Roundtable

The BRAZIL ON LIBERTADORES 2008

Who will win the Boca Juniors?
Five Brazilians want to prevent bicampeonato of Boca in Libertadores
Mon, Feb. 11, 03h19 - AFP

Editorial central, February 11 (EFE) .- Sao Paulo, Flamengo, Fluminense, Cruzeiro and Santos will be the representatives in the Brazilian edition of the Copa Libertadores in 2008, and its mission is one: stop the Boca Juniors take bicampeonato.

Last year, the Argentine faturaram the cup overcoming the Grêmio, Porto Alegre, so indisputable: won by 3 to 0 in the way, in La Bombonera, and won, 2 and 0 in the second departure, silence the Olympic Stadium in the capital gaúcha.

This year the Grêmio not be present, but the Brazilian representatives have everything to go back to putting the country back into place the highest podium.

The main favorite is São Paulo, Brazilian and current bicampeão that comes with a reinforcement that promises to be the highlight of the competition: the attacker Adriano, the Inter Milan loaned to rediscover the path that led him to be called the "Emperor."

The Tricolor Paulista lost pieces as the defender Breno, hired by Bayern Munich (ALE), and half Souza, who now wear the shirt of Paris Saint-Germain (FRA). But hired substitutes as Juninho, sheriff of Botafogo last Brasileiro, and Carlos Alberto, whose international experience can help.

The team of technical Muricy Ramalho is in Group 7 and should have no trouble overcoming the Sportivo Luqueño, Paraguay, and Atletico Nacional - opponent's debut, on 27, in Medellin.

The other integral leaves the dispute between the unknown Boyacá Chicó, which strives to be a representative in the Colombian Libertadores, and Audax Italiano, which gave work to Sao Paulo in the phase of groups last year.

Another is the famous tricolor Fluminense. Winner of the Copa do Brasil, the club back to the Libertadores after 23 years of absence and is not sparing efforts to make a good paper, commanded by technical Renato Gaucho.

Supported by strong sponsor, the club spent a lot to bring reinforcements were: six, including the trio of attackers formed by Dodô (ex-Botafogo), Leandro Amaral (ex-Vasco), and Washington, who made fame in Brazil defending the Atletico-PR and was in the Urawa Red Diamonds, in Japan

But the draw was not anything good for the Tricolor Carioca. The team need to show very complicated to classify a key 8 with the Libertad, current bicampeão Paraguayan and that's been doing good campaigns in the Libertadores, the Universirátia Liga Deportiva de Quito, which complicates when playing in the altitude of the Ecuadorian capital, and Arsenal in Argentina , current champion of the South American Cup.

Fellowship of greatest fans in the country, the Flemish back to the Libertadores for the second year followed. And wants to prove that the excellent recovery in the Brazilian - left the area for classification of lowering the South American competition is not the fruit of chance.

To overcome the deletion in Octave 2007, the command of the technical Joel Santana bet in maintaining the base formed by goalkeeper Bruno, the defender Fabio Luciano, the socks Ibson, Renato Augusto Souza and the attacker.

Strengthen the rubro-negro the Gávea the attacker Diego Tardelli, with experience in international competitions by Sao Paulo and PSV Eindhoven (HOL), the Paraguayan Gavilán wheel, which was at Grêmio, and half Kléberson, the 2002 Cup champion of the Brazilian team and which was in dispute with Besiktas, Turkey.

Again, the team should not have trouble moving: faces the Peruvian Coronel Bolognesi and Cienciano - who play in the altitude of Cuzco - in addition to Nacional, Uruguay. The fight for the leadership should be between Rio and Uruguayans.

In key 6, the Saints need to overcome an opponent the most: a mistrust of the crowd with the team now led by technical Emerson Leon After the departure of Vanderlei Luxemburgo, the cast goes through broad process of recasting and bet seems to be back in younger, as the attackers German and Tiago Luís

The defense won the reinforcements of zagueiros Concrete without environment in Corinthians after the club's demotion to the second division of the Brazilian, and Fabão, man of confidence Leon when both were in Sao Paulo.

The team will debut opponent of the Cucuta Deportivo de Colombia, semifinalista the last Libertadores, the Chivas Guadalajara, traditional Mexican team, and San Jose, Bolivia and should not move from figurante.

The last Brazilian to ensure the Libertadores was Cruzeiro, which stated pass the Cerro Porteño of Paraguay to ensure the key 1, next to San Lorenzo (ARG), Caracas (VEN) and Real Potosi, more feared by altitude Bolivian that by the cast.

The team led by Adilson Batista gained strength in clashes with the Paraguayan and should quarrel with the Argentines the first of the key, unless some surprise. The young Guilherme, Wagner and Bolivian Marcelo Moreno are the highlights.

Without Brazilian, the key 2 appears as one of the most balanced: Deportivo Cuenca (EQU), Estudiantes de La Plata (ARG), Danube (URU), Lanús (ARG) by the vague promise fight to the last round - with slight favouritism for the Finally, recent champion of the Apertura Championship.

Group 3 is the feared Boca Juniors, which bet on the return of the final half Juan Riquelme to take one more cup. The time is still reinforced with the attacker Lucas Castromán, former America of Mexico, which was the focal point of the cruise.

The Boca will rival the Union Atlético Maracaibo, Venezuela, the Atlas of Mexico and Colo Colo of Chile. The Argentine team, now led by Carlos Ischia, tries conquest of the seventh Libertadores.

The Argentines also seek to recover goleada 4 to 2 for Milan in the final of the last World Clubs in Japan

The River Plate, the biggest rival Boca, is in Group 5, with America, Mexico, Universidad Catolica of Chile and Universidad San Martin estreante of Peru, who dreams surprise the favorites.

From tomorrow, 32 times to be fought in the decision, in July, and lift the trophy of the 49 th edition of the most important competition of South American football.

The champion of the Copa Libertadores represent the Confederation of South American Football (CSF) in the next World Clubs of the Fifa. Drinks.gif

If the title stay with some of the three times invited the Mexican CSF, the representative will be the best ranked South American. EFE

GP2X

First, I do not know if everyone knows, I myself had so little time to know him ... We explain:

The GP2X is the most versatile portable at the time, it you watch videos, listening to music, reading e-books, games, emulates various consoles and can be used as a Pen Drive for their files. The GP2X has accessories to connect it on television, use HDs Foreign and Pen Drives for storage, case to protect the unit, film to prevent scratching the screen and a Hand Strap with door-SD Cards. His previous version (GP2X F100) in the black, lost in a gap for new version (GP2X F200) in white, which now comes with support for Pen and Touch Screen. The operating system used in Linux ... Ie, open source, which is a wonder to users, for those who do not know, means that any developer who is interested, can easily develop new versions of emulators or any type of program ....

Emulation

The GP2X can emulate a wide list of systems, here's the list with most, if not all of them:

MAME (Arcade) - GGGGG
Wheel well, real speed, and with a huge library of games compatible.

Atari 800 - GGGGG
Virtually all games are emuláveis with real speed and without fail.

Atari Lynx - GGGGG
Like almost all of the Atari consoles, it runs perfectly.

Atari ST - GGGGG
Games are quite rare and classic emuláveis in GP2X.

Game Boy - GGGGG
All games are rotated perfectly seamless and with sound.

Game Boy Color - GGGGG
Like the GB, all games are functional.

Game Boy Advance - GGGGG
Most emulators then in high development process, but still running game a little slow, but playable. It can be faster off the sound.

Genesis Mega Drive - GGGGG
Along with the emulator of Arcade, Neo Geo and Master System, the Mega Drive games to play with perfection, and among the best for GP2X.

MS-DOS Games - GGGGG
Games of MS-DOS in the GP2X, just depending much of the game, if it has 3D graphics, sound in high definition and everything else, can be slow and with errors graphics, but classic games run very well.

MSX/MSX2 - GGGGG
Almost all games can be emulados, some may have problems, such as slow and tilt, but it is totally emulável.

NeoGeo - GGGGG
Certainly the NeoGeo is a big star of the GP2X, with a huge amount of games emuláveis, with sound, real speed, perfect.

Master System - GGGGG
Making the Top 10 of consoles, the MS is one of the most emulators used in the GP2X.

NES - GGGGG
You may even be thinking very strange many consoles having received 5G, but it is true, almost all consoles are emulados in GP2X, some failed, some without sound, but pouocs are not jogáveis. The emulators for NES are in high level of development, some with option to save and use files zipped to occupy less space.

SNES - GGGGG
You can see the present problems and be slow when the screen is very charged, and problems of Layers, but runs most games very well, compared the GP2X, Nintendo DS and PSP are in a lower level of emulation.

NeoGeo Pocket and NeoGeo Pocket Color - GGGGG
Put the two together because the majority of the two emulators run, almost all games run well on their exeções, which can be slow and failed.

Playstation One - GGGGG
The 2 emulators known and developing, are very impressing users GP2X, the speed advanced to a powerful console (20 FPS), and the speed in which new versions are released versions faster and more compatible

Wonderswan - GGGGG
Wonderswan is and was a little console circulated outside of Asia, but he did much success in Japan, with the option of turning the laptop to use other controls. The emulators for Wonderswan known are very poor still running very slow, but the majority is with sound.

PC-Engine - GGGGG
The beauty of emulators for PC-Engine in the GP2X is that the majority wheel with speed, graphics and real time, can kill the nostalgia of decáda of 80 and 90, which was when the PC-Engine were fashionable.

Jaguar - GGGGG
There is only one emulator released to the public, and is still very slow, and project is going slower still, frankly, does not give much hope for an emulator of Jaguar playable until end of the year, (When I speak playable, I mean, 20 FPS get up with sound).

And good stress that not everything is flowers ... Because the emulation in some cases and not yet perfect, but not worry because they are in rapid development, may soon happen advances surprising. And future may even play in the DS GP2X, because we know that its specification dao account scrap .... Just someone be interested in starting to develop an emulator.

Attack suicide in the province of Candahar (southern Afghanistan)

The attack today was the worst since the fall of the Taleban, militia that controls 90% of Afghanistan until the invasion of the coalition led by the USA in 2001, according to a news agency Associated Press (AP).

Wali Karzai, president of the provincial council of Candahar and brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, said that the main target in the attack was Abdul Hakim Jan, leader of an armed group. According to him, Jan died in the attack.

Jan was chief of police of the province of Candahar in the early 90 and was the only one to oppose the Taleban regime, told the AP the province's parliamentary Khalid Pashtun. Jan had been shown recently to command an auxiliary police force, formed by residents of the local tribes, to the security of the region of Arghandab, to the north of the province.

The group gathered to view the rinha, in the region west of the city, included hundreds of people, including leaders of militias. After the explosion, witnesses heard by the AP said they were shooting. Although there was no information on how many people died in the shooting.

PHOTOS: tribute to Alfredo di Stéfano

Considered one of the greatest players of all time, the Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano naturalized Spanish, 82 years, was honored by Fifa and Uefa this Sunday, at the stadium of Real Madrid, which was idol of the club from 1949 to 1953. President of honour of the club merengue, Di Stéfano will earn a statue at the stadium which will be inaugurated in Valdebebas (Madrid) and take your name.


He says: "They are making me shudder of emotion. Not deserve this, all we are saying to dedicate all my companions, as before, and now. Always been a man of team, and, therefore, around my extensive tribute to all of you.