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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Romeny & Ferdinan in race to be fit for final
Oxford United duo Ole Romeny and Marselino Ferdinan face a race to be fit for the pre-season President's Cup final in Indonesia. The U's reached the final of the tournament after a 4-0 victory over Indonesian side Arema FC on Thursday. Advertisement But Oxford's Indonesian stars will both need to prove their fitness for the final, with Ferdinan carrying a hamstring issue and Romeny, who scored in the win, stretchered off with an ankle injury. "We had already lost players to injury and illness," U's boss Gary Rowett told BBC Radio Oxford "For Ole, it looked like potentially quite a bad one but we'll see if he's available for the final." Romeny, in particular, has impressed during the event, scoring several goals in front of large crowds at the tournament in his home country. Oxford will play Thai side Port FC in Sunday's final.
BBC News
11-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Romeny & Ferdinan in race to be fit for final
Oxford United duo Ole Romeny and Marselino Ferdinan face a race to be fit for the pre-season President's Cup final in U's reached the final of the tournament after a 4-0 victory over Indonesian side Arema FC on Oxford's Indonesian stars will both need to prove their fitness for the final, with Ferdinan carrying a hamstring issue and Romeny, who scored in the win, stretchered off with an ankle injury."We had already lost players to injury and illness," U's boss Gary Rowett told BBC Radio Oxford"For Ole, it looked like potentially quite a bad one but we'll see if he's available for the final."Romeny, in particular, has impressed during the event, scoring several goals in front of large crowds at the tournament in his home will play Thai side Port FC in Sunday's final.
Hindustan Times
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Mohammedan Sporting's secret weapon for the Durand Cup 2025? Dipendu Biswas drops the answer
Durand Cup 2025 will kick off on 23 July, with East Bengal FC facing South United FC at Kolkata's Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan. Dipendu Biswas emphasized the importance of youth development and grassroots football for the future of Indian football.(File Images) The three prestigious trophies, the Durand Cup, the Shimla Trophy, and the President Cup, were unveiled at a befitting ceremony in Shillong by dignitaries, including Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma and Air Marshal Surat Singh. The oldest football tournament in Asia and now the official curtain-raiser of the Indian football season, the Durand Cup has grown into a major platform for young talent and early-season team assessments. ALSO READ| Durand Cup: Mohun Bagan edge past Punjab FC in thriller, seal semi-final berth Thus, in this football-wired mood, former India striker and Mohammedan Sporting Club official Dipendu Biswas stressed the tournament's changing responsibility in an exclusive interview with Hindustan 'The Durand Cup is the first major national tournament of the season and one of the country's most traditional tournaments,' said Biswas. 'The country's ISL and I-League teams participate in this tournament. This is a great opportunity for all teams to assess their players. It also gives young players a platform to showcase their talent in competitive football and helps coaches refine the squad accordingly.' Mohammedan Sporting gears up with youth brigade for 2025 Durand Cup This year, 24 teams across ISL, I-League, and the armed forces will battle it out, with Imphal debuting as a new host city alongside returning venues Shillong and Jamshedpur. 'Both Shillong and Kokrajhar have a rich culture of football. Shillong is the home of Lajong. People there will have a new obsession with football,' Biswas told 'With the Durand Cup being held in these three places this year, I think the promotion of football in the Northeast will increase. It's a positive development.' While talking with usm, Biswas recalled his most cherished Durand Cup moment: 'When I was at TFA, I scored a goal against Mohun Bagan in the semi-final during the 1996–1997 season.' 'As the team manager of Mohammedan Sporting Club, it was tough losing both the semi-final and final of the Durand Cup.' ALSO READ| Ignominious exit but Horner gave this F1 team wings On his team's readiness for the 2025 edition, he added, 'Our team is almost ready. This year, we have included a few young players in our squad for the Durand Cup.' 'Support the team, stay with the team, and we have a lot of young talented players who have the ability to play well in the Calcutta League, Durand and ISL. Support them. Hope you will not be disappointed.'
The Irish Sun
23-06-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Keegan Bradley is fiery US Ryder Cup captain who still hasn't unpacked suitcase from last appearance 11 YEARS AGO
FIRE-BREATHING US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley may just have given himself the chance to finally unlock the suitcase that has remained off for limits nearly 11 years. After experiencing a second successive Ryder Cup defeat at Gleneagles in 2014, Bradley vowed never to unpack his case until he finished on a winning USA team. 4 Keegan Bradley won the Travelers Championship on Sunday Credit: Reuters 4 After losing the Ryder Cup in 2014, Bradley vowed never to unpack his case until he finished on a winning USA team Credit: Getty That looked increasingly unlikely as the man from Vermont failed to play his way back onto the team, was controversially snubbed for a wild card in 2023, and was then installed as US captain a year ago. But exactly a year to the day after he was asked if he wanted to take on the Ryder Cup captaincy, he clinched a victory that handed him a whole new dilemma. Bradley, who jumped at the chance to do the job But after his dramatic win in the Travelers Championship, he admitted he would have to take a 'pretty hard look' at whether he should be on his own team. READ MORE IN GOLF In front of a Connecticut crowd chanting 'USA, USA', Bradley took advantage of That propelled him to a career high seventh in the world rankings, and catapulted him from 17th to ninth on the Ryder Cup qualifying list. Only the top six qualify automatically. But the question now is whether Bradley, 39, can afford NOT to pick himself, unless his form falls off a cliff between now and September 26, when the battle with Europe begins at Bethpage Black in New York. No-one can doubt Bradley's passion for the Ryder Cup. Or anything else. Most read in Golf CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS 4 Bradley is set to become the Ryder Cup's first player-captain in 62 years Credit: Reuters He has become famous for the sort of frenzied celebrations that followed his latest win - letting out a massive roar, screaming a few obscenities at the adoring New England crowds and chest bumping caddie Scott Vail. When he calmed down, a sheepish-looking Bradley confessed: 'I kind of lost it again there, didn't I? I might be in trouble with my mom for using some bad words.' Keegan Bradley set for Ryder Cup job that hasn't existed for 62 years after stunning PGA Travellers Championship win It would not be the first time. Despite being known for his fiery nature, Bradley shocked plenty of people with his outburst in the USA's President Cup team room, shortly after holing the winning putt in their victory over the Internationals last year. He roared: "I've been doubted my whole f***ing life, That's when I do my best work. We are gonna go to Bethpage to kick their f***ing ass." Bradley later claimed he was surprised that comment was broadcast on Netflix's Full Swing series. Really? They did not hold back from showing the stunned reaction of the entire Bradley family when he missed out on a wild card pick from Zach Johnson two years ago, with the out of form Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler picked ahead of him. Maybe the memory of how the Scottish crowd taunted Bradley over his exaggerated pre-shot routine - a dozen or more club twirls, and backing away from his ball a few times before pulling the trigger - counted against him. And his volatile on-course antics, which once saw him in a World Match Play face-off with Migel Angel Jimenez that had to be defused by a rules official, has also raised a few eyebrows. Off the course, Bradley is a completely different animal - a devoted family man who dotes on wife Jillian and their two sons. 4 Bradley has formed a close friendship with basketball legend Michael Jordan Credit: Getty And he has formed a close friendship with basketball legend Bradley was their original brand ambassador when the range of Jordan golf shoes was launched, and he still wears them now. Do not be surprised if golf nut Jordan is one of the US cheerleaders at Bethpage Black in September. Bradley, 39, insists he will not surrender the US captaincy, 'under any circumstances'. But he admitted the possibility of doubling up - and leaning more heavily on vice-captains Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker, Kevin Kinsner and Jim Furyk to look after the off course stuff - is now a real possibility. He said: 'This changes the story a little bit. I never would have thought about playing if I hadn't won. This definitely opens the door to play. 'I don't know if I'm going to do it or not, but I certainly have to take a pretty hard look at what's best for the team and we'll see. 'I never really planned on playing. I really wanted to just be the captain. I really felt strongly about that. I want to serve the guys. They asked me to do a job. I want to do it to the best of my abilities. 'Now, with the amazing vice captains that I have, and I have a better perspective of playing in the Presidents Cup and being around a lot of the guys, I feel a lot more comfortable if I went that route.' 'It's still only June, so we've still got a long ways to go. This definitely changes things a little bit, and we'll all get together and figure out the best way to do this.'
Daily Record
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Keegan Bradley admits major regret as he issues 'I don't care' Ryder Cup stance over LIV stars
The USA Ryder Cup skipper confesses he wishes he'd done things differently and talks about LIV hopefuls for Bethpage Honest Keegan Bradley admits regret at past bitterness towards success of his peers as he issued a 'I don't care' stance regarding his LIV stars such as Bryson DeCmabeau and Brooks Koepka. The Ryder Cup captain, who is getting ready to try and win a second PGA Championship, is relishing being the leader of his team as he gears up for September's scintillating showdown against Europe. Bradley sees the warmth within his close-knit USA stars and confessed that, having never been happy to see an opponent succeed in the earlier part of his career, he now wishes he'd seen things differently. He explained: 'Yes, I really regret early parts of my career. 'Who knows, maybe it helped me play well, but I look up to a lot of these guys in the way that they treat each other in that they are genuinely happy for their friend that wins or plays well. I never really felt that. I was always wanting to beat everybody. 'I think it's been great for me to get around those guys and feel that sort of joy that they have for their friends. As the captain now, I see a guy like Justin Thomas win and I feel like I'm in the car cheering. It's just so fun for me to have that feeling. 'I sort of feel like a big brother to a lot of these guys. I thank them for helping me see that side and I think it's a much better way to go about life on the Tour.' Bradley has surrounded himself with the squad in build up and had a dinner at the Truist Championship last week for members of the past Ryder Cup and President Cup sides. He explained the reasoning as he stated: 'It was amazing. It's always fun this time of year to get the guys all together under one roof and really start to celebrate a Ryder Cup year. 'We had that dinner the other week, but we're working every day every week for the guys. As a player I loved going to these meetings because it started to get real. 'Like this is coming, I really want to get on this team. Try to motivate the guys to be excited to play for our captains that we have and get excited to play at Bethpage Black. 'It's our dream to be on these teams and even getting invited to a meeting like that is special because it means you could make the team. We have we we want to make everyone feel comfortable and we're going to have an open line of communication. 'We invited Brooks and Bryson. They were in the points and they had played on the previous teams and it was great to have them there. It was exciting. This Ryder Cup and what comes with this, no-one cares about what's going on PGA Tour and LIV. 'We're trying to put the best team together and it could mean there's one LIV guy, two LIV guys, that doesn't doesn't matter. But it was really great to have them all together with the guys. It's been a while since we've been able to do that. 'One of my favourite things has been getting to know the guys better. I've known them all through the years of playing, but I've really gotten to know most of them much more and it's been really one of the highlights of my career. 'I don't know if this didn't happen, if I would have gotten to know these guys as well, so I'm just trying to get to know these guys exactly how they want to have the Ryder Cup, exactly how they like to be treated, how they like to be spoken to in the heat of the moment and really just having them feel comfortable with me and the other vice captains. 'I really enjoyed the process of really getting to know the guys a little better.' DeChambeau and Kopeka have limited chance to win points to the team due to their LIV status and Bradley says this week's PGA Championship is vital, especially given a lesser-standard of data available from the Saudi-backed tour. He explained: 'I think these majors kind of separate guys. You see a guy hanging there on Sunday, it's an impressive thing. 'There's a lot of points at stake here and the the movement on the points list can be a lot in these events, so you know, you see maybe a younger guy that stands up to the pressure and can feel this is as close as we're going to get to Bethpage, that you know the the pressure on Sunday is a lot in a major and you can you can see a lot there. 'Listen, these guys are playing in all four of the majors, so we'll have that and you know these guys that a lot of them are up in these leaderboards every major, so we'll see how the how the year shapes out. 'The data is a little less at LIV. We don't have quite the same stats that we have out here, but we have some and we know that winning and contending on any tour at any level is difficult. 'I don't care where you play. I played the mini tours, winning there was difficult. Winning on LIV is difficult and you can see guys, winning a LIV event is a big deal.'
