Malo and welcome to Season 3 Episode 79 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on another brilliant blue sky Tuesday morning 20 December 2022, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
Malo and welcome to Season 3 Episode 79 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on another brilliant blue sky Tuesday morning 20 December 2022, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
In football – the FIFA World Cup final in Qatar was truly a World Cup Final like no other and one of the greatest football games of all time with Lionel Messi leading Argentina to a 4-2 win on penalties, after Kylian Mbappe scored a hat trick for France to draw 3-3 at fulltime.
The expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams in 2026 is setting FIFA up for a major payday.
Football’s global governing body expects to earn US$11Billion for the 2023-26 commercial cycle, an almost 50% rise in income, thanks mainly to sponsorships and media deals for the World Cup.
Finally in football, the page has turned, the chapter has come to an end – Ronaldo has left the field and Lionel Messi won the FIFA World Cup, but Kylian Mbappe won Player of the Final with his hat trick and is undoubtedly the new King of football.
In rugby union – Steve Borthwick is the new Head Coach of England, appointed on a five-year contract. Borthwick, 43, masterminded Leicester’s Premiership title triumph last season. The Rugby Football Union also announced that his assistant at Leicester, Kevin Sinfield as defence coach.
In boxing – Conor McGregor is facing another lawsuit – this one from a close friend, Artem Lobov who was once a training partner of McGregor’s, is suing the mad Irish UFC star for five per cent of the sale of McGregor’s “Proper No. 12 Irish Whiskey” brand for US$600Million in 2021.
In rugby league – Storm star Nelson Asofa-Solomona has recently been connected with a potential move to the Canterbury Bulldogs.
The 26-year-old was previously linked with a code-swap to rugby union due to his stance on vaccinations, the Storm is unaware of the Bulldogs interest.
In tennis – former tennis great, Boris “Boom Boom” Becker who had been declared bankrupt in June 2017 and was jailed for two and a half years in April this year for hiding £2.5 million of assets and loans to avoid repaying £50 million in debts, was released from Huntercombe prison near Oxford, southern England late last week.
Becker was initially held at Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, near the All England Club at Wimbledon where he won three titles.
The Sun newspaper said Becker’s mother Elvira, 87, told a friend that her son’s release from prison was “the best Christmas present I could hope for and I cannot wait to hold my beloved son in my arms,” she was quoted as saying.
But get this, media reports suggested he would be staying with friends after flying to Frankfurt, Germany in a private jet!
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