COPA AMERICA

Puro wrote:

Brian2468 wrote:Ya Please this tourny has shown SAM teams have become followers. Very sad very predictable outcomes for the future. Puro as a loser gambler it is best to feed faith in your odds outside your continent.

Since this team played near you (Toronto) and you're an English immigrant in Canada or so you've told us, what's your impression when Peru's mixed "B and C" team whooped Canada's ass?

Puro wrote:Debbie, check out some photos of our re-inaugurated Estadio Nacional (60,000 capacity) from last night.

http://elcomercio.pe/deportes/944945/noticia-fotos-fiesta-inaugural-remozado-estadio-nacional/1

Some nice steaks photo #10, Alan García (c**t, corrupt, fucko, thief, mason) who is about to leave the presidency on the 28th of July asked El Loco Vargas to walk with him to the middle of the pitch for the play of honor (Perú U-20 vs España U-20), Vargas knows that he's been used so that García isn't jeered by the fans. El Loco decides to walk ahead of the c**t/mason, Guerrero stayed a step behind (photo #5). Vargas is such a character

The game? 0-0 with Spain hitting the post one time. They were the better team, no surprises there. Our team was put together quickly and recently with a mix of Universitario (winner of Copa Libertadores U-20) and Alianza Lima U-20 players.

Brian2468 wrote:
Hey my good man no great achievement beating Canada. Looking forward to seeing Peru in the WC finals hope they get there.
Copa Final was good to watch.....

Rosicky wrote:
Where is the Stadium? In Lima? Where abouts?

Open just in time for Peruvian Independence day i see.

Puro wrote:

Brian2468 wrote:
Hey my good man no great achievement beating Canada. Looking forward to seeing Peru in the WC finals hope they get there.
Copa Final was good to watch.....

I know, it's just that since you were nearer the game I thought I'd ask about your impression. Canada are no powerhouse of course, they're probably around Ukraine's strength or thereabouts.

fcb wrote:Argentina have sacked Batista. So they start over yet again.

TheCrazy58 wrote:Coates (Uruguay) must have English ancestry with a name like that.

Messiah wrote:thank god they have fired him, i hope they take a bit of time to appoint a proper manager

Fey wrote:

As for Argentina, only one man can save them now:

Fey wrote:
As for Argentina, only one man can save them now:

Messiah wrote:It's my fault, and there's no problem if AFA fires me,' Bilardo

Argentina’s National Football Teams Director, Carlos Salvador Bilardo, said that his resignation is available for members of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) in case they want to fire him after yesterday’s noisy exit of coach Sergio Batista.

Bilardo, who took Argentina to two World Cup finals (1986/1990), was harshly criticized by the clubs directors that attended yesterday’s AFA board meeting in which Batista’s fate was ruled as well the reorganization of the local tournament which heads to become a massive 40-team federal tournament as of season 2012/2013.

“I leave the final call on my future to the AFA’s Executive Board,” Bilardo said during his own late-night radio show, and added, “It is my fault. I was the one that proposed all former 1986 world champions to take reins of the national teams.”

Thus, Diego Maradona took charge of the “Albicelestes” back in 2008 until last year’s World Cup. Maradona had former WC champ Héctor Enrique as one of his assistant coaches, while Batista was in charge of the Under-20 team with the help of José Luis Brow.

With the arrival of Batista, 1986 glories Oscar Garré took charge of the Under-17 squad, while Julio Olarticochea did his part with the Under-15 side.

The Under-20 team was not assigned to a 1986 world champion as it is the case of former striker Walter Perazzo, born and raised in Colombia, who was appointed in January this year after being one of Batista’s assistant during his stay with the youth squad.

Argentina have gone 18 years without a major title since their last Copa América victory in 1993 and the youth programme led by former coach Néstor Pekerman that reaped five world under-20 titles between 1995 and 2007 was dismantled.

Puro wrote:South America's "big four" Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú.

Puro wrote:

South America's "big four" Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú.

Effenberg wrote:

Puro wrote:

South America's "big four" Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú.

debaser wrote:

Puro wrote:South America's "big four" Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú.

If that's the Fab 4, Peru are the very much the Ringo Starr.

Stadium looks nice. I'm sure Ringo had a nice drumkit too

Sabella named new Argentina coach

Alejandro Sabella has been named Argentina's new coach to replace Sergio Batista.

Sabella, 56, coached Estudiantes to the Copa Libertadores and had been due to take charge of Al-Jazira in the United Arab Emirates before Batista's exit, which was prompted by a disappointing Copa America showing.

Jose Luis Meiszner, the general secretary of the Argentine Football Association, told Telam: "The decision has been taken. Sabella is the choice."

Sabella will be instructed to make a success of one of world football's most talented squads, where he will be able to pick from the likes of Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria, amongst others.