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Nelson Vivas dejó de ser el DT de Quilmes

BUENOS AIRES -- Tras el incidente con un simpatizante en el partido del pasado viernes ante Atlético Rafaela, Nelson Vivas dejó de ser el entrenador de Quilmes y la práctica del lunes será dirigida por Marcelo Pontiroli y Horacio Milozzi.

Luego del empate ante Atlético Rafaela, el DT se peleó con un plateista y su futuro fue una incógnita durante el fin de semana. Sin embargo, en las primeras horas del lunes se confirmó su decisión de dar un paso al costado y ya no estará frente al plantel en el entrenamiento vespertino.

De esta manera, Vivas deja su cargo luego de haber dirigido apenas 12 partidos en el Torneo Inicial, cosechando cuatro victorias, dos empates y seis derrotas.

Quilmes se encuentra en el puesto 16 del Torneo Inicial y está cerca de los puestos de descensos en la tabla de promedios. Su próximo compromiso será el lunes 28 ante Estudiantes

Honduras defender Álvaro Romero ‘delighted’ with Roberto Carlos comparisons

Olimpia full-back Álvaro Romero is ‘delighted’ to be compared to legendary Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos.

The 16 year-old is currently with Honduras’ under-17 side at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Romero’s performances have caught the eye, particularly in Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Slovakia.

His small stature and explosive style offer a likeness to Roberto Carlos - one admirers have noted. The Honduran is honoured to be given such a comparison.

“The first time I was compared with Roberto Carlos was earlier this year at the CONCACAF U-17 Championship in Panama,” he told fifa.com. “I’m delighted with the comparison and it’s a great source of pride to me, because he was a superb left-back, and a star for Brazil and Real Madrid.”

Romero admits he tries to mimic the Brazilian’s free-kick technique.

“I’d like to thank everyone for the compliment and I’ll work hard to become like Roberto Carlos or even better. Since I was young, I’ve been practicing free-kicks and I hope to perfect them like Carlos managed to do.”

Honduras are second in Group A behind Brazil. They have four points after two rounds. José Valladares’ side will need to defeat the Seleção on Wednesday to secure top spot.

Der er spillet 13 ud af 18 kampe i den Honduranske Liga Nacional og 4 hold ligger i øjeblikket og kæmper om en semifinale plads hvor kun 2 hold avancerer direkte. Det er nogle spændende navne der fører topscorerlisten synes jeg - Copan-drengen Román Castillo på bare 21 er gået målamok med 10 mål for La Ceiba holdet Vida. På anden pladsen ligger ikke overraskende 20-årige Lozano der lige er hentet fra Valencia. Det jeg synes er sejt ved årets sæson, er at gode gamle Rambo ligger lige bagved med 7 sæsonscoringer. Han kan lige nå et sidste VM!! :-)

Victoria hentede i øvrigt en 20 årig argentiner fra Estudiantes der allerede har lavet 7 kasser. Det tegner rigtigt godt for ligaens fremtid!

Enig ! - Syntes den honduranske liga ser spændende ud - de 4 store Olimpia, Motagua, Marathon og Real España har fået god onkurrence fra Victoria og Real Sociedad, Parrillas One ser også ud til at gøre det godt som oprykker.

Sammenlignet med El Salvador og Guatemala, hvis ligaer er langt mere stationære udviklingsmæssigt, så er Panamas og i særdeleshed Honduras´ på vej frem.


Panama - 15 Runde

San Francisco tabte søndag den sene kamp til Chepó med 0-1, på Rene Mendietas scoring.

Dermed er Tauro nyt tophold efter deres 2-1 sejr over Chorrillo FC på Estadio Prof Julio Cruz. Kenneth Chase og Hector Murillo scorede for los toros, mens Miguel Camargo scorede for gæsterne.

Plaza Amador rykkede op på anden pladsen efter 2-1 sejr over San Miguelito, takket være Jair Carrassquillas overtids scoring.

Arabe Unido slog Rio Abajo med 4-0 , på en doblete af El Pibe Gonzalez og scoringer af Joseph Cox og Abdiel Arroyo.

Endelig slog Independiente Alianza med 2-1 , Hector Peñaloza og "Chaleco" Escobar med scoringer for CAI.

Cángele pidie "no echar mucha leña"

BUENOS AIRES -- El delantero de Boca Franco Cángele pidió "no echar mucha leña" sobre el escándalo que protagonizaron anoche los jugadores de su equipo y Godoy Cruz, al término del partido disputado en Mendoza, por la doudécima fecha del torneo Inicial.

De regreso en el Aeroparque Metropolitano, el atacante expresó el "arrepentimiento" colectivo por la gresca desatada al término del partido, aunque trató de minimizarla al considerar que "tampoco fue para tanto".

"Fue una situación lamentable pero tampoco fue para tanto, no hay que seguir echando leña. Nos arrepentimos por la situación, pero creo que pareció más de lo que fue", opinó el ex futbolista del Kayserispor de Turquía.

Los jugadores de Boca Pablo Ledesma y Matías Caruzzo más los de Godoy Cruz Jorge Curbelo y Jonathan Ramis fueron informados por el árbitro Pedro Argañaraz, que será parado al menos en la próxima fecha por su tarea deficiente en el estadio "Malvinas Argentinas".

Los cuatro futbolistas informados conocerán su sanción el jueves próximo, cuando se expida el Tribunal de Disciplina de la Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA).

El escándalo entre los jugadores de Boca y Godoy Cruz se desató al momento del pitazo final, cuando Curbelo increpó a Ledesma por la disputa de un balón con imprudencia sobre el físico de un rival.

Tras esa reacción, compañeros de ambos se sumaron a la pelea, que se extendió en diversos sectores del campo de juego y continuó en la antesala de los vestuarios.

Boca rescató anoche un punto agónico en Mendoza, al empatarle a Godoy Cruz 2-2, con un penal en tiempo de descuento convertido por el defensor Claudio "Chiqui" Pérez.

Barovero: "Una racha complicada"

BUENOS AIRES -- El arquero de River Plate Marcelo Barovero remarcó que su equipo "sigue con vida" en la Copa Sudamericana pese a la "racha complicada" que atraviesa en el torneo Inicial, donde hace tres partidos que no consigue un triunfo.

"Lo importante es que todavía estamos con vida en la Copa Sudamericana", destacó el guardametas sobre el torneo continental en el que el elenco de Ramón Díaz deberá enfrentar a Lanús por los cuartos de final el 30 de este mes. De todas formas, Barovero es consciente de que River no atraviesa su mejor momento: "Estamos pasando por una racha complicada, pero también le pasa a otros equipos que vienen armados de hace tiempo".

"Hay que buscar la manera de salir y el cuerpo técnico nos va a ayudar", afirmó el arquero en una conferencia de prensa que tenía previsto brindar Jonathan Fabbro, quien debió retirarse al cabo del entrenamiento por un problema familiar.

Por último, reconoció que "duele no hacer los goles, que es lo más importante".

"Los jugadores creativos o diferentes no se sumaron al plantel desde el primer momento, y después nos pasaron cosas como a todos los equipos", justificó.

Pele’ keeps scoring

Veteran strikes late to give A’Town point; TG clip W’house

VETERAN attacker Kevin Wilson equalised for August Town FC in the dying seconds to maintain the home team´s unbeaten start to the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) season in yesterday´s 1-1 result with Cavalier SC at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Bowl.

Cavalier´s Deno Schaffe capitalised on an error from August Town goalkeeper Kevin Graham to open the scoring in the 29th minute, but Wilson tied the game with a simple header in the fourth minute of time added on.

With the draw, both teams moved to seven points from five matches.
At the Edward Seaga Complex in a titanic match-up, the host Tivoli Gardens defeated Waterhouse 2-1. Keammar Daley gave Tivoli the opening goal from the penalty spot in the 14th minute and Rafiek Thomas sealed the win in the 58th. Waterhouse consolation came from Weston Forrest in minute 87.

At Mona, August Town coach ´Max´ Straw was relieved with the point and said he "expected a tough game because Cavalier are doing well on the road".

David Lalor, the coach of the visiting team, said he was "disappointed with the result, because they should have been put away with those chances we got".

Schaffe´s goal was all that separated the teams in a generally low-keyed first half, but August Town showed improved ambition in the second stanza as they desperately sought the equaliser.

It was, however, left to two substitutes — Nicholas Smith and Wilson — to manufacture the all-important goal deep into the encounter. Smith breezed down the right side before fizzing a cross for Wilson to head into the net with Cavalier ’keeper Jovel Plunkett at his mercy.

There was further late drama, but Plunkett saved Cavalier from conceding twice in less than a minute. The alert shot-stopper pushed the ball onto the crossbar after an attempted clearance rebounded off an opposing player and veered menacingly towards goal.

In other early results yesterday, Montego Bay United blanked Rivoli United 3-0 at Wespow Park, Humble Lion clipped visiting Boys’ Town 2-1 to maintain their lead, and Sporting Central Academy added to Portmore United’s woes by defeating them 3-1 at Juici Patties Park.

TEAMS:

AUGUST TOWN — Kevin Graham, Rupert Murray, Jeffery Grant (Rohan Williams 72nd), Gerald Neil, Shamar Brown, Davion Alves (Nicholas Smith 67th), Michael Spence, Kurt Richards (Kevin Wilson 20th), Larone Russell, Jerome Wedderburn, Ricardo Harriott. Subs not used: Kevaughn White, Rohan Clarke, Dean-Paul Grandison, Kemar Bryan Booked- Wedderburn (61st), Brown (83rd)

CAVALIER — Kirk Fletcher, Andre Forbes, Claudius Blackburn (Jahmika Hutchinson 80th), Dwayne Holmes, Deno Schaffe, Jeffrey Henry, Donovan Alvaranga, Girvon Brown, Norman Bailey (Paul Garricks 83rd), Jovel Plunkett, Romario Constant (Geovaunie Samuda 58th). Subs not used: Gariece McPherson, Elton Thompson, Andre Walker, Rasheede Clarke Booked: Forbes (68th) Referee: Valdin Legister Assistants: Richard Washington and Terrence McKenzie Fourth Official: Derron Davy Match Commissary: Anthony Gibbs

Schafer urges players to work harder for spots in national set-up

Jamaica head coach Winfried Schafer urged players to work harder to earn and keep places in the national senior set-up.

"Players must fight for their positions... players can´t feel like they must play as they will sleep (relax)... the players must fight for their positions and the best players will play," said the German.

Schafer, who took over the reins from Theodore ´Tappa´ Whitmore at the tailend of Jamaica´s failed Brazil 2014 World Cup campaign, expressed concern with the poor transition of junior players to the senior ranks.

"I remember two years ago with the Under-17 team in the (Mexico) World Cup, which players from that team are presently in the national team? You had a very good team, and only Alvas (Powell) is in this team, where are the 11 players from this team, you see what I mean?"

The former Cameroon coach indicated that part of the slow development and eventually transition of players is due, in part, on the players themselves.
"These players have to work, work and keep working, and this is what we want," he said, as he addressed a post-match press conference after the Boyz played to a 2-2 draw with Honduras in the final World Cup qualifier at the National Stadium on Tuesday night.

With a month left on his contract and negotiation still ongoing, Schafer has maintained his futuristic rhetoric regarding the programme. He said going forward, Jamaica´s goalscoring problem has to be a priority from a technical point of view.

"We have to learn to shoot to the goal, we must learn to get more passes to the strikers, the strikers must learn to come for the ball, but we cannot in two days change what we have for years.

"What we have to do is take things step by step. I want to talk to the coaches in the clubs as we need strikers, I see a young boy in one of the clubs and he has potential, but he must work harder and he needs the help of his coaches," Schafer noted.

In 10 matches of the hexagonal of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers, Jamaica scored five goals — one a penalty and the other an own goal — and conceded 13, which summed up the team´s form on the offensive front.

Schafer also said that Jamaica´s preparation in the final phase was woefully inadequate and was far behind the five other contenders. But moving ahead, he has a clear vision as to what needs to be done.

"For the future we need camps and we need friendly matches, and I know that the young players like Kemar (Lawrence) and Romario (Campbell) want this (level) of training... we have good players in school football and for the 2018 World Cup campaign we need to see some of these players (coming though)," he noted.

"Our best performance (of the hexagonal round) was the first 70 minutes against the USA and the second half against Honduras... but the past is not important, it´s the future that is important and we have to work professionally," Schafer added.

If retained as coach of the senior Boyz, Schafer said he would focus on building a base of local players, but warned that he would keep looking outside of Jamaica for talent to complement the home-based stock.
"We can´t build a (strong) team of only local players, we have to find the players from overseas and then we will have a good team -- the Jamaican team," noted the 63-year-old German.

USA (22 points), Costa Rica (18) and Honduras (15) have booked automatic spots to the Brazil 2014 showpiece, while kingpins Mexico (11) have found themselves in unfamiliar territory as the fourth-place finisher who will have to play-off against Oceania champions New Zealand in a home-and-away tie next month for a possible additional spot for CONCACAF.

Panama (eight) join Jamaica (five) as the nations who failed to progress.

LEARNING FROM THE LAST WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN

Now that the dream of Brazil has been shattered, the Jamaica Football Federation is tasked with putting another together. The road to Russia in 2018 beckons. But if that dream is not to end another disaster the way this last one did, the JFF has to be willing to learn from its past mistakes and be willing to seek help where necessary.

Nobody knows everything and even the brightest among us occasionally need to consult with persons not as smart but who have been blessed with the types of experiences that are invaluable. Among the salvageable pieces scattered about are a good coach, one which based on his vast experience could turn out to be our best one yet.

Winfried Schafer is yet to win a game as coach of the Reggae Boyz. After four games he has one loss and three draws. But then you have to consider that he took over a team in June after Theodore Whitmore was canned after the Boyz lost 2-0 in Honduras and had not looked like winning a game in the five games before that disastrous performance.

Schafer came in and almost immediately, without getting a chance to know his players, had the team playing better. A lot of what Schafer brought was years of success as a player at Borussia Monchengladbach that won five Bundesliga titles in the 1970s. He was a member of the 1970 team.

As a manager he led Cameroon to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2002 and Al Ahli to the United Arab Emirates League title in 2006. He has had many other successes in between and after those periods and it is this wealth of experience at winning that he brings now to Jamaica. We have to be prepared to give him what he wants; what he needs to get Jamaica to have a winning programme once again.

Schafer, I feel, needs to be given a free hand to develop players and to implement programmes that he thinks will be essential to the success of the process that he will guide. The JFF also has to find a way to get a few decent playing surfaces of international standard in the country on which players can develop their games to the level that will put them on par with the best players in the CONCACAF region. There are other things that are needed but these getting these things done will be a good start.

Also among the scattered pieces is a crop of talented but under-developed players who can be shaped into quality players with some special work to get them up to par with what is needed to mount a competitive campaign.

Focus over the next two years at the start of the next campaign should be on getting a pool of players that would have been assessed and put into specially designed programmes to get them up to par.

These players and those based overseas also need to be given opportunities to gel. That means many practice games, as many as possible, against teams in the Caribbean, and the region to give the pool a chance to become familiar with each other.

That pool of players along with others who might show themselves over the next couple of years, whether they are playing in college here or abroad or in high school, will provide the depth that is critical to a long and arduous campaign. We all saw what happened when Nyron Noseworthy got hurt early in the last campaign. A good defense is critical to any protracted campaign. They key to winning games is to score and not be scored upon.

We also need to find four or five dynamic creative midfield players, something that Jamaica clearly lacked in this failed run at Brazil. Strikers can’t score without the ball and if midfielders aren’t good enough to get the ball to the strikers then they should not be in the programme. The time has come when we should not be settling for the mediocre. The beat the best we have to field the best.

But all these things make up only part of what is needed. It has become apparent that the JFF lacks the skill sets, the acumen, to put a proper programme together. That expertise is available however, but has never been utilized. There are people out there like UEFA A standard coach Jerome Samuels and administrators like Lorne Donaldson who are more than willing to make themselves available to the national programme but someone needs to reach out to them.

Both these men and several others are based abroad but are blessed with the kind of expertise and experience that the JFF lacks. Pride needs to be swallowed and these people brought in to lend a helping hand.

The more of us who shoulder the burden, the easier the load. It doesn’t hurt to ask for help.