Gustavo: “Die richtige Entscheidung”

 

Für seinen Traum von der Heim-WM in Brasilien verzichtet Luiz Gustavo auf weitere Titel mitBayern München. Der 26-Jährige gab am Freitag mit seinem Wechsel vom Triple-Gewinner zum VfL Wolfsburg nach langer Bedenkzeit auch ein klares Bekenntnis zur Nationalelf seines Landes. Brasiliens Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hatte gefordert, dass seine Spieler vor der WM im eigenen Land in ihren Klubs spielen müssten.

“Es war ein schwieriger Monat für mich. Aber jetzt freue ich mich auf das Projekt Wolfsburg”, sagte Gustavo, der beim VfL einen Fünfjahresvertrag bis Juni 2018 unterzeichnete. Über seine Chancen in der Nationalelf meinte der elfmalige Auswahlspieler: “Ich habe mit Trainer Scolari gesprochen. Er hat mir seine Meinung gesagt, und danach konnte ich besser denken und die richtige Entscheidung treffen.”

Dem Vernehmen nach soll der VfL Wolfsburg über 20 Millionen Euro für den Südamerikaner bezahlt haben, auch wenn Manager Klaus Allofs abwiegelte. “22 Millionen Euro Ablöse und acht Millionen Euro Gehalt – das ist alles weit von der Realität entfernt”, sagte Allofs, der zugab, dass Wolfsburg schon länger als bekannt Kontakt zu dem Spieler hatte. “Wir haben schon lange überlegt, wer uns auf der Position helfen könnte und in der Bundesliga nach ganz oben geschaut. Da kommt man auf Luiz.”

Auch Trainer Dieter Hecking freute sich über seinen neuen Mittelfeld-Star. “Es ist gut, dass er sich für uns entschieden hat. Und es ist ein Zeichen an die Bundesliga, dass wir so einen Mann holen können”, sagte der Coach. Man dürfe die Erwartungen jetzt nicht so hoch schrauben. “Wir werden jetzt nicht sofort Zweiter, Dritter oder Vierter.”

In München wäre Luiz Gustavo wegen des Über-Angebots im Mittelfeld wohl nur noch selten zum Einsatz gekommen. Bei Trainer Pep Guardiola stand er – anders als bei dessen Vorgänger Jupp Heynckes – nicht so hoch im Kurs, auch wenn der Bayern-Coach am Freitag sagte: “Wir haben miteinander über seine Position gesprochen. Für mich wäre es auch super gewesen, wenn er hier geblieben wäre.”

Mehrere europäische Top-Klubs waren an Gustavo interessiert, darunter der FC Arsenal, Dynamo Moskau und der SSC Neapel. Am Ende machte jedoch der Werksklub das Rennen, wahrscheinlich auch deshalb, weil sich VW-Chef Martin Winterkorn für eine Verpflichtung stark gemacht hatte. Winterkorn sitzt auch beim FC Bayern im Aufsichtsrat.

Einen Titelregen wie im vergangenen Jahr mit Bayern München nach Siegen in Meisterschaft, Pokal und UEFA Champions League wird der elfmalige Nationalspieler in Wolfsburg nicht so schnell erleben. Nach mageren Jahren im Niemandsland der Liga peilt der Meister von 2009 in der laufenden Saison die Teilnahme an der UEFA Europa League an.

Schon am Samstag im Heimspiel gegen Schalke 04 (15:30 Uhr) könnte der 26-Jährige auflaufen. Nach dem 0:2 zum Start bei Hannover 96 haben die Wölfe eine Verstärkung im Mittelfeld nötig. “Vielleicht spielt er von Beginn an. Wir müssen sehen, wie lange seine Kräfte reichen”, sagte Hecking. Auf Schalke ist man gewarnt. “Er ist ein Spieler mit enormer Qualität. Er wird Wolfsburg nicht verschlechtern”, so S04-Trainer Jens Keller.

Für Allofs ist der Wechsel von Gustavo der teuerste Transfer seiner neunmonatigen Amtszeit. Eigentlich hatte der Geschäftsführer nach der Magath-Ära eine “neue Bescheidenheit” ausgerufen, doch nun konnte er nicht widerstehen und machte seinen ersten Mega-Deal für dieWölfe perfekt. Neben Regisseur Diego, der im August 2010 für geschätzte 15 Millionen Euro an den Mittelland-Kanal gewechselt war, ist Luiz Gustavo der teuerste Einkauf der Klubgeschichte.

Bayerns Vorstandsvorsitzender Karl-Heinz Rummenigge fand nur lobende Worte für den scheidenden Spieler. “Mit seiner ruhigen, aber immer freundlichen und sehr professionellen Art hat er in unserem Klub viele Freunde gewonnen. Auf Luiz Gustavo war immer Verlass, und er hat seinen Anteil am Gewinn des Triples des FC Bayern in der vergangenen Saison”, sagte Rummenigge über Gustavo, der vor zweieinhalb Jahren von 1899 Hoffenheim für rund 17 Millionen Euro nach München gewechselt war.

 

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Audiência prévia de Amor à Vida – 16/08/2013

Globo – 34.6

Record – 5.3

SBT- 5.1

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Audiência prévia de Chiquititas – 16/08/2013

 

Na noite desta sexta-feira (16), foi ao ar pelo SBT, mais um capítulo da novela “Chiquititas”, que novamente venceu a Record, com boa vantagem e garantiu a vice-liderança isolada para a emissora de Silvio Santos.

Segundo dados prévios a trama adaptada por Íris Abravanel foi vice-líder com 11.6 pontos, e pico de 12.8, no mesmo horário a Rede Globo ficou na liderança com 26.1 pontos, já a Record ficou em terceiro com 8.1 pontos.

*Cada ponto equivale a 62 mil domicílios na Grande São Paulo. Os dados são prévios e podem sofrer alterações no consolidado. 

 

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O Observador: “Amor à Vida” é um mar de exageros de Walcyr Carrasco

A grande polêmica sobre o cabelo de Marina Ruy Barbosa e a morte de sua personagem na semana passada só mostraram que “Amor à Vida” está tropeçando cada vez mais em seus próprios erros e, por conta disso, não consegue aumentar seus índices de audiência, que não são ruins, mas também estão longe de serem comemorados.

Em sua estreia, “Amor à Vida” convenceu pela história forte e apresentação dos também fortes personagens, mas Walcyr Carrasco errou a mão no melodrama de sua novela, exagerou nos clichês, transformando alguns personagens em caricaturas ridículas, como o próprio Félix (Mateus Solano), além de ter exagerado também no didatismo do texto, colocando à prova a inteligência do telespectador.

“Amor à Vida” tem uma história que prende o público, que emociona – até demais, o que é um grave erro –, mas é absolutamente infantil em várias oportunidades, como por exemplo na morte de Nicole. Não cabe mais nos dias atuais uma morte em pleno altar, após a mocinha da história descobrir uma traição. Esse tipo de coisa fragiliza ainda mais a trama e afasta aquele telespectador que exige uma coisa mais séria, mais verossímil, mais real.

Assim como foi absolutamente equivocada a cena na qual Félix foi desmascarado pela família, que “descobriu” seu lado gay. Houve vários erros ali: primeiro o fato de Edith (Bárbara Paz) estar transando com o amante Wagner (Felipe Titto) no quarto da casa onde estão na sala a dona da residência, Pilar (Susana Vieira), e outras pessoas. Irreal, não? Segundo foi a coincidência de alguns acontecimentos, além de, mais uma vez, um fraco texto.

O que aconteceu nos últimos capítulos só reforça algo que falei lá no início da trama: O vilão age sem motivos, Pilar é inocente ao extremo em relação ao seu marido, Paloma (Paola Oliveira) é a mocinha cega, inconsequente, enquanto o público vai se comportando como um estudante de ensino fundamental, diante de um texto carregado de didatismo.

E assim “Amor à Vida” vai passando batida, sendo o cabelo de uma atriz o que mais se comenta sobre a novela. E os exageros do autor explicam isso.

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Classificação da Serie C do Campeonato Brasileiro após a décima rodada

GRUPO A

CLASSIFICAÇÃO		P	J	V	E	D	GP	GC	SG	%
1	Sampaio Corrêa	20	10	6	2	2	21	7	14	66.7
2	Cuiabá	17	10	5	2	3	19	10	9	56.7
3	Santa Cruz	17	10	5	2	3	17	9	8	56.7
4	Luverdense	17	10	5	2	3	15	10	5	56.7
5	Águia de Marabá	17	10	5	2	3	16	12	4	56.7
6	Fortaleza	16	10	5	1	4	19	12	7	53.3
7	CRB	16	10	5	1	4	10	8	2	53.3
8	Brasiliense	15	10	4	3	3	8	10	-2	50
9	Treze	11	10	3	2	5	11	21	-10	36.7
10	Baraúnas	7	10	2	1	7	9	25	-16	23.3
11	Rio Branco-AC	3	10	1	0	9	3	24	-21	10

GRUPO B

 

CLASSIFICAÇÃO		P	J	V	E	D	GP	GC	SG	%
1	Guarani	19	9	5	4	0	6	0	6	70.4
2	Caxias	18	9	5	3	1	7	5	2	66.7
3	Mogi Mirim	16	9	5	1	3	14	7	7	59.3
4	Macaé	15	9	5	0	4	10	10	0	55.6
5	Vila Nova	14	9	4	2	3	12	7	5	51.9
6	Madureira	12	9	3	3	3	12	8	4	44.4
7	Betim	9	9	2	3	4	7	8	-1	33.3
8	Barueri	8	9	2	2	5	8	19	-11	29.6
9	Duque de Caxias	6	9	1	3	5	9	14	-5	22.2
10	Crac	6	9	1	3	5	3	10	-7	22.2

 

 

 

People smugglers take to the sky

August 18, 2013

Michael Bachelard

Indonesia correspondent for Fairfax Media

Illustration: Matt Golding.

People smugglers are concocting a new and expensive product to sell their asylum seeker clients – flying them into Australia on fake tourist visas to sidestep the harsh policies of both political parties aimed at boat arrivals.

Three separate groups of Iranian asylum seekers in the Indonesian province of West Java have told Fairfax Media that smugglers’ agents had approached them in recent days with a plan that comes with a money-back guarantee.

For a price that varies between $US15,000 and $US25,000 a head – three to five times the average boat fare – they will arrange for passengers to fly from Indonesia to Thailand or Malaysia, and then to Australia on a genuine passport with the picture changed to alter the identity.

The smugglers are saying their proposal avoids the Papua New Guinea solution and the opposition’s announced plan of no permanent resettlement ever.

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Iranian asylum seeker Binai Abdu Samad told Fairfax Media that the passport would probably be from Europe.

”Many Iraqi people already came here [to Indonesia] with illegal passports … now a smuggler is saying, ‘We’ll prepare for you a tourist visa,”’ Mr Binai said.

Once the asylum seekers have landed but before they pass through border control, they are instructed to go to the toilet and destroy the passports, then claim asylum to the first official they meet.

”When you get to Australia you cut the passport and go to immigration and say ‘I am a refugee.’ They can’t send you back then,” Mr Binai said.

He is planning to return with his family to Iran as a result of the Papua New Guinea solution, but had been quoted $US15,000 for access to the new service.

”The smugglers know how they can open the route to Australia again – from the flights … People are already talking about it.”

Another young Iranian, Ali Bahrani, agreed that ”some of the single people from Pakistan now are just talking about this”.

He had heard a price of $US25,000 for the service, which had been designed because ”in Australia, the rules are just for boats”.

Because the sums are so large, the asylum seekers’ money would be held in trust with a third party, called a ”hawaladar”, and released to the smuggler only once the asylum seeker is safely on Australian territory.

It’s clear the idea is one of a number being pitched to an audience of desperate asylum seekers dismayed by the Rudd government’s Papua New Guinea solution and the tough new policy of the Abbott opposition.

Another idea is a route from Indonesia to New Zealand by boat – a journey the smugglers say will cost $US5000 and take 15 days.

It’s clear from what asylum seekers are saying that the new offerings remain in the marketing phase.

A Department of Immigration spokesman said tight security meant few people travelling on false documents ever made it to Australia, but if they did and claimed asylum, ”those [claims] are assessed”.

”These numbers remain small. While DIAC continues to monitor the situation, there has been no noticeable increase,” the spokesman said.

Canberra Times

Warning on threat of recession

August 18, 2013

Ewa Kretowicz

Reporter for The Canberra Times.

Reserve Bank guard dogs. Photo: Sasha Woolley

THE economy has a 30 to 35 per cent chance of falling into recession next year, according to one of the nation’s leading economists.

James Morley from the Australian School of Business said the Reserve Bank has done all it can and it was time for political leaders to focus on preventing a property bubble by using sound fiscal policy.

“You don’t want to drop interest rates any more and repeat the mistakes of the US, with interest rates really low leading to a housing boom, which leads to a housing bust,” Professor Morley said.

“That’s a danger when you rely too much on monetary policy, so if the economy is going to transition from the mining boom you certainly want good fiscal policy.”

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Historically, countries are in recession 20 per cent of the time, Professor Morley said.

“To really get a big recession you have to get a big shock, so if house prices were to fall instead of going up and up, that could trigger a recession. It’s more possible than people seem to think.”

House prices in Australia are very high compared with the rest of the world, he said.

“Using any measure of house prices compared with income or rents, they are quite high.”

Emeritus economics professor at the University of Sydney Frank Stilwell gave a more circumspect analysis of the likelihood of a national recession.

“Looking around the world, there are a lot of countries in recession, and the spectacular growth in China and India is looking a little shaky,” he said.

But even slowing global economies will not lead to a complete cessation of mineral exports, Professor Stilwell said.

“The bottom is not about to drop out of our exports, but even a slowing down will create stresses as we look for alternative growth points.”

Lack of other growth areas is his greatest concern.

“There is a prospect of recession, but not a certainty by any mean. Rather than try to predict the future, we should talk about strategies that will reduce the risks. As a person with a strong environmental interest, I think this is a marvellous moment to restructure the economy to more ecologically sustainable principles.”

To achieve this, he said, the carbon tax was a better solution than an emissions trading scheme.

“It sends a clearer signal and creates greater restructuring, which is necessary. The problem with an emission trading scheme is that it’s a neo-liberal model with the price fluctuating, and based on the European experience it tends to fluctuate down to zero and therefore has no benefit.”

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Ukrainian Imports Barred As Relations Hit A New Low

A customs control zone

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti

As Ukrainian producers complain of sudden harsh scrutiny at Russian customs and Gazprom reports a drastic decrease of gas sales to Ukraine, relations between the two countries seem to have plunged to a new low, experts said.

Since Aug. 14, all Ukrainian producers have been classed as “high risk” by Russian customs authorities. Shipments are subjected to full rather than selective checks, meaning delivery delays and financial losses for the exporters, the Ukrainian Employers Federation said in a statement.

The Russian Federal Customs Service fired a warning shot in July, slapping high risk designations on 40 Ukrainian producers. But the sudden expansion of the list this week was unprecedented. A high risk classification means the company is suspected of having deceived customs in the past and its goods have to be scrutinized meticulously before being cleared to cross the border.

The Ukrainian Employers Federation, which represents 8,500 companies that make up 70 percent of the country’s GDP, said risk prevention measures at the Russian border have been scaled up to the point that a de-facto ban on imports from Ukraine is now in place.

The Federal Customs Service on Thursday declined to comment on the situation.

Though no new official trade limits have been introduced, since Aug. 14 customs inspections at the border have become overwhelming, said Metinvest Group, Ukraine’s largest mining and steel company and one of the country’s key exporters to Russia.

“[Customs] began checking all steel products imported from Ukraine for certificates proving their origin and sending samples to Moscow for verification, a procedure that can take up to two months,” the company said in a statement.

The authenticity of Metinvest products has never been questioned before, the company said, adding that the new customs procedures greatly complicate deliveries, driving up costs not only for Ukrainian exporters, but on Russian importers as well.

Export volumes from Ukraine to Russia for the second half of the year were estimated at $8.5 billion. The trade deficit provoked by the aggressive new customs regime is expected to cost Ukraine from $2 billion to $2.5 billion, according to the employers federation, depending on Russia’s actions. Overall, Ukrainian production output could fall by as much as 8 percent and its GDP could be cut down by 1.5 percent.

As the former CIS partners descend into what experts are calling a trade war, Russia’s energy giant, Gazprom, reported its operational results for the second quarter. While its overall gas exports grew by almost 10 percent since last year, exports to Ukraine fell by nearly 40 percent. Having been the main importer of Russian gas less than two years ago, now Ukraine is ranked only fifth.

Responsibility for the collapse in volumes seems to lie with Ukraine: At the beginning of the year, top officials said the country would limit its gas imports from Russia to minimum levels.

Gazprom, in turn, is making efforts to direct gas exports to Europe through the new North and South Stream pipelines, bypassing its Ukrainian transit partner.

“The obvious decline in cooperation on the gas market between Russia and Ukraine is only another stage in their trade wars,” investment analyst Timofei Sholtes said, Noviye Izvestiya reported.

The conflict is destructive for both sides, he said. For Ukraine, with its energy-dependent economy, there is no real alternative to Russian gas imports. As for Gazprom, Ukraine’s pipeline network — which still transports three-quarters of the company’s European deliveries — is the cheapest export route to Eastern European countries.

Ukrainian politicians said the reason behind the ongoing friction with Russia was the Kremlin’s desire to sabotage its neighbor attempts to form an alliance with Europe and maneuver the country back toward the former Soviet states.

“The ban on imports of Ukrainian goods into Russia is nothing but Russian pressure in order to force Ukraine to join the Customs Union,” Arseny Yatsenyuk, leader of opposition party Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) said, Reuters reported.

Ukraine’s long-nurtured plans were to sign free trade and political association agreements with the European Union. Negotiations have stalled due to EU concerns over the state of law in Ukraine, but the latest remarks by European Commission officials suggest agreements could be signed as early as this November during the East Partners summit in Vilnius.

The time has come for Ukraine to choose a side, said Sergei Miheyev, general director of the Center of Political Environment think tank.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, Ukraine has enjoyed favorable trade conditions with Russia, among them the ability to import gas at Russian low domestic prices, he said. Russia has long waited for similar perks in return, but Ukraine has instead turned away to embrace Europe.

“They think they can have their cake and eat it forever. They harp on about how bad Russia is, form close ties with Europe and then expect preferential treatment and open markets here,” Miheyev said. “Why doesn’t Ukraine offer its goods to Europe? Maybe there they will sell better.”

The Moscow Times

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