NBA Lock Out

Q. What happens in a lockout?

A. All contact between NBA players and the teams ceases. No communication. No use of team facilities. No contracts signed. No free-agent shopping. Players still owed salary for the 2010-11 season will continue to receive payments but other benefits (insurance) are suspended.

Q. What are the most important issues holding up a deal?

A. The NBA owners are seeking changes in both the financial split of league revenues dedicated to player compensation and the structure of the system. In the expiring collective bargaining agreement, players received 57 percent of basketball-related income. The owners - citing combined losses approaching $300 million last year, with 22 of 30 teams in the red - had offered a 50-50 split in their latest proposal. The owners also want to function under a "flex" salary cap that the players interpret as a hard cap similar to those in the NFL and NHL, as opposed to the current "soft" cap.

Q. How far apart are the two sides?

A. A chasm at the moment. Besides the dispute over cap structure, the players - whose latest offer was a 54.3 percent split to 45.7 for the teams - contend the owners' 10-year proposal would lose them about $7 billion over its term (allowing for projected growth in league revenues).

By the way, both sides traditionally take their most recent offers off the table once a work stoppage commences, so the above numbers might not be the starting points the next time the parties talk.

Q. When is the next negotiating session?

A. TBD. When the two sides broke off talks in July 1998, they did not meet again until early August - and then for only 90 minutes, without progress. The owners and the players did not exactly sequester themselves heading toward the June 30 deadline this year, with just three meetings - totaling about 12 hours - in the final two weeks.

Q. What does this mean for 2011-12?

A. There are no dates chiseled in stone by which a deal must be struck for next season to escape unscathed. But if history is a guide, a lockout in 1995 lasted 74 days - into September - without changes in preseason or regular season schedules. In 1998, the NBA cancelled preseason games once the lockout reached Sept. 24. On Oct. 13, the first two weeks of the regular schedule were zapped.

The league kept pushing about a month out in terms of cancellations, until NBA commissioner David Stern issued a Jan. 7 drop-dead date to stage even a 50-game game season. Free agency, training camps and two preseason games were crammed into a period of less than three weeks once the new agreement was ratified.

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Uruguay Football Team Squad Copa America 2011

Uruguay squad escape into the semifinal Copa America 2011, made ​​his coach very happy. Even Uruguay coach Oscar Washington Tabarez, unable to conceal his joy expressions during a press conference.

"I am very pleased. This is one of the world's oldest classic party. Historically, it is very difficult for us to beat Argentina. These difficulties can be overcome with a game that demonstrated our team. The more we need it, the more we show our football games. Now let's celebrate this victory, but enough in the locker room, "said Tabarez.

Earlier, Uruguay had also beat his opponent at home to Argentina in Copa America 1987. Through a single goal scored by Antonio Alzamendi, they get rid of the nickname Albiceleste-Argentina semi-final in Buenos Aires.

In the semi-finals of Copa America 2011, Uruguay will return to face Peru, who stopped Colombia in the quarterfinals. Uruguay is the fourth best team in the 2010 World Cup, is pursuing the mission of his first trophy since winning the Copa America in 1995.

"The game would be balanced. We'll see who will win. It would be very difficult. We must seek victory, because it is a compromise for the people we're looking forward to it," he concluded.

Squad Uruguay in Copa America 2011 - Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez announced the 23 players who will strengthen Uruguay in Copa America 2011. Tabarez rely on the majority of old players who took Uruguay to the 2010 World Cup semifinals.

Names like Fernando Muslera goalkeeper, defender Mauricio Victorino, midfielder Walter Gargano, to the striker Luis Suarez, Diego Forlan, and Edinson Cavani remain the backbone of Uruguay.

With the material brought Tabarez, not surprisingly, Uruguay became one of the candidates won the Copa America this year in addition to Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay is in a group with Chile, Mexico and Peru.

Roster (Squad) Uruguay in Copa America 2011 :

goalkeeper:

* Fernando Muslera (Lazio)
* Andres Silva (Defensor Sporting)
* Juan Castillo (Colo Colo)

defender:

* Diego Lugano (Fenerbahce)
* Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid)
* Sebastian Coates (Nacional)
* Mauricio Victorino (Cruzeiro)
* Andres Scotti (Colo Colo)
* Martin Caceres (Sevilla)
* Maximiliano Pereira (Defensor Sporting)

midfielder:

* Alvaro Pereira (Porto)
* Cristian Rodriguez (Porto)
* Egidio Arevalo Rios (Botafogo)
* Sebastian Eguren (Real Sporting)
* Diego Perez (Bologna)
* Walter Gargano (Napoli)
* Alvaro Gonzalez (Lazio)
* Nicolas Lodeiro (Ajax)

stricker

* Edinson Cavani (Napoli)

*Diego Forlan (Atletico Madrid)

*Luis Suarez (Liverpool)

*Sebastian Abreu (Botafogo)

*Abel Hernandez (Palermo)

The History And Overview Copa America 2011

Copa América is the main football competition which was followed by the CONMEBOL countries namely Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela.

The competition is generally held every two years, although the interval can be fickle and had occurred in 1959 in the implementation of the Copa America are held twice a year. Start the 2007 Copa America championship held every four years and will again be held in 2011.

Since 1993 to enliven the implementation of the Copa América, the state of the confederation CONMEBOL invite others to be able to compete in the Copa América, but during the operation with state law no one has been able to win the Copa América, the best performance that can be achieved is a rank two. Copa América soccer championship is among the oldest countries in the world beyond the FIFA World Cup, the championship was originally organized to enliven the anniversary of Argentine independence in 1916.


CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL or CSF (Confederación Sudamericana de Futbol, ​​South American Football Confederation) is the umbrella organization soccer countries in South America. The organization was established on July 9, 1916, as a result of the project Héctor Rivadavia Gómez (from Uruguay) to unify the continent's football. CONMEBOL is part of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association and is headquartered in Luque, Paraguay (near Asunción). CONMEBOL president until 2006 was Dr. Nicolás Leoz.

Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile are the countries after the successful implementation of the founders of a South American soccer tournament in 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paraguay (1921), Peru (1925), Bolivia (1926), Ecuador (1927), Colombia (1936) and Venezuela (1952) later also joined this confederation. Although located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana are not affiliated with CONMEBOL, but with CONCACAF.

Championship organized by CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores, among others, the Copa Sudamericana, and Copa América.

Copa America 2011

Starting July 1 until July 24, Argentina will host the Copa America in 2011. A total of 12 countries that are divided into three groups will compete to be able to embrace the title last held by Brazil in 2007 ago.

Copa America a long history starting from 1916. At that time, Argentine football tournament held to celebrate the independence of their longevity to-100. The tournament which is the forerunner of the Copa America was named Campeonato Sudamericano de Selecciones with the participation of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. Uruguay came out a champion after defeating hosts in the ultimate party.

Seeing the success of the tournament, one member of the Uruguayan Football Federation named Hector Rivadavia then submitted a proposal to merge the four countries into a confederation had been in the same year. Thus was born the CONMEBOL (Confederacion Sul-Americana de Futbol) or South American Football Federation.

Operation of this tournament was halted long enough since the convening of World Cup for the first time in 1930. New in 1939, the tournament rolling back to Peru to host.

Copa America itself the new name officially used starting in 1975. At that time there were only nine teams that competed with the defending champion who profited directly qualify to the semifinals. Pause between tournament is every four years with the system of a country designated as the host. The format of this competition lasted until 1987.

Copa America since 1987 held every two years to host the tenth rotated from CONMEBOL member countries. This year's live broadcast of the Copa America began to enter the television station in North America to Europe. This format lasted until now.

For business champions, Argentina and Uruguay are in the forefront. Both have collected the trophy with the same amount, with 14 championship trophy. Brazil followed in second place with 8 titles, Paraguay and Peru, each new two-time champions and Bolivia and Colombia once the new champion.

Copa America Winner List:

• Argentina: 14 times

(1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993)

• Uruguay: 14 times

(1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995)

• Brazil: 8 times (1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007)

• Paraguay: 2 times (1953, 1979)

• Peru: 2 times (1939, 1975)

• Colombia: 1 time (2001)

• Bolivia: 1 time (1963)

Schedule Copa América 2011: Schedule And Group.

Argentina Copa América Copa América 2011 or 2011, or also known as Campeonato Sudamericano 2011 Copa América is an international football tournament followed by countries in South America. In this year's Copa America event is the 43rd time and will be held in Argentina from July 1 until July 24, 2011, followed by the 10 countries of South America and supplemented by the two countries the invitation of the Mexican and Costa Rica (in place of the Japanese who resigned ).

Copa America 2011 tournament will be divided into two phases, including the group stage and knockout round (quarterfinals, semifinals and finals). Following the division of the group iniadalah Argentina Copa America 2011.

Group A: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia
Group B: Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela
Group C: Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru


SCHEDULE COPA AMERICA 2011 ARGENTINA

Group stage: 1-13 July 2011
Quarterfinal: 16 & July 17, 2011
Semifinal Round: 19-20 July 2011
Final: July 24, 2011

MATCH SCHEDULE COPA AMERICA 2011: SCHEDULE - GROUP

Group A
02/07/2011
01:45 Argentina - Bolivia -: -
19:30 Colombia - Costa Rica -: -

07/07/2011
01:45 Argentina - Colombia -: -
23:15 Bolivia - Costa Rica -: -

10/07/2011
20:00 Colombia - Bolivia -: -

12/07/2011
01:45 Argentina - Costa Rica -: -
Group B
03/07/2011
20:00 Brazil - Venezuela -: -
22:30 Paraguay - Ecuador -: -

09/07/2011
20:00 Brazil - Paraguay -: -
22:30 Venezuela - Ecuador -: -

13/07/2011
23:15 Paraguay - Venezuela -: -

14/07/2011
01:45 Brazil - Ecuador -: -

Group C
04/07/2011
23:15 Uruguay - Peru -: -

05/07/2011
01:45 Chile - Mexico -: -

08/07/2011
23:15 Peru - Mexico -: -

09/07/2011
01:45 Uruguay - Chile -: -

13/07/2011
01:45 Chile - Peru -: -
01:45 Uruguay - Mexico -: -

Quarter-finals
16/07/2011

A1 - Bester Dritter -: -

A2 - C2 -: -
17/07/2011

B1 - Zweiter Dritter -: -

C1 - B2 -: -
Semi-finals
19/07/2011
VF 1 Sieger - Sieger VF 2 -: -

20/07/2011
VF 3 Sieger - Sieger VF 4 -: -

Third place
23/07/2011
Verlierer HF 1 - Verlierer HF 2 -: -

Final
24/07/2011
HF 1 Sieger - Sieger HF 2