Snak

he ja...mener de spillede i den et par gange - måske et pr stunt...:-)

Houston on road, Marathon seeks recovery

When the Houston Dynamo head to San Salvador to take on CD FAS in their Group 3 CONCACAF Champions League opener Wednesday, coach Dominic Kinnear will make sure his players know they´re not in Texas anymore.

The vagaries of playing on the road internationally can be challenging, and winning the first group stage match - home or away - is critical, according to Kinnear.

"You want to get off on the right start in CONCACAF," he said. "It´s not easy and it´s always hard to predict what´s going to go on when you go down there. A lot of things are going to go differently and you just have to be prepared for it, but the expectation is to go down and win this game."

Houston enters the match having lost only one its last 10, including Sunday´s 2-2 draw with the Columbus Crew, and has the fifth-best record in U.S. Major League Soccer.

It faces a CD FAS side which is unbeaten in its last two in the Salvadoran first division after losing three of its first four and lost 3-0 to Olimpia on August 2 to open the Champions League. It drew 0-0 at home on Saturday with fellow Champions League qualifier Aguila.

"Let´s hope that we play a better game and we can win," FAS manager Agustin Castillo told Prensa Grafica. "Suddenly, that team (Dynamo) goes on the attack, coming from the back and not leaving any spaces on the field, and when we don´t have space we have trouble."

He calls Houston "a dynamic team of good football. It has a tinge of European football. On the Internet we see plays, goals. We know little about them and they should not know about us."

Like FAS, Caribbean champion Caledonia AIA is looking to rebound from a 3-1 loss to Seattle in its Champions League opener when it hosts Marathon Wednesday night at Ato Boldon Stadium.

"We should be able to do better," coach Jerry Moe told ttproleague.com. "We have to be confident. We have three games still. We won the second half against Seattle and that should give us some confidence. So it´s just for us to play our remaining matches with the right discipline and attitude."

Marathon enters the match with a new coach, Manuel Keosseian, who was chosen to replace Ramon Maradiaga on Friday after the club had lost four straight to start the Honduran Apertura. Under interim manager Mauro Reyes, it ended its slide with a 3-2 victory at Real Espana on Saturday with three goals from Mitchell Brown.

"It´s a big motivation, this gives us confidence for what lies ahead in the tournament," Reyes told La Prensa after the match. "We had some communication with coach Keosseian. We did some analysis of the team and made some decisions."

Wednesday´s other match pits a sagging Tigres UANL against an unbeaten Alajuelense.

Tigres has fallen to seventh in the Mexican Apertura after a 2-1 loss to Tijuana that extended its winless streak to three. After scoring 10 goals in three games - including a 4-0 win over Real Esteli in its Champions League opener, Tigres has scored only three goals total in its last three games.

Conversely, Alajuelense is one of only three unbeaten teams left in the Costa Rican first division after six rounds, and sits atop the league with 14 points.

It faces Tigres at home, where it hasn´t lost in four previous matches in the Champions League. It has won three straight, all in last year´s Group Stage and all by 1-0 scores.

However, this season in the Costa Rican first division it has won four and drawn two - both ties coming at home. An additional concern is the likely absence of Pablo Gabbas, who injured his left instep in Sunday´s 1-0 win over Perez Zeledon, Alajuelense said on its website Tuesday.

og så er FAS iøvrigt tilbage på oddset....der skal fejrees med en kommentar fra the Jinx...

Pelé: Neymar can be more of a complete player than Maradona and Messi

Brazilian legend Pelé believes his compatriot Neymar has the potential to be a better all-round player than Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.

The former Santos forward, who helped his country win the World Cup three times, does not seem to enjoy a friendly relationship with Maradona, with the pair often engaging in discussions over who is the best current and best ever footballer.

´´For me, Maradona was a great player, but only really used his left leg. Messi resembles him in that sense,´´ Pelé told reporters.

´´[Neymar] has the potential to overcome both by being more complete
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og så venter vi bare på Diego´s respons....:-)

Transfer problematikkerne om Piatti og Bottinelli´s skifter gør de ikke får lov at spille i den nationale turnering sålænge deres transfer situation er uafklaret - det har for River´s vedkommende også bertydning for signingen af den uruguayanske angriber Rodrigo Mora fra Benfica.

Piatti y Bottinelli, "parados" por la AFIP

BUENOS AIRES -- El administrador federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP), Ricardo Echegaray, solicitó al presidente de la Asociación del Futbol Argentino (AFA), Julio Grondona, que los jugadores Jonathan Bottinelli e Ignacio Piatti no jueguen en el torneo oficial hasta tanto no se esclarezca la situación de sus transferencias.

Echegaray envió hoy una carta al presidente de la Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, Julio Grondona, en la que le informó las nuevas medidas de fiscalización que adoptará el organismo luego de observar las transferencias "poco transparentes de los futbolistas Jonathan Bottinelli e Ignacio Piatti".

"A través de la herramienta informática Declaración Jurada Anticipada de Servicios (DJAS), la AFIP decidió bloquear las transferencias de los fondos al exterior hasta tanto se clarifique la operación (esta situación ya fue informada por AFIP al Banco Central de la República Argentina)", indica la misiva.

Bottinelli fue incorporado a River Plate para esta temporada y Piatti se sumó al plantel de San Lorenzo de Almagro, aunque aún no jugaron ningún partido.

De acuerdo con trascendidos del organismo recaudador, "ya se ha iniciado una denuncia penal", al tiempo que se han hecho las investigaciones correspondientes ante la Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF) por una supuesta maniobra de lavado de dinero".

"Se han iniciado requerimientos al exterior con el objeto de confrontar la declaración impositiva de los actores económicos con el efectivo flujo financiero de cada operatoria", remarca la carta remitida a Grondona.

El responsable de la AFIP indicó que "en línea, se publicará en el Boletín Oficial la Resolución General (AFIP) N°3.374, la cual dispone el registro obligatorio -dentro de los diez días a la fecha de contrato- de las operaciones de transferencia y/o cesión total o parcial de los derechos federativos y/o económicos de los jugadores de fútbol profesional.

La obligación incluye todos los datos de la operación, inclusive de los representantes de los futbolistas".

Más adelante, Echegaray remarcó que "la AFIP solicita la inmediata ejecución de medidas administrativas concretas por parte de la Asociación del Fútbol Argentino tendientes a desalentar estas maniobras y así evitar la consolidación de un esquema de negocios poco transparente".

La misiva enviada por la AFIP enfatiza que "este Organismo insta a la AFA a que estructure un mecanismo que permita conocer la realidad económica de la operatoria perfeccionada y así poder determinar la existencia, o no, de casos de asociaciones ilícitas para concretar situaciones de evasión fiscal, fuga de divisas al exterior y lavado de dinero; esto en el entendimiento de que la planificación fiscal desarrollada por los agentes económicos termina utilizando a los futbolistas y a los clubes como elementos necesarios para el perfeccionamiento de estas maniobras".

Iøvrigt er der en lækkerbisken i nat - første kamp i Recopa Sudamericana i Chile mellem universidad de Chile og brasilianske Santos :-)

Yes, det sagde de godt nok under brasserboldkampen i søndags, men tak fordi du lige minder os om kampen. Mon ikke DEG skal se den?

O Globo fortæller, at der med al sandsynlighed bliver ballade i Santiago inden aftenens kamp mellem Universidad de Chile og Santos. De studerende har indkaldt til demonstration i centrum af byen for bedre uddannelse og mere retfærdige priser på universiteterne, og politiet skulle til gengæld være klar med dagens ret, nemlig knippelsuppe.

Universidad de Chile, som vandt Copa Sud/Sul-Americana 2012, stiller sandsynligvis op med følgende 11:
Herrera;
Acevedo, Martínez, Rojas og Mena;
Aránguiz, Rodriguez, Cereceda og Marino;
Gutiérrez og Lorenzetti

Santos, som vandt Copa Libertadores 2012, stiller med disse:
Rafael;
Bruno Peres, Bruno Rodrigo, Durval og Juan;
Adriano, Arouca, Patito Rodriguez og Ganso;
Neymar og André

Prøv lige at tjekke dette billede fra gårsdagens træning på Estádio Nacional:
http://clubedosfanaticos…azan-61.jpg

Samba

Love it - det er et af de smukkest beliggende stadions overhovedet - og tænk at Pinochet brugte det som en koncentrationslejr en kort periode....suk...


Andib...

Mon ikke DEG allerede har fundet popcornene frem hvis han er tilstede på stadion....

Mon ikke DEG allerede har fundet popcornene frem hvis han er tilstede på stadion....

Er der noget jeg ikke har fået med?

Nej - tænkte at han muligvis havde tænkt sig at udleve sin Pasion for La U på et tidspunkt...og så ville denne kamp da være et godt valg :-)