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The video of all the goals from the ninth round of the 2007 Torneo Apertura is online now, and can
be found here thanks to TN. As usual, read on for the full running order of that video, and my
personal favourite strikes from the weekend (dominated this week by Señores Denis and Belluschi),
courtesy [...]
...it was safe to read about Argentine footballers being transferred, you're proved wrong. Juan
Román Riquelme and his agent claimed a few days ago that they'd reached an agreement with
Atlético Madrid, but that now appears to have been a load of rubbish because no-one's yet signed
the playmaker, the transfer window has closed, and [...]
Following Sunday's clásico between Racing and River, some of the visiting barra bravas attacked
some coaches on which ordinary Racing fans were travelling, injuring four. The two sets of fans
were travelling on the Perito Moreno motorway from the partidos of Merlo and Hurlingham, in the
west of Gran Buenos Aires, to the match in Racing's El [...]
There have been injuries left, right and centre in Argentine football in the last 24 hours. Both
the selección and leading club sides have been hit, as have Boca by the death of Gustavo Eberto
and the news that Juan Román Riquelme won't be arriving from Villarreal this year.
The eighth round of the Torneo Apertura is to be played in midweek, on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. Central host fellow strugglers Gimnasia de Jujuy, leaders Independiente are at home to
Huracán - who were unbeaten two matches ago but have now lost twice on the trot - and
second-placed Boca host second-bottom [...]
Another round is over, and we've seen the last undefeated record in the top flight (Huracán's)
fall, other promoted sides claim important points and a clásico that finished all square and left
no-one really satisfied. Notable results in the lower divisions were Aldosivi's demolition job
against Independiente Rivadavia and Talleres' win over Instituto in this [.
Boca nearly went out on top on Sunday, looking like they were about to grab a draw in Santa Fé,
but the Elephants' Graveyard struck again and Colón won thanks to a late strike from Freddy
Grisales. Arsenal spanked San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasometro for the second time in five days,
Banfield came out on [...]
Boca returned to the top on Wednesday with an easy win at home against Olimpo. The previous day,
Tigre and Independiente had kept the pressure on them, going top one after the other by,
respectively, drawing with Newell's and beating Huracán. River played magnificently on Sunday, so
naturally were back to being rubbish on Wednesday, [...]
Hold the front pages - Ramón Díaz has said something that, in a certain light, could appear to
suggest that Ramón Díaz made a bit of a hash of things. He's not the only manager in today's
papers, though - Boca boss Miguel Angel Russo has been shooting his mouth off about his club's huge
[...]
Germán Denis is at it again. Independiente travelled to Santa Fé to take on Colón on Saturday
and ran out 3-1 winners to take the outright leadership of the Apertura table (Boca, three points
behind, play on Sunday). Colón were coming off the back of three straight triumphs, one of which
was against Boca in [...]
There have been two changes to this weekend's schedule, for security reasons. River Plate's visit
to Tigre has been brought forward from the time published here yesterday, and will now be played at
11am on Sunday, whilst Arsenal vs. Racing also has a changed kickoff time, and will now started at
18:30 on Sunday.
The goals from round ten of the 2007 Torneo Apertura went online a little while ago, and you can
watch all 32 of them courtesy of TN simply by clicking here. Regular readers know the drill by now
- read on for the full running order of this video, as well as a few of [...]
Arsenal ended their three match losing run on Saturday, beating Newell's 1-0 in El Viaducto. José
Ulloa scored the game's only goal in the 24th minute to give the hosts a deserved if uninspiring
victory over Pablo Marini's side, who had made five changes to the team who beat Vélez so well in
midweek. The [...]
Independiente lost their 100% record in midweek to Boca, and on Saturday night it got worse as they
travelled to La Plata and lost 1-0 to Gimnasia. Roberto Salvatierra scored the only goal of the
game four minutes after half-time - the first time this season that Germán Denis has failed to
score. There was [...]
It's that time of week again. Round 7 of the Apertura is upon us, with River vs. Vélez probably
acting as the round's standout fixture, although it'll be interesting to see how Huracán get on
under caretaker managership, as they host Gimnasia. In B Nacional, the theme is very much Mendoza
vs. Córdoba, with Independiente [...]
Olimpo had an unspectacular match against Argentinos in Bahía Blanca, drawing 1-1 and thus failing
to lift themselves away from that second-to-bottom position they occupy in the Apertura table. Now
the only side with less than one point per game in the Promedio table, they'll need to pick things
up if they're to avoid going [...]
The goals from round seven of the 2007 Apertura are now online, all 29 of them, and can be viewed
right here thanks to TN. Read on through this post and as ever you'll find a full running order of
that clip, as well as my personal favourites from the weekend - which, for a [...]
Primera A sees the clásico rosarino on Sunday as Newell's, without a win in three, host Central,
without a win at all this season, in El Coloso del Parque. Vélez visit Racing and two of the
newly-promoted sides meet as Huracán host San Martín. In B Nacional, Ferro take on Almirante
Brown on Friday. Step this way [...]
Ricardo La Volpe is probably feeling pretty glad right now that he slept on his immediate feelings
after Sunday's thrashing at the hands of River Plate. The Vélez boss revealed on Thursday that he
came very close, after the 5-0 defeat in the Monumental, to resigning, even communicating his
thoughts to the club's board. In [...]
The weekend was doing quite nicely for goals - twenty in nine matches, with four each in El
Monumental and El Cementerio. But apparently, slightly more than two per game simply isn't enough
for Martín Palermo, who sought to prove manager Miguel Angel Russo's pronouncement that his side
feel at home in any stadium correct [...]
Alfio Basile can cheer up a bit. A good few weeks in advance of Argentina's opening World Cup
qualifier against Chile, it's become apparent that Lionel Messi's injury which kept him out of
Barcelona's 0-0 draw away to Osasuna on Sunday really isn't too bad - La Pulga is back training
with the squad now. [...]
Sunday's clásico rosarino saw the fourth managerial casualty of the season in Argentina, under
probably the most worrying circumstances, as Newell's boss Pablo Marini stepped down after threats
from the club's barra brava following the loss to Central. The influence the barras have over
Argentine football generally is clearly too much, but at Newell's it's [.
There were an amazing twelve red cards and thirty-two goals this weekend, all of which made typing
this entry an absolute pig of a job. Germán Denis grabbed two to take his tally for Independiente
to thirteen in ten matches as his side beat Olimpo. Boca ballsed up at home against Gimnasia de
Jujuy to [...]
The managers at Argentina's two biggest clubs have some complication selection issues going into
this week's Copa Sudamericana return legs. Boca Juniors, who won the first leg of their tie against
Sao Paulo 2-1 but conceded a last minute away goal which will make for very tricky business in
Morumbí on Wednesday night, have seen [...]
The goals from round six of the 2007 Torneo Apertura can be viewed by clicking here. As ever, you
can see the running order for this clip, as well as my favourite picks from the weekend's 16
strikes, simply by reading on...
The final match of the second round of the Torneo Apertura was played on Wednesday, as River Plate
hosted Newell's Old Boys and put in a very good performance to win 3-1. Ariel Ortega scored a
first-half penalty, and Radamel Falcao García and new boy Matías Abelaires finished the job in
the second.
After El Turco Mohamed's resignation on Tuesday, Huracán president Carlos Babington needs a
replacement who'll please those angered fans. Jorge Burruchaga has already annonced that if he goes
anywhere, it'll be to a Mexican club. So Babington appears to be honing in on a great name from the
club's past - Osvaldo Ardiles.
The match-up between River Plate and Vélez, it was remarked by Olé before Sunday evening's match,
with Vélez having proved themselves as one of the best sides of the last few seasons and players
such as Víctor Zapata returning to his former club. In the event, it was a performance worthy of a
clásico which [...]
Tigre only drew at home to Newell's on Tuesday, but the circumstances lent a definite air of
victory to... um... Victoria. The visitors held the advantage throughout the second half until,
with eight minutes left, Leandro Lázzaro fired home an equaliser which sent the hosts, eight
matches into their first season back in the top [...]
The goals from the midweek fixtures are online now, and you can see the video right here thanks to
TN. Read on for a full running order of this clip, for those who don't know which shirts belong to
which teams, and for my pick of the best goals courtesy of our friends at GolesTV.
Argentinos visited the Estadio 23 de Agosto on Saturday afternoon in, unusually, the weekend's
first Primera A match-up. Uruguayan Alvaro Pereira sent them into the lead in the tenth minute of
the second half, and hit the post sixteen minutes later as the visitors continued to press. That
goal came after a first half in which [...]
The fixtures for round ten of the Primera A Torneo Apertura include Central, still on a high from
winning their first match of the season in last week's clásico rosarino, hosting struggling
champions San Lorenzo, and overacheiving Tigre hosting River. Joint leaders Independiente and Boca
are both at home, to Olimpo and Gimnasia de Jujuy [...]
The first two-thirds of the fixture list for this weekend passed without too much to write home
about, San Lorenzo picking up an easy win away to Central, Independiente brushing Olimpo aside with
ease and only Argentinos Juniors' 4-0 tonking of Newell's raising any real eyebrows - and even then
with the proviso that the [...]
The 4-0 defeat away to Argentinos Juniors apparently helped to make up the minds of Newell's
directors and convince them that a manager would be really quite a useful thing for their football
club to have. And to that end, they announced on Monday that Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, who only left
Argentinos a couple of [...]
Two newly-promoted sides meet on Friday evening as Olimpo host Huracán. The 'derby of the
Gimnasias' (which is a phrase I made up, so I wouldn't use it to any Argentine friends unless you
want to get some very confused looks) takes place on Saturday with the Jujuy side at home, and
league leaders Independiente [...]
A video of the march by Racing fans on the AFA's offices, which took place on Friday night, has
gone up on the Akademia fansite, and can be found right here. On the pitch, in Sunday's clásico,
there was a 1-1 draw with River which didn't really suit either side - both now find themselves
[...]
For some observers, this had been coming for a while, ever since his team won promotion to Primera
A and it became apparent that the Under 20 management job for the national side may soon become
available. But for many, it's caused something of a stir. Antonio 'El Turco' Mohamed has stepped
down as manager [...]
When I published my last post on Friday night, there was one match still being played, and it was
looking very much like Rosario Central were about to finally manage their first win of the
campaign. They were leading Banfield 2-0 in El Sur, thanks to strikes from Martín Arzuaga in the
17th minute and [...]
After the week Huracán have had - losing their unbeaten record last weekend in La Bombonera,
followed by the loss of their manager on Tuesday - it wasn't too surprising that they couldn't lift
themselves in front of a home crowd, even in front of their new manager Ossie Ardiles. Gimnasia
took advantage of the situation [...]
The Rosario derby was heated to say the least, but Central eventually ground out a well-fought
triumph from their visit to El Coloso del Parque, beating Newell's 1-0 despite finishing the match
with nine men on the pitch. Elsewhere, River's schizophrenia continued with yet another imperious
home win, and champions San Lorenzo got back to [...]
