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Libertadores: Racing won at The Centenario

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:59

Racing continues to surprise in the Copa Libertadores. After qualifying before Junior de Barranquilla and putting on the ropes to Corinthians in Brazil, Sayago’s team beat Cerro Porteño, Paraguay’s football leader. Racing won 2 to 1 Cerro Porteño in the Centenario Stadium in a game completely dominated that could have ended up with an even wider advantage. Racing won with authority on the Centenario.
The first half ended with a Racing that played better, and deserved to increase their score. The Paraguayan team could not reach clearly and had the goalkeeper Barreto figure who avoided several times the fall of his bow. To complement Racing came four minutes later on the field, but warned the first minute through Mirabaje, which again blew goalkeeper Barreto.
When it seemed that Racing was close to 3 to 0, Caceres became very lonely through the right and put the visiting team, who despite being down to ten men continued to fight, 2 to 1 to 83 'minutes of play run.
The following minutes Racing attempted to avoid the fall of his bow and they did. The game ended 2 to 1, the Sayago team met their first points in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, and still stomping internationally.

(www.elpais.com.uy and www.montevideo.com.uy, March 10, 2010)

Trouville and Union Won

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 07:56

Trouville surprised everyone, they beat Sporting 93 to 79 and got one to zero in the series. At the game, Trouville defeated Defensor Sporting, with authority. The team of Camiña did not even remember the days of training, maximum concentration achieved in the second half and rolled to an unknown Sporting.
In a neighborhood classic, Union Atletica beat Malvin from 89 to 82 and were left tie one to one. Union beat Malvin, and matched well the series. While Lopez team went on the defensive end thanks to an outstanding job by Marcelo Bouzout from the UA, which handled differences of up to 17 points in the third quarter, closed coldly.
Panchi Barrera led the team with criteria and put a key triple to settle the match. Juan Pablo Silveira was the figure of Union. In Malvin came fifth in the third quarter and the closing Braggs felt it. In addition, Fernando Martinez was injured, who came in to play the final 50 seconds with physical inferiority.

(www.180.com.uy, March 9, 2010)

Peñarol Thrashed and Continues “Express”

Monday, 08 March 2010 08:50

With three goals from Antonio Pacheco, one of Dario Rodriguez and one from the Argentine Alejandro Martinucci, Peñarol won 5 to 0 to Cerro Largo at the Estadio Centenario in front of over 40,000 people by the seventh day of the Clausura. With this result, Peñarol keeps the tip of the tournament with perfect score (21 points) in seven games. On Sunday morning Cerrito won 2 to 0 to Defensor, and in the afternoon River defeated, with the same result, Atenas in San Carlos.

(www.observa.com.uy, March 8, 2010)

Atenas suspended for 1 year

Friday, 05 March 2010 09:23

The sentencing court suspended Atenas membership for a year. The body member Hebe Martinez Burle, said the decision was reached by the repetition of incidents throughout the season and that the situation was made worse because "there were penalties on players and leaders." The ruling was announced by League President, Pablo Martinez, who was in the Uruguayan Basketball Federation. Members of the sentencing court took the decision unanimously at Martinez Burlé house and notified Martinez.
Atenas can not play but still must meet its obligations to the Federation. So members resolved the sentencing court to suspend the membership of the Atenas team for one year. The move came because of "repeated misconduct" throughout the year. The institution had four record weighed at the time of the resolution. During the League, Atenas was uneventful with Union Atletica twice, before Sayago and Biguá. They are those who have though there were incidents in Atenas - Malvin. For all this, they have been suspended from field for 15 dates.
To make the decision also weighed that players and officials in Atenas have been incidents throughout the season. The player hit Paul Clerici hit Malvin player Torraye Braggs and the delegate Gary Lupinacci kicked him when the U.S. fell to the floor. "There were penalties on players and officials. That weighs. Mims is not that partial to muster a mess that a leader does. "
He ruled that there was provocation on the part of the victim although he noted that even though "there had been provocation the aggression it os not justified." Burlé acknowledged that Martinez called police guard to take the witness statements because Atenas is a hardened box "and feared "not only the fate of members of the court but from the witnesses."

(www.180.com.uy, 5 March 2010)

Competitions Shall be Conducted Under New Conditions

Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:31

In the first cabinet meeting production of this administration, the President, Jose Mujica, said on Wednesday that there will be income of public officials and competitions to be held, albeit under new conditions. According to official sources, the president explained that what he meant last Tuesday was that until they take a decision on what officials want, do not "move" a lot in recruitment.
As for the competitions, said that although they are the "best way" to determine their income, should be more "generic" and not so specific that give rise to suspicion. Mujica discussed the need to improve information on the staffing of the State and asked the Ministry of Labor, the OPP and the Office of Civil Service conduct a mapping of the civil service, to provide information to address the possible reorganization and redistribution.
Beyond these leaks, several new hierarchy clarifications were made in the same direction. One of these was the Labor Minister Eduardo Brenta, who said "We reaffirm the mechanism of competition as a valid mechanism, but we are conscious of the need to deepen this connection, taking as reference a lot of international experience that have allowed other countries around the world improve that area, for example by setting annual periods of income to public administration which allows an overall assessment by the state of their needs for human resources "
The details emerged on Wednesday were received positively by the Confederation of State Employees (COFE), explained its general secretary, Joselo Lopez. "Somehow productive cabinet has come to claim back not only the contest but admission to the public that Mujica had apparently closed yesterday and we said that by way of the facts would clearly not be sustained because many workers in the state that are on the verge of leaving because of age, by the scheme "

(www.espectador.com, 4 March 2010)