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The Tiger of Amalfi, a city with a Bengal connection

The Tiger of Amalfi, a city with a Bengal connection

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3 min readJun 18, 2026 01:56 PM IST Barely anyone in Bengal would know about Amalfi, a town of fewer than 30,000 people nestled in the Colombian Andes. Yet, should you visit the mayor’s office of the municipality of Amalfi, you will be able to establish a connection with Bengal. Displayed prominently is a photograph of a Royal Bengal Tiger. Across the town, statues of the animal stand. Legend has it that around 1949, the beast had terrorised the region and devoured more than a thousand heads of cattle. Desperate, five men decided to hunt the tiger down, and they were successful. Historians later revealed that the animal was not a Royal Bengal Tiger, but an American jaguar. But try telling that to the inhabitants of Amalfi, who, by then, believed that they had the might to match a tiger. Of those symbolic Tigers of Amalfi, the one who roared the loudest on Wednesday was Daniel Muñoz. For 40 minutes, Uzbekistan gave little away to suggest they were debutants on football’s highest echelon. Their defensive …

Kane and Diaz send Bayern past Leverkusen into German Cup final

Kane and Diaz send Bayern past Leverkusen into German Cup final

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Harry Kane and Luis Diaz scored as Bayern Munich won 2-0 at Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday to reach the German Cup final for the first time since 2020. Kane and Diaz send Bayern past Leverkusen into German Cup final Just three days after Bayern sealed back-to-back Bundesliga titles with a home win over Stuttgart, Kane and Diaz got the goals to keep hopes of a treble alive. Bayern’s comfortable victory avenged their defeat by Leverkusen in the round of 16 last season. They will face either holders Stuttgart or Freiburg in the final. The Bavarian giants have won a record 20 German Cups but had not reached the showpiece in Berlin for six years, their longest drought since the turn of the century. “We’re going to Berlin. I’m looking forward to it. It was a goal of ours to get to Berlin, to reach the final, experience that, the guys said it’s an incredible experience, so we’ve done nearly all the work,” said Kane. “We’ve had a lot of away games, tough games, we’ve had …

Bayern Munich’s Luis Diaz’s improbable goal shows not all skills are taught in football schools | Football News

Bayern Munich’s Luis Diaz’s improbable goal shows not all skills are taught in football schools | Football News

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The schools don’t teach such goals; perhaps the streets do. Bayern Munich winger Luis Diaz’s angle-bender against Union Berlin was conceived in the streets of Barrancas, an isolated, indigenous village in La Guajira, Colombia. He played barefoot and suffered malnutrition, and was so thin he was nicknamed ‘noodle’ in school. Celebrated schools of structures and systems would not have inculcated in him the goal sense or the instinct to imagine a goal from the most inconceivable angle. It was a goal from nothing; or a goal from nowhere. Few forwards would have even bothered chasing the overhit pass from Josip Stanisic. But Diaz espouses lost causes, bristles with a raw, sometimes too much, energy. He slid and twisted his body to keep the ball from bumbling out of play. He dragged himself to his feet, ghosted past onrushing defender Janik Haberer with a dainty flick. Then the instincts, pure and natural, whispered to him: ‘Shoot’. And he did. Had practised wisdom prevailed, he would not have. His eyes would have wandered for a teammate’s wink, …

Liverpool fans celebrated Premier League title-winning goals so hard the earth experienced tremors, scientists say

Liverpool fans celebrated Premier League title-winning goals so hard the earth experienced tremors, scientists say

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Liverpool winning the Premier League title shook the earth — literally — as scientists from University of Liverpool have revealed. Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur by a 5-1 scoreline at Anfield on April 27 to claim the the club’s 20th top-flight championship in front of a packed Anfield stadium. The celebrating fans at the venue caused little tremors, the scientists said. According to a report on the BBC website, the “most significant tremor” came thanks to Alexis Mac Allister’s goal in the 24th minute, because it handed Liverpool a narrow 2-1 edge in the contest. The celebrations from the Liverpool faithful registered a peak magnitude of 1.74 on the Richter scale. Cody Gakpo’s effort measured in at 1.03, the own goal from Destiny Udogie 1.35 and Luis Diaz’s initially disallowed equaliser 0.64. Story continues below this ad How did scientists measure this? Liverpool’s website revealed that they had installed a seismometer – an instrument that measures ground movement – in the Main Stand for the game against Spurs. The study was conducted by Dr Antoine Septier, …

FA Cup stunner: Liverpool is knocked out by second-tier Plymouth in fourth round | Football News

FA Cup stunner: Liverpool is knocked out by second-tier Plymouth in fourth round | Football News

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Premier League leader Liverpool was knocked out of the FA Cup by second-tier struggler Plymouth after losing 1-0 in a stunning fourth-round upset on Sunday. It ended any hopes of a quadruple of major trophies for Liverpool, which leads the Premier League by six points with a game in hand, finished top of the revamped first stage of the Champions League and has reached the English League Cup final. Ryan Hardie’s 53rd-minute penalty proved to be the winner for Plymouth, a club from the southwest of England which is in last place in the second-tier Championship and recently fired Wayne Rooney as its manager. THEY’VE DONE IT!!!@Argyle HAVE DEFIED THE ODDS. THEY’VE BEATEN @LFC 🤯#EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/aK6JGKO5lW — Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) February 9, 2025 Liverpool fielded a heavily rotated lineup, without stars like Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk who weren’t even on the bench, but still had established internationals like Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota on the field in a frenetic ending to the game as Plymouth was forced to …