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The Qatari Nasser Al Attiyah (Volkswagen) won the ninth stage of Dakar, between Copiapo and La Serena, and she took 5 minutes and 59 seconds at the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Volkswagen), second, that maintains the overall lead.

Third was South African Giniel de Villiers (Volkswagen), fourth Frenchman Guerlain Chicherit (BMW) and fifth American Mark Miller (Volkswagen).

Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel (BMW), winner of Sunday’s stage was sixth to more than 17 minutes from Al Attiyah, after his car beached in the sand.

With these results we close the top of the standings, where Sainz continues as leader, although his lead over Al Attiyah, second, is reduced to 8 minutes and 36 seconds.

Miller completes Volkswagen triplet
Miller is hardly his two teammates and is third at 27 minutes and 17 seconds of Qatar.

Next up is a huge difference, more than two hours, with BMW in fourth place behind Peterhansel and Chicherit, who is fifth.

De Villiers, the defending champion, still further, to more than four hours, and is sixth.

The participants walked 170 kilometers of sand dunes on a path in a loop in the vicinity of the town of Copiapo.

Coma continues to face
In the motorcycle section, Marc Coma (KTM) won ahead of Frenchman Cyril Despres (KTM) and the Chilean Francisco ‘Vest’ Lopez (Aprilia) was third.

Catalan ran the 170 competitive kilometers in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds, four seconds faster than Despres, outstanding leader of the leaderboard.

‘Vest’ Lopez, winner of Sunday’s stage, followed with a good race pace and scored one minute 14 seconds more than Coma.

Fourth was the Norwegian Pal Ullevalseter (KTM) and fifth Frenchman Alain Duclos (KTM).

The day did not have too much impact on the overall rankings table, where Despres is on top with a commanding lead of one hour, 21 minutes and 50 seconds over Ullevalseter.

Fight for second place
In the fight for second place is also ‘Vest’ Lopez, who is third at 3 minutes and 41 seconds of the Norwegian, and Portuguese Helder Rodrigues (Yamaha) fourth to almost seven minutes Ullevalseter.

Unlike other days, the drivers started the race in groups of twenty, to face a demanding track in a loop through the dunes surrounding the town of Copiapo.

Initially the envisaged special 338 kilometers, although the forecast of fog caused the organizers of the rally trimmed the stage before the second checkpoint, so that participants will travel more than 400km liaison to La Serena.

On Tuesday, in the tenth stage between La Serena and Santiago, the Dakar temporarily lay off the sand and dunes to focus on gravel roads winding through hills.

They will be 586 km, of which 238 are timed to arrive at the door of the Chilean capital.

Fernando Alonso and Ferrari red dresses. The Spaniard arrived Monday by helicopter to the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio taliana dress and with the ‘Cavallino’ on their clothing.

Fernando Alonso

The two-time world champion begins the classic concentration of Ferrari, called Vrooom 2010, where pilots premiere year accompanied by more than 100 media outlets. For four days, Fernando Alonso and his new teammates for the Italian team made snow sports to be about to face the tough season ahead.

Alonso will share the bill with Felipe Massa and Ducati, Nicky Hayden and Casey Stoner. For the car, however, has to wait for the official presentation, which could coincide with the first practice in Cheste on 1 February.

The Australian Geoff Ogilvy kept his title Sunday at the tournament Kapalua (Hawaii), pocketing the first race of the season on the PGA Tour.

Ogilvy, 32, a stroke ahead of South African Rory Sabbatini, author of a remarkable final round, finished on a card 63 (or 10 strokes under par) punctuated ten birdies and three times its compatriot Matt Kuchar.

Geoff Ogilvy

The Australian, who finished the final round in 67 strokes Sunday, has also benefited from the collapse of the American Lucas Glover, who won the Open in the United States in 2009, which ended each of first three round leader before making a final card of 76, three strokes above par.

The American Stewart Cink, defending champion at the Open in Britain, took ninth place with six shots behind the winner while the Argentine Angel Cabrera, winner of the Masters in Augusta last season, finished one shot back.

Final (by 73)
Here is the complete list.

1. Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 270 (69-66-68-67)

2. Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 271 (70-68-70-63)

3. Matt Kuchar (USA) 273 (67-68-71-67)

4. Sean O’Hair (USA) 274 (68-67-71-68)

5. Martin Laird (SCO) 274 (67-68-69-70)

6. Kenny Perry (USA) 275 (70-67-70-68)

7. Retief Goosen (RSA) 275 (70-69-67-69)

8. Ryan Moore (USA) 275 (69-68-68-70)

9. Stewart Cink (USA) 276 (68-69-69-70)

10. Steve Stricker (USA) 277 (73-70-68-66)

11. Paul Casey (GBR) 277 (70-69-69-69)

12. Pat Perez (USA) 277 (71-70-67-69)

13. Angel Cabrera (ARG) 277 (68-68-70-71)

14. John Rollins (USA) 278 (68-66-72-72)

15. Lucas Glover (USA) 278 (66-65-71-76)

FC Barcelona has struck hard Sunday Tenerife (5-0), in closing day of the 17th for his first victory in 2010 and remained head of the Spanish Championship, before the Real Madrid and Valencia.

Soccer must have seemed cruel to players of Tenerife, who have created three great opportunities in the first quarter of an hour, including a shooting over the bar Alfaro (5th). But facing the Barça de Guardiola, better not miss.

Lionel Messi

After this initial flurry, Barça ended up taking the measure of his opponent. Altruism Bojan (triple changer) and the immense talent of Messi (scorer three times) did the rest.

Barça was ultimately imposed 5-0 (goals from Puyol and cons Luna’s camp) and forget his disappointing draw against Villarreal (1-1) and defeat against Sevilla Cup (2-1).

Under the snow, Real Madrid (2nd), with Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo holders, has not slipped against one of his pet peeves home, Mallorca, beaten 2-0.

Real did this time has left no chance with the 8th minute goal in the 11th League of essential Gonzalo Higuain, a superb curling shot from the left.

Granero in the second half confirmed the dominance of players Manuel Pellegrini (50th), very comfortable with the ball.

Valencia, Xerez wide winner of its 10th game (3-1), has confirmed its third place with five points ahead of FC Sevilla, still beating.

Valencia was imposed at the bottom of the league through its international Mata (10th), Silva (33th) and Marchena (69th). Xerez, who has won only one game this season, was leveled by Calvo (25th).

Seville goes wrong

Behind Barca and Real, a notch above, Valencia, best team outside (22 points out of 27), take the plunge in Seville, beaten Saturday in his stage by Santander.

The Andalusian club, too naive defense has also been a victim of the shape of the dazzling little gem of Racing, Sergio Canales, who scored twice in a lavish stage Sanchez-Pizjuan angry (26th and 38th).

The Andalusian club but returned to score in the second period, Romaric (62nd) and would have equalized without Coltorti an excellent front line of Santander.

Seville, on course to eliminate Barca King’s Cup, going badly in La Liga, three defeats in a row, including two at home. The team of Manolo Jimenez is coupled to the classification by Deportivo La Coruna, winner of Osasuna (1-0) and new 4th.

The opposite for Atletico, about to say goodbye to the Cup but went much better in the Championship.

Three days after sinking (3-0) at Recreativo Huelva (D2), Atletico responded by correcting outside Valladolid (4-0).

Luca Manca, who on Wednesday said goodbye to the podium to give a wheel to Marc Coma so he could lose the shortest possible time, suffered an accident in the sixth stage of the Dakar and it is serious.

Luca Manca (KTM) is in serious condition after suffering a double dip during the sixth stage of Dakar in the miles 6 and 10, which caused a cerebral edema. The Italian was taken to Hospital at Cobre Calama and admitted to the intensive care unit in life-threatening, after suffering a blow to the head that caused severe head trauma and facial.

Luca Manca

Doctors are now trying to stabilize the pilot, waiting to transfer him to a hospital in Santiago in the next few hours in an air ambulance for organizing the rally.

Manca, marching ninth overall, was admitted to the hospital about 10.30 am (13.30 GMT) and also suffered some fractures and minor injuries, as stated in the hospital.

Interestingly, the trans pilot, private ride a KTM, he left the podium to stand during Wednesday’s stage to let a wheel of his bike to Marc Coma to enable it to continue and lose ‘only’ 39 minutes.

The Juventus player, Tiago is in Madrid to initial his contract with Atletico. Portuguese is expected to pass a medical on Friday and if everything goes as planned, is presented as the first reinforcement Atletico winter.

Tiago

Tiago would be the first incorporation of the team led Quique Sanchez Flores. The Portuguese, who is on loan until June 30, would definitely stay at Atletico Madrid Atletico decide whether to exercise the call option it has agreed with Juventus.

Tiago has traveled to Madrid with his agent, after training conducted with Juventus. The midfielder must agree with Atletico Madrid on the emoluments to be received until the end of the campaign, given that the player receives about 2.5 million per season in Italy and the Turin club gave him the condition not to pay half of it.

Juventus is now seeking a replacement for the Portuguese during the winter, ending 31 this month

According to published ‘The New York Post, Arenas and Crittenton is pointed their guns after an argument and that the newspaper suggests that he was motivated by a gambling debt.

It appears that the murky water recedes in the Wizards team. Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton signed up with guns in the locker room of the Washington franchise. Both players started an argument and things got to the point where both players drew their weapons to try to intimidate.

Gilbert Arenas

According publishes The New York Post, Arenas and Crittenton is pointed their guns after an argument and that the newspaper suggests that he was motivated by a gambling debt. Arenas allegedly did not want to pay a debt with Crittenton, first decided to take his gun and Crittenton did not shrink and pulled his. Fortunately nothing major came of thing and is already studying what happened.

The NBA already was investigating Arenas
A few weeks ago it was learned that the NBA was investigating Gilbert Arenas for having a gun in the Wizards locker room. The best basketball league in the world wants to know how a player kept a gun in the field of the Washington Wizards. For its part, the franchise released a statement which asserted that the gun was not loaded Arenas.

Gilbert Arenas admitted that “had a gun at home and after birth of my daughter decided she did not want to have it accessible to children and so I took her to the locker room. It was around December 10. Police sources confirmed that both the Equopen as the player himself were cooperating throughout the investigation. This new incident not Gilbert Arenas will help you avoid a possible penalty.

Note that the NBA allows players to own guns as long as they do so under the law, but prohibits them carry them to the fields in the league, when traveling or any matter related to the NBA.

The Brazilian midfielder Kaka said he was recovered from the groin that has sidelined since early December, while Real Madrid has resumed training Monday after the winter break.

“I’m much better, I am cured,” said the Brazilian star to the Spanish media to his departure Sunday evening from Sao Paulo to return to Madrid after recovering in Brazil.

Kaka

Kaka has not participated in training late Monday afternoon, but went to the gym club to exercise, after listening to coach Manuel Pellegrini address the players said Real.

The Merengues prefer to be cautious and be sure that the Brazilian midfielder, bought 65 million euros in the offseason, is fully restored.

If his recovery is confirmed during the week, he could be summoned for the match resumed at Real in the league (16th day) Sunday against Osasuna in Pamplona.

The other stars of Real resumed training on Monday, including the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the French Karim Benzema, mixed, according to Spanish media, a new car accident while he was these days on vacation in the French island of Reunion.

Some players had obtained a day of extra vacation, including Argentine Gonzalo Higuain and Fernando Gago, expected Tuesday.

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Red and white striker is the priority· CR9 is the main supporter of Rooney

Aguero celebrates a bit with Atletico

Real Madrid seeks galactic 2010. According to Marca newspaper published the white team seeks three players: Aguero, Villa, Rooney. One of them will be the star signing of Florentino Perez for next year.
According to Jose Luis Calderon publishes high priority is the Kun. A Jorge Valdano rojiblanco striker loves and wants the new Romario the Santiago Bernabeu. Meanwhile, Villa I endorse the Madrid international players and spectacular numbers in the Liga.

Rooney is the other option to strengthen the team in 2010. Cristiano Ronaldo is the principal protector of the English player: “It would cause a sensation in Madrid. It would be brilliant if it came,” he confessed recently CR9.