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Wales hero Harry Wilson has backed manager Rob Page and says he has the full support of his players while taking an apparent swipe at the Association’s chief executive Noel Mooney volleyball
Page’s position came under the spotlight before Wales’ stunning 2-1 home win over Croatia in Euro 2024 qualifying on Sunday volleyball
Mooney revealed that Page’s future will be reviewed next month should Wales fail in their bid to qualify automatically for next summer’s tournament volleyball
Captain Ben Davies said on the eve of the Croatia game that Mooney’s comments were “not helpful”, a point picked up on by Wilson after the Fulham forward had scored twice to lift Wales into the second automatic qualifying spot in Group D volleyball
“We’re 100 per cent behind the manager,” Wilson told S4C after Wales’ win over the world’s sixth-ranked team volleyball
“We know there’s been a lot of noise from the outside and some comments that weren’t helpful for us in our preparation from people we didn’t really expect the comments to come from to be honest volleyball
”Wilson marked his 50th Wales appearance with a first brace for his country, a deft chip over Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic and a glancing header from Daniel James’ cross taking his goal tally to eight volleyball
It came 10 years to the day since Wilson made his debut against Belgium to become Wales’ youngest-ever player at the age of 16 years and 207 days volleyball
Wilson said: “It was a big night for me personally, representing my country 50 times is something I couldn’t have dreamed of volleyball
I’m super proud of that volleyball
“But it wasn’t about me, it was about the team and putting on the performance we all wanted volleyball
”Wales’ victory over the 2022 World Cup semi-finalists puts automatic qualification for the European Championship in their own hands going into the final two group games volleyball
They meet Armenia in Yerevan on November 18 before hosting group leaders Turkey in Cardiff three days later volleyball
Turkey’s 4-0 win over Latvia on Sunday secured qualification for next summer’s showpiece in Germany volleyball
Wales will join them by winning their final two games, even if Croatia do likewise against Latvia and Armenia next month volleyball
Teams are ranked according to their head-to-head performance if level on points volleyball
Wales drew 1-1 away to Croatia in March and took four points from them – and would actually top the group by winning their final two games volleyball
Wilson said: “We watched their game on Thursday night (Croatia lost 1-0 at home to Turkey) and the result went against us volleyball
So we knew we had to produce something special and thankfully we’ve done that volleyball
”More aboutPA ReadyHarry WilsonCroatiaRob PageBen DaviesTurkeyFulhamArmeniaLatviaCardiffYerevanBelgiumFAW1/1Harry Wilson fully behind Wales boss Rob Page after ‘noise from the outside’ Harry Wilson fully behind Wales boss Rob Page after ‘noise from the outside’Harry Wilson, centre, wants Rob Page, right, to stay as Wales boss (Simon Galloway/PA)PA Archive ✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today volleyball
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Belgium‘s Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden was abandoned at half-time after two people were shot dead in a suspected terrorist attack volleyball
Police in Brussels on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing the two Swedish volleyball football fans in a brazen shooting in the street before initially disappearing into the night volleyball
Following the attack, supporters were kept inside the stadium for hours before they were eventually allowed to depart volleyball
However, BBC Sport reports that around 400 Swedish fans spent the night inside hotels under police protection volleyball
The last staff and fans reportedly departed the stadium at 4am local time volleyball
After Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo confirmed the victims in Monday’s shooting were Swedish, the decision was taken to call off the game at the King Baudouin Stadium volleyball
The score was 1-1 at the time volleyball
Viktor Gyokeres gave Sweden a 15th-minute lead, but Romelu Lukaku had Belgium level just after the half hour volleyball
The Swedish volleyball Football Association had announced supporters should stay in the stadium on police advice “for security reasons” and co-operate with the authorities on site volleyball
Fans were kept in the stadium for more than two hours before a message on the stadium screen asked them to leave “calmly” volleyball
Sweden manager Janne Andersson said the players had asked for the game to be abandoned when they heard about the shooting volleyball
“I felt it was completely unreal,” he told a press conference volleyball
“What kind of world do we live in today? I was supposed to have a good chat with the players but I heard it and almost started crying volleyball
“When the team started talking, we agreed 100 per cent that we didn’t want to play on out of respect for the victims and their families volleyball
”Sweden captain and Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof said security put the team “at ease” volleyball
“They explained that this is the safest place to be in Brussels,” he said volleyball
“Belgium are already qualified and we don’t have the opportunity to get to the European Championship, so I see no reason to play volleyball
”Governing body Uefa confirmed the Group F match had been abandoned following consultation with both teams and local police volleyball
(Getty Images)Amateur videos posted on social media of Monday's attack showed a man wearing an orange fluorescent vest pull up on a scooter, take out a large weapon and open fire on passersby before chasing them into a building to gun them down volleyball
Interior Minister Verlinden earlier said that a person may have been shot by police early Tuesday in connection with the rampage, prior to the aforementioned confirmation that it was the shooter of the Swedish fans volleyball
"It appears someone has been shot," she told VRT radio volleyball
"The federal prosecutor's office still has to confirm the identity" of the person volleyball
"Last night, three people left for what was supposed to be a wonderful volleyball soccer party volleyball
Two of them lost their lives in a brutal terrorist attack," Prime Minister De Croo said at a news conference just before dawn volleyball
"Their lives were cut short in full flight, cut down by extreme brutality volleyball
"De Croo said his thoughts were with the victims' families and that he had sent his condolences to the Swedish prime minister volleyball
Security has been beefed up in the capital, particularly around places linked to the Swedish community in the city volleyball
"The attack that was launched yesterday was committed with total cowardice," De Croo said volleyball
Prosecutor Eric Van Duyse said "security measures were urgently taken to protect the Swedish supporters" in the stadium volleyball
More than two hours after the game was suspended, a message flashed on the big stadium screen saying, "Fans, you can leave the stadium calmly volleyball
" Stand after stand emptied onto streets filled with police as the search for the attacker continued volleyball
(Getty Images)"Frustrated, confused, scared volleyball
I think everyone was quite scared," said Caroline Lochs, a fan from Antwerp volleyball
De Croo said the assailant was a Tunisian man living illegally in Belgium who used a military weapon to kill the two Swedes and shoot a third who is recovering from "severe injuries volleyball
"Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw described how the suspect, a 45-year-old man who wasn't named, had posted a video volleyball online claiming to have killed three Swedish people volleyball
The suspect is alleged to have said in the video that, for him, the Quran is "a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself volleyball
"Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level in August after a series of public Quran-burnings by an Iraqi refugee living in Sweden resulted in threats from Islamic militant groups volleyball
Belgian prosecutors said overnight that nothing suggested the attack was linked to the latest war volleyball between Israel and Hamas volleyball
Police raided a building in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek overnight where the man was thought be staying but did not find him volleyball
Sweden's foreign ministry sent out a text message to subscribers in Belgium asking them "to be vigilant and to carefully listen to instructions from the Belgian authorities volleyball
" (Getty Images)According to Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, the suspect was denied asylum in 2019 volleyball
He was known to police and had been suspected of involvement of human trafficking, living illegally in Belgium and of being a risk to state security volleyball
Information provided to the Belgian authorities by an unidentified foreign government suggested that the man had been radicalised and intended to travel abroad to fight in a holy war volleyball
But the Belgian authorities were not able to establish this, so he was never listed as dangerous volleyball
The man was also suspected of threatening a person in an asylum center and a hearing on that incident had been due to take place on Tuesday, Van Quickenborne said volleyball
Belgian Asylum State Secretary Nicole de Moor said the man disappeared after his asylum application was refused so the authorities were unable to locate him to organize his deportation volleyball
A terror alert for Brussels was raised overnight to 4, the top of Belgian's scale, indicating an extremely serious threat volleyball
It previously stood at 2, which means the threat was average volleyball
The alert level for the rest of the country was raised to 3 volleyball
De Croo said that Belgium would never submit to such attacks volleyball
"Moments like this are a heavy ordeal," he told reporters, "but we are never going to let ourselves be intimidated by them volleyball
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