It has been reported that Luis Suarez will miss Uruguay's matches against Argentina and Paraguay. Uruguay seems to love to get the 5th spot every cycle and this will probably help them get that again unless they overachieve somehow.
I hope so. The fact that Peru or Chile did not report it in time should be irrelevant because it is not Peru or Chile's job to check everyone playing for the other national team is allowed to do so. That should be CONMEBOL's job. In the end if it wasn't for a smart Peruvian journalist none of this would have been known to anyone.
It wasn't either. FIFA did the original investigation. Which makes it even sillier to give the points back to Bolivia. They took it away once, you shouldn't play ping pong with points. Especially not months after taking them away.
Todavía hay chance de que juegue. La lesión ha evolucionado más rápido de lo esperado. Mañana llega a Montevideo. La negra Juana, la curandera del barrio Sur, lo está esperando con sus ungüentos y sus gualichos. A rezar uruguayos... a rezar... Santa María madre de Dios..... Vamo' arriba!
Everyone here is shocked because the Argentinian press said they won. It was obvious that they were just applying pressure. If it was only the nation in favour of Bolivia reporting it, wasn't it blatantly obvious that it was all lies? I knew to only believe the official decision. Once Bolivias president resigned I knew it was over but still awaited until it was done.
As for the decision, it is 100% the correct one. You can argue that the original decision was harsh all you like but the points were already taken away. Don't return what you took.
Punish Bolivia for their stupidity by taking away those points, but giving the points to Chile and Peru that were not earned is too generous.
Professionality doesn't care for generous or not. They care about if the rule is enforced, which in this case, FIFA has been extremely consistent in enforcing the rule about playing ineligible players. The punishment is and always has been a 3-0 default loss. They aren't going to change that for the sake of not being too generous. Again, the points were already taken away. Don't play around with them.
Lo que he mantenido: los paises que van lo tienen que hacer en la cancha. si hay trampa pues se asumen las consecuencias WOW...! Ahora el TAS es el culpable de todas las derrotas y partidos mal jugados por ustedes?. NEFASTOS. ! https://t.co/pB30DgvxwS— Elmer Polanco (@PolancoESA) August 29, 2017
http://redgol.cl/2017/8/los-10-enormes-chamullos-de-la-prensa-arge/ Un resumen de todas las "mentiras" de la prensa argentina al respecto. Bueno, de solo ver a algunos periodistas, mejor dicho seudo periodistas, de Fox Sports como VIgnolo, Liberman o Fuchs que siempre dijeron que a Bolivia le iban a devolver los puntos. EN resumen, la seleccion boliviana hizo trampa y el castigo fue ratificado en tres instancias, dos por la fifa, y una por el tas. Caso Cerrado!
Ecuador tienen un calendario pesado, pero necesitan hacer 7 de 12. Peru y Paraguay 9. Argentina tal vez 6, Uruguay y Chile 4 y Colombia 3, para estar en repechaje. Colombia: @Ven, Bra, Par, @Per, mucho se define el jueves y es muy factible que al menos uno Paraguay o Peru esten eliminados para Octubre. Calendario facil Uruguay: Arg, @Par, @Ven, Bol. Le ganan a Paraguay y tienen los dos rivales mas flojos en Octubre. Calendario facil Chile: Par, @Bol, Ecua, @Bra, Si no hacen 4-6 puntos y Ecuador se recupera, podrian complicarse. Calendario medio. Argentina: @Uru, Ven, Per, @Ecu: Deberian ganarle a Venezuela y a Peru y aunque no lo hicieran, podrian ir a salvar la papeleta en Quito. Calendario medio. Ecuador: @Bra, Per, @Chi, Arg: Visitan al lider en buen momento y luego 3 equipos que estan en la lucha y aparentemente en mejor racha. Calendario Dificil. Peru: Bol, @Ecu, @Arg, Col. Si ganan los dos partidos siguientes, se meten de lleno en la pelea, pero tendrian que ir a robar puntos en Argentina, aunque cierran con Colombia que ya podria estar clasificado. Calendario Dificil Paraguay: @Chi, Uru, @Col, Ven. Necesitan sacar una victoria de visitante y ademas ganar sus dos partidos locales, y solo el partido contra Venezuela se plantea facil. Calendario Dificil.
Indeed. It is not the problem of the Chilean and Peruvian federations that their Bolivian counterpart failed to do the proper due diligence. The rules exist and were duly enforced. Generosity is an appeal to emotion and irrelevant. A somewhat similar case occurred in this year's Libertadores. CONMEBOL punished Chapecoense with the loss of 3 points earned in its 1-2 victory at Lanus because it deployed Luiz Otávio irregularly. Had Chapecoense been more careful, it would have reached the round of 16. I didn't want to see Chapecoense out like this all the more given what it went through late last year, but the rules are the rules. Lanus was not responsible for Chapecoense's mistake and as per the rules it was awarded 3 points plus a 3-0 scoreline. The same holds for World Cup Qualifying. Bolivia has learned a lesson, and Peru and Chile are simply reaping the consequences of the rules being correctly applied. There's no more to it than this.
Caso específico de Chile, de esos puntos, al menos 2 deben ser contra Ecuador y Paraguay, pues no solo necesita esos puntos, sino que además debe evitar que tanto Ecuador, como Paraguay sumen más de 1 punto, en esos partidos. Si Perú gana 4 puntos en sus próximos 2 partidos (vs. Bolivia en casa que son casi un hecho, y consigue un empate en Ecuador), con solo ganarle a Colombia, jugando en casa (donde casi siempre así sucede), en la última fecha, los dejaría fuera a uds. Y contra tanto Brasil, como Venezuela, ya sea de local o visita, a uds. casi nunca les va bien. Yo le pondría a lo mucho, una calificación de media a su calendario.......