Bengaluru FC have hired Albert Roca, a former assistant at Barcelona FC, as their head coach on a two-year contract. Stan Smith Baratas España . Rocas first game in charge of Bengaluru will be in the AFC Cup quarterfinal against Singapore club Tampines Rovers in September. ?Roca, 53, previously served as an assistant to Frank Rjikaard at Barcelona between 2003 and 2008, during which the club won two La Ligas, two Spanish Super Cups, as well as the UEFA Champions League. He then followed Rjikaard to Turkish club Galatasaray in 2009, as well as the Saudi Arabia national team in 2011.?Rocas last job was as manager of the El Salvador national team where he was in charge for a year. Roca has also played for Spanish clubs Real Zaragoza and?CE Sabadell FC in the La Liga.?Albert has been with some of the best clubs in Europe as well as spent time in developing countries because of which he will have a great sense of the challenges India would bring, Parth Jindal, Bengalurus CEO, said.?We have had a very successful three years and Albert is only going to compound the efforts we have been making. He has also done some commendable work with young players in his career and that is absolutely in line with the philosophy of BFC where we are trying to develop players into stellar talent for the future.Roca said he was excited by the prospect of joining Bengaluru and was confident that he could introduce a style of football that the supporters would be proud of.?Im very satisfied to have signed with Bengaluru FC, he said. They are the champions of India, have fantastic supporters and most importantly, have a great support system and a management that is always hands on and wants to stay at the top.I want to assure our supporters that we will always give it our best. I want the supporters to be happy about the way we play. Stan Smith España . Galatasaray said in a statement on its website Monday that Mancini signed a three-year contract and will be paid 3.5 million euros for the upcoming season, with his salary upped to 4. Stan Smith España Baratas .B. - Sebastien Auger made 44 saves as the Saint John Sea Dogs edged the visiting Acadie-Bathurst Titan 2-1 on Saturday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. http://www.stansmithbaratas.es/ . After a first half in which he thought "the lid was on the basket," the Toronto Raptors coach watched his squad mount a second half surge to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-91. ELMONT, N.Y. -- Hoppertunity got away from California Chrome and got back to the winners circle, outfinishing Effinex to take Saturdays Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.After racing along the inside and within two lengths of the pace-setting Protonico in a bunched field, Hoppertunity, under John Velazquez, tipped to the three-path turning for home. He gradually gained through the stretch on Protonico and Effinex and beat the latter to the wire by a half-length.It was 2-1/2 lengths back to Protonico in third. Mubtaahij and Watershed completed the order of finish.Jockey Javier Castellano dismounted from Protonico past the wire and he was vanned off. Dr. Anthony Verderosa, the chief examining veterinarian for the New York Racing Association, said Protonico was lame.For Hoppertunity, the win was the sixth from 22 starts and it pushed his career earnings to $3,562,675. The win also earned a fees-paid berth to the $6 million Breeders Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, where he will face California Chrome. Hoppertunity finished third to California Chrome in this years Dubai World Cup and fourth to him in the Pacific Classic.Hes earned his spot in the Breeders Cup, hell be in the game, trainer Bob Baffert said from Southern California, where he watched the race on television. Well get him back here, see how hes training. Hes always right there, he always gets a piece.In addition to getting away from California Chrome, Baffert shipped Hoppertunity here believing he would like the deeper surface and the wide turns of Belmont Park.Baffert told jockey Velazquez that Hoppertunity doesnt run the turns well, and Velazquez said he wanted to keep the horse closer to the pace so that he wouldnt have so much to do in the stretch.Protonico set a modest pace of 24.87 seconds for the quarter, 49.03 foor the half-mile and 1:12. Comprar Stan Smith Baratas. 18 for six furlongs while being pressed by Effinex, under Mike Smith.Protonico proved a stubborn foe and it wasnt until the sixteenth pole that Effinex was able to get by him. But his lead was short-lived as Hoppertunity wore him down.Hoppertunity, a 5-year-old son of Any Given Saturday owned by Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman, covered the 1-1/4 miles in 2:00.68 and returned $9.60 as the 7-2 third choice.They told me he doesnt run really well around the turns so, okay, I kept that in mind and hopefully I can keep him close enough without overdoing it and he did everything I asked him to do, Velazquez said. When I pulled him out, he responded.Hoppertunity did have an abrasion on the back of his left foreleg after the race.He ran down through the bandages a bit, said Jimmy Barnes, Bafferts assistant who was here to saddle the horse. It should be superficial.Hoppertunity was scheduled to be flown back to Southern California on Sunday to prepare for the Classic.Effinex, who finished second in last years Classic, may have had to expend more energy than his connections had hoped to get by Protonico, leaving him vulnerable for Hoppertunity to wear him down.I had hoped to hopefully spurt away when headed for home, but that thing was on me and kept grinding me down little by little, Smith said.Still, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said, Effinex did enough to earn himself a trip to the Breeders Cup Classic, a race in which he finished second to American Pharoah last year.Well give it a shot, Jerkens said. Hes tough.Effinex will likely need a new rider for the Classic as Smith will probably ride Arrogate, dominant winner of the Travers, in that race. ' ' '