| Without Beckham, the league gives the vamos 2009 |
| The MLS raises the curtain |
For Eric Núñez
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| Latin flavor. More than 60 Hispanic players will take part in the MLS in the period 2009.foto: AP. |
David Beckham already takes almost three years in the United States and it was supposed that to this height everything was going to be well.
The initial idyll has vanished, but the English frill keeps on being the focus of the attention of the league for his fictional transfer in loan to the Milan of Italy.
An episode that left in clear that Beckham is not completely compromised by the mission to strengthen the MLS as one league of the first category.
For his partners in the Galaxy of Los Angeles, the happened does not matter.
“ I believe that it was beneficial for the league”, said the defender Tony Sanneh. “We are always weeping that we want that one speaks about us, that we do not go out in the news. Very well, he puts us in the news”.
The period 2009 started on Thursday, the 19th with the visit of the Network Bulls of New York the Sounders of Seattle (the party ended after the closing of the newspaper).
The début in Seattle is the most recent sample of the growth of the MLS, which in one year he will add to Philadelphia.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto continues with Crew de Columbus, team that gained the league in 2008. Also it was loaded by the honors of the best player of the championship and of the final.
Also there stand out the figures of the Mexican Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Juan Pablo Ángel, the respective attackers of the Fire of Chicago and the Network Bulls.
On the other hand, the MLS entrusts that his project to long square goes for the correct footpath to increase the popularity of the sport.
In his 14to year of existence, the target is to have the biggest quantity of stadiums to play exclusively soccer.
This period, eight of 14 teams will compete in stadiums with these characteristics and other three will add the next period.
| Mouth inflates for Román |
| Aggrieved Maradona because they treat it of traitor |
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| Diego Maradona photo: AP |
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Diego Maradona said that him “there hurt in the soul” that they it have qualified of traitor in the court of Mouth Juniors.
“ The reaction of the people was not waiting for me but I do not blame it”, said the technician of the Argentine selection, in allusion to the repudiation that received on Sunday, the 15th when thousands of fans supported Juan Román Riquelme for his resignation the selection after entering a verbal crossing with "10.
In this duel between two Mouth symbols, the supporters took part for Riquelme, who on March 10 resigned to the selection later that Maradona was warning him that if it kept on playing in slow form as in Mouth, to the selection it was not serving to him.
In addition to 3-0 chorused his name in the victory on Argentinians Juniors in the stadium The Chocolate box, the supporters showed several flags in his support. But the one that more hurt Maradona was saying: "Riquelme, idol of Mouth. Maradona idol of the selection and traitor”.
Later that Maradona should claim major determination, Riquelme was still faithful to his style, but with touches and prances it was shown fully so much before Argentinians as on Wednesday, the 18th in the victory 3-1 before Guarani of Paraguay for the Cup Liberator, in which also it scored a penalty goal.
Without Riquelme, driver of the selection and with the official début of Maradona like technician of the team, Argentina will get on March 28 Venezuela for the South American career towards the world cup of 2010, dond.
| This Sunday, the 22nd the rojinegros will face Los Angeles without Beckham |
| With illusion the United period begins |
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| That rolls the ball. This is the war-cry that DC United. photo: AP |
For Felipe Lagos
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That rolls the ball. This is the war-cry that DC United has in the gullet, especially with the illusion of victories being noted down and to begin writing a new chapter in the history of the club with a positive light (stopping the lean 2008 behind once and for all).
It is clear that there is still a pair of reminders of the past period turning in the fields of the RFK. Both Fred and Santino Quaranta got injured in the championship of pre-season that DC played at the beginning of March in Charleston, South Carolina; and both will lose the début against THE Galaxy on Sunday, the 22nd of March in California.
Nevertheless, this there is not desconcentrado to two idols of the local supporters, Luciano Emilio, MVP 07, and Christián Gómez, MVP 06 of the league.
Gómez admits that there wants to be extracted the bad flavor of mouth that left his experience to him in Colorado, and at the same time, United wants to recover of the problems that it experienced in 2008. “Insurance. Last year I was in Colorado and in last two months I did not play and it was frustrating. On the other hand, United him was not also to DC well last year since they did not classify the playoffs. But now we have a big mentality, want that the team is the DC that they all know again and that it always fights the places of above”, says Gómez.
“ We are working hard”, adds Luciano Emilio. “There came new incorporations that are going to reach port very much and there will be seen what results they can give. We are much excited of being able to have a very good tournament”.
In the attack DC Ben Olsen y Christián Gómez looks alike enough to the version 2007 of the rojinegros, with Jaime Moreno, Luciano Emilio, in the advanced post places. The biggest changes are seen in the fund. DC United was reinforced by young talent but apart from Brian Namoff, there is no veteran in the rear. That that leaves overdraft to the doorman Louis Crayton it will be begun to see from Sunday.
If the situation of David Beckham will have consequences for THE Galaxy (to see related note), Gómez rejected possible decentralizations on behalf of the white ones. “I do not believe, the players are already some time ago in the pretemnporada and know each other. The technician came last year. The players listen but they do not get so much into these exclusive topics. They are going to be understood each other and queriendo, to extract a good result but we are going to be with the tight teeth and we will think about how to do our game and seize the mystique of our team again”.
Finally, seeing what team is seen strongly in this beginning of period, Luciano Emilio did not want to do projections since it is still very early.
“ It is difficult to say what team is strong before playing. Last year supposedly we were very strong but we did not do anything. It is necessary to hope that the ball should roll to see how it advances the thing”.
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| It will not be able to play in the meetings that the selection will support on March 28 |
| FIFA: Two dates to Rafa Márquez |
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| SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON, DT of Mexico "That thing about Rafa was waited, because two games are this type of absence”. |
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The FIFA astonish for two parties the defender Rafael Márquez, on having thought that it incurred an unsporting conduct during the party that Mexico lost 2-0 against the United States in qualifying rounds.
Márquez rear of the Barcelona of Spain and captain of the "Tri", will not be able to play in the meetings that the selection will support on March 28 against Costa Rica and the 1st of April before Honduras, according to the decision of the Disciplinary Commission of the FIFA.
“ The sanction becomes detached of having committed an unsporting conduct”, he added the Mexican federation, in reference to a kick that Márquez gave to the American archer Tim Howard.
The act cost him his expulsion in the party in Columbus, Ohio. The FIFA also determined to sanction the technical assistant Francisco Ramírez for thinking that it committed an affront to the honor during the same meeting against the USA.
Ramírez will not be able to be in the meetings against Costa Rica and Honduras, like part of the qualifying rounds for the world cup either.
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