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3:26 pm | October 6, 2011
Colombian Football League will continue with 18 teams
Deportivo Pereira proposed increase to 20 clubs.
The proposed increase to 20 was unsuccessful between the presidents of the clubs in the A.
In the Assembly of the Dimayor with the presidents of the clubs in the Colombian first division, unsuccessful intention to convene a new meeting to discuss the issue at the proposal of Deportivo Pereira expand to 20 clubs in the competition was discarded.
The initiative was presented by the team 'Matecaña' and needed at least 29 votes to materialize.
At the meeting on Thursday was determined to return to the 2010 tournament system, ie the semi-finals back home runs from next year in Category A.
I Postobón League 2012 will begin January 29.
Another issue on which progress was made, was in the identity cards of the clubs fans.
This Friday will be the assembly of the rise of football managers to define the system Postobón Tournament championship.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Envigado Itagüí beats and scale in the End
The locals won and climb on the table. Source: Colprensa
Colombia (AP) - Envigado 2-0, exceeds Itagüí and scale in the Colombian Completion.
The goals of the local John Cordoba became the 5 minutes of the second half and put Mejia Yulian final figures to complement the 24 minutes and three points with 12 units is Envigado, two of the leaders, but with one more game.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
No football! League suspends Peru for research
Lima (EFE) .- The Professional Football Sports Association (ADFP), which groups the 16 teams contesting the League First Division Peru suspended the tournament until October 16 while advancing the investigation into the death of a swells in the Monumental stadium in Lima.
The young Walter Oyarce died last Saturday after falling from a tribune of Monumental stadium during classic among Alianza Lima and Universitario de Deportes, apparently as a result of a brawl between fans of both teams.
The manager of Sporting Cristal, Gustavo Zevallos said Wednesday that it decided to suspend the tournament to "talk with the people involved and find a solution."
The decision followed a meeting of the presidents of the teams, said the press officer of the ADFP, Carlos Enciso.
The move came after the Interior Minister, Oscar Valdés, announced yesterday that the games will be played without an audience.
However, Zevallos emphasized that, "Unfortunately, beyond this, football has to follow."
Alianza Atletico president, German Lander, blamed the Government of the insecurity prevailing in the country and considered it "can not be that four vandals will win the country."
The two main suspects in the death of Oyarce, David Sánchez-Manrique and Jorge Luis Fernandez Montoya, was arrested by Peruvian police.
Sánchez-Manrique was arrested at Lima's international airport, where he returned after fleeing to the United States just hours after the death of Oyarce.
Police have also questioned other fans of U allegedly involved in the case and keeps track of four people who allegedly participated in the attack on the Monumental Stadium box which was thrown Oyarce