Friday, September 27, 2013

Breast Implants Banned From The Rings

The Louisiana State's Boxing and Wrestling Commission, has enacted an emergency rule, banning Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) women fighters, with breast implants from competing in any state scheduled bouts.

However, the rule stated that fighters, who wants to participate in a bout in the state, must produce a clearance from the doctor, who performed their surgery.

Woman with Breast Implants (O.Shapoval - Dreamtimes)
 
The new rule covers boxing and mixed martial arts, but not wrestling, which is also a combating sport under the control and regulation of the commission.

The commissioner of the organisation, Mr Harold Williams, said during the meeting, that those who want to look good, should not be in the fighting ring. In order words, one cannot be aiming to appear beautiful and be combating in a brutal sport.

''If they want to look good, then they don't have to be in the ring,'' he said.

What prompted the organisation to act and make such rule now, was that a woman fighter, who was scheduled for a fight in the state, withdrew from the match, due to a problem she was having with her breast implants.

Read: africanfootie.blogspot.com

The Commission decided to act, fearing the financial implications, if a woman develops breast implants problem in a fighting ring.

According to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the rule was temporary (60 days), as the Commission collects more information  on the issue.

Louisiana  is the first state in the United Satates, to make such a ban. Maybe some of the other states will follow there example. Breast implants can be very dangerous and life threatening, if it starts to lick, or even got bursted in a bout.

I fully understand the nervousness of the commission on the issue.
It was the correct decision to take, before any disaster takes place in a fight.
What do you think? Do you think that the commission was correct to act.
Please, use the comment link to post your reaction to the ban. Thanks.


Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ibrahimovic Extends PSG contract

The Swedish international and Paris Saint Germain (PSG), top striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic (31), has signed a one year extention to his contract with the club. With this extention deal he will stay in the club till 2016.

Ibrahimovic, who started his professional football career, with his home town club, FF Malmo in Sweden, has played for a number of high profile clubs in Europe - Ajax Amsterdam, Inter Milan, Juventus, Barcelona and AC Milan from where he joined the Paris club on a transfer fee of €20m last season (2012).

He showed his talent and quality, as he adapt immediately to the style and culture of the club and became the highest goal scorer of the league, with 30 goals in 34 matches. This is an amazing result. No wonder why the club was nervous, when speculation was high during the transfer season, that he may join his coach Carlo Ancelotti, who left in the summer and took charge of the Spanish giant club, Real Madrid.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

His goals helped PSG to win their first league title since 1994. The club stregthened their attacking force, during the transfer season, and brought in the highest goal scorer in Serie A, last season Edison Carvani, of Napoli, to pair up with Zlantan Ibrahimovic. It was envisaged that both will form a leathal force, that will be difficult for any defence to stop.

Read: africanfootie.blogspot.com

Zlatan thinks that the ambition of the club, to be among the big clubs in Europe suits him very well. He believes that no club has a bigger ambition in Europe, than PSG and he wants to be part of it.

''I can't see a bigger ambition in Europe than PSG,'' he said.

The powerful striker also said, that he wants the club to be last big club he has to play for in his career. He even likened the club ambition to his own.

''I absolutely want PSG to be the last great club of my career. This club is like me - no dream is big enough for us,'' he said.

When he was asked, if he still wants to play in the English Premier League. He said, that he thinks at this stage of his career, the time has passed for him to go to the EPL, but added quickly, that you never know in football, he may still play there, fingers crossed.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Weekend European Major League Results

Dutch Eredivisie
Vitesse                   3 - 0  Zwolle
Feyenoord              1 - 0  Utrecht
NAC                      3 - 0  AZ
PSV                       4 - 0  Ajax
Heracles                0 - 3  Twente
Den Haag              1 - 1  NEC
Groningen             4 - 1  RKC
Roda JC                3 - 3  Heerenveen
Go Ahead Eagles  0 - 0  Cambuur


English Premier League
Arsenal              3 - 1  Stoke City
Crystal Palace   0 - 2  Swansea
Cardiff City       0 - 1  Tottenham
Man City           4 - 1   Man United
Chelsea             2 - 0   Fulham
West Ham         2 - 3   Everton 
Norwich            0 - 1   Aston Villa
Newcastle         2 - 3   Hull City
West Brom       3 - 0   Sunderland
Liverpool          0 - 1   Southampton

 
Spanish La Liga     
Osasuna              2 - 1   Elche
Rayo Vallecano  0 - 4   Barcelona
Valldolid            0 - 2   Atletico Madrid
Almeria              2 - 2   Levante
Real Sociedad    0 - 0   Malaga
Celta de Vigo     0 - 0   Villarreal
Real Madrid       4 - 1   Getafe
Valencia             3 - 1   Sevilla
Real Betis           0 - 0   Granada 

German Bundesliga
B. M'gladbach   4 - 1   Braunschweig
Hamburg            0 - 2   Bremen
Schalke              0 - 4   Bayern
Hannover 96      2 - 1   Augsburg
Wolfsburg          2 - 1   Hoffenheim
Mainz                 1 - 4   Leverkusen
Nuremberg         1 - 1   Dortmund
Freiburg             1 - 1   H. Berlin
Stuttgart             1 - 1   E. Frankfurt

Serie A
Cagliari       2 - 2   Sampdoria
Chievo        2 - 1    Udinese
Genoa         0 - 0    Livorno
Sassuolu     0 - 7    Inter Milan
Atalanta      0 - 2    Fiorentina
AC Milan   1 - 2    Napoli
Roma          2 - 0    Lazio
Juventus      2 - 1    Verona
Catania        0 - 0    Parma
Bologna      1 - 2    Torino

French Ligue 1
St Etienne         1 - 2   Toulouse
Evian Thonon   2 - 2   Montpeille
Bastia                0 - 0   Marseille
Reims                1 - 1   Guingamp
Rennes               2 - 0   Ajaccio
Sochaux             0 - 2   Lille
PSG                   1 -  1   Monaco
Nice                   4 -  0   Valenciennes
Lyon                  3  - 1   Nantes
Lorient               3 -  3   Bordeaux

Portuguese Premeira Liga
Arouca           0 - 1   Braga
Gil Vicente    1 - 1   Olhanense
Sporting         1 - 1   Rio Ave
Belenenses     1 - 0   Maritimo
Guimaraes      0 - 1   Benfica
Nacional         1 - 0   Academica
Estoril Praia    2 - 2   Porto
Pacos Ferreira    -      Vitoria Setubal

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Ajax Fans Banned Against PSV Encounter

The fans of the Dutch Eredivisie defending champion - Ajax was banned from attending their sunday encounter with their arch-rival PSV Eindhoven. The mayor of the city of Eindhoven Mr Rob van Gijzel, did not allow Ajax fans to travel to Eindhoven for the match with coaches as trains was unavailable due to engineering work on the rail lines.

Frank de Boer
Mr van Gijzel, made the decision on the basis of fear of fans violence. But Ajax was not happy about it, so they went to court to get the decision over-turned, they lost the case. The court agreed with the mayor's decision.

"We are disappointed because the club think it important that its fans can attend all away matches,'' Ajax stated.

The match was played today (sunday) and Ajax was thrashed 4 - 0, the same margin they suffered against Barcelona in Nou Camp in the champions league this week. The winning took PSV to the top of the league table after 7 matches with 15 points while Ajax is at the 7th position with 11 points. It was a painful defeat for Frank de Boer coached team.

Since 16th August 2009, Ajax has not lost any match at the Philip stadium. Ajax won PSV 3 - 2 in the stadium last season. The club has to put this humiliating defeat behind them very quickly and be ready for their next match. De Boer, his coaching staff with the players will be watching the video to pin-point what they did wrong and fix it before their next match.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Totti Signs New Roma Extention Deal

Francesco Totti, the 37 year old captain of the Serie A side AS Roma and former Italian international, has just signed a new two year contract deal, to extend his playing days at the club.

The new contract plus a year remaining in his old contract, will keep him at the club until he turns 40 years in the next three years. It will then put him in the exclusive group of players who played the beautiful game until they were in their forties, such as Edwin van der Sar, Roger Miller, David James.

Francesco Totti
 
The deadly striker, showed his appreciation of the contract extention and said after signing it, ''It's what I and the club wanted. I thanked them for giving me another chance, to wear the shirt of the only team I've ever supported and loved.''

''I have another two years of responsibility and I know that we can do great things here,'' Totti said.

''So far this season we've got off on the right foot, we have a manager who wants his team to play and demands respect, which we haven't had recently,'' the highly gifted attacker added.

Francesco Totti, who has played his club career only with AS Roma, won numerous awards, that one needs an enormous space to list them all. So I will just endeavour to mention, but a few of them. He started playing for the club at the age of sixteen years.

Honours:
Serie A champion in 2000
Serie A footballer of the year twice (2000, 2003)
Italian footballer of the year five times
Serie A goal of the year twice (2005, 2006)
Serie A top scorer of the year (2006/07)
European Golden Shoe (2006/07)

He played for the Azzurri (national team) 58 times scored 9 times, which paled in comparism to his scoring record at AS Roma. There he scored 228 times. He is regarded in the club as a legend. Totti, who is married with two children retired from the national team after winning the 2006 World Cup.


Europa League Results (19/09/13)

Group  A
St. Gallen   2 - 0  Kuban Krasnodar
Valencia     0 - 3  Swansea City

Group  B
Din Zagreb  1 - 2  Choronomorets Odessa
PSV             0 - 2  Ludogorets Razgrad

Group  C
SV Salzburg      4 - 0  Elsborg
Standard Liege  1 - 2  Esbjerg

Group  D
NK Maribor       2 - 5  Rubin Kazan
Zulte-Waregem 0 - 0  Wigan Athletics

Samuel Etoo for Anzhi
 
Group  E
Fiorentina          3 - 0  Pacos Ferreira
Pandurii Targu  0 - 1  Dnipro

Group  F
Eintracht Frankfurt  3 - 0  Bordeaux
Maccabi Tel-Aviv   0 - 0  Apoel Nicosia

Group  G
Dynamo Kiev  0 - 1  Genk
Thun                1 - 0  Rapid Vienna

Group  H
Estoril Praia   1 - 2  Sevilla
SC Freiburg   2 - 2  Liberec

Group  I
Guimaraes      4 - 0  Rijeka
Real  Betis      0 - 0  Lyon

Group  J
Appolon Limassol  1 - 2  Trabzonspor
Lazio                      1 - 0  Legia Warsaw

Group  K
Sheriff  Tiraspol  0 - 0  Anzhi Makhachkala
Tottenham           3 - 0  Tromso

Group  L
Maccabi Haifa  0 - 1  AZ  Alkmaar
Poak Salonika  2 - 1  Shakhter Karagandy
    

Champions League Results (17 &18 Sept. 2013)

                      Champions League Results

Cesc Fabregas of Barcelona
 
Group  A
Manchester United  4 - 2  Bayer Leverkusen
Real Sociedad          0 - 2  Shaktar Donetsk

Group  B
FC Copenhagen  1 - 1  Juventus
Galatasaray         1 - 6  Real Madrid

Group  C
Benfica            2 - 0   Anderlecht
Olympiakos     1 - 4    PSG

Group  D
Bayern     3 - 0  CSKA Moscow
Plzen       0 - 3   Manchester City

Group  E
Chelsea    1 - 2  Basel
Schalke    3 - 0  Steaua Bucharest

Group  F
Marseille   1 - 2  Arsenal
Napoli       2 - 1  Borussia Dortmund

Group  G
Atletico Madrid   3 - 1  Zenit St. Petersburg
Austria Vienna    0 - 1  Porto

Group  H
AC   Milan  2 - 0  Celtic
Barcelona    4 - 0  Ajax