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MADRID -- Spains new football coach Julen Lopetegui has promised to build on the success of predecessor Vicente del Bosque after being named as his replacement on Thursday.Del Bosques eight-year stint included World Cup and European Championship titles.Lopetegui said at his presentation that he wont immediately overhaul a squad that has lost its dominant edge.There wont be a revolution, there will be an evolution, Lopetegui said after being introduced by federation president Maria Angel Villar.The base of the national team is clear and still in its best moment. We are not thinking about a transition. Instead we are thinking about how to resolve each match ahead.Del Bosque stepped down following Spains elimination in the round of 16 of the European Championship. That came two years after failing to move beyond the group phase at the 2014 World Cup.We are going to benefit from all the good things that Spanish football has been doing for many years, but logically we are going to adapt it to each rival, Lopetegui said. Football doesnt stop. We are very proud of the past, but we are looking toward the present and the future.The 49-year-old Lopetegui had been without a job since January after being fired from FC Porto, his only head coaching job with a major club. He failed to win a title during almost two years in Portugal.A former goalkeeper who started a handful of games for Real Madrid and Barcelona, Lopetegui played for Spain in the 1994 World Cup and coached Spains youth squads from 2010-14.Del Bosque left after leading Spains most successful generation of players to titles at the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 European Championship, completing a run of three major titles by Spain started under Luis Aragones at Euro 2008.One of Lopeteguis main tasks will be to rebuild the team as many of its top players have started to fade. His familiarity with some of Spains younger players from his stint as its youth team coach -- including David de Gea and Alvaro Morata -- could help him move on from an aging group led by the 32-year-old Andres Iniesta.We know many of the players, Lopetegui said. I am convinced that this generation of Spanish football is good, as well as the one that is coming.Lopetegui refused to talk about the role of individual players, saying now was not the appropriate time.His first match will be Spains friendly in Belgium on September 1. Four days later Spain starts its 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with a home match against Liechtenstein. Pavel Zacha Jersey . Siddikur, whose previous win on the circuit came in Brunei three years ago, finished his bogey-free round with a birdie on the 18th for a total of 17-under 199. Indias Shiv Chowrasia, who has finished runner-up in this tournament twice, was in second place after a 66. Pavel Zacha Devils Jersey . Miller finished in two minutes, 6.09 seconds, one day before the first medal race on the Alpine schedule. The 36-year-old American also turned in the top time in Thursdays opening training session. http://www.devilssale.com/authentic-miles-wood-devils-jersey/ . 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The NRLs under-20s competition will be scrapped at the end of next year, Australian Rugby League Commission chairman John Grant has confirmed.The youth competition has been on borrowed time since former NRL head of strategy Shane Richardsons whole-of-game review last year but there was speculation it may continue beyond 2017 in some capacity.Instead, statewide under-20s competitions will be rolled out in NSW and Queensland, while the NSW and Queensland Cups will be expanded to take on an elevated role in rugby leagues development pathway, Grant said.Theyll be more on television, theres going to be more clubs in the competition and theres going to be stronger connections through to the NRL clubs to make sure we get players from the NRL who arent playing for their team each weekend to come back into the tier two competition, Grant told reporters in Brisbane on Friday.The national under-20s competition has been plagued by concerns it is not an adequate finishing school and puts undue pressure on young players.Grant defended the ARL Commissions attempts to limit the earning capacity of NRL rookies as negotations continue over a new collective barganing agreement.The Rugby League Players Assocation is philosophically opposed to capping salaries but Grant said it was a sensible way to fix to a clear problem.The fact is we taake young men in our game away from their homes too early, we put them into intensive competitions, we ask too much of them and quite frankly weve had some disastrous outcomes, he said.ddddddddddddThats all about giving them expectations beyond what is reasonable at the time and frankly paying them too much money will do that.We understand the RLPAs situation and weve got an obligation to negotiate with the RLPA around these sort of things. But by the same token, were really trying to respond to the issues weve got.Meanwhile, Grant indicated a name change may be on the cards for the NSW and Queensland Cups as their current monikers dont ring true given the level of current and future international involvement.The Papua New Guinea Hunters have played in the Queensland Cup since 2014 while the entry of a Fijian team into the NSW Cup is expected to be approved in the coming weeks.What it does for PNG is fantastic, rugby league is their national sport and it really means something to them. Its the same with Fiji, Grant said.We have players in our NRL competition that come from all of those places and weve got to make sure theyve got local rugby league that they can see thats at the elite level. ' ' '