All five goals came in a topsy-turvy opening 33 minutes with the game settling down only after Malaga’s Portuguese forward Eliseu was sent off in the 41st, allowing the visitors to take control.
Villarreal continued their strong start to the campaign, racking up football jersey
their fourth consecutive league win to move on to 12 points from five matches, one short of leaders and near neighbours Valencia.
Barcelona are third on goal difference, with Real Madrid fourth on 11 points.
Eliseu gave Malaga a fourth-minute lead after a free kick but two goals in three minutes turned the game on its head, Cazorla firing in a deflected shot and Italy’s Giuseppe Rossi netting a fine solo effort in the 24th.
Jose Rondon headed Malaga level in the 30th after good work from Quincy Owusu-Abeiye down the left, but the score changed again after only a few minutes.
Cazorla, who missed out on Spain’s World Cup finals squad because of an injury-interrupted season last year, proved he was back to his best with a superb winner cracked in from outside the area.
Just before the break, Spain defender Carlos Marchena got Eliseu sent off after theatrically falling to the ground clutching his face as the two went forehead to forehead.
PARIS (AP)—Sepp Blatter is promising US$25,000 (?18,500) for Kodjovi Obilale, the goalkeeper shot and badly injured in the terror attack on Togo’s team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in January.
Obilale, speaking Monday by phone, said he received a letter from the FIFA president this weekend. Blatter wrote that the money would come from a FIFA humanitarian fund, Obilale said.
“It’s kind,” he said of the donation.
Obilale was shot twice in the back, suffering spinal and other injuries. He San Francisco 49ers jersey
can no longer move his right leg below the knee nor feel its foot and toes. The 25-year-old does not expect to ever again play football but hopes that, with time, he might be able to walk. For now, he uses a wheelchair.
In an interview last week with The Associated Press, Obilale said he felt that football officials abandoned him after the machine-gun attack claimed by separatists in Angola’s oil-producing Cabinda region. The Togo team’s assistant coach, its press official and their Angolan bus driver were killed.
Obilale said that neither the Confederation of African Football, which organizes the Africa Cup, nor Angola, which hosted the 2010 edition, have contacted him. He also complained that officials in Togo have been slow to help.
Frustrated, he wrote to Blatter in August asking for his assistance. Even though FIFA was not directly involved in the cup, Africa’s showpiece football tournament, Obilale felt that only football’s world governing body has the power to force CAF, Angola and Togo to come up with a decent compensation package.
“The only person who can shift all this is Mr. Blatter,” he said in the interview at his hospital in western France, where he used to play professionally.
Blatter wrote back that FIFA could not be held responsible for the “tragic” attack, Obilale said, reading the letter out by phone to The AP. But Blatter added: “We will continue to study this dossier.”
“I wish you a lot of courage,” Blatter wrote, according to Obilale.
A payment of $70,000 (?53,000) that Togo’s sports minister Buffalo Bills jersey
promised a month ago when he visited Obilale in France finally landed in his bank account last week.
Obilale said Monday that the money was sufficient to pay off three of his seven months of hospital bills. He plans to send the remainder of the bill to authorities in Togo for payment.
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