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Niko Kovac took charge of Borussia Dortmund in January 2025.
The Borussia Dortmund football club announced on its social media account the extension of the contract with the team's head coach Niko Kovac.
The new agreement with the 54-year-old specialist runs until June 30, 2029. Assistant coaches Robert Kovac and Filip Tapalovic will also retain their positions at the club.
Kovac took charge of Borussia in January 2025, replacing Turkish specialist Nuri Sahin. Under the leadership of the Croatian specialist, the Bumblebees played 80 matches, won 49 victories, 14 draws and 17 defeats.

Formula 1 has announced the signing of a ten-year contract to host the Rwandan Grand Prix. The stage will be included in the championship calendar in the early 2030s.

Australian boxer Tim Tszyu will face Cuban Erislandy Lara in a fight for the WBA world middleweight title. The date and location of the fight have not yet been announced.

Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev and Belarusian Ivan Lyutarevich withdrew from the doubles tournament of the Masters category in Shanghai before their second-round match against the French pair Theo Arribaje and Albano Olivetti. The reasons for the withdrawal are not specified. In singles, Medvedev continues the tournament and has reached the fourth round, where his next opponent will be the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority has published information about meetings between Mayor Andy Burnham and Khaldoon Al Mubarak in 2019 and 2021, when Burnham was mayor of the region. Earlier, the English Premier League confirmed that Manchester City had been found guilty of violating financial rules during the 2009/10 to 2017/18 seasons and refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Burnham promised to make public information about his contacts with the club's owners.

FIFA did not disclose in its 2024 annual report additional payments to president Gianni Infantino from FWC2026 subsidiary US Inc amounting to around 1.5 million euros, which Le Parisien and former FIFA governance committee chairman Miguel Maduro said may breach the organisation's transparency rules.

Saudi football club Al-Nasr defeated Uzbekistan's Neftchi with a score of 3:1 in a home match of the second round of the general stage of the Asian Champions League. The game at Al Awwal Park in Riyadh started with an hour delay due to an alert. The goals were scored by Angelo Gabriel, Cristiano Ronaldo and an own goal by Anvar Gafurov, and Alisher Odilov scored for Neftchi. Ikrom Alibaev received a red card.