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Lidt Update fra CONCACAF

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Five CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal spots up for grabs

Three teams are in, 11 teams are out and 10 still have a chance to reach the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League.

With one week remaining in the Group Stage, five head-to-head matchups will determine the remainder of the knockout round field when play resumes Oct. 23.

The Seattle Sounders (USA) in Group 4, the LA Galaxy (USA) in Group 5 and two-time defending champion Monterrey (Mexico) in Group 7 have already advanced.

Group 1

Santos (Mexico) leads Toronto FC (Canada) by three points, having won in Toronto, 3-1, on Aug. 28. They meet again in Torreon, Mexico on Oct. 24.

a) Santos advances with win or draw. It can also advance with a loss if the loss is by one goal, or by two goals so long as it does not allow Toronto to score four goals or more.

b) Toronto advances with a victory by three goals or more. If Toronto wins by two goals, it can only advance if it scores four or more.

Group 2

Herediano (Costa Rica) leads Real Salt Lake (USA) by three points, having won the first encounter 1-0 in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 31. The group finale is at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Oct. 23.

a) Real Salt Lake advances with a 1-0 victory, or a victory of two goals or more.

b) Herediano advances with a win or tie, or a loss of one goal so long as it scores at least one goal.

Group 3

The Houston Dynamo (USA) leads the group with seven points, three more than Olimpia (Honduras). The two drew, 1-1, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Aug. 30, and meet again at Houston’s BBVA Compass Stadium on Oct. 23.

a) Houston advances with win or draw.

b) Olimpia advances with win.

Group 4

Seattle Sounders FC (USA) has clinched, but will host Marathon (Honduras) on Oct. 24.

Group 5

The LA Galaxy (USA) have clinched, but will travel to Central America to face Isidro Metapan (El Salvador) on Oct. 25.

Group 6

Alajuelense (Costa Rica) leads Tigres UANL (Mexico) by two points, with the two having drawn 2-2 in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on Aug. 22. They will meet again on Oct. 24.

a) Alajuelense advances with win or draw.

b) Tigres advances with win.

Group 7

Monterrey (Mexico) has clinched, but will travel to face Chorrillo FC (Panama) on Oct. 23.

Group 8

Xelaju (Guatemala) leads the group with seven points, three more than Guadalajara (Mexico). Xelaju won the first encounter in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, on Aug. 21 and the two will clash again in Mexico on Oct. 25.

a) Xelaju (GUA) advances with win or draw. Xelaju also advances with loss of one goal, so long as it scores a goal.

b) Guadalajara advances with a 1-0 victory, or a victory by two goals or more.

Once the group winners are determined, the quarterfinal pairings will be set with teams seeded based on their records, with the top seed facing the eighth seed, two vs. seven, three vs. six, and four vs. five. After points, the teams will be seeded in order of: goal difference, most goals scored, most goals scored away from home, most victories, most victories away from home, and finally lots.

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Fluminense øger i toppen efter 2-0 ude over Bahia. De nærmeste forfølgere Atlético Mineiro tabte nemlig med hele 3-0 til Internacional, så nu har Fred & Co. 9 points forspring. São Paulo vandt det vigtige opgør mod Vasco med 2-0. Dermed er kampen om Top 4 og kvalifikation til Libertadores intensiveret. Corinthians vandt 3-2 over Flamengo i derbyet mellem de to populæreste klubber. Corinthians er som Libertadores-mestre allerede sikret en plads i næste års turnering, så de kan tage den med ro. Flamengo nærmer sig nedrykningsstregen, meeeen der er stadig noget at tære på.
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Aquivaldo og Fredy spiller mod Colombia, med "El tigre og "Teogol" i angrebet....skal nok blive festeligt.

Jugarían Mosquera y Guarín

BARRANQUILLA -- El zaguero Aquivaldo Mosquera y el mediocampista Fredy Guarín relevarían a Luis Amaranto Perea y Abel Aguilar, bajas obligadas de Colombia en el duelo ante Paraguay por las eliminatorias de Sudamérica para el Mundial 2014.

Perea, del Cruz Azul de México, no podrá actuar el viernes por acumulación de tarjetas y Aguilar, del Deportivo de La Coruña de España, fue expulsado contra Chile.

Mosquera, del América de México, no alineó contra Uruguay por acumulación de tarjetas y fue suplente frente a Chile mientras Guarín, del Inter de Italia, encaró problemas físicos y fue descartado para esos compromisos.

El técnico argentino José Pekerman no tendría dificultades para encontrar los relevos de Perea y Aguilar: cuenta con suficientes hombres de calidad en todas las posiciones.

Radamel Falcao, James Rodríguez, Macnelly Torres y Teófilo Gutiérrez sobresalen en el plantel.

Todo indica que Pekerman confirmará a la mayoría de los hombres que vencieron a Uruguay y a Chile pero la presencia de Gutiérrez es cuestionada por algunos pese a su efectividad.

"Teo" a menudo tiene problemas en la cancha y por acciones fuertes vio la tarjeta roja en la 9na y 11ma fechas del torneo Clausura del fútbol colombiano. Las críticas le llovieron.

Carlos Bacca, goleador del Brujas de Bélgica, y Jackson Martínez, del Porto de Portugal, aguardan su oportunidad y Pekerman podría apelar a uno de ellos si es amonestado Gutiérrez, autor de dos tantos contra Uruguay y uno frente a Chile.

"Lo más tranquilizante es que cualquier delantero que actúe podrá resolver a nuestro favor", opinó el capitán Mario Alberto Yepes, zaguero del Milan de Italia.

El ánimo de los colombianos está por las nubes pero reconocen en Paraguay un oponente de riesgo pese las derrotas contra Argentina y Venezuela.

Paraguay figura en el último lugar al lado de Bolivia con cuatro puntos, 10 menos que Argentina y a nueve de Colombia.

Falcao recordó que Paraguay clasificó a los cuatro últimos mundiales y fue finalista en la pasada Copa América.

"Está claro que no han tenido buenos resultados en la actual eliminatoria pero son jugadores de gran capacidad y nivel", indicó.

Luego de las primeras practicas de Colombia y las bajas de Perea y Aguilar se vislumbra una formación con David Ospina, Camilo Zúñiga, Mario Alberto Yepes, Aquivaldo Mosquera, Pablo Armero, Edwin Valencia, Fredy Guarín, James Rodríguez, Macnelly Torres, Teófilo Gutiérrez y Radamel Falcao.

Lad os da håbe Cuzco´s højder har givet dem et ekstra kick - de skal jo hente lidt point på udebane også - i både La paz og Asuncion.


Perú finalizó su adaptación
LIMA -- La selección peruana cierra su concentración en Cuzco para adaptarse a la altitud y el jueves viaja desde allí a La Paz para enfrentarse el viernes a Bolivia en la novena jornada de las eliminatorias sudamericanas del Mundial de Brasil 2014.

El seleccionador de Perú, el uruguayo Sergio Markarián, ha conformado un combinado atípico, con los jugadores peruanos que mejor rinden en la altitud, quienes durante los últimos días se ejercitaron sobre los 3.400 metros de Cuzco.

A esa ciudad llegó el presidente de la Federación Peruana de Fútbol (FPF), Manuel Burga, quien avaló la decisión de Markarián de preparar un equipo sin los seleccionados habituales para igualar así la ventaja que en principio tiene Bolivia cuando juega de local.

"El trabajo realizado en Cuzco ha sido espectacular y aunque nada de lo que se haga garantiza un resultado positivo, ojalá sirva para lograr ganar en La Paz, lo que nunca hemos conseguido hasta ahora", añadió Burga.

Por su parte, el delantero Claudio Pizarro opinó que la presión para Perú será grande si sus compañeros pierden contra el once boliviano.

Pizarro se entrena en Lima junto a un grupo de jugadores que Markarián ha prescindido para el partido en La Paz para reservarlos de cara a la visita que el próximo martes Perú rendirá a Paraguay en Asunción.

"Si se gana en La Paz, iremos con un ánimo mucho más elevado y con más confianza a Paraguay porque nos acercaremos más al objetivo", expresó Pizarro en su deseo de acercarse al menos a la quinta plaza de la clasificación, que actualmente ocupa Chile con 12 puntos, mientras que Perú acumula siete.

El atacante del Bayern Munich no descartó volver a ejecutar un penalti con la selección peruana después de errar uno en el encuentro que Perú jugó como local frente a Argentina en septiembre y que acabó con empate 1-1.

I den bolivianske lejr...udtaler landsholdstræneren Azkorgota at det bliver en emotionel kamp, for ham - første hjemmekamp efter genansættelsen.

Azkargorta: "Una emoción especial"

LA PAZ -- El seleccionador de fútbol de Bolivia, el español Xabier Azkargorta, dijo el miércoles que tiene una "emoción especial" antes del partido del viernes por las Eliminatorias ante Perú en el estadio Siles de La Paz, porque allí acumuló sus mejores recuerdos de la clasificación lograda al Mundial de EE.UU. 1994.

"Siento una emoción especial por esos recuerdos, pero vuelvo a decir: son recuerdos, que es estar doblemente cuerdos (...) Vamos a presentarnos a este partido con la ilusión y con las ganas de agradar a la gente y de hacer un buen partido", declaró Azkargorta.

Este será el primer choque oficial que dirigirá el técnico vasco en ese escenario deportivo, situado a 3.600 metros sobre el nivel del mar, tras su retorno al banco de la Verde para dirigirla en lo que resta de la eliminatorias sudamericanas del Mundial Brasil 2014.

El partido es clave para que Bolivia mantenga la esperanza de una clasificación a esa cita, ya que está con cuatro puntos en siete partidos y situada en el penúltimo lugar de las posiciones, por encima de Paraguay que tiene el mismo número de unidades.

Azkargorta agregó que pondrán en la cancha el cien por cien de lo que llevan dentro "para que el público se vaya satisfecho, contento y orgulloso de este grupo de jugadores después del partido".

Los medios destacaron la expectativa por volver a ver a la selección al mando de Azkargorta en La Paz, pues en pocas horas se vendieron 18.000 entradas para el partido en el estadio Hernando Siles, que tienen un aforo para más de 40.000 personas.

El entrenador español dijo que ha insistido a sus jugadores que mantengan los conceptos de hacer lo que saben hacer, de que, pase lo que pase, jueguen como se ha planificado y salgan a la cancha para divertirse porque de esa forma mejorarán su rendimiento.

Azkargorta declinó el miércoles adelantar la alineación para el encuentro del viernes, ni siquiera para confirmar los nombres que parecen obvios, como el del delantero Marcelo Martins Moreno, del Gremio brasileño.

No obstante, lo más probable es que Bolivia use dos delanteros, uno de ellos, Martins Moreno, que estaría acompañado por Juan Carlos Arce, Carlos Saucedo o Álcides Peña, según los medios.

Tras el partido con Perú, la Verde recibirá el martes 16 a Uruguay, también en el estadio Siles de La Paz.

Så er Ecuadors colombianske landsholdstræner ude og sige pæne ting om det chilenske hold.

Ecuador: Rueda respeta a Chile

GUAYAQUIL -- El seleccionador de Ecuador, el colombiano Reinaldo Rueda, aseveró el miércoles que el enfrentamiento del próximo viernes, en Quito, contra Chile será ante "un rival de mucha jerarquía y respeto", en las Eliminatorias Sudamericanas al Mundial de Brasil 2014.

"Sabemos que va a ser un partido ante un rival de mucha jerarquía, de mucho respeto y de mucho prestigio, por lo que será importante saber manejar ese estado de ansiedad normal de todos los partidos", señaló el miércoles Rueda en un encuentro con los periodistas.

Rueda precisó que "las vicisitudes que se deben enfrentar previo a cada encuentro no nos distraerán", y dijo que "lo importante será la entrega que siempre ha puesto de manifiesto cada jugador".

Con relación a las bajas que ha sufrido el rival, el técnico de Ecuador dijo: "No podemos distraernos con las bajas de Chile, eso no existe con una selección mundialista, más cuando tiene una plantilla extensa".

Para Rueda, "el partido será de un trámite intenso y nuestra selección deberá tener inteligencia para descifrar lo que proponga Chile".

Además aseguró que Ecuador tiene "una base táctica para aplicar. Manejamos muchas variantes para atacar, el fútbol es un juego, la dinámica de lo impensado. En el fútbol se da todo".

Por su parte, el centrocampista del Dinamo de Moscú, Christian Noboa, señaló que "la presión es ganar. Vamos invictos en casa, pero hay que seguir ganando. Se viene Chile y que la gente no piense que vamos a ganar 4 ó 5-0".

El defensa del Atlante mexicano, Jorge Guagua, dijo que los defensas ecuatorianos están conscientes "del potencial que tiene Chile y que no se deben dar ventajas. Debemos ser sólidos para ganar el partido".

Guagua aseguró que el equipo nacional está preparado "para ganar y de seguro que con el apoyo de la gente lograremos que los tres puntos se queden en casa".

Guyanas trup til kampene mod Mexico og Costa Rica.

Guyana names squad for Mexico, Costa Rica WCQs

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana announced an 18-player roster Thursday for its final pair of third round CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers against Mexico and Costa Rica on Oct. 12 and 16, respectively.

Earlier this week, FIFA confirmed that the Golden Jaguars, who still maintain a mathematical chance of advancing to the hexagonal, will play their home match against Mexico on Oct. 12 at BBVA Compass in Houston, Texas. Four days later, they will face Costa Rica on the road at the Estadio Nacional in San Jose.

Head coach Jamaal Shabazz and his domestic-based players have been training in Guyana over the past two weeks and will depart on Monday for the United States, where they will link up with the foreign-based members of the squad.

Versatile defender John "JP" Rodrigues and striker Carl Cort are unavailable due to commitments to their North American Soccer League (NASL) club Tampa Bay Rowdies. For similar reasons, veteran defender Leon Cort of English Championship side Charlton Athletic will also miss out.

Goalkeeper Derrick Carter, striker Daniel Wilson and U.S.-based winger Brandon Beresford are three new inclusions to the selection.

With one point from four games, Guyana currently sits last in Group B, 11 points behind group winner Mexico, but only 4 off the pace of second-place El Salvador. Costa Rica is in third with four points. A tie or loss against the Mexicans will spell elimination for the Caribbean side with one game left on the fixture list.

Offensively, Guyana has been impressive as of late, scoring two goals in each of its last two qualifiers, both against El Salvador. Treyon Bobb tallied twice in a 2-2 draw in San Salvador, while Gregory Richardson and Chris Nurse both netted in a 3-2 loss at home. All three scorers have been named to the current roster.

It is on the defensive end where the Golden Jaguars have experienced struggles, however, conceding two or more goals in five-consecutive World Cup qualifiers.

GUYANA ROSTER
Oct. 12 home v Mexico (Houston, Texas, USA); Oct. 16 away v Costa Rica

GOALKEEPERS: Derrick Carter, Richard Reynolds

DEFENDERS: Charles Pollard, Walter Moore, Colin Nelson, Jamaal Smith

MIDFIELDERS: Chris Nurse (captain), Brandon Beresford, Nick Millington, Dwight Peters, Dwain Jacobs, Kester Jacobs, Ricky Shakes, Treyon Bobb

FORWARDS: Gregory Richardson, Vurlon Mills, Anthony Abrams, Shawn Beveney

Legender !

Dely Valdes brothers use experience to mold Panama

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- If the Panamanian national team is knocking on the door of the hexagonal once again, the feat can undoubtedly be chalked up to hard work and constant improvement in the ranks of its players.

Indicative of the country´s ascending regional status, Panama heads Group C in the semifinal round of CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying for Brazil 2014, leading traditional regional heavyweights Canada and Honduras with two matches left to play.

As soccer becomes ever more prominent in the sporting landscape of this Central American country of approximately two million people, much of the newfound success can also be traced back to the contributions of one of the country´s most decorated players, a man who now finds himself at the reigns of the national team.

Julio Dely Valdes has always served as a role model for Panama´s soccer playing youth.Today, Dely Valdes, along with younger brother and assistant coach Jorge, continues his transcendental work in Panamanian soccer as national team skipper. In that post, Dely Valdes now heads up the very group with which, as a player, he helped bring Panama to new heights on the international stage over the last decade.

"First," says long-time Panamanian goalkeeper Jaime Penedo, "I´d say that there´s a group of players, like Blas Perez, Luis Tejada, Gabriel Gomez, myself, Felipe Baloy, from the ´81 age group. We´re getting to be 30 or 31, more or less, and we had the pleasure to be in the team when the Dely Valdes brothers retired.

"You always have respect for the coach.He´s the captain of the ship, the guide. But with the Dely Valdes brothers, there´s something more than the normal respect for the coach. We grew up -- at least the group of players I mentioned -- we grew up watching what the Dely Valdes brothers did, and what they didn´t do. I´ll tell you a little story, when I first went to the national team, I watched even what they´d drink after the games. Whatever they did, I tried to copy it."

As far as international success, this year´s team is out to do even more than copy the triumphs of the Dely Valdes on-the-field era. The Dely Valdes brothers led a new era of Panamanian football to its status among the region´s powers, including nearly capturing the CONCACAF Gold Cup title in 2005. The current tight-knit group, though, has even bigger accomplishments in mind.

The core of the current team is made up of veterans from that 2005 CONCACAF runner-up, old hands lending their own experience to the current squad. After advancing to the final six in regional qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, the likes of Penedo, Tejada, Baloy and Gomez are looking to not only make the hexagonal for the second time in three tries, but to take a step further and qualify for Brazil 2014, and a long-awaited debut for Panama at the World Cup.

"It´s a very nice experience we´ve all had together," said forward Blas Perez. "You can learn a lot from Julio, and Jorge, and I think you take that knowledge and try to apply it as best you can.

"He also knows us perfectly, what we like, what we don´t like, and those are the bases of where this great work comes from at the national team level, and that´s why we´ve been successful."

If those young Panamanian stars from almost a decade ago -- the generation of Perez and Penedo -- have brought the Red Tide to the verge of new accomplishments, it´s not just through emulating the triumphs of the Dely Valdes brothers, but by taking the brothers´ experiences and putting them to work on the field of play.

"The coach that we had back in those days, Jose Hernandez, helped Panamanian football a lot," says Penedo."He used to say, ´watch what the Dely Valdes brothers do,´ and that´s what we did. We respect them, and we responded to that."

Now, the experiences of the Dely Valdes brothers are bearing fruit for the national team players, as the Red Tide looks to have its most realistic chance ever of advancing through World Cup qualifying.

While the Panamanian program has benefited from the professionalism and work ethic demonstrated by Dely Valdes, it´s the coach´s profound tactical knowledge that the players say has marked the difference in making Panama a top-notch competitor in the region.

"I´ve been with a lot of coaches, and Jorge and Julio are football addicts," says Penedo. "They do their studies and give some talks that you end up just saying ´wow.´ They tell you what´s going to happen and what´s not going to happen before the game starts. I think that´s one of their greatest merits.They´re infusing us with the can-do attitude."

Perez adds: "It helps a lot that Jorge was a player -- everything he´s learned, the practices he´s been through outside the country, he had some glorious experiences. He studies the opponent a lot, and I think that´s why things go well for us. He knows what each player needs to do, and not do."

It´s clear that in 2012, Julio and Jorge Dely Valdes are still setting the course for all of Panamanian football, both on and off the field. But these days, it´s an even younger generation of Panamanian footballers watching the Dely Valdes brothers, a group that knows them not as players, but as successful coaches.

Still hoping for that first World Cup at the senior level, Panama in recent years has been racking up the laurels at the youth level, including a trip to last year´s U-20 World Cup, as well as the U-17 version, where the team was led by none other than the younger Dely Valdes sibling.

"It´s motivation to triumph," says Perez. "Because they´ve done so many things outside the country, and they always try to help the younger players. They´re always bringing in younger players so they can shine at the national team level, contributing to the national team and the country. I think that the national team is headed down a good path in their hands."

Under the watchful gaze of the Dely Valdes brothers, the Canaleros could clinch their trip to the final round of CONCACAF qualifying with just one win from their two upcoming matches, October 12 in Panama against Honduras, then on the road four days later at already-eliminated Cuba.

Canada´s VM trup.

Hume returns to Canada squad

OTTAWA - Iain Hume returned to the Canadian national team for the country´s remaining two games in the semifinal round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, restored Thursday to manager Stephen Hart´s 21-man roster after missing September´s matches.

The 28-year-old striker, whose transfer on loan to Doncaster Rovers in England´s third division wasn´t completed until August 31, has three goals in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup and has one goal in four matches for Doncaster.

He was one of two changes - along with the addition of defender Mike Klukowski from Cyprus´ Apoel -- from September´s matches. Midfielder Dwayne De Rosario of D.C. United, who was injured on September 11 against Panama, and Toronto FC defender Ashtone Morgan were the two players replaced.

"We´ve played this campaign without Josh Simpson, now we have to go without Dwayne," Hart said on a conference call with reporters. "That´s not only a potential goal scorer, but it hurts the attack. Other players are going to have to pick it up. I don´t care where it comes from. We´re going to have to pick up the slack from those players."

Canada has scored only two goals in four games in the semifinal round and is third in Group C, behind Honduras on goal difference with seven points. Panama leads the group with nine points.

The Canadians will host Cuba at Toronto´s BMO Field on October 12 before finishing the semifinal round schedule four days later in Honduras. Only two teams will advance to the final , six-team "hexagonal" round of qualifying.

Roster

Goalkeepers: Milan Borjan (Sivasspor, TUR), Lars Hirschfeld (Vålerenga, NOR), Kenny Stamatopoulos (AIK, SWE).

Defenders: Marcel de Jong (FC Augsburg, GER), David Edgar (Burnley FC, ENG), Andre Hainault (Houston Dynamo, USA), Dejan Jakovic (D.C. United, USA), Ante Jazic (Chivas USA, USA), Mike Klukowski (APOEL, CYP), Kevin McKenna (FC Cologne, GER).

Midfielders: Patrice Bernier (Montreal) , Julian de Guzman (FC Dallas, USA), Terry Dunfield (Toronto FC), Will Johnson (Real Salt Lake, USA), Atiba Hutchinson (PSV Eindhoven, NED), Nik Ledgerwood, (Hammarby, SWE), Pedro Pacheco (CD Santa Clara, POR).

Forwards: Iain Hume (Doncaster Rovers, ENG), Simeon Jackson (Norwich City FC, ENG), Olivier Occean (Eintracht Frankfurt, GER), Tosaint Ricketts (Valerenga, NOR).