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Liverpool set to swoop for Douglas - report

Ja det vil ikke være så tosset endda. Hvad jeg kender til Douglas, så er han en ganske habil forsvarsspiller.

Tak for øvrigt i forhold til at opdatere det costaricanske, nu når jeg ikke har haft tid til det.

WB Dibben - fornuftigt tiltag med den øget fokusering på det finkulturelle.

Jaeh det er faktisk lidt vildt vi kan ende i en situation hvor vi har Olimpia som honduranske mestre, Herediano som costaricanske og FAS som salvadoranske - så bliver det en festlig blog.

Jaeh det er faktisk lidt vildt vi kan ende i en situation hvor vi har Olimpia som honduranske mestre, Herediano som costaricanske og FAS som salvadoranske - så bliver det en festlig blog.

Det vil overhovedet ikke give mening, hvis det skulle ske. Herediano har jo fået Gringo-ejer, men han er godt nok meget om sig på FB. Der er opdateringer hele tiden. Det ser også ud til at holdet har løftet sig gevaldigt efter han har fået tronen. Det er heller ikke bare én, der sidder hjemme i gringo-land. Jeg tror han er på stadion HVER gang holdet spiller.

Hvor er Gringo´en fra i Estados Unidos, det er jo ikke langt fra Miami til an José + - men fedt spillerne har fået løn og i hård valuta - siger (Roberto) Arias dig noget ? forsvarspiller i Herediano omkring 2005 ?

Hvor er Gringo´en fra i Estados Unidos, det er jo ikke langt fra Miami til an José + - men fedt spillerne har fået løn og i hård valuta - siger (Roberto) Arias dig noget ? forsvarspiller i Herediano omkring 2005 ?

Han er født i Israel, men opvokset i Utah! Ja da, selvfølgelig siger Arias mig noget. Hvad er der med ham? Han var der også da jeg var derover.

Så´en en jødisk Mormon, Mitt Romney style ??? det lyder interessant. Yeps er igang med lidt renovation her, så´en en bar ting,så man kan se lidt bold i de rette omgivelser.

Havde besøg fra Belize for et stykke tid siden, de havde et par trøjer med fra Belize og Central Amerika, en af dem ligner en Herediano-trøje med 3 Arias påskrevet, ligner noget matchworn slutspils halløj da der er en UNCAF-Patch på trykt...tænkte jeg lige ville høre Tico-eksperten om den mulige autencitet - inden jeg banker den i ramme og op på væggen.

Fluminense 2 Emelec 0 (3-2): Fred returns to help Flu progress

Fluminense captain Fred returned from a month out through injury to lead his team into the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores by scoring the opening goal in Wednesday night’s 2-0 victory over Emelec in Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian champions went into the game in poor form having lost the first leg in Ecuador 2-1 and were also suffering after losing the Taça Rio final to Botafogo 1-0. But the return of their talisman and leading goalscorer Fred breathed new life into Abel Braga’s side, who will now face either Tigre or Olimpia in the next round.

Emelec started the game with a real physical approach and quickly had three players book inside the first 25 minutes of the game. But they did not come to just defend and looked to break quickly when the opportunity came up, with Fluminense keeper Diego Cavalieri being forced into early saves from Marlon De Jesus and Enner Valencia.

But it was the home side that took the lead on 28 minutes when Fred showed what they had been missing in his absence when he evaded his marker Nasuti to head in Jean’s cross and swing the game back in the Brazilian sides favour.

With the game level on aggregate but, due to the away goal rule, now in Fluminense’s favour, the away side started to open up and take more risks. This nearly paid off when, just after half time, De Jesus skimmed the crossbar from just inside the Fluminense area.

As Braga’s team hung on, the away side started to get more and more frustrated at the lack of a breakthrough and things reached a head when both Achillier and Quiñónez received red cards for fouls on Wagner and Rhayner respectively, to leave Emelec with just nine men.

The extra space gave Fluminense a chance to put the game out of the Ecuadorians reach and they did just that with 6 minutes remaining when Rhayner broke down the right hand side and crossed for Carlinhos to tap into an empty net.

The Fluminense fans showed their support during the game for the two player’s found guilty of doping in the past week, Deco and Michael, with captain Fred echoing their sentiments.

He said: “Regardless of anything, we have to worry about the human side. Let´s support our brothers, Deco and Michael, which is more complicated, but I´m sure that they will come out of this.”

Goals: Fred (28 / 1Q), Carlinhos (39 / Q2)

FLUMINENSE (4-4-2): Diego Cavalieri; Bruno (Diguinho), Digão, Leandro Euzébio,Carlinhos; Edinho, Jean, Wagner, Thiago Neves (Rhayner); Wellington Nem, Fred (Samuel). Coach: Abel Braga

EMELEC (4-5-1): Esteban Dreer; John Narváez, Nasuti, Gabriel Achillier, Oscar Bagui; Pedro Quinonez, Polo Wila (Pablo Zeballos), Fernando Giménez, Marcos Mondaini, Enner Valencia (Caicedo); Marlon De Jesus (Fernando Gaibor). Coach: Gustavo Quinteros

The Rise to Power of Eugenio Figueredo the 1st.

Alex Ferguson steps down as Manchester United’s coach – Wayne Rooney and José Mourinho plan their exit strategies – Atlético Madrid plan a summer raid on Liverpool’s Suárez – Barça/Real Madrid get devoured in the Champions… all interesting headlines, but none of them more interesting in this Blog’s opinion than Eugenio Figueredo’s unprecedented rise as CONMEBOL president.

How the former president of Huracán Buceo managed to scale such lofty heights is a complete and total mystery – sure we all somehow knew that sooner or later Havelange and his cronies would fall, too much power concentrated in the same hands for way too many years of course leads to corruption. And on April18th, Joao Havelange resigned his “Honorary President” title bestowed by FIFA, after Havelange and his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira were found guilty of “morally and ethically reproachable conduct” by FIFA’s ethics court, stemming from bribery allegations Havelange, Teixeira and outgoing CONMEBOL president Nicolas Leoz were alleged to have taken part in from 1992 thru 2000 – Leoz who supposedly was one of South America’s most progressive organizational heads, as a recent Tim Vickery article claims, saw the dragnet coming a mile away and resigned on April 23rd – and so, Figueredo, probably one of the worst Uruguayan FA presidents ever is now CONMEBOL’s president, as Robert Ripley was fond of saying, “Believe it or Not!” – In reaching this post, Figueredo follows the footsteps of Uruguayans Hector Rivadavia Gomez who was CONMEBOL’s first president from 1916 thru 1936 and Fermin Sorhueta who served in the same capacity from 1959 thru 1961.

What should be a proud moment for Uruguay really isn’t – Figueredo’s AUF presidency was controversial to say the least.

Figueredo’s reign as Uruguay’s FA president, 1997 thru 2006 oversaw three qualification campaigns, two which ended in failure and one World Cup berth where Uruguay failed to win a single game. While he can be excused for the 1998 qualifiers as he came late into the picture, Figueredo condoned Paco Casal’s forefront involvement with Uruguay’s NT – And in 1999 Figueredo and Casal hatched the plot to hire Daniel Passarella as Uruguay’s NT manager for a then unheard off $2 million dollars a year. While the hiring seemed justified as Passarella’s Uruguay went undefeated at home, Passarella couldn’t quite manage an away win; frustration led to Passarella’s shock resignation after a row with Club Nacional.

This is where Uruguay’s 2002 WCQ turned from promising to an underwhelming mess, because the man who Figueredo thought could get the job done was a caretaker coach, one Victor Púa, who had been Uruguay’s Under-20 boss and had coached Uruguay’s 1999 Copa America squad, although Púa did manage to qualify Uruguay via a playoff series with Australia – Uruguay were playing just as bad, maybe even worse than under Passarella. Púa’s deficiencies would be highlighted in the 2002 World Cup, horrible group games with Denmark and then France showed a manager who either sabotaged the team with some horrible decision-making or a manager who should have never been coaching an international side during the World Cup.

Like an alcoholic who listens to a fellow barfly for sobriety advice, Figueredo kept listening to his partner in crime, Mr. Casal, and this time, the plan they schemed was the hiring of Juan Ramón Carrasco as Uruguay’s NT manager. Carrasco was still a fresh faced manager in 2003, JR’s major claim to fame was that he had orchestrated Fénix’s 6-1 win over Cruz Azul in the Copa Libertadores of that year. It’s debatable whether Carrasco was a good hire or not, in hindsight probably not but Carrasco’s intention was to have Uruguay play an offensive style of football, and it all sounded refreshing in 2003 – yet Figueredo offered luke-warm support. Uruguay’s NT became an expensive train set for Carrasco, which culminated in the 3-0 loss to Venezuela in 2004.

Figueredo fired Carrasco after that loss and opted for Jorge Fossatti – It took Fossatti till after the 2004 Copa America to right the ship, but losses to Peru, Colombia and Argentina contributed heavily to Uruguay’s qualification woes. Fossatti and Uruguay did manage a 5th place finish, but luck no longer favored Uruguay and so Uruguay lost to Australia in the Intercontinental playoffs – Figueredo’s last act was hiring OWT as Uruguay’s NT manager, he left shortly afterwards. God only knows if Figueredo would have supported OWT during Uruguay’s 2010 WCQ campaign, Figueredo’s track record and lack of support of coaches would probably have cost OWT his job in 2008 – 2009.

As CONMEBOL president, we can only wonder what’s in store for South America, Figueredo is already claiming dibs on his personal ATM, the Libertadores competition, as he announced on Wednesday that he wants to restructure the Copa Libertadores competition. What will Figueredo as CONMEBOL president mean for Uruguay? This is unknown, as the fallout from Havelange and his crew of simpaticos is far from over. We do know that Nicolas Leoz’ tenure as CONMEBOL president coincided with 5 Paraguayan World Cup appearances (’86, ’98, ’02, ’06 and ’10) – while countries like Peru, Uruguay and Bolivia suffered by comparison (3 appearances combined, 1994, 2002 and 2010). Will Figueredo usher an era of do-gooder progression or closed door shenanigans? For the time being this remains a mystery… much like Figueredo’s rise to power.

Coach García: "Garcilaso will look to achieve something great against Nacional"

"We´re in search of glory, of an accomplishment and to represent Peru. This match will be difficult but we like complicated things", García said.

The coach of the ´blue machine´, as Real Garcilaso is known, said his team will set the stage from the first minutes with an offensive game to ensure qualification to the quarter-finals of the Libertadores.

"We know the pressure that there is to play in the Centenario. They (Nacional) lost the first leg (0-1) so they will come out looking to score. We have to be careful of their aerial game", said the coach.

García also highlighted the star players of Nacional, Sebastian Abreu and Alvaro Recoba, as players that could change the game by themselves.

On April 25 Real Garcilaso won the first leg 1-0 against Nacional in the city of Cusco.

García has a contingent of Paraguayan players led by Ramos, forwards Víctor Ferreira, Oscar Gamarra and defender Rolando Bogado.

The ´blue machine´ rose to the first division in 2011 and had a remarkable campaign in 2012 being runners-up and qualifying for its first Copa Libertadores.

Gonzalo Jara, has nothing to keep him from playing in the qualifiers

"The matter does not require the intervention of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee and therefore declares this disciplinary procedure closed", said a statement from the world football governing body sent this Wednesday to the ANFP.

"Please deliver the news to the player Gonzalo Jara", added the note.

On May 2 the ANFP sent to FIFA their findings to show Jara (Nottingham Forest, England) not guilty. The player was being investigated for ´unsportsmanlike conduct´ against Uruguayan Suárez, who he had supposedly hit in the genitals during the match in which Chile defeated Uruguay 2-0 on March 26.

Chile is in fourth place in the qualifiers with 15 points. Uruguay is in sixth place on 13 points.