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Sergio Batista named the 15 under-23 players to represent Argentina at the Beijing Olympics on
Tuesday, but what with putting up three other stories last night, I thought I'd leave it until now
to publish the list. One of those players, River Plate forward Marco Rubén, has now become
Villarreal forward Marco Rubén, in what [.
With just a few days remaining before the 2008 Torneo Clausura begins, some of the sides are still
going over their options when it comes to the formations and personnel for their opening matches.
No such trouble for Argentina's Olympic manager Sergio Batista, who already seems to know his
starting XI for Wednesday's match against Guatemala [.
Happy new year, everyone. The year may only be two days old, but already 2008 is well underway in
the Argentine footballing world. One basic but important thing to mention first: new president
Cristina Kirchner's decision to bring a daylight savings system back to Argentina means the country
is now only two hours behind Greenwich [.
Andrés D'Alessandro has already expressed an eagerness to return home to Buenos Aires for a
six-month loan spell, in order to keep match-fit and playing first-team football, since he's not
being considered regularly for the starting lineup at Real Zaragoza. His former club River Plate
were his preferred destination, but Ramón Díaz, who was in [.
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 [...
Two matches have been postponed on Saturday in the Primera A, after a Vélez Sársfield fan was
killed whilst walking to San Lorenzo's stadium to watch his team - the league leaders - take on
Ramón Díaz's side. Emanuel Alvarez, 21 years old, was taken to hospital but declared dead on
arrival. Alvarez was killed by [.
It wasn't the best of mornings for Independiente's star striker Germán Denis. The leading
goalscorer of the Apertura was jogging in a Mar Del Plata park with his team-mates, warming up for
an open training session on the side's first day in the city, when he felt a most unwelcome
sensation in his shorts.
River, Huracán and San Lorenzo all welcomed new signings on Wednesday, with Boca suffering a minor
injury setback to their pre-season training schedule. Meanwhile, Independiente have had another
hard day in training following Germán Denis's dog attack on Monday, and Germán Herrera, the
Argentine striker who's just signed for recently relegated Corinthians in Brazil, receiving a
somewhat backhanded [.
The publication of this editorial got pushed back by a few days because I was ill earlier in the
week not not up to spending too much time typing, but it's coincided nicely with the Arab new year.
We've got a few readers in that part of the world, so happy new year to all [...]
Two transfers involving Argentine players are moving towards a definition at the moment, the more
solid-looking being Andrés D'Alessandro's transfer from Real Zaragoza in Spain to work under his
former manager Ramón Díaz with San Lorenzo. Ezequiel Garay, the Racing Santander defender, could
be on his way to Barcelona - or Lyon, or Real Madrid.
Oh, it's been a while. At long, long last the summer break is over, and I can get back to writing
about league action rather than transfer news and summer friendlies. There's been a lot of talk
about the new year's ticket price hikes - more on that at the weekend - but for now [...]
No, still not Santiago. This is a quick correction to the story I posted a couple of hours ago
(below). Despite Olé's reporting, the Solari brother who Olimpo are claiming to have signed is not
youngest brother David, but in fact middle brother Esteban, who doesn't play in the lower divisions
in Italy but, rather [.
The goals from the first round of Torneo Clausura matches are online, and you can watch them all on
TN simply by clicking this link. As ever, HEGS makes allowances for the facts that you may not want
to see all of them, only the best, and that you might not know which shirts belong [...]
The civil war in the barra brava at River Plate continues. On Saturday prior to the first match of
the Clausura, there were fights in the vicinity of the stadium before the match. On Thursday, it
was announced that the capos would be remaining in prison for a little while yet... Alan and
William Schlenker, along [.
Sadly familiar scenes in Retiro. Two hours before Wednesday night's Copa Libertadores match between
River Plate and Club América, the internal squabble enveloping River's barra brava, Los Borrachos
del Tablón, blew up yet again at the train station in the northern barrio, and a man was
hospitalised.
Racing were hosting Estudiantes on Saturday night, but another match has fallen victim to the
asterisks as a disallowed goal, combined with other contentious refereeing, sparked unrest in the
stands and led to the suspension of the match with 13 minutes remaining. At kick off, Racing had
managed to go 438 minutes without scoring, a run [.
River Plate were using Vélez Sársfield's stadium as a home base on Sunday afternoon to host
Arsenal de Sarandí, but the match was almost called off after yet more trouble in Argentina's
footballing gangland. The civil war diving Los Borrachos del Tablón continues even with the
Schlenker brothers in jail, and today the conflict was [.
There's been commotion in Italy on Saturday, as Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri walked out of a
press conference after the assembled hacks pushed him on the future of Argentine playmaker Sergio
Almirón, who's wanted by River Plate. Boca Juniors signing Julio César Cáceres revealed he's
taking a pay cut to join his new side, and [.
The 2008 Torneo Clausura kicks off at long last following the summer break on Friday evening, with
Lanús aiming to defend the title they won so improbably back in December, whilst the likes of Boca
will be wanting to get back to winning ways. Other big sides need improved performances, for a
variety of reasons, [.
My latest piece for Pitch Invasion looks back on the black weekend Argentine football has just
experienced, and explains some of the issues behind the security operations, and what might be
considered by the Argentine media in the coming weeks. There's also a really rather good photo (if
I say so myself).
Well, it pays to have an attention-grabbing headline. No, the Internazionale striker hasn't decided
to pack in his Italian career in order to help the Aurinegro out with their relegation battle.
But his little brother, the generous soul, has done exactly that. David Solari becomes Olimpo's
first summer reinforcement.
The Clausura kicks off in around three weeks, dear readers, and we're now less than two weeks away
from the start of the qualifying rounds of the most enjoyable club football competition in the
world, the Copa Libertadores. To mark the start of the countdown to both, The very excellent folk
at Soccer Source asked [.
The second round of matches in the 2008 Torneo Clausura is already upon us. Champions Lanús, fresh
from Thursday night's Copa Libertadores win over Danubio, visit Huracán on Sunday, before the two
'Junior' teams clash at La Bombonera. River, the only one of the 'Big Five' to win their opening
match, visit San Lorenzo's surprise [.
The day after Vélez Sársfield fan Emanuel Alvarez was shot dead on his way to see his team play a
game of football against San Lorenzo, there was another clash in the streets of Buenos Aires
between gangs of people who claim to be fans of one of the clubs in the city. This time [...]
A senior member of Boca Juniors' barra brava, La Doce, was arrested prior to Sunday's match at La
Bombonera against Colón, after his name was given to the police in a list of fans to be denied
entry to the game. On Monday, meanwhile, the seventh round of matches took two new managerial
casualties as [.
Apologies for the lack of coverage of Saturday's matches - my phone line (and with it my
broadband) crashed on Saturday morning and was only fixed on Sunday - but the first competitive
superclásico of 2008 is now just a few hours away. I type during the first few minutes of the
Milan derby, but the [.
A quick note to let you know that during the 2008 winter break (that's summer for our northern
hemisphere readers!), the page formerly known as 'squad lists' has been renamed 'transfers', and
will contain a list, updated as frequently and accurately as I can manage (but please bear with me)
of all the ins and [.
And us English think Newcastle United are a joke team. The pre-season in Argentina continues, and
there's been more mudslinging and attempts to get out at one of the country's biggest clubs - and
this time some of it's even come from the manager himself. OK, you know I'm talking about Racing
because you've read [.
Racing's abysmal pre-season has received a small ray of sunshine on Tuesday, with the news that
former fans' favourite Maxi Moralez will return to the club on a one-year loan deal from FC
Moscow, the club he joined at the start of the 2007-2008 season. Racing manager Miguel Micó will
be hoping the youngster can provide [.
On the eve of the Clausura, Argentine clubs have been trying to get through one or two last-minute
deals, with Independiente finally signing Freddy Grisales after much coming and going, and Andrés
D'Alessandro and Maxi Moralez being unveiled at their respective new (or in Moralez's case, old)
clubs.
Hugo Tocalli's debut as head coach of Vélez Sársfield could have gone a little better - his side
could have kept a clean sheet - but one thing's for sure: it couldn't have been much more exciting
for the fans. In front of a home crowd, the Liniers side raced into a 4-1 lead against [...]
It's an important weekend, this one, for a variety of reasons. Rock-bottom (of Clausura and
Promedio) Olimpo host fellow strugglers Colón in what might be a crucial game in the
relegation battle. Racing take on Tigre, whose manager Diego Cagna has dismissed concerns expressed
by some on the rumour mill that the officials have been [.
Independiente aren't yet out of the hunt for a Copa Sudamericana place, but if they qualify for continental competition they'll be playing in it next season without their top scorer Germán Denis, whose transfer to Napoli is looking more and more like a done deal. Colón manager Antonio 'El Turco' Mohamed, meanwhile, is refusing to apologise [.
Here it is, ladies and gents: the final weekend of the Primera A Torneo Clausura 2008. River are
already champions, but there's still the small matter of relegation to sort out, and to that end
the weekend's most important match is the winner-takes-all game in Santa Fé, where Colón
host Racing. I'm in Nottingham on [.
Hugo Tocalli took charge on Thursday of his first practice as Vélez Sársfield boss, as players at
most of Argentina's top flight clubs returned from their summer holidays to commence pre-season
training. Elsewhere, Matías Silvestre has insisted he's not going down without a fight at Boca,
Juan Sebastián Verón had some cutting words for Diego [.
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 [.
No sooner are we done with the week's continental action, than it's time to look ahead to the
weekend in the league. Sunday sees the year's first 'Big Five' clásico, as Ramón Díaz returns
once again to the Monumental, and will be hoping his team can finally score a goal. Early
pace-setters Vélez host Banfield, [.
The circumstances surrounding Emanuel Alvarez's death whilst travelling to see Vélez Sársfield
take on San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasometro are being slowly pieced together. In the last
two-and-a-half days there has been, though, no shortage of disagreement about who exactly the
killer was - an Huracán barra?
This wasn't posted with the rest of the goal videos on Monday evening because I didn't want it to
overshadow them, or vice versa, in people's attention. So, here is a nice long video for any Boca
Juniors fans who want to re-live their side's 1-0 victory over River Plate in La Bombonera on
Sunday [.
Oscar Ahumada made a bit of a stir during River's successful Clausura campaign, criticising the
club's fans in the aftermath of the superclásico defeat in La Bombonera before going on to be
one of the team's best players in the subsequent matches, superb in particular against championship
competitors Estudiantes.
