good i hope hristo dies a gruesome death much like oday and usai, who
obviously he has much in common. go to hell prick, if you need to
break little kids legs in practice games.
--- In hristostoichkov@yahoogroups.com, andrea_sipowicz
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bulgarian international Hristo Stoitchkov was
> fined $2,000 and suspended for D.C. United's first two matches of
the
> Major League Soccer (MLS) season on Wednesday for a challenge that
> left an opponent with a badly broken leg.
> The incident occurred in the 10th minute of a pre-season friendly
> between United and American University when Stoitchkov, dove into
> Freddy Llerena, breaking two bones in the midfielder's lower right
> leg.
> The match was abandoned by the referee because of Llerena's injury.
> MLS conducted a frame-by-frame analysis of three separate
videotapes
> and interviewed the match officials, both coaches, Stoitchkov and
> various eye witnesses in their investigation of the incident.
> "The Committee ruled unanimously, having seen and heard all the
> evidence available to it, that, however serious and tragic the
injury
> to Freddy Llerena, Hristo Stoitchkov's challenge was made in the
> course of the game and was a play on the ball which was between the
> two players," said MLS Deputy Commissioner Ivan Gazidis. "The
> discipline imposed upon Stoitchkov is in line with MLS discipline
to
> players involved in comparable incidents over the years in MLS
> games."
> Stoitchkov will miss United's season opener at the Kansas City
> Wizards on April 12 and at home to the Chicago Fire on April 19.
> The volatile Bulgarian won the Golden Boot as the top scorer in
> Europe in 1990 and was also the top scorer at the 1994 World Cup
> finals in the U.S.