[ad_1] Former Cardiff City, Leeds and Ivory Coast defender Sol Bamba has tragically passed away aged just 39. Turkish side Adanaspor A.Ş broke the news in a statement released on X which read:  ‘Our Technical Director Souleymane Bamba, who fell ill before the Manisa Football Club match played yesterday, was taken to Manisa Celal Bayar University Hospital and unfortunately lost his battle for life there. ‘Our condolences to his family and our community.’ He was previously diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare form of cancer back on Christmas Eve in 2020 but was believed to be in the clear.  However Turkish outlet hurriyet have reported that he ‘ fell ill before the Manisa FK match due to a relapse of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.’ Sol Bamba, former Leeds, Cardiff and Middlesbrough defender, tragically dies, aged 39 Bamba fell ill before he was due to take charge of match for Turkish club Adanaspor The former defender was a popular figure in English football having donned the jersey’s of Leicester City, Leeds, Cardiff City and Middlesbrough. Since retiring in 2022, Bamba made the move into coaching, becoming an assistant manager for his former club Cardiff before joining Turkish side Adanaspor. The 39-year-old had been working as the club’s technical director since the summer until his untimely passing. Many of Bamba’s former clubs have already released tributes to the French-born centre-back. Cardiff City who he spent the majority of his playing career with released a heartfelt statement on X which read: ‘It is with the deepest sadness that we have learnt this evening about the passing of Club legend, Sol Bamba.  ‘As a player and coach, Sol’s impact on our football club was immeasurable. He was a hero to all of us, a leader in every dressing room and a true gentleman.  ‘Our thoughts are with his friends, family and everyone lucky enough to know and love Sol.’ It is with the deepest sadness that we have learnt this evening about the passing of Club legend, Sol Bamba. As a player and coach, Sol’s impact on our football club was immeasurable. He was a hero to all of us, a leader in every dressing room and a true gentleman. Our… pic.twitter.com/f4eOicxMyt — Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) August 31, 2024 Cardiff City released a tribute which read ‘as a player and coach, Sol’s impact on our football club was immeasurable’ Leeds wrote on X: ‘Everyone at #LUFC is devastated to learn of the news that former #LUFC captain Sol Bamba has passed away.  ‘Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends at this tragic time. Rest in peace, Sol, you will be forever in our hearts. Bamba captained Leeds United during his time with the club in 2016 🤍 Everyone at #LUFC is devastated to learn of the news that former #LUFC captain Sol Bamba has passed away. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends at this tragic time. Rest in peace, Sol, you will be forever in our hearts. pic.twitter.com/HFqtYgsFkM — Leeds United (@LUFC) August 31, 2024 Middlesbrough also paid tribute to their former player on X writing: ‘We are devastated to learn of the passing of Sol Bamba at the age of 39.  ‘Our thoughts are with Sol’s family and friends at this time. RIP Sol’  We are devastated to learn of the passing of Sol Bamba at the age of 39. Our thoughts are with Sol’s family and friends at this time. RIP Sol ❤️ pic.twitter.com/jNYNiHPKE7 — Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) August 31, 2024 Whilst fellow Turkish side Galatasaray side paid their respects by posting a tribute which read: ‘We have learned with sorrow that Adanaspor Technical Director Sol Bamba has passed away.  ‘We offer our condolences to Sol Bamba’s family, loved ones and the Adanaspor community.’  Many of Bamba’s former clubs have paid tribute to the 39-year-old, one of which was Leeds where he captained the team Bamba grew up in Paris and that is where his love for the game sprung, starting his career with Paris Saint-Germain’s youth setup before taking the leap and deciding to move to Scotland where he played for both Dunfermline and then Hibernian. In 2011 his affair with English football began when he joined Leicester City, where he played under Sven-Goran Eriksson. The pair shared a good relationship having previously worked together in the Ivory Coast national team setup where the Swede manager also coached Bamba. He then headed away from England, playing for Trabzonspor and Palermo before returning in 2015 to play for Leeds. His captaincy stint with Leeds was pulled short when he moved to Cardiff City in 2016 where he made 118 appearances for the club. Bamba moved to Cardiff City in 2016 from Leeds where he made 118 appearances for the club Since retiring in 2022, Bamba returned to Cardiff taking up a role as an assistant manage for his former club  It was during his time in Wales that Bamba was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. The centre-back spent four mounts months battling the aggressive cancer by undergoing chemotherapy. ‘After the first chemo I was down for four days,’ he told Sportsmail back in 2022.  ‘I could not get out of bed. I lost weight. After that, I told my missus, “I’m not going for the second round”. The way I was, in that moment, it was awful.  Bamba made a triumphant return in the final match of the 2020/21 season and went on to sign for Middlesbrough ahead of the 2021-22 season. He went on to make 28 appearances and even scored the winning penalty in the FA Cup fourth round clash against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Speaking about the experience he said: ‘When I was going through chemo, I never thought for one minute I would come back and play. And I never thought about scoring penalties at Old Trafford – nights like that seemed a million miles away.’ More to follow  [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] A man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison after hacking into a state database to fake his death, and get out of paying child support. Jesse Kipf from Kentucky, in the US, was sentenced to 81 months for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. The 39-year-old admitted to accessing the Hawaii Death Registry System in January last year and creating a “case” for his own death. Kipf then completed a State of Hawaii Death Certificate Worksheet, assigned himself as the medical certifier for the case and certified his death, using the digital signature of the doctor. It meant he was successfully registered as a deceased person in many government databases. Kipf admitted that he did it to avoid his outstanding child support obligations of more than $100,000. The hacker also accessed other death registry systems and companies in unrelated attacks that he carried out using the stolen log in details of real physicians and workers. He was found to be offering to sell access to the systems and selling stolen databases containing private information like Social Security Numbers to other cyber criminals on the darknet. The darknet is a portion of the internet only accessible through specialist software that hides a browser’s identity. There are many darknet marketplaces where cyber criminals sell stolen data or access to compromised IT systems. Kipf sold to international buyers, including individuals from Algeria, Russia and Ukraine, the court was reportedly told. “This scheme was a cynical and destructive effort, based in part on the inexcusable goal of avoiding his child support obligations,” said Carlton S. Shier, IV, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Under federal law, Kipf must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence and will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for three years. The damage to governmental and corporate computer systems and his failure to pay his child support obligations amounted to a total of $195,758.65. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] This is all starting to get rather serious. Jack Draper is into the fourth round of the US Open without dropping a set and will face world No39 Tomas Machac for a place in his first Grand Slam quarter final. The British No1 beat Botic van de Zandschulp, the conqueror of Carlos Alcaraz, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, with another nerveless display. The 22-year-old is improving rapidly and the next stage of his evolution is to make a deep run at a major. That his breakthrough could come in the very first Grand Slam after Andy Murray retired seems almost too good to be true; too poetic of a narrative. But this really is a fine chance for Draper to make the semi-finals here, where he would be expected to face world No1 Jannik Sinner, with whom he has struck up a close friendship. From expecting a free hit against Alcaraz, Draper went into his third round as favourite but he dealt with the pressure of that flipped script superbly. Jack Draper is into the fourth round of the US Open without dropping a set Draper starred as he beat Dutch player Botic van De Zandschulp (pictured) in straight sets Draper now has a golden chance to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final after an impressive run in America Until his victory against Alcaraz this had been a poor year for Van de Zandschulp and Draper gradually eroded the fragile confidence his opponent had gained from that landmark win. ‘Botic played an incredible match against Carlos,’ said Draper. ‘It’s not always easy to go on that big stage and then come out the next round. ‘I played a solid match today. It was a bit scrappy, a bit up and down, but I got through in the end.’ As Draper suggested, this was a closer match than the scoreline suggests. In the first two sets Van de Zandschulp served well, as he did against Alcaraz, and the match came down to who played the big points better. Draper took three of his eight break points while saving nine out of 10 on his own serve. That single break he conceded was the first time his lethal leftie serve has been breached this fortnight. His record of 97 per cent of service games held is the best in the tournament. Draper took a 2-0 lead in the first set but faced a break point in each of his next three service games, eventually getting pegged back. It was a nip-and-tuck set but Draper produced two of his best shots of the match – a rifled forehand and a deft drop shot – to break decisively for 5-3. The second set was similarly tight but once Van de Zandschulp double faulted to concede a break at 3-3 Draper took control. At 2-2, 30-30 in the fourth set Van de Zandschulp served consecutive double faults and Draper was not about to let such generosity go unpunished. More double faults came – six in all in that third set – and Van de Zandschulp began flexing his right leg in discomfort. By the end he looked more like the man who was contemplating retirement after the French Open than the man who thrashed Alcaraz on Thursday night. Draper took three of his eight break points while saving nine out of 10 on his own serve It has all been rather easy for Draper so far in New York as he targets making history It has all been rather easy for Draper so far in New York. Zhizhen Zhang retired with a leg injury in his first-round match, he was far too good for fellow southpaw Facundo Diaz Acosta and Van de Zandschulp faded badly. Has it almost been too easy? Draper has played only as well has he has needed to so far and that bar will be raised against Machac tomorrow. The Czech, who reached his first Grand Slam fourth round with a straight-sets win over 33-year-old Belgian David Goffin yesterday, has a forehand at least as big as Draper’s and is also yet to drop a set. Draper will now meet Czech ace Tomas Machac in the next round of the US Open But Grand Slam fourth-round matches against unseeded players do not come along too often and this is a huge opportunity for Draper. And how he richly he deserves it, after a 2023 – and, really, much of his early career – was seriously disrupted by injury. Draper has reinforced his hulking frame through hours of hard labour and is reaping the rewards. ‘Last year I had a tough year with injuries,’ he said. ‘This year I’ve been able to stay on court to compete all the time on tour against the best players in the world. This is what I put all the hard work for: to play on the biggest stages in the world. I’m really happy and grateful for the all the great people around me and we keep wanting more.’ Dan Evans was last night taking on No10 seed Alex de Minaur, trying to join Draper in the fourth round and make it a Super Saturday for British tennis. [ad_2] Source link