was fired last May. 'I'm deeply attached to this club,' César said. 'It's with a lot of enthusiasm and determination that I take on this role.' César made 67 appearances for the men's team from 2002-07, winning the French Cup in 2006, and also played in Ligue 1 for Toulouse. He won three caps with Brazil. ___ AP soccer:
Miami Herald
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Miss Universe Cuba pageant to be held in Hialeah — and you can go for free
The Miss Universe Cuba 2025 pageant will be held on July 8 at Milander Park in Hialeah in a grand ceremony where a new queen will be chosen to represent Cubans at Miss Universe. Marianela Ancheta, Miss Universe Cuba 2024, will present the crown to the young woman chosen among the 17 candidates to participate in the international pageant on Nov. 21 in Thailand. Miss Universe Cuba will be broadcast from 7 to 9 p.m. on Mega TV and on the Miss Universe Cuba YouTube channel, where the public can peruse videos about each of the candidates. Free tickets are available for anyone who wants to attend, as well as paid tickets for the VIP area. Venezuelan designer Prince Julio César, director of Miss Universe Cuba, announced that it will be 'a quality show with impeccable production in which the candidates and our outgoing queen are the stars.' The host will be Puerto Rican TV presenter Carlos Adyan, part of the 'En Casa con Telemundo' team, who recently hosted the Miss Peru 2025 contest for the second consecutive year, where Marianela Ancheta served as a part of the jury. Miss Universe Cuba 2025 will also be the queen of the city of Hialeah, said César, indicating that the winner will participate in the events celebrating the city's centennial. This year, several Miss Universe contestants will be chosen in Miami. Miss Nicaragua's pageant takes place in Miami, as well as Miss Universe Latina, a reality show on Telemundo where where a young woman of Latin origin from the United States will be chosen to participate in Thailand. Miss Universe Cuba 2025 Candidates The process of selecting the Miss Universe Cuba contestants began in January, and has been more 'relaxed,' said César, because they had more time. Last year's pageant came together in only a few months because César was awarded the rights to run Miss Universe Cuba in late April of 2024. 'There's no less pressure, because the day I stop feeling the pressure, I stop feeling the commitment,' said César. Among this year's 17 candidates, who each represent the region of Cuba where they were born or to which they have ties, is Lina Luaces, a 21-year-old model born in Miami who is the daughter of Univision presenter Lili Estefan. Lina represents Santiago de Cuba, the place where her uncle, Emilio Estefan, was born, and where the first Miss Cuba, Gladys López, who represented the country at Miss Universe in 1952, was from. 'I understood that with love, discipline, responsibility, and above all, resilience, you begin to achieve your goals. I understood that exercise and training have to be part of my life,' Lina said on her Instagram profile about the preparation for becoming a queen. She changed her hair color and learned to appreciate the importance of makeup, although she confessed, 'I have not been a woman who wears a lot of makeup.' Mia Donadio Cancio, who represents the Isle of Youth, is a Florida International University (FIU) graduate with a degree in International Relations who, from the outset, expressed her desire to speak out against the situation Cubans face on the island. 'I don't want to be the most beautiful woman in the world, but the one who says it the loudest: I want to tell you what's happening in Cuba,' she wrote on her Instagram profile when she learned she was selected for Miss Universe Cuba. Donadio was among those who received the most votes from the public for her presentation video, along with Lianet Aguilera Sarmiento (Holguín); Lina Luaces; Deneb Morales (Villa Clara) and Sheila Laza (Central Region). Laza acknowledged that the biggest challenge for her in the preparation having to lose more than 20 pounds, and to do so she stopped eating carbohydrates completely, and as a Caribbean woman, she missed rice a lot, she said. With experience in beauty pageants in Houston, where she settled with her family upon arriving from Cuba at age 13, Laza feels very comfortable on the catwalk and speaking in front of crowds. 'My mission is to amplify the voices of a Cuban people who have been silenced for years by the doctrines of a dictatorship,' she said. 'Many young people like me have their wings clipped; they can't dream,' she said. Laza, who competed in Nuestra Belleza Latina in 2018, when Venezuelan Migbelis Castellanos won, wants to use her platform to bring attention to environmental issues, particularly reforestation. 'I would like to be an example of success and inspiration for young Cuban women and show that beauty, intelligence, talent, and determination can open many doors,' Laza said. The rest of the contestants are Romy Caridad Alvarez (Camagüey); Ariday Villar (Ciego de Avila); Emely Artabe (Cienfuegos); Katy Nuñez Diaz (Granma); Mary Rodriguez (Guantanamo); Indiana Williams (Havana); Claudia Fernandez Acebo (Matanzas); Anabella Urquiola (Mayabeque); Lisbeth Fernandez (Pinar del Rio); Glenda Verdecia (Western Region); Vanessa Villareal (Eastern Region) and Stefany Parli (Sancti Spiritus). Outgoing queen As her reign as Miss Universe Cuba comes to a close, Ancheta reflected on the past year. 'We've tried to be involved in everything, to spread the word about Cuba everywhere,' Ancheta told el Nuevo Herald. 'I feel that one of the most important things about all this is that Cuban girls and women are seeing this new dream, this new life that Cuban women can have.' 'This is one of the years in which I have grown the most in my entire life. It was full of learning, and I have met wonderful people,' Ancheta said of her reign. Miss Universe Cuba 2024 modeled for designer Giannina Azar during Miami Fashion Week in November, and participated in the video for 'La guagua,' from Gente de Zona's new album about the most popular musical genre on the island, el reparto. Ancheta notes that her life has changed, and now she doesn't feel comfortable going out without looking her best. At the same time, she's happy to chat with people on the street and is always up for a photo, even if they catch her in the middle of a dinner party. When she says goodbye to the crown, she plans to work toward her dream of working in television. She's also continuing to develop her skincare line, Arma Face Skincare, and wants to connect models and influencers with renowned brands through her own fashion and beauty-related advertising project. General admission to Miss Universe Cuba is free, but VIP tickets can be purchased at and you can also enter a raffle for two tickets on the Miss Universe Cuba Instagram profile.
Time Out
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Only one New York restaurant made it on the World's 50 Best Restaurants List
A few weeks back, the food-loving folks behind the World's 50 Best list unveiled the back-half of this year's 100 Best Restaurants ranking, and two stellar New York spots out of eight North American entries managed to make the coveted lineup. Making a splash at No. 98 was César, the elegant, seafood-focused restaurant from chef César Ramirez, while midtown fine-dining mainstay Le Bernardin clocked in at No. 90. And though those illustrious local dining rooms were joined on the full list by only one NYC restaurant in the top 50, they're at least in very good company: "New Korean" stunner Atomix was ranked No. 12 in this year's culinary pecking order, which were announced during a ceremony in Turin, Italy on June 19. It's not the first time that the creative Korean spot—the flagship restaurant of husband-and-wife duo, chef Junghyun "JP" Park and manager Ellia Park, who also oversee fellow New York spots including Atoboy, Naro and Seoul Salon—has been honored by World's 50 Best: In 2023, Atomic came in at No. 8 and rose to No. 6 one year later. Praised as the "ultimate gastronomic manifestation of the K-wave phenomenon" and "Korean dining at its very finest" with "dishes grounded in heritage, but distinct and innovative," per the World's 50 Best organizers, Atomix is the sole U.S. restaurant to make the main 50 Best list, and one of only three North American entries this year. (It's joined by Jorge Vallejo's boundary-pushing Quintonil and Elena Reygadas's Mexican-meets-Mediterranean beaut Rosetta, both located in Mexico City.) Elsewhere on the list, Lima had an exceptionally strong showing, with Maido from chef Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura—an upmarket Japanese-Peruvian restaurant serving an innovative take on Nikkei cuisine—finally claiming the top spot after a decade of being featured on the World's 50 Best list. Rounding out the top five was second-place finisher Asador Etxebarri of Atxondo, Spain; Diverxo of Madrid, Spain in the fourth-place spot; and Alchemist of Copenhagen, Denmark at No. 5.
Scroll.in
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scroll.in
Sunday book pick: In ‘The Famous Magician', Argentinian writer César Aira weighs literature in gold
'Magic, he said, was very limited, limited to itself: it was what it was and nothing more.' Argentinian writer César Aira's 2013 novella The Famous Magician begins with the musings of a writer who resembles Aira in many ways. 'Past sixty and enjoying a certain renown', the writer feels he has 'already read too much' and there's nothing new that he really wants to read. In addition to this, he has hit a writer's block. But neither concerns him too much since he's past the age to worry about money and in his semi-retirement stage has mercifully realised that he has saved up enough. A Faustian dilemma One morning, when he's at a secondhand book market that he frequents, he meets Ovando, a 'fat, scruffy man, somewhere in between forty and fifty' whom the narrator (César) considers the 'residue of residue' of real booksellers. While he was predisposed to ignoring Ovando, something peculiar happens that morning which shifts César's sense of reality. Ovando suggests that he can 'bend' the laws of physics. Taking it as ramblings of a madman, the narrator jokes with him and shows him the different ways that he can mess with the laws of physics. Putting an end to the banter, he transforms a cube of sugar into pure, solid gold. He doesn't stop here – Ovando offers to take César under his wing. But there's a condition: he must give up writing. And what about reading, César enquires. Ovando solemnly says, 'It's a waste of time and dangerous for the purity of the soul.' Both reading and writing have to go. César is in a real Faustian dilemma: Should he surrender his soul? After years of 'laboriously' writing fiction and 'sweating away like Sisyphus', an opportunity of 'magical instantaneity' has finally arrived. César doesn't want to lose out on it but he's sceptical about giving up Literature. He decides to consult his friends (also intellectuals) and his wife, who is away. He'll have to email her. Even as the possibility of becoming a magician looms in his mind, he's not free of mundane obstacles such as the internet that stops functioning when he has to write to his wife or the work that demands his attention. His friends are intrigued by the offer but immediately shoot it down. The clause is too ridiculous – reading is harmful and that was why it was so 'cherished'. Moreover, his friends were no strangers to magic. One of them rubs a pencil stub between his fingers and transforms it into a Montblanc Bohème. This discovery saddens César, who rues that he has 'never lived'. All he has done is read and write and enjoyed the devotion of a handful of writers – 'a simulacrum of real life.' As he considers the offer and waits to hear back from his wife (who is wiser than Hegel!), César has to take a short trip to Egypt for a literary event. At the airport, he is subjected to humiliating interrogation and he starts to worry about how strict rules for international travel were stopping artists from playing rogue, an element essential for creating fantastic art. Sweating away like Sisyphus Too caught up in real life, César almost forgets Ovando's offer. The deadline has come and gone, and César has to give an answer. César, despite saying he has given up writing, cannot stop thinking about the many sleights of hand and tricks that he has employed in the course of his literary career to write fiction. He had polished rough ideas into shiny themes and plots. In fact, he has become so good at it that he is knowledgeable enough to teach and formulate theories. Like his friends and Ovando, he is also creating magic, albeit slowly and at great personal frustration. Over time, the gold cube loses its sheen and so does the Montblanc pen, whose nib becomes dull. And yet, it is César's laboriously constructed fiction that generates new meanings and ideas with every read. And much like magic, it demands the suspension of belief and an implicit trust in the written word. In The Famous Magician, author César Aira considers the entanglements of fiction and reality, including the tremendous power that an author holds in creating the world of make-believe while borrowing liberally from real lives. Between Ovand's transformation of sugar into gold and the narrator's concocting elaborate stories, the line between magic and creative power begins to fade. While the author's 'magic' is there for his readers to see – concrete and sure, the same cannot be said for Ovando's trick.
