FLU HOSPITALIZES BRAZIL’S RONALDO
Brazil soccer great Ronaldo said Sunday that he has been hospitalized in Ibiza since Friday because of flu.
The 41-year-old Ronaldo, a threetime FIFA world player of the year, said on social media that “everything is under control now” and that he expects to return home Monday.
Ronaldo won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, the striker scoring eight goals at the tournament to take the Golden Boot. He spends much of his time in Spain, where he played briefly at Barcelona and at Real Madrid between 2002 and 2007.
He retired from football in 2011 at Brazil’s Corinthians.
Ronaldo owns a football marketing agency in Brazil and occasionally works as a pundit at TV Globo.
Caca Ferrari, a spokesman for the former player, told The Associated Press that Ronaldo’s tweets in Portuguese and Spanish will be his only public comments on his admission to hospital.
Ferrari denied media reports that claimed Ronaldo was first admitted to an intensive care unit in Spain and then moved to another hospital. He confirmed the Brazilian was on vacation.
Portugal’s Ronaldo scores for Juventus.
VILLAR PEROSA,
ITALY» Cristiano Ronaldo made Juventus fans wait only eight minutes before scoring his first goal for the club in a traditional preseason friendly against the team’s “B’’ side on Sunday.
Ronaldo finished with his usual confidence and poise after latching onto a looping pass over the midfield from attacking midfelder Federico Bernardeschi. Ronaldo took one touch to cushion the ball and then casually thumped it into the left corner. Ten minutes later, he pressured Riccardo Capellini into an own-goal to make it 2-0 to the Bianconero, the name given to Juventus because of its famed white-and-black jersey.
Messi, Barcelona win title.
MOROCCO» Lionel Messi won his 33rd title with Barcelona to become the most successful player in the Catalan club’s history.
Barcelona beat Sevilla 2-1 in the Spanish Super Cup as Messi overtook Andres Iniesta, who had 32 titles when he left this summer for the Japanese league.
Ousmane Dembele scored a late winning goal with a blistering strike from outside the area. The 21-yearold France winger stunned Sevilla’s defense with a right-footed shot that hit the underside of the crossbar in the 78th minute.
No. 80 for Nadal.
TORONTO» Rafael Nadal won his 80th ATP World Tour title — and spoiled Stefanos Tsitsipas’ 20th birthday.
The top-ranked Nadal beat the unseeded Greek upstart 6-2, 7-6 (4) for his fourth Rogers Cup crown and fifth victory of the year. He has 33 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles.
Halep beats Stephens in three sets.
MONTREAL» Top-ranked Simona Halep outlasted third-ranked Sloane Stephens 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4 to win her second Rogers Cup title.
The 26-year-old Romanian star also won the hard-court event that rotates between Toronto and Montreal in 2016 in Montreal.
In a rematch of Halep’s French Open final victory, she overcame Stephens in the match that had 15 service breaks. Halep has won her last six meetings with the 25-year-old American. Stephens, preparing for her U.S. Open title defense, is 0-8 against No. 1-ranked players.
Halep won her third title of the year and 18th overall.
Duplantis clears 19-10¾.
BERLIN» Armand Duplantis, 18, won a thrilling pole vault competition and British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith powered to her third gold medal, in the 4x100meter relay, at the European Athletics Championships.
Sweden’s Duplantis was the star on the final day, soaring to an under-20 world record of 19 feet, 10¾ inches. He set it at 19-6¼ before breaking it twice. — The Associated Press