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River: Marcelo Barovero sufrió un desgarro

BUENOS AIRES -- Se jugaba el segundo tiempo del partido entre River y Atlético Rafaela y Marcelo Barovero. En su lugar ingresó Leandro Chichizola y a menos de 24 horas de dicho episodio se confirmó que el arquero no podrá estar en el partido antes Estudiantes.

El titular indiscutido en el equipo de Ramón Díaz sintió un pinchazo en el isquiotibial izquierdo y tras realizarse una serie de estudios médicos se confirmó que padece un desgarró en el bíceps femoral derecho.

Por eso, en la lista de concentrados que Ramón Díaz dio a conocer para jugar el miércoles en la Plata no está el arquero surgido en Atlético Rafaela y su lugar será ocupado por Leandro Chichizola.

Por otro lado, ante el "Pincha" estarán en condiciones de reaparecer Jonatan Maidana y Manuel Lanzini quienes cumplieron una fecha de suspensión por acumulación de tarjetas amarillas. Quienes dejarán el equipo serán Gastón Pezzella y Jonathan Fabbro.

Mientras tanto, la otra incógnita pasa por el lateral derecho. Tras apostar por Augusto Solari, no se descarta que, teniendo en cuenta que River será visitante y que jugará ante el puntero del campeonato, vuelva al equipo Gabriel Mercado, en búsqueda de mayor marca.

De esta manera, con la duda en el lateral por despejar, los once para visitar La Plata serían: Leandro Chichizola; Augusto Solari o Gabriel Mercado, Jonatan Maidana, Éder Álvarez Balanta, Leonel Vangioni; Carlos Carbonero, Matías Kranevitter, Ariel Rojas, Manuel Lanzini; Teófilo Gutiérrez y Fernando Cavenaghi.

Además, completarán la nómina de concentrados: Nicolás Rodríguez, Ramiro Funes Mori, Germán Pezzella, Osmar Ferreyra, Jonathan Fabbro, Juan Carlos Menseguez, Daniel Villalva.

River visitará a Estudiantes desde las 17:10 hs. del miércoles y con el arbitraje de Germán Delfino. El "Millonario" buscará un triunfo con el objetivo de posicionarse como único líder del Torneo Final ante un rival que sólo perdió un partido en el actual campeonato (vs. Boca).111

A conversation with Elías Figueroa, Chile’s greatest football legend

From overcoming polio aged 11, the defender known as the ‘red wall’ went on to become the national team’s saviour and an icon of religious worship.
A conversation with Elías Figueroa, Chile’s greatest football legend

Pele uttered one name when asked who the best defender he ever faced was — Elías Figueroa. Heralded as Chile’s greatest ever player, the imperious center-back overcame severe health problems before becoming South American Footballer of the Year three years running. But a career which took him across the world began on his country’s shores.

Founded in the port-city of Valparaíso in 1892, Santiago Wanderers is Chile’s oldest football club. The club’s name was created in honor of both the country’s capital and the British immigrants that introduced the sport to its shores, belying its location 75 miles west of the country’s capital.
Wanderers fans have watched defender Raúl Sánchez lead their team to a league title in 1958, loyal servant Juan Olivares Marambio clock up 286 appearances for the club in the 1960s, and Chile’s “Zidane” Jaime Riveros grace the field in more recent years, but they hold no player in higher regard than legendary defender Elías Figueroa.

Not only does the team’s player of the season receive the “Elías Figueroa Award”, but the club also invited its standard-bearer to inaugurate its brand new stadium, named after the defender himself, in February this year.

Elías lives close by with Marcela, his wife of more than 50 years, in the small seaside town of Reñaca. He traveled all over the world in his illustrious 20-year career, and continues to do so today as he works for the development of football in Chile through his foundation, Gol Iluminado. Its raison d’être is to “educate through sport” — in promoting sport as a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle, it seeks to teach children in Chile important values both in play and in life.

The foundation takes its name from the goal Elías scored for Brazilian club Internacional in the championship final to hand Internacional its first ever national title, after which he made the transition from the city’s top defender to its demigod. His side had beaten Fluminense, the favorites, in the semi-final in the Maracana before welcoming Cruzeiro to the Estadio Beira-Rio for the final.

“We slept in rooms at the stadium that night. At six in the morning you could already hear the crowds outside the stadium. The match didn’t start until five in the afternoon but they opened the gates at midday and within half an hour it was completely full.”

He sits forward, growing animated as he builds the suspense that the fans equally had to endure that day, before arriving at his career-defining moment.

“The noise was deafening when we entered the tunnel. I was captain of the team, and I turned round and said to them, ‘It’s down to us now, not the crowd, and we’re not going to lose the campeonato here.’ We were awarded a free kick in the second half and I said to my teammate, ‘I’m going up and I’m going to score.’ It was an unbelievable moment when I saw my header go in, my teammates were jumping on me but I just said to them, ‘We have to carry on, we have to win,’ and, well, we did.”

The “gol iluminado” acquired its name from the lone ray of sun that penetrated the clouds at that moment and illuminated a small area on the edge of the six-yard box, the exact same spot where Elías connected with his match-winning header. Following the match, he was worshipped in a way that only a handful of footballers have ever been.

“As the captain of the team people were already talking about me, but things changed a little bit after that day. Some women brought their sick children to me hoping I’d cure them, while there were pregnant women that would grab my hand, wanting me to touch their stomachs,” he recalls, struggling to find a word to describe such an moment.

An extraordinary status for anyone to experience, it becomes even more so as he recounts the health problems he suffered as a child — in his early years, heart problems and severe asthma led doctors to tell his mother that he would never be able to run normally. If that wasn’t enough, at the age of 11 he was diagnosed with polio and spent a year in bed before learning to walk all over again.

He puts the overcoming of such problems down to perseverance, and believes the experience gave him a deep appreciation of life through which he always looks for the positives — qualities that he believes were at the heart of his success.

“Football was a great motivation for me to overcome those problems but I think perseverance has been the key word in my life. I persevered to be able to run without suffocating, and I achieved it. I persevered to be able to walk again, and I achieved it,” he says with an emotional pride behind his words, as if he still sometimes struggles to believe it today.

That tenacity would mark his career, a notable example coming in a match against Argentine club Racing de Avellaneda.

“I got kicked in the head during the match and only really came round in the showers after the game,” he recalls, sitting back and laughing. “I asked my teammates what had happened and was told I’d been out there the whole 90 minutes. I thought they were pulling my leg — I didn’t remember anything about the game, anything at all.”

It was that kind of dogged determination that served him especially well after he made the switch to the Brazilian league at the age of 25, joining Internacional from Uruguayan side Peñarol. The desire to test himself against the best underlined this decision, where he would face an array of footballing legends such as Pele, Rivelino and Jairzinho, the lynchpins of Brazil’s 1970 World Cup winning squad.

“I had a few options at the time — renew my contract with Peñarol, go to Real Madrid, who wanted me, or go to Brazil. I chose Brazil because that’s where the champions of the 1970 World Cup were playing. It was an attractive league with a very high standard of football, but it went well for me.”

This understatement is indicative of his modesty — prolific goalscorers such as Zico, Rivelino and the Uruguayan Fernando Morena may have grabbed the headlines during each season but it was the tenacious defender that pipped them to the South American Footballer of the Year award three years running, from 1974 to 1976. It is almost inconceivable that such an achievement will ever be matched by another defender — only two have won the award since: Argentine center-back Oscar Ruggeri in 1991 and Brazilian right-back Cafu in 1994. For Elías, winning the award three times in a row is the highlight of his career, his proudest achievement.

He looks back on his time with Peñarol as his most formative years, crucial to his development both as a player and a person after moving there aged 18. There, playing with the Copa Libertadores and World Champions, he added physicality to his technical prowess and mature reading of the game, earning him the nickname “Don Elías”.

He left Brazil before such qualities started to wane, deciding with Marcela in 1977 that the time was right to return to Chile. He took a wage cut in doing so, joining a lesser-known Palestino side where as captain he guided the team to its second ever league title and a 46-match unbeaten run.

Following that spell, he retired from international duty and was persuaded to sign for Fort Lauderdale Strikers in Florida, USA, an area he had always been drawn to. However, his time there was cut short and he was asked by the Chilean football association to return to Chile.

“I had a year and a half there and I was ready to wind down, but then came the 1982 World Cup,” he recounts. “I had a phone call from the national coach saying that he had problems in the middle of defence and that he needed me there. It was difficult to leave Florida behind, but I could never say no to my country.”

He sits forward as he explains why: “Playing for Chile is one of the only things that is borne of a childhood dream – it’s rare for an eight or nine year old to sleep with a law book, or a stethoscope under the pillow, dreaming of being a great lawyer or doctor in the future. But how many kids sleep with a football by their side, dreaming about playing football for their country in future?” He smiles. “And how many make it? Those that do have achieved their dream.”

For Elías it was a far from straightforward journey. His was a difficult path and one in which he broke rules and surpassed expectations at every step. “I wasn’t supposed to be able to run like a normal child, but I did it. Everyone told us our marriage wouldn’t last, and it’s lasted over 50 years.”

A golden rule of football is that people want to see players score goals. Most players strive to make the crowd roar — for Elías, there was nothing better than silencing it. Perhaps his formative years, in which he gained his deep-rooted desire to subvert people’s expectations, made it inevitable that he would end up in central defence trying to stop them. The success he would have in doing so, however, none could have predicted.

Ja, det egentligt bemærkelsesværdigt at det går så kidt for São Paulo-klubberne , lad det dog endelig fortsætte - det er heller ikke fordi at Carioca-klubberne er så fandens stabile - Flu havde en periode, Fla vandt et år, men hverken Fogo eller Vasco har jo vundet et nationalt mesterskab i lang tid ?

Det er vel også på tide Bahia klubberne gør væsen af sig ...utroligt de ikke kan drive det til mere

Carioca klubberne ser rigtig skidte ud i år. Flamengo og Botafogo ligner de eneste klubber som kan præsentere et resultat. Fluminense har jeg ingen fidus til, medmindre et eller andet dramatisk sker.
São Paulo klubberne.. Tjo.. Ikke just imponerende, hvad de præsentere i Paulistão. Santos ser stærke ud, hvis de kan få deres spil i gang.. Det samme med Corinthians med Jadson. São Paulo er et spørgsmåltegn for mig, mens Palmeiras skal vænne sig til at spille i Serie A?
Der er rigtig mange spørgsmål, som kan blive spurgt. Det bliver en fed omgang.

Bahia klubberne.. Tjoo. Hvorfor ikke? Jeg håber ikke, at de rykker ned mens bliver oppe og muligvis sniger sig i top 8. 3x Santa Catarina klubber - vil de også begynde at lege med i den bedste række?
Masse af potentiale..

I øvrigt, så har Corinthians købt jeres bedste spiller sidste år, Elias fra Sporting. Jeg ved ikke, om du har læst den nyhed. De ser skræmmende ud..

Ja, det lidt noget F*** med Elias, mon ikke det bliver en gennemsnitssæson for FLA igen, igen - Fogo tja det dummede sg i Statsmsterskabet og Copa Libertadores kan heller ikke se dem gøre noget - så krydse fingrene for Gremio, Cruzeiro og Atl. Mineiro - gider ikke det er Paulista-Pis.

Gago se perderá el resto del campeonato

BUENOS AIRES -- Tras el golpe sufrido en el partido que Boca disputó ante Colón, Fernando Gago sintió dolores en su rodilla izquierda y se sometió a una serie de estudios médicos con el objetivo de determinar el grado de la lesión.

La misma sería un esguince con distensión en el ligamento interno de la rodilla izquierda y, de esta manera, el volante tendría para aproximadamente un mes de recuperación por lo que no volvería a jugar en el Torneo Final 2014.

Fernando Gago, de 28 años, es uno de los mediocampista que Alejandro Sabella tiene en mente para ocupar el equipo titular de la selección argentina en el Mundial de Brasil 2014. Tal es así que fue titular en nueve partidos en las pasadas eliminatorias.

Por eso, pensando ya en el debut del 15 de junio, ante Bosnia y Herzegovina, no tendría problemas en cuanto a fechas ya que restan poco más de dos meses. Sin embargo, lo negativo pasará porque Gago llegará con poco ritmo futbolístico teniendo en cuenta que se ausentará en las últimas fechas del Torneo Final.

Estudiantes: difícil que Verón esté vs. River

BUENOS AIRES -- El liderazgo será el gran incentivo en el partido Estudiantes y River disputarán el próximo miércoles en La Plata. Por ello, Mauricio Pellegrino comenzó a probar nombres para afinar un equipo que presenta más que certezas.

La incógnita principal pasa por si podrá ser titular Juan Sebastián Verón, ausente en los últimos dos partidos por un edema en región distal del biceps femora. Si bien es complicada su presencia, la "Bruja" haría todo lo posible por llegar teniendo en cuenta que son sus últimos partidos como futbolista principal.

El otro jugador que está en duda es Román Martínez, quien se recupera de un esguince de tobillo producido en el partido con Racing. De no llegar en condiciones, seguiría como titular Israel Damonte.

Por otro lado, Pellegrino tendrá otras dos bajas obligadas ya que Carlos Auzqui y Patricio Rodríguez llegaron a la quinta tarjeta amarilla. Para jugar por el sector derecho, es un hecho que ingresará Mauro Rosales, mientras que, para la banda izquierda, las posibilidades son Ernesto Goñi, Mariano González o Jorge Luna.

En definitiva, con aguardando por Román Martínez y Juan Sebastián Verón, el probable once sería: Gerónimo Rulli; Mauricio Rosales, Jonathan Schunke, Leandro Desábato, Jonathan Silva; Leonardo Jara, Gastón Gil Romero, Juan Sebastián Verón o Román Martínez o Israel Damonte, Ernesto Goñi o Mariano González o Jorge Luna; Franco Jara y Guido Carrillo.

Estudiantes recibirá a River desde las 17:10 hs. del domingo y con el arbitraje de Germán Delfino. El "Pincha" buscará seguir siendo el único líder del Torneo Final estirando su invicto a diez partidos. Cabe recordar que los platenses sólo perdieron ante Boca en el actual campeonato.

Guatemala - 19 Runde

Nyt Tophold i Xelaju som hjemme besejrede Heredia med 4-9, 2 x Ulises Mendivil, Israel Silva og Edwin Chinchilla var på pletten for los superchivos

https://www.youtube.com/…t7Av-NKDPG8

Comunicaciones vandt topkampen over USAC med 2-0 på mål af Dagoberto Arriola og Minor López, begge hold har nu 30 point på en delt andenplads 1 point efter holdet fra Quetzaltenango.

https://www.youtube.com/…uEHYlpNLKE8

Municipal fik 1-1 ude mod Halcones, mens Coatepeque avancerede til 5. pladsen efter 3-0 over Marquense.

https://www.youtube.com/…SwGUebLo0J0

https://www.youtube.com/…Ggx0OWIU6p4

Mario Castellanos blev matchvinder for Malacateco mod Suchitepequez, da angriberen scorede kampens eneste mål efter en lille times spil.

https://www.youtube.com/…Wa0mHJDagbE

og endelig spillede Mictlan og Iztapa 1-1.

https://www.youtube.com/…Owo3crwNt-E


Honduras - 18 Runde.

Olimpia vinder grundspillet efter 2-0 sejr over Savio på mål af Bayrom Mendez og RoRo med målene.

https://www.youtube.com/…mzPnj_ACt6w

2.pladsen går til Real Sociedad som hjemme slår Victoria med 4-0, forsvarspilleren José Tobias står bag 2 af målene.

https://www.youtube.com/…UNHuqpg-PYs

Holdene fra San Pedro Sula slutter af med 0-0 mod Platense for Real España´s vedkommende mens VIDA slår Marathon med 2-0.

https://www.youtube.com/…mWlZsx6oKE0

Motagua unge angrebstalent Kevin López sikrer los azules en 2-1 sejr over Parillas One i Tela med sin scoring kort før tid.

https://www.youtube.com/…Ws2qgeQXDbo

1 runde i Play-off:

Marathon - Motagua

Victotia - Real España

El Salvador - 14 Runde

FAS vinder El Clasico Nacional med 1-0 over Águila på mål af Alexander Larín, og udbygger dermed forsprinet ned til de nærmeste forfølgere Isidro Metapan som må nøjes med 2-2 i San Salvador mod Atletico Marte.

https://www.youtube.com/…8wyxl0oFXUw

https://www.youtube.com/…qVYdUmK866Y

Yubini Salamanca bliver matchvinder for Juventud som avancere til 3 pladsen efter 1-0 over Santa Tecla. Dragon er nr 4 efter 2-2 hjemme mod UES takket være en sen socring af Liga topscorer William Reyes (13 mål).

https://www.youtube.com/…8wyxl0oFXUw

https://www.youtube.com/…nV1neSXmFEU

Lørdagskampen så Alianza slå L.A Firpo med 2-1 i Usulutan.

https://www.youtube.com/…8wyxl0oFXUw


Panama - 15 runde

Chorrillo vinder 1-0 over San Francisco og er nyt tophold a point med Arabe Unido som spiller 1-1 hjemme mod Alianza, begge hold har 27 point.

Rio Abajo avancerer til fjerdepladsen efter 2-0 sejr over rækkkens nr 3 PLaza Amador.

San Miguelito slår CAI 1-0 og Tauro registerer en 2-0 sejr ude over Chepo.

Racing: Saja trabajó aparte y vuelve Cerro

BUENOS AIRES -- Luego del empate del sábado ante Olimpo, el plantel de Racing volvió a los entrenamientos este lunes por la mañana, con la salvedad de que Sebastián Saja no participó del regenerativo y realizó ejercicios de kinesiología.

El arquero y capitán de La Academia decidió trabajar aparte por precaución, ya que aún padece dolores en el hombro derecho. De todas formas, su presencia ante Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata no correría riesgos.

Para este encuentro, estará en condiciones de regresar Francisco Cerro, luego de purgar la fecha de suspensión. Si bien no hubo práctica de fútbol, el técnico Reinaldo Merlo evalúa incluir al ex Vélez en lugar de Bruno Zuculini, quien podría ir al banco por bajo rendimiento.

Quien también estuvo en kinesiología junto al arquero fue Esteban Saveljich, debido a una sobrecarga muscular en la pierna derecha. Se calcula que el defensor tampoco tendrá problemas para llegar en condiciones para el partido.

Por su parte, los que jugaron el sábado sólo trotaron alrededor de la cancha auxiliar del Cilindro, en tanto que los demás cumplieron con ejercicios de velocidad y finalizaron con fútbol en espacios reducidos. Entre ellos, estuvo Claudio Corvalán, ya recuperado de su molestia en la pierna izquierda.

Además, mientras Merlo daba indicaciones pensando en el duelo ante el conjunto de Pedro Troglio, tanto Fernando Ortiz como Wason Rentería, mostraron una buena evolución de sus respectivas lesiones.

El grupo volverá a entrenarse el martes por la mañana. Allí, Mostaza definirá la lista de concentrados y hará un ensayo futbolístico para dar forma a una probable alineación titular.

Racing volverá a ser local a las 20.20 de este jueves ante Gimnasia, por la 14° fecha del Torneo Final. Luego de estar 6 fechas sin ganar, La Academia lleva 5 partidos sin derrotas, aunque continúa en la 17° posición con 13 unidades.