Gomis, Carrillo get Al Hilal up and running in Champions League Doha (AFP) – Former France international forward Bafetimbi Gomis and Andre Carrillo were on target as Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia grabbed their first AFC Champions League win against the UAE’s Shabab Al Ahli on Sunday.
Three-time Asian champions Al Hilal, who were surprisingly held 2-2 by Uzbek debutants AGMK in their first Group A match, started in style with former Lyon and Swansea City striker Gomis scoring with a calm finish from a Mohamed al-Burayk pass in the 14th minute.
Although Al Hilal were clearly the better side, Al Ahli had a great chance to equalise in the 23rd minute but Igor Jesus fired wide.
RIYADH: Two down and four to go. The group stage of the AFC Champions League is starting to take shape and already there are teams that have an awful lot to do if they are to maintain their presence in the tournament going into the knockout stage.
Some are looking good and the feeling around the Al-Nassr camp has improved massively after a 3-1 win over Al-Sadd, one of the favorites for the competition. Al-Hilal collected three points with a comfortable 2-0 win over Shabab Al-Ahli while Al-Ahli bounced back from their opening game mauling to take a 1-1 draw with Al-Duhail.
LONDON: A leading Chinese football agent has warned that the financial issues facing the Chinese Super League serve as both an opportunity and a warning for Saudi Arabia.
His views come in the wake of seismic events that have rocked Chinese football and look set to have a ripple effect on the rest of the continent.
A series of mishaps, among them being Chinese champions Jiangsu FC ceasing operations last week, have for a while at least, removed the Middle Kingdom as one of the premier transfer destinations in the world. Riyadh and Jeddah, rather than Shanghai and Guangzhou, will have an increased opportunity to become Asia’s go-to destinations for big-name foreign players, but caution is needed.
DUBAI: Al-Ittihad ensured that Al-Hilal will not go into 2021 with a potential six-point lead at the top of the Saudi Professional League after securing a 1-1 draw against the champions at King Saud University stadium in Riyadh.
It could have been so much better for Al-Ittihad, having led by a solitary goal going into the last five minutes of the match.
After a disastrous 2019-20 season for Ittihad, one that saw them flirt with relegation, the Jeddah club came into the Saudi Clasico in far better shape than they had been for some time, in fifth place and with 14 points already on the board. Still, few would have expected anything other than a home-win Al-Hilal in the 10th round of the season, and last of the year.
Dec 16, 2020
$2 Million Dollars in Medical Supplies Donated to Emergency First Responders
At the Old Belize compound today, a container filled with two million dollars worth of medical supplies was being offloaded and handed over to emergency first responders in Belize City, San Pedro and Caye Caulker. The donation was made possible through Project CURE and Young Professionals, two organizations out of the United States that have been working with the Rickilee Response and Rescue group out of San Pedro Town. The donation will further assist in the response to COVID-19. News Five’s Duane Moody reports.
Duane Moody, Reporting
Today, a container filled with two million dollars worth of medical supplies, including beds, equipment and consumables were handed over to the Belize Emergency Response Team. The supplies are donated by Project CURE and will be shared between several emergency healthcare organizations, including the K.H.M.H. and Rickilee Response and Rescue in