BUTCH, BAMBOL IN ONLINE FORUM
THE country’s top sports officials— Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman William “Butch” Ramirez and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino are the main guests in the first-ever Philippine Sports Association (PSA) Forum videoconferencing on Tuesday.
Ramirez is expected to talk about the effects caused by the global pandemic to Philippine sports in general, while Tolentino will address the possible steps to be taken by the POC wrought by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics for next year.
Ramirez will headline the first part at 10 a.m., followed by Tolentino at 11 a.m.
The weekly Forum is holding its first session under a new platform amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The regular sports program was last held January 27 or about a month before the PSA Annual Awards Night.
The session will still be shown live via the PSA Facebook page fb.com/ Philippinesportswritersassociation and will be shared in the facebook page of longtime partner Radyo Pilipinas 2.
The PSA Forum is presented by San Miguel Corp., Amelie Hotel, Braska Restaurant, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. and Go For Gold and powered by Smart.
BERLIN—FOUR young soccer players in Germany’s Bundesliga addressed the death of George Floyd in the United States with protests against police brutality and calls for justice over the weekend.
England’s 20-year-old winger Jadon Sancho, 21-year-old Morocco right-back Achraf Hakimi and 22-year-old Marcus Thuram made statements on the field on Sunday, following the example set by Schalke’s American midfielder Weston Mckennie, 21, the day before.
Sancho scored his first hat trick in Borussia Dortmund’s 6-1 win at Paderborn with no fans present, but removed his jersey after his first goal to reveal a t-shirt with the handwritten message “Justice for George Floyd” on the front.
“First professional hat trick,” Sancho said on Twitter. “A bittersweet moment personally as there are more important things going on in the world today that we must address and help make a change. We have to come together as one & fight for justice. We are stronger together!”
Sancho was given a yellow card for taking off his jersey, but it didn’t stop teammate Hakimi from lifting his shirt to reveal the same message after he grabbed Dortmund’s fourth goal in the 85th minute.
Floyd, a handcuffed black man, died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee for several minutes on his neck.
Earlier, Thuram took a knee after scoring in Borussia Mönchengladbach’s 4-1 win over Union Berlin. The Gladbach forward scored in the first half and then dropped his left knee to the ground and rested his right arm on his right thigh as