Will we see Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo play together next season ?

Aug 13 2021

According to Spanish newspaper AS, football fans will see Messi and Ronaldo finally play on the same team this next season. The report goes on to say that French superstar Kylian Mbappe will be the player they will sacrifice as, reportedly, the Parisians already know that Mbappe’s intention is to join Real Madrid once his contract expires this summer.

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Signing Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar has been PSG’s president Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s dream ever since the three players battled it out for the 2015 Ballon d’Or. Nasser is said to be very interested in swapping the two players, albeit Ronaldo is significantly older than Mbappe. It is said that Ronaldo will reportedly join once he’s 37 and will have a two year contract. This means he will play in a less demanding league once he turns 39-years-old.

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Maltese youth among highest in EU to live with their parents over 30 years of age

Aug 13 2021

The Maltese have ranked among the highest of Europeans most likely to live with their parents over 30-years of age. According to a new Eurostat report, Malta has ranked third in a list ranking the highest age range in which youth leave their parents’ homes for 2020. Alongside Italy, Malta’s average age of leaving their parents’ homes ranked at 30.2, third only to Croatia (32.4) and Slovakia (30.9).

Portugal followed suit at 30.0, with the lowest ages in Sweden (17.5), Luxembourg (19), and Denmark (21.2). Men were reportedly also more likely to stay longer in their parents’ nomes than women. In the EU on average, men left the parental household at the age of 27.4 years and women at 25.4 years. Women moving out of the parental household earlier than men was noticed in all countries.

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101 COVID-19 cases registered with 119 recoveries

54 COVID-19 cases registered with 57 recoveries

Aug 13 2021

Malta has registered 101 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,597 swab tests, while 119 patients have recovered. No deaths were registered in the past 24 hours. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Thursday 12th August 2021, 782,600 vaccine doses were administered of which 407,171 were 1st doses. 403,015 people are currently fully vaccinated.

To date, Malta has registered 35,192 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 33,644 have recovered, 429 died and 723 are still active.

Mater Dei Hospital is currently treating a total of 36 COVID-19 positive patients, four of whom are in the ITU. The average age of yesterday’s cases was 42.

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Unlucky streak continues for Maltese teams in Europe

Aug 13 2021

Yesterday night, Maltese team Hibernians were only 1 minute away from a historic result that would have seen them qualify to the playoff round of the UEFA Conference League. Irish referee Rob Hennessy however was met with a lot of criticism for most of his decisions with many fans asking if the referee had an agenda against the Paolites.

Not every game starts off with a penalty in the 45th second of the game, but the referee still pointed to the spot, despite the foul being very soft. It was pointed out how in some games it wouldn’t even be considered a penalty but the referee had a different opinion. The penalty was for nothing though as Hibernians keeper Ibrahim Kone saved it. The first half was filled with yellow cards to Hibernians players albeit most were quite controversial.

The second half didn’t start well for Hibernians either, as a mistake from captain Andre Agius led to Riga’s first goal. Attacker Jurgen Degabriele then levelled up the game, with a nice low curling shot. Later on in the game, Jurgen Degabriele scored what seemed a perfect goal, but was somehow was deemed an offside by the Irish team of referees. A red card for attacking midfielder Jake Grech and 7 minutes of extra added time were the following controversial referee decisions. Riga then broke Hibs’ hearths when they scored in the 96th minute.

Immediately after the goal, a Riga player went to provoke the Hibernians staff which led to fights and ultimately a red card for Hibs’ manager Stefano Sanderra and one of the players on the bench. The goal forced extra time, and in extra time the Latvian champions scored 2 goals to secure the tie.

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What should have been a historic night for Maltese football ended in chaos. The Hibernians players and staff should be proud of their achievements, knowing they were 1 minute from creating history.

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