Sat 29th Nov - I Know It's Over

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Round 17:-
Alianza 1 - 1 Águila

Table:- bold teams qualified italic teams could qualify

1st Águila 34 pts (qualified)
2nd Metapán 28 pts (qualified)
3rd FAS 27 pts
4th Chalatenango 25 pts
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5th Vista Hermosa 24 pts
6th Atlético Balboa 20 pts
7th Luis Angel Firpo 19 pts
== Juventud Independiente 19 pts
9th Alianza 17 pts
10th Nejapa 11 pts

Final Round:.-

Águila v Chalatenago
FAS v Alianza
Balboa v Vista Hermosa
Juve v Metapán
Nejapa v Firpo

Second Division Quarter-Finals 1st Leg

ADI v Santa Tecla Intipu
Atlético Marte v Marte Soyapango Custcatlan
Vendaval v Municipal Limeño Apopa
AFI v Títan Ilobasco


CONCACAF Champions League:-
Houston Dynamo (USA) 1 - 0 Luis Angel Firpo (SLV) How do they get away with those pitch markings in an International Competition?

Quarter Final Clubs:-
Pumas (MEX)
Atlante (MEX)
Santos (MEX)
Cruz Azul (MEX)
Marathon (HON)
Islanders (PUR)
Impact (CAN)
Dynamo (USA)
draw for quarter-finals will be on 10th December 2008 - Next seasons Champions League will see the Pre-Lim First Legs on 28th July 2009

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Monday 24th November - League Round 17 & World Cup Quals Round 3 Game 6

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First Division Round 17
Isidro Metapán 2 - 3 Atlético Balboa
Chalatenango 3 - 1 Nejapa
L.Á. Firpo 0 - 1 Juventud Independiente
Vista Hermosa 1 - 0 C.D. FAS
Alianza 26th Nov Águila

First Division Table - top four go to semi-finals - all played 17 from 18 except * who have played 16 - teams in bold have qualified teams in italics still could

1st Águila 33 pts*
2nd Isidro Metapán 28 pts
3rd C.D. FAS 27 pts
4th Chalatenango 25 pts
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5th Vista Hermosa 24 pts
6th Allético Balboa 20 pts
7th L.Á. Firpo 19 pts
8th Juventud Independiente 19 pts
9th Alianza 16 pts*
10th Nejapa 10 pts

First Division Round 18 - The Final Round - all games Sunday 7th December 2008 at 3pm

Águila v Chalatenango
C.D. FAS v Alianza
Atlético Balboa v Vista Hermosa
Juventud Independiente v Isidro Metapán
Nejapa v L.Á. Firpo

CONCACAF World Cup 2010 Qualification Round 3 - Final Games

Group A
Trinidad & Tobago 3 - 0 Cuba
USA 2 - 0 Guatemala

Final Group A
15 pts - USA
11 pts - Trinidad & Tobago
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5 pts - Guatemala
3 pts - Cuba

Group B
Honduras 1 - 0 México
Jamaica 3 - 0 Canada

Final Group B
12 pts - Honduras
10 pts - México GF 9 GA 6 - GD +3
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10 pts - Jamaica GF 6 GA 6 - GD 0
2 pts - Canada

Group C
El Salvador 1 - 3 Costa Rica
Surinam 1 - 1 Haiti

Final Group C
18 pts - Costa Rica
10 pts - El Salvador
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3 pts - Surinam
2 pts - Haiti

CONCACAF World Cup 2010 Qualifying - Round 4 - The HEXANGONAL - the final round of qualifying - top four teams go to South Africa, and 4th placed team plays off against 5th placed from CONMEBOL

11th February 2009 - Game 1
El Salvador v Trinidad & Tobago
Costa Rica v Honduras
USA v México

28th March 2009 - Game 2
El Salvador v USA
México v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v Honduras

1st April 2009 - Game 3
Costa Rica v El Salvador
USA v Trinidad & Tobago
Honduras v México

3rd June 2009 - Game 5
Costa Rica v USA

6th June 2009 - Game 4
El Salvador v México
Trinidad & Tobago v Costa Rica
USA v Honduras

10th June 2009 - Game 5
Honduras v El Salvador
México v Trinidad & Tobago

12 August 2009 - Game 6
Trinidad & Tobago v El Salvador
Honduras v Costa Rica
México v USA

5th September 2009 - Game 7
USA v El Salvador
Costa Rica v México
Honduras v Trinidad & Tobago

9th September 2009 - Game 8
El Salvador v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v USA
México v Honduras

10th October 2009 - Game 9 - all games played at same time
México v El Salvador
Costa Rica v Trinidad & Tobago
Honduras v USA

14th October 2009 - Game 10 - all games played at same time
El Salvador v Honduras
Trinidad & Tobago v México
USA v Costa Rica

Gigantic - Let's Have a Ball

FAS and El Salvador Captain Alfredo Pacheco shortly after breaking a "fan"'s nose with a fist to the face.

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League Division One, Rounds 11, 12, 13 & 14 are covered in this podcast.
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Current Table:-
1st Aguila 30 pts
2nd Metapan 24 pts
3rd FAS 23pts
4th Vista Hermosa 21 pts
5th Chalatenango 18pts
6th Firpo 15 pts
== Alianza 15 pts
== Atlético Balboa 15 pts
9th Juventud Indpen. 14 pts
10th Nejapa 10pts

CONCACAF Champions League click on score for video highlights
Last round of group games:-
Group A
DC United 2 - 4 Marathon
Deportivo Saprissa 1 - 0 Cruz Azul
Marathon 2 - 0 Deportivo Saprissa
CD Marathon of Honduras and CD SC Cruz Azul of Mexico go through, Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica and DC United of USA get eliminated.

Group B
CD Luis Angel Firpo 1 - 1 Houston Dynamo
Pumas UNAM 6 - 0 San Francisco FC
Houston Dynamo v CD Luis Angel Firpo - 26th Nov
Pumas UNAM of Mexico go through and San Francisco FC of Panama are eliminated. In the final game the winner goes through, the loser is eliminated. In the case of a draw CD Luis Angel Firpo of El Salvador will go to quarter-finals and Houston Dynamo of USA will be eliminated.

Group C
CD Olimpia 4 - 0 Joe Public FC
Atlante FC 2 - 1 Impact de Montreal
Atlante FC of Mexico and Impact de Montreal of Canada go through to quarter-finals, CD Olimpia of Honduras and Joe Public of Trinidad & Tobago are eliminated.

Group D
Tauro FC 2 - 2 Puerto Rico Islanders
CSD Municipal 4 - 4 Club Santos Laguna
Club Santos Laguna of Mexico and Puerto Rico Islanders of Puerto Rico go through, Tauro FC of Panama and CSD Municipal of Guatemala are eliminated.

The Quarter-Finals:- 24-25-26 February & 3-4-5 March 2009
The Semi-Finals:- 17-18-19 March & 7-8-9 April 2009
The Final:- 21-22-23 April & 28-29-60 April 2009
The winners will represent the North & Central and Caribbean region (CONCACAF) in the FIFA Club World Cup in December 2009, in the United Arab Emirates.

The 2008 World Club Cup will be in Japan between 11th and 21st December 2008, CONCACAF represented by Pachuca of Mexico, and clear favourites this time are Manchester United (ENG) of UEFA. Full list of qualifying clubs.

Diego Vu

In general feelings about golf range from mild indifference to severe hatred but mention the 1985 Ryder Cup and my heart leaps, and I am stirred to my soul. Actually mention any sporting event from 1985 and this seems to occur. News of Kevin Bond’s new role at Spurs brings delicious pangs of a long-forgotten youth, punctuated all too often with the words “Bond, og”.

I fear that I am not the only one suffering from the “English malaise” of nostalgia. It does odd things to us, and leads us to do odd things to the past, not least the sporting past. Whist we in England prefer ours bitter-sweet it seems it translates to an optimistic desire for long lost glories. The heady force of nostalgia must have been wafting through the corridors of the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino recently. The appointment of Diego Maradona as national team coach surely, just surely, owes more to the heart than the head?

And yet the detractors seem to be suffering from this same nostalgia, almost relishing the prospect of an unreliable, unfit Maradona crashing spectacularly, bringing the outrageously gifted Argentinean squad down with him. But Maradona is not what he was. He was consistent and hardworking in making his show, La Noche del Diez, a success; surely he will work still harder for the striped shirt he loves.

Once more gripped by nostalgia I think back to other Great Players and how they have fared wearing the sheepskin. Most have tried, from Sir Stan to Ruud Gullit through Johan Cruyff, but few have taken on a national team, and generally only after successful club management, such as Hugo Sánchez. Fewer still have managed on all five continents as did Ferenc Puskás.

The Germans have seemed happy to place former great players at the helm – even without any managerial experience (indeed five of their eleven National Managers have been novices, with mixed results; Englishman Fred Pentland displayed a great awareness of world events by taking up the post in 1914, shortly to be interned as a POW). The AFA, I am sure, would like to cite der Kaiser. Twice did Beckenbauer the manager reach the World Cup final; twice against a Maradona-led Argentina. Can el Pibe match the German’s unique record of winning the World Cup as player and manager? Who can tell, but the symmetry would be greatly enjoyed by us nostalgics.