| Frill of the Earthquakes wants to play his first party with the Select one in the golden Cup |
| Spain thinks about holidays |
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| “Er Child” Towers. foto:AP. |
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Spain is thinking about the holidays and does not want to know anything about the party for the third place of the Cup Confederacy.
" We are not playing the final, and really I do not know why a party stakes for the third place", said the rear Spanish Joan Capdevila. "But we have to play it".
The challenge for the technician Vicente del Bosque is to support his players motivated another four days, while they all want to go away to rest after long periods in the European soccer.
" It is necessary to play, this way it is organized. It is always difficult when you have the opportunity to come to the final and do not do it", mentioned the defender Carles Puyol. "We are motivated to end third, but also we want to take a vacation".
Puyol is one of four soccer players of the Barcelona who played two parties per week almost the whole period, in which his club achieved a historical qualifications triplete in the Champions League, the Spanish league and the Cup of the King.
The forward Fernando Torres affirmed that it will be free on Sunday.
" I always want to play with the selection", it expressed the battering-ram of the Liverpool. "This team is not going to yield before anybody. We have to play as if it was a final. We have to defend the honor of our country and end third".
Beyond the Sunday opponent, Spain knows that a victory is important to raise the fortitude in the direction of the renewal of the qualifying rounds mundialistas in September.
" We have to do every party in the direction of the world cup as important", it indicated Towers. "And that begins with this one".
| South Americans defeat South Africa and Americans give humility dose to Spanish |
| Brazil and the USA hit in South Africa |
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| Brazil broke the South African bolt with an anthology free kick. In the photo Robinho. Photos: AP |
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Brazil and the United States will play the final of the Cup Confederacy. The South Americans gained his semifinal on having set on itself for the minimal account to South Africa, with a dying goal of Daniel Alves.
South Africa managed to support his unconquered fence most of the party before the Scratch, but thanks to the free kick of Alves, of perfect execution, the Brazilians could break the South African sleep and settle in his second consecutive final, since in 2005 they gained the tournament.
But the biggest surprise of the championship, and even it might say of last years in the international plane, it was the victory of the United States on the best selection of the planet as the FIFA, Spain, for 2 to 0.
The reverse spoiled a gust of 15 successive victories of Spain, the whole record for selections. Also it remained to the shore of eclipsing the mark of 35 parties without losing and that now stays sharing with a Brazil that achieved it between 1993-96.
The Iberian ones were not losing from November 15, 2006.
The technician Vicente del Bosque discarded that the team has gone out relaxed to the court and that he has despised the adversary.
" We all are guilty when there are defeats. I do not believe that relaxation has existed", he said of the Forest. "We have played by one hundred per cent. We have not won because we have not been able".
Iker Casillas had praises for the United States on having said that "they have proved to be serious and tidy and it has cost us".
In Spain, the specializing means coincided in pointing out that the defeat before a team theoretically low is a slip of that it is to take note facing the real appointment of which he dreams the entire country: the Cup of the World of 2010, also in South Africa.
As well as, the American technician, Bob Bradley, said that the success of his selection “is a product of many things. The MLS is important as for growth. Many of these players began in the MLS and part of it is still fundamental. We are provided with players who chose to go abroad and have to more in clubs of the first category", it added. "They have contributed this experience to the selection".
For his part, Jozy Altidore, the author of the first goal before the Spanish, pointed out that he said to his partner of the Villarreal, Joan Capdevila, that “it should look after of the United States. He tried to say to me that I did not understand Spanish, so everything us went away in joking. We are team-mates and only we were joking a little, but in the end we laugh to the last one".
The final is Sunday, the 28th at 2 p.m. local time.
| Diego does not want anything with Román |
| Maradona, five-peseta coin with Riquelme |
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| Diego versus Román, shock of egos. Foto:AP. |
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The technician Diego Maradona put his hard hobbles to a possible return of Juan Román Riquelme to the selection of Argentina and of step it was ironic with the big shot of the national soccer, Julio Grondona, who is officiating as mediator in the case.
" The Riquelme the first will have to convince to the cadre and later to me, about why" he resigned from the selection in March, 2009, said Maradona.
Also he answered with irony to Grondona, president of the Association of the Argentine Soccer (AFA), who appealed to a metaphor to refer to the topic when he said that "another day I was in a locksmith's and perhaps I found the key to open the door of his return (of Riquelme)".
" Also In July the key said that thing about to me and I was late like ten years in finding it", he said "10 in clear allusion to a supposed and old promise of Grondona to incorporate it into the technical body of the selection, to which newly he gained access like chief in last October.
" I do not know why In July he said that it had the key so that Riquelme was returning to the chosen one", shot then Maradona. "In July it has many years in this as to know the situation, but In July it does not have the concentrations and the chats that we have between us".
Riquelme, star of Mouth Juniors and on whom it turned the selection in a great part of last decade, gave the bang for soccer and personal discrepancies with Maradona.
Grondona is trying to convince to the parts so that they do the peaces, perhaps for understanding that Riquelme's absence mined the power of the selection, which has an unsteady step in the qualifying rounds mundialistas and in that his classification is in danger to South Africa 2010.
To all this Riquelme, who on Wednesday, the 24th fulfilled 31 years, he said the same day: "I have it to the selection aside and for the time being I do not speak anything".
Argentina goes in the fourth place with 22 points in the table of the qualifying rounds in which they it precede Brazil with 27, Chile 26 and Paraguay 24. Ecuador has two points less than Argentina and if it overcomes it it would leave it in the repechaje.
| It will help LeBron James |
| Shaq to the Cavaliers? |
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| Shaq will play with leBron in 2009/10. Foto:AP. |
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The Cavaliers of Cleveland are on the point of acquiring to the center Shaquille O'Neal of Suns de Phoenix so that it does couple with LeBron James, said several persons with knowledge of the negotiations.
The Cavs and the Suns came to an agreement in principle, that would give him to Cleveland two of the maximum stars in the NBA.
O'Neal will come to Cleveland in exchange for the center Ben Wallace, the escort Sasha Pavlovic, a selection of the second round in the draft (46) and cash, said two persons who spoke under the condition of remaining in the anonymity because the league has to approve the swap.
The swap gives him to the Suns economic flexibility in the future. To O'Neal it reduces a period in a contract that pays 20 annual millions to him, and Wallace is in last year of a contract for 14 annual millions.
The Suns will save 10 millions with the deal, the half on having reduced his payroll below the limit of the luxurious tax.
In Cleveland, O'Neal might be the piece that complements James so that the most valuable player of the NBA gains his first championship.
The O'Neal arrival also gives him to the biggest Cavaliers size in the parquet. Cleveland could not stop to the center of Orlando, Dwight Howard, in the final of the Conference of the East, which the Magic gained in six parties.
O'Neal had averages of 17,8 points and 8,4 rebounds the past period.
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