| Of the capital they receive seven goals in his last two parties |
| DC United does not manage to mend |
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| Shame. DC ended with seven goals in his basket, five before Los Angeles and two before Marathón. AP |
It has been a week of terror for DC united. After the place defeat before Saprissa in the début of the Champions League Concacaf, DC united traveled to Los Angeles to be goleadoel on Saturday, the 20th for 5 to 2 for one of the worst teams of the MLS, the Galaxy, compromising moreover his options to classify under direct form the playoffs.
As if it was small, the of the capital ones then traveled to San Pedro Sula for his party before Marathón, played on Wednesday, the 24th, where although they lasted in one time and a half with the unconquered fence, finally they ended up by succumbing for two goals to zero.
The Marathón goals were noted down by rear Milton “Tyson“ Núñez to 21 minutes and the defender Erick Norales, of head, to the 81 in the Metropolitan Olympian stadium.
Marathón, with 6 points, leads the Group A of the championship with four goals in received favor and none. The Honduran defeated last week as place 2 to 0 to the Blue Cross of Mexico, which is provided with three points.
The third team that belongs to the key is Saprissa of Costa Rica, also with three points, which on Tuesday, the 23rd 4 was thrashed to 0 by Cruz Azul.
Cruz Azul one comes
And eye, that next Wednesday on the first of October the Mexicans will present before themselves in the stadium RFK. It is not necessary to forget that Cruz Azul is the current Mexican runner-up and there has been five times monarch of the Champions League of the Concacaf.
The Champions League has in this second round four groups of equal number of teams (to see table), from which eight will go on to the quarter finals with the intention of achieving a ticket to the World cup of Clubs of the Fifa in 2009.
Seeing the trip that DC United has had to support this period in the MLS, perhaps it is hit to consider it to be a Route Crucis.
The rojinegros are submitting strongly to the only probable way of qualifying the playoffs, the wild card that the league delivers. It is necessary to remember that, according to the system of championship of the MLS, the first four teams of every conference classify in direct form. In case of the East, they would be happening to the postemporada Columbus, New England, Chicago and New York. Then it would come United, who have a divided critic this Sunday, the 28th before Dallas.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the injuries and the surcharge of parties are bursting the players, and the long absence of Marcelo Gallardo due to physical problems has damaged in considerable form the performance of the of the capital ones, since there is no reservation that could handle the threads of the parties of the form that the "Doll" can do it.
It is probable that DC meets in the obligation to prioritize the MLS instead of the Cup Concacaf, but for especially, to recover his players and the soccer form that this team had in the middle of period.
| Cyclist will think about how to conquer his eighth Tour of France in 2009 |
| Armstrong returns to the track |
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| One of the memory. Féliz Trinidad connects William Joppy in a fight in 2002. “tito“ wants to fight with Bernard Hopkins in 2009. AP |
For Rachel Cohen
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Lance Armstrong won seven times the Tour of France with Johan Bruyneel as his team leader and by no means he is going to look for an eighth title with the guide of other.
Armstrong announced Wednesday that will compete with Astana, the team directed by Bruyneel and will try to obtain his ninth title in the Tour of France.
The return of the American cyclist will begin in January with Tour Down Under in the Australian city of Adelaide.
Nikolai Proskurin, vice-president of the Federation of Cycling of Kazakhstan, detailed that Armstrong agreed to compete with the team kazajo without receiving salary in the first year and signed contract to take part in five careers, between them the Tour of France.
His return allows to the 37-year-old broker to have an opportunity to cover the mouth to his detractors, who suspect that it consumed substances prohibidadas to obtain his achievements.
Armstrong will have to an expert antidoping, Don Catlin, who will be in charge of leading an autonomous program of control panel of the cyclist.
“ One of the principal experts of the world will validate the yield", he declared Armstrong, who spoke on his return in the frame of the Global Initiative of the American ex-president Bill Clinton.
“ I cannot guarantee victories, but I can guarantee that the Livestrong message will touch the whole society”, he declared Armstrong in allusion to his foundation.
What it would spend with the rest of the team Astana is not completely clarified. The Spanish Alberto Contador, champion of the Tour of France, gave to understand that he will speak with Armstrong and Bryunell.
“ When you compete in professional sport it is normal that in your team there is two, or sometimes, three champions. Now the people will speak on the controversy, but sincerely I do not have any problem with Armstrong”, said Book-keeper.
“ I identify with him for his passion for the sport. Truly it has been a model for me as for so many other cyclists. In spite of only imagining that it will run in Astana in 2009 I motivate myself much more”, he added.
Book-keeper has just completed the Triple Crown of the cycling after rising on Sunday with the title of the Return to Spain. Also this year devoted itself in the Draft of Italy. Only five cyclists have completed similar exploit.
| Difficult step of “Cheyo“ in Costa Rican club |
| Elysian "Cheyo" Quintanilla leaves the Alajuense of Costa Rica with scandal |
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| Not more. Rumors speak about slightly professional conduct like cause of the exit of Quintanilla del Alajuense. AP |
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The frill and scorer, Eliseo Quintanilla, received the support of the technical body of the selection of El Salvador after his recent separation of the Costa Rican picture, Alajuelense.
“ The sigue being important for our team, does not remain alone”, mentioned the trainer of the national team, the Chilean Álvaro Briones.
Quintanilla “has a commitment with the selection and we, we have the commitment with him”, pointed out Briones.
The frill, of 25 years, Monday, the 22nd came to an agreement with Alajuelense to stop his contract signed in January.
“ His yield does not coincide entirely with what looks for the Sports League Alajuelense in this new process”, pointed out the Costa Rican team in his Internet portal.
Quintanilla, that there served also in the DC United of the American MLS, is the principal figure of the selection of El Salvador that he aspires to classify to the hexagonal end of the CONCACAF in the direction of the world cup of 2010.
Several theories exist of why “Cheyo“ went out of the Alajuense, some say for low yield, others for indiscipline and even one speaks about alcoholism, after have known rumors that the player would have come with alcohol in the blood to a training of the Costa Rican club.
| Silver salad bowl is decided in November |
| Rafael Nadal leads to Spain to the final of the Cup Davis and it will collide with Argentina |
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| Nadal. AP |
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To play him in clay would be a suicide. That's why, Argentina already has decided to receive Spain in a rapid and covered court when they face in less than two months for the final of the Cup Davis.
Both countries are two world potency in clay — in this surface they gained his respective semifinals — but the Argentinians are sure that Spain is virtually unbeatable in this area.
“ We are going to play him in a folder indoor; of that there is no doubt”, said the Argentine captain Alberto Mancini.
“ They are dangerous in any surface, but we choose what is convenient for us”, added Mancini.
In semifinals, Argentina conquered Russia 3-2 in Buenos Aires and Spain 4-1 to the United States, the current champion, in Madrid.
Argentina usually plays in the Park Rock, to the south of this capital. It is a question of a stadium with dust of brick and overdraft.
Although this place is not discarded, the stadium Orfeo of the city of Cordova, to 750 kilometers to the north, stage of the final sounds strongly for since it assembles two conditions: it is possible to place easily a rapid folder and it has roof.
The only problem is that his capacity belongs to approximately nine thousand spectators, approximately three thousand less than the demanded for the authorities of the world tennis.
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