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Currently working as a football analyst for ESPN and as a La Liga ambassador, Garcia revealed he had recently acquired his UEFA pro licence - which is the highest coaching qualification in Europe. While the 44-year-old will not be looking for a head coach role in the immediate future, he spoke of the path he wants to take to football club management. “I want to get ready [for a professional coaching position],” Garcia told media during a La Liga launch event....

The 25-year-old, who made the 30-man Ballon d’Or nomination list on Monday, was assessed by the club’s medical team upon his return from Senegal duty, where he featured for 87 minutes in the 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Cape Verde. The speedster sustained the problem in that encounter, with scans showing the damage is substantial enough to keep him out of action for over a month. Saturday’s Premier League clash at Anfield against Jose Mourinho’s side is one of nine encounters Mane is set to miss, which also includes a trip to Tottenham and potentially a test with Chelsea at home....

He joins Steve McManaman, who scored two goals in West London in 1995, and Philippe Coutinho, who scored a brace against the Blues in October 2015, on the list. After a goalless first-half, Mane broke the deadlock at Stamford Bridge in the 50th minute and wrapped up their victory with his second strike four minutes later. Chelsea missed the chance to reduce the deficit after goalkeeper Alisson saved Jorginho’s strike from the penalty spot in the 75th minute....

The division’s bottom club travel to Anfield with new manager Paul Clement admitting that the encounter provides a bigger obstacle than lining up against Arsenal last time out, which ended in a 4-0 defeat. “We are away from home against title contenders who play good football and defend with a lot of energy,” was his assessment and Jurgen Klopp will be hoping to see his side return to their devastating best on Saturday....

The Reds have been full of goals in recent weeks, with the target found 16 times amid a five-match unbeaten run in all competitions. Jurgen Klopp’s side have also passed the 100-goal mark for the season, with fearsome attacking trio Salah, Firmino and Mane having contributed 66 efforts to that total. Trying to keep them quiet is the challenge facing Newcastle and former Reds boss Rafa Benitez at Anfield on Saturday....

The Reds are currently nine points behind leaders Manchester City in the Premier League, albeit with a game in hand. The Merseysiders will next face Leicester City this Thursday in the league. Today’s Reds roundup features an update on target Gavi and an update on the club’s squad for the Champions League knockout stages. On that note, here’s a look at the key Liverpool stories as of February 7, 2022....

Liverpool agree Thiago Alcantara transfer fee Liverpool are said to have agreed a fee with European champions Bayern Munich to sign Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara, with the formalities of a medical and agreement of personal terms said to be completed in the next couple of days. According to The Times’s Paul Joyce, the Premier League champions have agreed an initial fee of £20m, which will be spread out over the four years of Thiago’s contract at Anfield, with an additional £5m to be paid in add-ons...

The hosts can move level with Antonio Conte’s side and potentially into the top four with victory, while a win for the Blues could see them leapfrog Manchester United into second, depending on results elsewhere. Both teams come into the game having been in Champions League action during the week, but, while Chelsea recorded an emphatic 4-0 win over Qarabag, Liverpool were left deflated as they relinquished a 3-0 lead to draw 3-3 away to Sevilla....

“Scream Against the Sky” is a succinct, surprisingly coherent survey – of 200 wildly diverse objects by 85 artists – that has been nicely tucked into the Guggenheim’s lucidly illuminated, austerely polished galleries that were designed, coincidentally, by prominent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. If you didn’t read the labels, you might think you’d been dropped into the permanent-collection galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, uptown. There are big, squishy abstract paintings, pop conceits like a hammer wrapped in paper money, industrial-looking minimalist black sculpture and anti-nuke assemblages that seem to come straight from “Tales From the Crypt....

The villa in Wannsee is the “final solution” house. It is where, on Jan. 20, 1942, members of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich meted out all the ways in which they planned to exterminate Jews from the planet. The pictures on the wall are gruesome; the minutes of the meeting, laid out in a display case, are stunningly matter of fact – the banality of evil under glass. Fifty years since its unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, Germany is still full of these horrific places; the jarring, unavoidable reminders of the furies that consumed it and all of Europe at midcentury....

Since the congresswoman voted to impeach Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot, she has been ousted from her leadership position as the No. 3 House Republican and censured by the National Republican Party. On Tuesday, Cheney lost her primary election to Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman in one of the most-watched races of this midterm cycle, marking an end to her three-term tenure in Congress. Shortly after the primary was called for Hageman, Trump wrote on social media, “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others....

This would mean that Cheney, the committee’s Republican vice chair, agrees with Democratic Chairman Bennie Thompson’s reported plans to ask to meet with Thomas. Thomas has come under scrutiny in recent months over her alleged advocacy for overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Calls for the House committee to subpoena Thomas were renewed Thursday following reports that she emailed John Eastman, former President Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer....

El nuevo móvil plegable de Huawei vuelve a apostar por un diseño de plegado hacia adentro y, además, ahora cuesta algo menos que los modelos anteriores. Se nota que la marca quiere ganarse un sitio dentro del mercado de los plegables, aunque el Galaxy Z Fold 3 de Samsung sigue siendo más barato. Esto es todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el Mate Xs 2. ¿Cuándo saldrá a la venta el Huawei Mate Xs 2?...

Como suele ser habitual, se trata de una evolución respecto al modelo anterior, por lo que los cambios son los esperados: un procesador algo más rápido y el doble de almacenamiento (32 GB o 64 GB). También viene con 2 GB de RAM en vez de 1,5 GB y además ahora es compatible con wifi 802.11ac en vez de wifi 802.11n. Otro cambio significativo de la versión anterior de 2018 es que se usa un puerto de carga USB C, y no el antiguo (y molesto) puerto microUSB....

The lockdown measures were initially supposed to conclude Tuesday at 5 a.m. local time, Reuters reported. The city did not say how long the extension would last. While many countries are transitioning into a pandemic phase in which they hope to learn to live with the virus in some capacity rather than eradicating it, China has largely stayed on course with its tough mitigation measures. The massive testing effort and corresponding deployment of medical personnel to Shanghai was China’s largest-scale public health initiative since the first coronavirus wave in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic, according to Reuters....

Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings confirmed that congressional campaigns for the southern state’s four candidates—incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, as well as Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock—received roughly $340 million, collectively, over the course of that two-month period. Donors based in California provided the most substantial contributions to Ossoff, Warnock and Loeffler’s campaigns, compared with those based in any other U.S. state. Nearly $32 million in funds given to the three candidates came from Golden State supporters....

The Mariners first baseman went yard in the bottom of the 11th inning to give his team a 4-3 win over the Athletics on Friday and his team had a special way of thanking him. MORE: John Axford’s son’s cute first pitch | A-Rod is actually likeable | Best batting stances While doing his postgame interview, Morrison was doused in Gatorade — OK, normal — and then Nelson Cruz wandered up with a full trash can and dumped the contents all over the hero....

This past week Paul was part of Andrew Schulz’s podcast Flagrant, during which he discussed his threats to sue Floyd Mayweather for what he believes to be owed pay for their 2021 exhibition match. Paul has alleged that Mayweather owes him a significant amount, something Mayweather has appeared to acknowledge in the past by saying that it “takes a while” to pay boxers after matches. RELATED: Logan Paul Insists He is Going to Run for President in 2032...

Paul teamed up with The Miz to take on the father-son duo of Rey and Dominik Mysterio in the third match-up at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Saturday. Despite being booed, Paul seemed at home in the ring and performed well alongside two former WWE champions. The social media star was able to pummel Dominik with a power slam and a bulldog off the top ropes. As the bout drew to a close, Paul picked up for a skull-crushing finale winning the victory for himself and The Miz....