Portsmouth told to pay Spurs Begovic compensation

LONDON (AP)—The Premier League says Portsmouth must pay Tottenham 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) following the aborted transfer of goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.
When the clubs agreed a fee for defender Younes Kaboul to nfl jersey
join Spurs in January, they also agreed that Portsmouth would have to pay Tottenham compensation if Begovic—whose planned move to White Hart Lane later collapsed — left Pompey for another team.
Begovic eventually moved to Stoke but Portsmouth then went into administration and has since disputed whether it still owes Tottenham compensation.
The Premier League says Portsmouth, which is now in the League Championship, is obliged to pay 1 million pounds.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)—New Serbia coach Vladimir Petrovic says he will keep most of the key players used by his predecessor, Radomir Antic, although he also plans to introduce a few new ones.
Petrovic was presented on Friday, two days after Antic was fired.
Petrovic’s first game in charge is the European Championship qualifier against Estonia on Oct. 8. Four days later Serbia plays in Italy.
Serbia has four points from its first two qualifying matches.
BERLIN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Freiburg’s Jan Rosenthal scored in the 89th minute to earn a 1-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt and lift his side to third spot in the Bundesliga on Friday.
Freiburg, enjoying their best ever start with three straight wins Saints jersey
from four games, have moved on to nine points with leaders Hoffenheim and Mainz, who have a better goal difference.
The visitors missed an early chance through Papiss Cisse and remained a threat with their swift counter-attacks although substitute goalkeeper Oliver Baumann had to come to the rescue to deny Frankfurt’s Patrick Ochs and Caio in the second half.
Freiburg snatched the winner a minute from time, with the hosts complaining Maximilian Nicu was off side when he set up new signing Rosenthal, who slotted home from inside the box.
Hoffenheim visit Kaiserslautern and Mainz play at Werder Bremen on Saturday when champions Bayern Munich, in 11th place with four points from three games, host Cologne.
SAO PAULO (AP)—Brazil coach Mano Menezes says there is reason to worry about the recent problems of young striker Neymar.
Neymar was fined and issued a public apology on Thursday after cursing and offending his teammates and his Santos coach after not being allowed to take a penalty kick in a Brazilian league match a day earlier.
Menezes has told Globo TV that his first reaction to what happened is of “preoccupation.”
The coach says it isn’t the first time Neymar has been San Diego Chargers jersey
behaving badly on the field and that he needs to start changing his attitude.
The 18-year-old Neymar played his first match for Brazil last month, scoring in a 2-0 win in a friendly against the United States in New Jersey.