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Beckham seeks new loan to boost England chances” plus 5 more- David Beckham seeks new loan to boost England chances - Rafael Benítez denies he has been sacked by Inter Milan - Gavin Henson: I’m hoping to play for another eight years - Team boss Sir Frank Williams honoured with BBC award - Andy Murray will keep Alex Corretja as his main coach - Federer, Nadal, Clijsters and the rest prepare for 2011 David Beckham seeks new loan to boost England chances Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:46 PM PST David Beckham is hoping to seal another return to Europe this winter in a bid to earn an England recall from Fabio Capello. The 35-year-old LA Galaxy star has spent the last two winters on loan at AC Milan but the former England captain says that switch will not happen again this year. Beckham, who received the BBC Sports Personality Lifetime Achievement award on Sunday, also all but ruled out a move back to the Premier League by insisting he would only ever join former club Manchester United. “I won’t be going back to AC Milan this time because is not possible to go onto the roster for such a short length of time,” said Beckham, the most capped outfield player in England history with 115 appearances. “But I will be going back somewhere as I want to keep myself fit and keep myself in with a chance of getting called up for England again. To do that, I have to be somewhere so fingers crossed I can sort something out.” Beckham says he misses the English top flight but concedes a move back to Old Trafford is unlikely. He said: “I have always missed playing in the Premier League since I left it almost eight years ago. “It is a great league and one of the most competitive in the world. Maybe one day I will come back here but I have always said that it will only be for Manchester United. I am not holding my breath on that one, but we will have to wait and see.” And Beckham added that he is not yet ready to hang up his boots. “I love the game and am not done with playing yet,” he said. “I might be 35 years old but I still feel that I can play at the top level for another couple of years.” Rafael Benítez denies he has been sacked by Inter Milan Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST Rafael Benítez says he has not been shown the door at Inter Milan despite widespread speculation suggesting that he had been sacked. The Italian media has been awash with reports claiming that the former Liverpool manager has been axed by Inter president Massimo Moratti following a difficult start to his tenure at the San Siro. Despite winning the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi on Saturday last season’s treble winners are languishing in seventh place in Serie A and are already 13 points behind leaders AC Milan. But Benítez said on Monday: “I have not been sacked. I am quite surprised by some of the headlines I read in the papers. In fact, many people called me to ask whether I was sacked, but it is not true.” Zenit St Petersburg boss Luciano Spaletti has been tipped as the man being lined up to replace Benítez but Moratti refused to comment in a statement on Inter’s website. “I will not speak today,” said the Inter president. “I do not wish to create any controversies with anyone.” Gavin Henson: I’m hoping to play for another eight years Posted: 20 Dec 2010 11:32 AM PST After 21 months away from rugby Gavin Henson believes he still has what it takes to continue playing at the top level for another eight years. The former Ospreys star hung up his boots indefinitely in March 2009 after struggling with a series of injuries and personal problems. Since then he has taken part in two reality television shows before opting to return to the sport in the Autumn when he signed for Saracens after having negotiated his release from the Ospreys. His return was delayed by his participation in BBC show Strictly Come Dancing but the 28-year-old, who took part in some light training at Wembley on Monday ahead of Saracens’ Aviva Premiership clash with Wasps on Sunday, insists he is now back in the sport for the long haul. "I'm thinking positive," said Henson, who is set to make his eagerly-anticipated Saracens debut on Sunday. "I'm back in rugby for good now. I look after myself and I'm hoping I can play for another eight years. “I'm feeling really positive about the game and I'm enjoying it again when I've been training. I just hope I'm going to be good. I might not be, but we'll have to wait and see.” Henson, who has not played for Wales since helping his country clinch the grand slam in 2008, is also hoping to earn a recall to the national side in time for the Six Nations in February. “The bigger picture for me is the Six Nations and trying to get in that Wales squad,” he said. “It's all really exciting and we'll just have to wait and see. “When I did finish with the Ospreys for the first six or seven months out I didn't miss rugby at all to be honest. “But then luckily I just got those feelings back and I started dreaming about playing again. The more I trained, the better I felt about myself and the more I felt positive about rugby again.” And he is also not ruling out the possibility of playing for Wales at the World Cup in New Zealand next autumn. “I've missed out the last couple of times with the World Cup,” he added. “That's obviously missing on my CV so I'll do everything in my power to try and get in that squad.” Henson admits he found it difficult to cope with the media attention following his split with fiancee Charlotte Church and chose to move away from Wales as a result. He added: “It was tough for me with what was going on with Charlotte [Church], I was cut to pieces about it. I just felt the right move was to move out of Wales and hopefully be appreciated again. “I didn't really know what I had done wrong but a bit of time away in London will be good for me.” Team boss Sir Frank Williams honoured with BBC award Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:47 AM PST Sir Frank Williams has received the Helen Rollason Award at the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony in Birmingham. The award, named in honour of the BBC sports presenter who lost her battle with cancer in 1999, is given for “outstanding achievement in the face of adversity”. Founder and manager of the Williams Formula 1 team, Sir Frank has been in a wheelchair since suffering a spinal cord injury in a car accident en route to Nice airport from the Paul Ricard Circuit in France in 1986. Despite being hospitalised for a number of months, the former racer and mechanic was back in the paddock before the end of the season, leading his team to become the third most successful team in the sport's history behind Ferrari and McLaren. Williams secured the constructors' title in 1986, quickly followed by both the drivers' title with Nelson Piquet and another constructors' title 1987. The 1990s were undoubtedly Williams' most successful period in F1 with five constructors' titles in six years with drivers' titles for Nigel Mansell (1992), Alain Prost (1993), Damon Hill (1996), and Jacques Villeneuve (1997). Williams was joined on stage by his wife Virginia, Williams co-founder and designer Patrick Head, Williams chairman Adam Parr, as well as other F1 personalities Eddie Jordan, Christian Horner, and Martin Brundle. After accepting the award, Williams said: "It's been a great journey, one I'd love to do again if I was younger. I wouldn’t try and do anything different except try and avoid the accidents." Williams was awarded a CBE in 1987, and later awarded a knighthood for his services to motorsport in 1999. He is also one of a small number of Brits to have been made a Chevalier of France's Légion d'honneur. Andy Murray will keep Alex Corretja as his main coach Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:36 AM PST British number one Andy Murray has announced that Spaniard Alex Corretja will continue in his role as his main coach for at least the first half of 2011. Corretja, a former world number two, took up the role in July following Murray’s split with former coach Miles Maclagan. Now, despite reported interest from Boris Becker, the 23-year-old Scot is set stick with the same team as he continues his bid for a first grand slam next year. “Andy has taken time out from his busy pre-season fitness training to confirm that the current coaching set-up, with both Alex Corretja and Dani Vallverdu, will continue into the first half of next year,” read a statement on Murray’s website. “The guys are busy planning their tournament schedule for the early part of 2011 and are, as a team, very focused on preparing in the best way possible for each tournament.” Federer, Nadal, Clijsters and the rest prepare for 2011 Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:21 AM PST It's the slack patch in the tennis year—at least that's what we are led to believe. Sure enough, a quick look at the calendar shows that the men do not begin competition until the first week in January in 2011 in Brisbane, Chennai or Doha. And in theory, they all hung up their rackets after the Paris Masters on 14 November. So a healthy six weeks to lie back on that beach and soak up the rays. The women do even better, it seems, finishing in mid-October for more than two months of rest and relaxation. Yes, the ATP and WTA make great play of the holiday season afforded the men and women who tour the circuit in search of wins and, for the best and most fortunate ones, titles. And sure enough, there are reports of Roger Federer in the Seychelles, Robin Soderling in the Maldives and Novak Djokovic in Monte Carlo. They may spend between 10 and 11 months of the year touring the world, living out of suitcases, zigzagging through dozens of time-zones, and hitting a new surface in a new city with just days to acclimatise, but now is the time to recuperate, put up the tired feet, have a few drinks. Forget it. The top men, those who reach deepest into the big events, play the most matches and are committed to the lion's share of media and promotional activities, played into the last week in November, expending every last ounce of energy at the World Tour Finals. Some, like Djokovic, even carried on into December for the Davis Cup. The top women have their end-of-season tourneys, too, with the top eight playing off in the WTA Championships through the last week of October and the best of the rest heading to the albeit glamorous destination of Bali for the Tournament of Champions in early November. Then check the ATP and WTA websites and they are awash with headlines about exhibitions, charity activities and, believe it or not, talk of training blocks and warm-up events for the new season. Headlining the women's side is Justine Henin playing countrywoman Kim Clijsters at home in Belgium. This is Henin's first real test of the elbow injury that kept her off the tour for the last six months after making such a splash with her comeback at the beginning of the year. She is now training in southern China before leaping across to Perth, Australia to take part in the Hopman Cup. If the Henin-Clijsters exho is a match made in heaven on the women's tour, the equivalent for the men has to be Federer-Nadal, and fans have an early Christmas present when the two come face-to-face for a pair of exhibitions, one in each of their home countries. The tickets sold out in minutes, the hype has been all-pervading and the proceeds—all going to their respective charities—will be huge. They may then take a few days off for Christmas, but their New Year celebrations will be away from home at the winner-takes-all six-man challenge event in Abu Dhabi. With $250,000 on offer to the winner, it's a very nice way to warm up for a new season at the end of December, and with Nadal, Federer and Soderling joined by Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Marcos Baghdatis, it will be fireworks for the spectators too. Soderling, who has announced a tie-up with the veteran Italian coach Claudio Pistolesi after a surprise parting of the ways with Magnus Norman, is already making his preparations at a training camp in Monte Carlo. Soderling has begun every season at a new-high ranking and he is looking to do so again, judging from his comments in Monaco. He is, it seems, working on his aggressive net game, on agility, coordination and court speed: precisely the right direction to take him up a level. Andy Murray, too, is in serious training. Indeed he was at his base in Miami 10 days after the WTFs, having dropped off at the Bahamas for a celebrity invitation event to raise money for local kids. Along with Henin, his competitive preparation for the Australian Open begins at the Hopman Cup on New Year's Day. Many of the top players are using this unusual, but increasingly popular, event to ease themselves into match play. It pits pairs from the ATP and WTA tours in national teams: the likes of Melanie Oudin with John Isner and Murray, in a repeat of his 2010 pairing, with Laura Robson. The standout will be the charismatic duo from Serbia: Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic—and if that doesn't draw the crowds, nothing will. Local Aussie eyes, though, may also check out a different pair: Lleyton Hewitt—attempting another comeback in 2011 after two hip operations—with new coach Tony Roche. There was another big star slated to grace Perth: Serena Williams. Then came the dramatic announcement of her withdrawal from the tour until the spring, including the Australian Open where she is defending champion. She has not played since winning Wimbledon in July, and has now twice had surgery on the foot she cut while on holiday after her London victory. The Hopman Cup does not feature on the official ATP and WTA calendars but the start of January brings a plethora of point-winning events. The biggest of them is in Brisbane, which unites the men's and women's tours on Australian soil. It is headlined by a busy Soderling as well as defending champion Andy Roddick, who will be anxious to put a disappointing WTF—and glandular fever—behind him as he prepares for the first hard-courts of the year. Brisbane will also give Fernando Verdasco a chance to make up ground and, more importantly, confidence after an unexpected slide in form during much of 2010. One of his major breakthroughs on the tour came in his storming performance in Melbourne in 2009, taking out Murray in five sets, Tsonga in four and finally falling to Nadal, after more than five hours of play through five sets, in the semi-finals. Can he make a big statement again? On the women's side, home favourite Sam Stosur, one of biggest improvers of 2010, will lead the field, followed by Nadia Petrova and Marion Bartoli. However, down in Auckland, New Zealand, three Russian women will be stealing the limelight: Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina. The other two tournaments in this jam-packed week are on two entirely different continents. One of India's few events is the men's Chennai 250, which will feature last year's two finalists, Marin Cilic and Stanislas Wawrinka, as well as top seed Berdych. The Swiss No2 dropped his long-time coach in the summer to take on Peter Lundgren, and the new model Wawrinka turned in some aggressive performances during the hard-court season, especially at the US Open. It will be interesting to see if he can break into the top dozen in 2011 for the first time in two years. But it is Doha, conveniently located just a hop, skip and a jump from Abu Dhabi, that has drawn the "names"—as it usually does. Federer and Nadal could go from one finals showdown in the desert to another. In Doha, though, they will have to contend with the man who beat both of them last year in a scintillating display that took him to the title: Nikolay Davydenko. After this frenzy of activity across the New Year into the first week of January, some will take a few days out of competition to prepare for the Australian Open. Many more, though, will use the second week of the year to hone their game still further. You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Posted By Mas Item Arekjowo to The Sport Review at 12/20/2010 11:30:00 PM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gugukluhayat" group. 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