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Uefa boss re-elected on four-year term

Aleksander Ceferin has been re-elected as Uefa president for the next four years, while England's Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has been voted on to the Fifa Council.


Ceferin, 51, was elected unopposed to continue his role in charge of European football's governing body.

Clarke won the vote of Uefa delegates to be admitted to the Fifa Council for a four year term.
He defeated Northern Ireland's David Martin 37 votes to 18.

The decisions were taken by delegates from the 55 member associations at the Uefa Congress in Rome.
Slovenian lawyer Ceferin took over as Uefa president in 2016 after France's Michel Platini stepped down after being banned by Fifa over ethics breaches.

After being re-elected, Ceferin said there would be an overhaul of club competitions and reaffirmed there would be no breakaway Super League while he was in charge.

"We will work hand-in-hand with our partner, the European Club Association, to design the club competitions of the future," Ceferin said.

"Club competitions that are in keeping with the times, full of excitement and intensity and open, which will bring a new dimension to European football."

Premier League clubs pay tribute to Sala

Cardiff boss Neil Warnock dedicated his side's dramatic 2-1 win at Southampton to Emiliano Sala as Premier League clubs paid tribute to the forward.
Earlier this week, police confirmed that the 28-year-old £15m record Cardiff signing died in a plane crash.

"We wanted to do it for Emiliano and I'm really proud the lads have done him justice," said Warnock after Cardiff scored an injury-time winner.

Players in games across the Premier League and EFL wore black armbands.

Sala's body was found and identified on Thursday and a minute's silence was held before the game at St Mary's Stadium with Cardiff fans wearing daffodils in memory of the Argentine.

"It's been a tough couple of weeks," said Cardiff captain Sol Bamba. "I know Emiliano Sala was looking from up there so it's good to get the three points."

Sala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a light aircraft piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January.

The striker was flying to join up with his new Cardiff team-mates for the first time.
The club has offered to pay for Sala's body to be repatriated to Argentina.

The body of the pilot is still missing and his family have launched a fundraising appeal to find his body.

Westbrook ties Chamberlain's 51-year-old triple-double record

Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook scored a ninth successive triple-double to tie Wilt Chamberlain's 51-year-old record.

The 30-year-old led the Thunder to a 117-112 win over the Houston Rockets on Saturday with 21 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.

Thunder overcame a franchise-high 26-point deficit to beat the Rockets.

James Harden, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, recorded his 29th consecutive 30-point game, in scoring 42 points.

It was his 21st 40-point game of the season. No other player in the NBA has more than seven. Chamberlain holds the record for most 40-point games in an NBA season at 63, set in 1961-62.

The 29-year-old is also two 30-point games away from tying Chamberlain for the second-longest 30-point streak in NBA history - Chamberlain also holds the top position, having had a run of 65 consecutive games in which he scored at least 30 points in 1961-62.

Harden started Saturday's game averaging 36.5 points per game, the most any NBA player has averaged since Michael Jordan scored 37.1 in the 1986-87 season.

On Thursday, Westbrook passed Jordan's tally of eight straight triple-doubles, the longest streak since Chamberlain's nine in 1968.

Westbrook will aim to set the record for the longest triple-double streak in NBA history on Monday at home against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Davis knocks out Ruiz in first round

Unbeaten Gervonta Davis retained his WBA super-featherweight belt with a first-round knockout of former champion Hugo Ruiz in California.
It was a 12th straight win by knockout for American Davis and his 20th win inside the distance from 21 fights.

Referee Jack Reiss called a stop to the fight after two minutes and 59 seconds following a late-round bombardment which floored the Mexican veteran.

"I just wanted to put on a great performance," the 24-year-old said.

Ruiz had stepped in as a late replacement after Davis' original opponent, three-division champion Abner Mares, withdrew last month after suffering an eye injury.

Following the fight, Davis sported a T-shirt in the ring showing his support for rapper 21 Savage - the British citizen has been detained by US immigration officials who say he arrived in the country as a child and failed to leave when his visa expired.

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