joi, 28 aprilie 2016

Atletico takes the first step towards Bayern

They say that history owes an Atletico and possibly started to collect from the Calderon won a great match thanks to a work of art Saul and could sentence with another of Torres . But Bayern, which claimed two penalties, and crashed to Oblak and sticks, will make him suffer at the Allianz Arena.

If against Barca, Atletico went outside to wait, crouching in their field, as if he feared Messi and company, against Bayern did the opposite. Simeone began biting and high pressure. Without any fear, inconveniencing ballplayers Guardiola and looking approach Neuer domains.

First they did shyly through Saul Torres, but its intensity was growing as the minutes passed until the eleventh scored off an attack on a goal that certainly is the best of many have seen in this edition of the Champions .

Saul, that pearl that is polishing Simeone with care, dressed Messi. And if a year ago Boateng , this time in the tier Calderon was the victim of Argentina, this time the dam ilicitano turned Alaba , which Pep he had chosen as left central holder sacrificing his darling Kimmich.

Well, after leaving behind Bernat, Thiago and mower Xabi Alonso, Saul seasick Austrian to hip movement to later, when it was almost on his knees , place with a magical touch of his prodigious left foot the ball into the far corner without Neuer could stretch enough to prevent the goal.

A goal that led to ecstasy to Calderon pinching by the wonder he had just witnessed , and against Bayern, led by King Arthur, quickly rebelled. In two minutes, the Chilean first forced Gimenez send a corner a lost ball at the small area that he stalked and then Oblak to clear such a hurry a center, watching the action several times, not really know if he touched first the ball or head of Vidal

But the English Clattenburg did not want problems in the area as demonstrated soon after the 27 minutes when Augusto hit a ball with his arm shot Lahm . Play, play, he came to speak English despite the German ...

Were the worst minutes of Atletico, however, he was about to score the second on the stroke of half an hour. In a counterattack house brand, Griezmann stood alone before Neuer who deflected a corner with a poisoned leg kick.

It was the last before the break, for Saul , he again, empowered Koke at the near post and his shot, very well run, ended up sending Javi Martinez a corner.

But upon returning from the locker room, everything changed. The Bayern forgot the doubts of the first half and lunged for the tie. Based to move the ball quickly and exploit the wings was crushing Atletico defending himself like a scalded cat in your area . Although from outside it came the best chance of Guardiola.

A Alaba still smarting from the genius of Saul pulled a shot from 40 meters hit the crossbar . It was the prelude to an attack on Bayern waterspout, he tried by land, sea and air with extreme overflows, arrivals of Vidal and the titanic struggle of Lewandowski with Gimenez .

But there was no way. So Pep was the first to move the bench and ushered the veteran Ribéry by Coman. Experience and quality for speed and daring. Shortly thereafter, Thomas Muller replaced Thiago. Touch and pasted. And a tactical substitution. Bayern went from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1. All heavy artillery in search of a goal ... that did not come despite occasions (Douglas 70 'and Vidal 73'), but yes that nearly put Atletico.

It would have been the sentence, but the right post spat an exquisite shot with the outside Torres that, again, he made ​​a suit to an overflowing Alaba . Koke, who became the clearance, could not beat Neuer, who stopped his innocent shot back.

Until the end he continued the siege of Bayern, but the score did not move . The eliminitoria be decided in Munich after the first assault between stylists and fajadores who won the latter with ... a goal of fine stylist, that of Saul , who dressed Messi.

This is the preferential option for Saul


Saul Ñíguez has grabbed the attention of everyone after scoring the 1-0 at Atletico - Bayern for the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions League . Internet has been quick to echo this goal that has received many accolades.

Among them, the curious assembly English website 'Joe.co.uk' that have tried 'series Better Call Saul ' to illustrate the image of the young player Atletico . In assembly, referring to the problems of midfield Manchester United ironically to clarify that the solution is to call Saul (Better Call Saul).

Proof of the enormous impact the goal of Saul is that it has become Trending Topic on Twitter with almost 100,000 interactions in just over 20 minutes. Great personalities from the world of football as Gary Lineker has also used this network to surrender to the goal. They have also started the first related memes and assemblies made ​​Saul and his move.

The Atletico Madrid started on the right foot the first game of the semifinals with a real goal of Saul who left most of the defense of Bayern before masterfully set against Manuel Neuer .

Barcelona controlled the author of the goal in the match of the match Champions League between Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich, Saul Ñíguez. The Catalan club has a right of first refusal with Atletico de Madrid during the first part the first leg of this semifinal will be looked to shake off three players Germans and launch a cross shot to beat Neuer.

Barcelona has a preferential right on this player following the transfer of David Villa to colchonero club in 2013. The Barcelona did not cite names in its day but there are two players who are in the same situation as Saul, one of the revelations of this season. One is the midfielder and the other is Javi Manquillo, side which is on loan at Marseille.

Saul has contract until 2020 and if at any time the mattress club receives an offer for the player, Barcelona has the option to match or take her. E n the case you want to sign him, the termination clause is 60 million euros.

Cristiano Ronaldo would have sought a second medical opinion

Cristiano Ronaldo remains the main protagonist of today's Real Madrid after last Tuesday could not play against Manchester City in the first leg of the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League by some physical discomfort.

White club explained after the match at the Etihad stadium, the Portuguese player retired injured last Wednesday against Villarreal in the league, does not suffer any breakage muscle. However, the Portuguese would have come, according to Cadena Ser, the Ruber Clinic in Madrid to undergo an MRI that offers a second opinion of his ailment.

Meanwhile, Zinedine Zidane did not guarantee a news conference that the striker is fit for the second leg on Wednesday 4 was played at the Santiago Bernabeu although it hoped to soon have it.

Cristiano Ronaldo assume a serious risk of injury more important if you dispute the second leg of the semifinals of the Champions League against Manchester City, which will be held next Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu.

The program 'The first touch' of Onda Cero, reports that the Portuguese suffered a tear in the femoral biceps of his right leg , an injury that has prevented him from playing the last two games of the team, against the Lightning and Manchester City.

So today is very difficult for the Portuguese player to act before the City: but if you decide to risk, draining options help Madrid to reach the final, exposed to suffer more breakage.

In such a case, and if Madrid qualifies for the Champions League final (May 28 in Milan), Christian could miss the party , but would have 24 days margin to recover from the semifinal (May 4) and the great Final (May 28).

Olympic torch passes through the refugee camp and Acropolis in Athens

The Olympic torch passed through the refugee camp of Eleonas in Athens, where a disabled swimmer Syrian asylum in Greece carried the flame, and then the Acropolis before ending his tour of Greece today.

Ibrahim al Hussein, 27, who lost half of his right leg during a bombing raid in Syria, toured the Olympic flame refugee camp Eleonas, where 1,620 people live, mainly from Afghanistan, surrounded by a crowd of refugees , television cameras and journalists.

"This is a great honor for me and is dedicated to every Syrian and every Arab who has gone through many difficult situations," he told local media after concluding his tour, "my message to them is that they are not left in the fields refugees do nothing but go after their dreams. "

Al Hussein, who lives in Greece since 2014, when she arrived in an inflatable raft off the coast of Samos, began to practice swimming under the influence of his father from a young age, until he had to leave by the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011 .

Now Al Hussein, with refugee status, a member of the basketball team in wheelchair Marussi, neighbourhood of northern Athens, swimming and trains three times a week with ALMA, a non-profit Greek organization for disabled athletes.

Today Al Hussein nothing the 50 meter freestyle in 28 seconds, three seconds off his personal best before the bombing that took his leg.

Eleonas After passing the torch continued its journey to the center of Athens, via the central Syntagma Square outside parliament, and from there to the Acropolis, where an act against the Parthenon was done.

The torch began its journey after the lighting ceremony in Olympia, by several points of Greek geography, a journey that lasts six days and ends today at the stadium Panathinaicó, home of the Athens Games of 1896, of which the 120th anniversary this year is met.

The flame first visited the Ionian island of Zakynthos then stopover different cities and archaeological sites in the Peloponnese peninsula, from where he went to Igoumenitsa port of the west coast, and from there sailed to the island of Corfu, after which he swept the shores of lake Ioannina in the hands of Yurkas Seitaridis, former player of the national team of Greek football.

Latest cities he visited the torch before reaching the capital were Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, Kavala and Marathon.

Tomorrow the Olympic torch will make its last trip through Greece, from where he will travel to Switzerland before flying to Brazil , host of the Olympic Games, which will start on August 5th with the opening ceremony at the Maracana country.

Iker Martinez and Julia Rita not compete in Hyeres

Echavarri and Pacheco to Rio


The Spanish duo Iker Martinez and Julia Rita not start today the competition in the Nacra 17 class World Cup Hyères (France) with what the couple Fernando Echavarri / Tara Pacheco which itself competes, will represent Spain in the class at the Olympic Games river.

Although the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation (RFEV) not confirmed until next Monday, the decision of Iker Martinez and Julia Rita not to compete, although until the day before enrollment was on the list of competitors, leaving the free way to cntabro Fernando Echavarri and the Canary Tara Pacheco.

The decision not to be in Hyères Martinez / Rita was predictable, though not justifiable, after the last day 20 RFEV dismissed the appeal filed by Iker Martinez, who after being addressed, on 11 February, a rival in the second day of the first round of Olympic selection of the three designated by the director of Olympic preparation, Toni Ripoll, World class in Clearwater (Florida), suffered a broken calf and the internal lateral ligament of the left knee, he was forced to a low minimum period of 40 days,

This prevented him from competing in the second race, the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma (from March 25 to April 2) and be at a disadvantage scoring against Echavarri / Pacheco, who finished fourth, bringing in the third test, Hyeres World Cup starting today, their chances of qualifying were already remote.

From the outset, the appeal filed by Martinez / Rita hit frontally opposed by rivals around the square, including legal ones. But the straw that broke the camel's back was partially accepted by the Committee Selelccion Olympic RFEV appeal by the santanderino Diego Botín and coruñés Iago Lopez Marra about the selection of the brothers from Asturias Federico and Arturo Alonso for class 49er. in Rio.

This acceptance led to the federal decision, the 25th, to establish a single race for the final classification: Delta Lloyd Regatt of Medemlbik (Netherlands) from 24 to 28 May.

On its Facebook, Iker Martinez wrote: "On day 21, 08:30 am I get an email from the presidency of the RFEV where the judgment confirms that my appeal was dismissed but there is no resolution, good, nobody gives explanations to our points now, so do not really know where we are but we have something official. "

"I ponder why I feel so bad, actually I do everything I can to recover and compete as soon as possible, the more I can do, but I realize then that what gives me most pain is to see how my opponents Fernando Echavarri and Tara Pacheco are fighting with your attorney like a scalded cat so we can not run a selection want to go to the Olympics but without running a selection against us. in my opinion, shows little courage. "

"So we put in the press understand that the 49er will have a new selection, which makes it harder yet you can understand how we, we could not run a selection because I suffered an injury caused by a collision of another boat, which was disqualified in the World Cup, we do not have a similar resolution. "

"From there it was impossible to continue the World and selection breakage twin and breakage of internal lateral ligament in his left knee, but I fought to recover as fast as possible and have fought against the lawyer Fernando and Tara to have another opportunity, which appears not coming, "says the Olympic champion.

Also reveals: "It is true, as he tells me so . People that if today Fernando and Tara decide that they want to run a selection and the best man win, he would have That's right , and in fact is what the federation has requested, but not want, on the contrary do their best to block the situation with your lawyer. "

"My opinion is clear, the attitude of little courage to Fernando and Tara until today is not what is needed to achieve Olympic success and how to react in the federation to problems that are either emerging is nothing effective," concludes Iker .

Carolina Marin has a mentality that makes it unbeatable

The president of the Spanish Badminton Federation, David Cabello, was convinced that Carolina Marin may republish this week in La Roche sur Yon (France) the title of European champion and pointed as key the success of Huelva, twice world champion, his "mentality".

"Carolina has a mentality that makes it virtually unbeatable. It is the current champion of Europe and we are convinced they will get re-edit the title," he said on a visit to EFE the leader of the Spanish Badminton Federation, who on Thursday will join the delegation moved to the French town.

David Hair expects the Andalusian can renew the continental "feelings that had to be champion of the world", for the second time last August in Jakarta ( Indonesia ).

For Grenadian, "Carolina Marin results are not the result of chance, although they are certainly exceptional". "Besides having talent is a very hard worker. Stupendously assimilates work and is dedicated in body and soul. What he has done is extraordinary," he said.

The president of the Spanish Badminton Federation expressed confidence that the current European Championship, in which Carolina Marin part as first favorite, mark a turning point in a season that has as its climax the Olympics.

"The last tournaments can not be taken as a reference it to say that being irregular," he analyzed. "It's an Olympic year and the priority championship are the Games," he said.

In Rio de Janeiro, Carolina Marin pursue an unprecedented medal for the Spanish badminton. A milestone for David Cabello, "would be an extraordinary icing for everything he has done." "And if the medal is gold, even better," he explained.

The first place is the goal Huelva arises in La Roche sur Yon, where he hopes to regain the title won two years ago in the Russian city of Kazan (Russia).

The presence on the podium is also the ambitious challenge of the Madrid Beatriz Corrales, sixth head of series.

"He has trained in the last week with a good feeling and, despite having a complex picture, we very much hope that it can join the fight for the medals," said Cabello.

"With renewed strength" after his recent victory in the Holland International, sees the president of the Spanish Badminton Federation Aragonese Pablo Abián.

"I think you can be quartered and then the crossing can be more complex. Once gets one quarter the fight for medals is one step and he's a great competitor. It gives a lot more competition than training and already he has starred in some surprises. Paul can also be in the fight for the medals, "he said.