Arturo Vidal es el único chileno en la lista del Balón de Oro 2016

La revista France Football incluyó al volante del Bayern Múnich en la nómina de 30 nombres que buscan el galardón. Cristiano Ronaldo y Lionel Messi encabezan los seleccionados.

Arturo Vidal será el único jugador chileno que competirá por el Balón de Oro 2016, que nuevamente organiza la revista francesa France Football, que ha tomado el control total del premio, tras varios años junto a FIFA.
La publicación reveló la lista de jugadores de a poco y en orden alfabético, por lo que la aparición del volante del Bayern Múnich fue en el último lugar.
En la nómina destacan el portugués Cristiano Ronaldo, el argentino Lionel Messi y el italiano Gianluigi Buffon, entre otros.
Ésta es la lista completa de candidatos al Balón de Oro.
– Sergio Agüero (Argentina y Manchester City, ING)
– Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabón y Borussia Dortmund, ALE)
– Gareth Bale (Gales y Real Madrid, ESP)
– Gianluigi Buffon (Italia y Juventus, ITA)
– Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid, ESP)
– Paulo Dybala (Argentina y Juventus, ITA)
– Kevin De Bruyne (Bélgica y Manchester City, ING)
– Diego Godín (Uruguay y Atlético Madrid, ESP)
– Antoine Griezmann (Francia y Atlético de Madrid, ESP)
– Gonzalo Higuaín (Italia y Juventus, ITA)
– Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Suecia y Manchester United, ING)
– Andrés Iniesta (España y FC Barcelona, ESP)
– Koke (España y Atlético Madrid, ESP)
– Toni Kroos (Alemania y Real Madrid, ESP)
– Robert Lewandowski (Polonia y Bayern Múnich, ALE)
– Hugo Lloris (Francia y Tottenham, ING)
– Riyad Mahrez (Argelia y Leicester City, ING)
– Lionel Messi (Argentina y FC Barcelona, ESP)
– Luka Modric (Croacia y Real Madrid, ESP)
– Thomas Müller (Alemania y Bayern Múnich, ALE)
– Manuel Neuer (Alemania y Bayern Múnich, ALE)
– Neymar (Brasil y FC Barcelona, ESP)
– Dimitri Payet (Francia y West Ham, ING)
– Pepe (Portugal y Real Madrid, ESP)
– Paul Pogba (Francia y Manchester United, ING)
– Rui Patricio (Portugal y Sporting Lisboa, POR)
– Sergio Ramos (España y Real Madrid, ESP)
– Luis Suárez (Uruguay y FC Barcelona, ESP)
– Jamie Vardy (Inglaterra y Leicester City, ING)
– Arturo Vidal (Chile y Bayern Múnich, ALE)

Festival Fauna Primavera define horarios y escenarios para su edición 2016

El evento se llevará a cabo este 12 de noviembre en Espacio Centenario durante el día y en Espacio Riesco en la noche.

La jornada del próximo sábado 12 de noviembre marcará el debut de una nueva modalidad para el festival Fauna Primavera, con dos recintos pare el evento que esta vez tendrá una edición diurna en el Espacio Centenario (Las Condes) y otra nocturna para mayores de 18 años en Espacio Riesco.
La primera contará con tres escenarios: el Adidas comenzará con La Femme (13.20 horas) y luego los shows de Kurt Vile (15.00), Brian Jonestown Massacre (17.15) y Primal Scream (19.45).
El escenario Heineken partirá con Camila Moreno (14.10) y le seguirán Courtney Barnett (16.15), Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros (18.30) y Air (21.00),
En tanto en el escenario RBMA abrirá los fuegos IIOII (13.oo) para continuar con  Aye Aye, Los Barbara Blade, Lia Nadja, Com Truise, Luisa Puterman, Mitú, Larry Gus, Trax Records Showcase y Underground Resistance a las 21.30 horas.
La edición nocturna también tendrá  dos escenarios: el Fauna Primavera que tendrá a Eggglub (22-30), Roísín Murphy (23.15), Matanza (00.30), Tiga (01.45) y Ellen Allien (03.15). Y el Heineken que arrancará  a las 22.00 con Más569 & Aurelius98, seguidos por Guerra, Fantasna, Trax Records Showcase, Andrea Paz y Roman & Castro a las 03.45.
Las entradas están disponibles a través del sistema Punto ticket. 

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ESPECTACULOS Y TELEVISION: sincera confesión de Carola de Moras

Pocas veces se da dado más rápidamente un ascenso hasta lo más alto de la televisión y la caída más inmediata y más dolorosa, como le ocurrió a Carola de Moras.
En 2010 entró al matinal de TVN a hacer una pequeña sección de datos. A las semanas estaba en las portadas como la gran revelación de la pantalla chica.
Unas pocas semanas más y en el canal público le ofrecieron la conducción del entonces Buenos Días a Todos, en reemplazo de Kathy Salosny, a quien los ejecutivos sacaron del programa. Pero debido al mal manejo comunicacional de los jefes de TVN, los televidentes se hicieron la idea de que la salida de Salosny fue una traición de Felipe Camiroaga.
El público solidarizó con una Salosny supuestamente víctima y castigó a los supuestos victimarios, el inolvidable Halcón de Chicureo y Carolina. Al primero lo pifiaron en la entrega del Copihue de Oro y a De Moras se le vino una ola de fuertes críticas por todo lo que hacía. También comenzaron a tratarla de manera diferente los jefes del Buenos Días a Todos.
La actual anfitriona del Festival de Viña y del matinal de Chilevisión vivió el peor momento de su vida, porque además su padre estaba agonizando. Quedó muy golpeada y ahora reconoce que lo que la mala onda que se vino sobre ella en ese período fue violencia de género.
La conductora se refiere ampliamente al tema del maltrato a las mujeres. Es una muy activa participante de la campaña Ni Una Menos y se explaya sincera y largamente en una entrevista en la revista Ya -MIRE AQUI LA ENTREVISTA COMPLETA-. Estas son algunas de sus expresiones para referirse a ese violento 2011:
“A ver, entendamos también qué tipo de violencia. No es que me agarraron de las mechas y me tiraron por la escalera para abajo. Esta una violencia del alma, que es más que sicológica, porque es una violencia que te inseguriza como persona, te hace cuestionarte quién eres en realidad”
¿Diría que fue violencia de género?
“A mí me tocó violencia de género, por supuesto, pero no me lo tomé en lo personal. Creo que fui súper sana, tuve buena contención familiar, en mi equipo, con Felipe Camiroaga, y entendí que no era yo el problema, que yo no era una manzana podrida en el canasto. Luego entendí por qué pasó: Fue porque era un programa muy exitoso, imbatible hasta entonces, y este enredo abría un flanco para darle”.

Vaticano prohíbe esparcir las cenizas de cuerpos cremados

Una nueva norma emitida hoy señala que las cenizas tampoco pueden ser divididas ni conservadas en la casa, sino que deben ser guardadas en un lugar "aprobado por la iglesia y consagrado".

Las cenizas de los católicos que desean ser cremados no pueden ser esparcidas, divididas ni conservadas en la casa sino que deben ser guardadas en un lugar aprobado por la iglesia y consagrado, de acuerdo con nuevas normas emitidas por el Vaticano el martes.
Las instrucciones fueron divulgadas días antes del Día de Difuntos, 2 de noviembre, en el cual los fieles recuerdan a sus muertos y oran por ellos.
Durante la mayor parte de su historia bimilenaria, la Iglesia católica solo permitió el entierro con el argumento de que expresaba mejor la esperanza en la resurrección. Pero en 1963, el Vaticano autorizó explícitamente la cremación siempre que no implicara una negación de la fe en la resurrección.
El nuevo documento de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe insiste en que es preferible el entierro, pero expresa las normas para conservar las cenizas del número creciente de católicos que prefieren la cremación.
Dijo que lo hacía para contrarrestar “ideas nuevas contrarias a la fe de la iglesia” que surgieron desde 1963, como las del New Age de que la muerte es una “fusión” con la Madre Naturaleza y el universo o una “liberación definitiva” de las ataduras del cuerpo.
El Vaticano expresó que las cenizas y fragmentos óseos no se pueden conservar en casa porque con ello se priva a la comunidad católica de recordar al difunto. Por eso las autoridades eclesiásticas deben escoger un terreno consagrado, como un cementerio o iglesia, para recibirlas.
En casos extraordinarios un obispo puede permitir que se conserven las cenizas en la casa, dice el documento.
Añade que las cenizas no se pueden repartir entre familiares, conservar en relicarios ni dispersar en el aire, la tierra o el agua porque ello crea la apariencia de “panteísmo, naturalismo o nihilismo”, dicen las normas.
Reitera la doctrina de que a los católicos que optan por la cremación por razones contrarias a la fe cristiana se les debe negar la sepultura cristiana.
Las nuevas instrucciones están fechadas el 15 de agosto y dicen que el papa Francisco las aprobó el 18 de marzo. No estaba claro si eran retroactivas o qué deben hacer los católicos que eliminaron los restos de sus seres queridos en formas que ahora se consideran indebidas.

COPA CHILE 2016: La UC le arrebata a la U el sueño de una hazaña

Los cruzados se repusieron de un 3-1 y terminaron rescatando un empate a tres para abrochar la clasificación a semifinales de la Copa Chile. Los yerros defensivos fueron la perdición de los azules.

Cuando Vilches reaccionó como una tortuga y le permitió a Fuenzalida marcar el 3-3 definitivo, las ilusiones de una U encendida se destruyeron. Tanta pelea, tanta entrega. Tanto sudor y tantos goles… para nada. En cosa de minutos, los errores defensivos acabaron con el sueño de una hazaña.
Universidad de Chile merecía el triunfo y Universidad Católica, una derrota. Hay días, sin embargo, en que el fútbol se opone a los mejores, como pasó en este cierre de los cuartos de final de la Copa Chile. Los cruzados ya están en semifinales, gracias a su falta de misericordia con los yerros del rival.
Tres equivocaciones defensivas se tradujeron en goles de la UC. El balón detenido le pena al Romántico Viajero. Y dos llegaron a los 72′ y a los 75′, cuando el marcador estaba 3-1 para los locales y la definición a penales asomaba en el horizonte.
Un castigo doloroso para los azules, que se pusieron en ventaja a los 40′, gracias al oportunismo de Mora. La Gata Fernández, a los 58′, colocó el 2-0 y avivó la esperanza del #LoDamosVuelta que patentaron los fanáticos del chuncho.
Nico Castillo, a los 61′, se coló entre los centrales estáticos de la U y con una palomita puso el descuento, mientras que Matías Rodríguez firmó su mejor noche en mucho tiempo con la camiseta laica, con un golazo de volea (68′). Ese fue el gran problema de los dirigidos por Víctor Hugo Castañeda. No haber aguantado la ventaja decisiva y develar en el peor momento los fantasmas que atormentan una temporada para el olvido.
Gracias a eso llegó la igualdad de Fuenzalida (antes había descontado Lanaro). No sirvió de nada el esfuerzo. La U no perdió, pero sufrió otra jornada de derrota. Sus fanáticos se quedan con el consuelo de que sus jugadores mostraron espíritu, alma, pero también chocan con una triste realidad: que eso es lo único que pueden exigir a esta altura del año.

U-17 WORLD CHAMPIONS: Jordan 2016, the playground of football dreams

The Korea DPR celebrates after defeating Japan in the penalty shoot out during the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Jordan 2016 Final match between Korea DPR and Japan at Amman International Stadium on October 21, 2016 in Amman, Jordan. (Photo by Steve Bardens-FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

by Jillian Angeline (United States) and Fátima Martínez (Paraguay), AIPS Young Reporters

AMMAN, October 22, 2016 -- The first female world cup in the Middle East drew to a close with Jordan showing its organisational might and asserting itself as a contender to host another such tournament.

The tournament was special for many reasons including its empowering message to women in this region and worldwide. The pitch proved to be a place for history to unfold as four players from the Jordan squad appeared in an official FIFA tournament wearing a hijab.

Jordan was a playground for 16 dreams. Host country Jordan and Cameroon took part in the U17 action for the very first time with Venezuela, Korea DPR, Spain and Japan being the last teams standing on the final day.

Other Latin teams could not make it so the cup came down to an all-Asian final, a third appearance for each finalists.

Spain, runners-up in 2014 in Costa Rica, beat the Vinotinto 4-0 to seal third place.

Three out of the four previous tournaments had seen an Asian victory in the final. An evenly-matched game ended in a 0-0 draw. Japan missed a penalty shot, opening the way for a historic second U-17 victory in U17 history for Korea DPR.

Supporters waving Korea DPR flags erupted in celebration. This was the first match in this tournament decided by penalties.

Goals

The FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup proved an appropriate stage for players to show off their talents.

Venezuela's Deyna Castellanos now holds the U17 World Cup record for most goals (11 in two editions). She scored several superb goals including a shot from the halfway line against Cameroon only a few seconds after Alexandra Takounda’s backheel strike.

But the most meaningful goal was scored by Jordan’s Sarah Abu Sabah against Mexico. Abu Sabah ran and shot from outside the penalty box to score Jordan’s first goal ever in FIFA finals play and the celebration made headlines.

Facilities

Tatjana Haenni, FIFA's head of women's competitions, told AIPS the tournament would bring a lasting benefit to the infrastructure in Jordan's four host stadiums.

Amman, Zarqa and Irbid now have FIFA-qualified stadiums and Jordan now has 14 training sites. Haenni explained this would not only help the women's team but would also assist the men's national team as they continue to train and improve in the coming years. Salah Sabra, chairman of the local organising committee, said the goal was to attract families to the stadium.

Legacy

FIFA's Live Your Goals programme in Jordan will ensure women's football is supported beyond the tournament.

The lead-up to the program also included a trophy tour, with a stop at the Al Za'atari Syrian Refugee Camp to help inspire the girls living within the boundaries of their fenced-in home.

The legacy programme includes work with Prince Ali Asian Football Development Project. FIFA says hundreds of girls have been introduced to football so far and that the Live Your Goals programme will continue even though the finals have concluded.

As children, women and families have witnessed competitive football here in Jordan on the world stage, the excitement and energy can continue for years to come.

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Diego Armando Maradona celebra 40 años de su debut como profesional

El 20 de octubre de 1976 el "pelusa" hizo su estreno defendiendo a Argentinos Juniors. En esa oportunidad, ocupó la "16" y tenía 15 años.

El 20 de octubre de 1976, hace exactamente 40 años, debutó como futbolista un joven de 15 años que luego fue campeón del mundo, anotó el mejor gol del siglo XX y el tanto con la mano más famoso de todos los tiempos, salió campeón en tres países y dirigió a su selección en un Mundial: Diego Maradona.

Los 7.700 hinchas que asistieron ese domingo al estadio del Argentinos Juniors y vieron a su equipo caer ante Talleres por 0-1 fueron testigos del primer partido de ‘Pelusa’, ‘Pelusita’ o ‘el morochito’, como se llamaba en aquel entonces a quien luego se convirtió en ‘El Pibe de Oro’ y ‘D10s’.

El entrenador Juan Carlos Montes lo mandó al campo con el dorsal 16 en el segundo tiempo en reemplazo de Rubén Giacobetti y, si bien no logró evitar la derrota de su equipo, deleitó a los hinchas con un caño en la primer pelota que tocó.

“Ya pasaron 40 años y me acuerdo que salí a las diez de la mañana de casa con el único pantalón que tenía, que era de corderoy (pana). Como hacía un calor bárbaro me miraban todos en el tren, en la calle y en el colectivo. Pero bueno, era el único que tenía”, dijo Maradona este miércoles al diario deportivo Olé.

“Montes dijo ‘prepárese, nene’, y pensé ‘¿Me lo habrá dicho a mí?’. Miré alrededor y no había muchos nenes, era yo. Me puse a calentar, pero habré calentado 30 segundos y me dijo ‘venga'”, detalló.
Maradona contó en 2006 en ‘Yo soy el Diego’, su primer libro, que el entrenador le dijo: “Vaya Diego, juegue como usted sabe, y si puede tire un caño”.

“Le hice caso. Recibí la pelota de espaldas a mi marcador, que era Juan Domingo Cabrera, le amagué y le tiré la pelota entre las piernas; pasó limpita y enseguida escuché el ‘Ooooole’ de la gente, como una bienvenida”, explicó Maradona en el libro.

A pesar de su juventud, ‘Pelusa’ ya era famoso en el club por entretener y sorprender a los hinchas con sus malabares con el balón en el entretiempo de los partidos. Además, su equipo de fútbol infantil, los ‘Cebollitas’ arrasó con todos los rivales de turno.

El debut del artífice de las máximas alegrías futbolísticas de Argentina se dio siete meses después del comienzo de una de las épocas más oscuras de la historia del país, la última dictadura militar (1976-1983).

Después de deleitar y alegrar a los simpatizantes de Argentinos Juniors, pasó por Boca Juniors (1981-1982 y 1995-1997), Barcelona (1982-1984), Nápoles (1984-1992), Sevilla (1992-1993) y Newell’s Old Boys (1993-1994). Se retiró en el ‘Xeneize’ el 25 octubre de 1977.

Ganó un Metropolitano (1981) con Boca Juniors, la Copa del Rey (1983), la Copa de la Liga (1983) y la Supercopa de España (1983) con el Barcelona y dos Ligas italianas (1987 y 1990), una Copa de Italia (1987) y una Copa de la UEFA (1989) con el Nápoles.

Con la Albiceleste ganó la Copa del Mundo sub’20 de Japón 1979 y luego, en México 1986, inscribió su nombre en la inmortalidad al anotar el mejor gol del siglo XX y el tanto con “La mano de Dios” a Inglaterra en cuartos de final del Mundial que Argentina ganó.

Dirigió a Deportivo Mandiyú (1994), a Racing Club (1995) y al Al Wasl de Dubai (2011-2012).
En 2008 asumió como seleccionador de Argentina y renunció dos años después tras la eliminación en cuartos de final del Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010.

Recibió múltiples reconocimientos, escribió libros, condujo su propio programa de televisión y hasta coqueteó con la muerte por adicción a las drogas.
Los argentinos y los amantes del fútbol celebran hoy el cuadragésimo aniversario del debut de Maradona como futbolista profesional. Sin embargo, el ‘Pibe de Oro’, que vive y trabaja en Dubai como embajador deportivo de ese país, tiene doble motivo para festejar: en diez días cumple 56 años.

Ranking FIFA October 2016: Chile se mantiene en el sexto lugar

La principal novedad entre los diez primeros es que España volvió a ese grupo, desplazando a Gales.

La selección española vuelve a entrar en el grupo de los diez primeros de la clasificación mundial de la FIFA, en la que Alemania y Brasil se sitúan ahora en segunda y tercera posición, respectivamente, detrás de Argentina que continúa líder. Chile, que en la última fecha dobles de las Eliminatorias perdió ante Ecuador y venció a Perú, se mantuvo en el sexto lugar.
Los últimos partidos de la fase de clasificación para el Mundial de Rusia han provocado variaciones en la tabla, publicada este jueves, como el descenso de Bélgica del segundo al cuarto lugar. Los belgas habían estado entre los tres primeros desde marzo de 2015.
Otros datos relevantes son la bajada también un peldaño de Colombia, ahora en quinta posición, y la mejoría de Francia, que pasa del octavo al séptimo lugar y adelanta a Portugal, que está por delante de Uruguay y España como cierre de los diez primeros.
La entrada de España en el selecto grupo fuerza la salida de Gales, que se queda en undécima posición.
Según los datos facilitados por la FIFA, la clasificación se ha elaborado con los resultados de 129 partidos jugados en todo el mundo.
Montenegro fue la selección que más puntos ganó y la que escaló más puestos, un total de 49 para ubicarse en el puesto 56.
Chipre es la que más puntos perdió, 156, por lo que bajó 52 plazas y se sitúa en el 139 lugar.

Canada Soccer U-16 Cup finals to be played in Saskatoon and Kingston

   

Canada Soccer will hold the U-16 Cup gold medal matches in Saskatoon and Kingston over back-to-back weekends as part of the 2016 Sport Chek National Championships. The boys final will be played October 22 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan while the girls final will be played October 29 in Kingston, Ontario.
Both final matches were postponed from October 10 after a Lethbridge snowstorm forced changes to Teck Finals Day.
The October 22 boys final will feature Edmonton Juventus against Winnipeg Bonivital SC at the Sasktel Sports Centre (16:30 local / 18:30 ET / 15:30 PT). The October 29 girls final will feature Woodbridge SC Strikers against CS Lakeshore at the Kingston Thousand Island Sportsplex (11:30 local / 11:30 ET / 08:30 PT).
Canada Soccer will provide in-match updates from both gold medal matches on Twitter.
Canada Soccer’s Sport Chek National Championships provide a meaningful soccer experience for participating teams, players, coaches, support staff, officials, and volunteers. Already crowned in 2016, Edmonton Scottish SC won the men's Challenge Trophy, Royal-Sélect Beauport won the women's Jubilee Trophy, CS Repentigny won the U-18 Cup boys division, Edmonton Internazionale won the U-18 Cup girls division, Brampton East won the U-14 Cup boys division, and Calgary Foothills won the U-14 Cup girls division.

Ontario Soccer Association Town Hall on Oct. 24 in Burlington

   

Ontario soccer continues to change and we'd like to tell you more about it.
District and Club leaders from the Southwest Regional Soccer Association, Niagara Soccer Association, Peel Halton Soccer Association and Hamilton and District Soccer Association are invited to join us on Monday Oct. 24 (7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.) at the Burlington Holiday Inn and Conference Centre.
You will hear from our Ontario soccer leaders about how things are changing in the province, what it means for our game and how you can help make it happen.
Ontario Soccer Association President Ron Smale and OSA Executive Director Johnny Misley will be on hand to give a presentation and answer your questions on what governance modernization will look like in Ontario, how it will impact your Districts and Clubs and strengthen Ontario soccer going forward.
A question and answer session will follow and refreshments will be provided.
If you cannot attend, the OSA encourages you to watch the livestream of the event.
Subscribe to the OSA Livestream and be notified when the events kicks off.
This is the first in a series of planned Town Halls on how soccer in the province continues to change for the better.
The dates of the future events will be announced soon.

Gospel for Asia: The Cost of Sharing Christ - Three Women Missionaries

Flip flops squish the mud as raindrops splatter on the tops of trees and the heads of the four young women. For three months out of every year, it is rainy season in the Himalayas, and the GFA-supported film team ladies trek and climb and slip and slide up and down the mountain range. As the four walk through forests and grassy stretches, leeches cling to their skin. Even though the girls hate leeches, they peel them off and press on. One of the girls smiles. She’s carrying on her back a cone basket full of materials the film team needs—that the people in the next village need.

Originally published March 2015

‘It Is Not Easy to Serve God’

Pasha, 23, leads this film team. She’s been serving the Lord and her people through film ministry for four years.
“Through these years, what I’ve realized is that it is not easy to serve God,” Pasha opens up.
Once, after the team traveled hours in the rain, struggling past fallen trees strewn across the mountains, with equipment in tow, the people in the village of Langdairo told them they couldn’t show the film—a film the women knew would bring hope to many, if only the villagers would watch it.
The people scattered across these mountains have a distinct subculture. Many are afraid Christ will strip them of the cultural heritage that makes them who they are, so many reject Him. Still, one kind soul offered the film team a place to stay.
The women settled in the village of Langdairo and began what would be five months of ministry in that region.

The Story That Breaks Barriers

First thing when the girls wake up, they have personal devotions. Then one of them cooks breakfast, squatting near a fire. They sit together and ask God to bring hope to those in desperate need. They travel to a nearby village, where local authorities have already given permission for them to show the film, and tell people about Jesus. In the late afternoon, they pound posts in the dirt and stretch the projector screen across the posts. Night falls and people gather.
Then the screen lights up, and for a few potent hours, the villagers’ preconceptions about the Christian God fall, and many see Jesus as He is.
The story ends and Pasha walks to the front of the crowd. This is why she serves in film ministry.
Joy pulsing through her veins, she shares about her God. She tells the souls, some questioning, some crying, some glad, but all needy, that she and her friends are available to talk and pray.
Except for on freezing winter nights, the team and the crowd will stay for a second film. Near midnight, having talked and prayed and torn down the equipment, Pasha and the ladies return to Langdairo and collapse into bed, hungry but too tired to cook dinner. Many of their days are like this.

Opposition Draws Her Closer to God

As the women continued ministering in Langdairo and praying for an opportunity to share the film there, the Lord answered, and the villagers gave them the chance to screen the film.

But when they did show it, no one opened their hearts to the grace of God—not one person did during the entire five months they were living in Langdairo.
Opposition is normal. In one village, a man went around before the team arrived, telling everyone not to listen to the women. He threatened them with a stick but didn’t beat them because they were women. Sometime later, they found themselves in the same public transportation as the man. He sat in the front and, pretending not to notice the women, ridiculed them, even saying the villagers needed to chase the team out of the village.
Pasha sat silent. The man’s words felt like blows to her ears and her heart.
“Being young, when that man humiliated us before people and opposed me, I was so hurt,” Pasha tells us honestly. “But when I read God’s Word, it says, ‘He who rejects you rejects Me.’ It encouraged me a lot. When people were against me, it made me closer to God. I faced a lot of opposition, but God was with me always.”
When people oppose her, Pasha’s burden for them only increases, and God gives her the encouragement she needs to move forward.

All for Precious People

After the women left Langdairo, they heard great news. Gospel for Asia-supported pastors had gone to the village to follow up, and two families trusted in Jesus.
“We were filled with joy!” Pasha remembers. “We thought, Our labour is not in vain. … We were really thankful to God.”
These sisters, who cook and cry and laugh together, are deeply burdened for their people. They know the cost and they see hope, so tomorrow again they will gladly climb up and down the mountains, peel leeches off their skin and endure persecution so precious people can see Jesus in all His humanity and, someday, know Him in all His glory.

Flip flops squish the mud as raindrops splatter on the tops of trees and the heads of the four young women. For three months out of every year, it is rainy season in the Himalayas, and the GFA-supported film team ladies trek and climb and slip and slide up and down the mountain range. As the four walk through forests and grassy stretches, leeches cling to their skin. Even though the girls hate leeches, they peel them off and press on. One of the girls smiles. She’s carrying on her back a cone basket full of materials the film team needs—that the people in the next village need.

Originally published March 2015

‘It Is Not Easy to Serve God’

Pasha, 23, leads this film team. She’s been serving the Lord and her people through film ministry for four years.
“Through these years, what I’ve realized is that it is not easy to serve God,” Pasha opens up.
Once, after the team traveled hours in the rain, struggling past fallen trees strewn across the mountains, with equipment in tow, the people in the village of Langdairo told them they couldn’t show the film—a film the women knew would bring hope to many, if only the villagers would watch it.
The people scattered across these mountains have a distinct subculture. Many are afraid Christ will strip them of the cultural heritage that makes them who they are, so many reject Him. Still, one kind soul offered the film team a place to stay.
The women settled in the village of Langdairo and began what would be five months of ministry in that region.

The Story That Breaks Barriers

First thing when the girls wake up, they have personal devotions. Then one of them cooks breakfast, squatting near a fire. They sit together and ask God to bring hope to those in desperate need. They travel to a nearby village, where local authorities have already given permission for them to show the film, and tell people about Jesus. In the late afternoon, they pound posts in the dirt and stretch the projector screen across the posts. Night falls and people gather.
Then the screen lights up, and for a few potent hours, the villagers’ preconceptions about the Christian God fall, and many see Jesus as He is.
The story ends and Pasha walks to the front of the crowd. This is why she serves in film ministry.
Joy pulsing through her veins, she shares about her God. She tells the souls, some questioning, some crying, some glad, but all needy, that she and her friends are available to talk and pray.
Except for on freezing winter nights, the team and the crowd will stay for a second film. Near midnight, having talked and prayed and torn down the equipment, Pasha and the ladies return to Langdairo and collapse into bed, hungry but too tired to cook dinner. Many of their days are like this.

Opposition Draws Her Closer to God

As the women continued ministering in Langdairo and praying for an opportunity to share the film there, the Lord answered, and the villagers gave them the chance to screen the film.

But when they did show it, no one opened their hearts to the grace of God—not one person did during the entire five months they were living in Langdairo.
Opposition is normal. In one village, a man went around before the team arrived, telling everyone not to listen to the women. He threatened them with a stick but didn’t beat them because they were women. Sometime later, they found themselves in the same public transportation as the man. He sat in the front and, pretending not to notice the women, ridiculed them, even saying the villagers needed to chase the team out of the village.
Pasha sat silent. The man’s words felt like blows to her ears and her heart.
“Being young, when that man humiliated us before people and opposed me, I was so hurt,” Pasha tells us honestly. “But when I read God’s Word, it says, ‘He who rejects you rejects Me.’ It encouraged me a lot. When people were against me, it made me closer to God. I faced a lot of opposition, but God was with me always.”
When people oppose her, Pasha’s burden for them only increases, and God gives her the encouragement she needs to move forward.

All for Precious People

After the women left Langdairo, they heard great news. Gospel for Asia-supported pastors had gone to the village to follow up, and two families trusted in Jesus.
“We were filled with joy!” Pasha remembers. “We thought, Our labour is not in vain. … We were really thankful to God.”
These sisters, who cook and cry and laugh together, are deeply burdened for their people. They know the cost and they see hope, so tomorrow again they will gladly climb up and down the mountains, peel leeches off their skin and endure persecution so precious people can see Jesus in all His humanity and, someday, know Him in all His glory.

Toronto Soccer Assiociation's Futsal Foundation Festivals!!

The Toronto Soccer Association is pleased to announce a new and exciting development program for the 2016-17 indoor season- “Futsal Foundations”!
What is Futsal Foundations?
Futsal Foundations is a program on the LTPD development ages from U8- U12 and encompasses:

• A series of 5 Futsal Foundation Festival weekends through the indoor season
• FREE coach education events for the Head Coach of each competing team, including futsal techniques, tactics and laws of the game
• Futsal Referee course- education and mentorship for referees new to the game of Futsal.

 

 

 

Futsal Foundation Festivals
The TSA will host 5 weekend events through the 2016-17 indoor season and based out of the La Liga Futsal facility in Toronto!
This facility has 3 brand new futsal courts

change rooms for competing teams,
and an upstairs viewing lounge for spectators!

The Festivals will be played in both genders at the following age levels:

• U8
• U10
• U12

Of course, U9 and U11 players can also participate as part of the open roster concept permitted at these ages!
The confirmed weekends of play are as follows:

• November 12/13
• January 14/15
• February 11/12
• March 4/5
• April 8/9

Each team will play two (2 x 25 minute) games at each Futsal Foundation Festival, and the schedule can be set so as to accommodate teams committed in other Leagues, and teams can register to play on whatever weekends fit their schedule! Play one or Play Them All!
Futsal Foundations Registration
The cost to participate in each Futsal Foundation Festival is $150/ team (2 games), and this fee includes the opportunity to attend the Pre-Season Coach Education event free of charge!
Registration Information
This form should be used to register all interested teams:
2016 Futsal Foundations Team Registration Form
The following information needs to be understood:

1. While teams can complete the form and pay the fee to the TSA, the form MUST be signed by the Club Administrator to ensure they have your approval to participate.
2. Once paid, the team registration fee is 100% non-refundable. This is to discourage last minute withdrawals which cause havoc with scheduling.
3. All coaches must have full age related certification and processed coaches books.
4. We will make an announcement about player books within 7 days.
5. Each entered team can carry a total of 20 players BUT only a maximum of 10 can participate on game day.
6. The large squad size is to encourage club participation with the smaller game day roster to promote adequate playing time.
7. Space in each Festival is limited so early registration is strongly advised to avoid disappointment.
8. Additionally, registration for each festival closes 2 weeks prior (again subject to availability)

Registration is now open!
If you have any questions, please contact: agould@soccer.on.ca

 

JORDAN 2016 U-17 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP María Cazorla: A player running from tragedy: she is is the youngest player on Venezuela’s national team

    

María Cazorla is the youngest player on Venezuela’s national team (Photo: Carlos Celis)

by Veruska Sánquiz, AIPS Young Reporter, Venezuela

AMMAN, October 7, 2016 - In a World Cup there are as many stories to tell as there are goals, victories and defeats. One of those stories is that of María Cazorla, Venezuela’s 14-year-old forward competing in Jordan. At the U-17 Women’s World Cup, María has begun writing her own story, a new one, building on tragic personal experiences that have marked her early life.

The Venezuelan forward made her debut on the world stage in Jordan on September 30 when Venezuela lost its opening match to Germany. Cazorla scored the only goal in the ‘Vinotinto’ girls' 2-1 defeat and immediately, all eyes were on the team’s minute number 18.

Standing at a mere 158cm tall, with dark skin and black hair, María Cazorla is not a typical girl who goes to school and is greeted by her parents when she gets back. Orphaned at the age of 10 after her father was killed and her mother died of cancer, it was María’s grandparents that dedicated themselves to raising her in the small Venezuelan town of Puerto Cabello.

“My father and I went everywhere together”

Despite her very young age, María has had to endure tragic experiences, which have made her the promising young player that she is. At barely seven years old, she found her father’s body outside of their family home minutes after he was killed by an unknown attacker. "My father was killed just outside of our house. He spent the night at home, but then some men came and killed him,” María told AIPS, in a tone more mature than her years.

“This was very painful for me, because I was the only one there, and I was the one who found him. I didn’t know what to do.”

Cazorla admitted that she had a very close relationship with her father.

"I lived with my father, he always took me wherever he went, I was always with him. After his death, certain memories of my father began to fade, but my grandmother always reminded me of close we had been.”

Her voice breaks when she remembers that fateful moment that changed her life completely. "Night had fallen and my dad told me to stay in the house, because I used to follow him everywhere. This time thought, I didn’t because I remember him telling me: “Hija, stay here, pray for me.”

“I was watching cartoons inside and then I heard the shots. I ran out because neither my grandfather nor my grandmother had heard anything, and then I saw him on the ground, dead.”

As she shared her story, María confessed that her father was involved in a number of things he shouldn’t have been and that this was possibly the main reason for his murder.

"I was very close to him, much closer than I had ever been with my mother, but I have to admit that he wasn’t a good guy," she said.

Another absence

Unlike the relationship María Cazorla had with her father, the situation with her mother was completely different. María saw her mother very rarely, only around once a year.

"I never lived with my mother. My grandmother took me in from when I was three years old, and I stayed in the home with my grandparents and father. She was the one who was always at home, who took care of me. If I needed something it was my grandparents that bought it. My mother was never there to give me that kind of support. She just visited me on my birthday."

Although they were never close, María felt no bitterness toward her mother. In fact, she admitted just how painful it was when, just three years after the murder of her father, she heard that her mother had died of kidney cancer.

"I did not talk to my mother very much, but they told me when she died, because it had been over two years that I hadn’t heard from her. When I found out, it was very hard for me."

Faced with an incomparably painful situation at such a young age, Cazorla turned to her grandparents for affection and support, and they were there to happily provide it.

When she talks about her grandparents, the footballer’s face lights up in a smile.

"It’s my grandparents that are my mother and father, my real family, because they were always there for me,” Maria said.

“I want to be able to take them away from the neighborhood where we live. I want to go abroad when I am old enough, to team where I can fulfill all my dreams of playing football professionally, and I want to help my family,” Maria said, with the same determination we have seen her display on the pitch in Jordan.

For now, Maria plays in her town’s local football academy Academia Puerto Cabello “Te Quiero”, where here opponents – boys and girls - are often much older than her.

Rather than being embarrassed by her story, María Cazorla, is open and genuine when she tells it, holding nothing back. The young player – the youngest on the Venezuelan team – is a clear example of how such painful experiences can serve as motivation for big dreams, and the hard work necessary to achieve them.

"I always ask God to help me and my family and to continue to protect us. Ever since I was a little girl, I always liked football and wanted it to be my path. Right now I am fulfilling my goals and dreams with the national team of Venezuela."

“As I always tell my grandmother, I'm going to make it, especially for her, I’m going to make it," Maria concluded.