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The Albanian national football team won the next match against Poland with a clean score of 2-0, at the “Air Albania” stadium in the capital, with two wonderful goals by Jasir Asani in the first half and Mirlind Daku in the second half, giving them the Red and Blacks are ranked first in Group E with 10 points.

We remember that the match started with a clash between the fans, where the Poles were, those who attacked the Albanians with hard objects and chairs, a clash that was thankfully neutralized by the police and FNSH.

However, a few seconds after the start of the first half, the match was interrupted by the referee, as the Albanian fans threw flares on the field, but everything was normalized for a few seconds and the match continued.

The Poles were the first to score with a cross into the area, but thankfully it was VAR’s intervention that disallowed the goal for offside.

This would not scare the red and blacks, who would find the goal with Jasir Asani, who managed to beat the Polish goalkeeper with his left.Meanwhile, the second goal of the match was scored by the newcomer Mirlind Daku, who burst into tears after scoring the goal, while he was also punished with a yellow card, because he took off his shirt.

After five extra minutes in the second half, the Red and Blacks burst into celebration, as they are currently ranked first in the group, significantly increasing our chances of qualifying for EURO 2024.

Germany in basketball has entered history, winning the World Cup for the first time. They defeated Serbia in the final with the result 83-77, thus becoming the world champions.

The match did not start well for the Germans, who found themselves losing in the first quarter with the result 23-26, but then on the day they recovered everything and the first half ended with the equal result 47-47.

Until the end of the match, the score has changed 15 times in terms of the leader, while in the end, the Germans managed to take the decisive step to break away with 6 points.

After this final, both teams have secured participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the Germans as World Cup winners and Serbia as finalists.

Neymar has surpassed Pele as Brazil’s male all-time top scorer with two goals in a 5-1 win over Bolivia.

The forward, 31, who went into the World Cup qualifying match tied with legend Pele on 77 goals, missed a penalty before scoring twice in the second half on his 125th appearance.

“I never imagined reaching this record. I’m no better than Pele or any other player for the national team,” he said.

Marta has scored a record 122 goals in 189 matches for Brazil’s women’s team.

Pele, who died in December aged 82, scored 77 goals in 92 appearances between 1957 and 1971. He was widely regarded to be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game.

His official account on social media platform X paid tribute to Neymar’s achievement.

“Congratulations Neymar for surpassing the King in goals for Brazil. Surely Pele is applauding you today!” it said.

Brazil coach Fernando Diniz said: “He came to do what he did: have fun, score two goals and break the record.”

Neymar became the world’s most expensive player when he joined Paris St-Germain from Barcelona for £200m in 2017.

He left the French side in the summer to join Saudi Pro League team Al-Hilal.

“He is a very big idol, people must recognise him and accept him,” Diniz added.

Elsewhere, Uruguay started their South American qualifying campaign with a 3-1 win against Chile under their new coach, former Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa.

Since August 25, the World Basketball Championship has started in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, where the spectacle has certainly not been missing and now the competition has gone to the last stage, as this Saturday the pair of finalists, the final which will be all European, between Germany and Serbia.

The two European representatives made a surprise in the semi-finals, where they eliminated Canada and the United States of America, where in the first semi-final, Serbia beat Canada with the result 95-86, with Bogdanovic being Serbia’s best scorer with 23 points, as much as Barrett of the Canadians.

In the other semi-final, the German “panzers” played a fantastic match, triumphing over the USA with a score of 113-111. After a balanced first half, closed with only 1 point advantage for the Americans, the Germans exploded with the return to the floor, to win the third period with 11 points. The USA tried until the end to reverse it, but it did not succeed, and now it has to measure the forces for the bronze medal with Canada. Obst’s 24 points was the game’s top scorer, leading Germany to qualification.

Meanwhile, on Sunday at 14:40 Serbia and Germany will meet in the final for the trophy, where for Germany this is the first final in history, while Serbia counts 5 world championship titles won as former Yugoslavia.