National Trainer – Skibbe should end Greek crisis – Süddeutsche.de

Michael Skibbe’s new national coach in Greece. Maria Sharapova finished with their victory in Singapore, the career of Flavia Pennetta. Barcelona player Javier Mascherano admits tax evasion.

Soccer, Greece: The former Bundesliga coach Michael Skibbe’s new football coach in Greece. That gave the National Federation EPO announced on Thursday. The 50-year-old signed a two-year contract, which is automatically renewed if Skibbe succeeds in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. After the miserable failure in qualifying for the European Championship 2016 in France is Skibbe, who was sacked earlier this month the Turkish first division club Eskisehirspor, already in the test match on November 13 for the first time standing on the sidelines against Luxembourg. After Otto Rehhagel Skibbe is the second German who controls the fate of the Greek footballers. Rehhagel had the Greeks out in 2004 for sensational European title

Tennis, WTA finals. Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska are among the WTA finals in the semifinals. The Russian Sharapova won in Singapore on Thursday their third group match against Flavia Pennetta from Italy with 7: 5, 6: 1 and thus helped Radwanska into the semifinal. The Pole had previously against Simona Halep from Romania with 7: 1 enforced and number two in the world thus thrown out of the tournament: 6 (7: 5). 6 For Pennetta occurring in the doped with seven million US dollars event was the last game of their tennis career. The US Open champion had previously announced their careers end.

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Soccer, Spain : Javier Mascherano of FC Barcelona has been tax evasion in the amount of 1.5 million. Interviews with the Argentine international’s before the investigating judge in Gavà in Barcelona have therefore lasted only a few minutes on Thursday, the news agency Efe reported, citing judicial circles. Mascherano was plus EUR 200 000 transferred its entire tax liabilities for the years 2011 and 2012 to interest a few weeks ago to the competent authorities, it said. The since 2011 playing for the reigning Champions League winners Mascherano had remitted according to findings of the Spanish authorities, inter alia, its revenue from image rights illegally to a company in Madeira. He also is honorary payments of sporting goods equipment supplier Nike did not have declared. Trouble with the tax authorities had recently many professionals in the Primera División, including the Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi and Neymar, goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who joined in the summer from Real Madrid for FC Porto, as well as the former Real professional Xabi Alonso, who since August 2014 plays for German champions Bayern Munich

Basketball:. Thanks to a strong team performance is Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks a successful start in the new season of North American professional basketball league NBA succeeded , After seven defeats in seven preseason games the Texans celebrated a 111 at the Phoenix Suns: 95-success. No fewer than eight players in the Mavs came on a double-digit yield point, Nowitzki (37) contributed eleven points and nine rebounds in. “It’s not bad, that we fly under the radar. A website has predicted that we would in the West Last. That should be motivation for us”, the Würzburg Nowitzki said. Coach Rick Carlisle praised his general: “It was an amazing team effort, we were all the time in attack mode and have not let up.” This is the path that the Mavericks had to go this season. By contrast, had NBA rookie Tibor Pleiß (25) Jazz just watch at the opening defeat of Utah. The German national team was not used by coach Quin Snyder, the Jazz defeated at the Detroit Pistons with 87:92

football. The German U-21 national team Yunus Malli from FSV Mainz 05 plays according to his advisor and uncle Ilhan Malli in the future for Turkey. “Even though it was a difficult decision, it is the next step in his career,” said Ilhan Malli in Sport magazine Kicker (Thursday). A change of Nations was already longer talking, although Malli since 2008 has German citizenship. Malli was born in Kassel, had become in 2009 with the German U-17 team European champion and most recently at the U21 European Championship in the Czech Republic for the DFB team in action. The 23-year-old midfield player himself wants to be currently not comment on that. “If everything would have gone faster, I would have already invited Yunus for the two European Championship qualifiers against Iceland and the Czech Republic,” said the coach Faith Terim Turkish national.