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October 9th, 2011 | 
Author: World Cup qualifying begins for 2014. Jeez I can’t believe it is just around the corner. The 2014 World Cup will be held in Brasil so that means Brasil already is in.
The host nation is guaranteed a spot.
Argentina started off their quest with a convincing 4-1 win over Chile.
Argentinos was led by Lionel Messi.
Messi scored a goal but his mate Gonzalo Higuain hit the triple lotto.
He dialed up the hat trick.
Uruguay doubled up Bolivia 4-2.
Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani each scored a goal while Diego Lugano hit the daily double.
Peru beat Paraguay 2-0.
Ecuador shut out Venezuela 2-0.
The Peruvians win over Paraguay was a real shocker.
The other big news is that Carlos Tevez was not named to the Argentina National team.
Juan Riquelme from Boca Juniors was also left off the squad.
This was only the first match in the long qualifying process but is was good to see Peru beat Paraguay. Peru This Week wrote this about the win-” The Peruvian soccer team defeated Paraguay 2-0 on Friday night.
According to Andina, Peru played in front of more than 45,000 spectators, in what was Peru’s first qualifying match for the FIFA 2014 World Cup.
During the first half of the game, Peru’s attacks were constant but failed to outplay the strong Paraguayan defense.
20 minutes into the match Paraguay began to attack more frequently and created some dangerous situations for Peruvian goalie Raul Fernandez.
Peru scored it’s first goal 2 minutes into the second half, after a play started by Jefferson Farfan, who passed the ball to Guerrero, who managed to pass between two defenders and score.
The second goal came at the 27th minute of the second half, when a pass by Pizarro managed to find Guerrero in front of the goal.
With the win, Peru scored its first three points in South American qualifying round for the FIFA 2014 World Cup.
Peru is attempting to reach the World Cup after a 29-year absence.”
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This past weekend was not a good day at Black Rock for Argentina and Brasil.
The favorites of the Copa America both crashed and burned.
Even though Brasil and Argentina lost this was a tale of two different futebol clubs.
Argentinos played very well while Brasil looked like shit.
There I said it.
Sure Uruguay took the early lead in the 5th minute when Diego Perez found the back of the net on a great shot.
Argentinos answered in the 17th minute.
Messi finally showed signs of why he is the best player in the world.
He didn’t score but his crossing ball set up mate Gonzalo Higuain. All Higuain had to do was deposit the ball into the back of the net.
Yes, the basket counts and a foul.
Then Charruas committed a brain fart in the 39th minute el stupido Diego Perez committed his second offense.
Voce Vai.
My wife said La Albiceleste will win this puppy.
I said No.
Uruguay can win.
The Argentines mounted a furious attack led by Lionel Messi.
Close but no cigar for La Albiceleste.
Great keeping by Nestor Fernando Muslera.
Several of his death defying stops was of the point blank range variety.
Two those were kick saves.
Muslera’s body was going one way and his legs kicked the ball out of harms way.
This cat was the hero of the match.
Then Argentina did the stupid red card trick late in the match when shit for brains Javier Mascherano did a very aggressive tackle in the 87th minute.
120 minutes later it’s PK time baby.
The goat.
Carlos Tevez.
Muslera flat out stopped this cat’s shot.
Game, set and match to Uruguay.
5-4 in PK time.
Tevez wore the choke collar.
Argentina showed promise.
The guys played very well in their last two matches.
Messi played the best he has played all tournament.
You see I will give a guy credit when he deserves it.
Messi played very good.
Peru beat Columbia 2-0.
Batista was asked after the match if he was going to quit-
“I’m not thinking about that. It has never crossed by mind. I have to continue on the job. My job started five or six months ago, and I have to continue with my plans. The important thing is the (2014) World Cup.
“I can’t be happy. One does not like to be eliminated. But I am content with my players.”
He asked by the press if the exit in the quarters was a failure for the club- “It is not a failure because we did all we could to win, and it didn’t happen,” Batista said. “Failure is a strong word. We worked to win but couldn’t do it.”
Charruas coach Oscar Tabarez said-”We’ve managed to reach our first objective, which was to match our results in the last Copa America.”
Últimas Noticias in Uruguay wrote-
El clásico más esperado
| Clásico histórico por el torneo continental más viejo. La Copa América es el escenario de una nueva contienda entre argentinos y uruguayos. Hoy a las 19.15 horas y en Santa Fe, por los Cuartos de final del torneo sudamericano, celestes y albicelestes vuelven a verse las caras en un duelo que comenzó a fines del siglo XIX. Como hace tiempo. |
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Can you say upset city. Peru scored two extra time goals to beat the favored Columbians 2-0.
This was a classic dog day afternoon gunfight at the OK Corral.
Both sides battled tooth and nail throughout this sucker before the Peruvians found the answer in the 101st minute.
Carlos Lation dialed up a bomb from inside the left of the box that flat out beat the keeper Luis Enrique Martinez top shelf left.
Lation deeked right and went left.
His move left the Columbian “D” holding their jock straps.
Way to go garoto.
His mate Juan Manuel Vargas added a another laser shot from just above the PK spot in the 111th minute to seal the deal.
Columbia had a chance to win this baby in regulation but Radamel Falcao Garcia missed a PK in the 65th minute.
Can you say he wore the choke collar on that sucker?
Los Cafeteros should gave won this puppy.
Columbia tied Argentina and on top of that won Group A with seven points.
Peru on the other hand made to the knockout round by the hair of their chinny chin chin.
La Blanquirroja finished third in Group C with four points.
Peru advanced due to having one of the two best third place records.
Up next for Peru in the semifinals is either Argentina or Uruguay.
Both clubs will play later on Saturday.
Peru’s futebol history sucks at best.
La Blanquirroja has played in four World Cups since 1930.
Peru has had a better showing the Copa America.
The Peruvians won their only Copa title in 1975.
Columbia on the other hand has played in four World Cups since they joined FIFA in 1938.
Los Cafeteros has only begun playing in the Copa America for real in 1975.
Columbia won the whole enchilada in 2001.
In 1987, 1993, and 1995 Los Cafeteros finished third.
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What did I tell ya Messi is a wimp. Messi did the whining act. Oh, I am not playing very well so please don’t criticize me. I am the best player in the world yet when it comes to nut cutting time on the world stage I play like a girl.
Please don’t attack me with the truth. Now the idiot head of the Argentina Futebol Association Julio Grondona said this “The solution would be for Messi to say: ‘I will not come any more, I will stay in Spain.”
“What everyone acknowledges is that the Argentines want to put him down. Messi was born in Rosario, he lived and played there, he had growth problems. He followed his path, found a place – Barcelona – and they took care of him as if he was born there.
“And despite this, he said no to Spain because he wanted to play for Argentina. We have to reflect on this.”
This may be tongue and cheek but it’s symptomatic of what is wrong with Argentinos Futebol.
No wonder these guys crap out on the world stage.
Even in this report ESPN wrote below par. Below par my ass.
If you can’t take the heat then stay out of the kitchen fool.
Stay in Spain if you would you want Messi.
Who gives a crap.
You want all the headlines but when you have to step up to the plate and lead you are just like the other ten-cent futebol players. All show and nothing to show for it.
Pele was a man.
He took the crap thrown his way.
The difference between you and Pele is as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Pele burst onto the scene in 1956.
He was eighteen years old and scored a hat trick in the 1956 World Cup semifinals.
Pele followed it up with a daily double in the finals.
Sure Pele has some bad matches but did he ever wine like a little girl.
NO!
The truth has bitten you in the ass.
You are a fake.
You and your buds Carlos Tevez have shown your real character. Tevez said this quote from ESPN- Messi’s team-mate Carlos Tevez has previously said he could quit Argentina because of the pressure placed upon him when playing for his country, but the Barcelona star claimed club and country are two very different things.
Messi did say this- I’ve never been bothered by what they say in the press and I never will be,” Messi said. “I don’t think anyone likes it when they’re whistled and insulted. We’re the first ones who want to do things well.
“It’s a mistake to compare this team to Barcelona. We’ve all been working together at Barcelona for a long time.
“In the national team we’re trying to do something similar, keeping hold of the ball, dictating the rhythm of the game, but you can’t compare the two teams, either as a group or in terms of individuals.”
Okay then prove it you lying sack of crap.
I’m sorry but I get tired of these high priced super stars that think they are above the rest of us.
He is just another crybaby in the long line of professional athletes who want love all the time even when their performance on the pitch sucks.
Thank God Lionel Messi you are not in Philly my hometown.
You would never make it.
If Jesus played a sport the sportswriters and fans would find fault with His performance.
Only two people in Philadelphia sports history have never been booed.
Doctor J and Tommy McDonald.
Grow up you jack wagon Messi.
El Litoral wrote this about Messi-
Messi descartó una futura renuncia a la Selección debido a las críticas
“Vengo a la Selección porque lo siento y siempre quiero jugar”, respondió esta noche Lionel Messi, como rechazo a la especulación por una eventual renuncia futura ante las críticas recibidas en Argentina por su rendimiento diferente al que muestra en Barcelona.
“No es la primera vez que pasa. Lo que digan los medios no me preocupa y no me hará cambiar”, desafió el rosarino, elegido por FIFA como el mejor jugador del mundo las últimas dos temporadas.
El crack de Barcelona admitió, en cambio, que las reprobaciones del público tras los dos primeros partidos de Copa América le habían “dolido” y confió en que “la gente va a estar con la selección” durante la segunda fase.
“Todos nos fuimos mal por cómo se dieron los partidos tanto en La Plata (1-1 con Bolivia) como en Santa Fe (0-0 ante Colombia). Lo que pasó, pasó. Ahora empieza otra Copa”, se esperanzó.
Messi aseguró que las críticas hicieron “más fuerte al grupo” comandado por Sergio Batista y que sus compañeros lo protegieron con “un cariño muy lindo y sano”.
Luego, el delantero campeón olímpico en Beijing 2008 consideró “un error” la comparación entre Argentina y el Barcelona, aunque reconoció “cosas parecidas” en cuanto al deseo de “tener siempre la pelota y llevar el ritmo de los partidos”.
“Pero no se puede comparar ni en lo individual ni en lo grupal. Barcelona es un equipo que trabaja hace mucho tiempo juntos”, diferenció.
Sobre su prestación en el equipo de Batista, Messi aclaró que su posición será “la que el técnico crea conveniente” y aceptó que su rendimiento “fue diferente” cuando se recostó sobre el sector derecho en el último partido ante Costa Rica, que lo tuvo como figura.
Al jugar por el medio (frente a Bolivia y Colombia) no encontraba mucho espacio, en cambio, al salir hacia afuera pude jugar sin tantos rivales alrededor”, explicó.
De todos modos, el jugador de Barcelona expresó su intención de ubicarse “bien en la cancha para ser una opción” en cada ataque del equipo.
De cara a la próxima instancia, el rosarino -campeón mundial sub 20 en Holanda 2005- pronosticó “una final” ante Uruguay, el sábado próximo desde las 19.15 en Colón de Santa Fe.
“Uruguay viene de estar cuarto en el último Mundial (Sudáfrica 2010). Es una selección muy fuerte y tiene delanteros muy peligrosos como (Diego) Forlán, que conocemos muy bien”, expresó.
Por último, Messi señaló a Chile como el equipo que “mejor se clasificó para cuartos de final” y caracterizó al brasileño Neymar como “un grandísimo jugador”.
Télam
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Finally the real Argentina showed up. With lightening quick speed and a furious attack La Albiceleste scored three goals to advance to the next round of the Copa America.
This baby was a must win for Argentinos.
Lose and you go home.
Sergio Aguero led the way by hitting the daily double.
His mate Angel Di Maria added a mark também.
Lionel Messi hasn’t dented the scorebooks yet but he had his paws in the three goals.
Columbia wins Group A with seven points.
Costa Rica still has chance to advance but they have to wait until all the results are in.
Two sides with the third best records will advance as well.
Eight clubs will make to the quarterfinals.
The top two in each group and the next two with the best records will battle it out for the Copa America title.
Head man Sergio Batista shock up the line up. He sat Carlos Tevez and Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Inserted into the starting eleven were Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain, and Di Maria.
This proved to be the winning touch.
Both Aquero and Di Mari scored Argentina’s three goals.
Good move coach.
Maybe this is what the doctor ordered.
Aguero said after the match- “We are really happy. This was like a final. We got the goal, and that is what we were looking for. I’m happy how I played, but it’s for the team. Today it was me scoring.”
Diario La Union wrote this- Aparecieron en el momento justo
El equipo de Batista venció a Costa Rica por 3-0 con una actuación colectiva muy interesante. Gago fue figura y Messi rindió muy bien. Agüero en dos ocasiones y Di María marcaron los goles.
Ya está. Ya pasaron días de turbulencias y nervios. Argentina hizo lo que tenía que hacer ante un debil Costa Rica y ahora empezará una nueva Copa América para el equipo de Batista. Sorprendió el entrenador con el plantel táctico.
Cuando se esperaba un 4-2-1-3, con Messi retrasado, hizo jugar a Agüero por izquierda, Di María más retrasado y Messi por derecha. Y le dio sus frutos.
Movedizos por las puntas, los delanteros le dieron a Argentina las situaciones más claras, muchas de ellas desperdiciadas por Gonzalo Higuaín. Un cabezazo de Burdisso y varios mano a mano que no pudo concretar el ex delantero de River hacían peligrar la retrasada defensa costarricense.
Clarin sports wrote-
Messi iluminó a todos en la noche de Córdoba
“Toma y hacelo”. La noche que Messi enamoró a los cordobeses se la recordará como la de las geniales asistencias. Ante Costa Rica no necesitó retroceder para buscar la pelota. Tuvo en Gago un socio ideal, que se la sirvió en bandeja. Y así las cosas, la beneficiada fue la Selección.
No había arrancado bien la noche para la Pulga. En los tres primeros minutos intentó gambetear a dos costarricenses. No pudo. ¿Sombras santafesinas? Ni ahí. Se volcó sobre la derecha, como en el Barcelona, y comenzó a generar juego. Fue el abanderado de la generosidad. Asistió a Agüero, pero el Kun falló. También se la puso en la cabeza a Higuaín. Y el Pipita no la pudo conectar. Por momentos dio la sensación que solito no podía.
El gol del Kun, en la última acción del primer tiempo, liberó al equipo. Se generaron espacios en el fondo de Costa Rica y la Pulga regaló su mejor repertorio. Exquisita habilitación para una brillante definición del Kun en el 2-0 y genial pase a Di María para el tercero.
Con el pitazo final del peruano Rivera, llegó una nueva ovación para el mejor futbolisa del mundo. La voz del estadio anunció lo obvio. “Messi, el mejor de la noche”. Y está bien.
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First off congrates to the USA women’s team for their come from behind win over Brasil to advance to the semifinals of the Women’s World Cup.
Group play in the Copa America is about end. Columbia took care of Bolivia 2-0. Los Cafeteros is top dog in Group A with seven points.
Columbia will win Group A.
The battle will be for second place.
Argentina will battle Costa Rica to see who will advance to the next round.
Costa Rica is in second place with three points.
A tie will do Argentinos no good.
La Albiceleste must win this sucker.
Argentina has two points.
Venezuela is in the pole position in Group B with four points.
Brasil is in second place with two points.
Paraguay is in third with two points tamben.
Both sides have zero plus minus so this sucker will come down to the final match of group play.
Brasil battles Ecuador while Paraguay takes on Venezuela.
Ecuador has one point.
La Vinotinto has to either win or tie their final match to advance.
Brasil must win out right to advance.
Paraguay has to beat Venezuela to advance. If Los Guaranies ties and Brasil loses Paraguay advances.
If both Paraguay and Brasil tie it will goal down to goal difference.
You gotta love it.
In Group C, both Peru and Chile sit a top the group with four points.
Uruguay is buried in third place with two points.
Mexico is out of it with zero points but the Mexicans can be the spoilers with a win over Uruguay.
Chile takes on Peru.
Either side ties they both should advance but it will come down to goal difference if Uruguay beats Mexico.
The race is on.
Flamenguista for life.
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Argentina is deep crap. With Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, and Ezquiel Lavezzi in your starting line up you should be kicking ass and taking names.
La Albiceleste is stinking the joint out big time.
Only two points in two matches stinks.
One goal in two matches is an abomination.
Sergio Batista was supposed to be the saviour.
He replaced the clown for a coach Diego Maradona.
Under the guidance of Maradona Argentinos barely made it to the world cup.
La Albiceleste made it out of the group play and then flamed out in the quarterfinals.
Are we seeing a repeat of this?
Time will tell.
Lionel Messi is the best player in the world.
On the world stage he barely registers a whimper.
Messi a great club player but when it is nut cutting time he vanishes.
Batista is a former national team player. He played with Maradona on the 1986 World Cup Champions and the 1990 World Cup runner ups.
Sergio Batista earned 39 caps from 1985-1990.
He began managing in 2000 at Bella Vista. He coached Argentinos Juniors 2001-03, Talleres 2003, Argentinos Juniors 2004, Nueva Chicago 2004-05, Godoy Cruz 2007, and the Argentina Under 17 club 2007-10 before being named as the National team coach in 2010.
Is this another one of those former players who is rising to their highest level of incompetence?
This is the Peter Principle at work.
Argentina is coming off a huge nil-nil tie with Columbia on Wednesday in Santa Fe, Argentina.
The local paper torn the club a new rear end after the crappy futebol display on the pitch.
Diario La Union wrote this-
La igualdad y los silbidos en Santa Fe repercutieron en el ánimo del plantel. Messi y Burdisso cruzaron palabras, y ayer entrenaron a puertas cerradas.
Los silbidos de la fría noche santafesina, sumado al mal rendimiento que tuvo en las dos primeras presentaciones en la Copa América, comenzaron a repecutir en el ánimo del plantel del seleccionado.
Y es que en el vestuario, todavía con la adrenalina en el cuerpo, hubo una discusión entre Lionel Messi y Nicolás Burdisso.
Sin embargo, tras el almuerzo de ayer hubo una reunión donde ambos jugadores hablaron y le pidieron disculpas a sus compañeros por la discusión que tuvieron en el vestuario del coqueto estadio de Colón de Santa Fe.
Pero no sólo eso. Para sumarle otro condimento a esta situación que vive el equipo, la selección de Sergio Batista se entrenó a puertas cerradas y sin atención a la prensa, ya que no se realizó la típica conferencia de prensa.
Sin embargo, tres jugadores dialogaron con los periodistas antes del entrenamiento en el predio de Ezeiza.
Uno de esos futbolistas fue Javier Zanetti, quien reclamó “reacción” en el plantel dirigido por Batista para mejorar el juego y lograr la clasificación a los cuartos de final de la competencia continetal.
“Nadie pensaba en un inicio de Copa así. Este grupo tiene que reaccionar. Sabemos que todavía queda un partido para terminar la primera rueda y la clasificación depende de nosotros”, explicó el marcador lateral, que en el último partido jugó por la izquierda.
Además, el futbolista de Inter de Italia sugirió “analizar fríamente todo el planteo del equipo y luego sacar las conclusiones necesarias para seguir mejorando”.
Le apuntan a Batista
Los medios españoles fueron muy críticos con la Selección Argentina, pero no sólo con el equipo sino que también con Lionel Messi.
Sin embargo, para la mayoría de los medios ibéricos, la floja actuación del astro argentino es responsabilidad de Batista.
“Para Messi, jugar en Argentina se ha convertido en un verdadero marrón. Pasar de divertirse y hartarse a ganar y agradar a perderse entre envíos imprecisos, combinaciones erróneas y circulaciones lentas”, remarcó el diario Marca.
The basic jist of this is that Sergio Batista is responsible for the clubs crappy play.
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The Copa America continues play on Monday July 4th. Mexico will battle Chile.
Uruguay battles Peru.
This will be Mexico’s first major testing outside of their comfort zone.
Mexico has an emerging super star Javier Hernandez.
Chicharito has taken the EPL and now CONCACAF by storm. Let’s see how this cat will perform on a bigger stage against some of the worlds best futebol clubs.
The Chileans made the 2010 World Cup.
Los Roja made it to the quarterfinals.
Peru is not a very good futebol side.
Los Blanquirroja has played in four World Cups since it’s inception in 1930.
Peru has had some success in the Copa America.
Los Blanquirroja has won the Copa America twice in 1939 and 1975.
From 1997-2007 Peru finished fourth in 1997 and in 2001, 2004, 2007 they have made it to the quarterfinals.
Uruguay won the first World Cup in 1930. In 1950 the Uruguayans defeated Brasil to win the whole enchelidda.
Uruguay finished fourth in 1954, 1970, and 2010.
In the Copa America, Uruguayans won the Copa America 14 times.
Uruguay won its last crown in 1995.
Argentina has won the 14 times and Brasil has eight titles.
Mexico was runner up twice in 1993 and 2001.
Prior to 1975 only South American countries played in the tourney.
It was called the South American Championship until it was changed to the Copa America in 1975.
Mexico, the USA, Costa Rica, Canada, and Honduras have been invited to play.
Mexico has been playing in the Copa since 1993.
The Mexicans have had some good success in Copa.
Flamenguista for life.
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Argentina had all the swagger. They were playing in their house. Yet the club with the best player in world Lionel Messi came up short.
This cat is huge on the club level and in the Champions League but when Messi steps up on to the world stage he gets stage fright.
Lionel Messi is no Pele.
When it was lights, camera, action time Pele was a star.
Very few athletes can play great when it’s nut-cutting time.
Pele, Joe Montana, and Michael Jordan are the only ones who come to mind.
Yes, Diego Maradona stepped up big in three World Cups but he only came away with one title.
His most memorable World Cup performances are The Hand of God Goal and his dribble drive to the rack through the entire English squad. Nothing but the bottom of the net for Maradona.
These two events took place in the same match.
Until Messi can perform like a king on the world stage he will always be a great club player like his buds the fake Ronaldo-Cristiano Ronaldo.
Choke City when it counts.
Sergio Aquero nailed the close rang bomb in the 75th minute to save Argentinos hides in the sucker.
The match ended one all.
This baby was played in La Plata and the Argentine faith were down right pissed by the way their home town heroes played.
This was a crap performance by one of the best teams in the world.
Consider this La Albicelesta has Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aquero, and Javier Mascherano
This should have been a cakewalk for Argentina.
It wasn’t.
A goal by Edivaldo Rojas Hermoza in the 47th minute gave the Bolivian squad the early 1-nil lead.
It should have been 3-0 but La Albicelesta keeper Sergio German Romero made two point blank saves in the 65th and 74th minutes.
Argentina can thank their lucky stars the Bolivians couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a howitzer.
A tie is good for Bolivia.
Not good for the Argentinos.
Brasileiro UOL put it this way- Goleada e show de Messi e Tevez. A tão sonhada estreia da anfitriã na Copa América não se concretizou. Seus astros foram figuras apagadas, e a Argentina sentiu a pressão de quase duas décadas sem títulos alcançados pelo time principal. Jogando em La Plata, não foi além de um empate por 1 a 1 diante da modesta Bolívia.
Detalhe: o gol dos bolivianos, o primeiro do jogo, foi anotado pelo brasileiro naturalizado Edivaldo Rojas. O vexame argentino só não foi maior graças ao ‘reserva’ Aguero, que salvou uma fraca apresentação dos principais astros do time titular.
Teoricamente, os argentinos tinham tudo para alcançar um resultado positivo. Seu adversário é o pior do continente no ranking da Fifa e não ganhava uma partida na Copa América desde a edição de 1997. À época, sediou o torneio e ficou com a segunda colocação.
Carlos Tevez said this in the Diario HOY- Tevez: “Sabíamos que sería difícil, pero no jugamos bien”
El delantero del seleccionado argentino de fútbol Carlos Tevez advirtió que tanto él como sus compañeros sabían “que iba a ser difícil” el partido ante Bolivia, en la apertura de la Copa América 2011, pero adjudicó el pobre empate 1-1 cosechado al mal rendimiento del equipo nacional.
“Sabíamos que el partido iba a ser difícil y quedó demostrado. Bolivia hizo un gran trabajo. Pero también es verdad que nosotros no jugamos nada bien, sobre todo porque el 1-0 de ellos no lo esperábamos”, dijo el delantero de Manchester City, de Inglaterra, tras el partido en el Estadio Ciudad de La Plata.
“Lo que pasa es que muchos creen que vamos a ganar todos los partidos 5 a 0 y no es así”, agregó.
Del encuentro ante el conjunto boliviano Tevez explicó: “Nos pegaron mucho en la mitad del campo, pero tampoco podemos hacer responsable al árbitro. Igual estamos con confianza. El torneo es largo y hay tiempo para que podamos recuperarnos”.
In plain English you guy’s stunk the joint out. You were not ready to play. If you continue to play like this you will not make it outta the group stage.
Flamenguista for life.
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Another European futebol season is in the books. Man U won the EPL. This gives Sir Alex and the boys a record 19 titles.
Both Man U and Liverpool shared the record for most English division one crowns at 18.
Man U made to the Champions League finals the last three out of four years.
The mighty boys from Old Trafford won one and lost twice.
In 2009 and 2011, the Red Devils lost to the cheaters from Barcelona.
The Catalans have one of the best sides on the planet. Barca made Sir Alex and his chargers look like mere mortals.
When the Catalans won the 2009 title, they had a huge Bullseye on their backs.
They crashed and burned in the quarterfinals in 2009.
Will this happen in 2012 competition?
We will surely find out.
Don’t call me Shirley.
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Have you ever seen a grown man cry?
Barcelona has one of the best players in the world Lionel Messi.
Messi has performed very well in the league play and the Champions League.
Messi needs now to play lights out on the world stage- The World Cup.
Messi isn’t a Pele.
Close but no cigar.
Pele burst onto the world futebol stage in the 1958 World Cup.
All this cat did was have a hat trick in the semifinals.
Pele then turned around nailed a daily double leading Brasil to the world crown.
Pele was 18 years old.
Will Messi reach Pele’s heights?
Only if he can play lights out and lead Argentinos to the title.
Argentina has a top-notch squad.
Messi, Tevez, Martin Palermo, Juan Riquelme, and Maxi Rodriguez are just some of the world-class players Argentinos has.
In the Clausura Godoy Cruz and Gimnasia tied two all.
Tomba has now fallen to third place.
Top dog is Velez Sarsfield with 30 points.
Second place is Lanus is 29 points.
Godoy is third with 28.
Flamenguista for life.
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