Brussels calls for suspension of the Belgium - Portugal

The City of Brussels has asked the Belgian Football Federation canceled the friendly match between Belgium and Portugal to be held next Tuesday, March 29 at the King Baudouin stadium.

City Council's decision comes a day after the terrorist attacks that left 34 dead and over 250 injured in the Belgian capital.

The Belgian selection, concentrated in a hotel near the airport of Zaventem, one of the terrorist targets, and suspended training on Tuesday and has not scheduled any activity in the day today.

The Belgian Football Federation, meanwhile, is waiting to make a decision after meeting with the security services and government.

It is not the first time the combined Belgian has been forced to cancel an event for security reasons. On 17 November, following the attacks in Paris, the party should have faced Belgium and Spain in Brussels was also canceled .

The Portuguese Federation has confirmed that he is in permanent contact with its' Belgian to make a decision on the friendly counterparts.

For now, the Belgium-Portugal is the only friendly match selections has been questioned because of the attacks of Brussels. Wednesday five friendly matches between teams in European territory, and on Thursday nine others, including jostle Italy-Spain of Udine. None of them is in danger of cancellation.

UEFA restates play Euro closed

The attacks in Brussels reopen the debate on the safety of the tournament: "There is a perception of greater risk and less enthusiasm to participate"

Police in the vicinity of Stade de France in Saint Denis - AFP

The bombings in Brussels have relocated safety in focus next European Championship , to be held in France between June 10 and July 10. UEFA issued a statement Tuesday condemning to the action of the terrorists in reaffirming its commitment to putting safety at the center of their plans for the organization of the tournament.

However, hours later, the Italian Giancarlo Abete , vice president of the continental body would back the door to the possibility that certain parties have to play behind closed doors by the terrorist threat: "The Euro is a type of event that no it can be postponed. Not a friendly or an official match isolated that can be canceled or be moved to another date, is not the case. We can not exclude the possibility of playing behind closed doors. "

Speaking to Italian radio station Radio 24 , Abete acknowledged the difficulties by raising a Euro marked in advance for attacks like those in Paris in November or Brussels yesterday: "There is a perception of greater risk and less enthusiasm for participating in a spirit positive".

Delayed or canceled

At the same time, the French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, insisted Tuesday that security levels during Euro will be "extremely high". Manuel Valls also, French Prime Minister, appeared to ensure that there is no risk of cancellation of Euro "Suspend it would be a defeat or delay. t would be a defeat. The terrorist threat is unmatched breadth and means that we provide to fight it must keep up".

The tournament organizers last month announced the hiring of 10,000 security people, including 900 policemen for each of the 51 games scheduled.

Spain debut in the European Championship on June 13 in Toulouse, in the Czech Republic. On June 17 it will face Turkey in Nice and close its participation in the first phase on June 21, in Bordeaux and against Croatia.

The surreal and comic celebration Mitrovic

Newcastle and  Rafa Benitez salvaged a point in the final minutes of the match against Sunderlan. The away side 0-1 at St. James Park away to the Spanish team coach salvation, but 83 minutes Mitrovic found the net to make the agonizing draw. A goal that unleashed the madness in the stadium magpies.

Deliriously Tier several fans jumped into the lawn carried away by joy. Andone of them managed to reach the hero, the goalscorer , to celebrate the tie. However, bad luck or clumsiness turned the celebration into something surreal and comical.

When Aleksandar Mitrovic accepted the embrace of amateur and jumped toward him to merge into joy, spontaneous lost his footing and went to the green , almost as if it were an entry, leaving the scorer hung in the air.

Depues the bump against the grass also hit Mitrovic, the Newcastle player did as if nothing had happened and finally consummated the expected hug with the fan for fun the stands.

Mitrovic y su mítica celebración con un hincha que ingresó a la cancha. Un blooper: pic.twitter.com/fQwVTubORL

— Don Futbol (@DonFutbol_) March 20, 2016

The giant real estate Wanda, tycoon Wang Jianlin, first Chinese partner of FIFA

Chaired by tycoon Wang Jianlin , which is a shareholder of Atletico Madrid, real estate multinational Wanda has become the first Chinese company that is part of the six main partners sponsors of the International Federation of Football Associations ( FIFA ). The agreement, which was presented on Monday in Beijing and will last until 2030, will give this property giant China the same visibility in the World Cup than the other major sponsors: Adidas , Coca-Cola, Visa, Hyundai-Kia and Russian Gazprom.

It also demonstrates the passion of football Wang Jianlin, which last year bought 20 percent of Atletico Madrid for 45 million euros. "Football is the most popular sport because the World Cup has more viewers than the James Olympic " said the businessman, who is the richest man in China with assets of 26,000 million dollars (24,000 million euros). As explained by Wang himself, "Wanda was able to enter one of the largest partners of FIFA for the last cases of corruption, which have led to some of their previous eight major sponsors to withdraw certain leaders as they fell." Within the economic and sporting boom in his country, he moved that "next year there may be two other Chinese companies as partners of FIFA , " but did not disclose which ones.

Meanwhile, David Chung , vice president of FIFA, said that this agreement "is important to grow soccer in China and Asia , " which, being the region's most dynamic and populated the planet, it seems like a juicy cake to which a bite. No one is aware that, after taking the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, FIFA 's next target will be Asia, and particularly China, as a major emerging market to conquer.

In their favor will feature not only with this partnership with the powerful tycoon Wang Jianlin, but also with the support of President of China, Xi Jinping, a renowned forofo that has been proposed revitalize football in his country after corruption scandals they sank into the mud a few years ago.

Besides owning part of the mattress club, Wang Jianlin has the emblematic building of Madrid Spain . 

His intention is to reform for accommodating a hotel, a shopping mall and offices, but its future is unclear for the reform of the facade, which wants to tear down even though the City Council does not allow it to be protected. 

His real estate company was also interested in building in the Madrid area were rumors Camp and even buying holiday resort Marina d'Or , but both projects are still in the air.

source photo: PABLO M. DÍEZCorresponsal En Pekín

Papy Djilobodji threatens a rival to cut his throat

Papy Djilobodji , a powerful central defender who plays for Werder Bremen on loan from Chelsea, is being investigated by the German Federation for an ugly gesture made ​​last Saturday's Bundesliga match against Mainz (1-1) . And the Senegalese, it is not the first time he loses his temper in a field, threatening a rival player to "cut the throat". An image that captured the television cameras and yet not see the referee.

The threat of Djilobodji reached the hour mark after the burly Werder Bremen defender had an affair with Pablo de Blasis. The visiting was pushed from behind by the Senegalese, who finished swatting in the face of his opponent . Visibly angry, the central hit the ball with the foot after referee Manuel Graefe, he pointed the ball and moved away from that point challenging gaze Mainz midfielder, who remained lying on the grass.

As he left the area Djilobodji threatened to De Blasis to perform, with his index finger, the ugly gesture of cutting his throat . An action that did not see the referee, which prevented the player was ejected.

During his time in the French Nantes , Djilobodji already demonstrated that very violent character starring in a set with an opponent that harshly hit in the head with his elbow after keeping scuffle with him in the area.

The rugged welcome a fan to Rafa Benitez

A Mahrez goal gave victory Saturday at Leicester on his visit to Crystal Palace (0-1) and allowed to set Claudio Ranieri stay the course in his career to win the first English league history. A victory could be larger if the match referee, Mike Jones, had designated a penalt i cheeky committed on Robert Huth.

In this type of play, often it resorts to the hackneyed catchphrase of "controversial action , " but in this case the penalty is beyond question because the German Robert Huth was literally stripped of his shirt in a scuffle with Scott Dann, defense the Crystal Palace. An action which came 80 minutes into the match when defender top of the Premier tried to shoot a ball inside the area after a corner.

The premiere of Rafa Benitez on the bench Stadium St James' Park caused great excitement in the fans of Newcastle, a team that struggles to emerge from relegation to the Championship and Sunday was a momentous match against a direct rival, Sunderland . The group trained by Spanish coach, who in his debut a week ago lost during his visit to Leicester (1-0) could not get the equalizer (1-1). A meeting in which many fans rushed to the field with banners supporting extrenador Real Madrid, although one of them did not end well for the match. Television cameras captured the moment when a fan of the "magpies" fell down the stairs while trying to deploy a sheet with a message of encouragement to Benitez.