El Salvador ta gana Kòrsou 2-1

WILLEMSTAD – E representashon di Kòrsou na e klasifikatorio pa Mundial FIFA U20 tabata tin mester por lo mínimo un empate pa asina keda ku speransa di por pasa pa e siguiente buèlta. Pero esaki no a logra na momentu ku e selekshon di Kòrsou a kai ku skor di 2-1 kontra di El Salvador.

Na di 10 minüt di wega e selekshon Kurasoleño a krea un bon oportunidat di gol na momentu ku Derwin Marina ta saka un hungadó salvadoreño kantu di liña i krusa e bala pa Rigino Cicilia ku na su turno ta kabesá esaki den man di e kiper di Salvador.

Oliver Ayala na di 25 minüt ta hiba El Salvador ariba. E partido a keda ku e skor di 1-0 te na di 65 minüt kaminda mal komunikashon entre Shuremy Felomina i kiper Zeus de la Paz ta laga Romel Mejia kontrolá e bala i anotá e di dos gol pa Salvador.

Vidarell Merencia ta kòrtá e bentaha i trese speransa nobo den e selekshon Kurasoleño na di 76 minüt na momentu ku e ta kurva e bala pafó di e área penal di Salvador i hinka esaki den gol. Faltando 3 minüt pa finalisá e partido Kòrsou ta kobra un tiru liber i ta dal e bala den  pal’i gol.

Ku e derota aki e selekshon di Kòrsou U20 ta keda eliminá for di e klasifikatorio pa Mundial FIFA U20 na Turkia.

Kòrsou U20 tin ku bai buska e viktoria awe nochi

WILLEMSTAD – Despues di a pèrdè e promé partido kontra Mexico den e klasifikatorio pa Mundial FIFA U20, awe e selekshon di Kòrsou ta bai purba kambia kos i logra un viktoria. Miéntras ku un empate ainda e ekipo di Kòrsou tin bida, esaki kisas no ta e mihó opshon. Ku un empate Kòrsou su destino lo ta den man di Mexico i El Salvador.

Ku un viktoria awe nochi e ekipo di Kòrsou ta hasi kos sumamente interesante den su grupo. Esaki lo pone preshon riba Mexico ku no ke pèrdè e partido kontra El Salvador i forsa un tripel empate na promé lugá. Den U20 Kòrsou a topa na sinku okashon ku El Salvador, di kua Kòrsou a gana un biaha, empatá dos i pèrdè dos.

E tarea pa e selekshon di Kòrsou pa awe nochi ta fásil, buska un viktoria i trata nan hinka mas gol posibel. Kòrsou ta hunga awe nochi 10or ora lokal di Kòrsou.

Kòrsou ta pèrdè ku skor di 3-0 kontra Mexico

WILLEMSTAD – E selekshon U-20 di Kòrsou ku ta buskando klasifikashon pa mundial di futbòl U-20 a sufri nan promé derota na man di Mexico. E promé mitar di e partido a wòrdu dominá kompletamente pa e mehikano nan i esaki a duna fruta. Na di 22 minüt Jesus Corona ta duna Mexico e bentaha di 1-0 ku un tiru di distansha largu.

Mexico a siguí preshoná e ekipo Kurasoleño i na di 34 minüt Uvaldo Luna ta krusa e bala dor di e área penal di Kòrsou, ku fasilidat Corona ta drenta i anotá su di dos gol.

No muchu despues na di 36 minüt Marco Bueno a amplia e anotashon, hibando Mexico ariba ku skor di 3-0.

E di dos mitar di e partido a bai mas mihó pa e selekshon kurasoleño. E ekipo a kuminsá hunga mas akoplá i no tabata defendé mesun profundo ku tabata e kaso den promé mitar. Esaki a pone ku Mexico no a logra yega na mas gol i e selekshon di Kòrsou a algun oportunidat di gol.

Kòrsou lo hunga atrobe mañan anochi kontra di El Salvador. Den U20 Kòrsou a topa na sinku okashon ku El Salvador, di kua Kòrsou a gana un biaha, empatá dos i pèrdè dos.

Kòrsou ta debutá awe den pre-mundial di futbòl U-20

Ku mira pa Mundial di futbòl U-20 e selekshon di Kòrsou ta debutá awe nochi kontra di Mexico den pre-mundial  di futbòl. E selekshon Kurasoleño ta bai buska su lugá den e kuater mihó ekipo nan di e torneo pa asina klasifiká pa Mundial FIFA U-20 na Turkia.

E trabou awe nochi kontra e selekshon di Mexico no ta unu fásil. E selekshon mehikano ku ta kai bou di guia di Sergio Almaguer ta konta ku hungadó nan ku a Sali kampion mundial den e kategoria U-17.

Na tur e selekshon di Kòrsou U-20 a topa na seis okashon kontra e selekshon di Mexico U-20. Den e seis partido nan aki e selekshon di Kòrsou a logra solamente un viktoria, un empate I kuater derota. Kòrsou no a logra nunka ainda empatá, ni gana kontra di Mexico riba teritorio Mehikano.

E selekshon Kurasoleño ta konsistí di e siguiente hungadó nan: kiper: Zeus de la Paz  i Jhudamier Marchena. Den defensa: Nathan Martina, Rachid Habat, Vidarrell Merencia, Emmanuel Felomina i Ronald Roosberg. E parti di medio kampo ta konsistí di: Michael Fecunda, Ruchendro Kierindongo, Christopher Isenia, Richenel Lourens, Derwin Martina, Michael Madionis Maria i Yael Eisden. Den e linea ofensivo tin: Liandro Martis, Denzel Slager, Randel Winklaar, Irving van Eijma, Rowendy Schoop i Riginio Cicilia.

E partido aki lo keda transmití bibu i direkto 10’or di anochi ora lokal di Kòrsou pa kanal FoxSoccer òf kanal 706 di TDS.

Chelsea FC Announces Roster for Match at Yankee Stadium

Chelsea FC today announced the list of players heading to the United States for their tour as part of the Herbalife World Football Challenge, which will include the first-ever soccer match at the current Yankee Stadium on July 22 at 7:00pm vs. Paris-Saint Germain. To purchase tickets for the match at Yankee Stadium, fans can visit www.yankees.com/soccer.

Chelsea’s roster features experienced players that have won trophies for both club and country. Englishman Frank Lampard captained Chelsea in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, and is Chelsea’s top scoring midfielder ever, while Czech goalkeeper Peter Cech holds the records for most shutouts and fewest goals conceded in an English top-flight season.

Five players who made it beyond the group stage of EURO 2012 – Ashley Cole, John Terry, Florent Malouda, Raul Meireles and Fernando Torres – will join up during the course of the tour.

Chelsea’s newest signings, 21-year-old Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard and 23-year-old German winger Marko Marin, will take part in the tour. Hazard was instrumental in achieving the French League and Cup double with Lille in the 2010-2011 season, and was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons. In his final season at Lille, he was the second-highest scorer in Ligue 1 with 20 goals. Marin comes from Germany’s Werder Bremen, having made 87 Bundesliga appearances with the club and scoring 12 goals. He has 16 caps with the German national side, including two appearances at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

CHELSEA FC ROSTER:

Goalkeepers: Petr Cech, Henrique Hilario, Ross Turnbull, Jamal Blackman

Defenders: Branislav Ivanovic, Ashley Cole, John Terry, David Luiz, Paulo Ferreira, Gary Cahill, Sam Hutchinson, Todd Kane, Nathaniel Chalobah

Midfielders: Michael Essien, Ramires, Flourent Malouda, Raul Meireles, Frank Lampard, John Mikel Obi, Eden Hazard, Marko Marin, Yossi Benayoun, Josh McEachran, George Saville

Forwards: Romelu Lukaku, Fernando Torres, Gael Kakuta, Kevin De Bruyne, Patrick Bamford, Lucas Piazon

Louis van Gaal Team Manager Netherlands Team

The Royal Netherlands Football Association and Louis van Gaal have reached an agreement about a contract as the team manager of the Netherlands from August 1 2012 till the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

Louis van Gaal: “I am happy the KNVB asked me for this job. This is the challenge I was waiting for. It is no secret that it was my wish to become head coach of a national team with an ambition and potential of winning”

CEO Bert van Oostveen is satisfied as well and is looking forward to the cooperation with Van Gaal: “We are happy that we have reached an agreement. We were looking for an experienced manager with personal and professional authority. We know him as a dedicated and very inspired manager.”

IFAB Makes Three Unanimous Historic Decisions

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) convened at the Home of FIFA in Zurich today, 5 July 2012, for a Special Meeting under the chairmanship of FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter.

The first item on the agenda was goal-line technology (GLT). Following the conclusion of a nine-month test process that began in August 2011, led by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), the IFAB unanimously decided to approve in principle both companies that took part in Test Phase 2: GoalRef and Hawk-Eye. This approval is subject to a final installation test at each stadium before the systems can be used in “real” football matches, in accordance with the FIFA Quality Programme for GLT.

The IFAB was keen to stress that technology will only be utilised for the goal line and for no other areas of the game.

Revisions to the wording of specific Laws of the Game will now consequently be made, relating to: Law 1 (The Field of Play); Law 2 (The Ball); Law 5 (The Referee); and Law 10 (The Method of Scoring).

The second decision of the IFAB concerned additional assistant referees (AAR) following a two-year experiment in the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and EURO 2012, as well as the AFC President’s Cup and competitions in Brazil, France, Morocco and Qatar.

Following a presentation by the AAR Experiment Coordinator, Donald McVicar, the IFAB again unanimously agreed that the use of two additional assistant referees be approved, acknowledging the support they can provide in officiating football matches.

As a result of this decision, an amendment will be made to the Laws of the Game, with a separate section concerning additional assistant referees. It was also approved that communication equipment be permitted between match officials in the Laws of the Game.

The third main topic for discussion concerned Law 4 – The Players’ Equipment, and specifically the “headscarf”.

The IFAB agreed to unanimously approve – temporarily during a trial period – the wearing of headscarves. The design, colour and material permitted will be defined and confirmed following the IFAB Annual Business Meeting in Glasgow in October.

Currently there is no medical literature concerning injuries as a result of wearing a headscarf, and therefore the decision taken today will be reviewed at the IFAB Annual General Meeting in 2014.

In other matters, the IFAB confirmed that the Annual Business Meeting will further discuss the issue of “triple punishment”, currently detailed in Law 12 (Fouls and Misconduct; Sending-off Offences), and also agreed to discuss further how the IFAB can improve consultation with the game.

The decisions concerning the Laws of the Game taken today regarding GLT and AAR by the IFAB will come into effect immediately.

The 127th Annual General Meeting will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1-2 March 2013.

More information on the GLT Quality Programme, including videos, Q&As and more information on the test manual and licensing procedure, can be found at: www.FIFA.com/QUALITY.

 

UEFA EURO 2012 Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Team for UEFA EURO 2012 has today released the list of 23 players named as the Team of the Tournament. In addition Spain’s Andrés Iniesta has been nominated as the UEFA EURO 2012 UEFA Best Player of the Tournament.

Andrés Iniesta was chosen by the eleven-man technical team of UEFA who have been following all the matches at UEFA EURO 2012.

 

Name Number Country
Gianluigi BUFFON 1 Italy
Iker CASILLAS 1 Spain
Manuel NEUER 1 Germany
 
Gerard PIQUÉ 3 Spain
Fábio COENTRÃO 5 Portugal
Philipp LAHM 16 Germany
PEPE 3 Portugal
SERGIO RAMOS 15 Spain
JORDI ALBA 18 Spain
 
Daniele DE ROSSI 16 Italy
Steven GERRARD 4 England
XAVI Hernández 8 Spain
Andrés INIESTA 6 Spain
Sami KHEDIRA 6 Germany
Sergio BUSQUETS 16 Spain
Mesut ÖZIL 8 Germany
Andrea PIRLO 21 Italy
XABI ALONSO 14 Spain
 
Mario BALOTELLI 9 Italy
Cesc FÀBREGAS 10 Spain
Cristiano RONALDO 7 Portugal
Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC 10 Sweden
David SILVA 21 Spain

UEFA Best Player of the Tournament: Andrés INIESTA (Spain)

 

Euro 2012 Breaks All-time Audience Record

Nearly 1.3 million visitors watched the group and quarter final matches of EURO 2012. The stadiums of the championship co-hosts Poland and Ukraine saw the combined number of 1,274,186 football fans over the fortnight. According to the tournament director in Ukraine Markian Lubkivskyi, the average attendance at the stadiums reached 98 percent.

European football championship first attracted over a million of viewers in 1996, when matches in the UK were visited by over 1.27 million people. This number used to be the highest attendance figure for EURO until 2012.

One may indicate a significant turnout increase over the history of the tournament, as the first UEFA European football championship, held in 1960 in France, unfolded in front of the eyes of almost 79,000 fans. EURO 2004 in Portugal was witnessed by nearly 1.16 million people, while the latest EURO 2008, co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland, drew in 1.14 million football lovers, reports Champion.com.ua.

The remaining three EURO 2012 matches will take place at the tournament’s largest arenas – the National Stadium in Warsaw (capacity – over 58 thousand), Donbass Arena in Donetsk (over 50 thousand capacity), and Kyiv’s NSK Olimpiyskyi (70 thousand)*. It is expected that the total audience of EURO 2012 will reach 1.4 million people.

Notably, Ukraine prepared four stadiums for the European Football Championship – the National Sports Complex Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv (will host EURO 2012 final), Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Arena Lviv in Lviv, and Metalist Stadium (nicknamed Spider) in Kharkiv. As a result of renovation, Olimpiyskyi became the second largest stadium in Eastern Europe capable of hosting up to 70,050 guests. Stadium in Lviv was built specially for the championship.

According to UEFA, EURO 2012 fan zones in the eight host cities also experienced notable turnout. The attendance leader among the eight fan zones is the one in Kyiv – as of June 20th, 1.19 million football fans visited the area since its opening. Reportedly, the largest and loudest EURO 2012 fan zone at Warsaw’s Plac Defilad was attended by 820 thousand fans.

Total fan zone attendance as of June 20th equals 4.241 million, with Polish fan zones attracting almost 1.8 million visitors and Ukrainian – nearly 2.5 million.

*Numbers according to the official websites of the venues.

Euro 2012 Tie Breaking Rules!

Here is a copy of the UEFA Euro 2012 Tie Breaking Rules. Group B would get very interesting in case Netherlands and Germany win on Sunday. Below are the tie breaking rules.

Equality of points after the group matches

8.07 If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the
following criteria are applied, in the order given; to determine the rankings:
a) higher number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question;
b) superior goal difference in the matches among the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points);
c) higher number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points);
d) superior goal difference in all the group matches;
e) higher number of goals scored in all the group matches;
f) position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system (see Annex I, paragraph 1.2.2);
g) fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament);
h) drawing of lots.

8.08 If two teams which have the same number of points, the same number of goals scored and conceded play their last group match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, the ranking of the two teams in question is determined by kicks from the penalty mark (Article 16), provided no other teams within the group have the same number of points on completion of all group matches. Should more than two teams have the same number of points, the criteria listed under paragraph 8.07 apply.

Source: UEFA