Final round in the overall CONCACAF Nations league

Last matchday at the Nations league event from CONCACAF region. After completing phase 4 we will have the answer of which teams are going to play in A, B or C league. However, the first 10 teams are still catching the main prize: going to the main event this summer - CONCACAF Gold Cup. All the following matches are from the final, fourth stage, except one duel which was suspended last year.

21 March, Thursday at 20.00 CET: British Virgin Islands - Turks and Caicos Islands.
21 March, Thursday at 20.00 CET: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Bonaire.

22 March, Friday at 20.00 CET: Anguilla - United States Virgin Islands.
22 March, Friday at 23.00 CET: Saint Lucia - Aruba.
22 March, Friday at 23.30 CET: Cayman Islands - Montserrat.

23 March, Saturday at 19.30 CET: Dominica - Bahamas.
23 March, Saturday at 20.00 CET: Sint Maarten - Saint Martin.
23 March, Saturday at 23.00 CET: Antigua and Barbuda - Curacao.
23 March, Saturday at 23.30 CET: Guyana - Belize.
23 March, Saturday at 23.30 CET: Suriname - Saint Kitts and Nevis.

24 March, Sunday at 01.00 CET: Guadeloupe - Martinique.
24 March, Sunday at 03.00 CET: El Salvador - Jamaica.
24 March, Sunday at 20.00 CET: British Virgin Islands - Bonaire (play from round 3).
24 March, Sunday at 21.00 CET: Puerto Rico - Grenada.
24 March, Sunday at 22.00 CET: Dominican Republic - Bermuda.
24 March, Sunday at 23.00 CET: Canada - French Guiana.
24 March, Sunday at 23.30 CET: Haiti - Cuba.

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New cycle of qualifiers

The old continent is going to start a new set of qualifiers: for the complicated EURO 2020 event. As there is / are no privileged country / countries who can qualify directly for the ending competition every member nation is going to have a good sweat, just to get to the finals. For next week are scheduled to start these (a year long) qualifiers, plus on the weekend only 10 duels are going to open from round 2.

21 March, Thursday at 16.00 CET: Kazakhstan - Scotland.
21 March, Thursday at 18.00 CET: Cyprus - San Marino.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Austria - Poland.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Belgium - Russia.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Croatia - Azerbaijan.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Israel - Slovenia.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Netherlands - Belarus.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: North Macedonia (previously known as FYRoM) - Latvia.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Northern Ireland - Estonia.
21 March, Thursday at 20.45 CET: Slovakia - Hungary.

22 March, Friday at 18.00 CET: Bulgaria - Montenegro.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: Albania - Turkey.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: Andorra - Iceland.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: England - Czech Republic.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: Luxembourg - Lithuania.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: Moldova - France.
22 March, Friday at 20.45 CET: Portugal - Ukraine.

23 March, Saturday at 15.00 CET: Georgia - Switzerland.
23 March, Saturday at 18.00 CET: Gibraltar - Republic of Ireland.
23 March, Saturday at 18.00 CET: Malta - Faroe Islands.
23 March, Saturday at 18.00 CET: Sweden - Romania.
23 March, Saturday at 20.45 CET: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Armenia.
23 March, Saturday at 20.45 CET: Italy - Finland.
23 March, Saturday at 20.45 CET: Liechtenstein - Greece.
23 March, Saturday at 20.45 CET: Spain - Norway.

24 March, Sunday at 15.00 CET: Kazakhstan - Russia.
24 March, Sunday at 15.00 CET: Wales - Slovakia.
24 March, Sunday at 18.00 CET: Hungary - Croatia.
24 March, Sunday at 18.00 CET: Israel - Austria.
24 March, Sunday at 18.00 CET: San Marino - Scotland.
24 March, Sunday at 20.45 CET: Cyprus - Belgium.
24 March, Sunday at 20.45 CET: Netherlands - Germany.
24 March, Sunday at 20.45 CET: Northern Ireland - Belarus.
24 March, Sunday at 20.45 CET: Poland - Latvia.
24 March, Sunday at 20.45 CET: Slovenia - North Macedonia.

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Whistleblowing means nothing anymore

A hacker, who so far have revealed plenty of irregularities and corruption in football, is going to be extradited to his native country: Portugal. Living in Budapest from 2015, Rui Pinto has hacked millions of documents revealing dirty businesses in the sport. The main source of 'Football leaks' was arrested on 16 January in Hungary, while last Tuesday the court confirmed that is going to be returned to Portugal who is accusing him for 'theft of data from some institutions, including the state itself, and attempt of blackmail of investment fund Maltese Doyen'. After an rejected appeal this Thursday, his lawyer said that the 30-year-old is going to be delivered to his native country within 10 days.

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Last eight pairs

In total we have 8 duels which are equally divided on two competitions or in other words we have reached the quarter final stage. And to find out who is playing who, the European football organization today conducted the draw whose games are going to be played next month. Starting from quarterfinal phase all games will kick-off at the same time, and with this UEFA concludes the draws for 2018-19 season for these two events.

For the first time at the knockout phase all duels for the Champions league are going to be played on the same month. Quarterfinal matches for the first 90 minutes are 09 and 10 April, whilst 7 nights later are the return legs. The schedule for last 8 looks like this:

1. Ajax - Juventus.
2. Liverpool - Porto.
3. Tottenham - Manchester City.
4. Barcelona - Manchester United (later in the day, this duel was inverted).

30 April and 01 May are first the dates for the first semifinal games, while 07 and 08 May are the second duels. The line-up is the following:

Winner of quarterfinal 3 is going to play against the winner of quarterfinal 1.
Victory team from quarterfinal 4 will play against the victory team from quarterfinal 2.

On Saturday, 01 June the Spanish capital will stage the last game of this event. The 'home' club in Madrid is going to be the first semifinal pair who is going to play against the second semifinal pair on Wanda Metropolitano stadium.

After the really exciting drama until late last night, on Friday afternoon we had to learn who are the quarterfinal pairs for the second and most enjoyable event to watch. Unlike the previous tournament, only two nights are reserved for Europa league games: quarterfinals are going to be played on 11 and 18 April with the following schedule:

1. Napoli - Arsenal (later in the day, this pair was reversed).
2. Villarreal - Valencia.
3. Benfica - Eintracht Frankfurt.
4. Slavia Prague - Chelsea.

On 02 and 09 May are the dates for semifinals, and the line up looks like this:

Victory club of quarterfinal 1 will play against victory team of quarterfinal 2.
Quarterfinal winner 3 is going to play against quarterfinal winner 4.

On the last Wednesday in May this competition will have a new winner. Semifinal duel number 2 is going to be written as 'hosts' who is going to play against the winning club of semifinal 1 match in Baku (Azerbaijan).

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Unbelievable show at the capital of Czech Republic

Krasnodar - Valencia 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 85 (84.38) Magomed Shapi-Suleymanov
              1:1 90+3 (92.28) Goncalo Guedes

Red Bull Salzburg - Napoli 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 14 (13.23) Arkadiusz Milik
              1:1 24 (24.15) Moanes Dabour
              2:1 65 (64.23) Fredrik Gulbrandsen
              3:1 90+1 (90.59) Christoph Leitgeb

Dynamo Kyiv - Chelsea 0:5

Scorers: 0:1 05 (04.33) Olivier Giroud
              0:2 32 (32.17) Olivier Giroud
              0:3 45+1 (45.42) Marcos Alonso
              0:4 59 (58.45) Olivier Giroud
              0:5 78 (77.23) Callum Hudson-Odoi

Villarreal - Zenit Saint Petersburg 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 (28.24) Gerard Moreno
              2:0 47 (46.38) Carlos Bacca
              2:1 90 (90.13) Branislav Ivanovic

Slavia Prague - Sevilla 2:2, after extra time 4:3

Scorers: 1:0 14 (13.55) Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui
              1:1 44-pen (43.22) Wissam ben Yedder
              2:1 46-pen Tomas Soucek
              2:2 53 (53.10) Munir el Haddadi
              2:3 97 (97.11) Franco Vazquez
              3:3 102 (101.20) Mick van Buren
              4:3 119 (118.54) Ibrahim Benjamin Traore

Benfica - Dinamo Zagreb 1:0, after extra time 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 70 (70.12) Jonas Goncalves Oliveira (simply known as Jonas)
              2:0 94 (93.32) Francisco Ferreira (simply known as Ferro)
              3:0 105 (104.38) Alejandro Grimaldo

- Bad boy was Petar Stojanovic (Dinamo Zagreb) who received his second yellow card at 103 (103.00).

Additional information: Valencia, Napoli, Chelsea, Villarreal, Slavia Prague, Benfica qualified for the third knockout phase.

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