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Barrabravas argentinos denunciarán al Gobierno por dar listas a Brasil

BUENOS AIRES -- La abogada de la asociación de fanáticos del fútbol radicales Hinchadas Unidas Argentinas (HUA), Débora Hambo, anunció el martes que denunciará al secretario de Seguridad del Gobierno argentino, Sergio Berni, por enviar a Brasil una lista de hinchas que viajarán al Mundial para que sean controlados.

En declaraciones a medios locales, Hambo criticó que la lista no se hiciera pública, y calificó su entrega al país vecino de "acto antijurídico y una barbaridad jurídica", por lo que denunciarán a Berni y a "cualquier otro funcionario" que haya firmado el documento.

La abogada recordó que hay "un expediente judicial y un recurso de amparo abierto" y que, en el Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010, un juez dictaminó que enviar datos privados a otro país "implica violentar los derechos y que para eso se requiere el consentimiento del informado".

"¿Quiénes son?. Todos los argentinos que figuren en esa lista, van a viajar a Brasil, gastando dinero, y cuando lleguen, ¿no les van a dejar pasar?. ¿Van a estar cercados en el predio del Inter de Porto Alegre?. Podríamos saber quiénes son para que no viajen", argumentó la abogada.

Hambo apuntó que les faltan "450, 500 entradas (para el Mundial), porque se nos siguen agregando hinchas", y puntualizó que "Bebote (Álvarez, líder de la hinchada radical de Independiente) no va porque debe estar el primero de la lista".

El pasado 16 de mayo, el Gobierno argentino entregó a las autoridades brasileñas un lista con los nombres de aficionados con antecedentes de violencia, y anunció que prohibirá la salida del país a los que tengan impedimentos judiciales.

La violencia asociada a los hinchas radicales que acuden a los estadios argentinos suma 276 muertes desde 1913, según un informe de la ONG "Salvemos al Fútbol".

Aranguiz, Valdivia, Diaz, Vidal, Beasejour, Hernandez, Gutiérrez, Carmona, Silva....Sampaoli har rigeligt med folk på midtbanen....Fernández var/er jo heller ikke god nok til startopstillingen ....kan ikke huske hvonpr han sidst var det...måske 1-3 nederlaget hjemme til Colombia ?

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THE UNCOMFORTABLE ALLIANCE: ARGENTINA´S INDIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP WITH LEO MESSI

In 2012, U.S. sportswriter Wright Thompson travelled to Rosario, Lionel Messi’s hometown, to learn more about the city’s most famous son since Che Guevara. The best footballer in the world is an intriguing enigma: painfully shy and seemingly taciturn in interviews, he only comes to life in public on the football pitch, where he sparkles like no player in history has before and perhaps like no player will again.

Thompson hoped that seeing where Messi grew up and what he came from would allow him to gain a better understanding of Messi the man, a celebrity whose face and name are recognised all over the world but one who, caught between the demands of his Argentine past and his Catalan present, cannot be said to have a singular identity. What Thompson found was surprising and depressing in equal measure: nothing.

Well, not ‘nothing’ in a literal sense – he found Messi’s family home still standing and still owned by the family, and he was fortunate enough to chat to Messi’s brothers, who were loitering outside, as well as the doctor who first treated Messi with growth hormone injections – but he found that the prevalent feeling towards the most iconic footballer of his generation in his hometown was one of apathy.

There was nothing in the city to commemorate Messi’s achievements or to bask in his fame: no photos of the city’s most famous sportsman on the walls of its bars, no daubs of his name on any of the walls and no-one as enthused by his exploits as Thompson himself. Most of the Rosarinos he approached preferred to focus on the fact that Messi had left Argentina at a young age. He appeared in their eyes to have forfeited the right to be affiliated with their city. He was no more related to them than Cristiano Ronaldo or Neymar.

Nineteen months after Thompson visited Rosario, I found myself in the city with a couple of Argentine friends. We had managed to get free tickets to watch Central play Gimnasia and had made the three-hour drive up from Buenos Aires in order to spend a few days seeing the sights. All being equally football-obsessed, we were excited by the opportunity to see Messi’s roots and pay our respects to the great man on the hallowed turf where it all began.

For me in particular, this was a tantalising prospect. I have been enthralled by Messi since pretty much the first time I saw him play on television in 2004. I have travelled to Barcelona to see him play on five occasions and I have been something of a good luck charm for him. In the matches I have seen, he has scored fourteen goals – and some of his best.

The first time I saw him, he played three consecutive one-twos with Dani Alves to work his way through Real Sociedad’s defence before rolling the ball past the goalkeeper. Later in the same game, he beat the entire back four, dribbling horizontally past them all before firing his shot into the far corner. Before my next game, against Bayer Leverkusen, I made sure to be pitchside to see him at close quarters: he scored five times. He added four more in Pep Guardiola’s last game at Camp Nou as Barcelona manager, including a perfectly arrowed drive that was hit from right in front of me.

Like any other Messi fan, I was aware that he was not really considered popular in Argentina, due in equal parts to never having represented a club there and to the perception that he had failed to play to his maximum for the national team. The maxim that all Argentines prefer Carlos Tevez was one of which I was aware, but I hoped it had passed its sell-by date.

I believed that Messi’s record-breaking goal haul for Argentina in 2012 coupled with Tevez’s fall from grace had righted this wrong. Even if Messi’s national team form was somehow not enough, the body of work he had amassed at Barcelona stood without equal. Messi is damn near indisputably the best footballer ever to lace his boots – surely his fellow Rosarinos would be proud of that.

Thompson’s article gave us the address of the old family home, located a few miles from the city centre in an area of which unaccompanied tourists would be best advised to stay well clear, while a few more minutes of research gave us the location of the pitch on which Messi played his first football at five years old, captured in a video that went viral almost as soon as he burst onto the scene with Barcelona.

The barrio in which both are situated, General Las Heras, is obviously significantly poorer than the city centre of Rosario. As we approached, I was on the lookout for signifiers that matched Thompson’s descriptions and saw them in abundance. We passed the same grubby, imposing tower blocks, the same stray dogs by the roadside and the same brightly coloured but peeling murals, including the one of the Rolling Stones. As when Thompson visited, there was no mention of Messi.

We found the family house, parked the car and got out. It was a bizarre moment: after all, a house is just a house, regardless of who it belongs to. This particular one had evidently been as modest as those around it for the majority of its existence, but now a tall iron rail fence had been erected in front and small security cameras and intercoms placed by the door and the mailbox. We all knew there was no way Messi was within 6,000 miles of the spot, yet it was hard to imagine ever being closer in proximity to him.

A few neighbours milled around in front of their houses further down the street, strangely paying our trio, comprised of a couple of relatively wealthy guys from Buenos Aires and an obvious extranjero, no attention whatsoever. Clearly, the locals are used to visitors coming to gawk at the barrio’s biggest attraction.

For a few moments we stood outside, staring at the house and wondering whether we should knock and leave a message. We decided the idea was too brazenly silly to countenance. I wished I had realised that Messi’s house, like any other, would have a mailbox, so that I could have brought a note thanking him for his football and letting him know that, in the extremely unlikely event that he felt like he needed my approval, he had it.

Next, we made our way to Centro de Educación Fisica No 8, where Grandoli FC, the children’s team Messi represented, play their games. We drove around searching for a few minutes, stumbling across unkempt patches of grass that could have been the one but did not look quite right, before, spotting a field much larger than the others – big enough to accommodate a full size pitch but nothing else – overshadowed by two tower blocks on one side and open on the other. Suddenly and simultaneously we all said aloud, “there it is!”

Entering via an open gate, we stood on the adjacent set of steps that make up the small supporters’ terrace. We loaded up the YouTube video of Messi aged five and saw on the screen the same field that we saw before our eyes. This was, without a shadow of a doubt, the spot where Messi’s family had brought little Leo in 1992 and watched in awe as he revealed himself to have powers above and beyond the comprehension of anyone on the planet.

I was not expecting anything to mark the site like the spectacular mural of Carlos Tevez in his home barrio, the infamous Fuerte Apache in Buenos Aires, but the silence and emptiness I found in General Las Heras was just as remarkable.

There was no reference to Messi anywhere. The walls around the Grandoli pitch were, by Argentine standards, unusually free of graffiti. There was no sign or indication that we could see that confirmed that this was the spot where Messi first kicked a ball in anger. It was just a kids’ pitch, no different to any other I had seen except for the cloud of hungry mosquitoes which hovered above it at ankle height.

It is hard to imagine that there is a more encouraging message one can send to the youngsters that continue to learn with Grandoli than Messi’s: that despite the huge disadvantages faced by the kids that grow up in their environment, talent, hard work and sacrifice can still take them wherever they want to go. The very best is one of them. Still, nothing. It is like he was never there at all.

I immediately set about speaking to as many Argentines as possible about their thoughts on Messi. The two friends accompanying me on this trip had already explained that they preferred Diego Maradona, whose style they felt was more authentically Argentine: more individual, courageous and full of heart. Messi’s relatively cold, clinical ruthlessness made him a product more than a player – the best graduate of the best school in the world as opposed to a bona fide gift from the gods. Most others I spoke to shared that view.

“We don´t know him; he´s never played here,” I was told by one of the first people I asked. When I put it to him that Messi was the best player in the world, he rolled his eyes. “There are many better players - Cristiano, for one.”

A Central fan told me that Argentina was very much like England in that most people would much rather their club does well than the national team. Consequently, their idols tend not to be the best Argentines from an objective standpoint, but those that best represent the side that they go and watch every weekend.

Perhaps the most illuminating response came from a friend who explained that cultural differences have a lot to do with my perception of Argentina’s coldness towards Messi: “Sometimes I feel like in Europe people rush into recognising and celebrating players who have done nothing for you or your club. Example: buying a Ronaldo Real Madrid jersey as soon as he was signed. What? Why?”

It is evident that many Argentine fans feel that a debt is owed by Messi to his country. They will not love him until he has repaid it.

“Here he is a nobody. He may deserve a statue in Barcelona, but in Argentina... when he delivers a World Cup, maybe.”

This brings us back to the present and the 2014 World Cup, shortly to kick-off in Brazil. There is no doubt that if Messi were to dominate the tournament, leading Argentina to glory and lifting the trophy in the Maracanã, of all places, then the debate over his standing would end overnight. He would join Maradona as an untouchable and the adulation would continue for decades after his career’s end.

Through no fault of his own, however, Messi is very probably not going to lift the World Cup on July 13th. Argentina’s squad is just not strong enough to accomplish the feat. First choice goalkeeper Sergio Romero plays second fiddle to Croatia’s Danijel Subašić at Monaco and has made just four appearances this season. While Pablo Zabaleta and Ezequiel Garay are very capable defenders, their probable colleagues Federico Fernández and Marcos Rojo inspire much less confidence.

From a tactical point of view, too, Argentina are at a disadvantage. They are likely to play a very vertical counter-attacking game, sitting deep and springing forward with Ángel Di María, Sergio Agüero and Gonzalo Higuaín as well as Messi, an approach which maximises the four’s individual ability by allowing them lots of space with which to work, but one that has no recent history of success at this level. There is not a great deal on the bench that suggests they are going to be capable of changing their approach should an opponent park the bus.

Alejandro Sabella’s men are likely to carry on the tradition established by sides like Jogi Löw’s Germany and José Mourinho’s Real Madrid, whose shock-and-awe reactivism destroyed most opponents who allowed themselves to be suckered in to playing high up the pitch, but collapsed when sides twigged what was going on and simply sat deep and refused to be drawn out. Romania, a limited side who will not be at the World Cup Finals, held Argentina to a goalless draw in March by doing exactly that.

If and when Argentina are eliminated, the popular reaction in Argentina will be one of realism. Everyone I know there understands that the goalkeeping situation is a huge problem, that the defence is some way short of being dynamic enough and that the system used is worryingly one-dimensional. Messi will not be blamed for their eventual defeat.

At the same time, he will not earn the adulation that he deserves from his countrymen. When he retires and returns to Rosario, he will not be treated like Maradona, remaining widely revered forever. He will be continually reminded that he never played for Newell’s Old Boys; that he did nothing for the national team; that he never repaid the debt his talent meant that he owed – one that his colleagues’ deficiencies meant he never could repay to begin with.

It may seem bizarre to find a multimillionaire athlete widely accepted as the greatest in his field the object of pity – particularly when rumours abound that his conduct towards teammates has at times been more than questionable and when the fact is that, of his own volition or otherwise, he avoided paying up to €15m in tax between 2010 and 2012 – but pity is what I will feel for Lionel Messi when the curtain comes down on his career and the records show that he never won the World Cup.

He will always be caught between the two cities that define him. In Barcelona, he will be worshipped but not quite accepted. A significant element will remember him as the foreigner who stashed his money off-shore, forever avoided speaking in Catalan and had Argentine meat shipped in by the planeload. In Rosario, the burden of what he never achieved will always count for more than what he did. He has never forgotten where he came from, but his countrymen will never forget that he left.

Unless Messi wins the 2014 World Cup, he will never have a place in the world where he fits in with everyone else. Yes, he will have money, awards and unprecedented professional acclaim, as well as a loving nuclear family and close relationships with the people with whom he grew up. He will still be an incredibly fortunate man, by all accounts, but he will never have a home.

Deportivo, fik du egentlig set Marcelo Grohe´s Gordon Banks redning i kampen mod Flu?

https://www.youtube.com/…bYEexM#t=49
https://www.youtube.com/…xCz_-LM33qg

Føj et Internacional navn iblandt disse psykopatter. Ok, jeg tænkte ellers at Valdivia ville lave flere skandaler og der muligvis ville gå lidt latino i den. ;-)


Yep Charles blev kåret som den bedste spiller i Chile inden han skiftede til de røde køtere, - chilenerne skal nok lave en skandale men hvem står for den både Vldivia og Vidal er leveringsdygtig...?? umiddelbart tænker jeg også Valdivia.

Deportivo, fik du egentlig set Marcelo Grohe´s Gordon Banks redning i kampen mod Flu?

https://www.youtube.com/…bYEexM#t=-49
https://www.youtube.com/…xCz_-LM33qg

Det er sgu godt taget NPATO ! næsten så uvirkeligt som dette...

https://www.youtube.com/…1lxBtkymyh4

Det er sgu godt taget NPATO ! næsten så uvirkeligt som dette...

https://www.youtube.com/…1lxBtkymy-h4

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Almeyda dijo que, si se queda en Argentina, sólo dirigirá a Banfield

BUENOS AIRES -- Matías Almeyda precisó que, si se queda en Argentina, sólo será entrenador de Banfield, por lo que descartó arribar a Racing Club, que estaba interesado en contratarlo para cubrir la vacante que generó la renuncia de Reinaldo Merlo.

"Nuestro presidente (Eduardo Spinosa) sabe que yo le he dado una palabra, que en Argentina voy a seguir en Banfield", reveló Almeyda, en declaraciones para la televisión pública, apenas terminado el partido que el ´Taladro´ le ganó a Villa San Carlos por 4-2, en el Estadio Florencio Sola, por la trigésimo novena fecha del campeonato de la Primera B Nacional.

Almeyda en su primera experiencia como director técnico ya había logrado llevar a River Plate de regreso a la Primera División y lo mismo consiguió con Banfield, antecedentes que sirvieron para llamar la atención de las autoridades de la Academia, que busca un conductor joven y eficaz para su plantel profesional.

El oriundo de Azul consideró como "muy gratificante" el pedido de los hinchas albiverdes para que continúe en el cargo. El adiestrador destacó también la victoria alcanzada en la noche de este martes porque quedaron "primeros", aunque advirtió que "quedan tres partidos más".

El conjunto del Sur es el único líder de la categoría y le lleva tres puntos de ventaja a su escolta Defensa y Justicia, aunque ambos ya se aseguraron el ascenso.

El ya ascendido Banfield se encaminó en la lluviosa jornada del Florencio Sola hacia el título en el campeonato de la Primera B Nacional porque batió al descendido Villa San Carlos.

A tres fechas del cierre de la temporada, el equipo de Almeyda le sacó igual cantidad de puntos a Defensa y Justicia, el Halcón que también tiene garantizado su boleto hacia la máxima categoría de la AFA.

Los goles banfileños los convirtieron Emiliano Terzaghi, Nicolás Bertolo y dos del paraguayo Santiago Salcedo. Para los de Berisso hubo un autogol de Bertolo y una conquista de Martín Trocoso.

En el antepenúltimo capítulo, Banfield se medirá con Sarmiento en el Eva Perón y Defensa visitará a Independiente en el Libertadores de América.

Ponce replaces injured Medina on Mexico WC roster

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican Football Federation announced Tuesday that an injury will force Juan Carlos Medina to miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup and that he will be replaced on the roster by Toluca left-back Miguel Ponce.

A medical exam determined that the Club America midfielder, 30, suffered damage to his right ankle, which will require surgery.

Ponce joined Toluca in December from Guadalajara and has played 111 career games in the Mexican top flight. The 25-year-old helped the Red Devils to a runner-up finish behind Cruz Azul in the recently completed 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League

Born in the United States, Ponce was part of Mexico squads that won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Football Tournament and was champion of the 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying competition.

He made his full international debut for Mexico at the 2011 Copa America, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1-0 loss against Peru. Ponce also netted once in two 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup outings.

UNCAF’s Central American Cup to be Held in the United States in Late Summer 2014

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (Tuesday, May 20, 2014) – The Central American Football Union (UNCAF) today officially confirmed that it will play the Central American Cup in the United States from September 3-13, 2014. In addition to providing a series of berths in important international tournaments, the Central American Cup USA 2014 will serve to celebrate UNCAF’s upcoming 25th anniversary.

This edition of the tournament – the region’s championship for national teams and a qualifying competition for the CONCACAF Gold Cup – will include unique details and features as Central American countries begin their quest towards the prestigious FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 (six continental champions, reigning World Cup champion and tournament host) and the Centennial Cup America 2016 (10 nations of CONMEBOL in South America, plus six teams from CONCACAF).

The Central American Cup will once again decide several teams that will qualify for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, a biennial tournament that determines the champion of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The champion of the 2015 Gold Cup will then participate in a play-in match against the 2013 champion United States for a spot in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

In addition, the Central American Cup will also hand its champion a direct route to the recently-announced Centennial Cup America 2016, also be played in the United States.

The Central American Cup 2014 will initiate the next World Cup cycle, with an eye towards Russia 2018, meaning the competing teams will be looking to use the event as a springboard to begin the four-year period with a strong performance. The Central American Cup is sure to be highly competitive, since it will include two teams arriving with their full complement of star power, fresh from competition in the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 – Costa Rica and Honduras.

Costa Rica is the current Central American Cup champion and has lifted the trophy a record seven times. Honduras is next with three titles, while Guatemala and Panama have won one apiece. Belize, El Salvador and Nicaragua round out the list of participants.

The Central American Cup has been contested 12 times, starting in 1991. Costa Rica and Honduras have hosted it three times each, while it has been played in El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama twice.

Last February, the Executive Committee of UNCAF revised in detail the possible date options for the event, in order to allow Central American national teams to call on their top stars for this tournament. The match dates have been selected to coordinate with FIFA’s international calendar, so that all teams can play the tournament with their “A” teams.

The event’s Organizing Committee, headed by CONCACAF and Soccer United Marketing, expects to announce host cities for this historic event in the coming weeks.