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Eagle-eyed perusers of the page tabs along the top of the site will have noticed the addition on
Thursday night of our new map. This has been put together by Bill at Bill's Sports Maps, and he's
very kindly allowed me to include it here as well because we collaborated with some of the
statistics [...
One of the top goalscorers of the Apertura, Leandro Lázzaro, changed clubs on Wednesday, moving
from a town just to the north of Buenos Aires to a city to the south of the capital. His transfer
from Tigre to Estudiantes will set the La Plata club back US$300,000. Elsewhere, the saga of
River's barra brava [.
If you've got little to do today, and like looking at numbers a bit, make your way over to the
recently expanded Tables page. There, you'll find the embryonic league table for the Torneo de
Verano, as well as the final standings in the Apertura and the top scorers for that campaign - as
well [...]
Now personally, I've never paid too much attention to the idea of new year's resolutions (the last
editorial aside, that is). Making promises to yourself which you admit from the start won't be kept
seems rather to be shooting oneself in the foot. Besides which resolutions are always so dull –
why doesn't anyone resolve [.
With the completion at the weekend of the Promociónes, the 2007-2008 season is now complete in
Argentina. Racing, of course, are the most notable survivors of the relegations playoffs, but there
have been shocks in other divisions with little-fancied All Boys winning the Primera B
championship, and Nueva Chicago losing their playoff to fall down [.
Wednesday night finally saw the completion of the 2007 Torneo Apertura, as Gimnasia La Plata hosted
Arsenal de Sarandí and drew 1-1, the match having been postponed in December due to clashing
with the first leg of Arsenal's Copa Sudamericana final. The bigger news, though, is the draw for
the first knockout round of the Copa Libertadores, [.
Newell's Old Boys got a HEGS headline last week thanks in part to their chairman, Eduardo
López. It obviously affected the air in Rosario, because on Monday a video was made public of
the city's other top-flight football president, Horacio Usandizaga of Rosario Central, engaging in
some extraordinary tirades against his very own players, including [.
