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Melbourne City have completed their squad for the A-League season ahead, having landed Argentinian winger Nicolas Colazo from Boca Juniors. Cheap Air Max 97 .Colazo, 26, trained with City for the first time on Tuesday morning at AAMI Park ahead but wont play in the clubs FFA Cup quarter-final with Western Sydney on Wednesday night.City have yet to complete the paperwork surrounding the left-sided players marquee move from Boca Juniors, which wraps up coach John van t Schips off-season shopping.We are finished with our signings, which I am very happy with. We go forward, the Dutchman said.Colazo landed in Melbourne on Monday and will contend for round one of the A-League.He had the opportunity and liked the opportunity to join us in this project. Were happy, van t Schip said.Hes a player that can play up front, midfield and even in defence ... technically strong and a good left foot.Colazo joins countryman Fernando Brandan, Socceroos great Tim Cahill, Danish international Michael Jakobsen and home-grown talents Bruce Kamau, Luke Brattan and Neil Kilkenny as Citys major signings.And van t Schip says the rest will all be in the frame to face the Wanderers, a match he labelled as a great test.Its very important to see where we are only a few weeks before the A-League starts, he said.Its a cup game and we want to win.Local fans should see Cahill and Jakobsen in home debuts, but van t Schip was coy on whether they would start, particularly given Cahills success as a Socceroos super-sub against United Arab Emirates a fortnight ago.He had a big impact in the short time he came on, he said.(Cahill) looks good, he feels good and hes ready to play.(Jakobsens) in a good condition because he came out of a league playing in Norway.Hes a player we want to have normally in the starting line-up.He has a very good pedigree, a good defender, a good age. We expect a lot from him.Against the Wanderers, City are coming off back-to-back friendly beltings to Wellington and Newcastle.In a 4-1 loss to the Phoenix, the coach blamed a heavy training load in Sundays 4-0 loss to the Jets, van t Schip fielded a youth side.The biggest loss of the last fortnight was Corey Gameiro, who ruptured an ACL for the third time in as many years while training in Townsville.Its very disappointing, he sad.For him the most. Its tough. Its mentally very hard.Were trying to do what we can to support him. Air Max 97 Vapormax Cheap .C. -- Chris Thorburn thinks one of the reasons the Winnipeg Jets have been successful under new coach Paul Maurice is that theyre playing together as a team. Air Max 97 Off White Wolf Grey Menta .7 million, one-year contract, a raise of $2.2 million. Wieters had asked for $8.75 million and the Orioles had offered $6. http:///...red-black-white.html . Peter Holland and Brad Staubitz were sent to Toronto on Saturday as the Maple Leafs traded defenceman Jesse Blacker and draft picks to the Anaheim Ducks. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Angelina Nadai Lohalith did not qualify for the medal round in the womens 1,500-meter run Saturday night. She did not come anywhere close. She not only finished last in her heat, she ran a time that was 31 seconds slower that the next slowest runner and 47 seconds slower than the winner.But she was not devastated. She was proud. As well Lohalith should be because she is an inspiration on and off the track. Lohalith, you see, is one of the 10 athletes competing with the Refugee Olympic Team, and just being able to run in these Games is an amazing advance in her life. And perhaps it can similarly be a little advance for her fellow refugees.Even though I came in last, Im happy, Lohalith said. I was able to compete and able to finish off the race. Next time, I believe that I will be in front of them rather than be at the end. Im representing refugees from all over the world. Im becoming their ambassador now, and that made me happy.James Nyang Chiengjiek likewise finished last in his 400-meter heat, six seconds behind the next runner ahead of him. He also is an athlete from South Sudan on the refugee team. And he, too, was very proud to be running here.I think its a very important moment for all the refuges. Not me alone, Chiengjiek said. We are not getting the medals we hoped to get, but this is for spreading peace. I thank the IOC for giving us this chance. It is very important we are here today. Also, we have met and gotten to know so many people. I hope when we go back, we will have that experience, and it will help us in the future.While many people sympathize with refugees and the agonies they endure, some take negative views. They argue that allowing refugees into your country will take jobs from citizens. That they may be terrorists. That they are beneath the rest of us. Lohalith and Chiengjiek hope the performances of the refugees here will help end such views.When some people hear refugees, they do not see them as they are, Lohalith said. They do not see them as human beings. They see them as refugees, something negative. But we can do something better in our life. Like in sport. Refugees can do something for their lives. Wherever they are, they can do something positive.Lohalith escaped the war in South Sudan to the Kakuuma refugee camp back in 2002 while Chiengjiek left just before that to avoid being made into a child soldier. New Air Max 97 2019. The two each began running while in school, little dreaming that they would one day be running on another continent in the Olympics.Fortunately, the IOC voted to allow a team of refugees to compete in the Rio Olympics, picking a total of 10. Five (all runners) are from South Sudan, two from Syria, two from the Democratic Republic of Congo and one from Ethiopia. When the refugee team marched in during the opening ceremonies, they received perhaps the most enthusiastic ovation of any team other than host Brazil.I think it has been an amazing experience for them because it is something they have never dreamed about happening, said Luiz Fernando Godinho with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They are very conscious of the role they are playing here at these Games. They know they are not here to win medals, that they are here to support the refugee case.We always look at the athletes to be looking for some personal achievement, and they truly are not looking for that. They know their limitations but they know they are here for a cause. They are leaders of tomorrow.Both Lohalith and Chiengjiek are staying in the athletes village and being treated just like all the other Olympians, which is what refugees hope for in their lives. They are people like you or me, Godinho said. If they have the chance they can achieve important things. They are normal people. The only thing they need is a chance to prove themselves and achieve important things.Lohalith and Chiengjiek are proving themselves and achieving something important. And they hope their performances here will inspire other refugees that they, too, can do what seems impossible. After all, Lopez Lomong was a South Sudanese refugee who wound up running the 1,500 in the 2008 Olympics and also carrying the flag of the United States after becoming an American citizen.Start making your mind to think positive, Lohalith said. And every time you go out, think positively that you will be able to tackle all the challenges that come in your life. ' ' '