This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Barcelona sacked coach Xavi Hernandez on Friday after the Catalan giants failed to win a trophy this season but just weeks since he and club president Joan Laporta agreed he would stay in the post. Xavi will take charge of the team's final La Liga match on Sunday at Sevilla before departing. "Barcelona president Joan Laporta has told Xavi ...
2024-05-24 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France's record goalscorer Olivier Giroud is to retire from international football after Euro 2024, the World Cup winning striker told Friday's edition of L'Equipe. Giroud, who will turn 38 in September, said it was time for the younger generation to have a chance at international level. The former Arsenal, Chelsea and AC Milan striker -- who ...
2024-05-24 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jaylen Brown scored 40 points to propel Boston to a 126-110 victory over Indiana and a 2-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference finals over a Pacers team rocked by an injury to Tyrese Haliburton. Brown tied a career playoff high to help the top-seeded Celtics break their game-two jinx. Winners of a league-best 64 regular-season games, Boston had ...
2024-05-23 14:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Athletico Beirut club honored its Under-16 and Under-12 teams, who won the Lebanese Football Championship titles for the year 2024, at a ceremony held on the club's green field in Dbayeh. Atletico's Chairman of the Board, Robert Paoli, gave a speech in which he looked back two decades to the founding of the Athletico club with René Matta. Over ...
2024-05-23 12:32 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ademola Lookman scored a stunning hat-trick as Atalanta ended Bayer Leverkusen's 51-match unbeaten run to win the Europa League final 3-0 on Wednesday and claim their first trophy in 61 years. Lookman became the first player to score a hat-trick in a European final since 1975 to secure Atalanta's first-ever continental trophy. The side from ...
2024-05-23 12:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving combined for 63 points as the Dallas Mavericks won game one of the Western Conference finals with a 108-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. Doncic delivered his best when it mattered in the fourth quarter, where he made 15 of his 33 points, while Irving had set the tone early with 24 of his 30 ...
2024-05-22 21:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Beirut SC won the Antoine Choueiri Cup for the year 2023-2024 after defeating Antonin Sportif Club 72-55. It is worth noting that Beirut won three titles in the 2023-2024 season: Champion of the Doha Friendly Tournament, Arab Club Champion and Champion of the Antoine Choueiri Cup (Lebanese Cup). Honorary Title Beirut SC's victory in the cup is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-22 16:37 - Reading : less than a minute
Two-time finalist Dominic Thiem was eliminated from Roland Garros in the second round of qualifying on Wednesday, going down 6-2, 7-5 to Finland's Otto Virtanen. Thiem failed to go past the first round of the main draw since his 2020 run to the final and dropped from World No. 3 to 131 in the rankings. To clarify, he was knocked out in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-22 13:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bayer Leverkusen's Xabi Alonso can confirm his status as the rising star of coaching in Wednesday's Europa League final, but he will come up against a wily old fox in Atalanta's Gian Piero Gasperini. Alonso rebuffed advances from former clubs Liverpool and Bayern Munich to remain in charge of Leverkusen after leading the club to their first-ever ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-22 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Boston Celtics needed a late rally to force overtime against the Indiana Pacers before emerging with a 133-128 win in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday. Boston's Jaylen Brown sank a three-pointer from the corner with 6.1 seconds remaining to tie the scores at 117-117 and take it to overtime. Then, Jayson Tatum made a ...
Makram Haddad 2024-05-21 19:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Embassy of France in Lebanon, in collaboration with the "Sports Academy School" and under the supervision of the Lebanese Olympic Committee, organized the third edition of the Olympic Day at the sports facilities of Antonine University (Baabda-Hadath) during a long sports day, approximately two months before the opening of the Summer Olympics ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 15:58 - Reading : less than a minute
Lieutenant Firas Eid, a member of the Internal Security Forces, accomplished a global achievement by defeating his rival, the German champion Mario Kornhas, in the 72.5 kg category in the World Professional Kickboxing Championship. The competition was held in Munich, Germany, in the presence of 6,000 people. It should be noted that the German ...