SEATTLE: San Jose’s Matias Perez Garcia set up Sanna Nyassi’s first-half goal, and then scored in the second half to help the Earthquakes win 2-0 at Major League Soccer-leading Seattle on Saturday. Nyassi’s goal, coming midway through the 28th minute, was only his second of the year while Garcia’s 73rd-minute goal was his first. The Sounders were without four players who had accounted for 18 of their league-high 23 goals. Clint Dempsey (seven goals) served the first game of a three-game suspension handed down for an animated dispute with a referee in a mid-week US Open Cup game. Vancouver goalkeeper David Ousted saved two penalties as the Whitecaps won 2-1 at the New York Red Bulls to move level with Seattle atop the standings.

Hill fastest teen

PARIS: Sixteen-year-old American Candace Hill has scorched to a 10.98 seconds time in the 100m, the fastest ever for a female athlete of her age. With a very favourable, but legal, tailwind of +2.0 metres per second, Hill’s performance at Shoreline, Washington state, ensured she became the first 16 or 17 year-old female (currently born in 1998 or 1999) to dip under the mythical 11-second barrier. Hill, born on February 11, 1999, had already set tongues wagging when she clocked 11.21sec into a headwind in a race for juniors on the undercard of last week’s New York Diamond League meet. The previous best time for the high school student’s age category was 11.10sec set by American Kaylin Whitney, born in 1998, in July 2014 in Eugene. Hill’s astonishing 10.98sec makes her the 10th fastest female sprinter of the season so far, in all categories. It would have seen her finish seventh in the 2012 London Olympics. Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Olympic and world champion, has the season’s current best of 10.81sec, while late American Florence Griffiths-Joyner set the world record of 10.49sec in 1988.

‘Full support’ for WC

CAIRO: The Arab League on Sunday condemned what it called the “hateful campaign” against Qatar’s controversial hosting of the 2022 World Cup, amid a corruption scandal rocking football’s governing body FIFA. The League’s General Assembly in a statement declared its “full support” for Qatar’s hosting of the tournament, which would be the first World Cup held in an Arab country.

Anigo named coach

TUNIS: Jose Anigo ended a 26-year association with Marseille on Sunday by agreeing to become the new coach of Esperance, the Tunisians’ club official Zied Tlemcani said. Since 2001, the 54-year-old had worked as coach, sports director and a supervisor in Africa for the French Ligue 1 giants. He also spent 12 years from 1975 to 1987 as a player with Marseille, first in the youth team and then with the top squad. Since 2014, when he was removed as coach, he settled in Morocco following the murder of his son Adrian. Anigo replaces Portugal’s Jose Manuel Ferriera de Morais.

Bernie positive

SPIELBERG: Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone would welcome the Italian Grand Prix returning to Imola after Monza’s contract expires next year. There is uncertainty as to whether Monza will continue beyond 2016, and Ecclestone says talks are ongoing with both Monza and Imola — which hosted the San Marino Grand Prix until 2006. Brazilian great Ayrton Senna and Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger died in separate crashes on Imola’s track in 1994. Speaking to reporters at the Austrian Grand Prix, Ecclestone said “we are waiting for results” of talks with both tracks and “maybe we’ll go back to Imola, let’s see. We want to keep Italy.” Eccelstone added, “I’d like to get Germany back.”