MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER : playoffs !

Soccer as we usually say at International soccer Foundation, soccer is a world. So today we have chosen to talk about soccer in USA hoping that it will help some of our viewers.
 
The 2014 MLS regular season ended this weekend, bringing in new holiday already nineteen franchises. For the ten survivors, up to now the playoffs with Seattle, Los Angeles and DC United favorites. Thierry Henry at the end of the contract, this is the last opportunity to try to win a title with the Red Bulls.

 Eastern Conference: a turn-off for Henry and the Red Bulls
For those of you who do not follow soccer too much to the North American sauce, we need you file a quick refresher course. So here it is: the MLS is a closed league - it even if you must know - whose season is divided into two parts. As with all sports there, there is so first regular season with a geographical division into two conferences east-west, then comes the moment of the play-offs to reach a super final between survivor each conference. It's not super hard once you grabbed the thing, although with a subtlety in the case before us before the playoffs strictly speaking, there is in what might be called MLS a play-off between the fourth to the fifth of each conference. Match a "one shot", with the home field advantage in the fourth. So then the winner faces the first of the conference and the second faces the third matches in this round-trip time before the conference finals and the final super called "MLS Cup". So in terms of the turn-off to the east, he will play this week between the New York Red Bulls and the defending champion, Sporting Kansas City, who has a little screwed up his end of the regular season. Coincidence, the two teams also competed this weekend and New Yorkers, deprived of Henry, who was absent last minute (achilles problem a priori), have emerged thanks to a brace Bradley Wright-Phillips, his 26th and 27th goals of the season (record of Roy Lassiter and Chris Wondolowski tied). A victory that was not enough to nab the third place Columbus Crew. Before DC United finished the season on top, with four units ahead of New England Revolution. So we are dealing with a trio rather surprising compared to what was announced earlier this year, in an Eastern Conference that loves indecision and suspense. Among the teams eliminated, if acquired for quite some time now that Montreal had missed the season (end Quebecers last 19 teams involved and Marco Di Vaio has played the last game of his career Saturday), we expected much better Toronto neighbor, is still missing after the play-offs despite substantial resources invested (recruitment of Defoe and Bradley in particular). The franchise in Ontario are definitely not happen ...

The program of the playoffs: DC United against the winner of the New York Red Bulls / Sporting Kansas City / New England Revolution against Columbus Crew

 Western Conference: Vancouver saved the honor of Canada
Pacific side, Seattle has resisted big return from Los Angeles wins the Supporters' Shield trophy which honors the team that tops at the end of the regular season, the two conferences combined (Seattle ended the season with 64 points against 59 for DC United, first in the East). An honorary title awarded for the Sounders, who manage some games show some great control and tactical maturity still too rare in MLS. This is a just reward for the largest public and one of the hottest League (average 44,000 spectators), which has the chance to see the most beautiful home doublet attack involved 19 training : Obafemi Martins associated with Clint Dempsey. Seattle logically the favorite for MLS Cup, but will have to watch out for Los Angeles Galaxy, back in the game with a gun series that began in late August and ending in mid-October (8 wins and 2 draws in 10 games). Robbie Keane plant still regularly, helped by Landon Donovan, future retiree who would finish his career on a sixth individual (the fourth with the Galaxy). Third, we find the Real Salt Lake, always solid, quite efficient discretion. In terms of turn-off, it will pit Dallas on Wednesday, fourth in Vancouver who succeeded in extremis to keep the last qualifying spot in front of Portland, who also coveted, thanks to a last narrow victory this week -end. Whitecaps thus save the honor of Canada in the competition. Regarding teams eliminated the uncertainty around the case of Chivas USA, a loss franchise goes wrong and might have to disappear - at least in the state - in the near future. Recall, however, that two new franchises will emerge from the next season: New York City FC (with David Villa and Frank Lampard) and Orlando City SC (with Kaka).

The program of the playoffs: Seattle Sounders match against the winner of the FC Dallas / Vancouver Whitecaps - Los Angeles Galaxy against Real Salt Lake

But also ...
One last word to indicate that the Champions League Concacaf, the group stage ended with a 2 of 5 MLS franchises. The Montreal Impact and DC United have qualified and will face Pachuca (Mexico) and Alajuelense (Costa Rica) in the quarter-finals will take place in February and March next year respectively. In contrast, New York, Kansas City and Portland are eliminated.

WOMEN ACN 2014: CAMEROON AND NIGERIA IN FINAL

It is very rare for International Soccer Foundation talks about women's football, we apologize for that to all those who follow us and share our ideas. Besides we have several player (International) from Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Brazilian, etc member of our foundation. Maybe you need one in your club ... you are welcome.

With their respective wins over Ivory Coast and South Africa, Cameroon and Nigeria have won the right to go play in the final of the 2014 Women CAN. Both teams qualify at the same time for the final of the World Cup in 2015 in the same category.

Second final ranking for Cameroon, who won Wednesday night's ticket to go compete for the title of African champions women after his victory over Ivory Coast (2-1). This success has been slow to emerge and acquired after the extension thanks to a goal from captain Indomitable Lionesses, Christine Manie Patiance (118th), while both teams had failed to decide after of normal time (1-1).

In the final, the Cameroonian will be opposed in Nigeria, which continued its winning streak by excluding South Africa (2-1) with two goals from Asisat Oshoala. The two teams will do battle on Saturday for the title, and this time the Cameroonian will try to overcome the jinx after their failures at the same stage of the competition against the same Nigerian team in 1991 and 2004.

For its part, Nigeria already has 8 trophies will attempt to glean a ninth crown after his last coronation of 2010 in South Africa. Meanwhile this match up, both teams enjoying being already qualified for the final of the World Cup 2015 to be held in Canada, a first for Cameroon. In turn, South Africa and Ivory Coast will play the small final for 3rd place.
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HIDEOUS FACE OF FOOTBALL IN AFRICA

Despite the number always important, of talented players in Africa, people have not guessed that behind these outstanding players: Samuel Etoo, Toure, there is a big ocean.

African football has a screaming bad: limited time offer not lack of infrastructures, but they want of decent infrastructure for quality labor exists.

In 1990 an African team (The Cameroon) arrives for the first time in the quarter-final of the World Cup. Cameroonian teams were made up of much more local player’s titular than professional. The name of Roger Milla told you anything? At that time, a big name in world football (Sir Bobby Charlton) went to Cameroon to see the secret of the success of Cameroon. Being in Yaounde, he went to a neighborhood are a marvel, where the Olympic Mvolye team is practicing. You have to know that: Nkunde Emmanuel, Njaka Beanka, Eta Tate, Stephen, and Victor Ndip Akem all defenders of that National team where playplaying in Olympic of Mvolye. After a training session, he said: I am very, very surprised with the quality of Cameroonian players and their performance at the World Cup that, in this country we are playing and is training to play football on sandy pitch and field earth. I came to see the secret of their success is unthinkable.

Yes! What surprised Bobby is the daily of young African player and his football. If you add to that the mismanagement of sports policy, you will understand that these players, I mean players who come out of these countries have an Iron mental. We wonder why not even let the management of Federations to former footballers because they lived similar situations, they have the expertise needed to lift these countries out of those endless No! For those who run their football treats them very often illiterate. Consequence, footballers plays football, politicians and leaders of federations become richer. 

The worst thing is the mass exodus of African footballers to Europe, Asia, etc.... add to that indebtedness of families already living in unbearable poverty. What about the face that returns the practice of this discipline of these countries? National championships are struggling, shaken by unprecedented uncertainty, premiums homeopathic dose, lack of sports policy, with the coronation mass exodus of players. Understandably, the sport subsisting on the willingness of some people who plead without expecting anything in return, presents a bleak image, a critical state in which the sanctions should now be directed.

Governments in these countries had to fight to re-brand their image, a record of all outrages. The proof, behaviors of African players in World Cup (Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria). If only this was a mismanagement problem, it would be resolved fairly quickly. It is a planning problem. Over there, things manage day to day challenges all management sciences. We will call it improvisation. But the toughest part is that even in improvisation some experience takes. For us it is nothing other than the Witchcraft. We may say that these players are not patriotic because premiums CLAIM but let us be serious. How comes that players play and leaders are already planning their prime and not that for the actors. Add to this a lack of vision; you will see that African football will die if the thing does not do otherwise.

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