Bolívar needs to win today and do so by two goals or better if more. Bolívar
needs two conditions that must be met: yes or yes to achieve their
qualification for the knockout stages of the Copa Libertadores de America. In
contrast to his opponent Argentina's Racing Club, this team is in better
situation and needs tie or even losing both to pass to the semifinals.
Bolívar necesita ganar hoy y hacerlo por dos goles de diferencia o mejor
si es por más, una doble condición que debe cumplir sí o sí para lograr su
clasificación a los octavos de final de la Copa Libertadores de América. En
cambio a su rival, el argentino Racing Club, le alcanza con empatar o incluso
perder por un tanto para pasar.
Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian-born founder of a multi million cell phone number one in U.S. distribution company is the
new CEO of Sprint, the major number tree of the United States wireless carriers.
Executives of Sprint made its announcement about Marcelo Claure, 43, after it dropped its bid for rival wireless carrier T-Mobile.
Claure will replace Sprint’s longtime CEO Dan Hesse. Claure is the founder and CEO of Miami-based cell phone distribution
giant Brightstar Corp. He built Brightstar into the world's largest
distributor of cellphones.
Claure, who will assume his new post on Aug. 11, last year sold control of Brightstar to Japan’s Softbank Corp., which
bought 70 percent of Sprint last year. Softbank will be acquiring
Claure's stake in the Brightstar, it said. The businessman is a member of Sprint’s board.
While he loves business and the wireless world, Claure also is known for his passion for soccer.
He joined soccer star David Beckham in an effort to bring a Major League Soccer team to South Florida.
“What surprices me is that the most dynamic and cosmopolitan city in the
U.S. doesn’t have a soccer team,” Claure told reporters in May. “Now all
the stars are aligned.”
Claure owns Bolivia’s top soccer team, Club Bolivar. He bought the team in 2008.
Claure is rumored to have a net worth over more than $1 billion. Brightstar had about $7 billion in revenue in the year ending June 2013, according to Blomberg.
The Bolivian businessman holds investments in Bolivia and Mexico, according to Bloomberg.
“I’m happy with the amount of wealth I’ve created for myself,” Claure said, refusing to elaborate. “I like to leave it at that.”
Among the challenges ahead for the new CEO will be completing the
rollout of high-speed services and
stemming the defection of customers
to competitors.
In his own statement, Claure suggested Sprint would be taking on Verizon and AT&T through price cuts.
"We will focus on becoming extremely cost efficient and competing
aggressively in the marketplace. While consolidating makes sense in the
long-term, for now, we will focus on growing and repositioning Sprint,"
he said.
Video: Bolivar: 1, Lanus: 1 in Lanus Stadium, Argentina (see 9,000 Bolivar fans)
San Lorenzo Vs. Bolivar
Club Bolivar Academy
Lanus Team in Buenos Aires
Semifinals 2014: Copa Libertadores
Askargorta: Bolivar Coach
Bolivar fans at Lanus stadium Argentina (9,000 Bolivar fans) after the Bolivar gol June, 2014
July 22, 2014
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Marco A. Ayllon
There are more than 15,000 Bolivar prepared fans to go to Argentina so they
could enjoy see the game between Club Bolivar Vs. San Lorenzo. More than 4,000 Bolivians
and Bolivar fans purchased tickets and will visit the San Lorenzo’s “Nuevo Gasometro”
stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bolivar fans are frustrated and dissatisfied,
because they could not purchase any more tickets. San Lorenzo’s out of 50,000
seats will sell only 4,000 to Bolivian fans. Usually in these international events
locals should sale about 15 percent out of 100 percent to the visitors as a courtesy.
Bolivians requested for more tickets and were denied. San Lorenzo management
applied illegal and selfish policy for this event. Nuevo Gasometro stadium is
located near by a Bolivian neighbor in Buenos Aires, where they live more than
9,000 Bolivians.
Most of them are professionals, business executives, and well organized
in clubs overseen by a Bolivian Consulate in Buenos Aires. “We are arranging
and preparing to receive our champions Bolivar club, and make them feel comfortable
to the team and players,” said Alex Carmini a Bolivar fan.
Xabier Azkargorta, the last man to coach Bolivia at the World Cup finals 20
years ago, is this month seeking to add another extraordinary milestone to his
remarkable Soccer Coach career in the best South American soccer “Copa
Libertadores” FIFA tournament.
The Basque Azkargorta, who led Bolivia
at the 1994 finals in the United States, having qualified for the first time
since 1950, is now hoping to make his current club Bolivar the first from
Bolivia to reach the final of South America's top club competition, the
Libertadores Cup. Standing in their way are the Copa Libertadores favorites San
Lorenzo, who they visit in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (2245 GMT) for the first
leg of a keenly-anticipated semi-final.
The long-awaited clash follows the resumption of the competition after a
10-week break for the World Cup finals in Brazil
when Uruguay's
Defensor Sporting visit Nacional of Paraguay for the first leg of their
semi-final in Asuncion on Tuesday (0015 GMT).
Azkargorta, 60, who sports a bushy
white moustache, is looking to veteran former Ecuador striker Carlos
Tenorio, signed last month, for goals as he seeks an upset at the Nuevo
Gasometro.
"Bolivar have shown what's already
happened in Ecuador with (2008 champions) LDU Quito - that it isn't only the
big teams from Brazil and Argentina
that can win international titles," said Tenorio.
I like how they
prepare for games and all the professional support from psychologists, nutritionists,
and doctors. They give to us vitamins and supplements after each practice.
Tenorio has an asset he shares with the Bolivians in the team, based in La
Paz 3,600 meters above sea level, having been accustomed to the thin air of
Quito at 2,800 meters, an advantage Bolivar are keen to exploit in the home leg
against San Lorenzo next week. San Lorenzo's coach Edgardo Bauza is looking to
win the trophy for a second time after seeing his LDU Quito side crowned as
Ecuador's first South American champions in 2008.
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The 56-year-old Argentine was in danger
of losing a top trio of players during the long break, while the World Cup took
place, but negotiations have ensured forward Ignacio Piatti sees the tournament
out before his move to Montreal
Impact in Canada. Paraguayan holding midfielder Nestor Ortigoza's contract
with San Lorenzo was due to end on June 30 but he managed to agree a new
three-year deal.
Veteran Leandro Romagnoli had a red card in the quarter-final annulled by
regional governing body CONMEBOL after a mistake by the referee. San Lorenzo
need the trio for their tilt at the trophy and to end years of jibes by fans of
the other four teams in Argentina's so-called Big Five -- Boca Juniors, River
Plate, Independiente and Racing Club, all Libertadores Cup winners.
In the wake of Brazil's humiliating semi-final exit from their own World Cup
finals, this year's last four line-up is the first since 1991 not to feature a
Brazilian team -- and it will therefore be the first time since 2005 that
Brazil has not supplied a finalist.It will also be the first time that the
champions have not come from Brazil since 2009. Ronaldinho's title holders
Atletico Mineiro were eliminated by Atletico Nacional of Colombia in the round
of 16.
None of the four semi-finalists have reached the final before and Bolivar
are the first Bolivian side to reach the last four since they did so in 1986.
The 87th minute winner was
accompanied on Bolivian TV by recognized newscaster and his awesome
commentating, with the commentator basically crying on live TV.
Watch the video below.
May 15, 2014
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Dallas, TX
Club Bolivar reached the Copa
Libertadores semi-finals after playing elegant, and implementing exceptional soccer
with a 1-0 memorable win over a weak and pathetic Lanus in La Paz, setting up a
last four encounter against Argentine San Lorenzo with a 2-1 aggregate victory.
Bolivar played an organized, and aggressive game; while Lanus instigated and accomplished
many dishonest fouls.
Uruguay's Defensor Sporting also
qualified, beating 1989 champions Atletico Nacional of Colombia 1-0 in
Montevideo in the second leg of their quarter-final for a 3-0 aggregate victory
and a semi-final berth against Paraguay's Nacional.
Club Bolivar struck three minutes
from the end of their second leg encounter when striker Juan Carlos Arce tapped home a rebound after
midfielder Gerardo Yecerotte's marvelous
dribbling effort was turned onto the post by goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin.
The Bolivian side took control of
the contest in the second half as the thin air, and constant Bolivar ruling made
Lanus players run slow in the Hernando Siles stadium, the world's highest international
venue at 3,600 meters, eventually took its toll on the Argentine side.
Bolivar center forward William
Ferreira hit the bar with a long-distance looping shot in the first half but
the visitors were unorganized, slow, and a man short for the final half hour
after defender Carlos Izquierdoz was dismissed for an off-the-ball hitting unfairly
a Bolivar player incident.
Bolivar's multi-millionaire owner Marcelo Claure
had promised his team he would take them to see the World Cup final in Rio de
Janeiro on July 13 if they reached the semi-finals of South America's top club
competition.
"We'll be the only (club) side
at the World Cup final and we'll do our pre-season in Brazil," the
business magnate said.
San Lorenzo booked their ticket to
the last four, to be held after the World Cup finals, when they eliminated
twice former winners Cruzeiro 2-1 on aggregate on Wednesday.
Famous Bolivar will again enjoy home
advantage in the second leg of their semi-final, scheduled for July 30, after
visiting San Lorenzo for the first leg in Buenos Aires on July 23.
