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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Colombia is ready to win the title, France and South Korea try to avoid failure

With a perfect score, the host Colombia valorized his actions as a candidate for the title of U-20 World Cup 2.011 with collective strength and tactical discipline to win Group A, in which France woke up on the end and South Korea was saved from shipwreck .

The last chapter of the series on Friday night lived in Bogota and Cali (southwest) with Colombia as the main protagonist by adding 9 points in the lead, followed by France with 6, South Korea and Mali with 3 points removed without last step.

The top three advanced to the knockout stages, while the African cast managed to forget a performance in the eighteenth edition of the FIFA World Youth because of his poor campaign that failed to rescue even one unit was joined by the painful balance of 0 goals for and 6 against.

The boys of the Colombian coach Eduardo Lara performed with great perfection in all three games of the key football an idea based on the control of the ball, managing the pace of play, the pressure on the opponent and a dynamic offense that was reflected in goals scored.

It is precisely this vocation to attack the one most complained to Lara after the weak performance of coffee in the final round of the South American tournament in Peru, January and February, which just might score a goal in five matches.

Lara got the message and found two good sized players to straighten the road: midfielder James Rodriguez, Porto Portugal, and striker Luis Muriel, recently on loan from Udinese at Lecce, both from the Italian Serie A, for a season.

Road to the knockout, Colombia won 4-1 to France, defeated Mali 2-0 and won 1-0 to South Korea, perhaps the best match played by the homeowners.

"We are very pleased with the three victories.

We have faced three different footballing cultures and made it smart to take nine points.

There were three tough matches, we learned to solve and win and now we hope to continue well into the second round, "Lara looked at the DT.

For his part France found in the last two games against North Korea (3-1) and Mali (2-0), the points needed to guarantee its presence in the knockout phase.

His start was not an encouraging World, since you applied Colombia 4-1 in their opening lights did not think their classification.

However men were recovered before Francis Smerecki Asians and Africans were able to round up a campaign just to continue in competition fair, but not enough to aspire to other phases.

"The satisfaction is not complete for now, since we are not offering the accustomed level.

I would say we are playing 50% or 60% of our possibilities. The truth is that, somehow, I'm worried. Today was a psychological victory, but there are still many things to improve, "said Smerecki on the European champions.

South Korea, however, it began the tournament with an encouraging 2-0 victory against Mali, and ended up crashing with France (1-3) and Colombia (0-1), yet was saved from shipwreck by clinging to miracle of the four reserved tickets to the best third of the contest.

"We played a very tough group, and Colombia and France are two teams that can go far.

However, we beat Mali in the first game, which ultimately proved enough to give us the ranking, "said Lee Kwang-Jong DT, who acknowledged that his team must improve if it hopes to improve the Egyptian campaign-2.009, where they reached the quarterfinals.

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