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Football / For Rocwell The Point Is
« on: March 18, 2005, 03:36:16 PM »
Rocwell,
My point is even doe jabloteh lorse they look like they have an idea.
The warriors losing and they looking hopeless.
They losing against teams that are not the best in the region, they losing against Antigua in friendly, they losing in digicell and in WCQ. Me ent know how you compare teams but they have no way Antigua, Bdos, St kitts or St Vincent better than the shittiest MLS side.
Funny enough your second to last point about past or present national players just confirms a hypothesis I have, if they could look so good when playing for club why when they play for TT they does purge down deyself.
Also the second and most pertinent point is............Lemme spell it out and stop beating round the bush for alyuh who playing blind.........BERTIE ENT HAVE A F!^&king CLUE.
I know you trying hard to find a excuse or defend this warriors team but the fact is they playing shit. I sorry if I get excited by jabloteh....... I see something that I wish was replicated in our national team in all areas. I also see some players who if bertie wasnt in charge woulda be on the national team today.
I just want the TT team do well. if you was in the Jab game you wouldnt of ask them kinda questions and play you looking for answers. Doe try to figure out the jokeyness and mickey mouse that is TT football, just accept and move on. Accept we shitty, accept we making the same mistakes and accept is only prayers or a miracle could get us to Germany in the state we in. I see a brand of ball on Tuesday that look like it could beat side. When last I check TT ent play nuttin that look like it beating anybody period. I play optimist for too long, I does continue hoping but reality set in a lil while now.
Why we cyar have a team chemistry as this side training constantly for over a year now? Why we still have a home core training and when game come no friendly and 9 of the 11 is foreign based who come 2 days before the game. Why do we call back men, who injured, just come orf injury list or who benching for they side, while the men who training hard and giving they all does get leave behind. Why do we have players who cyar cut it be like parasite on the side, go on all tours and never get a sweat. Why do we feel foreign based better than local......when all foreign based were local at some point in time. Only foreigner that worthy of sure pick is Shaka and Dog all the rest we could save airfare and source from PFL. Fellas doe be fooled, the ones who does make side ent the best in TT. Politics keeping plenty of the talent away.
Anyhow we go see in two weeks time how much points we have. Anything less than 4 points and we go get the same headline in the papers............TT now has a mathematical chance of qualification.
But in the interim I go be watching my tv for the Guatemala game and I will be in the Stadium for the Costa rica match, hoping we do something.
My point is even doe jabloteh lorse they look like they have an idea.
The warriors losing and they looking hopeless.
They losing against teams that are not the best in the region, they losing against Antigua in friendly, they losing in digicell and in WCQ. Me ent know how you compare teams but they have no way Antigua, Bdos, St kitts or St Vincent better than the shittiest MLS side.
Funny enough your second to last point about past or present national players just confirms a hypothesis I have, if they could look so good when playing for club why when they play for TT they does purge down deyself.
Also the second and most pertinent point is............Lemme spell it out and stop beating round the bush for alyuh who playing blind.........BERTIE ENT HAVE A F!^&king CLUE.
I know you trying hard to find a excuse or defend this warriors team but the fact is they playing shit. I sorry if I get excited by jabloteh....... I see something that I wish was replicated in our national team in all areas. I also see some players who if bertie wasnt in charge woulda be on the national team today.
I just want the TT team do well. if you was in the Jab game you wouldnt of ask them kinda questions and play you looking for answers. Doe try to figure out the jokeyness and mickey mouse that is TT football, just accept and move on. Accept we shitty, accept we making the same mistakes and accept is only prayers or a miracle could get us to Germany in the state we in. I see a brand of ball on Tuesday that look like it could beat side. When last I check TT ent play nuttin that look like it beating anybody period. I play optimist for too long, I does continue hoping but reality set in a lil while now.
Why we cyar have a team chemistry as this side training constantly for over a year now? Why we still have a home core training and when game come no friendly and 9 of the 11 is foreign based who come 2 days before the game. Why do we call back men, who injured, just come orf injury list or who benching for they side, while the men who training hard and giving they all does get leave behind. Why do we have players who cyar cut it be like parasite on the side, go on all tours and never get a sweat. Why do we feel foreign based better than local......when all foreign based were local at some point in time. Only foreigner that worthy of sure pick is Shaka and Dog all the rest we could save airfare and source from PFL. Fellas doe be fooled, the ones who does make side ent the best in TT. Politics keeping plenty of the talent away.
Anyhow we go see in two weeks time how much points we have. Anything less than 4 points and we go get the same headline in the papers............TT now has a mathematical chance of qualification.
But in the interim I go be watching my tv for the Guatemala game and I will be in the Stadium for the Costa rica match, hoping we do something.
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Football / Express and Guardian Jabloteh reports
« on: March 17, 2005, 07:40:33 PM »
Alright fellas look what the papers saying!
Express report
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=67413546
A NOT so friendly pre-season warm-up match saw three footballers from CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh sent off by referee Ramesh Ramdhan as the visiting New York/New Jersey Metrostars twice rallied from behind to beat the former local champions 3-2 on Tuesday night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
The game was arranged to cement a relationship which began last year when the Metrostars signed Jabloteh forward Cornell Glen. That arrangement resulted in a battle on Tuesday night.
Unable to match the speed and skill of the local players and seemingly willing to appreciate that this was just a preseason match, the Americans were the main instigators of the rough tackling.
And while Referee Ramesh Ramdhan failed to put an end to the rough stuff, it escalated further when the Jabloteh players started to retaliate. Eventually the rough action resulted in an all out brawl in the second half. When the fracas ended, Jabloteh substitute Michael Celestine had received a second yellow card for retaliating in the 71st minute, taking Jabloteh's toll of players sent off to three, following the earlier dismissals of both Trent Noel and Charles Pollard.
Midfielder Noel and Guyanese Pollard, a new signing from North East Stars, were both sent off in the 68th minute.
Charles got the first of two yellow cards when retaliating, after he was the victim of a dangerous tackle imposed on him by Metrostars' Tim Ward. Trent Noel put in an equally rough tackle on one of the Americans to earn a straight red card. And when Pollard put in a wrong word to Ramdhan, he too was sent for an early shower. Celestine, who had received some roughing up earlier, followed two minutes later after he brought down another of the Metrostars and received a second yellow card as well. Ramdhan also dished out cautions to Michael Bradley, Amado Guevara and Sereio Galvanrey of the Metrostars.
Before the dismissals, the teams were balanced 2-2, with Jabloteh looking the
more likely to win. Midfielder Kerry Baptiste gave them a 26th minute lead when sweeping in a crossball which defender Tim Ward failed to clear.
But two minutes later, striker John Wolyniec levelled the scores at 1-1 after banging a rebound past Daurance Williams in the Jabloteh goal. Gilberto Flores had breached Jabloteh's right flank and hit a crisp shot, which Williams parried straight to John Wolyniec in the centre of the penalty area.
A minute into the second session, Jamaican Nicholas Addlery, a new Jabloteh recruit, outpaced the Metrostars backline and slipped the ball under the dive of the Metrostars keeper Zach Wells to put his team into a 2-1 lead. They might well have gone further ahead had substitute Josh Johnson slipped the ball wide to strike partner Devon Mitchell instead of shooting to goal. Instead, the Metrostars broke on the counter-attack through Flores on the right flank and his short pass picked out Wolyniec, who lifted the ball past Williams to level the game at 2-2 in the 61st minute.
Jabloteh turned up the pressure, coming close through Mitchell and Trent Noel, before the sendings off. To add salt to their wounds, substitute Mark Lisi drilled a low, hard shot past Williams from long range in the 86th minute to give the Metrostars a 3-2 lead and victory.
Guardian Report
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports9.html
Forward Mark Lisi and his New York/New Jersey MetroStars teammates capitalised on the sending off of three CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh players to record a come-from-behind 3-2 win.
The match, the second of a double-header at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, was supposed to be a friendly, but from early on it was evident that international referee Ramesh Ramdan would be in for a torrid time and by the end of the 90 minutes Ramdan had dished out eight yellow and three red cards.
Unluckily for Jabloteh, three of their players were the ones who saw red—defender Charles Pollard, midfielder Trent Noel and second-half substitute Michael Celestine.
Despite the fast-paced start to the match, the teams were each limited to one real attempt at goal—Jabloteh through Otis Seaton on the 15-minute mark, and the MetroStars seven minutes later through striker John Wolyniec.
Jabloteh eventually went ahead 1-0 in the 26th minute through an alert Kerry Baptiste, who was one of their best players that night, together with Seaton.
Baptiste fired home a low shot past Wells, after defender Tim Ward failed to clear a Nigel Pierre centre from the left side.
Wolyniec answered with the equaliser just three minutes later, hammering a Gilberto Flores rebound past goalie Daurance Williams. Flores was sent through down the right side by Amado Guevara before Williams denied him.
Sergio Galvin Rey had a chance to give MetroStars the lead on the half-hour mark but his volley from a Wolyniec left-sided centre, was kept out by the feet of Williams.
Two minutes into the second-half, Jabloteh regained the lead when a Pierre flick-on from a right side throw-in just over the half-line, put the ball into the path of Nicholas Addlery, the home team’ speedy Jamaican forward.
Addlery held of the challenge of two retreating defenders and slipped the ball into the far corner of the net for a 2-1 lead.
Jabloteh coach Michael Grayson then made a number of substitutions which seemed to upset the chemistry of his team while the MetroStars coach Bob Bradley also introduced fresh-legs into the match.
Josh Johnson, one of Jabloteh’s substitutes, got the ball into the net in the 57th minute, but the play was ruled off-side.
Wolyniec then almost tied the score for the second time, but his left-footed shot from an acute angle was bravely put around the post for a corner kick by a diving Keyeno Thomas, who needed treatment afterwards for taking the ball on his stomach.
The burly Wolyniec made no mistake with his next chance at goal, as he skilfully glanced an angled pass from Galvan Rey over the outstretched Williams, into the top left of the goal in the 61st minute.
The match then turned extremely physical, with Pollard and Guevara being cautioned in the 73rd minute after a minor scrimmage.
Pollard soon got marching orders for a second offence—a brutal sliding tackle on MetroStars defender Ademir Dos Santos—and he was joined by teammate Trent Noel, who drew the wrath of Ramdan for verbal dissent.
The visitors capitalised on their two-man advantage minutes later as Mark Lisi, a 64th-minute replacement for Michael Bradley, blasted home the match winner from 25 yards, leaving Williams with no chance.
Soon after, a frustrated Celestine picked up his second yellow card, which left Jabloteh to finish the match with eight players.
In the night’s opener, Jabloteh’s Under-16s crushed the national women’s team 9-0.
MetroStars will end their two-match friendly series in Trinidad with a match against VIBE CT 105 W Connection at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella tomorrow from 7 pm.
Teams
MetroStars: Zach Wells, Tim Ward (Chris Corcoran 59th), Carlos Mendes, Jeff Parke, Chris Leitch (Ademir Dos Santos 69th), Amado Guevara capt. (Pierre Bazie 76th), Michael Bradley (Mark Lisi 64th), Gilberto (Tim Regan 45th), Mahktar N'Diaye (Osni Neto 59th), John Wolyniec, Sergio Galvan Rey.
Subs not used: Jason Hernandez, Seth Stammler, Ramon Bailey, TJ Tomasson,
San Juan Jabloteh: Daurance Williams, Charles Pollard, Trent Noel, Keyeno Thomas, Angus Eve (Travis Mulraine 64th), Kerry Baptiste (Michael Celestine 59th), Nicholas Addlery (Josh Johnson 59th), Nigel Daniel (Devin Mitchell 59th), Ansil Elcock, Nigel Pierre, Aurtis Whitley (Nigel Codrington 78th, Marcelle Francois 86th).
Subs not used: Brian James, Vernon Bailey, Dexter Franklyn.
Express report
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=67413546
A NOT so friendly pre-season warm-up match saw three footballers from CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh sent off by referee Ramesh Ramdhan as the visiting New York/New Jersey Metrostars twice rallied from behind to beat the former local champions 3-2 on Tuesday night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
The game was arranged to cement a relationship which began last year when the Metrostars signed Jabloteh forward Cornell Glen. That arrangement resulted in a battle on Tuesday night.
Unable to match the speed and skill of the local players and seemingly willing to appreciate that this was just a preseason match, the Americans were the main instigators of the rough tackling.
And while Referee Ramesh Ramdhan failed to put an end to the rough stuff, it escalated further when the Jabloteh players started to retaliate. Eventually the rough action resulted in an all out brawl in the second half. When the fracas ended, Jabloteh substitute Michael Celestine had received a second yellow card for retaliating in the 71st minute, taking Jabloteh's toll of players sent off to three, following the earlier dismissals of both Trent Noel and Charles Pollard.
Midfielder Noel and Guyanese Pollard, a new signing from North East Stars, were both sent off in the 68th minute.
Charles got the first of two yellow cards when retaliating, after he was the victim of a dangerous tackle imposed on him by Metrostars' Tim Ward. Trent Noel put in an equally rough tackle on one of the Americans to earn a straight red card. And when Pollard put in a wrong word to Ramdhan, he too was sent for an early shower. Celestine, who had received some roughing up earlier, followed two minutes later after he brought down another of the Metrostars and received a second yellow card as well. Ramdhan also dished out cautions to Michael Bradley, Amado Guevara and Sereio Galvanrey of the Metrostars.
Before the dismissals, the teams were balanced 2-2, with Jabloteh looking the
more likely to win. Midfielder Kerry Baptiste gave them a 26th minute lead when sweeping in a crossball which defender Tim Ward failed to clear.
But two minutes later, striker John Wolyniec levelled the scores at 1-1 after banging a rebound past Daurance Williams in the Jabloteh goal. Gilberto Flores had breached Jabloteh's right flank and hit a crisp shot, which Williams parried straight to John Wolyniec in the centre of the penalty area.
A minute into the second session, Jamaican Nicholas Addlery, a new Jabloteh recruit, outpaced the Metrostars backline and slipped the ball under the dive of the Metrostars keeper Zach Wells to put his team into a 2-1 lead. They might well have gone further ahead had substitute Josh Johnson slipped the ball wide to strike partner Devon Mitchell instead of shooting to goal. Instead, the Metrostars broke on the counter-attack through Flores on the right flank and his short pass picked out Wolyniec, who lifted the ball past Williams to level the game at 2-2 in the 61st minute.
Jabloteh turned up the pressure, coming close through Mitchell and Trent Noel, before the sendings off. To add salt to their wounds, substitute Mark Lisi drilled a low, hard shot past Williams from long range in the 86th minute to give the Metrostars a 3-2 lead and victory.
Guardian Report
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports9.html
Forward Mark Lisi and his New York/New Jersey MetroStars teammates capitalised on the sending off of three CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh players to record a come-from-behind 3-2 win.
The match, the second of a double-header at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, was supposed to be a friendly, but from early on it was evident that international referee Ramesh Ramdan would be in for a torrid time and by the end of the 90 minutes Ramdan had dished out eight yellow and three red cards.
Unluckily for Jabloteh, three of their players were the ones who saw red—defender Charles Pollard, midfielder Trent Noel and second-half substitute Michael Celestine.
Despite the fast-paced start to the match, the teams were each limited to one real attempt at goal—Jabloteh through Otis Seaton on the 15-minute mark, and the MetroStars seven minutes later through striker John Wolyniec.
Jabloteh eventually went ahead 1-0 in the 26th minute through an alert Kerry Baptiste, who was one of their best players that night, together with Seaton.
Baptiste fired home a low shot past Wells, after defender Tim Ward failed to clear a Nigel Pierre centre from the left side.
Wolyniec answered with the equaliser just three minutes later, hammering a Gilberto Flores rebound past goalie Daurance Williams. Flores was sent through down the right side by Amado Guevara before Williams denied him.
Sergio Galvin Rey had a chance to give MetroStars the lead on the half-hour mark but his volley from a Wolyniec left-sided centre, was kept out by the feet of Williams.
Two minutes into the second-half, Jabloteh regained the lead when a Pierre flick-on from a right side throw-in just over the half-line, put the ball into the path of Nicholas Addlery, the home team’ speedy Jamaican forward.
Addlery held of the challenge of two retreating defenders and slipped the ball into the far corner of the net for a 2-1 lead.
Jabloteh coach Michael Grayson then made a number of substitutions which seemed to upset the chemistry of his team while the MetroStars coach Bob Bradley also introduced fresh-legs into the match.
Josh Johnson, one of Jabloteh’s substitutes, got the ball into the net in the 57th minute, but the play was ruled off-side.
Wolyniec then almost tied the score for the second time, but his left-footed shot from an acute angle was bravely put around the post for a corner kick by a diving Keyeno Thomas, who needed treatment afterwards for taking the ball on his stomach.
The burly Wolyniec made no mistake with his next chance at goal, as he skilfully glanced an angled pass from Galvan Rey over the outstretched Williams, into the top left of the goal in the 61st minute.
The match then turned extremely physical, with Pollard and Guevara being cautioned in the 73rd minute after a minor scrimmage.
Pollard soon got marching orders for a second offence—a brutal sliding tackle on MetroStars defender Ademir Dos Santos—and he was joined by teammate Trent Noel, who drew the wrath of Ramdan for verbal dissent.
The visitors capitalised on their two-man advantage minutes later as Mark Lisi, a 64th-minute replacement for Michael Bradley, blasted home the match winner from 25 yards, leaving Williams with no chance.
Soon after, a frustrated Celestine picked up his second yellow card, which left Jabloteh to finish the match with eight players.
In the night’s opener, Jabloteh’s Under-16s crushed the national women’s team 9-0.
MetroStars will end their two-match friendly series in Trinidad with a match against VIBE CT 105 W Connection at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella tomorrow from 7 pm.
Teams
MetroStars: Zach Wells, Tim Ward (Chris Corcoran 59th), Carlos Mendes, Jeff Parke, Chris Leitch (Ademir Dos Santos 69th), Amado Guevara capt. (Pierre Bazie 76th), Michael Bradley (Mark Lisi 64th), Gilberto (Tim Regan 45th), Mahktar N'Diaye (Osni Neto 59th), John Wolyniec, Sergio Galvan Rey.
Subs not used: Jason Hernandez, Seth Stammler, Ramon Bailey, TJ Tomasson,
San Juan Jabloteh: Daurance Williams, Charles Pollard, Trent Noel, Keyeno Thomas, Angus Eve (Travis Mulraine 64th), Kerry Baptiste (Michael Celestine 59th), Nicholas Addlery (Josh Johnson 59th), Nigel Daniel (Devin Mitchell 59th), Ansil Elcock, Nigel Pierre, Aurtis Whitley (Nigel Codrington 78th, Marcelle Francois 86th).
Subs not used: Brian James, Vernon Bailey, Dexter Franklyn.
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Football / Jabloteh vs Metrostars report
« on: March 15, 2005, 08:26:47 PM »
Gents,
Well I cyar say this is a report but I will fill you in on some action that took place.
When I left the stadium when they had a small scuffle on the field Jabloteh had 9 men. Metro stars were leading 3-2 and it was non stop action ALL night.
If we are to qualify for Germany all we have to do is let the Jabloteh side put on the national colours and run out.
This team would have won the Copa Caribee with ease and we would have distressed the Americans on Ash wed.
Talk about Speed, tactical awareness, excellent possession, movement off the ball, fitness and most of all skills and aggression, with a real fighting spirit.
I saw it vs Tivoli gardens when they rough them up and manners them but tonight against the metrostars Jabloteh real play ball.
Metrostars took their chances well and the last goal was a real beauty a bullet from 30 yards.
The second item was a man running up the wing and crossing the ball for a player to slot home. I cant remember the first goal.
Jabloteh items were good a deadly cross was swung in and the deender fumbled with led to the jabloteh striker putting it away.
They second item was some neat passes, a long ball sent tru where nigel pierre flicked the ball with a back header unto the fwd who ran away and slotted home.
Jabloteh scored another but it was deemed offside.
This jabloteh squad was firing bullet at the post and there was a header on goal froma cross which came orf a defender. I dont know how it didnt score.
This is the first team to trap and pass accurately, plenty pretty flick and when they have the ball wich was about 70% of the time it was just wave after wave of attack and they look like scoring and they had a clue.
OVERS Stern John and Yorke and put in the jabloteh fwds who have speed and who running.
Nigel daniel have real speed and is the answer for the wingback position. The man was sending accurate pin point bullet crosses over and over with pressure on him, dribbling when necessary and he tackling good. Why he cyar make the squad is anyones guess when the man know what he doing.
Also the most talented midfielder we have right now not on the socawarriors team.......Aurthis whitley/Otis Seaton is the man.
Fellas the man good...he tackling, have a bullet, he moving into space, he have speed and he have beat and skills for days. Bertie and the ttff have to be real chupid to leave this man orf the side.
Even though Jab lorse its because they had 9 men and even still they were running and playing ball. When you watch team playing good ball like Jab you doe mind that they lorse, because you could say its hard luck, the amount of chances that were created and saved and the level of entertainment make you want to watch football.
As for Metrostars.........they didnt have a clue, they were chasing shadows whole game but when they got the fast break they fwds nippy and slot it home when it mattered.
Please TTFF/Bertie......the slow fwds we have ent cutting it. Trap and screen from Yorke and stern and the boom kick from the inefficient wingbacks ent cutting it.
Call back Shaka and Andrews and put in the Jabloteh team. We will make germany easy.
Well I cyar say this is a report but I will fill you in on some action that took place.
When I left the stadium when they had a small scuffle on the field Jabloteh had 9 men. Metro stars were leading 3-2 and it was non stop action ALL night.
If we are to qualify for Germany all we have to do is let the Jabloteh side put on the national colours and run out.
This team would have won the Copa Caribee with ease and we would have distressed the Americans on Ash wed.
Talk about Speed, tactical awareness, excellent possession, movement off the ball, fitness and most of all skills and aggression, with a real fighting spirit.
I saw it vs Tivoli gardens when they rough them up and manners them but tonight against the metrostars Jabloteh real play ball.
Metrostars took their chances well and the last goal was a real beauty a bullet from 30 yards.
The second item was a man running up the wing and crossing the ball for a player to slot home. I cant remember the first goal.
Jabloteh items were good a deadly cross was swung in and the deender fumbled with led to the jabloteh striker putting it away.
They second item was some neat passes, a long ball sent tru where nigel pierre flicked the ball with a back header unto the fwd who ran away and slotted home.
Jabloteh scored another but it was deemed offside.
This jabloteh squad was firing bullet at the post and there was a header on goal froma cross which came orf a defender. I dont know how it didnt score.
This is the first team to trap and pass accurately, plenty pretty flick and when they have the ball wich was about 70% of the time it was just wave after wave of attack and they look like scoring and they had a clue.
OVERS Stern John and Yorke and put in the jabloteh fwds who have speed and who running.
Nigel daniel have real speed and is the answer for the wingback position. The man was sending accurate pin point bullet crosses over and over with pressure on him, dribbling when necessary and he tackling good. Why he cyar make the squad is anyones guess when the man know what he doing.
Also the most talented midfielder we have right now not on the socawarriors team.......Aurthis whitley/Otis Seaton is the man.
Fellas the man good...he tackling, have a bullet, he moving into space, he have speed and he have beat and skills for days. Bertie and the ttff have to be real chupid to leave this man orf the side.
Even though Jab lorse its because they had 9 men and even still they were running and playing ball. When you watch team playing good ball like Jab you doe mind that they lorse, because you could say its hard luck, the amount of chances that were created and saved and the level of entertainment make you want to watch football.
As for Metrostars.........they didnt have a clue, they were chasing shadows whole game but when they got the fast break they fwds nippy and slot it home when it mattered.
Please TTFF/Bertie......the slow fwds we have ent cutting it. Trap and screen from Yorke and stern and the boom kick from the inefficient wingbacks ent cutting it.
Call back Shaka and Andrews and put in the Jabloteh team. We will make germany easy.
485
Football / Costa Rica to play WCQ behind closed doors
« on: March 09, 2005, 10:21:31 PM »
Costa Rica fans banned after violence
SAN JOSE, March 9 (Reuters) - Costa Rica have been fined and ordered to host their next World Cup qualifier behind closed doors after fans rioted following their defeat by Mexico last month, the national federation (Fedefutbol) has said.
World body FIFA fined Costa Rica 20,000 Swiss francs ($17,000) and ordered them to play Panama in the CONCACAF qualifiers behind closed doors at the Saprissa stadium in the capital on March 26, Fedefutbol chairman Hermes Navarro said.
Costa Rica fans threw objects including coins and batteries onto the pitch after Mexico won 2-1, their first win in San Jose in a World Cup qualifier, on February 9.
A Fedefutbol statement on Tuesday said Costa Rica would appeal as they consider the sanctions harsh.
Mexico and the U.S. lead the six-nation CONCACAF final qualifying group with three points each after the first round of matches. The U.S. also won 2-1 at Trinidad & Tobago while Panama drew 0-0 at home against Guatemala.
The top three sides qualify directly for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. The fourth-placed team will play off against an Asian team.
Source:-http://http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=327196&cc=3888
SAN JOSE, March 9 (Reuters) - Costa Rica have been fined and ordered to host their next World Cup qualifier behind closed doors after fans rioted following their defeat by Mexico last month, the national federation (Fedefutbol) has said.
World body FIFA fined Costa Rica 20,000 Swiss francs ($17,000) and ordered them to play Panama in the CONCACAF qualifiers behind closed doors at the Saprissa stadium in the capital on March 26, Fedefutbol chairman Hermes Navarro said.
Costa Rica fans threw objects including coins and batteries onto the pitch after Mexico won 2-1, their first win in San Jose in a World Cup qualifier, on February 9.
A Fedefutbol statement on Tuesday said Costa Rica would appeal as they consider the sanctions harsh.
Mexico and the U.S. lead the six-nation CONCACAF final qualifying group with three points each after the first round of matches. The U.S. also won 2-1 at Trinidad & Tobago while Panama drew 0-0 at home against Guatemala.
The top three sides qualify directly for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. The fourth-placed team will play off against an Asian team.
Source:-http://http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=327196&cc=3888
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Football / Alyuh watch Arsenal pull it orf tomorrow
« on: March 08, 2005, 08:42:28 PM »
It hard but seeing as Chelsea do it today against the mighty Barca...I feel arsenal could pull orf a 2-0 in Highbury.
For the boy-U fans out there....better luck next time.
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Technical Support / How to post pictures?
« on: March 06, 2005, 06:26:41 PM »
With the img src code?