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At different times Cameroon and Brazil have spoken of their countries love for dancing. Call it coincidence or what you will but on Thursday when Brazil, Cameroon, Switzerland and Serbia start in the World Cup, FIFA presented Roger Milla to the Al Janoub Stadium. Embolo puts up his hands apologetically after scoring Switzerland s first goal REUTERS In a smart suit stanley bottles , head shaved, the man whose jig by the corner-flag gave another dimension to celebrating World Cup goals strode out with FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Sameul Etoo who now heads the Cameroon federation. Looking visibly emotional, Milla received a framed certificate from FIFA for being the World Cups oldest goalscorer at 42 years and 39 days in 1994. Milla, 70, then walked with his certificate towards the Cameroon fans. A Cameroon-born player did score but there was no celebration because Breel Embolo now represents Switzerland. Embolos 48th minute strike helped Switzerland open their campaign in Group G with a 1-0 win here on Thursday. At a stadium w stanley cupe ith a retractable roof whose architecture is reminiscent of dhows, it was enough. Song, a player with the experience of four World Cup finals stanley tumbler and who was appointed in the recommendation of the countrys president Paul Biya last February, had also spoken of Switzerland seeing our fire. Switzerland did get an early taste of it when Bryan Mbeumo, a France youth international who forsook his citizenship to play for Cameroon because Etoo requested him too Rzdk Govt clears 679-member Indian contingent for Asiad
Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel ran away with Chinese Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday to plant his Red Bull on pole position for a likely season-opening hat-trick of wins. HT Image The 23-year-old German, gunning for his fifth win in a row dating back to last November, nailed his fourth successive pole with so big a margin that McLaren s Jenso stanley mug n Button felt he might as well not have bothered trying to beat him. We did it again but stanley termoska I tried to keep reminding myself and the team as w stanley cup spain ell that every single time it s tough, Vettel, winner in Australia and Malaysia for a perfect score of 50 points, told reporters after his lap of one minute 33.706 seconds. Button, the 2009 champion who won at the Shanghai circuit last year after Vettel also took pole position for that race, needed no reminding. He was seven tenths of a second slower in securing the other slot on the front row. The Briton did one lap more than team mate Lewis Hamilton, who completed a trio of champions in the top three slots, in the final third stage of qualifying but that also left his compatriot with one more set of fresh tyres for the race. Sebastian was just too fast...if I had realised Sebastian was seven tenths up the road, maybe I would have thought again, he said. While Vettel celebrated his 18th career pole, team mate Mark Webber was left staring at 18th place on the grid and wondering where his luck had gone. The Australian had to sit out most of final practice in the morn |
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