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...FOOTBALL 2,500 Meters above sea level set by world soccer body FIFA as the new altitude limit for international games, citing concerns over players' health 4 Number of South American nations with stadiums above 2,500 m-Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador-that have complained they may have to relocate matches...
...could no longer host professional football games. Sorry, Cheese-heads, but extreme cold is dangerous and unfair to visiting teams. Now envision Wisconsin's reaction, enlarge it to a national scale, and you'll have some idea of the sentiment in Bolivia since last Sunday. That's when the soccer's world governing body, FIFA, announced a ban on staging international matches at altitudes higher than 2,500 meters (about 8,200 ft.) because of the health risks posed to players unaccustomed to the altitude. The decree rules out home games in at least five stadiums in Bolivia...
...Absurd!"; "Degrading!"; "An attack on our people and way of life," are just some of the responses heard in La Paz from President Evo Morales and local soccer officials all the way down to street vendors. Within hours of the ruling, Bolivia had mobilized, holding emergency cabinet meetings and press conferences, and launching mass letter-writing campaigns...
...cabinet members and former Bolivian pros who often join him in friendly matches against local teams in rural villages) played a quadruple-header, including three games in the 11,735-ft.-high national stadium. Many of the spectators sported a T-shirt depicting a victorious Morales standing on a soccer field above the words "Bolivia is Soccer"; on the back, "No to the Veto; Yes to Sports...
...play on the fields that will be used during the tournament. Akpan, who scored over a quarter of the U.S.’s total goals during the team’s showing in Panama, will be attending the camp with fifteen other hopefuls, ranging from fellow collegiate soccer players to members of foreign clubs and professional soccer teams...