Life is not just the World Cup: all the sport to watch while Lionel Messi dreams in Qatar

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The Qatar World Cup will capture the world’s attention between November 20 and December 18. During those 29 days, fans and non-fans alike, seduced every four years by the most important football event, will religiously follow what happens in that Arab country, where 32 selected teams will fight for the title they will try to defend. France and that Argentinadriven by Lionel Messihe will try to win for the third time.

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For much of the planet, nothing will be more important during those four weeks. But the sport will not stop and, as long as the ball rolls in Qatar stadiums, many disciplines, from tennis and the basketball until the motoring and the I swimthey will see the action on different stages around the world, in some with an albiceleste presence.

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Tennis

Tennis will bring the curtain down on its season with two prestigious tournaments: the ATP Finals of Turin and the Davis Cup. The first, popularly known as the “Masters Tournament”, will close this Sunday, the same day as the opening match in Qatar.

That coincidence forced the organizers to change the program of the final, which took place at 15:00 in Argentina in order not to collide with the duel between the Qatari team and Ecuador.

The contest kicked off with eight of the best rackets of the season: Rafael Nadal, Stephen Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud, Daniel Medvedev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Andrei Rublev, Novak Djokovic Y Taylor Fritz. The round robin, launched last Sunday, closes this Friday. The semi-finals will be played on Saturday and the champion will be decided on Sunday.

The week after the Turin event, Málaga will host the playoffs for the Davis Cup finals. In the first three days the quarter-finals will be played: Australia-Netherlands, Tuesday 22; Spain-Croatia, Wednesday 23; and Germany-Canada and Italy-United States; Thursday 24. The semifinals on Friday 25 and Saturday 26. And the final on Sunday 27.

Argentina will also have a luxury appointment. On Wednesday 23 Nadal will play an exhibition in the renovated stadium Maria Terrano de Weiss next to Casper Ruud, champion this year in Buenos Aires. Also, he will play a doubles match with Gabriel Sabatiniin which it will collide with the Norwegian and Gisela Dulko.

Motoring

Two hours after the initial whistle in the duel between Qatar and Ecuador, 600 kilometers east of the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, the Formula 1 He will start his last race of the season.

with the Dutch Max Verstappen defined as two-time champion and Red Bull winner among the constructors, the queen category will race on Sunday 20th Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit.

Three focuses of attention to follow. Who will be the runner up: charles leclerc or Sergio “Checo” Perez? Which team will be second: Ferrari or Mercedes? Will remain Lewis Hamilton without a Grand Prix for the first time in a season?

A week later, from Friday 25 to Sunday 27, the last appointment of world tourismwhich will have an Argentinian as the main protagonist. Nestore Girolami (Honda) is second in the standings, 60 points behind the Spaniard Mikel Azcona (Hyundai) and with the possibility, albeit minimal, of winning the title on the Jeddah track.

Locally definition times are coming for the Road tourism and for him superior race. The most popular category will race this Saturday in Toay to define who will qualify for the title in the last round: December 11 in San Juan. Meanwhile, the Top Race will have its champion on November 27, at the Gálvez in Buenos Aires.

pole

The first two weeks of racing in Qatar will coincide with the last of Argentine Polo Open Championship, the sport’s premier tournament in the world and the final link in the Triple Crown. With ten teams scoring 28 to 39 goals, the tournament kicked off on 1 December and its schedule was affected by the World Cup.

The last two days of Zone B will be played on 20 and 27 November which include, among others, The Dauphin Y ellerstina. The definition of Zone A, led by the nativitythe last champion, will be played on Friday 25 November instead of Saturday 26, the day on which the Argentina national team will face Mexico in Group C, in Qatar.

Meanwhile, the final, which is traditionally played on the weekend, has been brought forward to Friday 2 December, because on Saturday 3 the round of 16 of the World Cup will get underway and the team led by Lionel Scaloni The quarterfinal pass could be played that day or Sunday 4.

Field hockey

Argentina will once again receive the share of professional league from 13 to 18 December, precisely during the last instances of Qatar 2022. In Santiago del Estero, the lionesses Y the lions will play two triangles with Great Britain Y Holland.

The action will begin on Sunday the 13th with the men’s clashes between the English and Dutch, repeating themselves on the 16th. The Argentines will face the Netherlands on Monday the 14th and Thursday the 17th and Great Britain on Tuesday the 15th and Friday the 18th, several hours after the World Cup final.

Rugby

Puma 7s will go into action in the first weeks of next month in world circuit of Seven. The Argentine national team will be present at the events in Dubai, on 2 and 3 December, and in Cape Town, on 9 and 10 December.

Meanwhile, next week the last test matches of the November window. France will face Japan in Toulouse on Sunday, Wales will host Australia in Cardiff on Saturday 26 and England will host South Africa in Twickenham.

I swim

Elite swimming will close 2022 in Melbourne where the short billiards world cup from 13 to 18 December The tournament was supposed to take place in Kazan, but was moved to Australian soil after FINA deprived Russia of its headquarters as part of sanctions against the invasion of Ukraine.

Argentina will say present with four swimmers. Among the women they will compete Andrea Berrino Y Macarena Ceballos, who shone at the South American Games in Asunción. The first, with two golds, three silvers and one bronze. The second, with one gold, three silvers and one bronze. They will also participate Gabriel Morellibronze in the 200m breaststroke in the Paraguayan capital, e Luke Alba.

paddle

Argentina receives this week for the sixth consecutive year the best padel players in the world. In what will be the final stretch of the season, Tuesday the Padel master from Buenos Airesthe most important tournament in World tour of padel, who will define his champion this Sunday. The appointment for the duel for the title will be at 16.30.

Basketball

The NBA, the most competitive championship in the world, will continue with its regular season, which will not even stop at Christmas and New Year’s Eve, as usual. There will be seven matches on Sunday 18, the day of the final in Qatar.

The action of the will also follow National Leaguewhich resumed on Wednesday, after a seven-day break due to the 2023 World Cup qualifying “window” of the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, and will play until December 22, before entering the year-end break. year.

sport doesn’t stop

The hand ball Argentina has a first-level American appointment with the South-Central Women’s Championship, which will be defined this Saturday at 20:30 between Brazil and La Garra. There are two places up for grabs for the 2023 World Cup in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

At the local tournament level, the competition of the volleyball championship, which has regular season games scheduled through Dec. 4. Meanwhile, from 16 to 22 of that month, the ACLAV Cup in Formosa, with the local Police Volleyball, UPCN, Ciudad, Once Unidos, Paracao, Obras de San Juan, River, Monteros, Defensores de Banfield, UVT Volleyball, San Lorenzo and AMUVOCA.

When the action begins in Qatar, the first division championship from futsal -organized by AFA itself- will be in full semi-final, both in the men’s and women’s branches.

The Pan American Games will be held in Santiago de Chile from 21 to 27 November. archery and there will be an Argentinian presence with María Eugenia González Briozzo, Natalia Castillo, María Laura Bujnowski, Iván Nikolajuk, Nelson Salinas, Federico Salvetti, Florencia Leithold, María Victoria Carozza, Guadalupe Caffaratti, Ignacio Escalante, Damián Jajarabilla and Luciano Villoslada.

The Men’s World Cup will take place from 26 November to 4 December volleyball in Auckland, New Zealand. Argentina will face Cuba, the Philippines, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, France and the United States.

Frederick Gilrecent individual vice-champion and team bronze medalist at the Panamericana thrown from Lima, will compete in skeet in President’s Cupa competition that brings together the 12 best shooters of the year in each discipline and which will be held from November 28 to December 4, in Cairo.

Between November 28 and December 5 it will be the South American rhythmic gymnastics in Paipà, Colombia. From 29 November to 3 December, the Panamericana Water ski in San Bernardo, Chile, with Violeta Mociulsky, Tobías Giorgis, Antonio Collazo and Martín Malarczuk. And from 2 to 10 December, at the World Junior Championships of squashIn Guatemala there will be Martina Katz, Diego García Quispe and Tomás Oyhanart.

Paralympic sport will have elite competitions. The World Cup will be held from 5 to 17 December in Matosinhos, Portugal. goalball, with the presence of the men’s and women’s national teams. From 6 to 13, in Rio de Janeiro, it will be the turn of the World Cup bowl, with Elizabeth Flores, Jonatan Aquino, Luis Cristaldo, Ángel Anzalas, Stefanía Ferrando and Micaela Salvador. And since the 11th, the Panamericana judo for the blind in Edmonton, Canada, with Rocío Ledesma, Paula Gómez, Laura González, David Gómez, Eduardo Gauto, Fabián Ramírez and Cristian Alderete

And abroad the duels of the nflthe championship of american football, and the tournaments of the most important circuits of the Golf world championship: the PGA and the European Tour.

Source: Clarin

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