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Bertrand Traoré rejoint Wolverhampton
Bertrand Traoré va poursuivre sa carrière en Angleterre. Libre après son passage à Sunderland, l’international burkinabè s’est officiellement engagé avec Wolverhampton pour une saison. À 31 ans, l’ancien joueur de l’Olympique Lyonnais retrouve un championnat qu’il connaît bien et rejoint des Wolves désormais engagés en Championship, avec l’ambition de retrouver rapidement l’élite.
Une nouvelle étape en Angleterre
Traoré connaît déjà parfaitement le football anglais. Arrivé à Chelsea à seulement 18 ans, il y avait découvert la Premier League et la Ligue des champions avant de poursuivre son parcours à Aston Villa. Son expérience l’a ensuite conduit en France, en Espagne, en Turquie et aux Pays-Bas, où il avait notamment retrouvé l’Ajax.
Son dernier exercice a toutefois été beaucoup plus discret. Touché par une blessure, le Burkinabè n’a disputé que 12 rencontres de Premier League avec Sunderland, pour un but, avant de quitter le club au printemps. Il revient désormais dans un environnement qu’il maîtrise, avec la volonté affichée de retrouver du rythme et une place importante dans un projet ambitieux. sport-tr.bet
Les Wolves comptent sur son expérience
Wolverhampton recherchait précisément un joueur capable d’apporter davantage de solutions sur les ailes. Cesar Peixoto apprécie particulièrement son profil : gaucher, capable de jouer en un contre un, rapide dans les espaces et suffisamment polyvalent pour évoluer à plusieurs postes offensifs. Le technicien portugais voit en lui une option supplémentaire pour une équipe qui vise la remontée en Premier League.
Traoré arrive donc avec un objectif collectif très clair : aider les Wolves à retrouver l’élite dès cette saison. Le joueur, lui, veut également profiter de cette nouvelle aventure pour retrouver les sensations qui ont marqué ses meilleures années en Angleterre.
À quelques jours de ses 31 ans, le Burkinabè ouvre ainsi un nouveau chapitre dans un championnat qu’il connaît déjà. Après une dernière saison perturbée par les blessures, Wolverhampton lui offre l’occasion de repartir sur de nouvelles bases et de redevenir un joueur majeur dans un projet de montée.
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Beaver gives ‘phenomenal’ Marx his flowers
Stephen Donald applauded the physicality and try-scoring prowess of Springbok juggernaut Malcolm Marx in the third Test of the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series.
The former All Blacks flyhalf was speaking to Kiwi sportscaster Kirstie Stanway on The Aftermatch with Kirst & Beav podcast, prompted by Ardie Savea’s brace at FNB Stadium on Saturday – a haul that moved him top of the forwards’ all-time Test try-scoring list (35).
“I wanted to talk about a couple of other people on that list,” Stanway said. “Richie McCaw, 27 tries. Malcolm Marx also sits on that 27-try mark, and the great Kieran Read, 26.
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“It’s a pretty illustrious list when you look at those guys. Not bad company.”
Donald shifted the spotlight to Marx, whose second-half maul try had helped push the Boks to a 29-24 win and 2-1 series lead heading into this week’s Baltimore clash.
“It’s a wonderful list and I was going to ask you where Marx was. He’s often at the back of the all-powerful mauls from the Boks too. He was phenomenal.”
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Stanway agreed but reckoned the Bok hooker’s influence went beyond the try itself.
“It wasn’t just what he was doing around the field. It’s the swagger that Malcolm Marx has got about him.
“You love a Henry Pollock character but he [Marx] doesn’t seem arrogant or anything like that … just to give a salute, the two taps on the ground. He was up for that Test, Beav.”
Donald picked up on the needle built up over the last three Tests, before turning to Marx’s role at the breakdown.
“There’s plenty of spice there at the moment … your memory doesn’t exactly allow you to forget what happened six days earlier or some of the contests that you’ve had with each other.
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“When he gets over the ball, you’re just waiting for the arm to go out from the referee … You’re not going to shift him if you’re not there early. Once he gets locked on the ball, it’s all over.”
Stanway also needed no convincing of South Africa’s set-piece superiority. “We’ve got to give them their flowers,” she noted.
“They are a super impressive outfit and whether you like scrums or not, scrums have been talked about heavily over the last three weeks.
“And when the Boks do it and demolish someone, it’s so impressive.”
A half-joking Donald added: “I like watching it – if it just doesn’t happen to be against guys wearing black jerseys.”
Photo: Floris van Schouwenburg/Gallo Images
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Record-breaking Siya Kolisi leads Springboks to the promised land
Siya Kolisi stood tallest at the FNB Stadium in Soweto on Saturday night in captaining the Springboks to a record 55th Test win.
Kolisi started and played close to an hour in emptying the tank and ensuring that all the momentum was with the Boks in the final quarter.
Siya Kolisi
Kolisi is a great player and an equally great captain. He is comfortably the most influential player to ever lead the Springboks.
This Test was huge in so many ways.
South Africa originally were awarded the 2023 World Cup hosting rights World Rugby’s Independent panel. Despite the endorsement World Rugby’s elected officials declared France the winner.
The Boks went onto win the 2023 World Cup final at the Stade de France in Paris 12-11. They beat their mighty foe, the All Blacks.
The FNB Stadium is where the 2023 World Cup would have been played.
South Africans finally got their final, three years after the fact, against their greatest rival in the most decisive third Test in the four Test series.
They won comfortably, thanks to a third quarter surge and final quarter control and composure, in front of 85 500.
It was the first time in three attempts that the Boks had beaten the All Blacks at the FNB Stadium. It was also just the third win in 11 matches against the All Blacks at altitude.
The Boks lost 33-16 at Ellis Park three weeks ago, but as the series progressed they grew stronger and were easily the best team at the finish on Saturday night.
Kolisi was pivotal to so much of the Boks’ comeback to level the series in Cape Town with a 33-26 win, and win 29-24 at the FNB Stadium.
His continued value to the Boks simply cannot be overstated.
Big names stood up for the Boks in Cape Town and at the FNB Stadium.
Eben Etzebeth, Kolisi, Malcolm Marx and Pieter-Steph du Toit. They are the OGs in the forwards: winners of two World Cups, a British & Irish Lions series and back-to-back Rugby Championships.
When the Boks needed their most experienced forward leaders to make the most on-field noise this quartet produced the highest quality of rugby music. This was no symphony but pure hard rock in a way that only the Springboks can produce.
In the backs the midfield pairing of Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel were marvellous, in Cape Town and at the FNB Stadium. Cheslin Kolbe was worth gold in Cape Town.
The All Blacks are a different entity to that which lost successive Tests in South Africa in 2024 and got blown away 43-10 in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2025.
The new coach Dave Rennie is moulding a potent line-up that will be South Africa’s closest challenger for the 2027 World Cup in Australia.
The All Blacks were very good at Ellis Park, a threat in Cape Town and competitive for 50 minutes at the FNB Stadium.
They tested the Boks’ resolve, and it took two very important and powerful performances in Cape Town and on Saturday night for the Boks to overturn a one-nil series deficit into a 2-1 lead with one to play.
These Boks know how to win the most important matches, and this one was the most important in South Africa since the third and final Test against the British and Irish Lions in Cape Town in 2021.
It required the OGs to be as present and influential as they were at the 2023 World Cup. It also demanded that the next generation come of age in this series.
We saw that with Ethan Hooker, Jasper Wiese and the maturity of Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu in Cape Town and in the third Test win.
The Boks have beaten the All Blacks in seven of the last nine Tests, which is unprecedented in the history of this great rivalry that stretches back to 1921 and totals 113 Tests.
Saturday night was another memorable one for veteran utility forward Deon Fourie. He finished the final 13 minutes and beat the All Blacks for the third successive time.
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Tournoi U17 à Dakar : la Guinée-Bissau disqualifiée après des tests IRM
DAKAR- L’UFOA-A a officiellement disqualifié la Guinée-Bissau du tournoi qualificatif U17 (zone Ouest A) qui débute ce lundi 7 septembre 2026 au Sénégal, à la suite de tests d’imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) révélant des cas de fraude sur l’âge.
L’équipe de la Guinée-Bissau est exclue de la compétition.Impact sur la compétition : Logée initialement dans le groupe B, sa disqualification laisse le Mali, le Liberia et la Guinée s’affronter dans une poule réduite.Le tournoi se poursuit : Malgré ce rebondissement de dernière minute, la compétition démarre comme prévu ce 7 septembre 2026 au Sénégal, notamment avec le match d’ouverture opposant les Lionceaux du Sénégal à la Mauritanie au Stade Abdoulaye Wade.
Cette disqualification réorganise la poule B avec désormais trois équipes à savoir : la Guinée, le Liberia et le Mali. Précisons que pour se qualifier à la prochaine CAN U-17, la Guinée devra remorter ne tournoi ou être être finaliste. Tout un défi pour le staff technique qui veut ramener le Syli en coupe d’Afrique après avoir raté les dernières éditions.
Mohamed LAMINE TOURÉ
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