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Febrero 18, 2010-  Los Long Island Rough Riders y Banchiero Sports Enterprises estarán trabajando juntos en una sociedad con la Asociación de Técnicos del Fútbol Argentino (ATFA). ATFA es la entidad gremial responsable debajo de AFA (Asociación del Fútbol Argentino) en proveer educación a técnicos de fútbol desde los niveles infanto-juveniles hasta profesional. Todos los técnicos recibidos de ATFA son certificados por AFA y FIFA. ATFA tiene como objetivo diseminar la metodología de fútbol de la Escuela Argentina en todas partes del mundo y educar a esos que serán los futuros educadores de las técnicas y metodologías del fútbol.

ATFA ha producido técnicos ganadores de la Copa Mundial como Menotti, Bilardo, y Pekerman quien han entrenado a los mejores jugadores del mundo emergidos del sistema juvenil argentino.  Algunos jugadores incluyen a Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Carlos Tevez (Man City), Juan Riquelme (Boca Juniors), Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid), Sergio Aguero (Atlético de Madrid), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool) y Esteban Cambiasso (Inter Milan).

Victorio Cocco, Director General de ATFA, y José Mercier, Director de Educación, dijeron, “Nos produce una gran satisfacción, haber acordado con Global Soccer Consulting, la realización de una serie de eventos, que tienen como objetivo, capacitar a los Entrenadores y jóvenes futbolistas, utilizando para ello, la metodología de la Escuela Argentina, reconocida en todo el planeta fútbol.”

Esta sociedad ofrecerá campamentos para jugadores infanto-juveniles en Estados Unidos enseñados por técnicos docentes de ATFA. Adicionalmente, se ofrecerá cursos de entrenadores para esos técnicos que buscan alimentar sus existentes conocimientos.

“Estamos muy entusiasmados en poder haber establecido esta sociedad innovadora con ATFA vía BSE,” dijo Flavio Ferri, Vice Presidente y Manager General de los Rough Riders. “Vemos a esto como una gran oportunidad para educar a entrenadores y a jóvenes jugadores con unas de las mejores y comprobadas metodologías del fútbol en mundo.”

El primer curso para entrenadores será el Diploma ATFA en Cursos Especiales Internacionales ofrecido en abril 2010 y los campamentos juveniles serán ofrecidos en julio y agosto 2010.

El club Long Island Rough Riders es uno de los clubes de fútbol mas distinguidos en Norte América, habiendo ganado tres campeonatos nacionales desde 1994 y convirtiéndose en una parte integral de la comunidad de fútbol juvenil de Long Island.

Banchiero Sports Enterprises LLC (BSE) es una empresa innovadora en asesoría deportiva principalmente ofreciendo servicios en el mundo del fútbol en las áreas de entrenamiento y negocios. Con un énfasis en el deporte del fútbol, BSE les brinda a sus clientes su experiencia valiosa y sociedades importantes establecidas con clubes juveniles, equipos universitarios, clubes profesionales, ligas y asociaciones amateurs y profesionales de todas partes del mundo.

Para más información, por favor comuníquese con Flavio Ferri en fferri@liroughriders.com , 516-622-3900 o con Fabián Banchiero en fabian@banchierosports.com, 917-940-6766.  O visite nuestra página de internet para más información y para registrarse en at www.globalsportscenters.com.

The poor skills showed by the two biggest teams in Argentina on the court, who played the South American tournament, show undeniable evidence of bad times.

Of course, of the two, the worst is River, who plays nothing, has no aspirations  and whose coach is only questioned by the fans.

The team lost again and the fans insulted the players  in Sarandi. When everyone thought the coach would submit his resignation they learned that he will leave the decision to the leaders.  The team will return to train on Tuesday. The hours are counted at the millionaire club.

According to numbers on the fifth day of the Apertura tournament, River has 111 points with 81 games played, 15from  Racing who played the same amount of games, which is to play against Gimnasia de La Plata today if the season had ended.

River should score plenty of points to reach the Libertadores Cup next year but also to not be tempted to look at the table, especially in the wake of last season´s result, where they made just 41 points.

In fact,  out of the teams in the first leagues, only Independiente, Rosario Central and Argentinos Juniors made fewer points last year.

Boca has an advantage in general: Basile still has support from the people and the recovery is possible since he has a better team.

However, Boca is not doing well in the numbers due more to a whim rather than by disability, whereas the “millionaire” does not have  a good team to win and.

After the defeat to Godoy Cruz at the Bombonera, Coco met with Carlos Bianchi, manager of the club and Juan Roman Riquelme and offered to resign. No one officially confirmed it. In the week following the elimination of the Sudamericana Cup, the coach had said that “if we lose on Sunday we march.”

Alfio Basile thought that in the European tour he had found “95%” of the team,  the one with names with which he intends to work forever with. However, low yields and little confidence in some parts, Coco during the tournament got to modify the tactical system of 4-3-1-2 (for him, ideal) when he applied for 3-4-1-2 time in Tucuman, against Atletico.

What disappoints the most Basile is that the talks he held with the team, asking for more “engagement” had no effects. And also noticed how bad for the group internal differences are.

Low individual and collective responses in power, speed, lack of reaction and resistance force to review the planning that took place during the preseason in Europe. Carlos Dibos, trainer, said in a statement to Fox Sports before the game against Velez in Liniers: “I think we can afford the cost of the tour.”

“We worked two weeks in Tandil, but now we could not. If we are out of the Cup (Sudamericana) we are going to work much harder during the week, but if we stay, the players must take on the competition beat.”

Information Source:  Momento24.com

By ROB HUGHES

The end is nigh for Diego Maradona, and one hopes that is only as a supposed trainer of men that he is falling apart.

Fantastic as a player, clueless as a coach, Maradona watched, strangely detached, on the touchline in Asunción late Wednesday as his Argentina team succumbed for the second time in a week, its fourth loss in five World Cup qualifiers under his coaching.

He not only looked alone, he looked trapped in his own body. Maradona has some of the most gifted players on earth at his command, but after Paraguay stunned them with a spectacular goal, those players resembled orphans on the outside of the World Cup party.

Lionel Messi looked as if he might cry. Sergio Agüero, Maradona’s son-in-law, seemed isolated, and was replaced within the hour. Juan Veron was sent off after 52 minutes.

Throughout it all, knowing of course that the television cameras would be on him, Maradona barely moved. His arms were folded, or behind his back. He stared straight ahead. Only the two diamonds in his left ear sparkled.

His head was held high, but he consulted no one. He knows, or should know, that he has too little experience of coaching to be alone, yet reports from inside his camp suggest that he humiliates Carlos Bilardo, once Maradona’s coach when Argentina ruled the soccer world.

Julio Grondona, the 77-year-old president of Argentina’s soccer federation, who gave Maradona the job of inspiring the team 10 months ago, also installed Bilardo as mentor. But Grondona has no powers to persuade Maradona to tap Bilardo’s experience. At what point the president will act?

Grondona has created this mess, just as he has overseen a soccer league in Argentina that has fallen into destitution. All Argentina has are players who look great, on somebody else’s teams.

On Wednesday, after England and Spain cruised to join the qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, Paraguay’s victory meant it had qualified under its own Argentine-born coach, Gerardo Martino.

Maradona refused to see that he had become the problem, the albatross.

“I will not be broken,” he told reporters after the 1-0 defeat. “I did not imagine being in this position, but this is our reality. I am going to face it. We still have a chance, we must start the jigsaw puzzle again, but Argentina has the players to get us out of this.”

Indeed, it does. But will Maradona pick them? Does he know how to instruct them, how to balance the lineup, how to share the knowledge that is all around him?

The pressure is intense. Maradona is a man who, under the pressures of withdrawal from his own peak as one of the finest players in history, developed a chronic drug addiction.

It isn’t too melodramatic to fear for him, and to cry for Argentina at the same time. Here is a country that exports players fit for any stage, and one that even now, with games against Peru and Uruguay to play next month, is capable of joining the other 31 teams at the World Cup — and as a potential winner in South Africa,

But first, Argentina must recognize what isn’t working. The bizarre selections, changing from match to match, included on Wednesday Martín Palermo, an aging striker who last played for his country nine years ago, and Rolando Schiavi, a 36-year-old defender of Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario.

Schiavi had never been chosen for Argentina before. He came on as a substitute long after the confusion in defense gave up the goal after 27 minutes.

Salvador Cabañas, the Paraguayan playmaker, ran rings around three Argentines. He spun with the ball under his spell, three times to outwit defenders. Then he slipped the ball to Nelson Haedo Valdez who, from the left of the penalty box, gave Sergio Romero not a glimmer of chance of stopping his angled shot low inside the far post.

Romero was a debutant, at 22. He was assertive and blameless in defeat.

Watching from London for Sky television, Osvaldo Ardiles, a former team-mate and protector of Maradona, said at half time: “It’s hopeless. We are not a team, we are a collection of individuals — and even the individuals are not showing up.”

If Maradona saw the same performance, he was not letting on.

“I don’t fear critics,” he said. “I don’t fear anybody. I’ve battled the critics since I was 15, now I am 48 and I will keep fighting journalists.”

It isn’t about him. It’s about the team, though that sadly seems to be far from what Argentina now is.

Can a coach be responsible for that?

The evidence from England is that a coach makes a world of difference. England failed to reach the Euro 2008 after losing at home to Croatia. On Wednesday, England crushed Croatia 5-1, its eighth successive victory in its group.

Fabio Capello, the Italian hired to give England order and belief, has the same players who lost two years ago performing with good old English physicality and aerial power.

Spain does it with more subtlety. Vicente Del Bosque, the coach discarded as old-fashioned by Real Madrid, has the team playing to its strengths: at speed and with movement and accuracy. Spain’s record is also played eight, won eight.

England believes it is forging a potential World Cup winner. Spain surely is. Brazil, more pragmatic but potent under Carlos Dunga, has such reserves that it must be a favorite. Four days after beating Argentina, 3-1, in Rosario, Brazil fielded almost a second string and won its 11th straight game, beating Chile, 4-2.

Three of the goals Wednesday came from Nilmar, who will, if he is lucky, be the fourth choice in the World Cup finals. Nilmar, 25, has just returned to Europe, with Villarreal three years after leaving Lyon.

“He’s a player who carries out what you ask him to do, and a little more besides,” Dunga told the media.

In Brazil, the player and the coach know their tasks.

Information Source: NY Times.com