COPA AMERICA: COLOMBIA VS BOLIVIA

Because of my computer issues, I am not able to save and upload a lot of pics to do a proper spam. But I found that I could upload a few...so I chose some of my favourite pics from yesterday's match and thanks to LJ's Scrapbook feature, I can post them here.

Dayro Moreno hugs Radamel Falcao



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P.S. Clicking on the image will make it bigger. :)

MATIAS ALMEYDA'S FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE AS RIVER PLATE COACH

This post is translated (by Google) from the original at La Pagina Millonaria.

Click on the jumbly link below, then click on the picture of 'Pelado' (his nickname) and you can read the translated interview.

http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.riverplate.com/&ei=yV4bTtbwHcPj0QGA1OykBw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dla%2Bpagina%2Bmillonaria%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DIU3%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsfd

My thoughts so far about the situation:

It feels really strange to have him there as coach instead of player. It's been such an abrupt change, IMO. And he already sounds like a coach, in that he seems to skirt the details and give only the 'official story'. But reading between the lines, I think he genuinely wants this job. I like his ideas of mixing some older, experienced players (like Fernando Cavenaghi and Chori Dominguez) to play alongside the youngsters. He implies in the interview that the young players had too much responsibility on their shoulders last season. And he wants a couple more 'older' players too. Oh, and he won't really talk about the Ariel Ortega situation.

Okay, so before I basically tell you everything he said, you can read for yourselves...and there is a link you can click to see pictures of their training session. (I'd post them myself, except I can't, thanks to not having my desktop PC working anymore.)