It was a first-half injury that took out the 27-year-old Guadalajara native in the Mexicans' final tune-up match before the biennial North American regional championship tournament that begins next week.The injury took place when Hernandez was fouled from behind by Honduran defender Brayan Beckelesas he went to play the ball and fell awkwardly onto his right arm and shoulder.
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Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold thefirst World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing.[44] The next two World Cups were both held in Europe. The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[45]
Since the 1958 FIFA World Cup, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern of alternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the only tournament with multiple hosts.[46]South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in 2010. The 2014 FIFA World Cup is hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since Argentina 1978,[47]and is the first occasion where consecutive World Cups are held outside Europe. Born in Los Mochis, a town in the North Western part of Mexico, Omar Bravo got his real contact with Soccer when he was 5 years old and Mexico hosted the 1986 World Cup. The Mexican national team made a great World Cup then, managing to equal their 1970 performance of going through to the quarter finals and soccer started becoming very popular amongst children in Mexico.
Omar Bravo Tordecillas was no different and he combined his passion for soccer with another sport he loved, boxing. He was an amateur boxer for a while and many believe that many of his qualities as a soccer player derive from the fact that he boxed in his youth. http://www.soccer-fans-info.com/omar-bravo.html In 2011, Ronaldinho returned to Brazil to play for Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. The relationship between the club and its most prominent player got off to a great start when Flamengo won the 2011 Campeonato Carioca, but things turned sour by the following season. Ronaldinho missed several practices and performed indifferently in games, and eventually had his contract terminated due to unpaid wages. Ronaldinho signed with Atlético Mineiro in June 2012, a move that reignited his dynamic playmaking abilities, and he was given another shot with the national team to make the 2014 World Cup roster.
http://www.biography.com/people/ronaldinho-16636081#personal-life-and-legacy Van Persie made his professional debut for Feyenoord as a 17-year-old and enjoyed immediate success, starting in the 2002 UEFA Cup final victory over Borussia Dortmund. But the left-winger also developed an unfavorable reputation because of his clashes with manager Bert van Marwijk and his teammates. He was shopped to other clubs until England's Arsenal F.C. signed him in 2004.
Converted to a center-forward by Arsenal manager Arsene Wagner, van Persie blossomed into a player known for his dribbling and shooting abilities. He also became a fixture on the Dutch national team, appearing in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and earning Bronze Boot honors as the third-leading scorer at the 2008 European Championship. He was playing for the Dutch side in November 2009 when he tore ligaments in his right ankle, an injury that sidelined him for five months. http://www.biography.com/people/robin-van-persie-21369319 Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña performs as a goalkeeper for AC Ajaccio. He was born on 13 July 1985 in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
Guillermo’s professional career started in his homeland at Сlub América, performing in the Mexican Premier League. The young goalkeeper came from the Football Club Academy and gradually began to appear in the first team. In his first season, Francisco won the championship in 2005 with the Club América. Then Guillermo sustained an injury, and had to contest with the other team goalkeepers to regain his lost position and to continue his football career. Guillermo Ochoa played for América until 2011. He appeared in 239 matches for the club, where he showed high reliability, saving the goals from the rivals’ shoots. The footballer left América in the summer of 2011. There were debates in the media about Ochoa’s probable new club, even before his transfer. They suggested it could be Arsenal, Manchester City, Fulham, and many other leading European football clubs. Guillermo undersigned a three-year deal with Ajaccio in the summer of 2011, playing in the Ligue 1. Ochoa appeared in the starting line-up almost from the first rounds of the new season. The first matches were not very successful, and the club had several defeats. However, the situation improved by December.
On 22 June 1944, the Banco Mercantil e Industrial bank granted a credit to Santiago Bernabéu and Rafael Salgado for the purchase of the land adjacent to the old Estadio Chamartín. On 5 September 1944, architects Manuel Muñoz Monasterio and Luis Alemany Soler were hired and the structure on the site began to give way to the new stadium. On 27 October 1944, construction work on the stadium began.
The Nuevo Estadio Chamartín (English: New Chamartín Stadium) was inaugurated on 14 December 1947 with a match between Real Madrid and the Portuguese side Os Belenenses, which resulted in a 3–1 victory for Los Blancos.[5] The stadium had an initial capacity of 75,145 spectators, 27,645 of which had seats (7,125 covered) and 47,500 for standing fans. Sabino Barinaga was the first player to score in the new stadium. |