| A champion, De the Hole was a monarch in ten occasions in six different categories |
| Of the Hole it hangs the gloves |
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| Of the Hole it will be still tied to the boxing like promoter with his company Golden Boy Promotions. Photo: AP. |
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Oscar de la Hoya finished a career in which one surrounded ten world cups in six divisions and turned into one of the most charismatic boxers of the sport of the handles.
The Mexicans' descendant, many years the most popular figure of the pugilism, announced his decision in a press conference opposite to Staples Center, where there is a statue of his, on Tuesday, the 14th.
It hung the gloves four months after receiving a drubbing to hands of Manny Pacquiao, his fourth defeat in his last seven combats. With 36 years, the native one to Los Angeles it leaves the quadrilateral one with mark of 39-6 and 30 nócauts.
Of the Hole it was not winning a care rival since in 2002 it overcame Fernando Vargas.
“ Golden Boy” said that he decided to finish his career because it is not just for he and his fanatics to keep on fighting if level cannot compete to the maximum.
The age began spending invoice to him, suffering defeats in the recent years before Félix Trinidad, Shane Mosley, Bernard Hopkins and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“ I came to the conclusion that there is already enough”, he declared Of the Hole before hundreds of fans, between them the prizewinner actor Mickey Rourke and the actor George López. “I do not rise any more to a ring”.
Of the Hole it will be still tied to the boxing like promoter with his company Golden Boy Promotions.
It conquered his last title in May, 2006, when noqueó to Ricardo Mayorga in the sixth one in a fight for the belt welter of the World Council of Boxing.
“ This has been the love of my life, the boxing is my passion, I was born to box”, he affirmed
Of The Hole. “When I cannot already do it any more, when I cannot compete to the maximum level, since it is already not just. It is not just for me, I nor joust for the fans. It is not just for anybody”.
Of The Hole it came out beyond the sport, to the popular being between the Latin and Anglo-Saxon love. It was particularly popular with the women, who were coming in mass to his press conferences and fights attracted by a good-looking boxer and proprietor of a radiant smile.
The Olympian champion in Barcelona 1992 admitted that it found it hard to him to take the decision.
“ Now I understand because it is difficult to the sportsmen to withdraw so much of something of which they feel so involved”, he declared.
“ I can still train loudly and I can still compete, but it is already not the same when it is a question of an athlete who does not compete at the highest level after several years. It is not just when one rises to the planking and it is not possible to give the best thing”, he added.
Although the second half of his career was not so successful, De La Hoya was a champion in the box offices. His fights were a full houses guarantee I complete and high sales of payment for seeing in television.
The last titular fight of De La Hoya was in May, 2007, when it lost before Mayweather for the championship welter of the CMB in Las Vegas, constant stage of his combats.
At all times, De La Hoya supported a serious face during his announcement. His voice was cut off only when it thanked his father, Joel, who sat down in the stage along with the wife of the boxer, singing Puerto Rican Millie Corretjer.
“ I remember the times that he took me to the gymnastics and it never stopped supporting me”, De La Hoya declared. “We live through several difficult moments above of the ring, happen for quite, but my father was always with me. Thanks for having demanded me to the maximum”.
Of The Hole it began in the boxing at the age of five, following the steps of his grandfather and father. The Olympian gold was hung in 1992, honoring his deceased mother, Cecilia, who two years earlier had died for a breast cancer. Barcelona was what catapulted it to the reputation.
November 23, 1992 began in the professionalism with a combat before Lamar Williams in the nearby city of Inglewood, being imposed for nocaut in the first assault. His last combat was his reverse before Pacquiao in Las Vegas on December 6.
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The golden child is born
In 1992, Of the Hole it fulfilled the promise that did to his moribund mother of obtaining the gold in the Olympic Games.
His foundation is born
In 1995, Of the Hole it founded the institution that takes his name, which has caused a center for the cancer, for the intensive care of babies and a school in Los Angeles.
It defeats César
It was one of the most important fights of the 90s. Of the Hole it defeats Julius Caesar Chávez in 1996 for TKO. In 99 he conquered it again.
The moment of the end
Manny Pacquiao punishes to of the Hole without compassion at the end of 2008. It was the fight that retired Golden Boy and that forced him to move back.
| It was scarcely the second one so much of Christian in what it goes of the tournament |
| England dominates the Champions again |
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| Christian ordered himself a great goal. Photo: AP. |
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As repeated movie, the semifinals of the Champions League will have again like protagonists to three English clubs against the same representative of Spain.
The champion current Manchester United and Arsenal joined to Chelsea and Barcelona to complete the quartet of honor of the European championship of clubs. Of the four, only the Arsenal was not present in the crossings of last year.
Last unconquered in this edition, the United could not find better day to turn into the first English set in winning domicile to the Porto. 1-0 did it thanks to his victory, courteousness of a haughty auction of Cristiano Ronaldo to six minutes.
It was scarcely the second one so much of Christian in what it goes of the tournament, very far of the harvest of eight in the previous shift in which the United awarded his second European crown. But the same one had an enormous aggregate value on having established 3-2 definitively in the global scoreboard.
The directed ones by Alex Ferguson, who directed his 150 divided in the 'Champions', 2-2 came to average Portugal struck after the tie in the going shock last week in Old Trafford.
But the victory for the minim supports them in career in managing to be the first club that confirms the scepter since the European Cup changed his format in 1992.
Also they continue in career to lift five crowns this period. The Network Devils they command the league Premier and Cup is alive in the FA, after be proclaiming champions of the Cup of the League and the world cup of clubs.
The figure was Christian, who lit a stamp from approximately 30 meters that took completely unprepared Helton, the Brazilian archer of the Porto. United managed to turn this way into the first English set in 13 attempts that wins in the Lusitanian fief.
His shift rival will be the Arsenal, which did not have major problems 3-0 of the Villarreal came undone.
That of the Arsenal was a simple and practical victory over a Spanish adversary diminished by the falls for injury of Santi Cazorla and Marcos Senna, titular keys in the scaffolding of the Chilean technician Manuel Pellegrini.
Theo Walcott opened the scoreboard to 10 minutes with a hat to the archer Diego López; Emmanuel Adebayor increased the 60 and Robin Van Persie sealed the penalty result to the 69.
The Gunners advanced with a global scoreboard of 4-1, after the tie 1-1 that achieved last week in the stadium The Madrigal. Arsenal will be a visitor in the going of the semifinals.
The finalísima will be May 27 in the Olympian Stadium of Rome, and the crossing between the United and Arsenal will assure the presence of English in the party for the title for fifth followed year.
Barcelona and Chelsea will measure themselves in another semifinal, which will start in the field of the Spanish team.
Both qualified on Tuesday, the Barsa after there equalled 1-1 (5-1 in the global one) with Bayern Munich and Chelsea due to a tie 4-4 (global 7-5) with Liverpool.
The semifinals will be disputed between April 28 and May 6.
| DC faces New England for the MLS and Dallas for Open Cup in the RFK |
| After defeat, DC United thinks about how to return to the victory |
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| Luciano Emilio monopolizes the goals of DC United. Photo: AP |
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Real Salt Lake gave the first defeat of this period to DC United after conquering it for 2 to 1 in his new stadium of Utah.
In something that is already doing tradition to itself, DC took the front part then that Luciano Emilio scored the only goal of the rojinegros, but quickly RSL tied and then it obtained the definitive advantage.
The Brazilian has been the front only one that until now, after four parties, has demonstrated to have his instincts awake scorers, but all the rest battering-rams have the wet gunpowder, beginning with Jaime Moreno, who scarcely has played due to a pair of surgical interventions in the rest of 2008 and then the suspension for his expulsion before Houston in the RFK.
All the rest forwards still do not mark. Chris Pontius has been another player who has marked (in the university soccer he was a scorer, and in DC it has played sometimes of mediocampista). Ange N'Silu played before Houston but it did not note down, Thabiso Kumalo only played before Los Angeles but without luck, and Francis Doe replaced Dark-haired person in the tie before Chicago.
The question is: will it be a tendency that is supported?
This Friday, DC will receive New England from 7 a.m. pm in the RFK. In his last three visits, the revolutionaries have lost two parties and joined one. In his last meeting, New England won to Dallas for 2 1.
In another front, DC United will give the vamos this year to the US Open Cup facing exactly Dallas on Wednesday, the 22nd in the RFK. The party begins at half after 7 in the afternoon.
DC United is the defending champion of the US Open Cup, after gaining the final in 2008 to Charleston Battery.
| He writes to Blatter to convince it |
| Obama wants new World cup in the USA |
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| Obama likes the sports. Photo: AP. |
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The American president Barack Obama wrote to him a letter to the big shot of the FIFA Joseph Blatter, in which it offered his support to the candidacy of the United States to obtain the head office of the world cups in 2018 or 2022.
“ Being a child, I played soccer in a way of dust in Jakarta, and the sport was what was joining the whole community”, wrote Obama, according to extracts of the missive spread by the American Federation of Soccer.
“ Like father, I could have appreciated the same unit spirit... in the football matches of my daughters in Chicago”, added the chief.
The executive board of the FIFA will have to decide in December, 2010 the head office of both appointments. The United States mounted his first and only world cup in 1994, and his 52 parties established records of entire concourse (3,59 millions) and I divide equally (68.991).
“ The soccer is really the world sport, and the World Cup promotes the harmony and a happy competition in the whole world”, said Obama. "That's why this candidacy has a meaning that goes beyond a simple party. It is a question of the United States inviting to the world so that it meets in our big country for a celebration of the hopes and sleep that we all share”.
England and Spain, which presented a joint candidacy with Portugal, are thought the favorites to obtain the head office in 2018. The United States is outlined like favorite for 2022.
Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico and Russia also aspire for the head office, as a joint candidacy of Holland - Belgium. Qatar and South Korea presented candidacies only for 2022.
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