Belgium KAA Gent 1 Kortrijk 1 Bryan Ruiz, Roy Myrie, and Randall Azofeifa played the full 90 minutes. Bryan Ruiz scored Gent's only goal. Italy Serie B Cittadella 2 Brescia 0 Gilberto Martinez played the full 90 minutes in Brescia's loss. Israel Maccabi Netanya 1 Bnei Sachnin 1 Luis Marin played the full 90 minutes in Netanya's draw. Maccabi Netanya is 1 point away from League leaders Maccabi Haifa. Switzerland FC Sion 0 Neuchatel xamax 0 Alvaro Saborio came in as a sub in the 82nd minute.
Guatemala Semi-finals Communicaciones 5 Xelaju 2 Rolando Fonseca had an amazing game scoring 4 goals and giving Communicaciones the pass to the final against Municipal.
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=239969 Hernan Medford has just been signed as head coach of Mexican club Leon which plays in the Primera A (2nd division). Looks like he will bring along players from Costa Rica to his new team who is rumored to being linked with Jared Borghetti and Carlos Costly as well.
Italy Serie B Brescia 1 Grossetto 0 Gilberto Martinez played the full 90 minutes in Brescia's win. Brescia is now tied in 1st place wit 4 other teams in the Serie B. Israel Maccabi Netanya 3 Ashdod 3 Luis Marin played the full 90 minutes in Netanya's draw. Netanya is in 2nd place in the Israel Premier League. Guatemala Final 2nd leg Communicaciones 1 Municipal 1 (Communicaciones wins on 3-2 aggregate) Rolando Fonseca played the full 90 minutes and scored the goal that gave Communicaciones their first title in 5 years.
http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=3962&id=3962 Medford will bring 3 players along with him to Leon. One will be a foward who plays in Europe (Saborio), and the other 2 will most likely be players from Saprissa (won't be surprised if its Cordero, Drummond, Nunez, or Solis). Hope its not either Navas, Celso, Alonso, or Centeno because that will be bad for our national team.
http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=3958&id=3958 Randall Porras of Saprissa will be joining Medford with Leon in Mexico. I guess this means Victor Cordero and Jervis Drummond will remain starters for Saprissa next season .
Armando Alonso will join Greek Super League club Levadiakos F.C. on a 1 year loan. http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=3993&id=3993 Esteban Sirias of Liberia will be on trial with Greek Super League club OFI Crete. http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=3983&id=3983 2 players from el Alto Rendimiento de Puntarenas will train with Celaya of Mexico and one will stay with the team. http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=4002&id=4002
Armando Alonso will be heading to Greece in 15 days after recovering from his emergency operation. http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=4007&id=4007
Gonzalo Segares is in Goal.com MLS Team of The Year. http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110...31/the-short-list-mls-team-of-the-season-2008
Oscar Rojas leaves Jaguares to join Morelia http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=4018&id=4018
KAA Gent turned down an offer of 8 million Euros from Napoli of Italy for Bryan Ruiz http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/enero/07/deportes1830377.html
Italian club Torino of Serie A is interested in Tuma Martinez http://www.monumental.co.cr/noticiaD.aspx?idParrafo=2084 It would be nice to see Tuma Martinez back in the Serie A this season...but Torino is in 17th place out of 20 teams...maybe he should wait and stay with Brescia since they are in 1st place in the Serie B...and if Brescia isn't able to get promoted...he could wait for another offer because we all know he has the talent to be playing in the elite leagues...he just needs to prove that he can stay healthy
Rodney Wallace, another Costa Rican player playing in a US College, got drafted by DC United with the 7th pick of the draft. Here are a few short descriptions of what was seen of him at the college player combine in Florida as well as a story from Sports Illustrated. It seems is is a very talented defender. Maybe we can trade out the old Wallace in Liberia for this new one in a few years. I've also attached his college bio. He is a Generation Adidas player so his salary does not count the teams cap and is in no risk to get picked up in the expansion draft at the end of the year for the new Philadelphia team. http://umterps.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/wallace_rodney00.html http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=607964&sec=mls&root=mls&cc=5901 http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=609358&sec=mls&root=mls&cc=5901 http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/web/COM1048062/1/index.htm
A few of his goals in college: http://kc.wizards.mlsnet.com/media/...v&w_id=29138&catCode=events&type=v_free&_mp=1 Sorry, no audio. Damn MLSNET. Of course, good plays need no audio. Just by watching him play now he looks better than Harold Wallace
Thats coo...hopefully he turns out to be another Segares http://everardoherrera.com/2007b.php?deta=2007_leer_titulares.php?not=4026&id=4026 Looks like Daniel Torres will also be playing in the MLS with FC Dallas. With him that makes 6 that will be in the 2009 MLS season. Gonzalo Segares (Chicago Fire) Gabriel Badilla (New England Revolution) Argenis Fernandez (New England Revolution) Kurt Morsink (Kansas City Wizards) Daniel Torres (FC Dallas) Rodney Wallace (DC United)
Norwegian clubs signing another Costa Rican : Celso Borges signed to Fredrikstad (Div 1) . Contract from July 1, but could come earlier. http://www.tv2sporten.no/fotball/tippeligaen/article2514594.ece
Bad decision IMO...Celso should wait until he gets an offer from a league like Spain, England, Italy, Germany, France, or Holland...He is one of the only few players that could and should be playing in a world class league...this is what he gets for having a shitty agent like Jorge Ulloa who is only good enough to send players to lower level leagues in Europe.
Australia Melbourne Victory 3 Central Coast Mariners 0 Carlos Hernandez came in as a sub in the 2nd half and scored a goal via freekick in Melbourne's win. Puppy Lopez did not play. Belgium KAA Gent 2 Mons-Bergen 1 Bryan Ruiz, Roy Myrie, and Randall Azofeifa played the full 90 minutes in Gent's win. Bryan Ruiz scored a goal and assisted on the other one. Italy Serie B Brescia 4 Pisa 0 Gilberto Martinez played the full 90 minutes in Brescia's win. Mexico Morelia 0 San Luis 0 Oscar Rojas came in as a sub in the last 45 minutes in Morelia's draw. Leon 5 Tigres B 0 Hernan Medford got his first victory as Leon destroys Tigre B 5-0. Randall Porras played the full 90 minutes with Leon.
Celso is that good ? Suprising that he would go to Fredrikstad then cause they are hardly more then an aveage team in Norway. But there manager does have great connections so maybe he did something.