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Gibraltarian Umpire Nathan Stagnohas been named FIH umpire of theyear.

Immediately on the announcement being madeThe GIbraltar Hockey Association send out itscongratulations said "The GHA congratulatesNathan on yet another fantastic achievementand wish him all the best for the Olympics inRIO."

Nathan had been unaware of the award justhours before it was made public in Gibraltar.The local umpire had been attending a Fitnessawareness campaign organised by BaysideSchool, on his departure the announcementwas made public.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who himself hadattended the fitness awareness campaign whenStagno had been present, later said: ‘Nathanhas been a stellar example of our communityfor a very long time. In 2012 he was asked toumpire at the London Olympics and in 2014 Ihad the honour of awarding him the GibraltarMedallion of Distinction for his outstandingachievements when umpiring the final of theHockey World Cup in Holland. In December2015 he was presented with his Golden Whistleon the occasion of officiating in his 100th inter-national match in Raipur, India. Nathan hasalso been appointed to umpire at the 2016Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whichwill be his last international match before hiswell-earned retirement. I am sure the whole ofGibraltar will share in my pride in Nathan beingnamed as the FIH Men’s Umpire of the Year, afantastic achievement and a testament to hisoutstanding career’.

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The European Athletics federation have thisweek hosted a seminar onboard the luxuryfloating hotel the Sunborn in Gibraltar.

The European Athletic Association (alsoknown as European Athletics) is the govern-ing body for athletics in Europe. The associ-ation consists of 51 national members andis one of six Area Associations of theworld's athletics governing body, the Inter-national Association of Athletics Federations(IAAF).

Svein Arne Hansen its current president metwith Minister Steven Linares and GAAAChairman Frank Carreras where they held apress conference together.

Hansen welcomed the fact that the seminarhad been held in Gibraltar, pointing out theimportance of Gibraltar as one of the 51 na-tional members within the association'sranks.

Whilst congratulating Gibraltar on its facili-ties he did nevertheless point out that in dis-cussions with Sports Minister Linares he hadbeen promised that a new track would be fit-ted in the very near future as part of theoverall upgrading of facilities in order to holdthe Small Island Games in Gibraltar. He fur-ther added that his biggest pleasure was theinvestment that existed in sports facilities,

pointing out that whilst other cities were bigthey did not have some of the facilities thatexisted in Gibraltar.

Significantly the European Athletics presi-dent pointed out that Gibraltar, who was al-ready due to host the Island Games in 2019,should aspire to host athletics meets at aEuropean level, suggesting that its presentfacilities could cater for Youth championship,third division or even junior championships.Claiming there was a potential for meetingsin Gibraltar as it already had a good stadiumadding "Please apply."

Asked by the local press if he would backGibraltar's application Hansen said that hewould.His response seemingly getting thenod of approval from both the Chairman ofthe GAAA and Minister for Sports who wereat the press conference as he made his re-marks.

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Gibraltar Hockey Told SpanishActions Outside EuropeanHockeys RemitThe Gibraltar Hockey Association havetonight commented publicly to reports thatthe Spanish Hockey Federation has warnedSpanish clubs they will be sanctioned if theyplay against Gibraltar sides, play with play-ers from Gibraltar or play in Gibraltar.In a statement issued this evening theystate:- “Please see below Press release onbehalf of the Gibraltar Hockey Association.In December 2015 the GHA received vari-ous emails from our contacts in Andaluciawhich had been sent to them by the SpanishHockey Federation (“RFEH”) the text ofwhich is set out below.

In brief, the RFEH claimed to have beencontacted by the EHF who noted thatmatches involving Andalucian and Gibraltar-ian clubs were being played in Gibraltar andSpain.

They further sent a memo from the consejosuperior de deportes banning all sportingcontact with Gibraltar also set out below andthreatening sanctions for non compliance. The GHA immediately referred this matterto the EHF who undertook to investigate. Inbrief their findings are the following :

1. The EHF categorically deny notifying theRFEH of any matches being played involv-ing Gibraltarian and Spanish clubs.

2. The EHF support the efforts and cooper-ation between Gibraltar Hockey and Andalu-cia Hockey and fully encourage therelationship to continue to grow.

3. Unfortunately, the below is a National

measure imposed by the consejo superiorde deportes on it’s sporting associations andoutside of the remit of the EHF.

4. The EHF hopes the matter is resolvedsoon and Gibraltarian and Andalucian clubscontinue to enjoy their traditional sportingfriendship.

In addition we are aware that several clubsin Andalucia are lobbying their local authori-ties to tackle this issue, which also has sig-nificant consequences for them. They arefully aware that they have been misled bythe RFEH as no notification was made bythe EHF. We suspect that the visit of theEHF President to Gibraltar in October mayhave triggered this action by the Consejo /RFEH in retaliation for the press coveragethat it attracted.

We will provide further updates in duecourse. ”


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The latest manifestations bythe Spanish Hockey Federa-tion against Gibraltar hockeyhas come as a reality checkto the sporting community inGibraltar, one which high-lights that it cannot sit on itslaurels for too long and getcomfortable as Spain will mixpolitics with sports, deliber-

ately.

As the President of theGibraltar Hockey Associationhas highlighted the lateststream of events whilst tar-geting hockey, mainly due tothe simple fact it’s the Span-ish Hockey Federation thathas issued the warnings, the

fact is that the SpanishHockey Federation has onlyrepeated the Consejo Supe-rior de Deportes globalwarnings to ALL sporting bod-ies, clubs, associations andorganisation over the partici-pation of Gibraltarians, orGibraltar related entities orevents alongside Spanish

Its not justhockey! EHF President in Gibraltar - the

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entities or events.

Coincidentally, as someobservers point out, the warn-ings coming at a time when

1) The European HockeyAssociation President hadvisited Gibraltar when Span-ish clubs were participating inGibraltar

2) This also highlighting thatGibraltarians were involved inthe active participation of thesport in Spain, as individualplayers,

3) just weeks before a Span-ish General Election in whichthe Governing party at thetime, the PP, had been pre-dicted to be in a weakposition.

This has led many to believethat warnings, which have notbeen acted upon previouslyalthough in existence, were adeliberate manifestation ofpolitical discontent and anattempt to pacify the politicalarm by being seem to havetaken some sort of action.

The news comes as little sur-prise to the sports fraternityas it is not the first, or proba-bly the last time that suchactions have been seen,Football, Athletics, Rugbyand now hockey have allbeen affected in the decadeslong of battles where politicshas been mixed with sport.Where Spanish federationshave campaigned againstGibraltar within the interna-tional sports arena,pressured and influenced by

Spain's political arm.

Yet, it is not an insurmount-able battle.

Football proved that whilstSpain might continue mixingsport with politics a concertedcampaign can overcomeobstacles, as was provedwhen Gibraltar, against Span-ish wishes, and againstSpain's campaign against it,were accepted into UEFAafter decades waiting.

As far back as 1999 suc-cesses against Spanishpolitical campaigns againstGibraltar's sportsmen andwomen can be seen.

Representatives from eightlocal sports associationsjoined forces (athletics, bad-

Spanish teams competed in Gibraltar at the time of the visit

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minton, boxing, cricket,hockey, ju jitsu, squash andtable tennis) after a call fromthen athlete Paul Ignacio, tocampaign jointly followingthe difficulties encountered byathlete Liam Byrne and thenGAAA chairman, FreddieChappory, when theyattended the InternationalAthletics Championships heldin Seville.

The results was that Gibraltargained the support from theAthletics community witheven the prestigious GB teamstanding side by side withGibraltarian athletes. Suchwas the success that thisvery week the European Ath-letics Association committeeheld their seminar in Gibral-tar, and have even indicatedthat Gibraltar could host, if it

wished and with their support,European championshipmeetings at youth or juniorlevel. The only factor theywere taking into accountbeing the facilities, and notthe politics.

Spain's campaign againstGibraltar has resulted innumerous occasions in whichGibraltar has been denied thesame level playing field to bea part of the global sportingcommunity at various sport-ing levels, or sports.

Gibraltar Rugby is one of theclearest examples of theCSD's campaign againstGibraltar's sporting fraternity.In its own website, and datingback to 2013 the CSD con-gratulates the Spanish Rugbyfederation for its success in

blocking Gibraltar Rugby'sentry into the European Asso-ciation. It describes acampaign which was aimedat influencing the vote againstGibraltar, who althoughobtaining the majority votewere unable to becomemembers as they did notreach the required number ofvotes to enter. The meremention, in an article in theCSD's own official website ofthis fact highlights the impor-tance placed by the politicalarm of Spanish sports ineffectively trying to indiscrim-inately stop Gibraltar'ssporting people from practis-ing their sport freely as part oftheir sovereignty campaign toregain Gibraltar and not allowits development as a "nation".

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flaws, and even in hockeythey have been found vulner-able to the very fact thatSpain proclaims itself as ademocracy and therefore itsown laws can prevent themfrom enacting the warningsthey have issued. Flawswhich have been tested bysporting bodies more thanwilling to ignore the politicsand merely continue downthe sporting route.

Not only have Gibraltarianplayers registered with Span-ish teams in recent months,they have played in Spanishleagues, not just in hockey,but in Football, Athletics andRugby. Sports lawyers repre-senting some Spanish clubshave questioned the regula-tions and demonstrated that

they cannot be enforcedupon individuals. WhilstSpain has been able to blockteams from playing friendlymatches against Gibraltarianteams, through threats morethan legitimate action, theyhave not been able to stopthe registration of Gibraltariansportspeople in events inSpain or Spanish leagueswhen representing Spanishclubs. The very nature of thediscriminatory nature of theregulations have been raisedand have seen clubs takingon and supporting Gibraltar-ian players within their ranks.

Even their attempt to stop allcontact with Gibraltar's sportshas failed where even in foot-ball there has been friendlymatches taking place

between regional clubs andGibraltarian clubs, even thewomen's national team. Themost recent announcementmade at the end of the yearthat a selection from Gibraltarwill participate in a friendlymatch against San Roque, inSpain. Rare though it's beenGibraltarian footballers haveventured to play in Spain.Most recently, the transfermarket itself has seen aninflux of Spanish players, reg-istered in Spain, moving toclubs in Gibraltar, directlyfrom Spanish clubs.

Similar occurrences exist inother sports such as basket-ball where a Gibraltarianplays in the Spanish leagues,and tennis where a Gibraltar-ian is actively participating


Statement from the Govern-ment of Gibraltar “HMGoGSupports Gibraltar HockeyFederation Her Majesty’sGovernment of Gibraltarnotes the clarification of theEuropean Hockey Federationin respect of the ban on sport-ing contact between Gibraltar-ian and Spanish clubs. TheGovernment fully and entirelysupports the Gibraltar HockeyFederation in such actions asit deems appropriate to undothis clear and unacceptablediscrimination against ourhockey community.Once again Spain mixes poli-tics with sport in a most inap-propriate manner.


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tournaments in Spain.

The Consejo Superior deDeportes instructions, whilsta major threat to the aspira-tions of good relationsbetween Gibraltar sports bod-ies and Spanish sportsbodies is not somethingwhich even sports organisa-tions in Spain support. InDecember, and one of thereasons for Spain's latest out-burst, was the visit from twoSpanish regional clubs toGibraltar, to participate in amini tournament, which wasvisited by the EuropeanHockey President.

Flying the Spanish flag,alongside the Gibraltar flagfrom the Victoria Stadium,and both teams in full knowl-

edge that their presence inGibraltar was not acceptableto CSD eyes, the tournamentwent ahead with playersundeterred. It was a clearaction of unity among sportsbodies from both sides of theborder, a unity which ifexpanded upon could lead tothe total rejection of theSpanish political arms inter-ference in sports relations.

At least two Andalusian clubshave also enlisted Gibraltar-ian players into their teams,this done at the same timethe warnings were issued,and with the knowledge in atleast one case that the politi-cal arm of Spanish sportswas not in approval of thisfact.

Whilst the European HockeyFederation has this weekbeen revealed not to have aremit to stop Spanish policiesagainst Gibraltar at a nationallevel, due to the fact that theyare based on a national pol-icy which they can implementin Spain. Their rulings againstindividuals and clubs whenplaying at official internationaltournaments cannot be read-ily enforced.

Whilst they can stop friendlymatches from taking place inSpain, by imposing the threatof disciplinary and fiscal pun-ishments, the SpanishFederation would find it diffi-cult to implement their rulingon matches played outsidetheir territory as they have nomandate or jurisdiction to

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impose such bans. Theseare the views of manysports observers who areclosely monitoring the lat-est events relating tohockey.

Coresportgib, furtherunderstands that theirpolicies, after beingreviewed by sportslawyers in Spain support-ing Gibraltarian playersalready playing in Spain,cannot be enforced onindividuals as it would bediscriminatory against theindividual.

The registration of at leastthree Gibraltarians inSpanish regional leaguesis seen as highlightingsuch a fact. The players,who are already plyingtheir sport in Spain, havebeen officially accepted toparticipate in Spanishleagues, this being atrend which has beenseen on numerous occa-sions, even though theConsejo Superior deDeportes instructionsdate back decades.

This very week, Cores-portgib, understands thewarnings are to be testedwith at least one clubmaking direct representa-tions to find out what theactual position is in rela-tion to their registeredplayer. The player inquestion, who has askedto remain unnamed forthe time being, alreadyscheduled to play both at

a regional and interna-tional level for his clubwithin the coming weeks,having already playedleague and tournamentmatches for his club.

The European Hockey'sposition on the matter, atinternational levels isalready seemingly clear.Their latest commentsshows that whilst theycannot act on nationalbodies decision withintheir own country, at aninternational level theyare not participants of thedecision. This was offi-cially demonstrated whenearlier this month Gibral-tarian officials weregrouped with Spanishofficials for forthcomingtournaments, with theadded likelihood that theirtop umpire, who happensto be from Gibraltar, mightofficiate finals in whichSpain itself might be oneof the participants.

As one local hockey offi-cial indicated toCoresportgib only thisweek whilst the Europeanbody cannot act onnational policies, there issupport within the Span-ish sporting fraternity tostep forward and chal-lenge the policies, in thesame manner somesporting bodies, clubsand associations havealready done across amultitude of sporting plat-forms.

Other incidents

2001 - Gibraltar stopped fromrepresenting itself under Gibral-tar banner in the BadmintonWorld Team Championship inSeville the matter was taken toCAS.

2006 - The Spanish governmentbanned a bowling alley inBarcelona from hosting Euro-pean championships because ateam from Gibraltar was due tocompete

July 2011 - Gibraltar boys foot-ball team are booed and haveflag seized and banned fromopening ceremony

2013 - Spain campaigns toblock Gibraltar Rugby entry intoEuropean body

MEP Supports HockeyMEP for Gibraltar, Julie Girling,has pledged her support follow-ing Spain’s ban of their hockeyclubs having contact withhockey clubs on the Rock. Ms.Girling says she heard the newswith dismay and describesSpain’s decision as ludicrous.

Sport, she says, is a fantasticway of bringing people togetherand this discrimination from theSpanish should not be toler-ated.


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Paul Ignacio, former Road Racing championin Gibraltar and who in 1999 led a campaignthat saw all sports bodies in Gibraltar uniteand the Great Britain Athletics teams supporta campaign to stop Spain from stopping aGibraltarian from competing in the WorldChampionships has called for sports bodiesin Gibraltar to once again join forces to cam-paign against Spain's continued policiesagainst Gibraltar's sports men and women.

In 1999 Ignacio launched a campaign whichsaw most main sporting bodies in Gibraltarjoin forces to lobby their international organ-isations to support a Gibraltarian athletefrom competing in the World Championshipsin Seville. The campaign led to members ofthe Great Britain team standing in full sup-port of the athlete, even indicating that theywould remove themselves if the athlete was

not allowed to compete.

The campaign itself opened some newdoors to new relations being gained not justat an international level, but also at a re-gional level as sports bodies from evenSpain ventured to challenge Spanish politi-cal manifestations in sport and insteadforged better relations with sports in Gibral-tar. Doors which had already been openedin some quarters but were further re-openedas the campaign took an international per-spective.

Speaking to Coresportgib this week PaulIgnacio was asked to comment on the latestwarnings issued by Spain over Gibraltar'shockey.

. "Sports should have No Frontiers and

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Spain must be reminded ofthis at Sporting level. Withthe current attitude takenby the Spanish HockeyFederation, Politiciansshould keep away theyshould just protest and nottake further action, the Eu-ropean Federation can in-vestigate as they wish thequestion is will Spain re-spect the decision if theyfound to be on contraven-tion of any rule for discrim-ination. All I would say isin parallel locally we mustthrough all sporting asso-ciations and bodies link upwith our counterparts andcolleagues and urge themto stand up to Sportsshould have No Frontiers,Sports should not allowPolitical interference de-spite race, colour or na-tionality .

Back in 1999 when Spaindecided yet again preventa local athlete to competein a World Championshipwe reached out to ourcounterparts in UK and inturn other European coun-terparts lobbied about thewrongful action, Spainwas exposed again wecame through our athleteparticipated. The SpanishHockey Federation mightsuggest they will take ac-tion against those that goagainst their direction sowhat Clubs/Players give into this intimidation, stand-ing united and getting

sport across a wide spec-trum will create the soli-darity to show up theFederation and give thosethat want to enjoy a gamewith us or make us part oftheir team feel they are notalone on this one we standup to THE FEDERATION asONE. SPORTS WITHOUTFRONTIERS"

Similar calls have beenmade from local sports bod-ies and individuals who havehighlighted that any cam-paign to proactively counterSpain's policies againstGibraltar's sporting fraternityrequires the support fromSpanish counterparts.

The call for SPORTS WITH-OUT FRONTIERS has seenother local sports bodies andpersonalities express theirsupport for all sports bodiesto join together and proac-tively campaign as one, with-out the influence orinterference from politics.

James Parody, also a for-mer athlete who in 1999was also part of the cam-paign group when askedto comment on Paul Igna-cio's call for unity ex-pressed his support forthe initiative stating " Ihave always said Sportsand Politics shouldn't mixbut in my opinion those in-volved in politics shouldsupport the sports menand women without ex-

pecting anything in returnSpanish politics have al-ways been against Gibral-tar being recognized as anindependent Sporting or-ganization so what hashappened to the GibraltarHockey association isnothing new but I agree allsporting associations inGibraltar should unite andgather support includingfrom their Spanish coun-terparts to support ourright to participate and berecognized as a team rep-resenting Gibraltar be it asan individual, a independ-ent team or the Nationalteam"

The call for unity, whichCoresportgib also posted onits facebook page has seennumerous sporting individu-als and entities already stepforward voicing their supportpublicly.

Gibraltar United keeperGoldwyn speaking toCoresportgib said "Sportsand politics shouldn't mixin my opinion whether itshockey, football, basket-ball or any other sport!Sports is something thatshould be enjoyed byeveryone regardless ofyour nationality! Sportsbrings people together."Most significantly, thefootball fraternity steppedforward immediately tooffer their support.

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Dennis Beiso, General Sec-retary of the Gibraltar Foot-ball Association added hisimmediate support behindthe Gibraltar Hockey Associ-ation and calls for a unitedfront from all sporting bodiesto campaign against theSpanish Hockey Federationsban on Gibraltar Hockey.

Responding to Coresportgibrequest to comment onwhether the GFA would com-ment on a call for unity Den-nis Beiso, General Secretaryof the GFA did not hesitate todemonstrate his support.

In an official statement bythe Gibraltar Football As-sociation it states " TheGibraltar FA has takennote of the statement is-sued yesterday by theGibraltar Hockey Associa-tion in relation to theSpanish Hockey Federa-tion's prohibition (appar-ently followinginstructions from theSpanish Government'sConsejo Superior de De-portes) on all forms ofsporting contact betweenSpanish and Gibraltarianhockey teams.

The Gibraltar FA places onrecord its total support forthe Gibraltar Hockey Asso-ciation in its efforts to getthe European Hockey Fed-eration to redress this un-acceptable situation and

thus ensure that the Euro-pean hockey family, ofwhich the GHA has beenan integral and proud partfor many years, remainsfree from any type of polit-ical interference."

Affecting all sports Cores-portsgib asked one of Gibral-tar's top swimmers JonathanCruz who also added hisvoice to calls of unity, com-menting to Coresportgib,that like in 1999 he wouldsupport any such campaignwhere sportsmen andwomen come together andproactively continue thecampaign together to allowGibraltar's sports men andwomen to participate in sportwithout the interference frompolitics.

Coresportgib, for its partsupports the call for a unitedfront.

Editor Stephen Ignaciocommenting, "The call fora SPORTS WITHOUTFRONTIERS campaign,where all sporting bodies,including those which canbe gathered from outsideGibraltar is one whichlocal sporting bodiesshould consider carefully.

Politics has no place insports, but it’s the sports-men and women fromGibraltar and Spain whomust unite as one and

demonstrate that sports isabove politics. It does notmatter what our politicaldifferences are, or whatour national differencesare we cannot allow thereto be an "aparthied" insport purely on thegrounds of a historicalclaim over a territorywhich has gone over 300years without a shift inpostures. This is anAparthied in sports, andthe sports communityaround the world must re-alise, but only those inSpain can really effectchange by challenging it.And we must be willing tosupport them if they do, inwhich ever form or way wehave to, but importantlywe must show open armsto our sports colleagues inSpain to show we are notfighting them, but the poli-tics which interfere. Wewould like to see oursports bodies and organi-sations meeting to discussways ahead for all sportsto benefit from a concertedeffort, and as part of themedia industry, we wouldcall on all the media tooffer their support to pro-mote the idea of SPORTSWITHOUT FRONTIERS.”

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Football

Having lost 6-0 to Glacis only seven daysbefore, and with not one single point gainedsince the New Year Lions were out to prove thatthey were still far from finished.

The first half saw Lions take possession of theball keeping Britannia within most of the firsthalf. The latter only making a few rare runsforward as Lions dominated play.

It was in one of this Britannia breaks forwardthat a clearance from the Lions defence caughtBritannia's defence out. With the ball takenforward onto goal and struck home by RomeroJimenez as they approached the first 30minutes.

The match remained unchanged by the goal

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with Britannia only stridingforward on long passes andbreaks.

The second half saw a changein tune as Britannia pressedforward, this time with Lionspinned back into their own area.Britannia, nevertheless had fewchances at goal. Their fortunesalso turning for the worse whenRisto Kago received a direct redcard. Something that even theBritannia keeper was not happyabout shouting out "not again,every single game," referring tothe number of times the sameplayer had been send off duringthe season.

Even down to ten men,Britannia remained for most ofthe second half with the mainpossession of the ball. Theirprodding at Lions defenceresulting in few chances as thematch became a dull frenetic,hard tackling affair in the centreof the field.

It was not until around the lastten minutes, that the tired legsof Britannia felt the absence ofthat extra man. Lions strodeforward using the flanks as away to break down the Britanniadefence. The latter's keeper,who had not really been tested,was called upon to come out ofhis box on several occasions toclear the danger with his feet. Inone of these clearances he wasseen controlling the ball with hisarm, an action the officialsmissed.

Lions win takes them to fourthplace whilst Britannia drop downto 5th.


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match details

Starting lineup• Szpilczynski • Pacheco Exposito • Rodriguez • Trends • Rodriguez (c) • Gines • Castano (Santos - 82) • Narvaez • Gonzalez • Gonzalez (Perez - 73) • Romero Jimenez (Lopez Luque -58)

Substitutes

• Catania • Green • Fernandez Cuesta • Perez • Santos • Lopez Luque • Vinales

Scorer• Romero Jimenez 29

Lions(1)Starting lineup• Barnfather Marfe • Dos Santos (Hastings - 88) • Comino • Graham (c) • Alt (Sansolini - 45) • Pizarro (Mendoza - 60) • Onega • Kago • Breakspear • Jimenez • Gilroy

Substitutes

• Mendoza • Reyes • Sansolini • Hastings

Courtesy of GFA

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Football

Lynx latestvictim ofGlacis

Lynx latestvictim ofGlacis If there was any doubts in people'sminds that Glacis United's six nilvictory was just a blip in the firstdivision scope, Glacis were out toprove otherwise in their clash withLynx.

Lynx tipped at the start of the seasonto be amongst the top four, came intothe match knowing that Lions, with asimilar record to them had beenhumiliated by a refreshed Glacissquad, hammered six nil last Monday.Lynx themselves have brought in newsignings who proved invaluable lastweek to get all three points againstGibraltar United.

The Glacis v Lynx match was to see

the small crowd, some two hundredpeople, excited as both teams offeredend to end action, with very littlebetween the two, except for thepresence of newly signed number 24Lopez. The front man was to becomethe star of the match as he torethrough the Lynx defence, causing allkinds of problems.The first attack came from Lynx whowon a corner. Javi Chicodemonstrating early on he was athreat from set pieces, putting the balljust over the crossbar as he took thecorner.

Glacis responded immediately withtheir own attack, with Barletta seeinghis shot saved by Gibraltar national


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keeper Robba.

The match went from end to endwith Lynx piling the pressure onGlacis defence only to see the twoGlacis Ruescas, Pineda andPuertas, clear everything thrown atthem, cancelling out RobertGuilings threat down the flank. Glacis newly refreshed frontline,including Lopez, Barletta andCortes Narvaez once againcombined to tear down theoppositions flanks with quickflowing counterattacking widepasses and runs into the defenceover and over again.

After numerous chances at bothends the first half ended indeadlock.

The second half saw Lynx lean onGlacis defence, taking back mostof the initial possession andcontrol, something Glacis seemedcontent to allow as they continuedto plunge forward with their owncounter attacks. The second halfseeing only Lopez staying up frontthroughout. This proved to be aheadache to Lynx's defences as heconsistently prodded their defence,running at every ball, with severalattempts at goal as he wonpossession or forced open gapswhich were then filled by his owncolleagues supporting his forwardruns.

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Glacis went ahead. Entering the 50thminute mark Lynx were caught out whenLopez intercepted a pass pushing the ballto Tirado who was running unmarked onthe right. A quick pass back from Tirado toLopez as the Lynx defenders were caughtout left Lopez on a one on one againstRobba inside the penalty area. Lopezcurled the ball around the oncoming Robbaand to the near post as the latter came outto block.

With Glacis one nil ahead Lynx pushedforward, only to see Lopez make anotherbreak within minutes, this time getting ayellow card for allegedly diving as he wastackled inside the penalty area.

With Lynx looking for a goal, and Guilinghaving been effectively zone marked out ofthe match by Glacis defence, Parody madea change bringing on Akrapovic on the65th minute. The latter's first touch endedin a miscued shot at goal from just outsidethe area. Within seconds Glacis were luckynot to concede as a cross from a foulended with goalkeeper Carlin beaten andRuesca Pineda clearing off the line. As Lynx continued to press forward, onceagain Lopez proved to be a nemesis,breaking free onto goal, once again on aone on one with Robba, his strike this timecoming off the post.

Glacis continued for the rest of the matchabsorbing the pressure at the back, leavingLopez alone upfront to cause havoc onLynx's defence on counter, as the rest ofthe team kept a tight defensive position.As the whistle blew for full time the Glacisbench jumped in jubilation celebrating as ifthey had won a cup final. A 1-0 win againstLynx was considered a major milestone fora team whose season had started withouta single victory in the first ten matches.


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match details

Starting lineup

• Robba • Villegas Mena • Vargas • Jolley (Hassan - 61) • Sanchez Rodriguez • Guiling (c) (Akrapovic - 65) • Santos • Campoy (Cuby - 53) • Sastrie • Doxagarat • Montenegro

Substitutes

• Akrapovic • Hassan • Cuby • Leogh • Vela • Martin • Gutierez Albizu

Lynx (0)Starting lineup

• Carlin • Ruesca Pineda • Ardanaz Garcia • Ruesca Puertas (Arillo - 81) • Cortes Narvaez (Nunez - 61) • Gil Bado • Tirado • Lopez • Pereyra (c) • Barletta (Del Rio Fernandez - 72) • Funes

Substitutes

• Jimenez Sempere • Mendez Oliva • Del Rio Fernandez • Mendez Utrera • Nunez • Horner Garcia • Arillo

Scorer• Lopez 58

Courtesy GFA

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Football

Europa saw their season'shopes of a place in theChampions League first roundqualifiers fade even further asthey stumbled to Manchester 62for a one all draw, bringing theirtally to five points lost in Januaryalone.

Europa's fortunes were turnedwhen their defensive midfielderIvan Moya was sent off afterdeemed to have struck Shaun deLos Santos with his flailing arm.Europa who had most of thepossession in the first part of thegame, bombarded Manchester62's area and controlled themidfield possession from thestart. The departure of Moya sawthem re-organise themselves.Javi Martinez, who had beenbreaking through the flanksmoved into the centre for a whileas they reformed their lines.Later returning to his flank afterthe half time break.

Manchester with the one manadvantage still found it difficult ingetting back possession, theirdefensive duo of Sergeant andHoesken clearing the dangerand keeping command at theback as Europa demonstrated

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their physical strength inmaintaining the pressure on.

Manchester seemed to have optedto absorb the pressure from thestart of the match, using longpasses and breaking runs to causeproblems at the other end. Evenwith their advantage, Manchesterdid not adopt a new game plan.Instead they continued to run theball forward on breaks and longpasses, keeping little possession inthe centre against a Europa teamthat kept pressing forward andkeeping possession in midfield tomaintain their quick short pass playbefore breaking down the flanks orsteam through the centre.

The second half saw more of thesame, with Manchester absorbingthe pressure defensively as Europakept possession of the ball andcontinued to lunge forward lookingfor goal. Manchester still reliant onthe long pass and quick break toreach Moya's penalty area.

In one of the many breaks fromdefence Manchester saw a goaldisallowed as Hernandezrummaged forward trying to getpast two defenders. Sandwichedbetween the two Europa defendersHernandez found the ball aftermomentarily losing it and struck itpast keeper Munoz only to see thelinesman wave for offside to hisdismay.

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Quillo strike the ball into the topcorner of the goal and pastgoalkeeper Macedo for his first forEuropa.

Even one up and with ten men theEuropa professionals maintainedtheir pressure on Manchester,keeping possession of the balland making Manchester chaseafter the ball. It was not until thelast ten minutes and with JPDuarte coming on for Manchesterthat they begun to pile forward.

Manchester saw four shots at goalcleared from within the six yardbox in a matter of seconds, asthey literally threw everything atEuropa, only to see it thrown backout again to their obviousfrustration.

As the minutes ticked awayManchester won a throw-in. Theball was thrown into the dangerarea with the clearance from theEuropa defence falling to the feetof Manchester's defenderRovengo who struck the ballbefore it hit the ground, nailing itinto the back of the net for theequaliser and obviouscelebrations to follow.Europa, with seconds to go on theclock were unable to pick up andattempt a comeback, losing twofurther points, the gap with Lincolnnow widened to 8 points and theirhopes for a Champions Leaguequalifier fading further away.Europa have now dropped fivepoints this January, withManchester since the changes inmanager have seen their fortuneschange, regaining groundfollowing their poor start to theseason.


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match details

Starting lineup• Macedo • Rovegno • Sergeant • Payas • Toncheff Ferberovich (c) • Duran • Lopez (Duarte. JP - 60) • Yome (Victory - 65) • Hoefkens • Hernandez • De Los Santos

Substitutes

• Santos • Lopez. J • Duarte. JP • Cottrell • Victory • Mateo Perez

Scorers

• Rivas 59

Manchester 62 (1)Starting lineup• Arevalo (c) • Aguayo • Perez • Tornay • Leiva • Padal (Belfortti - 60) • Rodriguez • Toscano (Sotorrio - 45) • Mendez • Rivas (Barranco - 77) • Sanchez

Substitutes

• Cabezutto • Trofimenko • Cafer • Barranco • Sotorrio • Belfortti

Scorers

• Rivas 90

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A humiliating defeat was the least of Angelsproblems as they face rebuilding their teamafter the departure of half their squad includ-ing keeper Mateo and their manager duringthe week. The last team owner Edmondswould have wished to meet was Lincoln, andfor good reason following a 13-0 hammeringthey received.

Edmonds didn't have to be told Lincoln werethe biggest goal-scorers of the league, he

came with two replacements for Mateo, justin case, and he needed them.

Angels started the match showing some goodsigns. For the first 30 minutes of play theyseemed to have guardian angels in front ofgoal. From the very first two minutes newgoalkeeper Gonzalez had to make two savesas Lincoln showed their intent. The next 28minutes saw absorbed the pressure. Lincolnrunning in down the flanks and putting the ball

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deep into the centre on numerous occa-sions came against a defensive wall cre-ated by Angels blockading their path.Angels had parked the bus, the house andeverything they could find in front of goal tokeep Lincoln out.

For the first 30 minutes Angels looked likethe side that had once gone ahead two nilagainst Europa before being between bythe narrowest of margins. This was, how-ever, not the case.

It was not until the 34th minute that a rundown the left flank saw a deep cross intothe centre which was struck whilst in the airto goal by Casciaro (Kyle that is). The ballbouncing off the crossbar and into the backof the net for the first. The goal itselfseemed to be more of a miss kick than anaccurate delivery, but finding the hole in An-gels blockade. Lincoln had finally unlockedthe game.

Lincoln launched an assault on the weak-nesses they had found during the first thirtyminutes and to good effect. Just minutesafter the first Angels conceded a corner thatwas swung to the far post where it washeaded back in for Cabrera to header intothe back of the net. The Angels keeperslack of height seemed to have been notedand Lincoln were about to take advantageof his weaknesses and that of the defence.The 3-0 came from a break down the rightflank with a cross into the penalty area see-ing Abayian header the ball over the keeper,who had struggled to reach high balls.Half time came just on time for Angels withLincoln going for the fourth but seeing theball hit the post and bounce away from dan-ger.


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The second half started with Lincoln changingplay to the right flank, where they had causedthe most problems. Cabreras started to playa pivotal role within minutes with deepcrosses into the penalty area within minutesof the match resuming.

A cross from the right flank soon paid off asthe ball was picked up at the edge of the boxand lobbed over the keeper for the fourth.Lincoln were on a roll and hungry for moregoals. Angels conceded a freekick some tenmetres from the edge of the box. A quick chipover a surprised Angels defence left Cabrerahaving to outrun just one defender, left clearwith just the keeper to beat he shot low to theside of the keeper for the fifth.

Within minutes a break through the centresaw the ball passed to the right once againwhere it was crossed deep inside the penaltyarea where it is headed to goal. With thekeeper making a save the ball rebounds toAbayian who heads it in for the sixth.

Angels soon made a change of keeper bring-ing on the veteran Parody.

Within minutes of having come into the gameParody found his goal under assault again.The ball once again crossed from the right forAbayian to slot in at the post for the seventh.Lincoln were unstoppable, and hungry forgoals.

Angels defence was noticeably demoralisedwith even instructions from their replacementkeeper going unattended to. The result beinga freekick easily crossed into the centre foundAbayian too easily head into the back of thenet as the keeper tried to reposition himself toblock the header from the unmarked Abayian.The goal tally continued with yet another free-kick swung into the area to the far post whereCabreras controls and slots it past the keeperby the post for the ninth goal.

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ing a walk over. The tenth goal cameCalderon who placed a sidestep low shotpast Parody.

Not content with the double digit scorelineLincoln maintained their pressure, thistime Casciaro run into the area, outpacingseveral defenders before striking the ballhard into the back of the net and past Par-ody from the left side of the goal.

For some minutes Lincoln slowed downwith several attempts from outside thearea cleared or stopped by Parody, whoseemed to be under a constant barrage.

The long range shots soon paid their divi-dends as Chipolina struck from outside thepenalty area into a congested penalty box.the ball screaming past Parody who wasable to get his tips to the ball, but notenough to push the ball out. Lincoln now12-0 ahead.


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The match soon took a new turn as Angelscalled on the referee to ease off and arguedover all of the officials calls.Their new man-ager vociferously protested at the refereesdecisions and was soon warned . Secondslater the referee signalled him to exit instruct-ing him off pitchside as he continued his rants.With Lincoln slowing their own pace down agear or two, but still maintaining the pressurea shot from outside the area was saved byParody only to see the lurking Abayian gethold of the ball, and go around him as hedived to his feet for the thirteenth and finalgoal.

Former goalkeeper, Mateo, whose departureto Manchester 62 shocked the team, watchedthe match with sadness as he saw his formerteammates go down by 13-0

Lincoln entered the match six points aheadand having seen their transfer market valueincrease from £250,000 a fortnight ago to£1.8 million. Their goal tally giving them a sig-

nificant goal difference showing how theyhave been ensuring that all possible factorswhich could affect their position at the end ofthe season are treated with equal signifi-cance. With x number of hattricks in thismatch the depature of players such as Bar-don seems not to have affected their game-play.

Angels , at the bottom of the league, haveseen their season go from one nightmare toanother. This latest defeat further raising ex-pectations of relegation. The club which wasformed only two years ago is known to oper-ate on a very low budget, with players said tonot be paid a wage. Former players highlight-ing that even training sessions are non-exis-tence. New Ceuta manager today discoveringthat he faces a steep hill if he is to save theteam from relegation.

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match details

Starting lineup• Navas Paul • Garcia • Chipolina. J • Lopes (Soussi - 68) • Abayian • Casciaro.K • Cabrera • Torrilla • Chipolina. R (c) • Calderon (Clinton - 72) • Blasco (Britto - 60)

Substitutes• Casciaro. R • Freitas • Clinton • Soussi • Britto • Payas • Mena

Scorers• Casciaro.K 29• Cabrera 31• Abayian 33• Cabrera 48• Cabrera 50• Abayian 51• Abayian 59• Abayian 60• Cabrera 64• Calderon 65• Casciaro.K 67• Chipolina. J 72• Abayian 89

Lincoln (13)Starting lineup• Gonzalez (Nunez - 52) • Pino Moreno • Perez • Carrasco • Moreno Gomez (c) • Lara De La Chica (Hosken - 60) • Sereno • Bernal • Rios • Nunez • Arroyal •Substitutes• Villada Morente • Mena • Palomino Arguez • Nunez • Muino • Hosken

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Valiant display byGibraltar United, but not

enoughGibraltar United's fortunesturned on the (minute)when an off the ballinfraction was seen by theofficials leading to thesending off of DerekAsquez with a direct redcard.

The red and whites whohad absorbed St Joseph'sattack from the firstminutes now faced a freekick just outside thepenalty box with just tenmen against an attackingand determined StJoseph's.

The ball was swung goal-wards striking the far postfar from reach from theoutstretched keeper. Tothe his own surprise a halfvolley power drive isstruck back to goal,straight to the same farpost, far from the keepersreach as he is clamberingback up to his feet, by hisown defender Gallardo for


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an own goal.

Gibraltar United's woes increasedfurther as they went down to ninemen. Having used all substitutes,and with only a keeper replacementon the bench United were forced tocarry one short of men.

St Joseph's drove forward, pressingfor the second, but were not to haveit all their way. United absorbed thepressure well maintaining theirdefensive lines. With Montovio asthe lone attacker running at everybreak of the ball St Joseph's keeperJordan Perez was forced into twosaves from drives from outside thebox.

It was not until the 60th minute thatSt Joseph's increased their lead. Abreak through the centre saw the ballpassed back at the edge of the boxto Samaniego who drove apowershot to the far post away fromthe reach of El Chino.

A tiring Gibraltar United seethemselves holding back as the nineversus eleven battle wore themdown. St Joseph's, who hadstruggled to find the target as oftenas they would have liked were to seetheir attempts rewarded with twofurther goals in the last five minutes.The third coming as Verdejo toredown the left of and struck acrossgoal and into the back of the net onthe 83rd minute. The final goalcoming again from Verdejo who onceagain saw Gib United goal beatenfrom a low power drive from theedge of the box, this time from across into the box from the bye line. St Joseph completing a 4-0 win, andafter Sundays triumph by Glacis overLynx just three points safe from thepenultimate place in the league, heldby Glacis.


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match details

Starting lineup• Perez. J (c) • Torres (Negrette - 76) • Lobato Gonzalez • Verdejo • Cabello • Samaniego • Duran • Lopez • Prescott (Gomez Torres - 61) • Cortijo • Caretero (Enrique - 71)

Substitutes

• Enrique • Guiterrez • Negrette • Bakkari • Gomez Torres • Serra

Scorers

• Gallardo 36 (og)• Samaniego 60• Verdejo 83• Verdejo 85

St Joseph (4)Starting lineup• Goldwin • Montovio • Lopez (c) • Buhagiar • Robba • Asquez • Gallardo • Rumbo • Thomas • Ellul (Anes - 47) • Currer

Substitutes

• Borrell • Gilbert • Anes • Lopez

Courtesy GFA

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Football

First Division 2015/16 League Table after Match Day 14

Team P W D L GD PTSLincoln Red Imps FC 16 15 1 0 72 46Europa FC 16 12 2 2 25 38St.Joseph's FC 16 8 2 6 9 26Lions Gibraltar FC 16 8 2 6 5 26Lynx FC 16 8 2 6 5 26FC Britannia XI 16 7 2 7 3 23Manchester 62 FC 16 5 3 8 -5 18Gibraltar United FC 15 4 1 10 -29 13Glacis United FC 15 3 1 11 -33 10Angels FC 16 1 0 15 -52 3

All data, fixtures and results courtesy GFA

Abayian 14Casciaro.K 12Chipolina. J 11Casciaro. L 11Gines 10Padal 10Toncheff F 9Cabrera 8Diaz 7Montovio 7

First Division TopScorers This weekend’s matches

Friday 29th January |20:30 Lincoln Red Imps FCVS Manchester 62 FC

Saturday 30th January| 17:00 Europa FC VS FC Bri-tannia XI

Saturday 30th January| 19:30 Lynx FC VS LionsGibraltar FC

Sunday 31st January |16:30 Gibraltar United FC VSGlacis United FC



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Footballthe weeks results

Second Division 2015/16 League Table

Team P W D L GD PTSEuropa Point Fc 13 10 3 0 29 33Mons Calpe Sports Club 12 10 1 1 40 31Leo FC 12 9 1 2 24 28Gibraltar Phoenix FC 12 7 3 2 25 24FCB Magpies 13 7 2 4 15 23FC Olympique Gibraltar 13 6 1 6 -7 19Red Imps FC 11 4 0 7 3 12FC Hound Dogs 11 3 2 6 -15 11Cannons FC 13 3 1 9 -16 10Europa Pegasus 12 2 2 8 -18 8Football Club Boca Juniors 12 2 2 8 -24 8College 1975 FC 12 1 0 11 -56 3

Youth League - Under 1315/16

Friday 29th January | 16:50Manchester 62 FC U13 VSEuropa FC U13 White

Saturday 30th January |09:15 Lincoln FC U13 WestmedVS Europa FC U13 Black

Saturday 30th January |10:40 Lions FC U13 Jyske BankVS Lincoln FC U13 Argus

Saturday 30th January |12:05 Gibraltar United FC U13 Star

Of India VS Red Imps FCU13 Argus

Saturday 30th January |13:30 Lions FC U13 Roc-A-Graph-ics VS Manchester 62 FCU13 Red

Second division cupThursday 28th January |18:15 Football Club Boca JuniorsVS Gibraltar Phoenix FC

Thursday 28th January |20:30 Europa Point FC VS MonsCalpe Sports Club

Second Division fixtures

Sunday 31st January |18:30Cannons FC VS FCOlympique Gibraltar 13

Sunday 31st January |20:30Red Imps FC VS FC HoundDogs


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Women’s League 2015/16 League Table

Team P W D L GD PTSManchester 62 FC Women 10 9 0 1 23 27Lincoln Red Imps FC Women 10 5 2 3 15 17Lions Gibraltar FC women 11 5 2 4 9 17Europa FC Women 11 0 0 11 -47 0

Sunday 24th January | 17:00 Manchester 62 FC Women 0Lions Gibraltar FC Women 2

Saturday 23rd January | 17:00 Europa FC Women 2Lincoln Red Imps FC Women 6

Women’s Rock Cup NewsWomen's Rock Cup has now been drawn andthe games will be played as follows:

Saturday 30th January 2016 - Europa FC Womenv Lions Gibraltar FC Women

Saturday 27th February 2016 - Lincoln Red Imps FC Women v Manchester 62 FC Women

Saturday 19th March 2016 - Final (winners ofgame 1 v winners of game 2)

Youth League - Under 13 2015/16 League Table

Team P W D L GD PTS

Team P W D L GD PTSLincoln FC U13 Argus 10 10 0 0 59 30Lincoln FC U13 Westmed 10 8 1 1 47 25Manchester 62 FC U13 Red 10 7 1 2 38 22Lions FC U13 Jyske Bank 10 7 0 3 34 21Red Imps FC U13 Argus 9 6 0 3 27 18Manchester 62 FC U13 10 3 1 6 -20 10Europa FC U13 Black 10 3 0 7 -34 9Europa FC U13 White 8 2 1 5 -22 7Gibraltar United FC U13 Star Of India 9 2 0 7 -39 6Lions FC U13 Roc-A-Graphics 9 2 0 7 -43 6Europa FC U13 Green 9 0 0 9 -47 0


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Two referees are reported to havebeen disciplined over remarksmade in social media networksfollowing matches in the firstdivision. The two referees aresaid to have been given matchsuspensions after the GibraltarReferees Association tookimmediate action over publiccomments made in facebookfollowing an incident in whichreferees where accosted byEuropa fans. Neither of the tworeferees were part of the officialsinvolved in the match. Thesanctions are not the first timethe GRA has taken action againstofficials over comments made inpublic.

GSLA in co-operation with the GFAhave implement new securitymeasures at stadium for what aredeemed as potential hotspotmatches.

Lincoln Red Imps Futsal sidedon't turn up after some playersleft side to join 11 a side teams.

Former Angels goalkeeper Mateosfirst match for Manchester 62 is inthe reserve league against MonsCalpe.

Gibraltar National squad coachJeff Wood has featured in TheFootball Times online version.The full report can ve viewed athttp://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/01/26/jeff-wood-the-coach-bringing-gibraltar-in-from-the-cold/

Angels in talks over futureAs speculation over Angels FC future per-sists, with football observers questioningwhether the club will see the end of the sea-son, sources close to the club have indi-cated that recent changes in the club havealso seen potential investors seeking to takeover the club.

Coresportgib understands that the club ispresently in talks with a Brazilian investorwho is directly linked to the football transfermarket. The same person likely to bring innew blood into the squad from abroad if thediscussions conclude successfully beforethe end of the transfer window this week.

New signingAlberto Urdin Gonzalez and striker SalvaGarcia joins Lions whilst Britannia signTheo Pizarro and highly rated defenderThomas Hastings.

New addition to GibraltarUnitedGibraltar United siad they “are very happy toannounce the appointment of former GlacisUnited manager, Javi Sanchez, to the techni-cal team. Javi is no stranger to the localfootball scene and his appointment showshow the club is gradually growing and de-veloping on and off the pitch.Javi has managed youth and senior sidesfor Glacis United and has a wealth of experi-ence to bring to the table. When he becameavailable it was an easy decision for theclub to make and we are elated Javi took upour offer. He will work under Manolo withthe First Team and also take over the man-agement of the Reserve side.”

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Young Lincoln star andnational team player AnthonyBardon will be departing forthe US after being offeredand opportunity to play in theUS.

In comments this weekLincoln announced that"Anthony has left Lincoln RedImps to return to USA afterreceiving an offer from a clubthere. "

The young Gibraltarinternational was a regular inRaul Procopio's side over thelast two seasons and hasblossomed as a pivot linkingdefence and midfield. Lincolnwho are six points ahead inthe league have alreadybrought in new replacements.

Bardon said on Lincoln'sFacebook page "I would liketo express my gratitude toLincoln Red Imps FootballClub for giving me my releasewhile I was still under contractin order for me to pursuefurther my desire to becomethe best footballer I can be,"

said Bardon. "I have nothingbut great memories with thisclub as I leave having won aleague title and being part ofthe first team to pass the firstround of the ChampionsLeague in Gibraltar's history."

"I wish them all the best forthe remainder of the seasonin their pursuit of anotherleague title. This team willforever remain in my heartand I am very thankful that weleave on good terms becauseif I ever come back toGibraltar they are the club Iwill return to. Thank you to allboard members, staff, and

players for making my timehere very enjoyable."

Lincoln have recently signednew players includingUruguayan Keeper BernardoLong Enzo Baccino fromDeportivo Quito also formerlyof Rampla Juniors in Uruguayfor an undisclosed sum.recent transfer movementshave seen Lincolns marketvalue increase in recentweeks in prestigious footballtransfer sites such astransfermarkt.com wheretheir market value hasincreased from just under£350,000 a fortnight ago to£1.8 million.

Lincolnplayerleavesfor US


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Favorites Manchester 62, whotop the women’s league weresurprised by Lions who kept aclean sheet to beat them 2-0.

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Women’s Football Lincoln out six pastEuropa

Lincoln Women madeshort work of it as theywent into the lead fromearly on with Robbagetting on the score-sheet from the 5thminute. Europa whotrail at the foot of thetable without a winsoon saw the score-line increase againstthem. Robba scoringhere second on the26th, and Vinet andDuarte scoring thethird and fourth withinminutes of each other.Europa were not to hitback until Lincolnmade it five with a goalfrom Holt on 48.Europa struck backwith one of their ownfrom Bagu on the 65thminute only to see Holtscore the sixth for Lin-coln five minutes after.Garcia scoring onemore for Europa tomake it 6-2 for Lincoln.


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On the 18th January 2016 the Gibraltar FA'sRefereeing Dept. delivered a presentationon the Laws of the Game and Refereeingmatters titled “Working towards WomensFootballer Education” to Coaches and cap-tains of Women’s Football teams and mem-bers of the Women’s Football Department.

The presentation led by Senior RefereeManager, Adrian Bacarisa, covered topicssuch as, Offside, Recognising Challenges,Free Kicks, Players’ Equipment and ex-pected behaviour in the technical areas.

Coaches, players and members of theWomen's Football Department were giventhe opportunity to discuss, watch andanalyse situations and decisions made byreferees through the use of UEFA Teachingmaterial and domestic clips. An insight wasalso given on how Gibraltar FA Referees arecoached and what to expect from them onthe field of play when managing situations.There was a healthy discussion during thepresentation on match situations with all at-tendees encouraged to actively participate indiscussions.

Head of Women’s Football, Lynette Alvarezwas delighted with the attendance of repre-sentatives of all teams involved in theGibraltar FA Women’s League all of whomenthusiastically participated in this event.

Courtesy Gibraltar Football Association

Working towards WomensFootballerEducation

Futsal 1st Division15/16 Fixtures thisweekSaturday 30th January | 15:00 Gibraltar Phoenix FC Eclipse VSLincoln Red Imps FC

Saturday 30th January | 16:30 College 1975 VS Gib Scorpions FC

Saturday 30th January | 18:00 Lions Gib FC VS St.Joseph's SparkEnergy

Saturday 30th January | 19:30 Cannon's FC VS Manchester 62 FC

Saturday 30th January | 21:00 Lynx FC VS Glacis Utd FC

Saturday 6th February | 15:00 Glacis Utd FC VS College 1975


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Match resultsSunday 24th January | 13:30 Lions FC U13 Jyske Bank 4Europa FC U13 Black 0

Sunday 24th January | 12:05 Lions FC U13 Roc-A-Graph-ics Europa FC U13 White

Sunday 24th January | 10:40 Gibraltar United FC U13 StarOf India 3Europa FC U13 Green 0

Sunday 24th January | 09:15 Manchester 62 FC U13 2Red Imps FC U13 Argus 6

Friday 22nd January | 16:50 Lincoln FC U13 Westmed 2Manchester 62 FC U13 Red2

Sunday 17th January | 13:15 Europa FC U13 Green 3Manchester 62 FC U13 5

Sunday 17th January | 11:50 Europa FC U13 White 0Lincoln FC U13 Westmed 3

Sunday 17th January | 10:25 Manchester 62 FC U13 Red0Lions FC U13 Jyske Bank 4

Sunday 17th January | 09:00 Red Imps FC U13 Argus 9Lions FC U13 Roc-A-Graph-ics 0

Friday 15th January | 16:50 Europa FC U13 Black 1Lincoln FC U13 Argus 9

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NetballResults and league tables after 8 weeks of the league

RESULTS

Tables


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click here to find out more about netball in Gibraltar

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Last week GibraltarianDyson Parody was pre-sented with a silver pin atthe Dorchester Hotel Parklane PDC AWARDS DIN-NER 2016 where they hon-our the World's GreatestDarts Players. Dyson re-ceived the pin for his ninedart finish, which as onedarts experts describes is"achieving perfection inyour sport like doing a 147in snooker or a 300 in bowl-ing". He is the first everGibraltarian to achieve sucha feat.

On the night his proud fa-ther wrote in social media"tonight has been theproudest moment of my lifeseeing my son on stage re-

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ceiving his silver pinfor a nine dart finishin a PDC event itwas as if i was in theFIFA awards forBalon d'or but fordarts awesome nightfor me and for myson and most of allGibraltar and itsgreat dart playerspast and present."

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Athletics

Road runner Arnold Rogers tookthe latest GAAA 10km race, withsome time to spare from hisclosest rival Richard Blagg andChris Walker.

Alison Edwards, carrying an in-jury herself, came in first for thefemales.

The race took place on Sundaystarting at Bayside Road, ontoQueensway, Ragged Staff Gateand up Europa Road before run-ners turned through the tunnelsback to Bayside Road.

A gruelling 10km race.

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Rugby

Tough battles for theline at Victoria Stadium

The John Smiths Super IV’s is the GibraltarRugby Senior League which currently hasfour franchised Teams: The Nature GroupEuropa Stormers, the Khedlow Buccaneers,the Inline Framing Straits Sharks and theSovereign Insurance Rock Scorpions.

The aim of the league is to give all rugbyplaying seniors from 18 to 60 years old achance to play high quality rugby inGibraltar.

Matches are being played every fortnight atthe Victoria Stadium where very competitivematches are being seen.

The first 5 Seasons of the league has seen

3 different winners and the Cup competitionseeing 2 different winners.

On Thursday Kedhlow Buccaneers facedInLine Framing Sharks followed byNaturegroup Stormers Vs SovereignInsurance Scorpions.

With round seven played the SovereignInsurance Scorpions have been pronouncedas the Super IV League Winners 2015/16with a total 28 point total.

Naturegroup Stormers and InLine FramingSharks have everything to play for forsecond place.

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BasketballGibraltar to act as hostin July

Match endsin

controversyThe Isola Blue Stars

versus Europa BasketballAcademy men's divisionmatch ended incontroversy after thelatter disagreed with theofficials decision. Withjust 22seconds left on the

clock the team wereinstructed off the courtby their coach. Only twoplayers stayed on tocomplete the match. Bluestars were the eventualwinner.

The Draws for the 2016 editionsof the FIBA EuropeanChampionship for SmallCountries Men and Womenwere completed in Munich,Germany on Friday afternoon.

This year, the biannualtournament will be contested byseven countries in the men’sdivision, from 26 June to 3 Julyin Moldova, whilst the women’stournament will be contested bysix teams from 28 June to 3 Julyin Gibraltar.

This is not the first internationaltournament to be hosted inGibraltar with GABBA lastsummer acting as host to theFIBA under 18 and 19s womenand boys categories.

The tournaments were playedone after the other at theTercentenary Sports Hall.

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The Groups are as follows:

Men's:Group A: Ireland, San Marino, Malta,GibraltarGroup B: Armenia, Wales, Andorra,Moldova, Monaco

Women's:Group A: Moldova, Ireland, WalesGroup B: Gibraltar, Andorra, Malta

UpcomingBasketball fix-tures

Monday 1st Feb1600 Isloa Blue Stars v Eu-ropa (Under 14)1600 Valmar Wrightect v CSBayside Argus (under 14)1915hrs Valmar Wrightec vCS Bayside Argus2100hrs Mill Pharmacy v Eu-ropa

Thurs 28th Under 161600 CS Bayside v Isola BlueStars1645 Europa v ValmarWrightec

Friday 29th Jan Div 21945 Isola Blue Stars v Eu-ropa B2115 Europa Youth v ValmarWrightetc

Tue 2nd Feb Under 181700 Valmar Wrightec v IsolaBlue Stars1830 Europa v CS BaysideArgus.

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Futsal

Futsal was struck by the lack of appearancebug this weekend when the first match of theday in the first division was cancelled, thepoints going to Lions after Lincoln wereunable to field a full side.

Lincoln, fourth in the table, has seen two oftheir players leaving to play 11 aside, one forSt Joseph's the other for Mons Calpe,neither believed to wish to continue playingfutsal for the time being.

Lions who themselves have had to performwith limited resources, including men short,continue second from bottom, with the

guaranteed points playing in their favour.

The second match in the first division did notfair much better, as Pheonix met Cannons.The latter fielding just one substitute at thestart of the match, with a second onearriving well into midway through the firsthalf.

The match itself, although not a classic withrespect to overall play was to see Pheonixplay out another dramatic scoreline withbottom of the league Cannon who have onlywon one match all season.

Futsal was struck by thelack of appearance bug

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Taking the lead with Ledesma scoringtwice, Pheonix soon lost the leastmomentarily as Mena notched two ofhis own and Chidgey added another toput Cannon 3-2 ahead.Pheonix scored two of their own withMcCarthy and Cuesta to bring themback in the lead only to see Cuesta thenscore an own goal.

Ledesma then went on the rampagescoring four more of his own as he keptPheonix in the lead responding to goalsfrom Dominquez, Carillo, Mena andBaglietto for Cannon.

With McCarthy scoring the nineth andLedesma scoring two more, Pheonixrun away with a narrow win of 11-9. Forthe second week running Pheonix wasinvolved in a clash which saw themplaying it out until the final minutes for awin.



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Lynx win topflight battleLynx third in the table with 18 point beforethe start of the match took over the leadfrom St Joseph with goals from HerediaVargas (11 and 36) and Duarte (19 and 27)for a 4-0 win in what was the clash for topspot.

Lynx's fortunes were further helped by GibScorpions 2-0 win against Glacis who hadgone into the game second in the table.Goals from Correro and Dechraoui Pineroin the 19th minute opened the scoring forGib Scorpion.

Glacis who last week stumbled against titlerivals St Joseph were in for a humiliatingdefeat losing 7-1 as Scorpions closed thegap at the top of the table placingthemselves four points behind third placedGlacis.

In other matches bottom of the College 1975FC took the points in their fixture againstManchester 62 in another no show for theweekend.



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FutsalFutsal 1st Division 15/16

Team P W D L GD PTS

Team P W D L GD PTSLynx FC 8 7 0 1 62 21St.Joseph's Spark Energy 9 7 0 2 61 21Glacis Utd FC 9 6 1 2 29 19Gib Scorpions FC 8 5 0 3 10 15Lincoln Red Imps FC 7 4 2 1 13 14Gibraltar Phoenix FC Eclipse 9 4 0 5 -27 12Lions Gib FC 7 2 0 5 -44 6College 1975 8 1 1 6 -15 4Manchester 62 FC 7 1 0 6 -32 3

Saturday 23rd January |21:00 Glacis Utd FC 1Gib Scorpions FC 7

Saturday 23rd January |19:30 Manchester 62 FC (NP)College 1975 (NP)

Saturday 23rd January |18:00 St.Joseph's Spark Energy 0Lynx FC 4

Saturday 23rd January |16:30 Gibraltar Phoenix FC Eclipse11Cannon's FC 9

Saturday 23rd January |15:00 Lincoln Red Imps FC (NP)Lions Gib FC (NP)

(NP) - Not Played

Gibraltar FA Futsal Rock Cup Round 3 Draw :

Sat 13/02

16:30 Rock 54 FC vs Glacis Utd FC18:00 Gib Scorpions FC B vs Lincoln RedImps FC19:30 College 1975 FC vs Mons Calpe SC21:00 Gib Phoenix FC Eclipse vs Gib Scorpi-ons FC Optima

Sun 14/02

10:30 Leo Bastion FC vs Maccabi Alef12:00 Young Boys Gib FC vs Hercules FCPubli LED13:30 Gunwharf FC vs Red Imps FC LekBangkok15:00 Lions FC C vs Lynx FC

Top scorers

Ledesma 29Gomez Reinaldo22Chipol 20El Andaloussi 17Sanchez Cana 17Martin Martin 17Canovas Serrano16Hanafi 13Ruiz 11Ruiz 11



Minister for Sports Steven Linares hasstated that Gibraltar will have a new runningtrack soon, in line with planned upgrades forthe sports facilities in Gibraltar with a view tothe Small Island Games in 2019.

Speaking at a press conference held by theGAAA to introduce European Athletics Presi-dent Svein Arne, the Minister was very directin his comments, referring to criticisms maderecently in social media that his ministry isgeared for football. " We are not football, weare for all sports" he said as he confirmedthat his Ministry were all ready looking atplans to upgrade all sports facilities andwere awaiting the finalisation of budget esti-mates before making further announce-ments.

Commenting on the importance of Athleticsthe Minister added that plans to upgrade therunning tracks were already in the planningstages and "promised" a new running trackin Gibraltar before the Island Games. Thepresent track, due to the use of the presentstadium is already showing signs of wearwhich has been highlighted among athletes.

The promise to upgrade the track comesalso at a time when a warm up track is al-ready under consideration for runners. Thewarm up track, a 200m racing track, isplanned to be located in the area of Cepsaonce the new east side link road is com-pleted and the area is transformed, asplanned, into an extension of the sports fa-cilities at Bayside Sports complex. Thewarm up track is welcomed by athletes asone of the possible solutions in removingathletes from training next to the footballpitch when matches are on. "It is an acci-dent waiting to happen," commented a localathletics official to Coresportgib as he de-

scribed how during training sessions, espe-cially when children are involved, footballmatches do take place placing the athletesat risk of being hit by balls kicked out of play."Children are small, and a ball hitting themon the head could actually cause serious in-juries or even kill them, these are grownmen, some playing for clubs who are com-peting to be at the top of their league to getpromoted," as he referred to the fact mostmatches taking place during practise ses-sions are second division matches, "youcannot expect them to stop playing becausewe are training, but one day someone, evena child, might get hit by a ball and get injuredbecause of it. It's not the best of situations atthe moment for any of us."

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Other Sports News

Gibraltar IslandGames looks foraccommodationThe company set up toorganise the Island Games inGibraltar for 2019, inconjunction with theGovernment, is exploringaccommodation options andinviting expressions of interest.

The services that are beingsought would require toaccommodate approximately2,500 people during the periodof the 4th to the 14th of July2019.

Expressions of interest shouldbe handed in at the company’soffices in 124 Irish Town oremailed [email protected]. Theclosing date is the 15thFebruary.

Commonwealth Game Association might bid for2021 Youth GamesIn comments made to GBC Newswatch onTuesday the Commonwealth Games Associ-ation Secretary General Joe Schembri indi-cated that he was confident that Gibraltar iscapable of putting in a bid to become thebackup host nation for the Youth Games in2021.

Mr Schembri said that Gibraltar had wantedto make the bid earlier but that his associa-tion did not believe at the time the facilitieswere in place to do so. Since then the IslandGames bid has been successfully allocatedto Gibraltar for 2019, with facilities to be up-grade. This has led the association to be-lieve that if the only bidder for the YouthGames were to pull out Gibraltar would pres-ent itself as an alternative option.

The bid is among issues to be discussed be-tween the local committee and the Federa-tion’s Executive Board, who have chosen tohold their inaugural meeting in Gibraltar.

On the weekend of 30/31st Jan a trainingcamp will be run by 2 professional hockeyDutch coaches and will be split into 4 ses-sions, 4 levels of ability, 4 the lowest, 1 thehighest.

Levels 4 & 3 will have training Saturday from10:30-12:00 and 13:30-15:00 respectively.Levels 2 & 1 the same on Sunday.

There will also be a goalie training sessionfor all those that are currently playing and forthose of you willing to give it a try, this will beheld on Saturday 30th January from 15:30till 17:00

Also in Hockey, parents have raised concernover forthcoming tournaments for the Under16 in Turkey.

Professional Dutch coaches thisweekend for Hockey



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The Badminton Association in associationwith the Department of Education have or-gansied a badminton interschool tournamentthis week which will see middle schoolscompete against each other at the Tercente-nary Sports Hall.Monday saw the start of the tournament withthe Girls playing their mini league. Fourschools, Bishop Fitzgerald, St Annes, StJoseph's and Loreto Convent taking part.Each team would play two singles matchesand a doubles against each other. The de-cider came in the last round when St Annes,with three seasoned badminton playersplayed against Loreto, who had four con-verts from tennis, St Annes marginally com-ing out on top. The tournament saw girlswho had only just started playing competefor the first time. The next two days will seethe Boys A and B teams playing, with thurs-day seeing a mix.

Day two saw some superb badminton beingplayed by the young boys from five schools,Loreto, Bishop Fitzgerald, St Anne's, StJosephs and St Bernards. Very tightmatches were seen at the start of play withsome good young skills on display.

Once again St Anne's had the crop of thebest players. The tournament saw the boyssplit into two groups the A teams and Bteams, such was the number of players par-ticipating, as opposed to the Girls divisionwhich only counted with the A division.

The tournament was seen as a chance toprovide competitive Badminton experienceto the young players, some of whom hadnever played a competitive match before,raising the awareness of the game. Bad-minton coaches were on hand to guide play-ers during the tournament.


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GARA’s 2016 “Indoor” RowingEvent: Up-Closeand Personal


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Words and images: (c) 2016,Dino Chincotta

After an absence of somefour years, the, somewhat,curiously-named, "IndoorRowing Event" made a wel-come return to the GibraltarAmateur Rowing Associa-tion’s (GARA) Racing Calen-dar with the Calpe andMediterranean RowingClubs (CRC and MRC re-spectively) gearing up tocompete for the Rotary Chal-lenge Cup.

The chilly, bracing conditionson Saturday the 16th Janu-ary 2016 did not deter agood turnout of supportersfrom gathering in front of theBoathouses in anticipationof, and what proved to be,an entertaining and excitingexhibition of local, land-based, rowing prowess at itsbest.

It is, to some extent, un-usual for rowers to findthemselves so near to spec-tators. The up-close and per-sonal, vocal encouragement,no doubt, contributed to-wards some excellent indi-vidual performances andimpressive results overall.The morning’s proceedingsopened with the Female andMale Junior 14 categoriesracing over 1,000m. Thissaw Sophie Peralta (CRC)and Craig Gill (CRC) com-pleting the distance in times


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of 4:03.20 and 3:55.50 respectively. A cred-itable performance by, second-placed,Daniella Wood (CRC: 4:04:10) in the Fe-male event being worthy of note.For the remaining categories (with the ex-ception of the Veteran Male event), the dis-tance increased to 2,000m. This saw DilysRoswell (CRC), in the Female Junior 16,and Alessandro Chincotta (CRC), in theMale Junior 16, finishing in times of 7:43:60and 6:47:10 respectively.

In the Male Junior 18 competition, JakeMoreno (CRC) finished in 6:37:00; justahead of Kenneth Alvarez (6:40:80). DilysRoswell (CRC), who doubled up for the Fe-male Junior 18 race minutes after her win inthe Junior 16 event, again, finished first in atime of 7:50:30.

The Veteran Male 1000m race provided

MRC with its solitary win of the day withJames Vinales marking his return to thesport in a time of 3:02:20.

The remaining two events provided greatexcitement. In the Senior Female category,a determined effort by Nadine Villalta (CRC)allowed her to finish in a time of 7:44:50;seconds ahead of MRC’s Gianna Romero(7:47:10).

The final event saw 15 year-old Jack Prior(CRC) achieve the best performance of theday over 2,000m in a remarkable time of6:24:50: just over 1 second ahead of MRC’sSean Randall (6:25:90).

Even at his, relatively, young age, Jack iswidely recognised as one of Gibraltar's mostpromising rowing talents. Dilys Roswell isalso, clearly, another up-and-coming talent


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as her time of 7:43:60 in the Under 16 eventwas the best Female performance of theday.For the purposes of the Rotary ChallengeCup, one point was awarded to the winner ofeach individual event and made CRC theclear winner. This victory by CRC translatesinto four points towards the Garbarino Chal-lenge Cup: The trophy awarded to the mostsuccessful Club at the end of the Season.

Overall, GARA’s Indoor Rowing Event, wasan undoubted success and credit should begiven to the organisers for ensuring asmoothly-run and most enjoyable morning oftop-class sport.

It was particularly encouraging to witnessthe participation of a cohort of young rowersbolstering the representation of both Clubs

particularly in younger categories: This onlyaugurs great prospects for the future ofGibraltar rowing.

The next GARA event is scheduled for Sat-urday the 6th February 2016: When theClubs compete for the Sacarello ChallengeCup Team Endurance Regatta over a courseof 5,000m.


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GOFITBayside Comprehen-sive school launched aGet Fit programmetoday with students at-tending the launchwhere they were able tomeet sports people, or-ganisations and in-structors along withother groups whoshowed them the differ-ent ways to stay fit.


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Gibraltar is hosting a series of meet-ings of the executive board of the Com-monwealth Games Federation. This isthe first time that Gibraltar acts as hostfor the international board of the Com-monwealth Games since becoming amember.

Gibraltar is using the meeting of theCommonwealth Games Federation(CGF) to lobby for support againstSpain's campaign against Gibraltarsports organisations.

Although currently recognised by 18International Federations Gibraltar isprevented from joining more becauseSpain is blocking their membership.

ealth Games in Gibraltar


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Gibraltar Umpires inInternational action Gibraltar's hockey

umpires will beactive within theEuropean

hockey front in the comingmonths.

Nathan Stagno, who wasrecently presented with hisGolden Whistle at the HeroHockey World League Final2015 in recognition ofumpiring his 100th senior

international match by FIHPresident Leandro Negre, isamong the listed EHFAppointed Umpires for theOutdoor Men's EHL KO16 tobe held in Amsterdam inMarch.

Ethan Pereira has also beenlisted as one of the Nationalumpires for the OutdoorMen's EuroHockey ClubChampions Challenge II to

be held in Bratislava. Ethanis also listed to officiate asNational Umpire in July atthe Outdoor Men'sEuroHockey5s FutureHeroes Cup B in WalczPoland, with ZamaraEspinosa listed for theWomen's division of thesame tournament, also heldin Poland at the same time.


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European Hockey Listings as sourced from Eurohockey.org.

25 to 28/3/16 Outdoor Men's EHL KO16 @ Amsterdam (NED)(BEL x 3, ENG, ESP x 3, FRA, GER x 3, NED x 3, POL, RUS)

Umpire Managers: Ray O'Connor (IRL), Peter von Reth (NED)EHF Appointed Umpires: Dave Dowdall (ENG), Pietro Galligani (ITA), BenGoentgen (GER), Marcin Grochal (POL), Michael Pontus (BEL), Tim Pullman(FIH), Nathan Stagno (GIB), David Sweetman (SCO), Coen van Bunge (NED),Francisco Vazquez Lopez (ESP)

EHF Appointed Video Umpires: Colin Hutchinson (IRL), Gregory Uyttenhove(BEL)

16/5/16 Outdoor Men's EuroHockey Club Champions Challenge II @Bratislava (SVK)(BUL, CRO, DEN, GIB, LTU x 2, SVK, TUR)

Umpire Manager: Pierre Philippe Van Besien (BEL) EHF Appointed Umpires: Krzysztof Cholewa (POL), Andres Ortiz (ESP) National Umpires: Arvydas Bilotas (LTU), Osman Candan (TUR), Daniel Denta(DEN), Ivan Grgurev (CRO), Vitas Guziejus (LTU), Lubos Kamendy (SVK),Ethan Pereira (GIB), Jaroslav Suchocki (LTU)

6 to 10/7/16 Outdoor Men's EuroHockey5s Future Heroes Cup B @ Walcz(POL)(AUT, CRO, FRA, GIB, POL, SUI, UKR) - Under 16Umpire Manager: Belen Gonzalez (ESP) EHF Appointed Umpire: Michal Margolien (SVK) National Umpires: Adrian Bucher (SUI), Maciej Ferenc (POL), Ivan Grgurev(CRO), Lucas Olivier (FRA), Ethan Pereira (GIB), Juri Perepelitza (UKR), LukaZupancic (AUT)

6 to 10/7/16 Outdoor Women's EuroHockey5s Future Heroes Cup B @Walcz (POL)(AUT, FRA, GIB, POL, POR, SUI) - Under 16sUmpire Manager: Belen Gonzalez (ESP) EHF Appointed Umpire: Rachel Williams (ENG)National Umpires: Karine Alves Pereira (FRA), Zamara Espinosa (GIB), AnaFaias (POR), Miriam Gerö (AUT), Katarzyna Grudziewicz (POL)


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First blood went for Eagles from shortcorner in what was to turn out as acompetitively tough encounter with the

RAF ladies.

Both teams were playing as if the match wasa cup final not a friendly. Eagles soonstretched their lead further with some strongattacking play.

Having drawn the previous night bothmatches in the 7-aside tournament theEagles young team were not scared to runthe RAF back into their own area.

Piling on the pressure the RAF soon won ashort corner, and although well blocked,allowed a bit of free space they tookadvantage to shorten the gap.

The RAF pressed on into the second have.Well disciplined and aggressive in their play,but this did not impede Eagles from playing

intelligently and without fear of theiropponents.

With the second half reaching its final 15minutes Eagles who had stretched the fieldby taking advantage of space opened up bytheir counterattacks broke from one of theircounters. A shot from outside the Ddeflected off an RAF player who mishit theball as she tried to clear it. Eagles going 3-1ahead.

The RAF responded quickly, highlighting thecompetitive nature of the match comingback with their own goal.

A lovely dribble inside the d by Eaglesnumber 9 got her around the keeper to pushin the fourth.The goal once again saw the RAF girlsresponding with their own goal. Eaglesfinally winning 4-3.

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Grammarians vGrammarians


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The Senior Cup match betweenGrammarians 1 and Grammarians 2 was anevenly matched contest where both teamscompeted for dominance.

Not to be out done by the first team thesecond team equalled them stick to stickand on every run during the first half of thematch.

A short corner opportunity in the first fewminutes saw the second team block anddefend against the threat, leading to animmediate chance at the other end of thefield as Flower found himself alone in theopposing D to strike just wide of the far post.

Both teams closed each other down wellwith neither getting many shots in at goal.Grammarians best chance in the first twentyminutes was saved by the keepers arm.

The first team eventually broke the deadlockwith a run into the D where the player foundhimself one on one with the goalkeeperwhom he rounded easily before slotting theball at the back of the net for the 1-0.

The second team pushed the first teamback, with Flower taking up a role in defenseand allowing the faster paced youngster toventure forward.

The match saw both teams play for a win,with little difference between the two the firstteam narrowly winning by 2-1. Both havingsome clear chances at both ends.

Following the end of the matchGrammarians commented that it was a"great display of skill by some of the youngplayers and a great performance in goal bykeeper Denil Udhwani . The future looksbright."


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RAF visit sees lightning fast paced7 a-side tournamentat stadiumWomen's hockey was treated to afast paced, lightning fast, highlycompetitive 7-a-side hockeytournament on Wednesdayevening. Two RAF teams, made upfrom the visiting RAF squad facedteams from the Eagles, Hawkes andGrammarians in a round robintournament. Each playing eachother in a one short, one periodonly, game each.

The matches saw quick pacedaction throughout with somesurprising results, Grammariansbeating Hawkes two nil in one ofthe matches, whilst Eagles held thesecond tier of the RAF to a nil-nilscore-line in what was atremendously competitively edgedperformance from both sides.


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7 A-side Tournament Results:-

Grammarians 2 - 0 HawksGrammarians 0 - 2 RAF AGrammarians 2 - 1 RAF BGrammarians 2 - 0 EaglesHawks 1 - 3 RAF BHawks 3 - 1 Eagles Hawks 1 - 2 RAF AEagles 1 - 1 RAF AEagles 0 - 0 RAF B


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RAFLadieswentbeyondcall ofduty


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The visiting RAF women's team out didthemselves on Thursday when asked tocoach junior and youth hockey players.

Some 100 youngsters participated in thecoaching sessions, formed into groups de-pending on their categories.

A well planned, well drilled session was en-joyed by everyone, with even watching local

coaches taking some tips from methodsused.

Following the coaching sessions, head ofyouth Chrissie presented the RAF team withsome gifts as a souvenir and thank you fortheir visit.

The RAF ladies then went on to play theirfinal match in their tour against Eagles.


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Weekend action Eagles V Grammarians...


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