Ferran Torres hits hat-trick as PSG wallop Slovan in Champions League

Paris, France: Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick and Ousmane Dembele also starred as Paris Saint-Germain began their quest to win a third consecutive Champions League title by thrashing Slovan Bratislava 6-1 at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday.

Last year's Ballon d'Or winner Dembele had bagged a brace by the midway point in the first half in the French capital, and then set up Spain's World Cup final hero Torres to make it 3-0 by the interval. playerbros.org

Torres, a close-season signing from Barcelona, added two more just after the restart to complete his hat-trick, with Suleiman Camara pulling one back for the Slovakian champions and Fabian Ruiz sealing PSG's win.

"It is impossible, you cannot expect to score a hat-trick," Torres told broadcaster Canal Plus when asked if he imagined such an outcome.

"The only thing that we knew before the game was that we had to play with the right intensity, press when we lost the ball, and we did that really well. We did a really good game."

The French club are bidding to follow in the footsteps of the Real Madrid side of 2016 to 2018 and become just the second team in the history of the modern Champions League to win the trophy three years running.

Real, Ajax and Bayern Munich were the only teams to achieve that feat in the days of the old European Cup.

PSG's next games will be against teams hoping to end their reign, with a trip to Manchester City and a home clash with Barcelona coming in October -- Torres is a former player of both clubs.

"It is the Champions League, we always play against tough teams, but we have to be focused first in Ligue 1 because we didn't start in the right way," he added, with PSG yet to win a domestic game this season.

أحرز لاعب العنابي للكاراتيه حسن منصور الميدالية الفضية في منافسات فئة الشباب لوزن فوق 76 كيلوغراما، ضمن النسخة 24 من بطولة آسيا للكاراتيه تحت 21 عاما، بالاردن.
وجاء تتويج لاعب العنابي عقب سلسلة من المواجهات القوية والمثيرة، قدم خلالها أداء مميزا عكس جاهزيته الفنية والبدنية، وتمكن من منافسة نخبة من أبرز لاعبي القارة الآسيوية، قبل أن يحسم المركز الثاني عن جدارة واستحقاق.
وأعرب عيد المريخي، رئيس الاتحاد القطري للتايكوندو والجودو والكاراتيه، عن سعادته بالإنجاز الذي حققه حسن منصور، مؤكدا أن الميدالية الفضية تمثل ثمرة للجهود الكبيرة التي يبذلها اللاعب والجهازان الفني والإداري، وتعكس التطور الذي تشهده رياضة الكاراتيه القطرية.
وقال: «نبارك لمنصور هذا الإنجاز المميز، ونشيد بالمستوى الذي ظهر به، وتمكن من الوصول إلى منصة التتويج».
وأضاف: «نهدي هذا الإنجاز إلى سعادة الشيخ جوعان بن حمد آل ثاني رئيس اللجنة الأولمبية القطرية لدعمه الكبير لهذه الرياضة».

Doha, Qatar: Qatar head to the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 with high hopes in squash and padel, looking to strengthen its presence on the Asian sporting stage.

The Games run in Japan from September 19 to October 4, and Qatar’s squash and padel teams are targeting strong finishes and a place on the podium.

The occasion carries extra weight for Qatar’s padel players, since padel makes its official Asian Games debut in Aichi-Nagoya.

The padel squad, coached by Pablo Nicolas Sisti and Florencia Sofia Galdo, features Rashid Nawaf Nayef, Mishari Nawaf Nayef, Hassan Adel Wali and Mohammed Saadoun Al-Kuwari. The women’s team includes Maha Abdul Redha Faramarzi, Hanan Hassan Al-Abdulrahman, Mariam Mansour Al-Sultan and Dana Mohammed Al-Mudahka.

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Mohammed Saadoun Al-Kuwari

Qatar’s padel team took silver at the inaugural Asian Padel Championships in Doha in 2025 and qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 2021. They also won the inaugural Gulf Padel Challenge Cup in 2022, and beat Saudi Arabia and Bahrain at this year’s Gulf Games in Doha.

In squash, Qatar’s hopes rest largely on Abdullah Mohammed Al Tamimi, who won bronze in the men’s singles at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Al Tamimi added another big continental medal in 2025, taking silver at the Asian Squash Championships in Malaysia. He’s also picked up wins at the Cape Town Squash Championship, Qatar Challenger Championship, and the Atlanta and Qatar Professional Championships.

Alongside Al Tamimi, the squash team includes Syed Azlan Iqbal, Salem Yousef Al-Malki and Ali Ahmed Al-Darwish, coached by Amir Wajih Radwan.

Both teams have gone through intensive preparations - domestic and overseas training camps, fitness work, competitive matches. The padel programme in particular has focused on building chemistry between the pairs.

Qatar Tennis, Squash, Padel and Badminton Federation Secretary General Tareq Zainal voiced confidence in the teams’ preparations and their medal chances.

Speaking to the Qatar News Agency, Zainal pointed to the players’ experience, technical ability and recent progress as reasons for optimism heading into the Games.

He said the federation’s combined administrative and technical preparations, together with the athletes’ determination and experience, give Qatar the foundation it needs to compete at the highest level. Zainal also stressed the importance of using the Asian Games to grow racket sports in Qatar, inspire the next generation and raise the country’s profile in major continental and international competitions.

Qatar’s contingent to Aichi-Nagoya numbers 243 athletes, competing across 26 sports and 32 disciplines.