For Robert Millward
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| Horacio Águila and Gonzalo Longo celebrate the victory of the Pumas opposite to Scotland. The doimingo they face to South Africa in semifinals. Photo: AP |
The selections of rugby of Argentina and South Africa will face in one of the semifinals of the glass of the world of rygby, the first time that the South Americans come to this instance.
The Pumas defeated Scotland 19-13 in Stade de France. Previously, Fiji was on the point of provoking the biggest surprise in the history of the world cups of rugby before falling down before the Springboks 37-20.
The party between the Springboks and Pumas will be played in the same stadium on Sunday. In eve France and England will face for his place in the final.
While New Zealand and Australia were preparing to fly on returning to house after his surprising defeats before France and England, the Argentinians were continuing in his triumphal march.
Argentina, which unconquered march in the tournament began with a surprising victory 17-12 on France in the inaugural party, they put themselves above 19-6 before Scotland it reacted in the last quarter.
Scotland noted down first by means of a penalty of Chris Paterson to 15 minutes and Felipe Contepomi answered with two penalties before Gonzalo Longo that it achieved the only one try of The Pumas for an advantage 13-3.
Longo covered the kick of clearing of Dan Parks and dived on the goal line, overcoming two Scotch defenders.
" I believe that we were very tired and Scotland played very well, so we last", said the way scrum Argentine Agustín Pichot. "We are very pleased of coming to the semifinals".
" We do not underestimate them. They played proudly, played hotly. I have a big respect as the Scots. We knew that they were very strong and he wanted difficultly to win them".
The Scotch trainer Frank Hadden said that the defense and organization of Argentina were too strong for them.
" They controlled the party, they are difficult to face", he said. "They were a little craftier in his decisions with the ball. We do not play sufficiently well".
The French, still furious fans because Argentina won them in the inaugural party of the contest, booed to the Pumas for stamping constantly and applauded whenever the Scots chose to run with the ball.
Paterson limited to nine the difference to two minutes of the rest with another penalty goal.
Contepomi was right again on having spent three minutes in the complement with a kick from long distance.
The flyhalf Juan Martin Hernández, with a 30 meters drop, gave to Argentina an advantage of 13 points to the 54.
Pero Escocia did not give up and scrumhalf substitute Chris Cusiter escaped for the lefthanders for a try from the 63.
The Paterson conversion was effective, what it left to Scotland of another try, more the conversion, to take the victory.
Pero Argentina bore well when Scotland had a scrum in the last quarter court in the discounts.
For his part, the Fiji residents were on the point of savouring the glory in Marseilles.
Tries by the end of Juan Smith y Butch James allowed to South Africa to take Sunday a laborious victory 37-20.
Fiji was on the point of giving the big surprise on having mended one 20-6 in against and to equal 20-20 in the complement, but the Springboks moved away on the final minutes in Stade Velodrome.
A penalty turned by Francois Steyn and a try of Check Fourie they moved forward 8-0 to South Africa. John Smit crossed the line of Fiji to deliver a judgment one 13-3 before the rest.
The second penalty of Seremaia Bai limited to seven the difference, but Percy Montgomery achieved the third try of the Springboks for an advantage 20-6 after 51 minutes.
Everything seemed finished for Fiji when his way Seru Rabeni had to go out of the party by order of the Irish umpire Alun Lewis, leaving them with 14 men.
But the winger Vilimoni Delasau achieved the try on having overcome in speed two two Springboks and the conversion of Bai brought them over to seven points.
Almost followed, Mosese Rauluni made way for himself between the South African defense and yielded for Sireli Bobo, who extracted the tackles of Check Fourie and Fourie du Preez, to equal 20-20.
South Africa could react with a penalty rather than Rabeni was expiring with his punishment. The tries of Smith and James had just sentenced the party.
| MLB |
| Indians defeat 6-4 to Yankee and advance to series of championship |
For Ronald Blum
AP
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| Grady Sizemore (der) celebrates along with Kelly Shoppach (izq) and Johnny Peralta in the fourth party of the series that the Indians gained to the Yankee ones. Foto:AP |
As soon as Grady Sizemore opened the game with a home run, the Indians of Cleveland headed for the Series of Championship of the American League and the Yankee ones of New York, although they gave fight, began to digest the end of his period, which included a good boos dose.
The Indians never lost the advantage in the party, and set on themselves on Monday for 6-4 on New York, in the fourth party of the series divisional, with which another destruction materialized for the Yankee ones in the first playoffs round.
The Indians will dispute the Series of Championship from Friday, against the Red Averages of Boston.
Paul Byrd and the body of relevistas of the Indians provoked that the Yankee ones were suffering his third consecutive elimination in the first round of the series divisional, something that probably will cost the employment to the pilot Joe Torre and will give cause for a renewal in the team of the Bronx.
" We had not had a Series of Championship in Cleveland in a lot of time", said Kenny Lofton, the experienced leader of the Indians. "The knowledge is incredible only that we will live through this again".
The Yankee ones came to the party with a positive gust, on having overcome a sheet of 21-29 to gain the ticket joker of the American League, but finally they collapsed for his poor body of bottle openers, an invasion of insects and the most recent negative gust of Alex Rodríguez, whose bat was kept silent until it gave a solitary home run in the seventh entry.
The Indians, who wasted an advantage of three careers in the third game of the series, attacked from the beginning Taiwanese Chien-Ming Wang, whom they extracted in the second entry and with advantage of 4-0.
Byrd managed to be supported in the lomita despite the attempts of offensive of the Yankee ones, and a simple producer of two careers of Víctor Martínez placed the scoreboard in 6-1 before Mike Mussina, who relieved Wang.
One day later that it avoided to be swept in the series, the Yankee ones placed corridors in the bases in each of the first seven earnings, but when it was necessary, the powerful offensive of the New Yorkers again failed and only the quadrangular recluses of Rodríguez and the Venezuelan Bobby Abreu thrilled the public, but they were not sufficient to avoid the defeat.
The Indians will dispute his first Series of Championship of the American League from 1998, in Fenway Park of Boston.
Cleveland had a sheet of 2-5 before the Red Averages in this period, but it will be able to be provided with his stellar serpentineros C.C. Sabathia the Dominican Fausto Carmona, who will be rested for the first two parties in Boston, in a series a to gain four parties of a possible maximum of seven.
The Indians will think about how to gain his first World Series from 1948. For his part, the Series for the Championship of the National League, also to the best of seven, will initiate on Thursday with the visit of the Rockies of Colorado the Diamondbacks of Arizona in Phoenix.
For his part, the Yankee ones will initiate another recess of period full of decisions, declarations and very probably changes; another October in which all the looks will be on the owner of the team, George Steinbrenner, who said during the weekend that he was not thinking about preserving to Tower like pilot if the Yankee ones were remaining eliminated again.
Tower led the Yankee ones to gaining four World Series in his first five periods at the head of the team, and it has achieved to classify them to the playoffs under his 12 campaigns at the head of the team.
Nevertheless, these numbers will not be sufficiently positive for Steinbrenner, who is exasperate of that his team has not even managed to advance to the Series of Championship from 2004.
" I hope that he should reconsider, but the chief does what he wants", said Johnny Damon.
If Tower goes away, Don Mattingly and Joe Girardi are the principal candidates to replace it.
The fanatics were singing the name of Tower when it did two trips to the lomita in the eighth entry, on having delivered the ball to Panamanian Mariano Rivera perhaps for last time in an age that gave his big successes to the Yankee ones, something that they were not enjoying from the fifties.
A disappointed multitude of 56.315 fanatics might have seen for last time Alex Rodríguez stuffed in the uniform of the Yankee ones. Rodríguez, who possibly there will be named the most Valuable Player of the American League during the regular period, was practically kept silent in the postemporada for third year in line, to the poncharse with two men in base in the first entry and again on having opened the third inning.
Rodríguez, who might choose next month to leave of his multiannual contract of 10 years in exchange for 252 million dollars, only connected a solitary home run to the Dominican relevista Rafael Pérez in the seventh entry, with which it finished a negative gust of 57 shifts to the bat consecutive in postemporada without only one career towed from 2004.
In the series, bateó of 15-4.
Nevertheless, Rodríguez is not the only one that might leave. Rivera, Puerto Rican Jorge Posada, the serpentineros Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens do not also have the guarantee from which they will return, although it is probable that the Yankee ones will try to retain to some, if it is than to all.
Derek Jeter, the captain of the team, of course will be back, but the hero of the past postemporadas had only one career impelled in the series and bateó for three double slaughters.
For the Indians, the Venezuelans Asdrúbal Cabrera of 4-1 with the impulsive one, Víctor Martínez of 5-2 with two impelled ones and Franklin Gutiérrez of 5-1 with a towed. The Dominican Jhonny Peralta of 4-3 with a pushed.
For the Yaquis, Rodríguez of 5-2 with the written down one and the produced one. The Dominicans Robinson Canó of 4-2 with the written down one and the impulsive one and Melky Cabrera of 4-1. The Venezuelan Bobby Abreu of 5-2 with the written down one and the impulsive one. Puerto Rican Jorge Posada of 5-1.
| Punished for dóping in Tour of France 2006 |
| Armstrong criticizes decision to astonish Floyd Landis |
For Rachel Cohen
AP
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| Bad times for Floyd Landis. Foto:AP |
Lance Armstrong thought that an American jury of course would have decided in favor of the cyclist about misfortune Floyd Landis, in contrast to the umpires who found it guilty of doping.
Seven times champion of the Tour of France was sorry about the consequences that the decision of arbitration left and disdained "awful" work of the laboratory, in what it was his first public comment about the decision adopted last month to astonish Landis for two years and to snatch his title of the Tour of France of 2006.
“ I did not continue so closely Floyd's case, but I must say to them that if this should be a judgment with a jury in the United States, with eight or 10 or 12 compatriots, it might have saved one. I do not mean that one leaves with his, but it would have been claimed”, said Armstrong.
Armstrong, who also supported doping accusations during his career, lashed the French laboratories where there were carried out the tests antidoping of Landis.
Although the umpires blamed of irregular practices to the laboratory in his decision and warned of other errors, the group of umpires stayed firm in declaring like positive the case of Landis.
“ When there is dictated to anybody the death penalty, which is what they did essentially, one cannot tolerate a work badly made”, indicated Armstrong.
“ I do not understand this type of thought, do not understand this verdict”, he added.
“ It is hard for Floyd, it is hard for the cycling. Nevertheless, at the same time it is really hard and unfortunate for the fans of all the sports. One never knows when you are in this position, when you are an athlete in this position, and one wants to make sure that everything should be done correctly”, added Armstrong.
| End of the World cup of Feminine Soccer |
| Germany confirms his title unconquered and ends with the Brazilian sleep |
Agencies
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| The Germans touch the sky for sgunda consecutive time. Photo: Reuters |
The selection of Germany confirmed his title of the World cup of Feminine Soccer on having been imposed by 2 on 0 to Brazil, in the party disputed on Sunday, the 30th of September in the stadium Hongkou of Shanghai.
With this success in China 2007, Germany, which was already imposed in the United States 2003, adds his second world trophy and turns into the combined only one that has been capable of confirming the crown in two consecutive occasions.
For Brazil, which was coming to the final for the first time in his history, it still cannot achieve a big success, since in the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 also they were second, in that occasion after losing in the extension opposite to the United States for 2 1.
In spite of without c have proclaimed champion, Marta, Better elected Player FIFA of 2006, was chosen also like better player of the tournament and she rewarded like maximum scorer, with seven so many people.
The Europeans ended up by imposing his efficacy and his game ordering, what allows them to finish the tournament with his unconquered fence, in six disputed parties, opposite to Argentina (11 to 0), England (0 to 0) and Japan (2 to 0) in the first phase and for 3 to 0 before North Korea (quarter finals) and Norway (semifinals).
“ I had confidence in my team great and they worked very hard for the rest. It was a marvelous performance of the team. After saving the penalty, I felt that it was our night”, there declared the German trainer, Silvia Neid.
In the big final of Shanghai, the party was decided in the second half, where the Germans proved to be more offensive and brave, fruit from which the Prinz goal came, in 52. The girls that Jorge Barcellos directs accused the blow, but they had a big occasion to conquer the long-awaited tie, after a maximum sorrow committed by Linda Bresonik on Cristiane, who trumped Marten.
With his rivals overturned to force the extension, an opportunist Laudehr made use of a corner throwing to achieve the second definitive goal, which ended with the Brazilian sleep.
“ We lost many opportunities, especially when we were losing 1 to 0 and Marten trumped a decisive penalty. Pero Alemania had his opportunities and marked. I am very sad for the result, but my players gave the best thing”, made sure the Brazilian strategist Barcellos.
The Americans had to be content with the third position, which they obtained after hammering 4 to to Norway.
| He says Marten, the best player |
| “Brazil will recover” |
Agencies Although the brasieña Marten was nominated a better player of the competition, a vital throwing did not conceal his sadness after mistaken credit from the penalty point in the final of the Cup of the World against Germany.
“ We fight hard to reach this final. Unfortunately we pay a very high price for our errors”, it allowed.
“ We were not hit facing the goal, my luck left me in the penalty point, we meet the stick two or three times, do not manage to handle the time of the party”, he confessed discouraged.
“ But this is a soccer. Sometimes, although you are good you do not obtain that that you want. It was not our day”, added the front part of the Seleçao.
Marten appealed to the authorities of the Brazilian soccer so that they begin investing money in them. “We have demonstrated that every years we are better in spite of not having a national championship in Brazil”, he declared in the web of the International Federation of Soccer (FIFA).
| Mexican team set on himself for the minimal account |
| Chivas eliminates to DC United |
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| Sergio Ávila of Kids fights for the ball against Clyde Simms, in the party that the Mexicans gained to the Americans. Foto:Reuters |
A goal Ramón Morales gave him to Guadalajara a global tie from 2 to 2 before DC United on Tuesday, the 2nd, with what the Mexican team advanced to the quarter finals of the South American Cup.
Morales scored his goal to 64 minutes with a violent shot that rival lodged in the angle of the goal and thanks to him, the Kids advanced to the following round of the South American tournament, where they will face the Arsenal of Argentina.
“ What it imports is that the goal served to win and to advance to the following phase, we always fight because we knew that we had time to turn round him, now we go step by step to what it continues, believe in us”, he said Mulberry trees at the end of the game.
Guadalajara dismissed his trainer José Manuel of the Tower two days after losing on Wednesday, the 26th before DC United in the going game. His place there entered Efraín Flores, who made debut with victory in the league and now it won already in the South American.
“ It was a little tough, we lost the control in the end, but we extracted the party and won fully deservedly”, he said Flowers. “This is thanks to the players, they are a big group, good boys and very disciplined”.
The meeting started with a clear mastery of the Kids, but more enthusiastically than with clarity at the head.
The home team had scarcely two opportunities to note down in the first 45 minutes. The first one came to the 14, when Alberto Medina ordered a pass with the head to Brave, who to one meter of the goal was swept thinking about how to shelter the ball, but it could not tune in.
To the 22, Brave there gave a pass to Sergio Santana, who opposite to the goal of Troy Perkins, ordered the ball to the tribune.
The of the capital ones chose to defend the advantage that they obtained in the going and try to counterbeat. Only they had a shot to the arch, when to 25 Devon McTavish it extracted a shot from the outside of the area that dumped badly the doorman Luis Michel, who contained the shot with problems.
The second half was following the same keynote of the first half until the Mulberry trees goal came. The frill made use of one visitor pushes back of the defense to extract a violent shot of left leg with which it put the ball to the angle of the goal of Perkins.
The DC United changed the strategy, since with the tie in the global one it was staying out for the visitor's goal and to the 68 they got lost a big opportunity, when Luciano Emilio received a pass of Ben Olsen inside the area, but his shot went away turned away lightly from the goal.
To the 84, Christián Gómez rushes on having extracted a shot at the entry of the area, when it seemed that it could approach more to shoot Michel.
Kids it stopped attacking and only it had one more opportunity to the 86, when in a counterblow, Omar Arellano ordered his shot over the American frame.
To two of the end, Olsen extracted a shot with potency that Michel ordered to corner in the last big opportunity of the visitors.
With this result, DC fell down for the second consecutive time in one year opposite to Kids, who in March gained the semifinals of the Champions' Cup of the Concacaf. Also, a team of the MLS has never gained a duel in Mexico.
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