This week in soccer: Top of the table clashes in Nicaragua Wednesday and Belarus Friday highlight this week’s schedule
For fans of the best sport in the world, whether you call it football or soccer, the show continues to go on in a few places.
But the good news is, there could be more leagues heading back to the pitches very soon.
This week, all 10 teams in the Nicaraguan Primera Division will play Wednesday night and then again on the weekend. The late night match Wednesday will pit the top two teams (and the only two squads in the division with goal differences of at least plus-10) against each other, as leaders Managua FC welcome Real Esteli to the Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua.
Two surprise teams sit at the top of the Belarus Premier League standings, and will battle it out Sunday for early league supremacy. Energetic-BGU Minsk will host city rivals FC Minsk, and each has a chance to start the season with three straight wins.
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WEDNESDAY
NICARAGUA PRIMERA DIVISION
Chinandenga FC (+190) vs. Juventus Managua (+108), draw (+220), 5 p.m. EDT
Deportivo Ocotal (+148) vs. ART Municipal Jalapa (+150), draw (+195), 6 p.m. EDT
Las Sabanas CF (+143) vs. Real Madriz (+150), draw (+205), 6 p.m. EDT
Diriangen FC (-122) vs. Deportivo Walter Ferreti (+260), draw (+225), 8 p.m. EDT
Managua FC (+114) vs. Real Esteli (+185), draw (+215), 9 p.m. EDT
FRIDAY
BELARUS PREMIER LEAGUE
FC Belshina Bobruisk (+123) vs. Gorodeya (+205), draw (+210), 10 a.m. EDT
Dinamo Minsk (+100) vs. Torpedo Belaz Zhodino (+265), draw (+205), 12 p.m. EDT
SATURDAY
BELARUS PREMIER LEAGUE
Shakhter Soligorsk (-286) vs. Neman Grodno (+650), draw (+330), 8:30 a.m. EDT
BATE Borisov (-385) vs. Ruhk Brest (+800), draw (+400), 10:30 a.m. EDT
Dinamo Brest (-335) vs. Slavia Mozyr (+750), draw (+350), 12:30 p.m. EDT
NICARAGUA PRIMERA DIVISION
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ART Municipal Jalapa vs. Chinandega, 6 p.m. EDT
Deportivo Ocotal vs. Deportivo Las Sabanas, 6 p.m. EDT
Real Madriz FC vs. Managua FC, 6 p.m. EDT
Juventus Managua FC vs. Diriangen FC, 8 p.m. EDT
SUNDAY
BELARUS PREMIER LEAGUE
Energetic BGU (+170) vs. FC Minsk (+140), draw (+220), 7 a.m. EDT
Vitebsk (+128) vs. Smolevichy (+205), draw (+200), 9 a.m. EDT
FC Isloch Minsky Rayon (-127) vs. FC Slutsk (+350), draw (+215), 11 a.m. EDT
NICARAGUA PRIMERA DIVISION
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Deportivo Walter Ferreti vs. Real Esteli FC, 7 p.m. EDT