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El hondureño David Suazo se retira del fútbol por una lesión a los 33 años

TEGUCIGALPA - El hondureño David Suazo anunció su retiro definitivo del fútbol obligado por una lesión, tras una vertiginosa carrera en el fútbol europeo que le llevó al Cagliari, Inter, Génova y Catania de Italia, y el Benfica, de Portugal.

"Lastimosamente en el fútbol hay veces que nuestra carrera nos trae estos problemas", expresó Suazo en rueda de prensa en San Pedro Sula, norte, donde nació, para informar de su decisión, a los 33 años.

Suazo, quien se caracterizó como delantero por su velocidad y buen dominio del balón, jugó con la selección de Honduras en el Mundial Sub 20 de Nigeria 1999 y en el de Sudáfrica 2010, aunque para entonces ya venía adoleciendo de lesiones en su rodilla izquierda.

"Me siento muy agradecido por lo que fue mi carrera futbolística", subrayó el internacional hondureño que por momentos no pudo contener las lágrimas.

Acompañado de familiares, Suazo recordó que en el Mundial de Sudáfrica no jugó en un cien por ciento, como lo hubiera deseado, y agradeció al entonces entrenador de Honduras, el colombiano Reinaldo Rueda, por haberle tomado en cuenta.

Al repasar su brillante carrera como jugador, la mayor parte en Italia, agradeció a todos los entrenadores, asistentes, médicos y otras personas que le "ayudaron a crecer".

"Imposible no mencionar el Cagliari, que fue la institución que seguramente me hizo demostrar lo que al final pude valer como jugador", enfatizó Suazo, quien será recordado en esa institución de Cerdeña, a la que llegó en 1999 y en 2006 convirtió 22 goles, superando al gran Givi Riva.

Del Cagliari Suazo saltó al Inter, al que fue traspasado en agosto de 2007 tras una puja con el Milan.

En el Inter Suazo anotó ocho goles en 27 juegos y ganó un título en la serie A y una Súper Copa de Italia.

Además, con el Inter jugó la Liga de Campeones, pero ante la poca participación que le daba el portugués José Mourinho en el club milanés, fue cedido al Benfica de Portugal, en el que se enfundó su camisa en agosto de 2008, con la mala fortuna de debutar con lesión en un partido de la UEFA contra el Nápoli.

Un año después, en 2009, regresaba al Inter hasta diciembre de 2010.

Su siguiente salto fue al Génova, del que luego volvió por poco tiempo al Inter, entonces dirigido por el español Rafael Benítez. De de ahí pasó al Catania para la temporada 2011-2012.

"El Catania fue el penúltimo esfuerzo que hice, traté, lastimosamente no se dio, son de las cosas que al final te quedan pero les digo que realmente estoy muy contento conmigo por lo logrado, por lo hecho", expresó Suazo.

Al Catania llegó en 2011, pero no pudo demostrar su calidad porque las lesiones lo volvieron a mantener más tiempo fuera que dentro de las canchas.

Añadió que espera mantenerse en el fútbol porque es y seguirá siendo parte de su vida.

"Para mi es muy difícil acostumbrarme a no ver a David Suazo como jugador", apostilló el quizá mejor futbolista que ha tenido Honduras en las últimas tres décadas.

Suazo se inició como jugador profesional en el fútbol de su país con el Olimpia, el equipo más popular de Honduras, en 1999, el mismo año que fue traspasado al Cagliari.

Hoy, en su despedida, agradeció al presidente del Olimpia, Rafael Ferrari, y a otras autoridades de la institución por su apoyo para que diera el salto a Europa.

Conocido en su país como el "Rey David", como le bautizó el entrenador hondureño José de la Paz Herrera, y la "pantera" por su velocidad, Suazo, quien nació el 5 de noviembre de 1979, procede de una familia de reconocidos futbolistas hondureños, entre ellos su hermano mayor Nicolás Suazo.

En 2009 David contribuyó a la clasificación de Honduras al Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010, en una de sus últimos partidos defendiendo la camisa de su país, que por su clase de jugador y su sencillez ya comienza a echarle de menos.

Mexico has succeeded in spite of ´Chepo´ de la Torre

The United States´ draw against Mexico on Tuesday night was not a fluke, but part of a pattern for El Tri. ´Chepo´ Jose Manuel de la Torre´s decisions haven´t made sense from the beginning of his tenure.

Managing Mexico is one of the best gigs in world football. Sure, the media and fan pressure is worse than the average job, but it´s also a job that´s very hard to screw up.

You manage the team with the deepest pool of talent in your confederation, with players coming from the best domestic league on the continent. The most popular club in the nation, who has been to the final of the Copa Libertadores, has a policy of only playing Mexican players. European clubs have warmed to buying Mexican players, so a number of the players in the player pool currently play their trade at the highest level of the game.

There was a rough transitional era in Mexican football in the build-up to the last World Cup, in which Mexico´s current stars were on the downslope of their careers while their new generation of players hadn´t quite matured yet. Javier Hernandez, Giovani dos Santos and Carlos Vela got good enough and fast enough to help the team to a knockout stage berth in the World Cup, but Sven-Goran Eriksson got a bit of a raw deal, with those guys not having quite found their form during his tenure. He´s the only guy in recent memory who has had a legitimately hard job to do. If you take over the Mexico job tomorrow, you won´t have the problems he had.

World Cup qualification is expected as a bare minimum accomplishment for Mexico, but given that CONCACAF is lacking in depth, but granted three automatic berths into the finals (plus a playoff spot), it´s pretty simple for you to achieve that. Once there, fans will understand if you fail to get out of an extremely difficult group, or if you do get out of a less than impossible group, understand if you don´t get past the knockout stage. That is, as long as you don´t lose to your top rival, the United States.

And don´t be mistaken, the U.S. has grown into a formidable rival. Their domestic league has matured and they have more physically imposing players than you do. However, their player pool is not terribly deep, and they´re lacking in technical players. They have proven in the past that they can defend and counter their way to results against the best, but they can also be passed off the park. World Cup quarterfinals are a massive accomplishment for them. Their most passionate fans are among the loudest and most raucous football supporters on earth, but there are only a few thousand of them. They have to play you in 20,000 seat venues, because if they played you in bigger venues, they probably wouldn´t sell out. If they did sell out, it would be because your fans bought more than half the tickets.

When you play them in their country, you usually play in front of pro-Mexico crowds. If you play them in front of a pro-U.S. crowd, the venue is a small one. When you play them, it´s in a 100,000 seat stadium, featuring no more than 500 of their supporters. It´s one of the best environments in world football. Between the crowd and the elevation that the stadium sits at, it´s the best home field advantage in the world, bar none. Mexico´s record in competitive matches at the stadium reflects this.

This is an incomplete list of advantages that ´Chepo´ Jose Manuel de la Torre enjoys as manager of the Mexican national team, but to this point, he has failed to make the most of them. His team won the Gold Cup and is still in an excellent position to qualify for the World Cup, but they´ve managed only draws in all three of their first qualifying matches in the Hex, with two of those draws coming at home. In both home draws, his team failed to score. In the road draw, his team gave away a 2-0 second half lead.

For these failings, Chepo is very much on the chopping block. He might still have a job for El Tri´s World Cup qualifiers in June, but anything less than four points from a trip away to Panama and a home game against Costa Rica would be an absolute disaster, and would probably force FMF´s hand. Those games come just five days before Mexico plays Italy in the Confederations Cup -- a competition that the Mexican fans and de la Torre´s employers are taking very seriously. Immediately after that comes the Gold Cup, which will feature a different team than the one that goes to Brazil, but will still be a senior competition that he will be expected to win.

If the FMF fires de la Torre before his team´s June gauntlet, it will be hard to blame them. Actually, it would be shocking if they had immediate buyer´s remorse shortly after hiring him. He played Giovani dos Santos, who has been poor in every game he has played anywhere, but in the hole since he was 17 years old, on the right wing in his first game as manager. In his second game, he handed a start to Sinha, the then-34-year-old trequarista who was the lynchpin of his Toluca sides in Liga MX, a player who obviously had little to no chance of helping Mexico in World Cup qualifying.

Quickly, here´s a listing of obviously or potentially international quality Mexican No. 10s under the age of 30 who have received Mexico or Mexico Under-23 caps since the turn of the decade: Giovani dos Santos, Marco Fabian, Elias Hernandez, ´Hobbit´ Cristian Bermudez, Edgar Pacheco. None of those players is perfect -- dos Santos, in particular, had a rough game against the United States on Tuesday -- but they all have the potential to play for 90 minutes against a team like the United States, potentially create goals, and go to the World Cup next summer.

There´s also the case of Carlos Salcido, the converted left back who, oddly, has become an automatic first choice central midfielder. For a converted fullback he´s actually quite competent, but his athleticism, tackling ability and accurate long balls are far from what Mexico need or have required in the past from players in his position.

In the beginning of Chepo´s tenure and for a decade before he took over, Gerardo Torrado was the man who ran the show in the center of the park for El Tri. He´s much more of a technical tackler than a crunching tackler, has never been much of an athlete, is crisper with his short passes than his long balls, and is excellent at dictating the tempo that his team plays. He could not be any less like Salcido.

Torrado is 33 years old, meaning that it might be time for Mexico to move on to a younger player, but Chepo hasn´t excluded anyone on the basis of age during his tenure. Torrado is also fit and in form again, and was a key player in Mexico´s Gold Cup win back in 2011.

Mexico doesn´t have a like-for-like replacement for Torrado, but they have a lot of good central midfield players who are closer to Torrado than Salcido. Like the No. 10 role, there are a lot of international quality or nearly international quality players under the age of 30 that Chepo could potentially call on: Jesus Molina, Edgar Andrade, Hector Herrera and Jorge Enriquez. There´s also Fernando Arce, who, while 32 years old, was key to Tijuana´s Liga MX win last season and is performing very well in Copa Libertadores.

De la Torre has also clung to the corpse of Rafael Marquez, inexplicably keeping him in the Mexico team ahead of guys like Hugo Ayala, the best defender in Liga MX, and Diego Reyes, the young phenom who´s headed to FC Porto. When Marquez´s lack of form and fitness was so obvious that even Chepo couldn´t deny it, he made ´Maza´ Francisco Rodriguez his first choice central defender alongside Hector Moreno.

´Maza´ was once an effective center back in the Bundesliga, but those days have long passed. In fact, Stuttgart let him walk on a free transfer this January instead of making him see out the remainder of his contract. They probably could have squeezed a transfer fee out of his current club, Club América, but decided it wasn´t worth the bother. He was so bad that they just wanted him to leave as fast as possible so they didn´t have to pay his wages anymore. This is de la Torre´s captain.

In the 0-0 draw against Jamaica to start World Cup qualifying, Maza was an absolute disaster. The only reason Mexico didn´t lose was because of Jamaica´s poor finishing. Maza was no match for Ryan Johnson, an average MLS striker. After that draw, he made the very captainly decision to flip off a television camera. He wasn´t benched or stripped of the armband. Instead, he started as captain against Honduras on Friday and was responsible for both goals, getting out-jumped on the first and giving away a penalty for the equalizer.

Because that wasn´t bad enough, Maza´s yellow card against Honduras, which was his second in two games, got him suspended for the United States match. That forced Chepo´s hand, and he inserted Reyes -- who plays alongside and overshadows Maza on a week-to-week basis at the club level, making it plain for anyone to see who the better player is -- into the starting lineup. He was one of less than a handful of Mexico players who played an excellent game for El Tri.

That just covers Chepo´s inane player selections, and doesn´t even begin to cover his truly nonsensical tactical decisions.

Jamaica´s draw at the Azteca wasn´t lucky at all, and was practically gifted to them by de la Torre. He completely abandoned his right flank, playing dos Santos on the right, but having him drift into the center. Behind him was Paul Aguilar, a poor defensive fullback who has nowhere near the quality to defend an entire flank with no help. When he bombed forward, the main cover for his position was Maza, his worst defender.

Not only did Jamaica hold on for a 0-0 draw, but they looked like the better side throughout the game, because Chepo made it easy for them to attack with their best player for the entirety of the match. Neither central midfielder was tasked with keeping an eye on that flank defensively when Aguilar was caught up the pitch and dos Santos went inside. Jamaica´s left winger, Jobi McAnuff, is their not-so-secret best player. The Reggae Boyz had a simple outlet down that flank every time Mexico lost the ball, allowing them to either create a dangerous counter-attack or simply run oodles of time off the clock. Not only did Jamaica hold on for a 0-0 draw, but they looked like the better side throughout the game, because Chepo made it easy for them to attack with their best player for the entirety of the match.

Mexico´s starting formation and tactics made sense to start Tuesday night´s game against the United States, but his changes throughout the match were akin to throwing darts blindfolded and hoping you hit the bullseye. When his team couldn´t find a breakthrough and his central players struggled to create much of anything, he took off his left back for Angel Reyna and overloaded the left flank with attackers, despite Omar Gonzalez cutting out nearly every cross that Mexico attempted during the match.

Eight minutes later, he took off a wide player (and his most effective attacker, to this point), Javier Aquino, replacing him with forward Omar Bravo. While Mexico came close to scoring in the dying minutes, it was more due to a truly desperate push than any kind of change made by their manager. They lacked direction before the Reyna sub and their goals were even more difficult to ascertain from his introduction until the end of the match.

To this point, Mexico has picked up good results in competitive matches. They walked through their first phase of World Cup qualifying after winning the Gold Cup back in 2011, but El Tri has succeeded in spite of their manager. It´s easy to forget that Mexico needed extra time to beat a Honduras team much worse than the current edition of Los Catrachos in the Gold Cup semifinal, and that they went down 2-0 to the United States in the final of the Gold Cup. Mexico lost twice in 2012, to the United States and Colombia, and was very disappointing in a 1-1 draw against Denmark in their summer friendly with domestically-based players.

That bled into qualifying, where Mexico has now drawn three straight games and turned in very disappointing performances in each. The writing has been on the wall for a while. Chepo has looked out of his depth since taking over the job and succeeded until very recently because he has one of the easiest jobs in the world. The gap in high-end talent and depth between Mexico and their competitors should mask the flaws of any fairly competent manager, so it´s telling that Mexico´s deficiencies are glaringly obvious.

Mexico is too good of a side to continue with a manager who seems to be making it up as he goes along. They´re good enough that they´ll qualify for the World Cup even if they stick with him, but if the FMF have ambitions beyond simply getting to Brazil, it´s time to pull the trigger.

Campeonato Paulista: Neymar plays down booing as Santos are held to a draw


Santos had a disappointing 2-2 draw against Mogi Mirim at the Vila Belmiro stadium, for the 15th round of the São Paulo State Championship.

The home side had the lead twice, as Neymar made the assist for Cícero, who opened the scoring near the end of the first half, but Henrique equalized in the second half.

Young Giva scored 2-1 later on in the game but Waguininho equalized the game again for Mogi Mirim.

The result is hard to explain according to Brazil´s national team star Neymar, he said after the game: "the team are very good, it´s a great squad. We only drew tonight. I don´t know what didn´t work, we´ll train, get our act together to win the next game".

Santos´ poor performance annoyed Santos´ fans, who booed their own team, Neymar was also criticized by some supporters.

Neymar believes this is natural though, he said: "I don´t care much, they insult today, but tomorrow they will be happy. this is football, the pressure is big".

He completed: "Nobody likes to be booed or criticized, especially considering everything that has been done for the club, especially me. I love the club, we like to win and be praised".

Bernard anxious for Brazil call-up

Atlético Mineiro´s winger Bernard is anxious to be called up by Scolari for Brazil´s upcoming friendly against Bolivia.

He was not for called up for Brazil´s previous games against England, Italy and Russia, but he feels he might be included in the next squad.

Bernard told press: "It´s always a big expectation to be called up, not only because of how I´ve been playing but also because of how Atlético Mineiro are playing. I always say, it doesn´t matter if a player is in good form if the team aren´t".

The 20-year old winger added: "But Scolari knows how to call up players, I have to keep doing my job, be consistent, to have a good sequence at the national team".

The Atlético Mineiro star completed: "A player always wants to be called up, I hope I am. It will come in the right moment, in the right time. I have to work hard so that the moment comes".

Bernard only has one cap as he represented Brazil against Argentina in November, for the Superclásico de las Américas tournament.

Corinthians star Paulinho eyes Brazil return for Bolivia friendly

Corinthians midfielder Paulinho has revealed his hope of returning to the Brazil squad for their upcoming friendly against Bolivia.

The 24-year-old missed the Seleção’s 2-2 draw with Russia and 1-1 draw against Italy earlier this month due to a thigh injury.

However, Paulinho has since recovered and hopes to be included in Luiz Felipe Scolari’s squad for the match in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Saturday.

He said: "It´s frustrating when injuries occur while you are playing well and selected for the national team, but there is nothing I can do about it.

"I just have to get back to playing well to try to force my way back into the team."

The match will feature South American-based players only due to it being on a non-FIFA date and all proceeds will be donated to the family of Kevin Beltran Espada, who died after being struck by a flare during a Copa Libertadores match between Corinthians and San Jose last month.

Felipe asks Flamengo fans for patience

Flamengo goalkeeper Felipe has asked for patience from the club´s supporters as they try to a build a winning team under new boss Jorginho.

The rubro-negro have endured an inconsistent start to the Taça Rio this year having only managed to pick up four points from their opening three games.

With four fixtures remaining in the group stage of the second turn of the Rio de Janeiro state championship, Flamengo currently find themselves three points adrift from second place.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday evening, Felipe reminded Flamengo´s fans that the team are going through a transition period. The 29-year-old said:

´´Since the beginning of the year we knew it would be a difficult. There have been changes at the club and the fans are impatient.

´´The average age of the team is young. I was the oldest player in the team against Bangu.

´´We hope the players mature; some are able to quicker than others.

´´We ask the fans to be patient. Flamengo are going through changes and getting results can take time.´´

Flamengo´s next game will be against Audax in the Taça Rio on Sunday.

No Napoli approach for Tottenham target Damião - agent

The agent of Internacional striker Leandro Damião has distanced himself from recent reports in Italy suggesting interest from Napoli, insisting he has heard nothing from the club.

Damião, 23, has been a long-term target for Premier League side Tottenham and the English club are expected to renew their interest once more come the summer.

It appears, though, that they may face major competition for his signature, with Vinicius Prates suggesting Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund as another possible destination for the star.

“I cannot really comment on something that is not really there,” he told Calcio Mercato. “I have not received anything from Napoli.

“But if we were to get an interesting proposal – for us and for Internacional – then there could be a good possibility [of a move]. Borussia Dortmund are also a great club which I like a lot.

“Again though, if a major European club should formalise an appropriate offer, we will evaluate it carefully.”

Freddy should find that Adu-lation in Bahia

If you´re seeking a little divine intervention, a good place to start is the Igreja do Bonfim, the best-known church in the exhilarating and sometimes chaotic city of Salvador, Brazil. The offerings room is testament to past requests, granted or otherwise -- bank statements (pleading for financial assistance), student ID cards (help with an exam), faded photographs (missing persons, or perhaps unrequited love), even an artificial limb or two.

At the beginning of every season, or when there´s a crucial game coming up, it´s time for one or both of the Brazilian city´s two big football teams, Bahia and Vitoria, to pay a visit to the church. It certainly worked last year for the latter, who clinched promotion back to Serie A a few days after their pilgrimage.

It´s not known whether Freddy Adu, a man who often seems in need of help wherever he can get it, plans to pay the church a visit any time soon. After all, he´ll be too focused on the loan move that´s taken him from Philadelphia to Bahia, his ninth club in nine professional seasons. Yet it might just be that the Baia de Todos-os-Santos, the aquamarine bay around which Salvador sprawls, will provide a safe harbor for a player whose career has been in seemingly constant stasis (if not outright decline) ever since he burst onto the U.S. scene all those years ago.

Adu´s tribulations are well documented. Drafted by D.C. United as a chunky 14-year-old. The magazine covers and "Best Young Player in the World/American Pelé" quotes. The ill-fated move to Benfica when still a teenager, which is when things really started to unravel.

Unable to deal with the burden of great expectations, Adu played just a handful of games at the Estadio da Luz before the slow, dispiriting trudge around Europe began, with loan spells at Monaco, Belenenses and Aris. Global domination had become a distant memory. Simply finding playing time was now the dream.

That, and a kind of redemption, was found in the most unlikely of places, the Turkish second division, with Caykur Rizespor. Adu got some games and responded in kind, performing well enough to earn a place in the U.S. squad for the 2011 Gold Cup, where he played in both semifinal and final.

Then he was back in the U.S. and in Philadelphia on a free transfer, remarkably still young enough to play for the U.S. under-23 team in Olympic qualifying. But he was ordinary for the Union in 2012, playing well in only a handful of games as rumors swirled of surly behavior off the pitch. When the opportunity of a swap deal with Bahia emerged with another former Next Big Thing, Kleberson, going the other way, Union jumped at the chance.

In many ways it might be a perfect fit, for there is no footballing region in the world that fails to fulfill its potential like the Brazilian northeast. Bahia is a huge club, supported by millions in Salvador and beyond, but like most teams in the often terribly poor nordeste of Brazil, struggles to compete financially with its richer cousins down in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The club won the Brazilian title in 1988, the last team from the Northeast to do so, but has struggled mightily in recent years, spending 2006 and 2007 in the slough of despond that is Serie C of the Brasileirão.

Despite all this, there are no more passionate fans in Brazil than those of the Tricolor Do Aco -- the club´s average crowd in that second year in the third division was 40,000.

The future is perhaps looking brighter for Bahia now. The club did well enough last year, hanging on to its Serie A status, and Brazil´s (now slowing) economic growth, together with improved welfare policies, have benefited the region as a whole. The 2014 World Cup will boost the footballing visibility of the city -- six games will be held in Salvador -- and Bahia will soon move into the new 60,000-seat Arena Fonte Nova, which should increase revenue streams.

Even though Adu has signed only until the end of the year, Bahia president Marcelo Guimarães Filho sees the player as an important part of that future and a way to increase the club´s profile abroad.

"We´ve already had The New York Times wanting to talk to us ... the international media is a vital way of publicizing our brand," he said. "We´ve got a lot of marketing initiatives planned."

Another director, André Araujo, compared the signing to Corinthians´ move last year for the Chinese player Zizao, in terms of raising the club´s international reputation.

At least Adu will get that much-needed playing time in Salvador, as Bahia lost perhaps its best player in the offseason when young playmaker Gabriel moved to Flamengo. And the club has made a stuttering start to the year, eliminated in the group stages of the regional Copa do Nordeste tournament. Plus, with the deeper defensive lines and slower pace of Brazilian football, Adu will find himself with a little more time and space on the ball -- useful for a creative player lacking confidence.

Culturally, it might also be a nice fit. It is not known how much Adu remembers of his Ghanaian heritage (he moved to the U.S. when he was just 8), but Salvador is Brazil´s most African city, an intoxicating, culturally rich urban heap of almost 4 million people. It is a place of profound passions that breathes and moves to its own mysterious rhythms, both musical and otherwise, and often feels apart from the rest of the country.

As one of Bahia´s most famous sons, writer Jorge Amado put it, "to be Baiano is a state of mind."

If Adu applies himself, something he has not always done in the past, there can be no better place for him to finally fulfill some of that almost forgotten potential.

Lidt opdateringer her i påsken, som mange steder har påvirket kampprogrammet.

I Centralamerika har vi haft en del midtuge kampe.

I Honduras har vi nyt førerhold i Real Sociedad efter deres 3-2 i La Ceiba over Victoría, på mål af Piero Sandoval, forsvarspilleren Ronny Martinez og Diego Reyes.

Fredag sikrede veteranen Luis Ramírez med 2 mål Deportivo SAvio en overraskende sejr over Marathon.

I Guatemala bød 12 runde endelig på sejr for Municipal , 3-2 over Halcones FC målscorer mexicanske Edoardo Isella, brasilianske Leandrinho og canteraspilleren Marlon Sequen. Tilgengæld tabte det suveræne førerhold fra Comunicaciones 1-0 til Petapa (Sandro Zamboli). Los Toros de Malacateco er rækkens nr 2 efter 2-0 over USAC (Oscar Isaula og Ovidio Mazariegos), mens Heredia er nr 3 efter jaguarenes 4-3 triumf ude over Marquense. Xelajú vandt 5-1 i Clasico´en over Suchitepequez, på mål af " yerno de Almeida" Leon costaricanske Allan " El Super Ratón" Aleman, Luis Martínez (2) og forsvarspilleren Fredy Santiago med det sidste mål for Los superchivos som pt er nr. 5 i tabellen.

11 runde i El Salvador så Deportivo FAS slå UES hjemme på El Quiteño på mål af Juan Carlos Enríquez, Juan Carlos Moscoso og Jonathan Aguila.

https://www.youtube.com/…zCAMMwEY3BY

Rækkens nr 2 er stadigvæk overraskende Santa Tecla som hjemme besejrede Atletico Marte fra hovedstanden med 2-1 ( argentinske Facundo Simioli og Julio Martinez).


https://www.youtube.com/…B1C7oHkHLe4

Once Municipal(nr 4) hentede 3 point i Usulutan da de besejrede Firpo (5) med 2-0, et resultat som betyder at de 2 hold bytter plads i tabellen.

https://www.youtube.com/…G1POotA4nsI

Panama - midtuge runde. Mestrene fra Arabe Unido lagde ud med at besejre Alianza på Israel Fearsons mål i 2 halvleg - tre point og en 2 pladsen. Førerholdet San Francisco led nederlag til Plaza Amador på 1-0 (Joshua Hawkins). Endelig scorede Armando polo begge mål i Rio Abajos 2-1 sejr over Tauro, igen et resultat som betyder at holdene bytter plads i tabellen. playoff pt San Francisco, Arabe Unido, Rio Abajo og Tauro.


Chile 9 - runde, Fredag en enkelt kamp i Talca imellem Rangers og Santiago Wanderers. Slutesultat 0-0 i en kamp hvor hjemmeholdets amerikanske målmand Nicolas Peric blev smidt ud i overtiden.

Bolivia dobbeltrunde i påsken for the Strongest, som torsag vendte 0-2 til 3-2 ude mod potosí Diego Bejerano, Zlatan Boliviano og Rodrigo Romallo med målene for El Tigre de Achumani

https://www.youtube.com/…xfegcwttiYo

San José spillede ligeledes en ekstra kamp i påsken - en udsat en af slagsen mod petrolero ...4-1 blev det en doblete af landsholdspilleren Carlos Enrique Saucedo, "El Potro" Cabrera og Luis Palacios.

https://www.youtube.com/…fy7QgpTccug


Uruguay - runde 6 blev kickstartet Fredag med en 3-1 sejr til Peñarol over Central Español, "Pelote" Olivera scorede 2 gange og " El AlQuimsta" Zalayeta en enkelt gang for Manya.


Emelec ligner en vinder af første etape af det ecuadorianske mesterskab fredag blev det 2-1 ude over Loja. Målscorer Marcos Caicedo og paraguayanske "Vikingo" Giménez.

https://www.youtube.com/…t4Of-Ac3Iws

Peru - runde 7.

Nedtur for Cienciano da de gæsrede Cesar Vallejo, den argentinske forsvarspiller stod Jorge "Sapito" Pereyra stod for kampens eneste scoring (i eget net) , hans kollega i midterforsvaret Raúl Penallio blev smidt ud og samme vej røg også Angrieneren " Carlos " pirata" Orejuela.

https://www.youtube.com/…7SpxPx7kAFs


Argentina - 7 Runde


COLON DE SANTA FE - TIGRE 3-2

1-0 Facundo Curuchet (10´) 2-0 Sebastián 2 El Mago" Prediger (17´) 2-1 og 2-2 Ezequiel " Lechuga" Maggiolo (22´) og (27´) 3-2 Emmanuel "El Puma" Gigliotti (86´)

Udv: Mauricio " Pampa " Romero (Colon) og Gaston Diaz (Tigre)

https://www.youtube.com/…JXfyv8B-_GI

BELGRANO - ARSENAL DE SARANDI 1-1

1-0 Luciano " Lucho" Lollo (35´) 1-1 Diego " Hacha" Braghieri (63´)

http://www.youtube.com/w…JfdEs0T4BL8

Banfield: suena M. Almeyda como DT

BUENOS AIRES -- Banfield oficializó este viernes la finalización del ciclo de Daniel Garnero como entrenador del primer equipo de fútbol profesional; y Matías Almeyda es el principal candidato que suena para reemplazarlo, de cara a la recta final del Torneo de la Primera B Nacional.

Luego de la caída por 2-0 ante Sarmiento de Junín, Garnero se retiró del estadio sin brindar declaraciones, lo que demostraba que su período estaba agotado.

Recién este viernes, y luego de varias especulaciones, el Taladro emitió un comunicado ofical explicando los motivos de la desvinculación del director técnico y su grupo de trabajo.

"En el inicio de este año no se obtuvieron los resultados deportivos deseados. Considerando que todavía restan doce fechas para la finalización del torneo y que aún Banfield cuenta con expectativas de ascenso, el entrenador prefirió dejar libre el cargo, para que otro Cuerpo Técnico renueve la ilusión de todos los banfileños", explicó Banfield en el texto.

Además, el club informó que Miguel Robinson Hernández, con la colaboración de Adrián González (ambos son entrenadores de los juveniles albiverdes), se harán cargo interinamente del plantel profesional hasta la contratación de un nuevo cuerpo técnico.