Women' World Cup: U.S., Helped by Red Card, Ejects Colombia

EDMONTON, Alberta — It started as an entrancing match of the foundation against the guerilla, a transformative pull of war in ladies' soccer, with the United States attempting to keep up its hold as a customary force and Colombia attempting to leap forward to another period of equality.

Furthermore, for a half on Monday, yearning Colombia held the Americans scoreless in their round-of-16 amusement at the Women's World Cup with a dauntless youthful goalkeeper named Catalina Perez, a redshirt sophomore at the University of Miami who is however 20.

At that point carelessness and inability bested affirmation for Perez, who was given a red card in the 47th moment for clearing out the legs of Alex Morgan at the edge of the punishment zone.

Playing a lady down, Colombia got to be helpless, and the United States won, 2-0, preceding a meager group declared at 19,412 with objectives by Morgan and Carli Lloyd and, all the more dependably, with a safeguard that has not let the ball into the net for 333 minutes.

Morgan seems resuscitated after an extensive nonattendance due to a bone wound in her cleared out knee. Over all, however, the American assault stays unpredictable and unconvincing. Abby Wambach missed an extra shot on Monday, and triumph accompanied a tremendous potential expense to the midfield.

The starters Megan Rapinoe, a winger and the Americans' most inventive player, and Lauren Holiday, a holding midfielder, both drew their second yellow cards of the competition Monday, bringing about programmed one-amusement suspensions. Morgan Brian and Christen Press will be their probable substitutions against China, which will likewise have had two additional days of rest.

"We're simply going to need to continue pushing ahead," Lloyd said. "They will certainly be missed, yet doubtlessly we've got a profound squad."

With Brazil wiped out, Colombia was the last group from South America staying in this World Cup. Monday's match was connecting with on various levels, not the slightest of which was social.

The Americans are the recipients of four many years of Title IX, a government law precluding segregation in view of sexual orientation that has broadly expanded ladies' chances to play sports. Colombia's players, by difference, experienced childhood in a Latin American culture in which ladies were viewed as unfeminine just for kicking a soccer ball.

"Folks, men, not needing you to play — 'this isn't a lady's diversion; you're masculine,' " Perez said before the match. "Be that as it may, I feel like we're opening another way for all of soccer to develop in Colomb

Officers: Mark Warburton will bring achievement - Alan Kernaghan

By Phil Goodlad BBC Scotland


Alan Kernaghan saw Mark Warburton very close at Brentford and accepts the Englishman will lead Rangers to advancement next season.

Previous Clyde and Dundee chief Kernaghan had a spell as overseer at Brentford and left the club after Warburton assumed control as administrator.

"I believe its an incredible arrangement for Rangers," said Kernaghan when solicited in regards to his chances from accomplishment at Ibrox.

"He's an exceptionally constructive individual in all parts of how he goes about his occupation."

Previous Middlesbrough and Manchester City guard Kernaghan knows the Scottish amusement well after spells as a player with St Johnstone, Brechin City, Clyde, Livingston, Falkirk and Dundee.

What's more, he accepts that Warburton, who has concurred a three-year contract with Rangers, will bring a freshness the Glasgow club require subsequent to completing third in the Scottish Championship and losing in the Premiership play-off last against Motherwell.

"It is somebody coming to Scottish football with new eyes and isn't dug in what has gone ahead in Scotland before," Kernaghan told BBC Scotland.

"It will be useful for Rangers - another begin thusly, a clean breadth of the board and new thoughts will come and that is required at Rangers right now."

Stuart McCall had been given the Rangers work until the end of the season in the wake of succeeding Kenny McDowall in March, yet the club's new board has chosen not to give the previous Motherwell administrator the position on a lasting premise.



Warburton is ready to be acquainted with the media at Ibrox Stadium at 14.00 BST, with the 52-year-old carrying with him his right hand, David Weir, the previous Rangers safeguard.

"He is all that much hands-on," Kernaghan said in regards to Warburton's administration style. "He'll need to know everything that is going ahead at the club.

"He is extremely conclusive and he's great to work for. He is great fun additionally knows his stuff."

Warburton never made it to senior football at a player, playing for Enfield and Boreham Wood in England's lower groups, started his training profession at Watford's childhood institute and moved to Brentford in 2011.

He got to be supervisor two years after the fact and drove Brentford to advancement to the Championship, however it was reported in February that he would be leaving toward the end of the season regardless of his side again trying for title.

"It is more to do with the proprietor at Brentford, Matthew Benham, who is an exceptionally effective individual in his business and needed to bring an alternate kind of system," clarified Kernaghan.

"We've all seen the film Moneyball with Brad Pitt in it about how somebody brought an exceptionally vital and extremely scientific method for picking players and set up them together and won a title in American baseball.

"That is the sort of Moneyball circumstance Matthew does with his details. He has an organization that arrangements with a ton of wagering and that was the vital way he needed to go and Mark had issues with that."

Officers: Mark Warburton - 'no fleeting fixes' for new director

New Rangers director Mark Warburton has cautioned fans not to expect "fleeting fixes" subsequent to turning into the first Englishman to assume responsibility of the club.

The 52-year-old previous Brentford manager has marked a three-year contract, as has previous Gers commander David Weir, who turns into his collaborator.

"Our point is to win the division," said Warburton, who guaranteed to play a brand of football that "energizes the fans".

Notwithstanding, he additionally said his occupation was to construct "firm establishments" for the club.

Warburton succeeds Stuart McCall, who was named in March and sought the part on a perpetual premise.

Officers director Mark Warburton at a media gathering

McCall guided the club to the Scottish Premiership play-off last, however they were beaten by Motherwell and will stay in the Championship for a brief moment season.

One of Warburton's first undertakings will be to remake a squad drained by the arrival of 11 senior players.

"I understand it is truly incline," he said. "Our employment is to convey recommendations to the table that include quality to the club and off the pitch."

He included that he had utilized "a tight squad of 24 players" at Brentford, directing them to the Championship play-offs, where they inevitably lost in the semi-finals to Middlesbrough.

In spite of hypothesis there is no part for previous Valencia mentor Ian Cathro under Warburton.

Officers chief Paul Murray, some piece of a consortium that assumed control in March, said the arrangements were "the initial phase in remaking the club".