2019 ! ANTICIPATE A SPORTY YEAR
2018 was a great year, ending various sports leagues/events and starting some 😁😂 , a good year for countries ,clubs, team and others😊 .........
Here some updates, highlight and events you should look forward to😌😉
WOMEN'S FOOTBALL (international)
European women's football has never been in a better place and by hosting the World Cup in France, it will provide a huge boost to the game for the hosts, and England and Scotland. France already has Europe's best female team in Lyon, but the tournament will offer a great chance for France to use home advantage to win their first World Cup, as the men's team did in 1998.
Despite that, reigning champions United States are the favourites. Their preparation for big tournaments is a telling factor where they are basically in camp for six to nine months and it is a recipe which has led to a record three wins. Based on that, US striker forward Alex Morgan will be the player to watch. She says she is in the form of her life after scoring 18 goals in 19 games in 2018.
I would love England to succeed and it's their best chance in a long time to win their first World Cup. But losing vice-captain Jordan Nobbs to injury is a huge loss and there is no natural replacement for her. Scotland will be represented by their strongest ever team and have a good chance to get out of the group.
With Great Britain set to send a team to the 2020 Olympics and England hosting the 2021 European Championship, this World Cup could catapult women's football on these shores to the next level.
GOLF
How Britain's Georgia Hall progresses after her breakthrough major triumph at the Women's British Open will be fascinating to follow. I expect her to be a fixture on LPGA leaderboards and her temperament suggests she will be a key player for Europe as they seek to wrestle back the Solheim Cup. September's gathering at Gleneagles promises to be one of the real highlights of the year 2019.
NETBALL - Caroline Barker (WWW.BBC.COM)
2018 is gone, long live 2019, right? For netball, 2018 could not have been any better: Commonwealth Games gold and end-of-year awards aplenty. But they count for nothing come the World Cup Liverpool, home advantage and for the first time great expectation on England's roses.
Many will look at how Tracey Neville's England side deal with Australia, the world number ones and the wounded animal, but the bigger sniff of a threat comes from New Zealand and Jamaica. The Kiwis have a new coach, a change of heart with some of the players and they are starting to tick. They have some of the world's best in their ranks.
That is the same for Jamaica. They have got players who can hustle with the best of them, such as former Loughborough defender Shamera Sterling, who has gained a move to Australia to play domestic netball as a result of her performances.
Neville recognises that the rest of the world have upped their game too: "If people aren't stepping up to the mark there's got to be changes."
The Quad Series will measure how the world order is sitting, with the top nations all taking on England. Then all eyes and expectations will move to Liverpool.
TENNIS
British number one Johanna Konta will play at the Sydney International as a lucky loser, having earlier withdrawn from the event with a neck injury.
Konta, 27, retired from her second-round qualifying match against Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova when 4-1 down.
But after treatment - and US Open champion Naomi Osaka's withdrawal - Konta accepted the chance to play world number nine Kiki Bertens on Monday.
Compatriot Heather Watson, 26, is into the Hobart International main draw.
Watson, the British number two and a previous winner of the Tasmania event, overcame Australian Isabelle Wallace 6-4 6-4 in the qualifying round and will now face Romania's world number 67 Irina-Camelia Begu.
Sydney-born Konta, ranked 37th in the world, reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 2016 and was a quarter-finalist in 2017, though she exited last year's tournament in the second round.
She hurt her neck in the warm-up on Sunday and retired just 18 minutes into the match after speaking to physio Belinda Smith at courtside.
The tournaments in Sydney and Hobart are the final WTA events before the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, begins on 14 January.
ATHLETICS
Laura Muir has helped Great Britain win the mixed relay at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country four times
Great Stirling Cross Country
European 1500m champion and double world indoor medallist Laura Muir headlines the British team competing at the Great Stirling Cross Country on Saturday, 12 January.
Muir is set to make her season debut in Stirling on the road to the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and makes her fifth straight appearance in the 4x1km relay team, an event she is yet to be beaten in. Fellow Scot Jamie Williamson joins Muir in the relay team, as do English pair Phil Sesemann and Alex Bell.
The event, previously staged in Edinburgh, will be held in the city of Stirling for the first time in 2019.
There will also be men's, women's and junior mixed relay events as world-class runners from Great Britain & Northern Ireland take on Team Europe and Team USA.
Reference : www.bbc.com
: www.wikipedia.org
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Here some updates, highlight and events you should look forward to😌😉
WOMEN'S FOOTBALL (international)
European women's football has never been in a better place and by hosting the World Cup in France, it will provide a huge boost to the game for the hosts, and England and Scotland. France already has Europe's best female team in Lyon, but the tournament will offer a great chance for France to use home advantage to win their first World Cup, as the men's team did in 1998.
Despite that, reigning champions United States are the favourites. Their preparation for big tournaments is a telling factor where they are basically in camp for six to nine months and it is a recipe which has led to a record three wins. Based on that, US striker forward Alex Morgan will be the player to watch. She says she is in the form of her life after scoring 18 goals in 19 games in 2018.
I would love England to succeed and it's their best chance in a long time to win their first World Cup. But losing vice-captain Jordan Nobbs to injury is a huge loss and there is no natural replacement for her. Scotland will be represented by their strongest ever team and have a good chance to get out of the group.
With Great Britain set to send a team to the 2020 Olympics and England hosting the 2021 European Championship, this World Cup could catapult women's football on these shores to the next level.
GOLF
How Britain's Georgia Hall progresses after her breakthrough major triumph at the Women's British Open will be fascinating to follow. I expect her to be a fixture on LPGA leaderboards and her temperament suggests she will be a key player for Europe as they seek to wrestle back the Solheim Cup. September's gathering at Gleneagles promises to be one of the real highlights of the year 2019.
NETBALL - Caroline Barker (WWW.BBC.COM)
2018 is gone, long live 2019, right? For netball, 2018 could not have been any better: Commonwealth Games gold and end-of-year awards aplenty. But they count for nothing come the World Cup Liverpool, home advantage and for the first time great expectation on England's roses.
Many will look at how Tracey Neville's England side deal with Australia, the world number ones and the wounded animal, but the bigger sniff of a threat comes from New Zealand and Jamaica. The Kiwis have a new coach, a change of heart with some of the players and they are starting to tick. They have some of the world's best in their ranks.
That is the same for Jamaica. They have got players who can hustle with the best of them, such as former Loughborough defender Shamera Sterling, who has gained a move to Australia to play domestic netball as a result of her performances.
Neville recognises that the rest of the world have upped their game too: "If people aren't stepping up to the mark there's got to be changes."
The Quad Series will measure how the world order is sitting, with the top nations all taking on England. Then all eyes and expectations will move to Liverpool.
TENNIS
British number one Johanna Konta will play at the Sydney International as a lucky loser, having earlier withdrawn from the event with a neck injury.
Konta, 27, retired from her second-round qualifying match against Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova when 4-1 down.
But after treatment - and US Open champion Naomi Osaka's withdrawal - Konta accepted the chance to play world number nine Kiki Bertens on Monday.
Compatriot Heather Watson, 26, is into the Hobart International main draw.
Watson, the British number two and a previous winner of the Tasmania event, overcame Australian Isabelle Wallace 6-4 6-4 in the qualifying round and will now face Romania's world number 67 Irina-Camelia Begu.
Sydney-born Konta, ranked 37th in the world, reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 2016 and was a quarter-finalist in 2017, though she exited last year's tournament in the second round.
She hurt her neck in the warm-up on Sunday and retired just 18 minutes into the match after speaking to physio Belinda Smith at courtside.
The tournaments in Sydney and Hobart are the final WTA events before the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, begins on 14 January.
ATHLETICS
Laura Muir has helped Great Britain win the mixed relay at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country four times
Great Stirling Cross Country
European 1500m champion and double world indoor medallist Laura Muir headlines the British team competing at the Great Stirling Cross Country on Saturday, 12 January.
Muir is set to make her season debut in Stirling on the road to the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and makes her fifth straight appearance in the 4x1km relay team, an event she is yet to be beaten in. Fellow Scot Jamie Williamson joins Muir in the relay team, as do English pair Phil Sesemann and Alex Bell.
The event, previously staged in Edinburgh, will be held in the city of Stirling for the first time in 2019.
There will also be men's, women's and junior mixed relay events as world-class runners from Great Britain & Northern Ireland take on Team Europe and Team USA.
Reference : www.bbc.com
: www.wikipedia.org
NESSA BENARD 💫✨
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TWITTER : nessa_benard
FB : Vanessa Benard
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