Español

Home Communiques Articles Competitions Copa America (America Cup) World Cup Qualifying Round Pre- Olympic Under-23 South American Under-20 South American Under-17 South American Under-15 South American Women's Championship South American Women's Under-20 South American Women's Under-17 Futsal Copa America South American Futsal Under-20 South American Women's Futsal Beach Soccer World Cup Qualifier European / South American Cup Santander Libertadores Cup Nissan South American Cup VISA South American Cup Winners' Cup Suruga Bank Championship Inter American Cup South American Futsal Clubs Championship Mercosur Cup Merconorte Cup Conmebol Cup Joao Havelange Super Cup Pre- Toyota Libertadores Tournament Cup Winner's Cup Inter Continental Champions Super Cup Associations Calendar Ranking Conmebol Downloads Women's Football Futsal	Thursday, 08 May 2008   World Cup Qualifying Round Sudáfrica 2010 Tournament home News Matches / Standings History Regulation Sudáfrica 2010 Statistics "The Venezuelan player has to work twice" 05 / 04 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/abr5.maldonado-tapa_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> America's Golden Shoe, granted by the Spanish magazine "Don Balón", had two winners. It had been exclusive of Martín Palermo until the second final of the Mexican Opening Tournament in Cancún. Giancarlo Maldonado converted one of the two goals that secured the Aztec title for Atlante, after a 15-year lapse, thus totalizing 18 points in the semester and 26 during the whole year, and the result was that he was entitled to share the award. He euphorically celebrated this feat enwrapped in a Venezuelan flag at the Andrés Quintana Roo Stadium. He became an idol, striker and champion in the short term of four months. Nine countries commit to play at high altitude 03 / 04 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/abr3.drleoz_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> The Executive Committee of the South American Football Confederation and the presidents of the ten National Associations participated in an important meeting that lasted more than five hours, in which an extensive debate took place around the veto imposed by FIFA to playing football in cities at high altitude. Diverse topics were also considered.   Otras Noticias "The best of Paraguayan football is yet to come" 29 / 03 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/mar28.anapout-tapa_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> At 31 years of age, he was appointed to preside Cerro Porteño, one of Paraguay's football symbols, and he attained the championship. Later on, he coordinated the Paraguayan Association's National teams Committee for many years, always hand to hand with success. In the month of February of the previous year, he was selected to occupy the prime seat of Guaraní football. He is the president that leads the World Cup's South American Preliminaries. Pelé: "Brazil will organize a World Cup that will be an example to the world" 07 / 03 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/mar7.pele2014_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> The legendary Pele, symbol and maximum glory of Brazilian football, was formally invited by the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, Ricardo Teixeira, to integrate the Local Organizing Committee of the World Cup of 2014. The Santos and national team idol accepted the invitation and posed with the jersey of the World Cup. The news was disclosed in the official home of the CBF this Thursday 6. "The Bolivian people believed in me" 29 / 02 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/feb29.mmartins_01_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> Restless, anxious, curious, though at the same time, calm and relaxed. That is what Marcelo Martins looks like and is known in Bolivia, or Marcelo Moreno, as he is called in Brazil. This forward was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and his father, Mauro Martins, is Brazilian and played in Palmeiras. He met Ruth Moreno in Bolivia and Marcelo is the fourth of seven brothers. All of them have the double nationality. He was summoned by two Brazilian juvenile national teams. With 20 tears of age, he is a regular player in Cruzeiro and the new hope of Bolivia?s National Team. "Libertad is a Cup winner and it can win the Libertadores" 25 / 02 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/feb25.cuevas-treino_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> Just as the Libertad team arrived at the hotel in Buenos Aires, a dozen journalists quickly approached Nelson Cuevas, the charismatic and impish Guarani forward, who during six seasons played for Buenos Aires' River Plate and now returned to Paraguay to play in the Gumarelo (Libertad) squad. CONMEBOL gave support to Bolivia to play in La Paz 22 / 01 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/ene22.reunion-ce-leoz_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> The Executive Committee of the South American Football Confederation ratified, unanimously the support to the Bolivian Football Federation for disputing matches at great height, as is the case of the city of La Paz. The determination was taken after nearly 4 hours of deliberation carried out at the Quilin sport complex of the Chilean Football Federation in Santiago. Brazil presents its new second jersey, inspired by that of the 58 World Cup 22 / 01 / 2008 <img src="/csf/pub/articulo/2008/fotos/ene22.zito-djalma_85x85.gif" width="85" height="85" border="1" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="7"> The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) presented its new alternative national team jersey yesterday, inspired by the model which Brazil wore when it won its first world championship, in 1958. The presentation of the new substitute uniform maintaining the blue color, featured the presence of Djalma Santos and Zito, two of the players that participated in the historical 5-2 victory against host Sweden in Stockholm, in the final of the 1958 World Cup, that brought Brazil the first world title for its national team.	Previous Editions ........................... Edition - 2006 Edition - 2002 Edition - 1998 report 21 / 11 / 2007 0 Chile 3 Paraguay report 21 / 11 / 2007 2 Brazil 1 Uruguay report 21 / 11 / 2007 5 Ecuador 1 Perú Country Club Pts. ARG Boca Juniors 1023 BOL Bolívar 396 BRA São Paulo FC 702 CHI Colo Colo 533 COL Atlético Nacional 490 ECU Barcelona 420 PAR Olimpia 910 PER Universitario 430 URU Peñarol 1094 VEN Deportivo Galicia 108
	Executive Director: Eduardo Deluca; Commercial Director: Alberto Almirall; Editorial Director: Jorge Barraza; Editor: Eduardo Barraza; Colaborators: Andrés Castelli and Martín Barraza; Photography: Alfieri Photo Copyright 1997-2007. South American Football Confederation. All rights reserved