Youthful manager on his unlikely career path with Germany and Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round trip to Fulham As a 19-year-old studying at a sports university in Cologne, Tonda Eckert jumped at the chance to work for Germany as an analyst at Euro 2012. “It was nice, eh? Take somebody who doesn’t understand anything about the game and put them in,” says the now Southampton head coach, smiling as he reca...
Youthful manager on his unlikely career path with Germany and Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round trip to Fulham As a 19-year-old studying at a sports university in Cologne, Tonda Eckert jumped at the chance to work for Germany as an analyst at Euro 2012. “It was nice, eh? Take somebody who doesn’t understand anything about the game and put them in,” says the now Southampton head coach, smiling as he recalls being thrust into an elite environment. He entered the same sphere as Joachim Löw, Hansi Flick and a team of greats: Miroslav Klose, Philipp Lahm, Toni Kroos, Manuel Neuer, the list goes on. For the 2014 World Cup, Eckert was tasked with preparing a dossier on Argentina, who Germany overcame in the final. “The celebrations in Berlin were amazing, at the Fanmeile,” he says of the scenes at the fan zone by Brandenburg Gate . In the semi-finals, Germany humiliated the hosts Brazil, triumphing 7-1 in Belo Horizonte. “You know what Joachim Löw said at half-time? That he wouldn’t let anyone play in the final if they didn’t finish the second half with a sense of humility, because he knew how much it meant to Brazil, in Brazil.” Continue reading...
After nearly a week of uncertainty, airspace closures and very limited flights, news that hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world were hanging on for emerged: the Gulf-based carrier Emirates was restarting operations in earnest despite the US-Israel war on Iran. Those relieved by the restart will include the UK’s Foreign Office, after its travails in organising delayed rescue flights ...
After nearly a week of uncertainty, airspace closures and very limited flights, news that hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world were hanging on for emerged: the Gulf-based carrier Emirates was restarting operations in earnest despite the US-Israel war on Iran. Those relieved by the restart will include the UK’s Foreign Office, after its travails in organising delayed rescue flights out of neighbouring Oman. Emirates plans to return to 11 daily flights to five British airports by Saturday, and will operate to 60% of its full network, 83 destinations in all, including seven US airports and a total of 22 daily flights to India. Yet the partial return will struggle to dispel the doubts raised by a week when many started to wonder, just where will the world fly now? Before the crisis, the three big Gulf hubs – Dubai, home of Emirates, Abu Dhabi for Etihad and Qatar Airways’ Doha base – had established themselves as the crossroads of global aviation, with networks that link Asia, Africa, Europe and reaching out to the Americas and Oceania. Nearly 300,000 people pass through one of the three hubs every day and about two-thirds are heading straight through on a connecting flight. The closure of Russian and Ukrainian airspace to European carriers after the invasion of Ukraine has pushed eastbound traffic south into a small, uncertain corridor. For passengers on many routes, a Gulf connection had become the cheapest, quickest and possibly the nicest way to fly. View image in fullscreen Passengers stranded by the closure of Dubai airport await for assistance in the parking area on Sunday. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP When the US-Israeli bombing of Iran began a week ago, and retaliatory rockets and drones closed the Gulf airports, aviation’s traffic jam rippled back across continents. Those in the actual war zone might shed few tears for the British tourists complaining of being stuck in “a holiday from hell” in Thai hotels, or those wondering how to reach Europe f...
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of at least 10 Latin American countries to a palm-dotted golf resort in Miami on Saturday as the president continues his quest to transform the US’s standing in the region and outmuscle China. Since returning to power last year, Trump has launched a dramatic – and at times deadly – crusade to, as the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, put it, “reclaim our back yard...
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of at least 10 Latin American countries to a palm-dotted golf resort in Miami on Saturday as the president continues his quest to transform the US’s standing in the region and outmuscle China. Since returning to power last year, Trump has launched a dramatic – and at times deadly – crusade to, as the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, put it, “reclaim our back yard”. Vows to “take back” the Panama canal were followed by airstrikes on alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, overt meddling in Brazil’s judicial system, threats of military intervention in Mexico and Colombia, and, most startlingly, the abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and the use of Predator drones to help kill one of the world’s most wanted drug bosses, El Mencho, in Mexico. Trump has also rescued Argentina’s president, the radical libertarian Javier Milei, with a multibillion-dollar bailout, and interfered in Honduras’s recent election in support of the eventual rightwing winner. He recently suggested a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, as his administration seeks to strangle the country’s struggling communist regime into submission by cutting off its oil supply, despite UN warnings of a humanitarian “collapse”. “As a critic of him, I’m the first to admit there has not been a presidency since perhaps Kennedy that has had such a profound effect on Latin America, in so many spheres of activity. The effects are real,” said a former US ambassador to Panama, John Feeley, who has likened Trump’s behaviour to that of the ruthless fictional mob boss Tony Soprano. Trump officials describe his “Don-roe Doctrine” – a revamp of the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine by which President James Monroe sought to keep European powers out of the Americas – as an attempt to reduce Beijing’s regional footprint and impose Washington’s will through economic and military pressure. On Wednesday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters that Saturday’s...
In an extract from his book, Philippe Auclair reveals the influence of mother, Fayza, and prominent women on the Mbappé image and brand The Mbappés did their utmost to keep outsiders at arm’s length from the outset. The agents – dozens of them – who approached them to become Kylian’s representatives ever since the eight-year-old was making fun of defenders twice his size with Bondy were rebuffed. ...
In an extract from his book, Philippe Auclair reveals the influence of mother, Fayza, and prominent women on the Mbappé image and brand The Mbappés did their utmost to keep outsiders at arm’s length from the outset. The agents – dozens of them – who approached them to become Kylian’s representatives ever since the eight-year-old was making fun of defenders twice his size with Bondy were rebuffed. The financial advisers who offered to broker sponsorship deals met with the same response: father Wilfrid would take care of his son’s sporting career, mother Fayza of all the rest, with Kylian having the final word in any decision involving his future, be it on or off the field; and so it has remained to this day. Kylian does not have a Fifa-registered agent. Nobody but the closest members of his family gets a cut from the deals he signs with clubs or commercial partners. This is not to say that nobody else is involved in the projet . Luís Campos, sporting adviser for the clubs owned by Qatar Sports Investments after fulfilling a similar role for Lille and Monaco, remains a trusted confidant, as he’s been since playing a central role in smoothing the difficulties the young Kylian encountered at Monaco. Former L’Équipe journalist Bilel Ghazi, who, though unlicensed by Fifa, has been working with players like Rayan Cherki (whom Kylian’s mother Fayza also represented for a short while), has provided media guidance to the Mbappés. Neither Campos nor Ghazi are part of the inner circle, however. Continue reading...
In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain I was at work last Saturday when I heard the blast. Since that moment, the world has been turned on its head. The school called asking me to come and pick up my child. I rushed to the metro and headed north in a carriage filled with anxious people calling their loved ...
In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain I was at work last Saturday when I heard the blast. Since that moment, the world has been turned on its head. The school called asking me to come and pick up my child. I rushed to the metro and headed north in a carriage filled with anxious people calling their loved ones to ensure their safety, melancholy etched on their faces, uncertainty metastasising from one to another as they checked the latest news on their mobiles. This is the second time within a year that Israel has decided to go for a war of choice with Iran, but I suppose that is the new normal. Israel has long enjoyed a unique position of near-total impunity when it comes to harassing Palestinians, and now the green light to aggression seems to extend to its unending wars and spreading of terror across the region. And it feels different this time. The pretence that there is some level of precision in the strikes is gone. Instead, the attacks appear indiscriminate, with targets ranging from schools to hospitals, from police stations to urban amenities – all hit with a level of might that seems aimed at demolition, total destruction, the flattening of the city . Continue reading...
At the bustling Han Market in central Da Nang, two Vietnamese vendors tease a middle-aged South Korean tourist by calling him harabeoji, or “grandfather” in Korean. “I’m offended!” he jokes. The women grab his arms and laugh. “It’s OK, it’s OK.” Advertisement The man had returned to their stall after buying 200,000 dong (US$7.60) worth of macadamia nuts the day before. It is a small moment of bant...
At the bustling Han Market in central Da Nang, two Vietnamese vendors tease a middle-aged South Korean tourist by calling him harabeoji, or “grandfather” in Korean. “I’m offended!” he jokes. The women grab his arms and laugh. “It’s OK, it’s OK.” Advertisement The man had returned to their stall after buying 200,000 dong (US$7.60) worth of macadamia nuts the day before. It is a small moment of banter, repeated dozens of times a day in a city that many people from South Korea jokingly call their own unofficial seaside province. Outside the market, storefronts display Korean-language signs. K-pop drifts from restaurants and massage parlours. South Korean tourists crowd the streets in the city centre. South Korean tourists shop at Da Nang’s popular Han Market in Vietnam. Photo: David D. Lee In recent years, visitors have nicknamed the city “Gyeonggi province of Da Nang”, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the densely populated region surrounding Seoul.
European Central Bank efforts to project calm over war and inflation are being tested as markets price in a hike in interest rates this year. Traders who until recently expected borrowing costs to stay at 2% into 2027 now see surging energy costs as a potential threat to prices in Europe — and one that could force the ECB’s hand. In public, officials portray a steady-as-it-goes approach to interes...
European Central Bank efforts to project calm over war and inflation are being tested as markets price in a hike in interest rates this year. Traders who until recently expected borrowing costs to stay at 2% into 2027 now see surging energy costs as a potential threat to prices in Europe — and one that could force the ECB’s hand. In public, officials portray a steady-as-it-goes approach to interest rates. Privately, however, policymakers speaking on condition of anonymity are alert to the risks and keen to stay nimble — even if rapid action is unlikely. The challenge is to acknowledge mounting dangers stemming from President Donald Trump ’s military campaign in Iran without fueling a further tightening in financial conditions. The situation recalls 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent inflation soaring and the ECB defied market expectations for higher borrowing costs before belatedly yielding. That’s a comparison that officials like Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau and his Dutch counterpart Olaf Sleijpen would rather avoid, with the latter insisting the circumstances are “different” now. “The ECB is clearly looking at it, but won’t necessarily react, while markets try to front-run developments,” Spyros Andreopoulos at Thin Ice Macroeconomics said. “The situation is in flux and policymakers themselves try to see what’s appropriate next.” The change in rate wagers is taking place in tandem with a global shift in perceptions of the risks to monetary policy — one that’s reduced expectations of a cut by the Bank of England in 2026 and helped drive fluctuating bets this week for the Federal Reserve . Read More: Traders Turn to 2022 Playbook to Map Out Iran Market Risks The 2022 episode remains sensitive inside the ECB, reinforcing criticism that its consensus-driven, process-heavy set-up can slow decision-making. It added to a narrative of earlier missteps, including rate increases in 2008 and 2011 that were later reversed. Chief Economist Phili...
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