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Kahn tipped to be Bayern's next president
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Former Germany captain Oliver Kahn is emerging as the favourite to be the next president of Bayern Munich -- 15 years after he first put himself forward for the job.
In 2003, while he was still keeping goal for Bayern and Germany, Kahn said in an interview that he "could not imagine a better man than me" to one day take charge of Bayern.
Current Bayern president Uli Hoeness, 66, is due for re-election in November 2019. According to magazine Sports Bild, Kahn, 49, is Hoeness' preferred candidate to replace him when he eventually stands down.
The pair have stayed in contact since Kahn retired in 2008 after making 632 appearances for Bayern in 14 years, winning the Bundesliga title a joint record eight times.
Venus reaches settlement in fatal traffic accident
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Venus Williams has reached a settlement with the estate of a man who died in a traffic collision in Florida with a car driven by the tennis star.
The family of 78-year-old Jerome Barson filed a wrongful death suit against Williams following the June 2017 crash in Palm Beach, Florida.
No charges were filed by police against Williams or the driver of the other car over the accident.
The settlement reached last week does not reveal any of the terms of the agreement other than a stipulation that both parties will pay their own attorneys' fees.
Barson's wife was driving and he was in the passenger seat when the collision occurred with the car driven by Williams.
Barson suffered severe injuries and died two weeks later.
Drogba calls time at 40
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Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba announced his retirement on Wednesday, calling time on a 20-year career in which the bullish centre forward won four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.
Ivorian Drogba, who had been playing in the United States for Phoenix Rising, had two spells at Chelsea, scoring 164 goals in 381 games having spearheaded the west London club's revival under owner Roman Abramovich.
He went on to win three Premier League titles in his first eight years at Chelsea as well as four FA Cups and two League Cups.
Drogba, 40, began his career at French side Le Mans in 1998, but did not play top-tier football until he was 23 when he was signed by Guingamp in 2002.
Manon becomes unbeaten champ
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Candidate Master Manon Reja Neer became the unbeaten champion in the standard chess event of Open Under-8 Group as the Western Asia Youth & Junior Chess Championship ended at Tashkent, Uzbekistan yesterday.
The Bangladeshi earned eight points from nine games after beating Komilov Johangir of Uzbekistan in the ninth and final round to achieve the gold medal.
In the Girls' Under-6 group, Bangladesh's Warsia Khusbu became the unbeaten champion to earn the gold medal.
'Premier League made me better'
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola believes the competitive nature and sheer unpredictability of the Premier League has presented him with the biggest challenge of his career.
Prior to his move to Manchester, Guardiola collected three La Liga titles and two Champions League trophies with Barcelona, before leading Bayern Munich to three consecutive Bundesliga crowns in competitions dominated by very few teams.
"I am a better manager than I was in Germany, and I am a better manager now than I was in Barcelona by far, just for the fact of being there," he said at the Peers Annual Lecture at Liverpool University.
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