Matias Moroni to replace Marcelo Bosch for Argentina against Ireland

Argentina have moved winger Matias Moroni to outside centre in place of the suspended Marcelo Bosch for their World Cup quarter-final against Ireland on Sunday.

The make-up of the back division was the big decision facing Pumas coach Daniel Hourcade following the suspension of Bosch, who is the lynchpin of their defence.

Most of Hourcade's big names were rested for last weekend's match with Pool C minnows Namibia and there are 10 changes in total from that game.

Juan Martin Hernandez moves back to inside centre to make way for the return of fly-half Nicolas Sanchez, while Martin Landajo is preferred to Tomas Cubelli at scrum-half.

Moroni played on the right wing against Namibia but did play at outside centre in the previous match against Tonga.

Veteran back-row forward Juan Manuel Leguizamon has not recovered from injury and was left out of the squad for the match at the Millennium Stadium.

 Argentina head coach Daniel Hourcade

Saracens star Bosch is banned for a week for committing a dangerous tackle against Namibia.

"We believe this is our best team to face this match," Hourcade said. "They have a style similar to the southern hemisphere teams, committing few people in the contact areas and being accustomed to having the ball a lot of the time.

"They have great ball winning, a fantastic line-out, they are very patient, play well, don't get desperate."

Argentina have beaten Ireland in two of their three World Cup meetings.

"Those are statistics that have no influence, the players don't have them on their minds," Hourcade said.

"There are other types of statistics that matter, like Ireland having above 60 percent of possession in all their recent matches and 70 in one half against France."

Argentina: 15 Joaquin Tuculet, 14 Santiago Cordero, 13 Matias Moroni, 12 Juan Martin Hernandez, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Nicolas Sanchez, 9 Martin Landajo, 1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 Agustin Creevy (captain), 3 Ramiro Herrera, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomas Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, 8 Leonardo Senatore

Replacements: 16 Julian Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera, 18 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 19 Matias Alemanno, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Tomas Cubelli, 22 Jeronimo De La Fuente, 23 Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino

Source : http://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/22066/10030412/matias-moroni-to-replace-marcelo-bosch-for-argentina-against-ireland

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Kuwait threatened with FIFA ban for government interference

Kuwait's member of the FIFA executive committee Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait arrives in front of the FIFA headquarters before a meeting of the FIFA executive committee in Zurich, Switzerland September 24, 2015. 

 

REUTERS - Kuwait, home to influential sports power broker Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, has been threatened with a ban by FIFA because of government interference in the running of the local football association.

World governing body FIFA has given the Kuwait Football Association until next week to avoid the implementation of a new set of sports laws that FIFA believes threaten the autonomy of the KFA when they are due to come into force on Oct. 27.

At FIFA's executive committee meeting on September 25, the body decided to "contact the Kuwait Football Association about the new sport law and warn about a suspension if nothing is done by 15 October 2015 to avoid the implementation of the new law due to come into force on 27 October 2015."

"We can confirm that in accordance with the decision of the Executive Committee a letter was sent to the Kuwait FA," a FIFA spokesperson told Reuters.

The world governing body has traditionally taken a dim view of government interference and banned Kuwait's fellow Asian Football Confederation members Indonesia for the offence in May which ruled them out of the ongoing World Cup qualifying campaign.

Kuwait have twice previously been banned for government interference by FIFA in 2007 and 2008 and a third ban could have significant ramifications for the February elections to decide upon a new leader at the Switzerland-based body.

Sheikh Ahmad is a former oil minister, honorary president of the KFA, a member of the FIFA executive committee member and president of the Association of National Olympic Committees.

He carries significant sway in the 47-member Asian Football Confederation, who had previously backed Michel Platini to succeed Sepp Blatter. However, the AFC are understood to be monitoring that position following the ongoing corruption crisis at FIFA.

(Reporting by Simon Evans in Zurich and Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing by Amlan Chakraborty)

Source : http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/soccer-fifa-kuwait-idINKCN0S20X620151008

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Hope Solo's domestic violence case reinstated

Hope Solo, star goalkeeper of the U.S. Women’s national team, will face domestic violences charges after an appeals court on Friday reversed a decision to throw out the case.

Controversy about the charges flared during the World Cup, when Solo helped lead the team to the title and responded by saying she was the victim in the incdient and the case had been dismissed.  But now she will be facing charges yet again.

Stemming from a 2014 incident at the home of her half-sister, Solo initially faced two counts of domestic violence in the fourth degree. The half-sister, Teresa Obert, and Obert’s son, then a minor, said Hope attacked them during the incident.

No trial date has been set.


Source : http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2015/10/02/hope-solo-domestic-violence-case-reinstated/73218200/


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