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Two nations who are looking to extend on their Olympic adventure out in Japan, Germany and the Ivory Coast will meet at the Miyagi Stadium in Rifu on Wednesday morning.
Germany U23
Starting with Germany, after opening this summer s delayed Olympic Games with a dreadful display against defending champions Brazil, the 2016 silver medalists would have been glad to have got their first victory on the board. Opening up their Group D run with a 4-2 drumming at the hands of the South American giants, Stefan Kuntz s side just about managed to avoid what would have been a real banana skin over the weekend. Eventually watching Augsburg s Felix Uduokhai bag a late winner in their action-packed 3-2 victory against Saudi Arabia, The Whites did once…
Miralem Pjanic has praised Massimiliano Allegri for making everything work in the best way during his time in charge at Juventus.
Allegri will take charge of Juve for the final time on Sunday when the Serie A champions travel to Sampdoria, bringing the curtain down on his hugely successful tenure in Turin.
The former AC Milan boss has won the league five times and also the Coppa Italia on four occasions since taking over in 2014.
Pjanic arrived from Roma two years into Allegri s reign but has been impressed by the way the Italian has continually pushed a star-studded squad to get better.
We are a fantastic group and I have to congratulate our coach, who has always managed to make everything work in the best way, he said at a club event on Thursday at t…