| Good postemporada of Los Angeles has the Englishman, Bruce Arena and Landon Donovan as protagonists. |
| The Galaxy shines with Beckham |
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| David Beckham and Landon Donovan have put his grain of sand in the good campaign of THE Galaxy. foto:AP |
For Chris Duncan
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The immediate future of David Beckham is solved, Landon Donovan has had a period that would deserve the award to the most Valuable Player and the Galaxy of Los Angeles he is a few steps from another title of the MLS.
Supported in a renewed defensive and in the unit of the team, the Galaxy will face on Friday, the 13th night the Dynamo of Houston, twice champion of the MLS, in the final of the Conference of the West.
The alone presence of Los Angeles in the party is surprising, taking into consideration that the club joined the worst record of the league in 2008 and this campaign began with 11 ties in his first 13 commitments.
And all that happened before the real crisis was coming.
Beckham played the first half of the year with the Milan, then he met in the middle of sour negotiations between the Italian club and the Galaxy, with which he had signed a contract for five years in January, 2007.
The English star remained with the Italian club four more months of the contemplated ones by the original agreement of loan. Donovan, the captain of the team, expressed in a book his doubts that “Becks“ should compromise by the club.
Bruce Arena, who has just gained the award to the Technician of the Year for his work in, organized a meeting between Beckham and Donovan so that they were ventilating his differences, and the two said publicly that there were no rancors.
Three months later, everything is a harmony. The Galaxy received scarcely 31 goals in 2009, after allowing 62 in 2008. It left in zero seven of his last nine rivals in the regular period, to be the first one preclassified under the Conference of the West during the playoffs.
“ In the first part of this year, we had several parties without victories and it turned out to be frustrating”, said Donovan.
“ Once we savor the victory and we realized how we could achieve it, we all concentrate on that and have supported the same attitude the rest of the year. Now, I believe that we are playing our best soccer of the whole year”.
While the Galaxy has had a notable resurgence, the Dynamo returns to his usual role like suction to the title. Houston, champion in 2006 and 2007, eliminated on Sunday, the 8th Seattle, with somewhat of Brian Ching in extension time.
Ching said that the veterans will be the difference in the playoffs. “It is one of the benefits of the experience: One knows when he needs to quicken his pace and improve his game”.
| Favorite Charrúas for the repechaje. |
| Costa Rica is not afraid of Uruguay |
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| Bryan Ruiz loads the hopes of Costa Rica to gain the repechaje to Uruguay. The South Americans are favorite. foto:ap |
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The Costa Rican players do not allow to get scared before the favor that shows the selection of Uruguay with a view to the repechaje before Costa Rica, with the first party on Saturday, the 14th in this capital and the return on November 18 in Montevideo.
The "celestial" selection is provided with figures of the European soccer like Diego Forlán (Athletic of Madrid), Luis Suárez (Ajax of Holland), Fernando Muslera (Lazio), Martín Cáceres (Juventus) and Carlos Valdéz (Reggina).
“ The names do not play”, mentioned the forward Froylán Ledezma. The historical scorer of the Costa Rican selection, Rolando Fonseca, questioned: "What do they have of more? Perhaps not more than we”.
Ledezma admitted that there will be difficult games but it highlighted that Costa Rica must go out “to play intelligently... to go with everything and not to remain behind because they are going to come to intimidate, so it is necessary to extract breast and to begin for forward”.
For the archer Keilor Navas, the threat of the gunners' goals as Forlán and Suárez only they inspire respect.
“ We respect the players of the selection rival, they are of very good level, they play in important leagues, but we us have to realize of that we are selected, players of good level. We have to give ourselves our value”, he said Plain mountains.
“ We are motivated and with desire of being right in the things and with desire of going to a world cup”, expressed Pablo Herrera del Aalesunds European FK.
“ The scheme of the teacher (Rene Simoes) we already know it, know what he wants” Farrier concluded.
| Historical it does his bets on the Brazil that comes to the World cup. |
| Zico: "Ronaldinho will not be summoned” |
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| Ronaldinho and Duck have not given good results well in the verdeamarelha, according to Zico. foto:ap |
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Zico, Brazilian ex-star and current trainer of the Olympiakos of Greece, believes that Ronaldinho, Diego and Alexander Pato “missed the train” of the selection that will play in the world cup of South Africa of 2010.
“ Those who took his place in the court are right in it. For it, none of the three run the risk of not being part of the selection, although the opportunities have had them and have not been able to exploit them. Now they must work hard, without complaining”, expressed Zico.
Zico, considered to be one of the biggest players of all the times, integrated the Brazilian selection and played in the Flamengo and in the Udinese of Italy between 1983 and 1985.
To his judgment, Duck might in future gaining the golden Ball, “but he must learn to think about the team”.
It pointed out that Ronaldinho might be the player of the times of the golden Ball again, “but everything must depart from his head, he amuses himself playing, but the soccer is also a preparation”.
Also he declared himself happy of that his compatriot Leonardo had been a designated trainer of the Milan.
“ When it took up office, I said to him that it should choose its own way and that it should go forward with his convictions, without listening to anybody. The conoce the Milan like the pockets of his pants, he is necessary to have little time and it will demonstrate that he is the just man in the appropriate place”.
| Ex-tennis player confesses on his spectacular career and his errors. |
| Agassi is an open book |
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| This is the front of the book of the ex-tennis player. foto:AP |
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It turns out that Andre Agassi spent it to himself lying along his career. To the fans. To the rivals. To the leaders of the tennis. To the press. To his first wife Brooke Shields. To his friends, including to Barbra Streisand. And to himself. “He could not already support it”, he declared Agassi.
“ These lies owed, of course, to the fear. Many due to a big confusion. Many for being imagine things. Others for understanding badly. And many began with me”, said Agassi. “When I moved back from the tennis, I had the opportunity, the time and the energy to reflect”.
His book “Open“ (Open sea) allows him to extract of above secrets kept for years.
That thing about is his metanfetamina consumption, how he evaded a sanction after giving positive in a control, the use of a peruke and that was detesting the tennis.
Agassi also refers with critical tone of several rivals like Pete Sampras, Michael Chang and Boris Becker. It admits that it lost divided by the way and mentions the big fear that had his father.
Agassi says that simply it felt forced to confess his "enormous" use of metanfetamina in 1997, antidoping going out positively in a control this year, to lie to the masculine tour on how it consumed the substance and to avoid a sanction.
The book is loaded with other fascinating revelations, for example, he says that he "envies" the "tasteless" Sampras personality. “He would want to be able to emulate his spectacular absence of inspiration and his peculiar absence of needing of being inspired”. Also he announces that once it put itself to bet with his trainer Brad Gilbert on the total that Sampras was going to give to him as he gives the manager of parking a car. What they did was to ask the manager and this one indicated them that it was a dollar.
Agassi says that also he was keeping antipathy towards Becker (of whom Agassi assures it blew of his kisses to Shields during a party), Jim Courier, Thomas Muster, Yevgeni Kafelnikov, Jeff Tarango (of whom Agassi says it did pitfall in a party between both when Agassi had eight years).
And certainly, that thing about the peruke in the final of the Open sea of France that lost before the Ecuadorian Andrés Gómez.
“I started praying when I was warming before initiating the party. It was not for the victory, but so that the peruke me was not falling down”.
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