Sané back in training with Bayern Munich after injury

MUNICH, Oct 22, (AP): Leroy Sané is back in full training with Bayern Munich after recovering from a knee injury, the club said Thursday.

Sané took part in sprint and game drills with the rest of the squad after watching from the stands as his teammates beat Atletico Madrid 4-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday. He could potentially make his comeback on Saturday against Eintracht Frankfurt.

Sané has missed five games for Bayern and three for the German national team since he damaged a capsule in his right knee joint last month. Sané injured an anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee last season while playing for Manchester City, causing him to miss almost the entire 2019-20 campaign.

A Paraguayan soccer official who was banned for life for matchfixing tried to influence the result of a Copa Libertadores match last year, FIFA said Wednesday.

Marco Trovato, the former Olimpia club president, also tried to fix 11 Paraguayan league matches in 2018 and 2019, according to a FIFA verdict.

Trovato was banned last month but the details of the case were only published by soccer’s world governing body on Wednesday.

The Copa Libertadores match in question was the second leg of the Round of 16 between Olimpia and Ecuador’s Liga de Quito on July 30 last year. The first leg ended 3-1 to the Ecuadorians, who advanced after a 1-1 draw in Asuncion.

According to FIFA, an accuser named Edgar Troche said he and Trovato “were in permanent contact between 2018 and 2019 to manipulate results, among others, of several matches played by Olimpia.” Troche also showed investigators several messaging app exchanges with Trovato and a copy of a check that the Paraguyan gave him.

The former Olimpia executive said on social media that he will fight to clear his name. He can challenge the ban to FIFA’s appeals committee, and later at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.