Wow aguila have sacked Argentinian Edgardo Malvestiti due to the president thinking communication between him and the players have broke down, Ever since Pedro Arieta iglesias has taken over the running of the club from his father, they have been various weird decision (such as sackin Ramon Samchez who took Aguila to the final and now Malvestiti despite Aguila leading the competition) and the payment of players not being paid on time. Clearly his lack of skill on running clubs jas been exposed unlike his father who did sack coaches but they were reasonable such as Aguila not making the playoff and not once did i hear aguila players not being paid on time sigh. External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/11/14/aguila-anuncia-el-despido-de-malvestiti This season has been atrocious and I give it an F in mostly everything (i will do every category once a week) 1) Players and coaches not being paid: (only four clubs have been able to pay their players and staff on time and with no problem and report of players striking or news on late payment: these are Alianza, Limeno, Metapan and Santa Tecla) worst offenders are pasaquina (four months of salary yet to be paid) and FAS (2 months)
Round 20 Results Pasaquina 1-2 Isidro Metapan (Pasaquina goalscorer: Jose Lezcano 70 min; Metapan goalscorers: Romeo Parkes 44 min and Jose Pena 66 min) Highlights: Santa Tecla 2-1 Dragon (Santa Tecla goalscorers: Lestor Blanco 72 min and Marlon Cornejo 84 min; Dragon goalscorer: Gustavo Lopez 59 min) Highlight: Chalatenango 0-2 Aguila (Aguila goalscorers: Joel Ortega own goal 26 min and Ignacio Flores 29 min) highlights: Firpo 0-1 Sonsonate (Sonsonate goalscorer: Adan Reyes 71 min) highlight: FAS 1-2 Municipal Limeno (FAS goalscorer: Jorge Moran 1 min; Limeno goalscorers: Carlos Zuniga 10 min and Carlos del Giorno 67 min) Highlight: Alianza 2-0 UES (Alianza goalscorers: Rodolfo Zelaya 26 min and Rodrigo Rivera 73 min) Highlight:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7oBUwo47JQ Teams qualified to the final series: Aguila, Sonsonate, Santa Tecla, Alianza Teams eliminated: Chalatenango, UES, Dragon
Round 21 Results Dragon 1-2 Chalatenango (Dragon goalscorer: Axel Lopez 28 min; Chalatenango goalscorers: Manuel Otero 46 min and Rodrigo Cubilla 48 min) highlights: Alianza 1-2 Aguila (Alianza goalscorer: Oscar Guerrero 43 min; Aguila goalscorers: Ronald Torres 44 min and Fabricio Silva 66 min) highlight: UES 1-2 Luis Angel Firpo (UES goalscorer: Oscar Menjivar 48 min; Firpo goalscorers: William Mancia 59 min and 66 min) Highlight: Sonsonate 4-1 Pasaquina (Sonsonate goalscorers: Ze Paulo 18 min, Ricardo Ulloa 47 min, Elman Rivas 60 min and Ivan Suazo 71 min; Pasaquina goalscorer: Raul Guzman 61 min) highlight: Isidro Metapan 2-1 FAS (Metapan goalscorers: Jose Pena 2 min and Romeo Parkes 43 min; FAS goalscorer: Jose Amaya 90 min) highlights: Municipal Limeno 1-1 Santa Tecla (Limeno goalscorer: Jefferson Viveros 49 min; Santa Tecla goalscorer: Lester Blanco 28 min) Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Gyo91oeCA Qualified: Aguila, Santa Tecla, Sonsonate, Alianza, Isidro Metapan Still yet to qualify: FAS and Limeno (need just one point or Pasaquina/Firpo not to get three points), Firpo (need a win just secure playoff as they have a better for and against), Pasaquina (need a win and Firpo to draw or lose their final game). Eliminated :Chalatenango, Dragon, UES
Round 22 Results Luis Angel Firpo 0-4 Alianza (Alianza goalscorers: Juan Carlos Portillo 46 min, Óscar Cerén 72 min, Oscar Guerrero 82 min and 85 min) Highlight: FAS 0-3 Sonsonate (Sonsonate goalscorers: Rafael Burgos 19 min, Moises Mejia 36 min, Elman Rivas 83 min) highlight: Santa Tecla 2-1 Isidro Metapan (Santa tecla goalscorers: Sebastian Abreu 15 min and 25 min; Metapan goalscorer:Gerardo Guirola 90 min) highlight: Chalatenango 1-2 Muncipal Limeno (Chalatenango goalscorer: Rodrigo Cubilla 87 min; Limeno goalscorers: Jefferson Viveros 42 min and Zuniga 72 min) Highlights: Aguila 0-0 Dragon Highlights: Pasaquina 0-0 UES highlights: Sonsonsate, aguila, Santa tecla, Alianza, Municipal Limeno, Isdro Metapan, FAS and Pasaquina have all qualified to the final. The quarter Final will line up like this Sonsonate vs Pasaquina Aguila vs FAS Santa Tecla vs Isdro Metapan Alianza vs Muncipal Limeno Jefferson Viveros of Muncipal Limeno has won the golden boat with 13 goals
Quarter final 1st leg results Pasaquina 2-1 Sonsonate (Pasaquina goalscorers: Kevin Sagastizado 50 min and Miguel Solis 81 min;Sonsonate goalscorer: Ricardo Ulloa 4 min) Highlight: FAS 1-1 Aguila (FAS goalscorer: Jairo Henriques 50 min; Aguila goalscorer:Alvaro Lizama 87 min) Highlight: Municipal Limeno 1-2 Alianza (Limeno goalscorer: Christopher Galeas 37 min; Alianza goalscorers: Herbert Sosa 66 min and Alexander Larin 75 min) Highlight: Isidro Metapan 2-2 Santa Tecla (Metapan goalscorers: Romeo Parkes 56 min and Odir Flores 98 min; Santa Tecla goalscorers: Gerson Mayen 18 min and Marlon Cornejo 92 min) highlights: Sorry for the laxk of replay videos, for some strange reason their has been very few uploaded lately
Quarter final 2nd leg results Sonsonate 1-0 Pasaquina (Sonsonate goalscorer: min) Aggregate 2-2 (Sononate progress for being higher on the table) Aguila 2-0 FAS (Aguila goalscorers: min and min) Highlights: Aguila won 3-1 on aggregate Alianza 0-1 Municipal Limeno (Limeno goalscorer: min) Aggregate 2-2 (Alianza progress for being higher on the table) Santa Tecla 1-0 Isidro Metapan (Santa Tecla goalscorer: Gerson Mayen min) Santa Tecla won 3-2 on aggregate Semi Final Fixtures Alianza vs Santa Tecla Aguila vs sonsonate Offseason news Dragon have released all four foreign players, Raúl González, Sergio Cruz, José Antonio Benítez, Edwin Benítez, Gustavo López Salguero, Marcelo Posada and David Sevilla have been put on the transfer list. External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/02/siete-transferibles-en-dragon Hugo Olevar has resigned as pasaquina coach, he still wats to coach in el salvador, my guess all four paraguayans player will leave pasaquina as well External links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/04/ovelar-espera-una-oferta-para-dirigir-en-el-salvador
Shh! Don't mention it if not the Fito brigade will come in and start the crying. Still funny that he doesn't get a campaign to be brought back.
Defintley Agree Benji and Arroyo should be the national team keepers, as both have been so consitent and the ebauty both are young for a goalkeeper defintley can build for the next two world cup campaign when 2022 and 2026 come around Benji will be 36 years old and Arroyo will 34 years old. Thats offcourse we dont have a great keeper come through the rank. Wow massive new Jorge Zarco Rodriguez and Metapan have parted ways, even though he has said FESFUT has not contacted him about the national team job, its strange they have parted since they have been so consistent. External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/06/jorge-zarco-rodriguez-ya-no-sigue-con-el-metapan Hmmm so whats Jorge Zarco Rodriguez likely next destination New coach of Aguila 3/1 New coach of El Salvador 6/1 New coach of Sonsonate (replacing agustin Castillo who been named national team coach) 8/1 New coach of FAS (replacing Osvaldo Escudero who been named national team coach) 10/1 New coach of Santa Tecla (Replacing Ernesto Cortiwho been named national team coach) 10/1 New coach of a fourth division USA team or academy 14/1 new coach of Pasaquina 16/1 Coaching in the segunda division 18/1 Coaching in Guatemala, Nicaragua 22/1 Coaching a junior national team 27/1 new president of FESFUT 10000000000000000000/1 Immigration minister for the new Donal Trump adminstartion 100000000000000000000000000/1 Sigh Metapan, instead of signing Misael Alfaro as the new coach they named him assistant and hored big suprise Roberto Gamarra big sigh External links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/06/misael-alfaro-confirma-su-regreso-al-metapan Giovanny Portillo will continue as Chalatenango coach Externl Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/07/giovanny-portillo-seguira-con-el-chalatenango
Metapan has been doing so well on the coaching front for a while why they would go with Gamarra makes absolutely no sense.
Call it harsh but Gamarra is like a roach he manages to survive despite crap results and blaming everyone but himself similar to Ancheta.
Thats Probably the most honest statement ever, Yes he has won two titles but each of those campaign he was sacked the very next season. What confuses they have three good coaches would made more logical sense William Osorio (Santa Ana native, has coached in the primera division before and was Jorge Rdriguez assistant), Misael Alfaro (Metapan legend and shown with Firpo he can coach a very attacking team) and lastly Paraguayan Hugo Olvear (who has shown to be able to get the best of players escepially young ones).
Semi-Finals Results First Leg Santa Tecla 4-1 Aguila (Santa tecla goalscorers: Sebastian Abreu 16 min, 32 min and 64 min, Marlon Cornejo 56 min; Aguila goalscorer: Jimmy Valoyes 18 min) Highlights: Alianza 0-0 Sonsonate Highlights: Second Leg Aguila 2-0 Santa Tecla (Aguila goalscorers: Jimmy Valoyes 8 min and Ignacio Flores 63 min) Highlights: Santa Tecla progress to the final 4-3 on aggregate Sonsonate 0-4 Alianza (Alianza Goalscorers: Rodolfo Zelaya 22 min, 65 min and 84 min, Alexander Larin 51 min) Highlights: Alianza progress to the final 4-0 on aggregate Grand Final will be between Alianza and Santa Tecla, what are your predictions for the grand final? Do you think the two best teams made the final? Trivia Milton Melendez is fourth Alianza coach to make it to the final, after making the final as a player (Gustaval Faral, Ricardo Sepulveda and Ruben Alonso are the other three) Other news Omar Sevilla is the new coach of Pasaquina External links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/12/sevilla-tomara-las-riendas-del-pasaquina Bladimir Diaz has various offers from el salvador, guatemala and other coutnries. He has been released in Chalatenango External links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/12/bladimir-diaz-tiene-varias-novias Henry Hernandez has eben released by Dragon and They have signed Manuel Gonzales and Ricardo Ulloa External Links:
The most depressing part about these transferable lists at the end of the season is seeing once young promising talent officially become burnt up tossed around pieces in a dead end league. I'm looking at you players like Isidro Gutierrez, Edwin Sanchez, Chino Flores, and some of the players from the u20 Turkey WC roster.
But that has a lot to do with the use of older players. Many players are washed up in the league and are still being used.
Glad to see these guys take it over Alianza. Otro ángulo del gol del título de Sebastián Abreu con @santateclafcpic.twitter.com/UCnAFCv9mt— Cancha EDH (@CanchaEDH) December 18, 2016
Grand Final Alianza 2-3 Santa Tecla (Alianza goalscorer: Alex Larin 48 min and Rodolfo Zelaya 53 min; Santa Tecla goalscorers: Gerson Mayen 45 min, Sebastian Abreu 78 min and 91 min) Highlights: Wow what a grand final that was, the first half was very close and the battle would be in the midfield. when the first goal, suddenly the flood gates open and each side went for it. Santa Tecla showed why they were incredible side, and thats what marquee player is supposed to do not only bring the attention of the footballing public to your club, but adapt to your club style and be that game changer. He worth his weight in goal, just to show how much of a different he has been ..he scored 5 goals in the semis and grand final (and all goals were game changers). but I cannot give enough praise to Gerson Mayen And lester Blanco they were outstanding throughout the year, they linked play well and just went about their work no fuss and I saw a drastic improvement in the game of Lester Blanco (I feel like he should stay under the coaching of Corti). Mayen has to be selected in the nationa team, he has been the most consistent midfielder in the primera divisiom along with Herbert Sosa. Alianza defensive frailties finally showed again both defenders fell asleep in marking Abreuand just struggled when any attack went in the box. You could tell that put Arroyo off, who didn't trust his defence and that second goal was due his lack of faith in his defence by coming out and realising that his defence had fallen asleep. Primera Division look what happens when we get coaches with fresh ideas and arent the same bunch of idiots like Gamarra, Ancheta and co. Melendez has ended his coaching regime of Alianza and will go back to being sports director of Alianza, canditates to replace Jorge Zarco Rodriguez. External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/19/alianza-ya-tiene-candidato-para-suplir-al-tigana
My tips for the season My top 8 in no particular order: Alianza ✔ , Aguila ✔, Metapan ✔, Santa Tecla ✔, Sonsonate ✔, UES x and Firpo (haha forgot to add a eight team haha the three other teams were Limeno, Pasaquina and FAS) Champions: Alianza x (damn so close, finished runners up) First coach sacked: Hugo Olevar x (failed he rode out with his contract, Topscorer: Walter Vasquez, William Reyes and Bladimir Diaz x stunningly it was colombian Jefferson Viveros of municipal limeno Goalkeeper of the tournament: Joel Almeida x nope benji villalobos had a great tournment earning him a recall to the national team Best Foreign Player: Colombian Carlos Hidalgo x a tie between uruguayans sebastian Abreu and Nicols Fagundez Best domestic player: Edwin Sanchez x damn he didnt ive up to the hype, defintley has to Gerson Mayen Most improved team: Sonsonate ✔ finished first defintley a massive improvement. Biggest downfall: Dragon ✔ (called it losing all the players that won you a championship, concacaf commitment, sacking omar seville, hiring ancheta and hernandez were the perfect recipe, i saw thwe writing on the wall) bottom two: Limeno and Pasaquina x (fail both made the final, bottom two Dragon and UES) Team with highest average attendance: Alianza ✔ Team with the worst average attendance: Metapan x Dragon had the lowest attendance due to laying in Limeno home ground Final scorecard 8 out of 20, puch these are alway so hard to predict at the start of the season lol
After seeing the final again on youtube (shoutout to pepsinono!) I wanna say some thing about our players. Tecla: Almeida (GK)- Seemed shaky at times. None of the goals were his fault though. Tamacas (RB)- good game, good skill on the ball. You could see how young he is though, as he was caught out of position at times, and gave away the ball needlessly. Though I'm still excited he is the RB for the NT. (Zelaya's goal was his faut though. Kept him onside Ivan Mancia (CB)- He showed the experience needed, especially pairing with dominguez. Helped lead that back line and gave both Tamacas and Dominguez confidence. Wouldn't mind seeing him in the NT Dominguez (CB)- Dumb foul when he got the yellow. But had a good game, had Zelaya in his pocket. Barahona (LB)- Experience again. He held his own, and kept Ceren outta the game. Mayen (CDM)- MOTM for me. He is the motor for Tecla, and was what kept tecla going with his movement of the ball. Locked in starter for me in the NT as well. Chavarria (CDM)- Great game. unnecessarily aggressive at times, but good game. Like his partnership with Mayen, as he is the actual defensive mid and alway stays back to defend. Persoanlly, a good backup for Darwin C for the NT. Ayala (RM)- great game. Killed that left side of Alianza, and was dropping well. Maldonado (CAM)- Unlucky for me. Didnt sccore or assist, though he should have. Backup for Sosa in the NT? should get a shot. Cornejo (LM)- flojo. Missed many passes, though he did vreate some good ones. His defensive duty was displayed though, so thats a +. Abreu (ST) - GOAT. Simple. Alianza: Arroyo (GK): Agree with BKC. Didn't trust his defense, gave away the second goal. Also, unnecessary kicks to Mayen 2x. Shouldve seen red. but great shot stopper. Excited to have him in the NT, though Benji deserves starting role. Dany Torres (RB): Decent display, kept Cornejo quiet. Beat sometimes, but definetely not as bad as the center or left. Jacobo (CB): nothing impressive. was beaten time and again by Abreu and Maldonado. Always left Abreu alone. Silva (CB): If you bring an outsider, you would hope that he performs better than the ES players. Silva was beaten time and again by Abreu and Maldonado. Always left Abreu alone. Flores Jaco (LB): Poor display. From the beginning, he was being beat and many opportunities came from his side. Lucky for him, was not scored on in open play. Portillo (LM): decent game, tracked back a lot and had some good interplay with zelaya. IIRC, he centered the ball for Zelaya's goal. Valencia (CDM): Beaten many many times. Personally, I think it had to do with Larin. tried to spray open the field for Alianza, but most of the game went to sosa and Zelaya. Larin (CDM): all i can say is, why. He shouldve been LB, wit Rivera in the middle. His goal was class, but looked very lost in the midfield there. Ceren (RM): Non exisent. Hneslty, i saw very very little of him in the final. Sosa (CAM): good game. He did what he had to do, took shots, gave passes behind the defense, even dropped back. Liked him behind Zelaya. Zelaya (ST) His goal was nice. Ran his heart out. Sometimes dribbled too much, gotta not fight so much. Felt if he focused more in the first half in playing and not fighting, he couldve done more damage. Good final. Liked it alot. The 'difference' makers i felt did well. The second half was much much better, though the defense on both teams let in many goals that should not be happening.
Off season news Uruguayan Jorge Casanova has become the new coach of Aguila External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/22/jorge-casanova-es-el-nuevo-dt-de-aguila Jorge Zarco Rodriguez signed as coach of Alianza External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/20/zarco-rodriguez-es-el-nuevo-tecnico-del-alianza Guatemalan Carlos "el Comanche" Mijango is the new coach of Chalatenango External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/14/chalatenango-tiene-nuevo-tecnico William Reyes has signed with Chalatenango Exrernal Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/16/williams-reyes-es-nuevo-fichaje-del-chalatenango Dragon signed Brazilian Josielson Moraes External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/20/dragon-contrato-a-su-primer-refuerzo David Diaz has left UES and signed with Alianza External links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/20/david-diaz-regresara-al-alianza Limeno will be with two foreign players Clayvn Zuninga and Carlos giorno are the players staying External Links: http://www.elgrafico.com/2016/12/22/limeno-busca-dos-extranjeros
Yikes. Channel 4 and the TCS are taking down content left and right. Even that Salva defender guy closed his channel and he seemed to be around forever. I wonder if it all started because people were blatant streaming games out in the open on Youtube.
Paolo Suarez es colocado transferible Pese a que le restan seis meses de contrato, el volante ya no entra en los planes de “Chochera”. A través de un comunicado de prensa, Sonsonate anunció este martes que Paolo Suárez se suma a la lista de jugadores transferibles de cara al torneo Clausura 2017. El volante uruguayo, que llegó en diciembre del 2015 a la entidad cocotera, dejará el equipo occidental pese a que aún le restan seis meses más de contrato. Suárez se convirtió en pieza clave del equipo de “Chochera” que cerró como líder la fase regular, sin embargo el volante de 36 años tendrá que buscar nuevo equipo para el próximo torneo.