Beckham talking to ex-teammate Neville about coaching Inter Miami
David Beckham will be taking a more active role in Inter Miami’s soccer decisions this season, and multiple reports from England on Wednesday said he has approached former Manchester United teammate
Phil Neville about replacing Diego Alonso as coach at Inter Miami. Neville, 43, has been coach of the English women’s national team since 2018. Beckham, who is co-owner of Inter Miami, played alongside Neville at Manchester United and on England’s national team. The two are also co-owners of English League Two team Salford City.
Alonso is still officially the coach at Inter Miami, but his situation with the club is uncertain. Last month, he left a postseason review meeting with ownership believing he had been fired. He told staff and some players that he was gone, but the club quickly announced that it was a “misunderstanding” and that Alonso’s future was “still being determined.”
Since then, Alonso’s name came up for job openings at Penarol in Uruguay and Club America in Mexico.
Neville’s contract with the women’s national team was set to expire in July, after the Tokyo Olympics, with Netherlands coach
Sarina Wiegman taking over in September. If the talks with Inter Miami turn into a job, his departure would be expedited.
The Telegraph wrote: “Sources have told Telegraph Sport that the Football Association are already looking at alternatives to Neville to take charge of the Olympic squad in Japan as they believe the former Manchester United and Everton player is going to accept a role in the MLS.”
The report went on to say Neville’s departure from the women’s national team was expected to be announced in the coming days, eight months before he was supposed to coach the Lionesses in the Olympics.
Inter Miami officials would not comment on the report.
●Elsewhere: Luis Robles, the goalkeeper and captain during Inter Miami’s inaugural season, announced on Instagram Wednesday that he is retiring. Robles, who played eight years with the New York Red Bulls before joining Inter Miami, broke his arm in early October, had surgery and missed the rest of the season. He had been one of the most reliable keepers in MLS history, holding the league record for most consecutive regular-season starts with 183, spanning six seasons.
— MICHELLE KAUFMAN
HIGH SCHOOLS
●Girls’ basketball – Krop (7-2) 80, Northwestern (2-3) 32: Krop: Lauryn Hornstein 25 points; Lindsey Weingard 24 pts, 9 assists, 9 steals, 7 rebounds; Emmy Mills 11 points, 13 rebounds; Neyida Michel 10 points; Alionna Chappell 6 points; Jaila Thomson 4 points. Northwestern: Samiya Fletcher 14 points; Nia Richardson 12 points. … Miami Killian 51, Hialeah 42: Killian: Khaliyah Simms 21 points, 11 rebounds; Jada Beneby 18 points, 6 steals. … Cardinal Gibbons (6-2) 68, J.P. Taravella (0-1) 12.
●Boys’ basketball – Palmer Trinity 56, Marathon 30: PT(5-2): Robertson III 21, McCray 13, Rodz 10, Fumagalli 10. Mar: Rodriguez 7, Tate 7, Cruz 6. HT: PT 33-10. Three-pointers: Robertson III 4,
McCray 2, Rodz, Rodriguez, Cruz. Rebounds: Fumagalli 9, Robertson III 4. Steals: Robertson III 4, McCray 4. Assists: McCray 4, Lopez 2. … Cardinal Gibbons (8-1) 65, J.P. Taravella (0-1) 46.
●Girls’ soccer – LaSalle 3, Gulliver 0: Deanna Prieto 1 goal, 1 assist; Nabila Osman 1 goal; Elisa Chong 1 goal; Sabrina Sousa 1 assist; Ashley Fonseca shutout (3).
MOSS, ZHU WIN JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL GOLF
Sebastian Moss finished off a 2-over-par 73 that included a quadruple bogey two holes from the finish line at historic Biltmore
Golf Club in Coral Gables to win the Junior Orange Bowl International golf championship. Moss completed four rounds at 12-under 272 in a wire-towire performance over Matthew Doyle (68). .... Canada’s Emily Zhu captured the girls’ division, staving off a charge from Chile’s Antonia Matte for the second consecutive day to end a winless drought that had reached 17 months.
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●College basketball: Josiah-Jordan James and Victor Bailey scored 17 points apiece and host Tennessee (8-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) hit eight free throws in the final minute as the No. 9
Volunteers pulled out a 79-74 victory over Arkansas (9-2, 1-2). ... David Johnson
scored 17 points, including a crucial free throw with five seconds left, and host Louisville (8-1, 3-0) withstood a missed three-point try at the buzzer, holding off No. 19 Virginia Tech (8-2, 2–1) 73-71in a matchup of unbeaten Atlantic Coast Conference teams.
●Golf: Mike Whanwill
be leaving after 11 years of leading the LPGA Tour. Whan, 56, said he had been thinking about stepping down for the last few years and always found unfinished work, even as the self-sustaining LPGA Tour kept increasing its schedule and prize money and expanding the participation of junior girls.
●Tennis: Daria Kasatkina and Maria Sakkari
won their opening matches as the women’s tennis season began at the Abu Dhabi Open. Kasatkina beat
Wang Qiang 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 after trailing 2-0 in the deciding set. The ninthseeded Sakkari faced four break points but saved them all in a 6-4, 6-2 win over