Archive for April 9th, 2009

Copa Libertadores action is underway as we speak. LDU Quito(Ecuador) and Colo Colo(Chile) are in the thirty fourth minute and it’s nil-nil.

Colo Colo sits a top Group One standings with seven points. They should advance to the next round.

LDU Quito is in third place with three points. They must surely win tonight against Colo Colo and hope that  Brasilian Club Sport losses to fellow Brasilian club Palmeiras next Wednesday April 15th.

Sport is in second place in Group One with six points. Sport also has a game in hand so this will make next to impossible for LDU Quito to advance but stranger things have happened. Not.

 It’s halftime and it’s nil-nil. LDU Quito has more shots on goal than Colo-Colo 5-2 but LDU Quito is firing blanks.

The big match is coming up in about one hour when Argentina side Boca Juniors battles Paraquay club Guarani at the bonbon box in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The actual name of the stadium is Alberto J. Armando Ciudad  Autonoma. If you have ever been there it looks like big chocolate box. It’s so cool. Boca plays all their home games there.

Boca is in first place in Group Two with nine points. Boca should advance while Guarani will head home for the fall and winter.

Boca has won the Copa Libertadores six times.

Brasilian futebol club Sao Paulo takes on Uruguay’s Defensor Sporting later tonight in Group Four action at Morumbi, in Sao Paulo, Brasil.  

This is a battle between the top two clubs in Group Four. Sao Paulo has seven points. Defensor Sporting has four points.  

We will keep ya posted as the  action unfolds through the night.

More has just happened. LDU Quito just scored to make it 1-0. Jario Campos found the back of the net in the 48th minute. 

You see there is hope. All you have to do is play the game.

 Huge futebol news is coming out of Argentina. Fox Soccer.com is reporting that  San Lorenzo coach Miguel Angel Russo resigned after a 2-0 loss to San Luis in Copa Libertadores action last night.

San Lorenzo is one of the top clubs in Argentina futebol but this year they got the early heave hoe as they failed to advance out of the group stage in The Copa Libertadores for the third straight year.

To make matter worse for San Lorenzo they are now mired in 11th place in the Clausura 2009 with 10 points in eight games. San Lorenzo has three wins, one draw and four losses.

The Clausura is the summer Argentina Primera Futebol League competition that begins in February and ends in June.  

The Copa Libertadores is the oldest and most important futebol competition in South America. The Copa Libertadores began play in 1960.

 San Lorenzo is the only one of the big five clubs in Argentina futebol  that has failed to win The Copa Libertadores. The big five Argentina clubs who have  won the Copa Libertadors are River Plate, Boca Juniors, Racing, and Independiente.

I’m a futebol nut. My team is Flamengo. Flamengo is the oldest futebol club in Brasil. I’m a Flamenguista.  I proudly wear my Flamengo futebol jersey and cap everywhere I go in Los Angeles.

Americans don’t have the slightest idea what the insignia means. This is so cool. 

I am an American with the heart of a Brasilian. Flamengo for the past few weeks has played like crap.

 Tonight in the  Copa do Brasil Flamengo started out the match badly against third tier club Remo do Para. 

It was  zero-zero at halftime.

In the second half Flamengo turned it around.  Williams and Emerson found the back of net to give Flamengo the 2-0 win over Remo.

Whew that was close.

In Copa Libertadores action Cruzeiro is losing to Estundiantes La Plata (Argentina) 3-0. This is bad.

Brasil and Argentina hate each other when it comes to futebol.

Guess what? Estundiantes just scored again to make it 4-0.

This is getting way out of hand. I can hear the screams all the way from Minas Gerais.

Stick a fork in em. Cruzeiro lost 4-0. Let the crying begin in Minas Gerais.