VIGO, Spain (Reuters) – Celta Vigo fought back with two late goals in quick succession to hold LaLiga leaders Barcelona to a highly entertaining 2-2 draw on Saturday. It looked like Barca were cruising towards victory after they opened a two-goal lead thanks to strikes by captain Raphinha in the 15th minute and by Robert Lewandowski in the 61st, but the script changed after their midfielder Marc Casado was sent off due to a second-yellow card for a foul in the 82nd minute. With Barca down to 10-men, the home side piled on the pressure and managed to score twice with strikes by substitute Alfonso Gonzalez and Hugo Alvarez in the 84th and 86th minutes respectively. Barca top the LaLiga standings with 34 points, five ahead of Atletico Madrid in second and seven ahead of third-placed Real Madrid, who have two games in hand. (Reporting by Fernando Kallas, editing by Pritha Sarkar) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. ThePrint holds no responsibilty for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );

Head coach Vanni Sartini paid the price Monday for the Vancouver Whitecaps’ mediocre results this past season and subsequent first-round playoff exit. His firing came about two weeks after the Major League Soccer team won a play-in game before falling to top-seeded Los Angeles FC in a three-game series that went the distance. “The desperation on my side is absolutely there,” said Axel Schuster, the Whitecaps’ sporting director and chief executive officer. One of the reasons for the change, he said, is everyone in the organization, including himself, needs a reminder that playoff success next year is imperative. “We cannot not get there.” The Whitecaps haven’t reached the conference semifinals since 2017. In a one-hour availability with reporters, Schuster noted the team had the second-worst home record in the Western Conference this year and recorded just two points over its last seven regular-season games. He referenced the need for fresh energy from a new coach and added there was no firm timeline in place for a replacement to be named. “I had to make a professional decision (for) how we can get the biggest impact to make this step forward and to get to a progression,” he said. The Whitecaps’ late-season slump dropped them to eighth place in the West with a record of 13-13-8. Vancouver won a play-in game at Portland before dropping a 1-0 decision at LAFC in the deciding game of the series. Vancouver also won its third-straight Canadian championship this season, beating Toronto FC 4-2 on penalties after the final ended in a 0-0 tie. “I took my time with this decision, and it was not taken lightly,” Schuster said. Sartini, a 47-year-old from Florence, Italy, took over coaching duties on an interim basis in August 2021 after the Whitecaps dismissed Marc Dos Santos. He was officially named head coach that November. “For the last three years and three months, it has been an absolute honour to be the head coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC,” Sartini said in a release. “I will always be grateful to Axel Schuster and ownership for entrusting me to be the technical lead of this club in such an important time. “Vancouver will always have a special place in my heart and my wife’s heart,” he added. He posted a record of 57-51-39 across all competitions. The exuberant Italian made headlines in November 2023 when he publicly criticized a referee following a playoff game and made a joke about being a suspect if the official were to be found dead. He was suspended for the first six games of the 2024 MLS campaign, fined US$20,000 and ordered to complete a league-approved behavioural assessment. The coach later apologized for the comments and his suspension was cut to four games. Sartini came to Vancouver in 2019 as Dos Santos’ assistant coach and spent two seasons with the first team before being named the club’s “director of methodology” and taking over coaching the U-23 team in 2020. Before joining the Whitecaps, he worked as a coach educator for the Italian Football Federation and the U.S. Soccer Federation, and coached several different clubs in Italy.

Article content OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he agrees with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on one thing: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are too weak to fight for Canadians. Recommended Videos Poilievre kicked off debate in the House of Commons Thursday on a cheekily worded Conservative motion designed to use Singh’s own words against him. The motion quotes some of Singh’s harshest language against the Liberal government along with his staunch support for organized labour. Poilievre told the House his non-confidence motion will afford MPs the chance to vote on the “wise things that he said” when it’s expected to come up next week. He said if Singh votes against it, that means “he does not want to take responsibility” for his words and have voters “judge his record and his plans.” The Conservative opposition motion quotes Singh accusing the Liberals of being “too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people,” and that the Liberals will always ensure “unions have no power” by stepping in to stop labour disputes. That came after Ottawa’s recent interventions to end disruptions by striking rail and port workers by asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to intervene. But Singh has said he won’t play Conservative games and will vote against the motion. RECOMMENDED VIDEO In the back-and-forth, NDP MP Matthew Green scoffed at Poilievre’s remarks and accused him of cosplaying as a supporter of organized labour. At one point, Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen accused Poilievre of using a prop, which is against House rules, to troll the Liberals. As Poilievre held onto his speaking notes, he had conspicuously placed at the bottom of the stack of papers a New York Times article featuring a large photo of Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and a headline suggesting she could be Trudeau’s successor. But it wasn’t just the Conservatives playing tactical parliamentary shenanigans on Thursday. A surprise move by the NDP forced a debate on abortion access to delay the Conservative motion and siphon away House of Commons airtime on it Thursday. Ahead of Poilievre’s motion coming up, NDP MP Heather McPherson suddenly seized the parliamentary remote control and changed the channel by springing a debate on a Foreign Affairs Committee report tabled in the House. McPherson also used the report, about Canada’s global assistance for sexual and reproductive health rights, to pivot to domestic abortion issues by accusing the Conservatives of being beholden to abortion opponents and the Liberals of failing to protect access to services. “The Liberals are too weak to stand up to premiers — those conservatives premiers — who are restricting access to women’s health care,” she said. When the Tories attempted to return to the regular scheduled programming, the Liberals and NDP ganged up and voted against them, further delaying the Conservative motion. The Tories charged that the NDP had hijacked the House agenda to protect Singh from a tough spot. Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer said it was a “desperate attempt to limit debate” through a “procedural trick.” The Liberal government will face a raft of opposition motions in the coming days, typically a raucous and intensely partisan time in Parliament before MPs head home for the winter holiday break. The Conservatives have two more opposition days to introduce motions in addition to the one tabled Thursday, and the NDP has one.CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Garry Clark scored 15 points as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beat Stephen F. Austin 67-48 on Saturday night. Clark had 12 rebounds for the Islanders (6-4, 1-1 Southland Conference). Owen Dease went 3 of 3 from the field to add 10 points. Jordan Roberts had 10 points and shot 4 for 9. Nana Antwi-Boasiako led the Lumberjacks (5-5, 0-2) in scoring, finishing with 13 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks. Clayton Southwick added 10 points and two steals. Myles Jenkins had five points. Story continues below video The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Conference title games a chance at a banner, bragging rights and, for some, a season-wrecking loss

Canada’s top 100 employers for 2025 , and Loblaw Companies Ltd. has made the list, landing high marks in several categories. Mediacorp Canada Inc. released its annual list of the top 100 employers in Canada on November 14, and the grocery giant was recognized for the 14th year in a row. Mediacorp evaluates companies using eight criteria: workplace, work atmosphere, social, health, financial, and family benefits, vacation and time off, employee communications, performance management, training and skills development, and community involvement. The grocery giant A’s and A+’s for these criteria, with its lowest grade being a B- for the vacation and personal time off category. Under the work environment category, Loblaw received an A+ grade. The report noted that the company’s four-storey head office features on-site perks like a “market-style” cafeteria, a fitness facility, massage chairs, and a “comfortable” employee lounge area. The report added that Loblaw was recognized overall for several reasons, including its defined contribution pension plan, a share purchase program, employee development, and employee recognition programs. This isn’t the first time Loblaw has been recognized this year. , it was named one of Canada’s most responsible companies. Loblaw placed 33rd in the Newsweek ranking, with an overall score of 72.72 out of 100; it scored 56.89 under environmental concerns, 80.66 for social concerns, and 81.74 for corporate governance. Despite the recognition, Loblaw has faced significant customer backlash throughout 2024. , the company was subject to a massive customer boycott organized by the Loblaws Is Out of Control Reddit community. Many members of the online group vowed to the grocery giant over frustrations with high prices. The boycott even , as the BBC published a report about the movement in June. Consumers also continue to call out Loblaw on social media regarding and . However, the controversies don’t seem to impact the company’s bottom line. According to , its net earnings available to common shareholders were $777 million for the quarter that ended on October 5. That’s $156 million (25.1%) more than the $621 million the corporation made in Q3 last year.Rebel groups in the capital have declared it "liberated" from Assad's regime as government forces pull back. There are reports suggesting that Assad departed from Damascus by plane, heading to an undisclosed location. Gunfire has been reported in central Damascus as the rebels continue their rapid offensive against Assad's regime across Syria. Unverified videos circulating on social media show thousands of prisoners being released from the notorious Saydnaya prison, where many of Assad's critics were allegedly tortured and executed. The rebel advance on Damascus follows their announcement that they had "fully liberated" Homs. (Inputs from BBC)

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49ers QB Brock Purdy, DE Nick Bosa out, Brandon Allen to start at Green BayST JOSEPH’S Convent (SJC), Port of Spain, finally landed a national championship yesterday when edging defending champions Pleasantville Secondary 5-4 on spot kicks in the 2024 Coca-Cola Girls National InterCol final. Convent now join Pleasantville (2023) and Signal Hill Secondary (2022), as the last three Girls National InterCol champions of secondary schools football. For the winners, goalkeeper Alexia Dolland made a pivotal spot kick save, and Scarlet Cole came on as a second half substitute and won the Player-of-the-Match award, by making sure favourites Pleasantville also paid attention to defending at the point when the South champions looked the more likely to get a winning goal. “We worked really hard for this. I have been out for the season,” stated former national Under-14 striker Cole. “This is my first match back after the injury, and I feel phenomenal right now.” Coming in as overwhelming favourites, Pleasantville came up against a probably less talented, but equally spirited St Joseph’s Convent team that fought for every blade of grass, when holding Pleasantville to a 1-1 draw over 80 minutes. “We fought hard, and everybody was accountable and brought something to the table,” stated Tasha St Louis, the former national captain and now assistant to Junior Maxwell at St Joseph’s Convent. Just as Pleasantville were strongly dependent on Nikita Gosein, the free-scoring national youth striker, so too did Michaela Yearwood stand out at the centre of the Convent girls’ defence. Despite defending for long periods and playing mainly in transition, it was the Convent team that had the two best chances of the match. Brittney Phillip roofed the rebound for a 1-0 Convent lead in the 12th minute, following an initial save by national youth goalkeeper Jada Ramoutar, who competently pushed a good diagonal shot from SJC captain Kaitlyn Darwent onto the crossbar. On the stroke of half-time, Emma Nieves had a similar opening for Convent from Phillips’ cross into the box, but unfortunately lifted the ball over the bar from almost point-blank range. What the Port of Spain school did well for the most part, was breaking up play and keeping Gosine quiet. But not in the 32nd minute, when the national starlet got by several tackles and put a low shot past goalkeeper Dolland to level the match at 1-1. Gosine went close on a couple of other occasions, as did her captain Tayeann Wylie, but for most of the time, Gosein was made to negotiate many tackles and was a picture of frustration after taking knocks throughout the match. “It was a tight game, both teams were tactically sound,” stated calypsonian Brian London, the Pleasantville coach. “Enough chances to put away the game,” London lamented,” Enough chances.”U.S. women's national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, known for her unflappable demeanor in the face of pressure, is retiring from international soccer. Naeher was on the team's roster for a pair of upcoming matches in Europe but those games will be her last after a full 11 years playing for the United States. Naeher was the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team that won the Women's World Cup in 2019 and the gold medal at this year's Olympics in France. She's the only U.S. goalkeeper to earn a shutout in both a World Cup and an Olympic final. She made a key one-handed save in stoppage time to preserve the Americans' 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final. Mallory Swanson, who scored the only goal, ran down the length of the field to embrace Naeher at the final whistle. Naeher announced her retirement on social media Monday . “Every tear shed in the challenging times and disappointments made every smile and celebration in the moments of success that much more joyful. This has been a special team to be a part of and I am beyond proud of what we have achieved both on and off the field," she wrote. “The memories I have made over the years will last me a lifetime.” Naeher has been known throughout her career for her calm and steady leadership. She is one of just three goalkeepers to make more than 100 appearances for the United States. Naeher made her debut with the national team in 2014 and was a backup to Hope Solo at the 2015 World Cup, which the United States won. She became the team’s regular starter following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was on the squad that repeated as World Cup winners in 2019. For her career, Naeher has appeared 113 games with 110 starts, 88 wins and 68 shutouts. She had four shutouts over the course of the Olympic tournament in France. Story continues below video In all, she was on the U.S. roster for three World Cups and three Olympic teams. The 36-year-old has also played for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women’s Soccer League since 2016. She plans to play for Chicago next season. The United States is headed to Europe for a match against England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and on Dec. 3 against Netherlands in The Hague. In addition to her save at the Olympics, Naeher has had many other memorable moments. In the 2019 Women's World Cup semifinals against England, she stopped Steph Houghton’s penalty kick in the 83rd minute. The Americans won 2-1 before downing the Netherlands 2-0 in the final. Earlier this year in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup, Naeher made three saves during a penalty shootout with Canada and also converted a penalty kick herself — tucking the ball neatly into the corner of the net. Afterward she said: “Winning is the best feeling.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer