Chelsea 2, Club America 1 By Greg Beacham, AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. — Jose Mourinho got exactly what he wanted out of Chelsea's preseason opener. Thanks to a bold debut by Florent Malouda, the manager even got a victory as well. John Terry and Malouda scored late second-half goals, leading Chelsea to a 2-1 win over Mexico's Club America in the Disney Friendship Cup on Saturday night. Malouda, who joined the Blues in a $27 million transfer from French champion Lyon on Tuesday, was the unlikely catalyst. He got an equalizing goal in the 76th minute, and Terry then headed home Malouda's free kick for the winner 7 minutes from time. But Mourinho has no interest in results during this West Coast tour, which includes a meeting with the Los Angeles Galaxy and David Beckham next weekend. Chelsea is instead using its fourth annual U.S. training camp to build teamwork and fitness for next month's Premiership schedule. "I'm pleased totally," said Mourinho, who made nine substitutions at halftime. "I think it was a very good training session. Club America, they gave us exactly what we need: competition, but competition with quality. We played a good game with good passing, good movement." Juan Carlos Mosqueda scored in the third minute for America, which put on a strong first-half showing before Chelsea's newest player and its stalwart captain earned a win in the Blues' first match of the summer. "The side we played was very different than what we're used to," said midfielder Joe Cole, also citing the springy pitch as an added degree of difficulty. "I think it took us a while to get going. ... It was just good to get out of the game with no injuries." The match at Stanford's renovated stadium against the storied Mexico City side is expected to be the most competitive of Chelsea's three matches during the California swing for England's richest club, which arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Blues then had much of their thunder stolen when Beckham arrived in Los Angeles. Chelsea will face Korea's Samsung Bluewings on Tuesday back in Southern California in the second Friendship Cup match before next Saturday's much-anticipated meeting with the Galaxy, when Beckham is expected to debut. "I'm looking forward to seeing him," Cole said of his England teammate. "I know there's going to be a lot of hype around the game. I hope he does well over here and helps soccer grow in America." The 22-year-old Mosqueda, who scored three goals last year in his debut season with America, found the net early when his right-footed shot from the top of the penalty box deflected off Terry, catching goalie Petr Cech going the wrong way. Chelsea tied it when America goalie Armando Navarrete bobbled a long ball straight onto Malouda's foot. The winger adroitly tipped it between two stumbling defenders. Terry then put Chelsea ahead with an exceptional header off Malouda's free kick, diving away from the net before whipping a shot past Navarrete. Chelsea booster clubs from throughout the U.S. filled the south stands at Stanford Stadium, waving banners and singing. Two sections of the north stands were packed with America's famously enthusiastic fans, who lit firecrackers and released confetti throughout the match. New transfers Steve Sidwell and Tal Ben-Haim made their first appearances for Chelsea in the first half, along with 18-year-old defender Jack Cork. Mourinho then left only Terry and defender Glen Johnson - back in blue after a year on loan to Portsmouth - in the lineup while bringing on 17-year-old defender Sam Hutchinson and Malouda among the changes. "You can say we played two good teams," Mourinho said. "Everybody has to fight for a place, and I think they have a difficult task, because everybody is really good." Santiago Fernandez's goal in the 15th minute was ruled offside as America carried most of the action in a slow first half. The Chelsea substitutes applied much more pressure on America's defense, with Didier Drogba putting a shot just over the crossbar in the 65th minute. "I think you saw the way we can play," said Drogba, who scaled a small hillside near Chelsea's locker room after the match to greet a cheering group of fans from his native Ivory Coast. "There's a lot of quality on this team." The Associated Press

ISO80 1/800s F5.0 45mm effective > dcraw G9 ICC H0W AHD 3-color > Gimp rotate, crop, usm 1.0-0.60-02 contrast +2] ...simple, easy...effective. So at this point since any camera that's at least halfway-decent will have a DR, CS and "gamut" basically that's much larger than my monitor, especially at low ISO, then with decent shooting-technique & post-processing including ICC profiling and "perceptual" rendering they all should produce shots that look about the same for landscape scenes, with the big difference in SNR vs ISO and the degree of USM that can be applied for a given ISO, which really doesn't have to be very strong for decent landscape-shots. And of course with the G9 or similar p&s the consequences of not being able to use a UV filter without carrying and using a filter-adapter, which basically turns it into a "mini-DSLR". Such consequences are not obviously-negative here. I will really, really try hard not to post any more shots of this scene LOL Also the next shot in this sequence is at about twice the FL and in it there's an obvious yellow-tan tint, a "haze", in the sky. It may be that the Tiffen 2A UV filter (that I bought for the Tamron 18-250 that I have on my Sony A200) is not adding that in, it could be just that the Promaster MC UV filter is taking it out by filtering the yellows more. Or it could be that the camera wb is too warm, or the exposure slightly-low, resulting in a tint. Or a mismatch between the ICC camera profiles' wb-temp and the camera wb-temp. Or a combination of all that. Or an error in the applied monitor profile :) Anyway it's there with the G9 also, it's kind of visible here even at wide-angle, and something to be investigated down the line. And much easier to see if the shot is slightly-underexposed.