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
Nautilus News Sports
Marco A. Ayllon
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.
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.
"They got this far because of the great squad there is. I'm very hopeful," the 35-year-old striker said in an interview published on Monday in the Bolivian daily La Razon: http://www.la-razon.com/marcas/futbol/Carlos-Demoledor-Tenorio-refuerzo-Bolivar_0_2076392414.html, and at: El Deber (http://www.eldeber.com.bo/carlos-tenorio-hay-que-hacer-historia-en-el-partido-del-mircoles/140721003519) Tenorio mentioned that, “ I’ve played in many teams around the World, but I love the way how Bolivar implement effective management: I got impressed about Bolivar and how they implement organization in different areas.
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.
TOP TRIO
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.
