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Some of soccer s top female players are upset they may have to play on artificial grass at next year s World Cup Finals in Canada. It will be the first tournament where turf is used instead of grass, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. For months, players have protested the decision by FIFA, arguing it would never allow synthetic fields at the men s World Cup. They say artificial turf prevents players from making those dramatic headers and slides, and can result in more injuries. Now, 10 months from the FIFA Women s World Cup, they re threatening legal action. Alex Morgan, forward on the U.S. Women s National Team, is one of the many star players to come out against FIFA s decision. The men s World Cup was g dunk homme iven brand new stadiums, brand new venues around Brazil, and all we re asking is for a great su adidas campus homme rface to play on, Morgan said. Star striker Abby Wambach, known for making dramatic plays, said turf will limit the action on the field and increase player injuries. About a year ago when we heard definiti hoka winterschuhe vely that they were gonna be playing it on actual artificial surface, I kinda came out pretty vocally and said this is an outrage, this is a disgrace, Wombach said. The game changes, the ball rolls faster, and it s less fun as an athlete. It should be grass stains, not blood. Forward Sydney Leroux took a photo of her bruised knees and shins after playing a match on a turf field. It is a gender equality issue, Laroux said. No chance men would eve Vdkm Coast Guard seizes more than $1 billion worth of illegal cocaine and marijuana
This story was filed by CBS News reporter Portia Siegelbaum in Havana.We still don t know exactly what illness befell former Cuban President Fidel Castro, but in a column posted Thursday evening, the 82-year-old makes it clear he s sick of being referred to as a convalescent. AP Photo/Jose Goitia Castro chides some agencies and publications for depicting him as the old man, the convalescent from a serious illness or some other descri stanley trinkflaschen ption. He accused the unnamed media organizations of trying to diminish the modest value of his conversation on Thursday with stanley cup quencher Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, whom he met earlier in the day. Bachelet arrived in Cuba three days ago. At the time his column was posted, the Chilean President, accompanied by her Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, was inaugurating the annual Havana International Book Fair.Responding to questions from the press as she left the Fair grounds, Bachelet said Fidel Castro was in very good condition and that he was on top of things, wanting to know everything and knowing everything. According to Castro s column, he and Bachelet discussed the coup in Chile, the role of the Chilean Communist Party, which, he writes, made no mistake when it threw its support behind her in the presidential race. AP Photo/Argentine Presidency It wasn t clear whether photos of the meeting between the elder Castro and Bachelet would be released. The last photo published of Castro was taken at the end of January dur stanley cup ing a meeting with visit
Some of soccer s top female players are upset they may have to play on artificial grass at next year s World Cup Finals in Canada. It will be the first tournament where turf is used instead of grass, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. For months, players have protested the decision by FIFA, arguing it would never allow synthetic fields at the men s World Cup. They say artificial turf prevents players from making those dramatic headers and slides, and can result in more injuries. Now, 10 months from the FIFA Women s World Cup, they re threatening legal action. Alex Morgan, forward on the U.S. Women s National Team, is one of the many star players to come out against FIFA s decision. The men s World Cup was g dunk homme iven brand new stadiums, brand new venues around Brazil, and all we re asking is for a great su adidas campus homme rface to play on, Morgan said. Star striker Abby Wambach, known for making dramatic plays, said turf will limit the action on the field and increase player injuries. About a year ago when we heard definiti hoka winterschuhe vely that they were gonna be playing it on actual artificial surface, I kinda came out pretty vocally and said this is an outrage, this is a disgrace, Wombach said. The game changes, the ball rolls faster, and it s less fun as an athlete. It should be grass stains, not blood. Forward Sydney Leroux took a photo of her bruised knees and shins after playing a match on a turf field. It is a gender equality issue, Laroux said. No chance men would eve Vdkm Coast Guard seizes more than $1 billion worth of illegal cocaine and marijuana
This story was filed by CBS News reporter Portia Siegelbaum in Havana.We still don t know exactly what illness befell former Cuban President Fidel Castro, but in a column posted Thursday evening, the 82-year-old makes it clear he s sick of being referred to as a convalescent. AP Photo/Jose Goitia Castro chides some agencies and publications for depicting him as the old man, the convalescent from a serious illness or some other descri stanley trinkflaschen ption. He accused the unnamed media organizations of trying to diminish the modest value of his conversation on Thursday with stanley cup quencher Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, whom he met earlier in the day. Bachelet arrived in Cuba three days ago. At the time his column was posted, the Chilean President, accompanied by her Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, was inaugurating the annual Havana International Book Fair.Responding to questions from the press as she left the Fair grounds, Bachelet said Fidel Castro was in very good condition and that he was on top of things, wanting to know everything and knowing everything. According to Castro s column, he and Bachelet discussed the coup in Chile, the role of the Chilean Communist Party, which, he writes, made no mistake when it threw its support behind her in the presidential race. AP Photo/Argentine Presidency It wasn t clear whether photos of the meeting between the elder Castro and Bachelet would be released. The last photo published of Castro was taken at the end of January dur stanley cup ing a meeting with visit