31 March 2018

Five 'small' and one worst-ever fines

Four days from now the European competitions are going to resume with its quarter final duels, and UEFA from last and this week will collect a good amount (huge is a 'small' word to say, but decent is a correct one...except for the last penalty).
Champions league: From this tournament in total there are two punishments. Manchester City and Basel, who played on the first Wednesday this month, ended this duel with a well known win for the visitors. However, this historic night was spoiled with fireworks from Switzerland supporters, so yesterday the organization have decided that the club has to give away 8.000 euros. The following morning after the match with Real Madrid, L'Equipe newspaper reported that PSG fans lighted up in their own stadium 150 fireworks on 06 March. Whether that was the exact number or not, we will never know, but from last Thursday French champions are going to say goodbye to 43.000 euros. In addition to that in this fine is added: blocking stairways, lasers and too little security personnel...or in short - poor organization. Also, the team has to close part of its stadium, and that will happen next season (in September) because the club already qualified for 2018/19 tournament.
Europa league: In this section we begin with Crvena Zvezda - CSKA Moscow match from the first knock-out round. Fans from both clubs caused troubles with fireworks plus:  home team has blocked stairways and has to give 31.000 euros, while their opponents are penalized with 1.000 euros less (30.000 euros) as spectators threw various objects on the pitch. Last Thursday Olympique Marseille was penalized for the game against Athletic Bilbao which was this March. Due to serious fighting and fireworks from their fans the team has to: deliver 30.000 euros and forbidden to sell tickets as visitors for the next 2 games (first is going to be next Thursday against RasenBallsport Leipzig) plus the club got suspension for a probationary period of 2 years. And from today has been announced the biggest and record fine to date: one million euros in payment and 10 years out of European competitions - this burden belongs to Skenderbeu. The club from Korce is accused of match-fixing after suspicious plays in group phase games from 2015, when was playing with Besiktas, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. The Albanian team has announced that it will fight this injustice at the highest sporting and the Supreme court in Switzerland. There are couple of more problematic duels from this competition, but the decision for those are going to be judged later on.
All punishments here are in bold, so if you are good in mathematics you can calculate how many euros the European football organization will be rich from just 14 days.

30 March 2018

Offensive banner on a friendly match

Couple of days ago finished all preparatory games for the World Cup which is starting in three months time. Usually, in almost every stadium we can expect rude banners and offensive words which happened on one friendly match.
This Tuesday night, Montenegro and Turkey, who did not qualify for the main football event in June, played an entertaining 90 minutes with 4 goals. As players showed an interesting match on the pitch, on the stands was spotted one insulting banner. Group of supporters from Niksic who gathered in the south tribune spread 'F**k NATO pact' as a result of anniversary of the aggression on Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from the alliance, and that content was quickly shared on social media. Also, there was a flag of Anagastum (which is the oldest name of the town dated from fifth century).


29 March 2018

Back to football

Lower leagues in Greece have been playing uninterruptedly, but the top championship was suspended two weeks ago after ugly scenes happened on the pitch in a derby match. In order to avoid serious punishment from the world football organization, this Monday all 16 clubs have reached an agreement with the sports Minister Georgios Vassiliadis. As local media reported, the consent is saying the following: each club faces automatic relegation if have troubles with violence three times in one season, penalties for teams whose presidents incite rage in their statements, clubs will be responsible for security in matches plus police are going to be present on stadiums. Because all have said the affirmative word to these points Super league will continue this weekend (from 31 March).

28 March 2018

All representatives are known for the Asian championship

Just 5 days into 2019 the football world will turn to Asia as that continent is going to play its championship. After World Cup qualifiers in Russia - Asian zone (from the second round) qualified 12 teams: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Qatar, PR China, IR Iran, Japan, Syria, Thailand, Iraq, South Korea and Uzbekistan. As today finished the additional qualifiers for the Asian Cup 2019, the rest representatives who joins the event are: India, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, North Korea, Jordan, Vietnam, Oman, Palestine, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Philippines and Yemen. Three debut teams is going to contest at the seventeenth edition: Kyrgyzstan, Philippines and Yemen. Draw for the finals will be made on 04 May in Dubai.

Without a visiting win

North Korea - Hong Kong 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 18 Jong Il-Gwan
              2:0 24 Park Kwang-Ryong

Afghanistan - Cambodia 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 26 Jabar Sharza
              2:0 44 Jabar Sharza
              2:1 69 Khoun Laboravy

Chinese Taipei - Singapore 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 37 Chen Po-Liang

Myanmar - Macau 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 74 Kyi Lin

Philippines - Tajikistan 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 64-pen Akhtam Nazarov
              1:1 73 Kevin Ingreso
              2:1 90-pen Philip Younghusband

Kyrgyzstan - India 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 02 Anton Zemlianukhin
              2:0 71 Mirlan Murzaev
              2:1 87 Jeje Lalpekhlua

Jordan - Vietnam 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 24 Nguyen Cong Phuong
              1:1 71 Munther Abu Amarah

Lebanon - Malaysia 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 19-pen Hassan Maatouk
              1:1 72 Muhd Syafiq Ahmad
              2:1 90+4 Hilal el-Helwe

Oman - Palestine 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 87 Khalid al Hajri

Yemen - Nepal 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 24 Abdulwasea al Matari
              1:1 45 Nawayug Shrestha
              2:1 84-pen Abdulwasea al Matari

Bahrain - Turkmenistan 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 11 Abdulla Yusuf
              2:0 24 Abdulla Yusuf
              3:0 64 Sayed Redha Hashim
              4:0 67 Abdulla Yaser

Maldives - Bhutan 7:0

Scorers: 1:0 35 Hamza Mohamed
              2:0 66 Naiz Hassan
              3:0 69 Ibrahim Waheed Hassan
              4:0 77 Naiz Hassan
              5:0 79 Naiz Hassan
              6:0 81 Naiz Hassan
              7:0 90+3 Hussain Sifaau Yoosuf