Puma has announced a long-term partnership with Arsenal Football Club of the Barclays Premier League. The Athletics company will become the official kit partner of Arsenal effective July 1 of this year. In addition to producing the playing and training kit for all Arsenal teams, Puma has acquired wide-ranging licensing rights to develop other Arsenal branded merchandise on a global basis. Having extended its relationship with the Italian Football Federation, signed Borussia Dortmund and bolstered its player portfolio with Sergio Aguero, Cesc Fàbregas, Mario Balotelli, Radamel Falcao, Olivier Giroud and Yaya Toure Puma continues to deepen its roots in international football. "Arsenal have been a key strategic target for Puma for a number of years now," said the companys CEO Bjorn Gulden. "As we enter a new era in our company history, Arsenal represents a major commercial and marketing opportunity to reinforce Pumas credibility as a global sports brand, and we have full confidence the plans in place to activate this partnership will have a significant global impact." Ivan Gazidis, Arsenals CEO added: "We are excited to be partnering with Puma, a company whose football heritage and record of innovation have a strong affinity with our own. This represents another important step forward in Arsenals progression on and off the pitch." Arsenal currently sit second in the Barclays Premier League with 16 wins and 52 points through 23 games, a single point behind Manchester City. It is just the second time since Match Day 4 of the 2013-14 season that the London-based club has not been atop the table. Discount MLB Jerseys . -- The Jacksonville Jaguars are bringing back quarterback Chad Henne -- and making him the starter. MLB Jerseys China . Rob Klinkhammer and Mikkel Boedker scored 63 seconds apart in the first period for the Coyotes, who handed the Kings their third straight loss and took over sole possession of eighth place in the Western Conference. Mike Smith made 36 saves. https://www.mlbjerseyschina.us/. Even if he is shooting 38 per cent from the field overall this season, the Utah Jazz rookie always feels like his final shot is going in. Wholesale Nike MLB Jerseys .Chanathip Songkrasin opened the scoring in the sixth minute before Kroekrit found the target twice in the 57th and four minutes from fulltime.Vietnam and Malaysia play their second leg on Thursday. Vietnam won the first leg 2-1. MLB Jerseys Outlet .Y. -- It was as if Matt Moulson never left the New York Islanders.PARIS -- Daniela Hantuchova will face top seed Maria Sharapova in the second round of the Open GDF Suez after beating Marina Erakovic on Tuesday. Hantuchova was leading 6-3, 3-0, and looked set for a straight-sets victory before Erakovic retired without citing a specified reason. Sharapova leads Hantuchova 8-1 in their head-to-heads, with the Slovaks only win against the four-time Grand Slam champion who has won every major when they first played 10 years ago. In other first round matches, there were wins for Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Yvonne Meusburger of Austriia.dddddddddddd Cornet laboured past Magdalena Rybarikova of Serbia 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 and Meusburger beat Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany 7-5, 6-1. Cornet closed out the first set on serve after breaking Rybarikova twice. The Serb struggled on her serve in the second set but Cornet missed chances to break her midway through the set and then twice dropped her own serve. At 6-5 and 30-40 on Cornets serve, Rybarikova broke Cornet again to level the match. But then Cornet broke her twice at the start of the third set to open up a 3-0 lead and regain control. ' ' '