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Macron urges Netanyahu to 'distinguish terrorists from civilians' in Gaza
France is going to evacuate injured or sick children from the Gaza Strip to treat them in French hospitals and will also reinforce its aid to the area. It was announced by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in a message on Twitter (now X). The leader spoke on Sunday by telephone with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and later with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as reported by the Elysée. To the first, he expressed the efforts made by Paris to try to reach a humanitarian truce as soon as possible and reminded him of the need for the countries of the region to condemn the acts of Hamas..
With Netanyahu he has raised the tone and warned him about “the humanitarian risks and the numerous civilian losses linked to Israel's military operations” in Gaza.. He reminded him of the “absolute need to distinguish terrorists from the population and to provide protection to civilians”.
Macron has insisted on the need for an immediate humanitarian truce so that aid can reach Gaza, leading to a subsequent ceasefire.. “France is mobilizing all the means at its disposal, especially air, so that (these children) can be treated in France”, where “measures have been taken to accommodate up to 50 patients” in French hospitals, detailed the president, who He recalled that “humanitarian aid must arrive as quickly and as safely as possible.”
On Saturday he had spoken with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah Al Sisi, and with the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, to assess the situation.. “Given that there are more and more civilian casualties in Gaza and that hospitals and schools are bombed, the president has recalled Israel's obligation to respect international humanitarian law and the need for a truce,” the Elysée noted.
Following the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7 and the Israeli response in Gaza, Macron has tried to show some balance in the conflict: he has defended Israel's right to defend itself from Hamas, but has insisted that it must comply with the International law and not massacring civilians.
When he visited Israel after the attacks, he also went to Ramallah to meet with Abbas and has been, of all Western leaders, the most critical of Israel's actions.. In early November, the French president organized a humanitarian conference to raise funding to help the people of Gaza. Then, the participants agreed to 1 billion euros in aid.
At the beginning of the week, France will send an army plane with 10 tons of medical aid and two field hospitals with the capacity to accommodate 500 wounded each. Humanitarian materials will also be sent on European flights from November 23 to 30 and a hospital ship will set sail for Egypt this week. It will be used to treat the most serious cases.
Macron also recalled that the priority for France is the release of the hostages held by Hamas, of whom eight are French-Israeli citizens.
This was the internal rebellion at OpenAI that struck down its CEO Sam Altman… and this is how the pressure is being for him to return
Sam Altman woke up on Friday as one of the most admired executives in Silicon Valley, the person in charge of what is probably the company with the most potential in the technology sector right now, OpenAI. Creator of the well-known artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, the company has become the benchmark of the latest digital “gold rush”, the partner that companies like Microsoft or Salesforce want to have at their side.
At one in the afternoon of that same day, the board of directors announced his dismissal. “We have no confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” they indicated in an aggressive and unexpected statement in which they also named Mira Murati, until now chief technology officer, as interim CEO.
The news not only caught the entire technology sector by surprise. Altman himself, according to what has been leaked, did not know about the decision until an hour before the text was published.. His right-hand man, Greg Brockman, found out just five minutes before. Shortly after, he also announced his departure from the company.. “Sam and I are surprised and saddened by what the board has done today,” he explained on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter.
As the hours have passed, the reasons for such an abrupt decision have begun to leak, mainly through employees and sources close to the company.. They draw a complicated internal tension resulting from the evolution that OpenAI has had since its creation and that has ended in a coup orchestrated by the director of research and development, Ilya Sutskever, and some of the members of the board of directors.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting safe and ethical research in artificial intelligence.. Its founders considered that the development and control of artificial intelligence tools by a company like Google could pose a danger to society.. It was necessary to have an open alternative not subject to private companies.
But in recent years, as OpenAI's applications have become more sophisticated – and desirable to the market – Altman has changed course, turning it into a mainstream company.. In January of this year, it also secured its future with a multimillion-dollar investment by Microsoft, which has already allocated more than $13 billion to the company and is the exclusive provider of the technology it needs to function.
The agreement was necessary because in order to train and run the complex language models that make tools like ChatGPT or Dall-E (a generative artificial intelligence capable of creating images from a text description) possible, enormous computing capacity is necessary.. OpenAI charges for access to its tools, both to users of advanced ChatGPT functions and to companies that use its language models in their own applications, but it has not yet generated profits.
The speed at which Altman was advancing in this commercial aspect, however, did not sit well with some of the company's researchers and engineers.. “Altman's approach and the speed at which he wanted to move conflicted with the vision of OpenAI that some of the workers and board members had,” explains Kara Swisher, a veteran journalist who has spent decades covering the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.
The recent OpenAI developer conference, in which Altman announced a store to sell access to conversational artificial intelligence generated from ChatGPT, a strategy that gives OpenAI even greater control over the future of the sector, seems to have been the trigger for this internal war, which has culminated in the dismissal of the executive.
The ramifications of this decision can be complex, but one of the first victims is Microsoft itself, which after learning of the decision lost almost $48 billion in stock market valuation.. Mira Murati, the current interim CEO, has assured employees in an internal email that the agreement with Microsoft will remain stable.
And a possible return
But all this internal rebellion is being overwhelmed in recent hours by the pressure that the board is receiving for Sam Altman to be reinstated to his old position.. OpenAI investors are surprised by the reaction it has triggered since the announcement of its departure on Friday, and this Sunday it emerged that Altman is negotiating his possible return with the same board that precipitated his famous work.
On Saturday, hours after learning of Altman's abrupt departure, the French Internet Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, invited him to move to France.
“Sam Altman, his team and his talents are, if they wish, welcome in France, where we are accelerating [our efforts] to put artificial intelligence at the service of the common good,” Barrot wrote on the X network (formerly Twitter).
But beyond the external pressure, which may be anecdotal, it is that of the company's own investors that has the OpenAI board concerned.
The recently ousted CEO of OpenAI is reportedly discussing a possible return to the company behind the ChatGPT bot even as he studies launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) company, a person briefed on the matter whose testimony is collected by Reuters said on Saturday. .
A day after the board fired him in a surprise move that shook the tech world, Altman was talking to OpenAI executives about how to improve the company's governance structure while arguing with some OpenAI principal researchers and others loyal to Altman how they could start a new AI company, the source said.
The chances of a return or reboot for Altman, seen by many as the face of generative AI, are in flux, said the source, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the parties involved.
OpenAI and Altman did not respond to requests for comment. Investors in OpenAI, including its biggest backer, Microsoft, are discussing damage control, including possibly pressuring the board to restore Altman as CEO, fearing a mass exodus of talent without him, other sources said. .
Kholsa Ventures, an early backer of OpenAI, wants Altman to return to OpenAI but “will support him in everything he does next,” the fund's founder Vinod Khosla posted on X on Saturday. Microsoft declined to comment. He reportedly owns 49% of the company, while other investors and employees control 49%, and 2% is owned by OpenAI's nonprofit parent company.
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The civil society demonstration overflows the center of Madrid against the amnesty: "Not in my name!"
It is 12:00 o'clock and a flood of constitutional and European flags is still coming down Serrano, Alcalá, Paseo de El Prado, Gran Vía and Alfonso XII. On the banks of the Retiro, the buses rest like stranded barges. Beyond Colón, almost a kilometer away, the hubbub fades. The concentration extends in all directions from Cibeles as the center of the protest.
According to the organizers, the event has brought together around a million people.. The Government Delegation, for its part, estimates it at 170,000 attendees, more than double the 80,000 that it claimed had gathered last Sunday, also in Madrid, at the demonstration called by the PP.
There is less crowding than on other occasions, but the continuous trickle has an effect: tens of thousands of people are filling the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid and its surroundings.. The blue of the community insignia contrasts with Ferraz's riots, where anathemas against the EU fly.
It is 12:00 o'clock on all the clocks of self-proclaimed “constitutionalism”, which explodes in a univocal cry against amnesty: “Not in my name!”. More than a hundred civil society associations and forums have said enough and have organized the large demonstration against the pacts of Pedro Sánchez and the independentists of Junts and ERC.
Sticker rejecting the amnesty on a protester's jacket.
Without party acronyms, but with the presence of the senior staff of the PP and Vox, the protest this Saturday in Madrid has been designed as the central axis of the response against the agreements to erase the crimes of the process. This Saturday an enormous torrent of civic energy condensed around the Plaza de Cibeles against the investiture tolls.
Having already averted the danger of having collapsed in the previous protests, the protesters have burst into a great ovation for Alejo Vidal-Quadras to unseal the event. The former president of the Catalan PP and founder of Vox recovers from the shot in the face he suffered a week ago. From the main stage, the tweet resounded over the public address system with which he gave proof of his recovery: “Sanchism turns the electoral adversary into an enemy to be expelled from the system through the destruction of basic constitutional consensus.”
But the most enthusiastic shouts at the beginning of the demonstration were not those, but “Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch!”, or its euphemistic synonym “I like fruit!”. They have repeatedly repeated the latter insistently to its author, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, upon her arrival in Cibeles.. Later, the well-known “Puigdemont to prison!”, later escalated to “Pedro Sánchez, to prison!”, made a fortune.
“We are not going to have any type of fear,” Feijóo has harangued his people in his statements to the media. “It is one thing to have the power and another to be right.”. It is one thing to have obtained enough support, but they know that they do not have the votes to do what they are doing,” he stressed.
“I know that right now, in this square, there are also many socialists” like him, said Félix Ovejero, ELMUNDO columnist, who are ashamed of a PSOE that is “clinically dead.”. And Andrés Trapiello – also a prominent signature of this newspaper – has stressed that the State's “buying and selling” has uncovered a divisive operation of the PSOE: “Sánchez wants to drive us crazy” with “an amnesty that is an eyesore”. “His personal ambition has no limits or scruples,” he added.
Albert Boadella has warned that Spain “is on its way to ending up in a dictatorship”. “It fucks me up!” the playwright concluded.
One of the protesters, with a Spanish flag.
The manifesto of the hundred convening associations emphasizes that with “the approval of the unconstitutional amnesty and the future referendum for independence, a new phase of a process is entered that puts at certain risk the very existence of Spain as a space to guarantee our rights.” and freedoms and as a multi-secular historical entity”. “We cannot remain impassive in the face of it,” he adds.. “We risk being or not being,” he adds.
“The resistance must continue”
Fernando Savater has closed the speeches. “If someone wants to leave, let them go, but don't take anything,” summarized the philosopher and columnist.. “Puigdemont must be escorted, it seems good to me: he must be escorted, taken to Alcalá-Meco and left there,” he added, before proclaiming: “This is the first step of a resistance that has to continue.”
In response to questions from the press, Santiago Abascal has revealed that he has asked Feijóo for a meeting to articulate a joint response and analyze the possibilities that the Senate has of stopping the amnesty law.
And he added that “we cannot give up the battle as lost, we must continue resisting with sustained social mobilization, provide a coordinated institutional response in the regions where there is no coup majority, in the Senate and communicate to all our international allies what is what is happening in Spain with the attack on the independence of powers, on the equality of Spaniards and on the Constitution”.
For her part, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has called to “stop what is happening in Spain together.”. “They are taking us to an extreme and meaningless situation never seen in democracy and the damage is irreversible.”
The eight speeches that Cibeles has made against the amnesty: "It is impossible for Sánchez to convince the Spanish that white is black"
The demonstration called by civil society this Saturday in Madrid against the amnesty has exceeded its own predictions of success. Organizers estimate attendance at around one million people. The Government Delegation has quantified the participation at 170,000 people, more than double the 80,000 it estimated last Sunday in the rally called by the PP.
They did not speak politicians. Because the call was not theirs either, headed by Foro Libertad y Alternativa, Unión 78, Foro España Cívica, Cataluña Suma, Pie en Pared, S'ha Finish!, NEOS, Association for Tolerance, Catalan Civic Coexistence, From Spanish to Spanish by the Constitution, OLE (Another Electoral Law), Resiste España, Nuevo Espíritu de Ermua and a hundred civic organizations that already promoted another rally in Cibeles on January 21 under the motto 'For Spain, Democracy and the Constitution'.
But there were eight speeches, which drew great applause in Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles, although the protesters extended towards Colón, Atocha, Puerta de Alcalá and Gran Vía.
Julia Calvet, president of S'ha Hacet! . NAVARRETE Julia Calvet: “Don't let them abandon us”
The president of S'Ha Hacet!, Julia Calvet, opened the speeches with an appeal for the youth to continue “mobilizing” in an “exemplary” way on the streets against the Amnesty Law project, which must be passed in the next few years. months by the Cortes after the pact between the PSOE and the Catalan independentists.
As a representative of an association that has been the subject of recurring harassment in Catalan universities, Calvet has taken the microphone to ask institutions “with sufficient power” to act: “Don't abandon us, pick up the phone and stop the coup.” .
The Venezuelan journalist Miguel Henrique Otero. . NAVARRETE Miguel Henrique Otero: “The idea that there were limits was no longer valid”
The Venezuelan journalist Miguel Henrique Otero compared, “despite the immense differences between the legal system of Spain and Venezuela” the situation in both countries.. He warned against those who, in their day, “relativized the seriousness of what was happening” and thought “that they have already reached the limits and cannot go any further.”
“It turns out that the idea that there were boundaries that could not be crossed was no longer valid.. Today the institutions are occupied by incompetent people and members of the party,” he summarized, to ensure that between Spain and Venezuela he appreciates “similar procedures, similar impudence and a similar ability to lie, which became the most obvious policy of that power.” that decided to perpetuate itself at the cost of whatever.”
Professor Félix Ovejero, at the Cibeles demonstration against the amnesty. . NAVARRETE Félix Ovejero: “The PSOE is ideologically dead”
The professor and EL MUNDO columnist Félix Ovejero addressed the many “socialists” who he said were gathered in the Plaza de Cibeles, among whom he cited himself as the heir of a social democratic tradition.. A tradition in his opinion already orphaned now.
“The PSOE is ideologically dead, and very dead,” he diagnosed to appeal to the socialists “who rebel against indignity, who are ashamed of the party that was once theirs.”. “It's up to them to find their place elsewhere,” claimed Ovejero.
In his speech, Ovejero also recalled the role of Miquel Iceta in the constitutionalist demonstrations of 2017. “He refused to call the first demonstration, in the second he was jumping the fences about to break his head for appearing in the photos with the Spanish flag. But finally we were together, and it was fine,” he recalled, to lament the change: “Today everything has changed and the laws are written by criminals.”
Conchita Martín, victim of ETA. . NAVARRETE Conchita Martín: “Governing a country requires doing it for everyone”
Conchita Martín, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Antonio Blanco, murdered by ETA in Madrid in 2000, expressed her opposition to the idea of the “wall” that Pedro Sánchez himself built during his inauguration.
In his speech, Martín demanded true “freedom”, without laws that establish inequality and that favor coexistence in Spain. “Ruling a country requires doing it for everyone,” she said to close her speech, visibly moved and leaving the stage in tears.
Andrés Trapiello: “The amnesty is a moral and indecent mockery”
Another of the most celebrated speeches of the morning was that of the writer and also EL MUNDO columnist Andrés Trapiello, who took the floor to portray Pedro Sánchez's “gaslight” strategy to make those who opposed the the amnesty. Between applause, he cheered the “quixotic” spirit of those gathered in Cibeles and surrounding areas and issued a warning to the President of the Government: “The impossible awaits you, convincing the Spaniards that white is black.”
Trapiello defined the amnesty as a “moral and indecent mockery” and finally shouted the slogan of the demonstration: “That outrage, not in my name! Neither amnesty, nor self-determination.”
Albert Boadella: “It fucks me up!”
From a distance, the organization issued a message from the playwright Albert Boadella, who warned of Spain's path towards “a dictatorship.”. “It fucks me up!” he said about the fact that his career began fighting against a “military dictatorship” and now he has to battle against a “progressive dictatorship.”
Portuguese MEP Paulo Rangel. . NAVARRETE Paulo Rangel: “Europe is with you, with freedom and the rule of law”
The Portuguese MEP of the Social Democratic Party, Paulo Rangel, also drew applause, with energy and a rallying tone: “Europe is with you, with freedom and the rule of law,” he shouted before numerous flags of the European Union, which filled the first rows. of the demonstration.
“In my entire life as a jurist, as a politician, as a citizen, I have never seen a democracy in which it can be accepted that parliamentarians are going to supervise the courts and the judiciary,” said Rangel, who defined these commissions agreed upon by the PSOE and Junts as “a line that cannot be crossed.”
“I promise you that in the European Parliament, in Brussels, in all the countries of Europe, we are going to support you to resist and we are not going to let Spain, due to political opportunism, stop being a world reference for freedom and democracy. and coexistence,” Rangel concluded to emphasize that the Amnesty Law “is dangerous for liberal democracy, for the rule of law and also for the unity of Spain.”
Andrés Trapiello and Fernando Savater, who closed the event. . NAVARRETE Fernando Savater: “The first step of a resistance that has to continue”
The philosopher Fernando Savater closed the speeches at the Madrid demonstration against the amnesty by defining it as “the first step of a resistance that must continue.”
Highly acclaimed, Savater's speech ironically claimed that Carles Puigdemont must be “escorted”, in reference to the Catalan verb that translates as 'listen'.. “It seems good to me: we have to escort him, take him to Alcalá-Meco and leave him there,” he concluded to applause.
The long-awaited return of Javier Gómez Noya: "For months my body was not the same"
Strange times passed for the best Spanish triathlete in history, forced away from what was routine: competing. Now that he returns almost two years later, already 40 years old, to an international event, the IRONMAN 70.3 in Mossel Bay (in which he won this Sunday), Javier Gómez Noya reflects in a telephone conversation from South Africa with ELMUNDO about what it was like a legendary career, the vital experience of fatherhood, the harshness of injuries and the goals of a future that he faces with renewed hope: “I'm looking forward to it.”
Has this time away from the front page been a turning point in your career? It has been a time off forced by circumstances. He was preparing very well for the 2022 Ironman World Championship, in Saint George. Just before traveling to the US I caught Covid and it affected me quite a bit.. It left me quite touched while I had it and the post covid. For several months my body was not the same and I had to take it easy until I fully recovered.. And when I tried to come back seriously I got two injuries in a row that I don't know if they have something to do with the covid or not, but they were strange. Two stress fractures when the training load was not very high. I was chaining one problem after another and I ended up in 2023 without having competed. Now I returned calmly, doing things as best as possible to avoid falling into trouble again. I did two races before in Spain, Santander and Epic Triathlon. To test myself. In Santander it had been a long time since I competed, it was exciting, I was even nervous. I realized that I was fine (I won both), that I still remembered how to do this. This is a good opportunity to measure my level with international competitors. How did you cope mentally? It has been hard. For any athlete, when you have an injury it is complicated on a mental level. When you have two in a row, even more so. And more injuries that take time to recover. Above all, I was sad not to have been able to compete in Saint George in the World Cup, because I had been training for a few good months, I was in a very good moment. Everything went overboard. During this time Olivia was born… It's something great, it has been the positive of these two years of complications at the sporting level. The birth of my daughter 11 months ago was the most important moment of my life. And the truth is that we are enjoying it, regardless of whether he has injuries or not.. It is an incredible experience and also a motivation.
Gómez Noya, during a roller training. MUNDO Do you still learn from injuries? You already have experience and know your body better than when you were 20 years old. What happens is that at 20 years old you get injured less. Based on trial and error, you learn to take care of yourself, to increase the load little by little, to know how to listen to your body, to know how to identify when pain is a nuisance or when it can be worrying.. If this discomfort in the calf can cause a break or if you can cope with it. But, still, if you want to be on a global level, you always put your body at risk. You have to train a lot and it is a major stress. Don't you get tired of pushing your body to the limit? There has to be balance. If you want a long race you can't always be at the limit, because you'll either break down or get sick.. Except for these last two years, I have had a consistent career, years and years of chaining podiums in world championships and that is because I have trained well.. A lot, of course, but also having taken care of myself, having respected rest, the times in which I had to let my body regenerate.. You have to know how to take a break when it's necessary, because we are not machines. Where does your future lie? Right now I am focused on feeling well again and at the moment I am motivated by the medium distance. I adapt well. The PTO (Professional Triathletes Organization) has put a very interesting world circuit on the table, validating the title of world champion with the International Federation. 2024 is going to be a very good year at that distance. I'm going to do these two races, in South Africa and New Zealand in December. And there I will set goals for 2024.
Gómez Noya, before swimming training. MUNDO Will you ever try to get rid of the IRONMAN Hawaii thorn? I don't rule it out, if I'm good at average, I can face any distance. In Hawaii 2018 I would have liked to do better, of course. But there are times when you have to make decisions. Maybe if after the silver medal in London I had focused on long distance I would have had a very good 10-year block and possibly in some Hawaii I would have done well. But it was what I liked and after London I won three more world championships in Olympic distance and I wouldn't change them for anything.. You can't be at everything. Others with worse results passed earlier and triumphed in Ironman. What does your other great passion, music, give you? Well, look, in this time with injuries, music, playing the guitar, hanging out with my bandmates (Liorta) , it has helped me a lot mentally to overcome difficult moments. It's an escape, forgetting a little about the sport. I have been combining it all my life, in that way. And I enjoy. We have given some concerts in some venues in Pontevedra and we had a great time. It's a great outlet. Are there more nerves on stage or on the starting line? It's different. You almost get more nervous than in a competition. But then you realize that you suffer more in a triathlon and you think, 'well, I'm not so bad up here.' And besides, we don't get paid for it, so we don't owe anyone anything. If it doesn't sound good, what are we going to do? After Tokyo, did you have time to take stock of your career? Having a daughter gives you perspective. I look at my career and I think there have been complicated and difficult moments, but in general, if 20 years ago they told me that I was going to achieve everything I had achieved, I would sign it with my eyes closed wherever it went. This trip has been incredible.
The Premier gets serious about financial fairplay: "It will be difficult to mess with Manchester City, but it is the next step"
It has been an earthquake in the Premier League. The withdrawal of 10 points from Everton was a warning to sailors about respect for the Premier League's Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSr) or, in other words, the financial Fair Play of the most powerful football league in the world.. The navigators are Manchester City and Chelsea. “The Premier League is a loss-making model that goes against financial sustainability, so the fact that it is beginning to take steps to defend said sustainability seems like the right path to us,” LaLiga sources explain to ELMUNDO.
It is a step against a historic club, but not as powerful currently as the skyblues and blues can be. “It will be difficult to mess with City, but it is the next step,” explains Anjara Argibay, professor of Sports Law at the European University. In effect, the Premier has decided to impose a serious sanction on Everton that involves the withdrawal of 10 points after the analysis of an infraction. Only Manchester City has 115, so the future of the northern English team could be more complicated.
The independent commission that has been in charge of the Everton case has had to study more than 40,000 documents referring to the period from 2020/21 to 2022/23. They reflected the costs of the construction of a new stadium, the impact of covid and the transfers of certain players.. In the opinion of the commission, Everton had provided them with inaccurate information and that is why they applied a serious sanction (there are very serious and minor ones) that ends with the Tofees in 19th place in the Premier, with only four points.
The Liverpool club stadium. EFE
A position and a sanction that could get worse, since Burnley, Leicester and Leeds have announced that they will appeal the commission's decision as they consider themselves harmed by Everton's practices after having been relegated in the years of the investigation.. The reduction could increase nine more points, which would mean, de facto, the relegation of the British club to the Second Division, according to the Mail.. Something that has not happened since 1951.
With only 10 points, Everton has already suffered the biggest punishment imposed in the history of the Premier. A sanction, the withdrawal of points, which only has two precedents. Middlesbrough were deducted three points for failing to complete a match against Blackburn in the 1996/97 season and in 2010 Portsmouth were deducted nine for entering bankruptcy proceedings.. Both clubs ended up going down to the Championship, the English Second Division.
With this sanction against Everton it seems that the Premier has acknowledged the receipt of the British Government after it, at the beginning of the year, approved a white paper (regulations), as well as an independent body to control English football, with numerous losses in recent years. years. “That the British Government has created a white paper on this matter, has launched an independent regulator and placed the issue of football sustainability among its priorities, seems to us to be a success and an endorsement of the LaLiga model,” they explain. sources from the Spanish competition.
Now, all the British media assume that Manchester City, accused of not complying with financial Fair Play, and Chelsea, which have been discovered making unauthorized payments through offshore companies, will suffer an even greater punishment than the club. from Liverpool. The vast majority of media and experts in the United Kingdom are betting on an administrative relegation for both teams. In the case of City, they believe that the decision of the independent commission regarding its 115 infractions could be delayed, at least, around two years.
Administrative sanctions
“Financial sanctions do not make sense, that is why they apply the administrative route,” explains Argibay.. In fact, FIFA fined City 340,000 euros for violating the rules on signing minors and UEFA did the same with Chelsea in July, with 9.8 million euros for irregularities committed between 2012 and 2019.. The London club, in the last two transfer markets, has spent more than 1,000 million euros according to Transfermarkt.
LaLiga created its Financial Fair Play in 2012, a system that allowed football to be brought out of the abyss, since more than twenty clubs were in bankruptcy, and make it sustainable. In England they are 11 years behind, but it seems that they are accelerating in recent months. “The Premier is trying, but the Spanish system is more strict and exhaustive. LaLiga's economic control was increasing and the English system will follow the same path,” explains Argibay.
There is a big difference with respect to Spanish football and that is that “unlimited capital injections” are allowed there, according to Argibay and LaLiga has denounced. From the national competition they speak of “economic doping” of 3.5 billion between the Premier and the Championship in the last five years.
What happens with City and Chelsea will determine the path that the Premier and, also, Everton want to take. “The club will follow with special attention the decisions made in other cases related to the Premier's sustainability and income standards,” he explained in his statement after being sanctioned. It seems easy to imagine which two clubs Everton is referring to without mentioning them.
Carvajal's maturity before his last? train with Spain
Dani Carvajal is not Mister Sympathy (from the outside). He recognizes it, who keeps the smiling version for those very close to him, which he has, although in public he looks less and less.. Lately, knowing that he has been under the spotlight for his opinions on the women's team, even less. At 32 years old, he knows very well what he said and how he said it, among other things because it is something thoughtful, there is no immature person behind Spain's right back, much less thoughtless.. It happens that today, in 2023, in Spain, saying according to what things carries with it consequences that not everyone is willing to assume.. In the heterogeneous collective that is the men's soccer team, there are very few who do so and who give their opinion, without embellishment, about what happened to Rubiales and Jenni Hermoso. Carvajal is one of them.
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Blowers to throw out the champions, ham, beer and apples: what was not seen from Spain's celebration in Rotterdam
He feels with the authority that comes with 10 years on the team.. It debuted in September 2014, after the World Cup in Brazil, with the help of Del Bosque.. But it was not until this season that he truly became what he promised: a top-level right back.. While he was adding European Cups with Madrid, he saw trains passing by with Spain: he missed the 2016 Euro Cup due to being injured in the Champions League final, and he arrived at Russia 2018 stiff for the same reason, although Lopetegui did take him. He didn't go to the 2021 Euro Cup either, also due to injury, and he passed through Qatar without pain or glory, like the rest of the team.
He has played 36% of the games since 2014, and has almost always been out due to injury.. However, until last Thursday, he had played everything since September, and Luis de la Fuente is delighted with him. Because of his football level, yes, but also because of the detail he had just before the final of the Nations League, last June against Croatia. He was a substitute, Navas played, but he spoke in the locker room, just before going out on the field. “I have been lucky to play in many finals, and to win them, and always as a starter. I think this is the first final in which I am a substitute, but I want to win it more than any other, because winning with your team's shirt is incredible, but winning with this shirt…”, and he grabbed the shield, drowned in the screams of his companions. “I want good footballers and good people,” says the coach. With Carvajal he has both.
If nothing strange happens, he will be the starter in the Euro Cup, and will be able to put the culmination of that irregular decade, straightened out, from the point of view of injuries, since he works with Itziar González, a 'guru', specialist in physiogenomics, who changed her diet from top to bottom, prohibited gluten and forced her to eat carbohydrates, according to what she herself said in an interview in MARCA, where she joked: “What I didn't do with my children I did with him: he “I called to ask him if he had eaten everything.”. Carvajal, a good student, had eaten it all and today, happy, having his brother-in-law, Joselu, on the team and in the national team, he enjoys a maturity that was unthinkable not so long ago. For now tonight, against Georgia, he will continue adding to obtain the best percentage of games played in a year with the national team. It's never too late.
Sinner maintains his love affair with Turin, beats Medvedev and will compete in the final of the masters tournament
If there is someone above the rest in these ATP Finals, it is none other than Jannik Sinner, who beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-7 (4) and 6-1, in two hours and 29 minutes, and will play this Sunday his first final of the tournament. Firm jaw when curves came, which there were, the 22-year-old Italian endorsed everything he had signed throughout a hitherto impeccable tournament. A mischievous smile after seeing his rival's last ball long was the culmination of another magical afternoon in front of his audience.
Medvedev faced a careful ballot. He had just lost two consecutive finals against him, a player who had never beaten him, and he was facing the Italian in the best moment of his life, the only one who entered the semifinals undefeated, after defeating Djokovic for the first time in his career. and, as if all that were not enough, supported by the public that filled the 13,000 seats at the Pala Alpitour, fans who seem to have finally found in him the undisputed leader of tennis in their country, well-fed in the middle class. high but without a competitor of the reliability that the young man from San Candido is beginning to show, winner in the spring, in Toronto, of the first Masters 1000 of his career.
This evolution, these good results, have raised the self-esteem of Sinner, the fourth favorite, who tended to get caught in compromising circumstances.. He escaped a break point in the third game and came back after a 40-0 loss to break the Russian's serve.. His continuous gestures of strength when overcoming setbacks offered the portrait of a player who right now feels capable of anything.. It didn't matter that he had to deal with the number three in the world, with a man who surpassed him in their first six meetings, with the player with the most victories this year who is leaving, 66, and with the most victories also on hard courts, 49, with the tournament champion in 2020 and finalist in 2021, for contextualizing merits that go much further.
Fast on the move
As skilled at proposing as he was at resisting, the transalpine was a bullet in lateral movements, closing doors that Medvedev hit, something accelerated at times. Not even the delay of 51% accuracy with the service prevented him from taking the first set. Not a single complaint about his back, which had him on the edge of the canvas in the last Green Group match, against Holger Rune, in which he taught a lesson in fair play, fighting for a victory that did not urge him and taking the hand of Djokovic to semi-finals.
Medvedev, who had let himself go in his match against Alcaraz, as he had already guaranteed his place in the penultimate round and only had one day of rest, walked steadily during the second set thanks to his efficiency with his serve.. It was nevertheless when he saw signs of weakness in the host: three unforced errors in the seventh game, a break ball saved with a reverse forehand and resolution on the tape, a disturbing game for him and his unbreakable allies, who once again proclaimed his name when the Russian's forehand went long and the scoreboard showed 4-4. Medvedev persisted until taking the set in the tiebreaker against a Sinner whose strength was beginning to fail.
It was, however, the last finalist of the United States Open who felt discomfort in his right piriformis and left the court to be treated by the tournament's physiotherapist.. Eight minutes of truce. Oxygen also for Sinner. He looked gray for the local player, but it is evident that he is touched by inspiration and exhibits bombproof tenacity.. Medvedev broke serve in the second game, threw his racket to the ground and confronted a spectator after missing a ball, 15-15, then. Nothing would stop the Italian, who arrives with extraordinary firmness for the most important title of his career..