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Mbappe demands £600,000 per week salary in his new contract

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Paris Saint-Germain are yet to agree on a new contract with Kylian Mbappe and that has given rise to rumours linking the star player away from the French capital. Manchester City are the latest to be thrown into the list of clubs that could move to sign the player, with the only other prominent suitors being Real Madrid and Liverpool. 

The main reasons behind Manchester City being linked with the player is due to the club looking for a long-term replacement for Sergio Aguero, whose contract expires in the summer. The Argentinian has not yet made his decision regarding his future.

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In a recent report by the Athletic, Mbappe has reportedly asked for a £600,000 contract from Paris Saint-Germain or any other club who is willing to pursue the player, which includes Manchester City. Paris Saint-Germain on the other hand, are holding out for a transfer fee worth £174 million for the sensational forward. 

But there have been numerous sources that have stated that Paris will do everything in their power to keep the player at the club, going as far as to say that the owner of the club, alongside Sporting Director Leonardo, will try to agree to Mbappe’s demands to keep him at the club. One of the main demands the player had was his inclusion in sporting decisions. 

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This has raised the question as to whether any club will be able to afford the eye-watering figures that come along with the prospect of signing the teenage World Cup winner. 

UN and FIFA share strategic social goals

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A number of opportunities for engagement and collaborations were highlighted in the lead up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, at the World Cup and beyond

ZURICH, Switzerland, March 9, 2021/ — The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed had a virtual meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in which they exchanged views on shared priorities and the importance of urgent actions and commitments to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. They discussed the role of football as a force for good and a tool for hope, particularly as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of opportunities for engagement and collaborations were highlighted in the lead up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, at the World Cup and beyond.

“The United Nations welcomes the collaboration with FIFA, particularly football’s potential in supporting the SDGs,” Ms. Mohammed said. “Our engagement is important to best identify how we can advance the Sustainable Development Goals not only at the global level, but also at regional and local level to ensure no one is left behind.”

The FIFA President agreed, adding that it was important for football to be at the service of society. “It is important for us at the new FIFA to be able to engage with the UN. The new FIFA is a responsible body and a sustainable organisation. It is an organisation that is aware that football goes beyond playing competitions. Football is much more than that.”

The call, which took place on 8 March, International Women’s Day was an opportunity to reflect on the role of the sport in advancing gender equality and building better mechanisms to protect from abuse and marginalisation. Both leaders agreed that while having a vaccine was an important step in the effort to end the pandemic, the vaccine needed to be a people’s vaccine with equitable availability around the world. Ms. Mohammed highlighted the Secretary-General’s call for reimagining multilateralism and need for working with new and untraditional actors around the world to promote the Global Goals and the United Nations Agenda.

The FIFA President spoke about the need to build on positive examples around the world when communities and countries came together, how football can support the recovery process, and also the role that football can have in education.

“The common language of football works everywhere, and it is in the DNA of the new FIFA to be open and we will use our competitions to get the message across,” the FIFA President said. “Through the Football for Schools programme and via a new African schools tournament programme, our focus is not only on football. FIFA strongly believes that through football, you can speak about everything, as it teaches children about values and rules, and we want to use football’s force for education.”

The two leaders concluded by agreeing to strengthen existing relationships and to develop further plans in relation to the SDGs.

OnePlus Nord 5G gets Android 11 with OnePlus Nord Oxygen OS 11.AC01DA update

OnePlus Nord 5G has been one of the best 5G smartphones launched last year. It has been a hit among the upper mid-tier smartphones. The new mid-range smartphone from OnePlus is one of the best selling smartphones in its category.

I own the 12+256GB version of the OnePlus Nord 5G, and it has been great in almost every aspect. It was running on Android 10, but now it has got an update for Android 11.

The smartphone manufacturer has pushed a new update to the OnePlus Nord Oxygen OS. The new updated OS version is 11.AC01DA. The update is 2910 MB in size. It updates the Android version to 11, along with various other changes.

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In this update the following things have been improved or changed:

System

  • Update to Android 11 version
  • The brand new UI design brings you a more comfortable experience with various optimizations of details
  • Optimized the stability of some third-party apps and improved experience

Ambient Display

  • Newly added Insight clock style, a joint creation with Parsons School of Design. It will change according to the phone usage data (Go to: Settings > Customization > Clock on ambient display)
  • Newly added the Canvas always-on display, which can extract the subject’s outline from any photo and display it on your lock screen (Go to: Settings-Customization-Wallpaper-Canvas-Choose photo preview and it can be generated automatically)
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Dark Mode

  • Added the shortcut key for Dark Mode, pull down the quick setting to enable
  • Now supporting automatically turn on feature & customize time range. (Go to: Settings — Display —Dark Mode — Turn on automatically — Automatically enable from sunset to sunrise / Custom time range)

Shelf

  • Brand new shelf UI
  • Newly added a weather widget with smarter animation effect

Gallery

  • Newly added the Story feature, which can automatically create the weekly stories by using your local photos and videos
  • Optimized the loading speed to improve the image

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Sep Blatter has made a controversial comment regarding Messi’s Golden ball win in FIFA World Cup 2014

Lionel Messi was awarded Golden Boot in World Cup, summer 2014 which was a mistake admitted by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, and once again he revealed it in media on an interview with AS.

Blatter expressed how he got surprised when he came to know about the announcement, though Messi was performing well and in good form as he scored four goals and one assist which helped Argentina huge but he thinks it was not the right decision.

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He told AS during the interview “Shall I be diplomatic or shall I tell you the truth? Listen, I was myself a little bit surprised when I saw Lionel Messi coming up for best player of the tournament.”

“I think the decision was incorrect. I was surprised when I received the committee’s decision. They told me they had only looked at 10 of the players who took part in the final.”

“If you compare the beginning of the tournament and why finally the Argentina team got into the final, they were decisive and I think that influenced the decision.”

When Messi scored four and assisted once throughout the tournament whereas Thomas Muller pushed Germany by five goals and three assists. Also, Robben scored three and assist one in seven games.

Football fans throughout the world criticized the FIFA Committee’s decision when Messi was chosen for the award. According to some, Colombia’s James Rodriguez or Germany’s Manuel Neuer winners of Golden Boot and Golden Glove respectively could be more deserving.

Can Mumbai City FC win the double this season?

Mumbai City FC progressed into the finals of the 2020-21 Hero ISL, defeating home club FC Goa on penalties 6-5 in the second leg to seal their place in the last match of the season. 

The Sky Blues have won the ISL Winner’s Shield by finishing first in the group stage season as well and will be fancying their chances to complete a domestic double by winning the knockout stage of the tournament. 

The winners of the first semi-finals will be facing either one of ATK Mohun Bagan or NorthEast United, whoever manages to win the other semi-final. But if this season’s form is anything to go by, Mohun Bagan are the favourites to progress to the finals ahead of Northeast and are also favoured to successfully defend their title. 

A final between Mumbai City FC and ATK Mohun Bagan will no doubt be one with very high stakes. Mumbai won the league on goal difference after being level on points with the Mariners and this could present the opportunity to extract revenge for ATKMB or a chance for Mumbai to assert their dominance over the runners up in the league. 

On the other hand, NorthEast United could also get an upset victory over ATKMB to challenge Mumbai in the finals. That matchup too, would be interesting in the sense that it would be a David Vs Goliath affair rather than two of the outright best teams going at it head to head. 

In any case, considering the performance that Mumbai have put on throughout the season, their chances of winning the knockout stage exceed that of everyone else. 

The March 8 Patch Notes of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Include MP

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gets a new small update that makes the game finer which includes multiplayer, the League Play mode, and Zombies.

The Rapid Fire Moshpit playlist has been added to quick play in the Multiplayer, and this is the only change at that moment (though additional playlist updates could appear later in the week). The Guerrilla Warfare challenge for the multiplayer has been updated now, so now it can track kills from any weapon instead of only those weapons from players you have killed.

Now, the Helping Hand challenge can track Spy Plane scoring because it was not accurate before. The update fixes an issue with the competitive League Play mode that could cause names to appear blank. It also does fix another issue where players could be assigned a “broken” Ladder.

For the Zombies, the new March 8 update brings stability fixes for Objectives in the new Outbreak mode. It can also prevent a “graphics corruption” issue from occurring when using the Frenzied Guard field upgrade. You can check out the full patch note on the studio’s website.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War March 8 Patch Notes

MULTIPLAYER

Playlists

  • Rapid Fire Moshpit
    • Added HC Rapid Fire Moshpit to Quick Play.

Challenges

  • Season Challenges
    • The “Guerrilla Warfare” Season Challenge now tracks kills from any weapon that the player picks up, not only from weapons from players they’ve killed.
  • Daily Challenges
    • The “Helping Hand” Daily Challenge now properly tracks Spy Plane assist score.

LEAGUE PLAY

Ladders

  • If the player gets incorrectly placed into a “broken” Ladder, playing another match will put the player into a functional Ladder.
  • Addressed an issue that could cause other names on the Ladder to be blank.

ZOMBIES

Outbreak

  • Stability
    • Added various stability fixes related to Objectives in Outbreak.
  • Objectives
    • Resolved an issue that prevented completing the objective if a player carrying a canister left a co-op match in progress.
  • General
    • Resolved an issue that caused graphic corruption when using upgraded Frenzied Guard Field Upgrade.

Intel

  • Addressed an issue where a player could not listen to three Radio Transmissions in “Firebase Z.”

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Netflix has released the Official Teaser of ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’

The teaser of this highly anticipated film Roberto Baggio film has released this week, and also the football fans are waiting for the release of it. The team has already started to build the biographical portrayal of one of football’s most powerful figures on social media.

While the viewers call for the documentary’s release about more description, that would be a fictionalization. Among all the tried and trusted historical football movies that had used archived clips and talking heads, The Divine Ponytail is a fully-fledged different feature with Baggio that actor Andrea Arcangeli portrays.

Netflix unveils first trailer for Baggio: The Divine Ponytail

In this Arcangeli had played a key role from his 22-year career that is included penalty kick in the 1994 World Cup finals and also his spontaneous move from Fiorentina to Juventus.

Roberto Baggio’s performance at the 1994 World Cup will always be remembered by the missing penalty that paid an ultimate cost for his country. The trophy, the performances that he had done in the lead up to the final, always should be unforgettable.

Teaser for Netflix's 'The Divine Ponytail' Film About Roberto Baggio |  FirstShowing.net

Baggio was the man who was inspired the entire generations to play football and not only that he also was a very unique footballer who was capable of thrilling fans all over the world. Baggio: The Divine Ponytail also recognized as Il Giovani e Bellissimi which is directed by Letizia Lamartire, an Italian filmmaker.

Many football fans and coaches had said that Baggio is very closely associated with an iconic time for Serie- A and also Italian football that was the time that captured the imaginations of the British football fans with a huge thanks to the channel for the program “Football Italia”

Baggio: The Divine Ponytail' Netflix documentary on Italian great set for  May 26 release

The production has also annouce3d that in October ‘The Divine Ponytail’ will be going to release on May 26, 2021.

Here’s the official teaser:

Qualcomm to launch its new SM8325 for 2021 without 5G

Snapdragon is a suite of system-on-chip semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The Snapdragon central processing unit uses the ARM RISC instruction set.

Qualcomm, one of the biggest chipset makers in the world has already gifted the android community with its latest Snapdragon 870 and Snapdragon 888. The chipsets power most of the flagship smartphones and have become a major hit this year.

But according to recent sources, but Qualcomm is reportedly planning to introduce a third high-end chipset for 2021. According to Roland Quandt, Qualcomm is also developing the SM8325 and may pitch it as a cheaper alternative to the Snapdragon 888.

The major difference between the SM8325 and Snapdragon 888 aka SM8350 is that the former will come without an integrated 5G modem. It is also expected that Qualcomm will build the SM8325 on a 5 nm node and offer a comparable feature-set to the Snapdragon 888.

But, since it is supposed to be a cheaper alternative to the Snapdragon 888, we expect the company to cut-down the chip on many features. Including the lower CPU and GPU clock speeds, we can expect many more features to be lowered in aspect compare to SM8350.

To sum it up, the SM8325 should sit somewhere between the Snapdragon 870 and the Snapdragon 888 in Qualcomm’s product stack. We will hear more about the SM8325 before its release later this year.

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League has accidentally leaked on HBO Max a Big Thanks to Tom & Jerry

The extended cut of  DC’s Superhero movie has accidentally revealed during a kids’ film movie on HBO Max. Some viewers have logged in to HBO Max to watch the funny Tom & Jerry show on this platform this Monday,8th March and they got quite surprised.

They were accidentally met with the show of Zack Snyder’s four-hour cut of Justice League, a film which is not out March 18. Many people have noted online that they were able to watch the film, and THR also even confirmed the accessibility of the film, it depicts a problem that has been fixed. If you were the one who had watched the part of Zack Snyder’s Justice League then you are very lucky.

Zack Snyder's Justice League: release date, cast, runtime, and new trailer  | GamesRadar+

For the other people, you have to wait only for 10 more days before you can watch the film properly. At that time many trailers of character are being released with each member of the superhero team. All the superheroes like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman have also got a spotlight on their character, but Cyborg left to go.

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All we have quite some ideas about Justice League. The six-chapter titles have revealed by Snyder within the lengthy movie when he has explained his decision of why he had decided to include Jared Leto’s, Joker in this project and also said about the number of versions of his cut that will exist.

Watch the Trailer for 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' | Entertainment Tonight

Apart from those people the chosen few who have already seen it early, the rest of the people have to wait until the next Thursday, with Warner Bros. In between the final viral marketing push for the Snyder Cut. The latest promos are dropped daily with the recent series that shows different members of the Justice League every time. Though we have already seen some footage but also some many hours and hours are left to give us a glimpse at still to arrive.

Mi 10s is confirmed to launch on March 10 with Snapdragon 870 SoC, 108MP camera and highest score in DXOMARK Audio

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Xiaomi has revealed the launch date of the Mi 10s and it is scheduled for March 10. The launch will take place in China. The Mi 10s is a new addition to the Mi 10 lineup. The official renders are already out and the rear camera design looks like the Mi 10 Ultra and is equipped with a 108MP sensor. Now let’s see what do we know so far about this device.

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The Mi 10s will have Harman Kardon double stereo speakers for better audio quality and bring a 360-degree stereo immersive experience. The company has confirmed today that the phone will pack in Snapdragon 870 SoC and is 5G enabled. The smartphone seems to have a massive up-gradation over its predecessors. In the image, we can see the launch is scheduled at 2 pm local time (11.30 am IST) on March 10.

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Now moving towards another section where we can see the phone has appeared in the DXOMARK and gaining the highest Audio score in the test. The Mi 10s has scored an impressive 80 which makes it the No. 1 Audio device along with the help of Harman Kardon double stereo speakers.

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The phone will be available in three different colour options: Classic White, Elegant Black, and Mysterious Blue. It will have a curved AMOLED display, a 4,680mAh battery that will support 33W fast charging and will run on Android 11 OS. Let’s wait for the official launch tomorrow to learn more about the device and the pricing as well.