Santos congratulates Santa Fe for the title of the Copa Suruga Bank of Japan

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos , today congratulated the club Independiente Santa Fe for the title reached Suruga Bank Cup football which won 1-0 at Kashima Antlers in Japan.

Suruga Bank Cup champion faces the Copa Sudamericana (Santa Fe) and the champion of the league Japanese (Kashima Antlers).

"Let my Santa Fe, champion of the Copa Suruga Bank in Japan! Congratulations to all the fans for new international title," Santos said in his Twitter account.

Osorio Humberto Botello of head , after a cross from Jonathan Gomez , 79 minutes scored the winning goal of the Bogota team, led by Argentine Gustavo Costas .

He stressed the commitment the goalkeeper Robinson Zapata who stopped a penalty ten minutes before the end of the game.

Bogota red team held next August 18th Recopa Sudamericana in which face the champion of the Libertadores 2015, the River Plate of Argentina .

Title Suruga Bank Cup Santa Fe won a prize of $ 200,000.

Argentina and Brazil face is the cross in Round 2

Sunday August 7 the second day of football was played at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Argentina claimed his first win of the tournament, while Brazil is against the ropes again after a goalless draw.

Argentina 2-1 Algeria

Goals from Angel Correa and Calleri served to the first victory for the albiceleste after the disappointment in Portugal . Argentines now hope to continue the streak.

Brazil 0-0 Iraq

Still does not appear Neymar at these Olympics. The crack of Barcelona was unable to lead his team, which has not scored or a goal in the two games and is already on the brink.

Denmark 1-0 South Africa

Victory by the minimum of Danes with both Skov.

Fiji 1-5 Mexico

Mexico ended up beating people, and it had to overcome the initial both Krishna. A poker Erik Gutierrez and other Saicedo both completed the scoring.

Germany 3-3 Republic of Korea

Soreprendente tie 'in extremis' of the Germans. Gnabry a goal in the discount allowed Europeans score a point.

Honduras 1-2 Portugal

Second victory of the Portuguese, who had to overcome much of the initial Honduras.

Japan 2-2 Colombia

The South American team was winning 0-2 but managed to overcome Asians in a few minutes an equalizer.

Sweden 0-1 Nigeria

The African side a suffering but important victory against Sweden was.

Football Groups Olympics Rio 2016

Gerardo Martino look carefully every detail of the ceremony for the draw for the groups of football for the Olympic Games . The memory of the 2014 World Cup does not go unnoticed even one second: in fact, although the competition is in Rio de Janeiro, the game of eleven against eleven will use the armed venues for the World Cup and will be federal. The great figure, although it is not present there, will be Neymar , who will face the media throughout the tournament. Lionel Messi , but his intimates wanted to be confident that will not be heading. Uniting the two figures, shown seated on a chair Ronaldinho, who observes in detail how they will distribute the 16 teams that make up this tournament, where Argentina won gold twice and twice the silver medal:

Group A: Brazil , Iraq, South Africa, Denmark .

Group B: Japan , Nigeria , Sweden, Colombia .

Group C: Mexico , Republic of Korea, Fiji , Germany.

Group D: Argentina, Honduras , Portugal , Algeria.

Argentina debut against Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, at 18, on August 4. He will face Algeria, also in Rio de Janeiro. And against Honduras in Brasilia .

HEADQUARTERS

Although the Olympic Games will be in Rio de Janeiro, the football tournament will be held in six cities a logical question: many teams and games do not come into a city. The seven official stadiums are Brasilia (National Stadium), Belo Horizonte (Mineirao), San Salvador (Arena Fonte Nova), Manaus (Arena Amazonia), São Paulo (Arena of São Paulo) and Rio (Maracana, which will be played the final and Olympic Stadium).

ASSORTED PICKS

In the men 's tournament, will play 16 countries, with the following distribution: Africa (3 places), North America, Central America and the Caribbean (2.5 places), South America (1.5 places), Europe (4 seats) , Asia (3 places), Oceania (1 place) and home country ( Brazil ). There are still four teams qualify.

HOW TO DISPUTE

Club World Cup Schedule: Barca is a third coronation record and fivefold

Like every European representative committed to the Global clubs, the FC Barcelona is the favorite of the edition 2015 will clinch his third crown, which would be a record, and so complete a securities increased fivefold in the year.

Of the eleven editions of this competition bringing together continental champions and that of Japan where it takes place, Barcelona and Corinthians have won two each. In the absence of the Brazilian club, Spaniards, sacred in 2009 and 2011 and appear stronger than ever at the instigation of their attacking trio MSN (Suarez Messi, Neymar), have the opportunity to come off charts.

Barca sign and a five-fold in 2015 after winning the Champions League, La Liga, the King's Cup  (Copa del Rey) and the European Supercup. Only the Spanish Supercup (reverse against Athletic Bilbao) fail him then to tie carton full of six on six possible titles in a calendar year, carried only by the 2009 Barça.

The Catalan club from competing in the semifinals to face Chinese Guangzhou Evergrande, led by renowned Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari and Robinho, the coach and striker.

With the European representative, the other usual finalist comes from South America (4 titles of 11). The Argentine club River Plate will play in the semifinals with the champion of Japan Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

This training DR Congo, driven by the French Patrice Carteron, hopes to repeat its 2010 feat, when she was the first African club champion, and the only one to date to reach the final (defeat against Inter Milan).

Program (in GMT hours):

Dam to the quarterfinals:

Thursday, December 10 (10:45) in Yokohama, Game 1: Sanfrecce Hiroshima (JPN) - Auckland City FC (NZL)

Quarterfinals:

Sunday, 13 December (0700) in Osaka, Game 2: Club America (MEX) - Guangzhou Evergrande FC (CHN) 1-2

Sunday, December 13 (10:30) in Osaka, Game 3: TP Mazembe (COD) - Sanfrecce Hiroshima (JPN) 0-3

Match for 5th place:

Wednesday, December 16 (7:30) in Osaka: Club America (MEX) - TP Mazembe (COD)

Semi-finals:

Wednesday, December 16 (10:30) in Osaka, Game 5: Sanfrecce Hiroshima (JPN) - River Plate (ARG)

Thursday, December 17 (10:30) in Yokohama, Game 6: FC Barcelona (ESP) - Guangzhou Evergrande FC (CHN)

Match for 3rd place:

Sunday, 20 December (0700) in Yokohama: Loser Game 5 - Loser Game 6

Final:

Sunday, December 20 (10:30) in Yokohama: Winner Game 5 - Game 6 winner (Barcelona - River Plate or ... ? :) )

Barca travel to Japan on a plane equipped as a 5 star hotel

The Barcelona depart for Japan to play the World Club Cup in luxury aircraft. This is the spectacular 380 Airbus, owned by Malaysia Airlines. The ship is a kind of five-star hotel with wings. Undoubtedly the hurdle template does not suffer the 13-hour trip that await you on board as incredible aerial machine.

It is the world's largest commercial aircraft, it can accommodate 853 passengers and a length of nearly 73 meters long and 24 high. It can go the distance ...

Five hundred Japanese waited FC Barcelona upon arrival in Japan

FC Barcelona arrived in Tokyo to participate in the Club World Cup in Japan, where he was greeted by five hundred Japanese fans before going to their place of concentration to rest and prepare for the game Thursday.

The plane he was traveling in the blaugrana expedition, from Barcelona, ​​landed at Tokyo's Narita airport at 8:50 local time today (23.50 GMT Sunday) after about 13 hours of flight and 40 minutes late.

Some 530 people received the Catalans with cheers, camera flashes and requests for autographs, and some of them had even spent the night at the airport to see close to their idols, according to a spokesman for the airport said the newspaper "Sports Nippon" .

Messi, Luis Suarez and the injured Neymar caught the attention of Japanese fans, massed behind a large security cordon.

The Catalan delegation, composed of 23 players plus coaches and managers, were then directed to their places of concentration.

The team and the coaching staff will stay in the city of Yokohama (south of Tokyo), where this afternoon held its first training in Japanese land Mitsuzawa Stadium, while the Japanese capital directive will stay.

FC Barcelona will play the Club World Cup semifinal on Thursday against Guangzhou Evergrande Chinese in the International Stadium Yokohama, at 19.30 local time (10.30 GMT).

Scolari: It is not impossible to beat Barcelona

The Brazilian coach of Guangzhou Evergrande - Felipe Scolari has managed to classify yours for the Club World Cup semifinal after winning 2-1 at America in Mexico in the quarterfinals.

"A 90-minute game and really what we wanted, our goal was to be in the semifinals. We do not imñortaba nothing. So I decided to make some changes, even if that meant an increased risk for the team. We risky and it went well" he explained about the match press conference.

He also explained that "I know the team and what it can do. Maybe in another situation would not have risked so much, but this time he has responded very well."

Scolari gave much credit to the victory over the Mexicans and now has his sights to Barcelona : "The Club America is a great team with a great history, but we played well, defended and in the end we got the win. Now we must continue to dream for the forthcoming match against Barcelona. The victory is not impossible. "

Claudio Bravo greets Japan: "We're going for more"

Barcelona received a warm welcome on Monday in his first training in the Mitsuzawa Stadium Yokohama, who was not involved in the injured Neymar to prepare the Club World Cup semifinal on Thursday against Guangzhou Evergrande .

Barca goalkeeper and captain of La Roja Claudio Bravo aims to become the first team to win the competition three times, after lifting the trophy in 2009 and 2011.

After practice players briefly posed with fans and signed autographs, causing the biggest cheers of 200 fans who came. Then the goalkeeper formed in Colo Colo manifested through social networks, greeting Japan and adding "Let's get more !!!".

Buenos Días Yokohama 👍😉😊 #HelloJapan Vamos por más!!! pic.twitter.com/btrJv50txQ

— Claudio Bravo Muñoz (@C1audioBravo) December 14, 2015

Onsite Barca reaches the event table after scoring three consecutive draws, the last Saturday against Deportivo La Coruna (2-2). If he wins the Asian champions in Sunday's final he would meet the winner of the first semifinal, between River Plate and Sanfrecce Hiroshima .

[INSIDE VIEW] FC Barcelona's Japanese adventure - Day 2 https://t.co/kFFn1bBy6e pic.twitter.com/9jMiVe23rl

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 14, 2015

The Japanese government asked Tokyo to pay a quarter of the Olympic Stadium

Zaha Hadid

The Japanese government will assume half the cost of the Olympic stadium for the 2020 Games in Tokyo and wants the city council of the capital contribution a quarter of the budget, amounting to 1,190 million dollars, reported today the public broadcaster NHK.

Strong criticism over its excessive cost led the Japanese executive last August to scrap the original project, designed by architect Zaha Hadid, and reduce the budget of the new stadium nearly half, to 155,000 million yen ($ 1,190 million ).

Construction costs, redesigning and demolition of the previous stage, where the new Olympic venue for 2020 Games will sit, will total 160.000 billion yen (1,230 million euros), according to the Executive encryption.

Of these, the central government will provide 80,000 million yen (615 million euros) and intended contribution Tokyo city a total of 40,000 billion yen (307 million dollars).

The Curta remaining part will be financed through lottery and sports pools.

Tokyo authorities initially refused to take over part of the cost of the original design of the stadium for being "excessive", sparking controversy and subsequent decision of the Executive.

The authorities of the central government and the prefecture of Tokyo have been negotiating how splitting the cost, according to NHK.

In this regard, the Minister responsible for Toshiaki Endo Olympics, will meet next week with the governor of Tokyo, Yoichi Masuzoe, in order to get the input.

The Executive is now open the call to submit new designs for the Olympic stadium, after discarding the original project due to its excessive cost soared to 252,000 million yen (1,837 million euros).

 The capacity of the new stadium was also reduced to 68,000 seats, 80,000 under the huge project of Zaha Hadid.