IFFHS NEWS AND STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 44
Picture : Football fields in the World, here in Switzerland.
RECORDS
Kylian MBappe (France/Paris SG) has realised the fastest sprint in the UEFA Champions League 2019/20 with 33,98 km/h before Lukas Klostermann (Germany/RB Leipzig) 33,82km/h and Hans Hateboer (Atalanta) 33,71km/h. Achraf Hakimi (Morocco/Dortmund) 33,46 and Alphonso Davies (Canada/FC Bayern München) 33,37 took places 4 and 5.
Real Madrid is the leader of the TOP SCORING CLUBS in the FIFA CLUB WORLD CUPS with 31 goals before FC Barcelona 23 and CF Monterrey 22.
In the UEFA Champions League Winning streaks ranking, German's FC Bayern München with coach Hansi Flick (picture) is the leader with 13 consecutive wins (11 in the last Champions League winning season 2019/20 and 2 already in the new season. Real Madrid (10 in 2014-2015) and also FC Bayern (10 in 2013 ) took place before FC Barcelona (9 in 2014-2015 and 9 in 2002-2003).
Maren Mjelde (picture) (150 international caps with Norway) and Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir (135 international caps with Iceland) took place in the most capped international players in the History.
Ansu Fati (picture with Lionel Messi) breaks one record after another. He became last week the youngest Goalscorer in a CLASSICO Real-Barça at 17 years and 359 days.
BERKANE ON THE TOP !
The RS Berkane takes its revenge. Beaten in the CAF Cup final by Zamalek last season, the Moroccan club do not miss a second chance. Last Sunday, he beats (1-0) Pyramids FC and wins the trophy. The first in its history on the continent.
The Moulay Abdallah stadium in Rabat was the scene of the CAF Cup final this Sunday between Pyramids FC and RS Berkane. On arrival, it is the Moroccans who lift the trophy. A goal scored by Burkinabe international defender Issoufou Dayo in the 15th minute. The Egyptians ran behind this single achievement without however finding the flaw in the opposing defense.
Like RS Berkane last season, Pyramids FC lose for their first continental final. The experience acquired for the Egyptians to come back very strong next season. As for the Moroccan club, it is quite simply rewarded by the good work that has been done for several seasons.
ALLAN NYOM RETIRES
32-year-old Getafe defender, Allan Romeo Nyom is reported to have called it quits with the Cameroon National football Team, Indomitable Lions after the player currently in his best form yet was excluded from a 32-man list published yesterday by coach Toni Conceiçao to camp ahead of Days 3 & 4 qualifiers for the 2022 African Cup of Nations. Nyom who has played only 17 games since his first cap with the squad in February 2012 understandably frowns at the way successive managers of the Lions have treated him, and thinks at 32, his sun therein is setting and so would prefer to quit the stage now.
Toni Conceiçao’s 32-man team that goes into camp for the binary tie with Mozambique on 12 and 16 November features one player from the domestic championship and one other from elsewhere on the African continent in the den of 4 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 7 midfielders and 11 attackers.
Apart from Allan Nyom and Nicolas Nkoulou, all the players who have generally been called up to duty at least over the past two years are present with only the following novices: Macky Bagnack(Partizan, Belgrade), Olivier Mbaizo(Union, Philadelphia), Fabrice Ngah(Raja, Casablanca) and Aboubakari Seidiki(Union Sportive, Douala).
There is as well the return to the den of the trio, Choupo-Moting(Bayern Munich), Vincent Aboubakar(Besiktas) and Christian Bassogog(Henan Jianye), amongst others.
The Portuguese-born trainer will retain 23 players at the end of the camp that begins on 9 November.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Although only 20 of the 35 clubs that make up the Cameroon professional leagues 1 and 2 were represented at today’s Extraordinary General Assembly, the quorum was reached for deliberations to get underway. Amid boycott and absenteeism by 15 clubs as well the non representation of the federation, the session chaired by the president, retired army general, Pierre Semengue adopted three resolutions:
The first was the modification of Article 33(4) of the statutes of the league adopted on 3 November 2014 which now requires that aspirants for membership in the Board of Governors should forward their candidacies to the Secretary General 12 days to General Assembly for notification to the Electoral Commission which has to make such lists official and inform the members of the league as well as the agenda of the Assembly 10 days before the Board of Governors meeting whose election is scheduled to take place 8 days before the General Assembly.
The second resolution was the validation of the 2019/2020 season that was organized by the federation.
The third resolution was the adoption of the rules and regulations governing the imminent 2020/2021 domestic football season.