I know, I know Very silly joke. High drama in the Colombian quarter-final, where América de Cali led 1-0, but were staring defeat in the face, before a goalkeeping error let young Linda Caicedo score a vital equalizer. Catalina Usme struck the winning goal: América de Cali (red) 2 - 2 Atlético Nacional - agg. 3-2 - youtu.be/SCRB1nmIGpI Other QF videos: Atlético Huila 2 - 0 Junior - agg 5-1 Independiente Medellín 3 - 1 Cortuluá - agg. 3-1 Santa Fe 1 - 3 Millonarios on penalties - agg 2-2 Semifinals on 7/8 Sep and 15 Sep: Huila v Medellín, and América v Millonarios
Semifinal 1st leg, Ferroviária x Avaí/Kindermann, is about to kick off at Estádio Fonte Luminosa - full game live on https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yoJMzbBLXOxQ / Twitter Ferroviária's Nathane scored both goals in the last win. Kindermann, from the south, have Bárbara in goal and striker Catyellen in good form. CBF posted a guide: All you need to know about the Brasileirão A1 semifinalists (Archived)
Semifinal 1st leg, Flamengo x Corinthians, was streamed live in full on the same sites. Hopefully they'll screen all the remaining games... https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzAwAPnNxv Did Corinthians extend their 30 wins in a row? (30!) Will you be able to stand the tension? Well let's find out. https://www.bigsoccer.com/posts/38142007/
Argentina: Before the team's respectable World Cup campaign, the federation announced that the 2019/20 season would be professional. The new season kicks off on Sunday (15 Sep). Two squads signing on the dotted line in Buenos Aires province - Boca Juniors and Racing Club: https://www.clarin.com/boca-juniors/chicas-boca-profesionales_0__7bZ7gLSy.html https://www.clarin.com/deportes/rac...femenino-jugadoras-seleccion_0_WELVgfRq8.html The champions of 2018/19 were UAI Urquiza, who won the 8-team championship group in the season's second half. It came down to a championship decider, River Plate (32pts) at home to UAI (34pts, ultimately 37). Boca got a draw to finish as runners-up on goal difference. Resumen UAI Urquiza campeón: River Plate 0 - UAI Urquiza 4 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN70uZqD7qc Earlier in 2019 Boca played a big home game at La Bombonera: Resumen de Boca Juniors vs Lanús (5-0) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5d0zqk-FwM Brazil: Corinthians passed a lesser test, beating Sao Paulo club Juventus 4-0 in the Paulista, win no.32 https://www.bigsoccer.com/posts/38150626/ The Paulista semifinals begin on Saturday 14 Sep (Sao Paulo v Santos), with Corinthians v Ferroviaria 4 days later - both clubs still chasing 3 titles this season.
Brazil: The Brasileirão finalists are Corinthians and Ferroviária, after they won their semi-finals in differing circumstances. Corinthians knocked out Flamengo in São Paulo https://www.bigsoccer.com/posts/38160479 Ferroviária haven't been impressive, going from a 7th-place finish to the final largely on their skill in penalty shootouts. On Saturday they were outplayed by Kindermann, but equalized late with Simeia's goal, and GK Luciana made 2 saves in the shootout. Semifinal 2: Kindermann 1 - 1 (p) Ferroviária highlights / Full match Semifinal 2: Corinthians 2 - 0 Flamengo highlights / Full match Brazil's most interesting story of the weekend was the Paulista state semi-final. São Paulo FC, recently crowned Brazilian division 2 champions, won their 1st leg v Santos, 3-2, and the underdogs looked as strong as their decorated opponents. They clearly have a bright future, but will they reach the final? São Paulo scored through Valeria (13 mins), but Santos looked safe at 2-1 with a headed goal by Glaucia (78 mins). In the last few minutes, it all changed, see the video: São Paulo x Santos - Paulista Feminino 2019 - youtube.com/watch?v=lc8SUQDvmSE&t=2h12m Colombia: We've reached the last two teams of the season 2019 – the champions of Colombia and South America are out in the semi-finals, humbled 5-1 on aggregate by Independiente Medellín: Medellín vs. Huila (5-0) | Liga Femenina 2019 - Semis vuelta - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C63rm_3p-U Maybe América de Cali were fated to reach the final, but in the semi they beat the new Millonarios team 3-2 on aggregate. Two goals by Farlyn Caicedo in the 1st leg: Millonarios vs. América (0-2) | Liga Femenina 2019 | Semifinal ida - www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wg2IexCqI In the 2nd leg, another Catalina Usme free-kick goal was enough, despite the best efforts of Millonarios' Mariana Pion and Karen Páez: América vs. Millonarios (1-2) | Liga Femenina 2019 | Semis vuelta - www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkNruEzAqT4 Unlike the 10am semi-finals, the final will be evening kickoffs for América v Medellín on Tue 24 Sep, and the return leg on Mon 30 Sep.
That's a brilliant site, thank you so much! Ecuador: The revamped 22-team Superliga Femenina is at the final (1st leg) Deportivo Cuenca won 2-1 at Ñañas the first Super League final - ElComercio.com, Autotranslated (Archived) Nañas vs Deportivo Cuenca 1-2 Final IDA - youtu.be/-vJWSOOGg7U The Ecuadorean champion of 3 years' standing, Unión Española, didn't compete in the new league because they didn't meet the requirements. The final 2nd leg is on Saturday (28 Sep). Today is the Brazilian final 1st leg (14:00 BRT / 17:00 GMT) - BRfeminino will have live coverage.
The post above reminded me to check on how the 2019 CLF is shaping up... and apparently, during the gap of posts during the WWC, C'BOL expanded the tournament! It's now 16 teams instead of 12, with the four new berths going to the four strongest nations historically (BRA, CHI, COL, PAR). COL, with the defending champion spot, will have three total nations in the 16-team field; the hosts are Ecuador(!) so they'll get a second spot as well. No one has posted about Chile in a long time, and we also missed something big there... Colo-Colo didn't win in 2018! They didn't even make the final However, when the expansion was announced, CHI didn't just award the extra spot to the 2018 runners-up Palestino: considering how good Colo-Colo has historically been in the CLF, they had Palestino and Colo-Colo do a play-off for the second spot, and Colo-Colo won it. The official draw hasn't happened yet since it won't occur until next week. ECU (discussed above) and COL are the two nations that don't have their two berths each decided yet. All four "new" berths are in Pot 4, while looks weird by eye since they're from the 4 strongest nations, but I guess it doesn't matter which pot they're in as long as they're in the same pot. The expansion to 16 teams means we'll actually have a QF round this year - two teams from each group advancing - so that's exciting.
Brazil's grand final 2019, part 1 No spoilers, except to say Ferroviária x Corinthians Full match on Pscp.tv, Kickoff @ 38:00 mins Highlights: Twitter, BRfeminino I posted more on Corinthians' two games this week in the record-breaking thread: https://www.bigsoccer.com/posts/38179930/ Again, São Paulo tried to steal the limelight - the underdogs knocked out Santos in a dramatic Paulista semi-final 2nd leg, with a 2-2 draw (5-4 agg.) Gols de Santos 2 x 2 São Paulo - youtu.be/cJVDQeW3lyU (Match report, Globo / Full game, FPF Youtube)
(PasionFutbol07) Ecuador: Deportivo Cuenca are the 2019 champions, beating Ñañas 2-0 (4-1 agg.) on Saturday night. The 2nd leg in Cuenca was sold out, around 16,000 fans. Cuenca ends the domestic season with a strong record, although not undefeated: Perfect campaign of Deportivo Cuenca in the Women's Super League - www.elcomercio.com/deportes/campana-perfecta-deportivo-cuenca-superliga.html, Autotranslated Goal clips - why they're on Twitter, who knows... ¡Revive el primer gol de las campeonas! @DCuencaOficial Madelin Riera ♀️⚽ ¡DOBLETE! ⚽⚽ Madelin Riera por segunda ocasión para las Leonas @DCuencaOficial - DirecTV, Twitter Madelin Riera scored 44 goals in the season.
Brazil: The final final of the Brasileirão 2019! It was a good match, but who won the Brazilian championship? (1st leg: 1-1) Corinthians x Ferroviária, 2nd leg Full match on Pscp.tv, Kickoff @ 24:00 mins Highlights: Twitter, BRfeminino Final match report: https://globoesporte.globo.com/fute...rinthians-feminino-ferroviaria-feminino.ghtml (Archived)
Colombia's grand final 2019 - América de Cali won the 1st leg 2-0, and when their 14-year-old super striker Linda Caicedo scored again for América (in the white kits), it looked like it was all over... or was it? Medellín vs. América (2-1) | Final vuelta (2nd leg) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39hP9p6rVo América de Cali win the title 3-2 on aggregate, after Independente Medellín's goals by Laura Aguirre and Paula Botero. In heavy rain at times, the 2nd leg had an attendance of 28,000 at the Atanasio Girardot stadium. The champs wore their red jerseys to receive the trophy. Both the finalists and Atlético Huila will enter the Libertadores this month. Premiación de América, campeón de la Liga Femenina 2019 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZMdJp-XfQ
Public unrest on the streets of Quito, Equador. State of Emergency exist and government was moved out of the capital to Guayaquil. Start of Copa Libertadores Femenina (11th Oct) is rather doubtful in such conditions.(FIFA surely remembers interrupted and abandoned youth tourney in Nicaragua from last year)
FEF CONMEBOL - CONMEBOL LIBERTADORES FEMENINA ECUADOR 2019 COMMUNICATED The Local Organizing Committee of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores Femenina Ecuador 2019, according to circular DCC 260/2019 sent by CONMEBOL on Monday, October 8 of this year, informed all delegates, Press and general public that meetings have been held with CONMEBOL authorities, security delegates and members of the National Police to ensure the logistics of arrival of international delegations. At the moment they have arrived 80% to the city of Quito and are staying in their respective hotels. However, the FEF and the Local Organizing Committee are constantly monitoring the situation so that the tournament starts with the necessary guarantees and security. Guayaquil, October 9, 2019 f FEFecuador uh...guarantees of what exactly? ... ie. that even in case of really bad luck the angry mob will never attack the team bus on it's way into stadium or even better that they will hide all their fire bombs and stones and in turn start to cheer the passing team and wave their flags of support?
"You can't guarantee anything in football. All you can guarantee is disappointment." - wise words from Graeme Souness The stuff in Ecuador today is terrifying, but it has mainly been between the protesters and government. Conmebol are hoping (and we're all praying) that won't affect the players at all. They're training together in Quito. The Libertadores tournament will start as scheduled, on Friday night – but likely without fans permitted in the stadiums, say the tournament previews, on Expreso.ec (Archive) and EFE (Archive) Day 1: Fri 11 Oct, in group A and B. (Ecuador time = North American CT) 17:00 ECT / 22:00 GMT Atlético Huila v Peñarol Deportivo Cuenca v Estudiantes de Caracas 19:30 ECT / 00:30 GMT Cerro Porteño v Colo-Colo Mundo Futuro v Ferroviária The club with the best name, Mundo Futuro, won the Bolivian cup final v San Martín de Porres, in a year when some clubs went professional (possibly). It's difficult to imagine a more low-key Libertadores than the 2018 women's edition, but 2019 might be. Conmebol is no stranger to street clashes, after the awful scenes at the Libertadores men's final. Quito, the embattled Ecuadorean capital (Photo: amalavida.tv, cc-by-sa)
Nice thread with tournament summary (in Spanish) COPA LIBERTADORES FEMENINA #Ecuador2019Denominada oficialmente Copa Conmebol Libertadores Femenina 2019, será la undécima edición del mayor campeonato de clubes femeninos en Sudamérica organizado por la Conmebol.@BelenQuinatoa8 @karlyboy71 @futbolconnect @DiarioLaFutbol pic.twitter.com/XJxikSv3tI— Sirenas del Gol (@SirenasDelGol) October 11, 2019
If I had to judge right now, Group A looks like the Group of Death - two past champions and no debutantes. Conversely, Group B looks like the Group of Life - only one previous champion, two debutantes, and the fourth team has a pretty poor CLF record. Groups C and D both seem to have two clear teams to advance, though the Colombian team in either group could cause a surprise.
An hour until the Libertadores 2019 kickoff - fans will be allowed into the grounds, with free entry today at Atahualpa, and partly free at the other stadium. About 100 police are on guard. Conmebol have confirmed live online coverage "¡Estos son los partidos del primer día de la #LibertadoresFEM! ¡Estes são os jogos do primeiro dia do #LibertadoresFEM! TV: DAZN VERA + CDF Chile Página oficial de la CONMEBOL"
^ Disregard, that's an unofficial account. Conmebol's official page has almost no updates either. The first Libertadores goal is by Uruguay's champions Peñarol, Jemina Rolfo scoring (28'). But the tournament's defending champions Huila from Colombia have recovered, and Huila lead 2-1 at half-time. These are the lineups: Huila: Lisbeth Castro; Leivis Ramos, Nubiluz Rangel, Carmen Rodallega, Carolina Arias; Daniela Caracas, Carolina Arbeláez, Jessica Peña, Fany Gauto, Marcela Restrepo; Ivonne Chacón. - Entrenador: Albeiro Erazo. Peñarol: Sofía Olivera; Idanis Mendoza, Daiana Farías, Paula Viera; Florencia Vicente, Agustina Arámbulo, Jemina Rolfo, Ximena Velazco, Lorena Graña, Stefany Suárez, Lourdes Viana. - Entrenador: Daniel Pérez. The other game, the line-ups for Cuenca v Estudiantes Caracas - 0-0 at half-time.
And the lights go out on Cerro Porteño v Colo Colo Nobody could've seen that coming 1182818323047895040 is not a valid tweet id
Day 1 in the Libertadores Group A - the games at the Atahualpa stadium Atlético Huila 2–1 Peñarol Peña 39', Chacón 41' - Rolfo 28' Cerro Porteño 3–2 Colo-Colo Bogarín 22', 45+16', Agüero 72' - Jiménez 23', Quezada 44' - Match report (Archived) CCP got the win. Timing includes a 15-minute floodlight delay in the 1st half, and another power cut in the 2nd half. Presumably it's due to the problems in the city? Paraguay's Cerro Porteño celebrate in Friday's game (Photo: PlanetaFutbol.com.ec) And day 1 in Group B: Deportivo Cuenca 3–1 Estudiantes Caracas Riera 59', 81', 86'p - Villasana 89'p - Highlights video on Libertadoresfem Twitter Mundo Futuro 1–10 Ferroviária Doerksen 71' - Nathane 8', 9', 47', 53', 60', Rosana 13', Rafa Mineira 41', 90+1', Luana Sartório 49', Aline Milene 63' - Highlights on Twitter Madelin Riera is one of the world's most prolific strikers right now: 44 goals for Cuenca in the Ecuadorean season, and a hat-trick to open the Libertadores
Todays matches are cancelled for security reasons. If it continues the whole tournament probably will be suspended. CONMEBOL decide aplazar la jornada de hoy de la @LibertadoresFEM por motivos de seguridad.▸https://t.co/FiCH9nn1S0 pic.twitter.com/XadwPHArwZ— CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) October 12, 2019
Have they ever moved a Libertadores tournament? I suspect it's Ecuador or bust, they'll just cancel it. If it were the men's, then Conmebol would use all its resources and move it to Madrid again The protests have been frantic in Quito on Saturday, there was no way football could go ahead. The tournament has a few rest days between the groups/QF/SF and final on 27 Oct, but losing them is a problem. They could make it a straight knockout cup, or cancel it. Quito's Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa (Agencia de Noticias ANDES, cc-by-sa) UAI announced they were doing fine and were safe. We should be conscious that we don't really know the general situation in Quito. "The city is on fire" isn't a helpful view. Latin America gets so many stereotypes about how violent it is (usually from the country that passed the "2nd amendment") or just dumb racist lies