Brazil will take 39-year-old defender Dani Alves to the World Cup in Qatar but leave behind Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino as head coach Tite named his 26-man squad for the tournament on Monday Alves will be hoping to use his experience as football's most decorated player with 44 career trophies to help five-time champions Brazil to their first World Cup title since 2002 - Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.) The defender has made 12 appearances for Pumas after joining the Mexican outfit in July following the expiration of his contract at Barcelona However, there is no space for Firmino, who has enjoyed a resurgence at Liverpool this season with six goals in 12 Premier League games. He was last called up by Tite in September, but misses out in favour Arsenal duo Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr. is also included alongside Paris Saint-Germain's Neymar who has 75 goals in 121 appearances for Brazil and is two strikes away from equalling the country's all-time top scorer Pele Tottenham forward Richarlison and West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta have also been selected after recovering from a calf and shoulder injuries, respectively. Manchester United's Antony also featured The moment Antony found out he was going to the World Cup with Brazil ❤️🇧🇷(via @antony00) pic.twitter.com/iZ7zN1B2Kh When asked about the negative reaction on social media to Alves' selection Tite told a news conference: "He is one of the captains of the team "I didn't come here to please people on Twitter which I don't even know what percentage of the Brazilian people they represent I respect differing opinions and I'm not here to convince everyone." They are two of the 12 Premier League-based players included on the roster while only three players on the list are on the books of Brazilian clubs As expected, Aston Villa's Philippe Coutinho has been left out after sustaining a muscular injury in training last week The Brazil boss will be taking only four centre-backs, with Juventus' Bremer behind Marquinhos, Thiago Silva and Eder Militao, while leaving out Roma's Ibanez and Arsenal's Gabriel has already said he will step down after the World Cup The Brazilian FA announce on Monday that former PSG manager Ricardo Gomes will join Tite's staff as an assistant Dani Alves has made 12 appearances for Liga MX side Pumas since leaving Barcelona in July. Kenta Harada/Getty ImagesThe squad and Tite will gather on Nov 14 at Juventus' training facilities in Turin where Brazil will hold a five-day training camp before flying to Doha on Nov "We are focused on doing the best job possible," Tite said when asked if Brazil are favourites to win the World Cup Three or four teams are always placed at the highest level People assume that Brazil is one of the favourites Brazil will open their World Cup campaign against Serbia on Nov. 24 and also face Switzerland and Cameroon in Group G Eder Militao (Real Madrid) Marquinhos (PSG) Information from Reuters included in this report If you have any questions or need help you can email us Charlie Connelly Charlie Connelly delves into the life of Alexey Stakhanov was a warm and muggy one in eastern Ukraine when Alexey Stakhanov left his small flat in Kadievka and headed for the night shift at the Tsentralnaya-Irmino mine The mine had been working round the clock since Stalin’s introduction of rapid Soviet industrialisation in the early 1930s setting ambitious targets and plans that the Tsentralnaya-Irmino had always struggled to fulfil Kadievka was a long way from Moscow and its methods and equipment were not exactly at the forefront of modern technology and efficiency As he walked through the mine gates in the summer twilight a six-hour shift stretched out ahead of the burly 29-year-old wielding the heavy jackhammer and jamming it into the seam chipping away at the coal before taking it to the carts pulled by pit ponies wedging wooden struts into the new cavity and starting the process all over again claustrophobic work and the hours dragged interminably he wasn’t dragging his feet towards the changing block as much as usual There were palpable butterflies in his stomach and a hint of a spring in his step because when his shift started the mine would be trying something new something that might improve productivity and maybe even working conditions Best of all it had been his idea: If it worked he might be given more responsibility and a pay rise That wouldn’t be bad for a
former shepherd who could neither read nor write the reason he’d left his distant village for the mines in the first place As he stowed his bag in his locker and made his way towards the cage ready to descend to the depths Stakhanov had no idea just how the events of that shift were about to change his life Within days he would be so famous an entire workers’ movement would bear his name the town of Kadievka itself would eventually be renamed in his honour and before the year was out his face would be gazing out from the cover of Time magazine Waiting for him at the cage were three fellow miners whom he knew well the local Communist Party secretary and a journalist from the local newspaper Handshakes were exchanged and the group descended to the tunnels Stakhanov’s idea was a simple division of labour while another loaded the cart as a third propped up the roof as necessary The fourth would lead the pit ponies away with the full carts on which he had recently been trained at his own request Having convinced his supervisor the plan would work that night would see it put into action for a full shift for the first time At the seam Stakhanov lay down and heaved the jackhammer into place the four miners nodded to each other and Stakhanov fired up the drill The individual quota of coal expected from each miner during a six-hour shift was seven tonnes As the coal began to pile up behind Stakhanov it was clear that he had surpassed that well inside the first hour By the time he switched off his machine for the last time six hours later he had hewn an incredible 102 tonnes of coal The journalist scurried back to the office and two days later the news of the Kadievka miner’s achievement reached the front page of the Soviet national newspaper Pravda Stakhanov was an overnight superstar of Soviet labour It wasn’t long before others attempted to match his achievement combine harvester operators and sugar beet gatherers were inspired to record-breaking examples of individual output A Moscow car plant worker named Aleksandr Busygin forged 1,115 crank shafts in one shift while Stakhanov himself was forced to reclaim his own record when his was beaten within weeks These super-workers were soon collected together under a new term: Stakhanovites Stakhanov was the perfect poster boy for Russia’s rapidly-expanding industrial sector Descended from generations of agrarian workers in western Russia he had grown up in a rural village expecting no more than to become a shepherd That he’d embraced the Soviet Union’s industrialisation programme by leaving the village and travelling to Ukraine to work in the mines was perfect propaganda material brawny and working selflessly to ensure communism’s triumph over capitalism who argue that the idea for the new working system came from higher up and he had been carefully selected as the face of the operation Stalin himself was addressing the first gathering of the Pan-Union Conference of Stakhanovites an organisation designed to encourage the kind of achievement embodied by the miner from Kadievka “The Stakhanovite movement is a model of that high productivity that only socialism can produce and that capitalism cannot produce,” Stalin told the gathered thousands He was soon on a conveyor belt of nationwide personal appearances and his partner a Roma woman named Yevdokia with whom he had two children left him in the early stages of his celebrity She’d been dubious about the whole situation from the day he’d come home and told her about his plans Not even the gift of a cow from the mine hierarchy had placated her and Stakhanov’s elevation to Soviet superstar proved too much to bear who he had spotted as a member of a youth choir performing to welcome him to the city of Kharkov on one of his tours along with Stakhanov’s children from his previous relationship moved to Moscow where he had been selected to study at the Academy of Industry and as the Nazis advanced Stakhanov was put in charge of a mine at distant Karaganda in Kazakhstan before spending 14 years at the Coal Ministry in Moscow occasionally being wheeled out to wave to crowds and spout encouraging words when industrial production levels needed a boost The death of Stalin left Stakhanov in an uncomfortable position his name and achievement had become associated with the murderous tyrant Under Stalin’s patronage he had led a relatively privileged existence Yet his own conduct and the nature of his achievement had always been unimpeachable aware of the delicacy of Stakhanov’s position to transfer the old miner away from the Muscovite spotlight back to Kadievka He was eventually awarded 
the highest honour available to him Underemployed and separated from his Moscow-based family for long periods Stakhanov fell into gloomy reflection about the path his life had taken As the years had passed his name had come to represent not so much the victory of communism over capitalism but the worker showing up his less-productive colleagues leading to the raising of already challenging targets His last years were spent increasingly dependent on the bottle and he died in a sanatorium after slipping on some spilled tea and striking his head on an iron bed frame As he’d walked towards the mine that warm summer night in 1935 Alexey Stakhanov had had no inkling that his broad shoulders were about to not only make him famous but that the reverberations from his jackhammer would spread around the globe his face on a magazine cover and 102 freshly-hewn tonnes of coal suggested communism really might be on the verge of defeating capitalism Forgotten password? 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Mohamed Salah has typically been the most advanced Reds forward this season with Brazil international Firmino dropping back into a central role behind his teammate He had a hand in all three of Liverpool’s goals in the Premier League victory at Vicarage Road on Saturday sealing the three points via an 89th-minute header - his fifth strike of the campaign Klopp reinforced his appreciation for a player he considers invaluable The manager said: “He will never come to me because people are saying something is missing and ask: ‘Boss can I play in my old position again?’ That makes him so unbelievably valuable for us we had a long season last season and he had a World Cup It’s about what you have to do in the right moments “We need to find a system where we can bring our quality on the pitch and against Watford it worked out.” Klopp explained how Firmino’s all-round contribution to the Liverpool team should not go without credit regardless of how often he scores “It all depends what you want to see what you expect and what you compare it with,” added the boss “In the last home game against Fulham I’m not sure what the critics were saying about Bobby Firmino after the game but when I saw the coaches later and we had drinks together “It’s because of the small things he is doing he has five goals now and he opens 5,000 gaps for everybody Stakhanovskaya station of Nekrasovskaya Line will be designed in constructivism style expressed by architects in strict geometric shapes combined with red The new station will be built in Ryazansky region in the south-eastern part of Moscow as a part of Nizhegorodskaya — Kosino section The design was approved by the Moscow City Architecture Committee The interior is to look like a production hall Granite columns along the tunnel walls will resemble Soviet factory machines white tube-shaped ceiling lights will call to mind factory beams Granite and metal will be used for station's decoration He added that such a design is to match the new station's name the Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov produced 102 tons of coal (with the standard target being 7 tons) during the night shift in Tsentralnaya-Irmino Donbass mine This record gave rise to the so-called Stakhanov Movement The followers made huge efforts to beat the established production targets The station's design was inspired by paintings by Kazimir Malevich Based on the ideas borrowed from the artists the architects created one of the brightest metro stations in Moscow the new line will have eight stations:  Nizhegorodskaya Lukhmanovskaya and Nekrasovka After the construction is over Nekrasovskaya line will be over 15 km long The Pink Line will connect Nekrasovka and Nizhegorodsky districts The first section of Nekrasovskaya metro line was launched in early summer Construction of the second section proceeding at an accelerated pace is soon to complete transport will become more accessible for over 1 million Muscovites residing in Kosino-Ukhtomsky This will significantly relieve the Purple metro line Home | Sport Roberto Firmino scored a dramatic late equaliser in his final appearance at Anfield for Liverpool to keep the Merseyside squad’s slim chances of a top-four finish in the Premier League alive with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on Saturday who is one of four players leaving when his contract runs out scored in the 89th minute to the delight of the crowd who serenaded the Brazilian after the final whistle Juergen Klopp’s side are fifth with 66 points with one game remaining but three points adrift of fourth-place Manchester United who have a game in hand Unai Emery’s Villa are seventh with 58 points from 37 games Jacob Ramsey put Villa ahead in the 27th minute darting to the back post to head a cross from Douglas Luiz past goalkeeper Allison Villa could have taken the lead five minutes earlier when they were awarded a penalty Liverpool thought they had levelled early in the second half from a close-range goal by Cody Gakpo but after a lengthy VAR check it was ruled out for offside The home side dominated a frenzied final few minutes as chants of “Si Senor” rang out in the stadium Liverpool’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League appear all but over Third-placed Newcastle United and Manchester United need only a point from their remaining two games to deny Liverpool a place in Europe’s premier club competition The six-time winners have not missed playing in the European showcase tournament since 2016-17 Klopp had to watch the game from the stands while serving the first of a two-game touchline suspension for criticising the referee following Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Tottenham last month The manager was also fined fined 75,000 pounds ($94,657.50) who were part of the squad that won the Champions League in 2019 and helped the club win their first English league title in 30 years in the 2019-20 season are all leaving Anfield after their contracts expire at the end of the season The quartet were presented with framed photos in a post-game ceremony Liverpool were missing Darwin Nunez due to a toe injury while Aston Villa were without injured Philippe Coutinho including a high kick to Gakpo’s chest from Tyrone Mings Gakpo pulled up his shirt to show the referee the mark