Messi and Barsa Won First Season Title

With a Hat Trick of Lionel Messi, Barcelona won their first title in the 2010-2011 season by winning the Supercopa of Spain, after beating Sevilla 4-0 in the return match played at the Nou Camp.

A week ago, had beaten Sevilla 3-1 Barcelona in the first leg, played at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, but today turned Barca history Konko with goals against (13), Messi (24, 43 and 90), more and more King of the Camp Nou.

An unknown Sevilla a rough game faced a Barsa that gas moving medium, it thrashed with three goals from Messi of Argentina, bolstered up front by newcomer David Villa and Andres Iniesta very inspired, both world champions Spain.

The first section of the first half was tedious, with Sevilla placed to protect a hypothetical one Barcelona 0-0 and out of step away from his speed, but dominating the field and the ball.

After the goal it set itself against Konko at 13 in an attempt to ward off a centering shot Pedro, Barcelona began to practice the game that has become accustomed to his liking and fit Sevilla bad that first goal.

Until the 24th a great pass from Xavi Messi put the stadium up. The Argentine received, threatens the porter, it displaces and the 2-0 mark and placed the bars at a step of obtaining the Spanish Supercup.

Sevilla still did not react, almost stopped playing.

As the two teams played as if waiting for the end of the first half, the genius of Messi returned to alter the scoreboard: get a pass from Brazilian Dani Alves, and with the right leg "bad", the Argentine scored the title insurance .

In the second half, in the 49th minute, Messi hat-trick in a Search for an individual move to the left whose shot went wide.

Showed to have little chance when Sevilla, 56, Barcelona's coach Pep Guardiola ushered the world champions Andres Iniesta and David Villa, who started at the Camp Nou after a tremendous ovation by the more than 67 000 spectators.

Body touches Iniesta, Villa and Messi hair stood on end to the Sevilla defender, who responded with the entry of Italian Luca Cigarini, Argentine Diego Perotti and Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano.

With a goal, the extension could Sevilla. But Barca, despite lower performance, continued to create danger on every rise in its last line, with spectacular combinations between Messi and Villa, who shot 76 and rejected the Sevilla goalkeeper.

Everything led to believe that the match ended 3-0, Villa Iniesta and it passes enables Messi, who scored his first hat trick of the season and put the 4-0 final that gave the first title to Barca this season.

Raúl Will Debut with Shalke

BERLIN - Schalke'04 coach, Felix Magath, will debut in Spanish Raul Gonzalez as a player in the Bundesleague at the start of the season in the match he will face on Saturday at Hamburg's also a former Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

"Raul has fully recovered and I'm impressed. I count on him for tomorrow (Saturday)," said Magath after that, in recent days had raised the possibility that it was not yet available.

The former Real Madrid played his first match in Germany just five days after arriving at his new club in the summer tournament Total League Cup, first against Hamburg and then in the final against Bayern Munich, where he scored his first two goals for Schalke.

A week after the Super Cup played against Bayern, with victory going to the Bavarians, after which Magath decided to let it rest this week in the Cup match against Germany Aalen, third division, because he felt he was "tired."

Raul asked this week to the fans patience and said he hoped to be in shape for September.

Magath has a reputation as the toughest coach in the Bundesliga, with workouts that put his staff to limit their physical capacity.

In these methods has claimed to have left the teams he coached players like Kevin Kuranyi, Marcelo Bordon and Rafinha, who has said openly that they can not with Magath.

A reputation is now joined him a "dictator" by withering dismissal of the representative of the fans, Rolf Rojek, following protests from supporters against Christoph Metzelder.

"Is Schalke a dictatorship?" Read a banner during the Cup match, on that issue, while Magath defending his actions as part of his "management style."

NBA Fined Spanish Fernández

The NBA fined $ 25,000 Thursday with the Spanish player Rudy Fernandez (Portland Trail Blazers) for his public statements considered "detrimental" to the league.

The league imposed the penalty a day after the player's agent, Andy Miller, said the Spanish did not want to return this season the team.

Miller announced to the press that Fernandez wanted to play in Europe and was ready to put the Blazers as inactive the next two seasons, the time remaining on his contract.

Rocket is Indicted

A federal grand jury filed charges Thursday against former pitcher Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about his steroid use.

Clemens faces six counts of obstruction of Congress, providing false testimony and perjury.

According to the indictment, Clemens obstructed a congressional investigation with 15 statements made under oath, denying he used steroids or human growth hormone. The indictment alleges he lied and committed perjury.

The winner of seven Cy Young awards and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified under oath at a congressional hearing in 2008 and was contradicted on the use of banned substances by Clemens.

McNamee told federal authorities, baseball investigator George Mitchell and the committee of the House of Representatives between 1998 and 2002 injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone.

Clemens claims that McNamee is lying.

"As far as our task, we reinvidicados" said Earl Ward, one of McNamee's lawyers.

Díaz Swam in cold water

With the slogan "This swim is for everybody," Marcos Diaz made his final practice yesterday before leaving for Russia, where he will participate in the fourth Swim Crossing Continents Project supported by the United Nations.

Diaz swam in the pool of water 25 meters from the resort of Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in the icy waters at a temperature of around 5 degrees Celsius after the Alaska Company, used 50,000 pounds of ice to bring water to a temperature similar to which swimmer Ultradistance face when attempting to cross the Bering Strait to link Alaska to Russia and completing the loop with the American continent.

"This will be the most difficult journey that we will face throughout our careers and so grateful to the people of Alaska for helping companies to achieve a milestone of putting a Dominican summer pool at a temperature of about 5 degrees Celsius" Diaz said after completing their training.

The low temperatures at which Diaz will undergo extreme are a requirement in both the mental and physically.

For that reason, swim with two wetsuits with a thickness of about seven millimeters allowing you to maintain a body temperature above 25 degrees Celsius which would prevent collapse of his vital organs.

"This training gives us the opportunity prior to test how far our body, and we had the luck to do it here in the country," he said.

Soccers Stadiums in South Africa are in danger

Too small to play cricket and discarded by the rugby stadiums that cost South Africa more than US$ 1,000 million for the World Cup this year seem to have already become white elephants.

The rugby and cricket have more commercial success that football in South Africa, and both sports need to move to the new-built stadiums and refurbished for the first World Cup in Africa, for facilities to generate income.

On Tuesday, the president of the Federation of South African rugby, Oregan Hoskins, told members of parliament in Cape Town that there were no discussions between the authorities of Durban and the representatives of the sport before the stadium Moses Mabhida, which cost $ 400 million and holds 70,000 people.

Hoskins said the Sharks, who compete in the annual Super rugby tournament in the local Currie Cup and could use the stadium all year-would have a "big problem" if they move to the new stadium.

"What we are discussing today should have been discussed before building the stadiums," said Hoskins. "It is tragic for us as a nation we have to act retrospectively."

The situation in Cape Town is just as bad, according to Hoskins, due to the deterioration in the relationship between the regional association of rugby and the Green Point stadium managers.

Local media reported that the leader of Western Province rugby, Tobie Titus, said the body will remain at the Newlands Stadium.

So the Green Point stadium, built in the shadow of the famous Table Mountain, may hardly be used and will cost more than $ 6 million a year just on maintenance.

The head of the South African Cricket Association, Gerald Majola, said the tennis stadiums are too small to host games of this sport, and said the blame lies with the cities that failed to consult the leaders of cricket before you build.

In July, the executive director of the South African Football Association, Leslie Sedibe, told the same parliamentary committee that football was a big challenge ahead for the stadium would generate revenue primarily from the low cost of tickets for matches the local league and the high cost of maintaining the facilities.

Sedibe's comments were just 10 days after the World Cup final, after South Africa and spent about 1,300 million dollars to build and renovate 10 stadiums for the tournament.

Japanese inPrison for Betting

Former coach Taiwanese baseball team was sentenced to 20 months in prison in the first verdict in the case of match fixing that shocked fans favorite sport of the island, said a spokesman of the court acting.

Japanese Shin Nakagomi, former coach of the Brother Elephants, was sentenced for aiding in the arrangements of five games in 2008 and 2009 that allowed him to pocket 1.5 million Taiwan dollars ($ 46,800), the spokesman said.

Shin could pay a deposit of NT $ 1.8 million in exchange for a four-year suspended sentence, according to the source of the Taipei District Court, who did not know if the Japanese coach would choose that option. Shin was arrested last year in the Taiwanese capital.