The 27-year-old Romanian left Manchester City for the Stadium of Light last month in the search for regular first-team football. However, in order to achieve that this season, he will have to oust Italian Mannone, the Black Cats’ Player of the Year for last season, and that is a battle be believes will be fought out during the remainder of pre-season. Sunderland new boy Costel Pantilimon is gearing up for a month-long battle with Vito Mannone for a place in Gus Poyet’s Barclays Premier League team. Pantilimon told the Sunderland Echo: “At this moment, I think everyone is fighting for their position. There’s a long period until we start the Premier League. “It’s normal for everyone to work hard, train hard and after that, we’ll see what happens. I think everyone wants to be in the first XI. We’ll see. “Vito is a good guy and a good keeper. I know that. But whatever happens, it’s important that it helps the team. “It’s not just competition for us, it’s everyone in the team. At this moment, no-one is in the starting XI.” Press Association read more
Do not. We cannot continue to tolerate this type of racist behavior. In football, in sports, you also educate, and we must educate in tolerance and respect.A hug, @ Williaaams45. https://t.co/4jToGD8t7R– Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) January 25, 2020Pablo Iglesias has also reacted, Vice President of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda: “All my support for Iñaki Williams. Racism has no place in our society. The permissiveness to this type of insults compared to other episodes produces misunderstanding and harms the image of our football.” The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has condemned this Saturday the racist insults that Athletic Club striker Iñaki Williams received in the match against Espanyol at the RCDE Stadium in Cornellá (Barcelona), and said that it is necessary to “educate in tolerance and respect”.“No. We cannot continue to tolerate this type of racist behavior. In football, in sports, we also educate ourselves, and we must educate in tolerance and respect,” Sánchez writes on Twitter. All my support to Iñaki Williams. Racism has no place in our society. The permissiveness to this type of insults compared to other episodes causes misunderstanding and damages the image of our football. https://t.co/QSyohe54N9– Pablo Iglesias 🔻 (@PabloIglesias) January 25, 2020In addition, Basque politicians as the leaders of the PNV and Podemos Euskadi, Andoni Ortuzar and Lander Martínez, and former soccer players like Rafa Alkorta, they have expressed their support and affection for the Athletic Bilbao striker.Your club has also issued a message of support on your social networks to Williams and has stressed that “for any racist insult, tolerance 0”.In his Twitter account, the president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar He stressed that “as a political leader, as a member of the Athletic Club and as a Basque citizen, all my support, closeness and affection”.The secretary general of Podemos Euskadi, Lander Martinez He has expressed in this social network the support of the purple formation to the player and asserted that “e racism must have no place either in sport or in society”.The Basque sovereignist formation, EH Bildu, on the other hand, he has remarked in the same social network that “racist aggressions are not admissible either in sport or anywhere! We want to transfer all our support.”The former player of Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, Rafa Alkorta, on the other hand, he said that “more parents educated me to respect others without looking at the color, without looking at where each one comes from, without looking at the sexuality of the person in front of me; I do not understand what goes through people’s minds who insulted Williams, they give me PENA. “ read more
The Costa Rican airline Nature Air said it is purchasing four new aircraft that will be arriving by year-end, representing an investment of $2.5 million.The LET-L410 type aircraft can carry 19 passengers. The planes will take to the air in December, Nature Air said this week, and will fly to the airline’s 15 destinations in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.General Manager Gustavo Chinchilla said the new, faster aircraft will significantly reduce flight times on all routes.“Tourists can arrive in 20 minutes to almost any beach destination that by land would take up to 5 hours,” Chinchilla said.In addition, the new planes have increased cargo capacity and more space for passengers.The LET-L410s will add to Nature Air’s current fleet, also allowing for more daily flights.“Our current fleet has a capacity of 160,000 seats per year and our new aircraft will allow us go up to 200,000,” Chinchilla said.He added that in coming months the airline will start offering new charter flights to Ometepe and Costa Esmeralda in Nicaragua. Nature Air also plans to add a new route to David, Panama.The latest report from Costa Rica’s Civil Aviation Administration states that Nature Air and Sansa, the other company offering domestic flights, transported 83 percent of all passengers who circulated at local airports in 2013. The remaining 17 percent used charter flights from other carriers, private flights or rental planes. Facebook Comments Related posts:Costa Rica could launch 7 new airline routes and add 2 carriers this year Avianca now offers San José-San Andrés flights on weekends Canadian carrier WestJet to add flights to Costa Rica from Calgary, Toronto New Costa Rican airline plans to launch with flights to Central and South America, US read more