| Five South American teams look for two direct quotas |
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| Argentina must win to Peru and hope that Ecuador should not win Uruguay to have options to classify. PHOTO: AP |
Last two dates of the qualifying rounds to the World cup of South Africa in South America have like principal question if the Argentina of Maradona will be able to be noted down in the maximum appointment of the soccer on a global scale.
For it, the albicelestes must defeat Peru last in the table, on October 10 and four days later to Uruguay in Montevideo.
At present, there are five teams fighting for two direct quotas and a repechaje. Brazil (33 points) and Paraguay (30) qualified already, while Chile (27), Ecuador (23), Argentina (22) Uruguay and Venezuela (21 points) are in the fight.
To make the situation even more dramatic, Maradona threatened to resign on Tuesday, the 6th. “If I continue, I continue with my conditions”, he said to the press in unexpected form after a practice.
Maradona would feel victim of a conspiracy to displace that, to his judgment, Carlos Bilardo would head.
Although without naming it, Maradona complained about for that Bilard did not travel to England to ask to the Manchester City it not to include last weekend in a league party to the defender Pablo Zabaleta and to the forward Carlos Tevez, both of the Argentine selection.
Zabaleta returned with an injury in the left thigh and it will be low before Peru.
In addition to winning Peru, the albicelestes need that Uruguay wins Ecuador, because if the yellow ones conquer the charrúas, Argentina will not be able already to reach the fourth place.
Apparently, everything indicates that the attack of the albicelestes will be shaped by Messi and Higuaín.
Messi is an uncontroversial holder, while Higuaín, which never played in these qualifying rounds, for the time being gained him the pulseada to Martín Palermo, scorer of Mouth Juniors.
For his part, the sayings of Sergio Agüero, who said that Peru “does not play anything”, did not like in the shores of the Rímac. Eliminated several dates ago, the Peruvians try to be motivated for the shock in Buenos Aires and they are excited in spite of emulating to the selection that in 1969 eliminated Argentina and left it out of the world cup of the following year.
“ We are not afraid of them because Argentina is not the monster that was earlier, now it is possible to win him”, affirmed Roberto Palacios. “We can do an acceptable party. They do not have the classification insured in the bad moment that they have”.
For his part, Chile must obtain at least three points of the six in game. Those of the Red one will visit Colombia and then they will receive Ecuador.
Chile will advance South Africa with a victory in Bogota, although also it will serve a tie to him if Ecuador loses before Uruguay.
The coffee growers, on the other hand, need to conquer Chile and Paraguay, in addition to a results combination to avoid the elimination.
“ The essential thing is to do our task because of nothing it would serve to us that other results favor us. We are conscious that the tie leaves to us on the outside and we are going to raise our party”, underlined the Colombian strategist Rodrigo Lara.
Venezuela will be other of those that the life will play before a Paraguay which technician Gerardo Martino asked his players rojiblancos “not to relax” for having the classification in the pocket.
Finally, the duel between Brazil and Bolivia will find to the opposite poles of the table.
But the height of La Paz put in guard the Brazilians, bearing in mind that there Bolivia thrashed 6-1 to Argentina in a previous duel for the qualifying rounds.
Last date of the qualifying rounds will be played on Wednesday with these parties: Peru - Bolivia, Brazil - Venezuela, Paraguay - Colombia, Chile - Ecuador and Uruguay - Argentina.
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| The Brazilian Alan Kardec indicates to the sky after scoring a goal before Uruguay in the world cup Sub20, on Wednesday, the 7th. photo: AP |
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Brazil goes out of an outstanding figure to get into other.
After coming undone with relative facility of Uruguay, the "verdeamarela" has an appointment with Germany in the quarter finals of the world cup sub20, where Costa Rica treads on unknown area and faces the Arab Emirates in search of the classification to the semifinals.
The third round of the championship starts on Friday in Suez with the parties Korea of the Sur-Ghana and Italy - Hungary, and culminates on Saturday in Cairo with the meetings of two surviving Latin-American countries.
Costa Rica overcame on Tuesday, the 2-0th Egypt and for the first time in his history it came to the quarter finals of a world cup.
“ All the records are to break in all the disciplines”, indicated the technician of Costa Rica, Ronald González. “When we came to Egypt we wanted that this selection was coming out”.
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Washington Hispanic
The bets houses in Las Vegas have selected the Yankee ones and the Cardinals like favorites to cross in the World Series. New York is an overwhelming favorite to gain his first championship from 2000. San Luis is considered to be the favorite of the National League with 9-2, but not for much on Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
| The blue ones look for a victory in the Aztec to support the illusion. |
| El Salvador has faith |
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| The Mexicans need a victory for any scoreboard before the Salvadorans to qualify to South Africa 2010. photo: AP |
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El Salvador will play on Saturday opposite to Mexico without complexes and with the mind put in his first victory of visit in the Aztec stadium, made sure the Salvadoran captain Ramón Sánchez.
“ We have come to demonstrate, to play, not to be a holiday of nobody”, warned Sánchez, frill of the Earthquakes of the MLS.
“ The Salvadoran people have asked us to give everything and to that we have come. The key will be to stop well, to touch well the ball, to be precise as we it can be, to exhibit our best attitude”, it pointed out.
Carlos de los Cobos, ex-technician of sub23 of Mexico and technical assistant of the Serbian Bora Milutinovic with Mexico in the World cup of France 1998, will look for the first victory in the Aztec, stadium where it played many years with the America and the Mexican selection.
The Salvadorans, who come of gaining 1-0 to Costa Rica, are forced to conquer Mexico to be still alive in the qualifying round. A tie would leave them without possibilities, while a fall would bury completely his aspirations to come to a third World Cup after Mexico 1970 and Spain 1982.
For his part, the Mexicans need a victory for any scoreboard before the Salvadorans to qualify to South Africa 2010 without depending on anybody, a defeat or tie, it would put them with the mission to conquer the trinitarios and to look at the results of his other rivals, the United States, Honduras and Costa Rica.
“ These 180 minutes are to death. If we are capable of obtaining three points, mathematically we will be in the World cup”, said Javier Aguirre.
Although he does not accept it openly, in Mexico the game is waited like a big national celebration. The tricolor spent many penuries to put itself in position to qualify and thanks to the Aguirre arrival now they are to only one victory of achieving it.
“ We are not going to play with euphoric emulation”, made sure Aguirre, who said that it could not do anything for the celebrations that plans the love. “We cannot control the exterior triunfalismo”.
The big Aztec absence would be a Cuahtémoc Blanco, who drags from September 21 an injury in the left leg, which for the time being has it training separately of the group. Aguirre chose to call Francisco Palencia in case that the forward of the Chicago Fire does not reach the entire recovery.
“ Cuauh is one to play proved of many quality and that does differences”, said Gerardo Torrado, who plays for the Blue Cross. “But in the selection there is a big group that has quality great and can fulfill it with other characteristics”.
El Salvador, with eight points and to two dates of finishing the hexagonal one, still supports hope to reach at least Costa Rica, which has 12, to be placed like the fourth better team, which would give to him the right to fight for a repechaje before the best fifth one of Sudámerica. To two dates for concluding the hexagonal end of the Concacaf, the United States commands the classification with 16 units, continued by Mexico with 15, Honduras with 13, Costa Rica with 12, El Salvador with eight and Trinidad and Tobago, the eliminated only one.
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