| It gains him 1-0 and South Africa qualifies to World 2010 |
| Paraguay sinks the Argentina |
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| Selected of Paraguay they celebrate the victory on Argentina that gave them the direct pass to World South Africa 2010 in Asunción. photo: Jorge Sáenz / AP |
Buenos Aires
AP
First one appealed to God and later to a sorcerer. None of the two could save to the Argentine selection and to his questioned technician Diego Maradona, that if it gives one more slip the abyss falls down.
After the defeat 1-0 on Wednesday of Argentina before Paraguay, the mythical figure of the best Argentine soccer player of the history began to get worn to massive steps and his compatriots are furious with him since the albiceleste might remain out of the world cup of 2010.
Paraguay turned into the second team of South America in tackling the vessel towards South Africa 2010 inside a bidding that promises emotions in end for his last two dates.
With goal of Nelson Haedo Valdez, Paraguay conquered 1-0 to the Argentina of Diego Maradona, sinking it in the area of repechaje of the South American qualifying rounds and raising the risk of which the Albiceleste will lose his first World Cup from Mexico 1970.
Haedo Valdez turned his goal to 27 minutes, and the Paraguayans could give free rein the celebration as places on having signed his fourth consecutive classification to the world cups, now of the hand of the Argentine technician Gerardo Martino.
But the Argentine torture, with Maradona in the eye of the thunderstorm, is what captures the attention in the final straight line of a qualifying round turned into the whole nightmare for a chosen one replete with stars of the size of Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano and Sergio Agüero.
It fights to death
The antepenultimate date put to the red alive one the struggle for the fourth direct square to South Africa 2010, as well as the fifth one for the repechaje.
Chile allowed to go the opportunity to qualify on having lost 4-2 in his visit to Brazil, which had assured his ticket when last Saturday it defeated to domicile 3-1 to Argentina.
Ecuador happened to occupy the fourth place after 3-1 went out airy on Bolivia in the height of La Paz. Uruguay and Venezuela, like places, also obtained victories that allowed them to remain lit in the struggle.
The Uruguayans were on the point of receiving the death certificate, but they reacted in the last quarter of an hour to conquer 3-1 to Colombia. Venezuela defeated Peru for the same scoreboard.
To the repechaje
If the repechaje was now, Argentina and his historical baggage would not have another option to face Costa Rica, the current occupant of the fourth place in the CONCACAF.
It is a question of the first time that twice champion of the world has slope the classification arrives under the format all against all who were implemented in South America for the world 1998.
Challenging, Maradona does not raise the resignation however much the criticism has begun getting worse for his conduction.
“ While I have a blood drop I will fight so that Argentina qualifies”, said the mythical ex-captain of the selection.
The remaining ones
Ecuador one does not want to lose his third world cup in line, and it went out well stopped on having conquered Bolivia. Edison Méndez (4), Antonio Valencia (46) and Cristian Benítez (56). The Bolivian discount was a work of Gerardo Yecerotte (85).
The Centenary stadium was a witness of a new deployment of the claw charrúa. With a man less during an hour of party, Uruguay stayed alive when Andrés Scotti (76) went out of the banking and scored the goal of the victory.
Luis Suárez (6) had passed to the places, but so much Jackson Martínez (63) had Colombia close to catching a big point. Sebastián Eguren (87) put definitive numbers.
Both teams finished with 10 men due to expulsion: the Uruguayan defender Carlos Valdez and the Colombian forward Teófilo Gutiérrez for hard earnings.
| Along with the USA they move away in the CONCACAF |
| Mexico recovers |
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| Members of the Mexican selection embrace Cuauhtémoc Blanco later that this one noted down the only goal opposite to Honduras. foto:Miguel Tovar / AP |
New York
aP
The United States and Mexico went on to the positions of avant-garde of the qualifying rounds mundialistas from the CONCACAF after harvesting each victories for 1-0 on Trinidad and Tobago and Honduras, respectively.
When they reduce two dates for disputing in the hexagonal end, in which they have not been immune to the scares, two heavyweights of the region stayed with a foot inside to cross the Atlantic Ocean the next year and to dispute the world cup of South Africa.
The United States would go to his sixth consecutive world cup and Mexico to his fifth one.
Only one catastrophe of negative results next month, after the curtain of the qualifying rounds bends, might leave them without the direct passages.
The CONCACAF has right to three fixed squares in the world cup and the quarter will be able to dissolve a repechaje against the fifth one of South America, which in these moments is Argentina.
The victory 1-0 of El Salvador as place before Costa Rica kept the cuscatlecos alive, with what a struggle is outlined between three Central Americans by the last one of the direct passports and the play-off ticket.
After eight dates, the United States marks the step with 16 points, one more than Mexico. Honduras (13), Costa Rica (12) and El Salvador (8) fill the following vacancies, with eliminated Trinidad (5) sunk at the end of the table.
The victory of the United States 1-0 in Port Spain on Trinidad meant the first one in four exits as visitor of the selection who with another victory would assure his classification.
For his part the technician of Mexico, Javier Aguirre, reacted without euphoric airs after obtaining the fourth victory in line in the qualifying rounds, a gust that removed the Tri of the area of repechaje.
It was not up to a goal of penalty of Cuauhtémoc Blanco, to 15 of the end, that Mexico could twist the duel in his favor against Honduras. Target now adds 36 goals with the selection.
The bidding will resume on October 10 with the parties Rich Coast Trinity, Mexico - El Salvador and the Honduras - USA.
| With ticket in hand for the world cup |
| Brazil with substitute to champion's step |
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| The players of Brazil celebrate the victory while those of Chile show sadness, at the end of the party that the first one conquered 4-2. photo: Silvia Izquierdo / AP |
Salvador, Brazil
AP
Nilmar was shown by a tripleta 4-2 gave him to Brazil a victory on Chile, which continued hoping to assure his classification to itself to the World Cup.
With ticket in hand for the world cup, Brazil played with substitute several and to half a machine it was enough to him to be imposed like place in the stadium Pitaucu of the city of Salvador.
Nilmar invoiced with his goals to 31, 73 and 76 minutes. Julio Baptista did other to the 40.
Chile, which was necessary the victory to qualify straight to South Africa 2010, could mend 2-0 in against initial thanks to so many people of his forward Humberto Suazo to the 45 and 52.
The second Suazo goal took place three minutes later that the mark frill Felipe Melo was expelled by an absence on Alexis Sánchez. But the Chilean mediocampista also saw the red one to the 76 for double reprimand and left his team with 10.
Brazil stretched to 11 his victories gust in line, although the technician Dunga could not be provided with holders like Kaká, Pike and Luis Fabiano due to suspensions. Robinho did not play for an injury either. The next month, in his last two parties, Chile will visit first Colombia and then it will receive Ecuador. Brazil will be a visitor before Bolivia and it will close of place against Venezuela.
| The field marshal and his new opportunity to demonstrate his value |
| Olimpiadas without baseball “is inexcusable” |
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| Cuban baseball players warm in the Latin-American Stadium of Havana. foto:Javier Galeano / AP |
Anne-Marie García
The Habana/aP
Under the intense August sun, the peloteros of the Cuban selection were training in the Latin-American stadium with a view to the World Cup that started on Wednesday, the 9th in Europe.
This is the most important trophy to which for the time being the Cuban can aspire, after the recent judgment of the COI of excluding again to the baseball of the Olympian program of 2016.
For an island that craves for the baseball, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to propose to the golf and to the rugby for the inclusion in the games of 2016 is like a cachetada.
“ An inexcusable injustice”, pronounced himself Christian Jiménez, president of the Cuban Institute of Sports. “Only the economic benefit, the money mattered, once again,”, he added.
Once king of the keen baseball, Cuba lives through a drought of four years without international qualifications. In this world cup, the island comes with a renewed team that has lost some of his principal stars.
Cuba lost the world cup of 2007 opposite to the United States, and although the World Outstanding figure woke up big interest, to obtain the Olympian gold is the sleep of the Cuban peloteros.
“ It cannot be the Olympiads without baseball”, there exclaimed Esteban Lombillo, the flaming manager of the ninth islander.
The captain of the ninth one, Frederich Cepeda, considered it to be a “hasty decision” and “a caprice” of the COI.
“ It is a big pain for the players... for the generations who come”, he added.
The baseball entered the Olympian program in 1992, and Cuba gained three golden medals (1992, 1996 and 2004) and two of silver (2000 and 2008). In 2005 the COI decided to eliminate it together with the softbol of the Games of London 2012. Two sports aspired to be included again for 2016, but in August the COI decided to contemplate only the candidacies of the golf and of the rugby. The final decision will take in October in Copenhagen.
“ The sleep of an athlete is to be an Olympian champion”, made sure Linares the Cuban only one that a professional team integrated in Japan, with the permission of the Cuban authorities.
“ They took a sleep from us”, it pointed out.
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