“We’ve got a lot of work to do to continue to evolve our own schedule, and it gets busier and busier and more and more crowded. And we have been really focused on trying to think of waysin which we could have some sort of meaningful competition with Liga MX, and we’ve got a long […]
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Copa Libertadores: Scocco's five goals move River Plate into semifinals
Ignacio Scocco scored five goals to lead River Plate to an 8-0 win over Bolivia’s Jorge Wilstermann that reversed a 3-0 deficit from the first leg in the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores.The 8-3 aggregate win moved River Plate into the semifinals along with Ecuador’s Barcelona, Gremio of Brazil and Argentina’s Lanus.
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Struggling Flamengo names Rueda as new head coach
Colombian Reinaldo Rueda, who has coached the national teams of Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras in addition to working for club teams in Colombia, has been appointed the new coach of Brazil’sFlamengo, replacing Ze Ricardo after Flamengo’s elimination from the Copa Libertadores.
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Chapecoense fires head coach Vagner Mancini
Vagner Mancini, hired to rebuild Brazilian club Chapecoense after the airplane crash that killed 71 passengers in December 2016, was fired after a 3-3 tie with Fluminense extended its winlessstreak to five games in the Brazilian league championship. Chapecoense had been in first place in May before slumping. It also played in the Copa Libertadores […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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Chapecoense win in Copa Libertadores debut
Brazil’s Chapecoense beat Venezuela’s Zulia, 2-1, in its first ever Copa Libertadores match and first international match since 19 players and staff were killed in November’s plane crash in Colombiathat saw 71 people die.
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U.S. Soccer should say no to Conmebol and UEFA
Organizing the Copa America, the South American championship for national teams, in the United States threatens to open the floodgates. Or at least Conmebol and UEFA are talking about holding thefinals of their biggest club championships in U.S. cities. First, there was talk of Conmebol turning the Libertadores Cup final into a single game and […]
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Copa Libertadores expands
The Copa Libertadores, Latin America’s most prestigious club competition, will expand from 38 to 44 teams and from 27 to 42 weeks in 2017. Brazil will get two more spots (for a total ofseven), Argentina, Chile and Colombia get one extra spot each, and the winner of the Copa Sudamericana gains direct entry into the region’s […]
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Atletico Nacional's triumph wipes away stain of first Copa Libertadores triumph
Twenty-seven years after its first title, Colombia’s Atletico Nacional won a second Copa Libertadores championship with a 1-0 win over Ecuador’s Independiente del Valle that gave it a 2-1 aggregatevictory. Miguel Borja had the lone goal in the ninth minute of Wednesday’s match at Medellin’s Atanasio Girardot Stadium to finish as the tournament’s leading scorer […]
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Underdog takes lead in Copa Libertadores series
Ecuador’s tiny Independiente del Valle has already knocked off Argentina’s River Plate and has taken the lead on another Buenos Aires giant Boca Juniors, moving ahead, 2-1, in the first leg of theirCopa Libertadores semifinal clash. Goals by Bryan Cabezas and Jose Angulo gave Independiente del Valle the win in Quito.