saco-indonesia.com, Real Madrid gagal dalam memanfaatkan kesempatan untuk dapat menembus dua besar La Liga setelah semalam hanya bermain imbang 1-1 dalam melawan Athletic Bilbao di San Mames. Dalam laga yang berlangsung dalam tensi tinggi tersebut, juga sempat muncul insiden kontroversial saat Cristiano Ronaldo dikartu merah oleh Wasit Miguel Ayza.

Hukuman tersebut telah dijatuhkan setelah pemain asal Portugal ini karena dianggap mendorong wajah defender Bilbao, Carlos Gurpegui. Insiden ini juga sempat menimbulkan keributan antara pemain kedua tim di atas lapangan.

Pelatih Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti sebelumnya juga telah menyatakan bahwa hukuman kartu merah yang telah diterima Ronaldo terlalu kelewatan. Namun pendapat berbeda telah diungkapkan Entrenador Bilbao, Ernesto Valverde.

"Saya juga tidak melihat kejadian itu secara langsung. Namun saya pikir apa yang ia lakukan sudah lebih dari cukup untuk diganjar kartu merah," kata pria 49 tahun ini.

Kartu merah yang diterima sang winger produktif telah membuat daya serang El Real berkurang sehingga gagal memburu gol kemenangan. Tim tamu unggul terlebih dahulu di menit ke 65 melalui Jese Rodriguez, sebelum akhirnya sepuluh menit kemudian pemain pengganti Ibai Gomez menyamakan kedudukan 1-1.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.