Thursday, December 03, 2015

Some Soccer News for Dec 3, 2015

As the FIFA Executive Committee adjourned today in Zurich Switzerland to talk about reform the US Justice Department again descended on FIFA House with arrest warrants in hand and snatched up more high ranking officials!
-In an early morning raid two of the latest arrested are Alfredo Hawit of Honduras + CONCACAF President and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay + CONMEBOL President.
-This brings the total number of people arrested to 30. And others have turned themselves over to law enforcement prior to arrests orders being handed down.
-United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the corruption, "Truly outrageous." She also said, "The scale of corruption alleged is unconscionable. And the message of this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade this ongoing investigation. You will not wait us out and you will not escape our focus."
-It was announced today that former CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb is one of several who has plead guilty to previous charges leveled against him.
-The story of today's arrests in Zurich. by Sam Borden and others of the New York Times.

Burn It Down And Start Over Pt 1: CONCACAF's last 3 Presidents: Jack Warner - arrested! Jeffrey Webb - arrested! And today Alfredo Hawit - arrested!

Burn It Down And Start Over Pt 2: CONMEBOL's last 3 Presidents: Nicolas Leoz - arrested!, Eugenio Figueredo - arrested!, Juan Ángel Napout - arrested!

And somehow the Copa America Centenario still goes on next summer.

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Its official: Minnesota United announces Manny Lagos as Sporting Director, Carl Craig as Head Coach.

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MLS Cup Playoffs
Final
Sun Dec 6
Columbus Crew v Portland Timbers - 3pm CT on ESPN
-Current weather forecast for Sunday kickoff: High 51F. 0% chance of precip. Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Winds light and variable.

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Paraphrasing MLS commissioner Don Garber in a press conference today: MLS is spending more money on academy teams today then they spent on its entire league player budget 5 years ago.

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The powerful Timbers Army and their great tifo machine! By Caitlin Murray of the Guardian.

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One of Dallas' young homegrown stars Kellyn Acosta has signed a new deal with the club.

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Fabian Johnson is really starting to hit his stride at Monchengladbach becoming a key player in the attack in the left midfield role of a 4-4-2. Interview by Kyle McCarthy of Fox Sports.
-In the last month he has scored goals in UEFA Champions League, CONCACAF World Cup qualifying and Bundesliga. Not bad.

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Former Brazil + Arsenal captain/leader Gilberto Silva wonders why the players don't demand a lot more from their home FA and FIFA. He thinks they (and we) sure deserve much better. By Amy Lawrence of the Guardian.

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Jamie Vardy of Leicester City is the current goal scoring sensation of the English Premier League, and he is chasing a major record set in 1932 by Irish striker Jimmy Dunne from Sheffield United, who just happened to be an IRA member. By Conor Neville of Irish website Balls.
-Thanks to Sasha Ryskus for the link.

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Its looking more and more like sometime in the future the World Cup will increase to 40 teams.
-Not a surprise as more teams means more money.

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Liga MX Liguilla Apertura:
Semifinals
-Thu Dec 3
America(6) v Pumas(1)
Tigres(5) v Toluca(2)
-Sun Dec 6 Pumas(1) v America(6)
Toluca(2) v Tigres(5)
-F: Dec 10 + 13
-All rounds are 2 Legs.
-In all proceedng rounds the highest seed left plays the lowest etc.
-In Quarter +Semifinals away goals break ties, no extra time is played, and if still tied they higher seed advances.
-In Final away goals DO NOT break ties, and the game can go to Extra Added Time and a Penalty Kick Shootout if tied.



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