By Eduardo Cano

Italian midfielder Livorno, Piermario Morosini, 25, died after collapsing in the middle game of the second division of the Italian League.

The player arrived dead at the Santo Spirito Hospital of Pescara, who was immediately taken. He suffered a sudden discomfort after 31 minutes of the party that fought for the Pescara and Livorno while he was away from the ball and fell to the grass near the area of ​​your team, according to many reports in the Italian press.

By Lara Holmes

FC Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola, has defended his player Leo Messi to the hilt, ensuring that despite failing the other day a penalty his success rate is spectacular and has assured that, although not at his best, he remains above the other players.

Therefore I do not doubt that Messi is always great. He is very competitive and sometimes he assumes responsibilities that are not his. He has had many experiences, in the good he is still competitive, in the bad he wants to do well. Leo will always play well, he is always scoring goals, otherwise he gives them to others, he said about it.

 

By Lara Holmes

The Arsenal of Argentina advanced to the second phase of the Copa Libertadores-2012 Tuesday with a 1-1 draw with Sport Huancayo in Peru, at a match in the Andean city of Huancayo, due to their 3-0 win in the first leg of last week in Buenos Aires.

The goal of the classification was made by Luciano Leguizamón Arsenal at 86 minutes, while at Huancayo had opened the scoring with Sergio Ibarra at 44 minutes.

By Lara Holmes

The National Team started a new job micro cycle with a view to friendly match against Ecuador on February 29.

The national coach, Luis Fernando Suarez, was with only local players and was happy to meet again with the group.

By Lara Holmes

Carlos Salcido has the clear goal to be the leader of the Mexican table, but he said he did not lose any sleep over the appointment.

After having hesitated to leave the Mexican team to devote himself 100 percent to his club after the World Cup South Africa 2010, Salcido's speech today was on reaching the next World Cup.

By Lara Holmes

Captain Horace Burrell, who finished serving the mandatory three months of his six month ban leveled by FIFA is free to retake the reins of the Jamaica Football Federation.

Burrell was banned along with a number of other Caribbean Football Union officials for apparent violations of the code of ethics connected with the investigation of the cases related to the special meeting of the Caribbean Football Union, CFU held in Trinidad & Tobago on May 10 and 11, 2011.

 

By Lara Holmes

Spain continues to lead the standings. Uruguay, which is in fourth place, is the best placed South American country.

The Spanish football team, current world champion remains at the forefront of the FIFA ranking, according to the standings released Wednesday.

 

By Lara Holmes

Salvadorans Lester White, Edwin Sanchez and Andres Flores continue their journey through the Nordic countries. First it was Denmark, Viborg, and is now in Norway, Stabaek. Then comes Sweden, to close these tests in the cold winter of Europe.

Stabaek is a first division team of Stabaek, who finished tenth in the last tournament of the First Division, involving teams like Rosenborg and Molde.

By Lara Holmes

Jose Manuel de la Torre, the senior team coach, and Luis Fernando Tena, of the Olympic team, on Monday presented their work programs to be developed during 2012, during the meeting of the Operations Committee of the Mexican First Division soccer.

Chepo de la Torre and the Tricolor will begin in June round of CONCACAF qualifying to the World Cup Brazil 2014 and will prepare for this game.

By Lara Holmes

Real Madrid saved itself from a dying end in Mallorca that it never deserved to lose and might even win, but fortune once again teamed up with Mourinho to stop with a beating (1-2). The Portuguese seemed to turn the stars in the final minutes for his team to comeback in a very tense final.

The worst Madrid of the year left standing at the Iberostar Stadium, but during much of the game they did not find the way to reach the opposing goalposts. In the first part it showed a flat and coarse game in which Pepe and Ramos were the builders. The second one they tried to collect all they could attack in the penalty area. The tactic worked again with Mourinho and the risk he ran playing with three defenders and no defensive midfielder paid off.

By Lara Holmes

According to the annual survey by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), the coach of Barcelona is the best, followed by Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho.

Guardiola achieved 201 points in voting by experts from 81 countries from all continents that have participated in the annual edition of this election.

By Lara Holmes

Guatemalan striker Carlos Ruiz, the Fish, trained yesterday with his team, the Red Sharks of Veracruz and is now ready to receive the Pumas from Morelos on Saturday at 1600 hours in the stadium Luis Pirata Harbour Bridge, in the beginning of the Clausura 2012 tournament.

The Veracruz will look in this tournament, to reach final stages and finally be in the fight for the coveted promotion to dispute the Mexican First Division of soccer.

By Lara Holmes

The Mestalla stadium in Valencia on Thursday saw the fourth edition of Champions for Africa where more than 40,000 people supported the cause of a charity event that took many familiar faces among footballers and celebrities to raise funds to alleviate the situation of severe famine for millions of people in the Horn of Africa.

Up to 28 goals (14-14), shared jointly between the two teams meeting, the Champions team and African United, could be seen that night and in full color in the area of ​​Valencia.

 

By Lara Holmes

Liverpool striker, Uruguay's Luis Suarez, will not play a game and must pay a U.S. $31,000 fine. He also has an eight-game suspension for alleged racist insults.

Luis Suarez was handed again a one-match ban and a fine of 20,000 pounds (31,000 dollars) for showing the middle finger of his left hand to the fans of Fulham, as announced by the British Football Association.

By Lara Holmes

AC Milan have declared their meeting with Manchester City over a deal for Carlos Tevez a success.

Officials from both clubs met on Thursday to try and reach an agreement over a move for the unsettled Argentinean during the January transfer window.

 

By Lara Holmes

A theme that never ends. The deplorable conditions presented at the Armando Dely Valdes Stadium, football in the province of Colon in Panama for the Clausura 2012 season of the LPF, is in danger.

And that is due to the poor condition of the stadium, home of the Arabe Unido and Colon C-3, will remain, for the umpteenth time, a risk for the practice and enjoyment of football.

By Lara Holmes

Barcelona and Santos, and with them their stars Lionel Messi and Neymar, on Sunday will provide the Club World Cup dream final for the organizers and the Japanese fans, who will see a real duel at the summit between the two favorites.

Barcelona met in Yokohama on Thursday and easily passed Al Sadd (4-0) Cathari in the semifinals, advancing to the final where Santos and Neymar expected and who had defeated Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 on Wednesday at Toyota.

 

By Lara Holmes

After acknowledging his error of getting himself expelled from the last game of the regular season against Pachuca, the goalkeeper for Guadalajara Luis Ernesto Michel, was fined 380,000 pesos (about $28,000) that at a proposal from his board became donation, he explained.

I agreed with George, with Angelica and devoted it to this institution that is in favor of non-violence, at Chivas I have learned that a hug a gift of gloves can change the life of a child to a young man, going to campaigning to talk with them, make them aware of how this situation, when I found myself back in Colombia I knew myself and it was good, now I want to do what I have done and what comes forward and is nothing but a little change of direction.

By Lara Holmes

The Copa Libertadores 2012 was raffled off on Friday in Paraguay, at the headquarters of CONMEBOL. And only the Argentinean soccer team of Velez Sarsfield already knows what its location in the groups is, because they won the 2011 Clausura tournament that will integrate the 7, while if the champion is Boca they will go to 4.

Velez came to be the champion of the Clausura and already has two of the three rivals: Defensor Sporting of Uruguay and Chivas of Mexico. The other will be the best in Ecuador. While it seems certain that Boca will go to Group 4 and so far would have to rival Zamora of Venezuela, the fourth Brazilian team and possibly another Argentinean one, if they win the first phase.

By Lara Holmes

Messi has to play by decree and not because Guardiola says so. He never tires, regardless of where he comes from and where he goes, fans and the fans cannot stop looking at him in the stadium and on television, always enthralled, waiting for the last goal of La Pulga.

Messi has 15 in the league, 14 in the Camp Nou, very well done for the most part. No more dignified profession of football is there than Messi. He will never be an anonymous player, even simple games like Friday’s, starring many of the core and the new substitution of Villa, half book, half owner.