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| Now yes. Diego Armando Maradona in the presentation of his documentary in Cannes this year. The AFA confirmed the ex-player in the technical direction of the albiceleste. |
The Association of the Argentine Soccer (AFA) will confirm on Tuesday, the 4th of November the appointment of Diego Maradona like technician of the selection, a designation that went on from the initial stir to a relative rejection of the sympathizers of the "albiceleste".
The official announcement of the successor of Alfio Basile will take place after the meeting of the executive board of the AFA, although the ex-player spoke already like trainer in property.
“ On Tuesday, the 4th, after the meeting of the Honorable Executive board of this Association, oficializará the appointment of the new Technical Body of the National team”, expressed the AFA in a bulletin in his Internet portal.
A survey online realized by the Internet place of the newspaper Clarion published on Wednesday, the 29th revealed that 73,9 % of 48.873 participants answered that not to the question: “Does it agree with his designation?”.
Similar rejection level harvested in another opinion poll of the version online of The Nation. Of 4.642 votes, 72,64 % considered to be "been wrong" the election of Maradona like new technician of the selection, 11,31 % qualified it of "questionably" and scarcely 9,59 % said that it was "guessed right".
Nevertheless, the president of the AFA, Julio Grondona, defended the appointment of Maradona like technician, and of Carlos Bilardo like manager of the team. “It is not easy to join to two heavyweights, but with that we are assuring to obtain the excellence in the theoretical sense”, said Grondona.
Grondona affirmed that Maradona was always his favorite candidate, and discarded that the position has not offered him to Carlos Bianchi for personal differences with the ex-helmsman of Mouth Juniors.
Bianchi was the favorite of the surveys in the country, although in the past it pushed several Grondona offerings back to take the reins of the "albiceleste".
“ Earlier there was offered him the charge (to Bianchi) because Maradona was not in conditions. If Diego had not been in conditions either, perhaps there would have been a called quarter”, indicated Grondona.
The criticism outcrops
Bilard said that the goal is “to be champions (of the world), because to be a second does not serve”.
And again it clarified the roles that each one will have in the selection: "The things are clear. Diego is the one that is going to direct and I accompany”.
The designation occupied the first page of all the national newspapers.
The Nation for his part, emphasized the positive and negative aspects of the election of "10: it has a good cadre — in which stand out Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero and Javier Mascherano — it remains him “love to the T-shirt” and knows from inside the pressure of playing and of gaining a World cup. But his absence of experience like technician, his high level of public exhibition and his unforeseeable character they might play him in against.
| One speculates that it might be a definitive transfer |
| AC Milan close to recording David Beckham |
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| Bye bye Becks? Beckham's demurrage in the Galaxy generated money, but not victories. AP |
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The Milan is on the point of recording David Beckham with a loan that would allow him the frill of the Galaxy of Los Angeles to play in the Italian Series A for some months from January.
“ We are very satisfied because David Beckham is going to play with us in three months”, said the vice-president of the Milan, Adriano Galliani. “We already will see what happens”.
As there approaches the end of the period of the MLS in the United States, Beckham wants to look for another club in Europe to be supported in form and not to lose his position in the English selection that disputes the qualifying rounds mundialistas.
The technician of England, Fabio Capello, has said that it will not summon players who are not active, and Galliani allowed to make out that Beckham might remain for much time.
“ I do not know how long it will remain”, said Galliani in Holland, where the Milan played on Thursday, the 23rd against the Heerenveen for the Cup UEFA. “We will be three months old to see how it him goes”.
“ We do not know his best position in the field yet. We have still to think about that”, he added.
The spokesman of Beckham, Simon Oliveira, said that “there is nothing confirmed until now”.
“ I can confirm that there are conversations with the Milan related to a short-term loan”, he said. “David's intention is to support his physical condition and to be free for the English selection. He keeps on being a player of the Galaxy and it would be in Los Angeles by the beginning of the period 2009 of the MLS”.
While many Italian clubs it takes problems as the absence of public, Galliani emphasized that 65 thousand fans saw the party of the Milan on Sunday, the 19th against the Sampdoria.
“ Beckham will attract more fanatics”, affirmed Galliani.
English would come to a stellar cadre that Ronaldinho, Kaká and Alexander Pato counts with the Brazilian stars, in addition to the Italians Andrea Piro and Gennaro Gattuso and the Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko.
Sand answers
For his part, the technician of the Galaxy, Bruce Arena, proved to be surprised by the action. “In the surface, it looks like to me a strange proposition”, said the strategist.
“I do not see how the Galaxy and the MLS benefit with the transfer. Considering the situation of, in the moment that we are reconstructing the team, would be rare to give one of his maximum stars on having begun the period”, said the new technician of the Galaxy consulted by the newspaper Los Angeles Steal.
Beckham was a star with Manchester United and Real Madrid before recording with the Galaxy in January, 2007 with a contract for five years.
The mediocampista resigned from the captaincy of the English selection after the Cup of the World of 2006 and he was dismissed of the team by the ex-technician Steve McLaren. But then it returned to the selection and Capello has used it sporadically.
England heads his group for the qualifying rounds mundialistas with perfect record.
The ex-technician of the Milan and of the Italian selection, Arrigo Sacchi, said that it recommended to the club to record Beckham. “It is not going to be an inconvenience, and if he keeps on being the player that I met a few years ago, then it will add the team”, it indicated to the Italian radio Sacchi, who was the sports director of Real Madrid during part of Beckham's demurrage in Spain.
| Team did not happen to postemporada for the first time in six years |
DC United will do introspection
after negative campaign |
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| Shame. The doorman Louis Crayton covers the face after the first goal of New England in the middle of October. |
For Felipe Lagos
For Felipe Lagos
DC United was depending on himself to be able to happen to the postemporada. Only he needed a victory over Columbus on Sunday, the 26th. Nevertheless, the of the capital ones fell down for the minimal account and that buried any aspiration to end the year in a positive note.
With it, more the party before Marathón of Honduras in the RFK the night of Wednesday, the 29th (to see related note) finally closed the curtain of the period 2008 of DC United, and the result is negative.
The reasons?, perhaps the most obvious is the fact that the team did not spend to the postemporada of the MLS for the first time in six years. For the fans, perhaps accustomed, to be continued to one of the most successful exemption of the local sport, clearly there is an unequivocal sign of one year in which only there was gained a championship (US Open Cup) and which, in other competitions, did not manage to fulfill a role a protagonist.
Nevertheless, the defeat of 2008 must lead to the totality of the team to wondering how it went over to this point, and what to do to recapture the correct course. This introspection will do that the errors of the past do not recur in the future.
It is not a mystery that the seguidilla of injuries that it affected to the thickness of the holders has a high grade of responsibility of the disaster of 2008. In this sense, perhaps the most emblematic case is that of the Argentinian Marcelo Gallardo, who although it helped with the positive gust that experienced the club from the ends of May at the beginning of July, his disappearance for injuries of the payroll becomes necessary a reflection on the need to hire veterans as players designated ($ 1,9 millions in case of the "Doll").
Another player who suffered continuous injuries was Gonzalo Peralta. The defender started well but few continuity was taking effectiveness from him in the rear.
Another element responsible for the poor campaign of DC United, and that is related to the quantity of injuries that martyred the team, it was the enormous quantity of parties that the rojinegros should have played.
To knowledge, DC United played 49 parties from March until October in five competitions, tournament MLS, US Open Cup, Champions' Cup Concacaf, Champions League Concacaf and Superleague.
To chart the surcharge, Columbus Crew, who finished the regular period in the first place considering both conferences, it played 35 parties.
For the next year, DC will play the Champions League, but it will not take part in the Superleague.
One of the things that the executives of the club will have to work, as a whole with the technical body, is in achieving young talent and that it could give him consistency to the United performance, something that clearly did not achieve this period. The differences between the titular team and the substitute ones it was abysmal.
In spite of everything, after a necessary introspection, the club has to his favor the support of the love, perhaps the only thing that this 2008 did not lower in intensity. It is a task of DC United to work and to find the means to promote the payroll and, the most important thing, to add victories in the period 2009.
| Technician says that big shot of the FIFA must speak less |
| Ferguson rushes forward at Blatter |
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| Ridiculous. For Ferguson, Joseph Blatter speaks very much. |
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The technician of Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, believes that the president of the FIFA is a mockery white person in the world of the soccer for expressing "ridiculous" comments that affect his credibility.
Ferguson bothered when Joseph Blatter compared with the slavery the decision of United not to liberate Cristiano Ronaldo of his contract so that it was recording with Real Madrid. The leader of the FIFA later said that his comments were distorted by the press.
“ I believe that Sepp Blatter covers danger... or has come to the point in which it is ridiculed in the sport”, said Ferguson in an interview with the magazine GQ.
“ I do not know if it is that it is aging too much. But many things can happen to the people in the power. Look at some of the tyrants in Africa”.
Ferguson clarified that it is not compared to Blatter with dictator, but he said that he believes that the maximum chief of the world soccer, of 72 years, must not express this type of comments.
“ Everything what I say is that, from a position of big power, he has said many ridiculous things and covers danger of damaging seriously his credibility”, he affirmed.
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