Today in Football
Posted on | August 20, 2011 | Comments Off
*Shinji Kagawa hit a brace and Keisuke Honda additional another as Japan downed South Korea three- in Sapporo. Gamers wore black armbands in honour of former Japanese global Naoki Matsuda, who died a week ago, and noticed a minute’s silence.
*Tottenham‘s property match with Everton on Saturday has been postponed as the clean-up continues following the riots in London. The north London area was the epicentre of the violence which spread to other English metropolitan areas and pressured an emergency discussion today in the Property of Commons.
*Cesc Fabregas’ transfer to Barcelona appears set to be finalised by the weekend. Arsenal are also negotiating to transfer Samir Nasri to Manchester City, leaving the Gunners 3 weeks to replace their very best two players ahead of the transfer deadline.
*Jack Warner ally Lisle Austin has been banned from football for a yr by FIFA. The CONCACAF official was involved in the insane in-combating in May after Chuck Blazer shopped Warner and Mohamed Bin-Hammam for bribery. Austin ‘fired’ Blazer without having authority, leaving CONCACAF to concern a press statement contradicting its acting president, who was subsequently dismissed. When Austin went to the Bahamian court to get his job back, FIFA isolated him.
*The FIFA U-20 Globe Cup in Colombia has arrived at the quarter-final stage. Cameroon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia and South Korea fell by the wayside in the 2nd round.
QF lineup: Brazil v Spain, Mexico v Colombia, France v Nigeria, Portugal v Argentina
*Jurgen Klinsmann‘s initial game in cost of the USA ended in a 1-one draw with Mexico in front of thirty,000 in Philadelphia, World Champions Spain missing two-one to Italy in Bari and Germany beat Brazil three-2 in Stuttgart.
*UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier – Northern Ireland 4: Faroe Islands
*Worldwide Friendlies (picked final results) -
Italy two:one Spain
Germany 3:two Brazil
Japan 3: South Korea
USA one:one Mexico
France one:one Chile
Ivory Coast 4:three Israel
Norway three: Czech Republic
Portugal five: Luxembourg
Russia one: Serbia
Wales one:2 Australia
Turkey 3: Estonia
Scotland 2:one Denmark
Austria one:two Slovakia
Albania 3:2 Montenegro
Tunisia 4:2 Mali
Belarus one: Bulgaria
Liechtenstein 1:two Switzerland
Poland 1: Georgia
Ukraine :1 Sweden
Eire : Croatia
Honduras two: Venezuela
Costa Rica :2 Ecuador
Senegal :2 Morocco
South Africa three: Burkina Faso
China 1: Jamaica
(c) Sean O’Conor & Soccerphile
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