Ramos offers support to departing Spain coach Luis Enrique
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Sergio Ramos paid tribute on Wednesday to Luis Enrique, who has stepped down as Spain coach for personal reasons and will be replaced by his assistant Robert Moreno.
Luis Enrique said in a statement he was resigning “due to the reasons which had prevented me from fulfilling my duties as normal since last March.”
His personal issue has not been made public.
Ramos, Spain’s captain, wrote on Twitter: “Every victory for the national team will be your boss. You have all our support and our strength.”
Moreno has been in charge for Spain’s last three matches and will now lead the team through Euro 2020 qualifying and the final tournament, in what is his first job as a professional coach.
He will be Spain’s fourth boss in 12 months after Luis Enrique was appointed following last year’s chaotic World Cup, which saw Julen Lopetegui sacked and Fernando Hierro installed in his place.
“Luis Enrique has informed us he will not continue as coach,” said RFEF president Luis Rubiales in a press conference.
“We completely respect his situation and continue to do so in the same way. I have to thank Luis Enrique for his time with the federation and the doors of the national team will always be open to him.”
Rubiales added: “Robert will take over as coach, with the same length of contract that was signed before. He will be in charge of taking us to and overseeing a good showing at Euro 2020.”
Moreno, previously a scout and an opposition analyst, has worked with Luis Enrique in all of his previous coaching roles, at Celta Vigo, Roma and Barcelona.
But his first job as a head coach will be to rebuild one of the world’s most talented international teams.
“I have been with Luis in some of the most demanding changing rooms in the world for nine years,” Moreno said.
“If we win the Euros, nobody will remember if the coach had more or less experience.”
After crashing out to Russia in the last 16 of the World Cup, Luis Enrique oversaw impressive wins over England and Croatia in the Nations League, and a 4-1 thrashing of Wales in a friendly.
Yet two defeats at home to England and away to Croatia meant they finished second in their Nations League group behind Gareth Southgate’s side and failed to reach the semi-finals.
Despite the disappointment, Spain recovered by winning five games on the bounce, four of them in qualifying for Euro 2020 which has them sitting top of Group F, five points ahead of Sweden.
But Luis Enrique was unable to attend the latest victories over Malta, the Faroe Islands and Sweden, with Moreno overseeing all three in his absence.
“Robert told us that if we did not want him and his staff they would leave, that they did not want to be a nuisance,” said Rubiales.
“But we hired Luis Enrique with his team and his team is working very well. We believe they are the best option.”
Moreno added: “It’s a bittersweet day. I dreamt of becoming a head coach one day but not in this way.
“We will try to continue what Luis Enrique has started and to finish his work at the top, by winning Euro 2020.”
International court calls for Sudan’s Bashir to face justice
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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday demanded that deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir stand trial for the mass killings perpetrated in Darfur.
“Now is the time for the people of Sudan to choose law over the impunity and ensure that the ICC suspects in the Darfur situation finally face justice in a court of law,” prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the UN Security Council.
Bashir, who has been in jail in Sudan since a military coup ended his 30-year rule in April, was indicted by the ICC in 2009 in connection with fighting in the western region of Darfur.
More than 300,000 people have died there and 2.5 million others have been displaced since 2003, according to UN figures.
Bashir appeared in a court in Khartoum on Sunday to hear corruption charges levelled against him. He also faces possible murder charges for the deaths of demonstrators killed during the protests that led to his downfall.
The generals who now rule Sudan have so far ruled out transferring Bashir to the ICC, which accuses him of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The ICC prosecutor said that after the tumultuous events of recent months, Sudan “is now at a crossroads with the opportunity to depart from its previous policy of complete non-cooperation.”
He urged the country to “embark on a new chapter by signalling a new commitment to accountability for the victims” in Darfur.
“I am ready to engage in dialogue with the authorities in Sudan to ensure that the Darfur suspects face independent and impartial justice, either in a courtroom in The Hague or in Sudan,” said Bensouda.
“Continued impunity is not an option,” she said. “The victims of the Darfur situation deserve to finally have their day in court.”
The ICC has issued five arrest warrants in connection with the Darfur case. As well as Bashir, two suspects, Abdel Raheem Hussein and Ahmad Harun, have reportedly been arrested in Sudan, Bensouda said.
Several members of the Security Council, most of the European states, have backed Bensouda’s calls for Bashir to be brought before the international court and for the new authorities in Khartoum to cooperate with the ICC.
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