Godoy Cruz qualified for next year's Copa Libertadores on Friday night with a 3-1 away win over Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, and in so doing they'll become the first team from the province of Mendoza ever to play in ... Continue reading →

The AFA have finally deemed to release the fixtures that were supposed to come out at a civilised hour on Wednesday, and so just as I was about to go to bed, I've typed them all up for you. The ... Continue reading →

After more ins and outs, ups and downs and all round tedious moaning than a particularly tawdry adult film, Juan Román Riquelme has finally signed his new four-year contract with Boca Juniors. Putting pen to paper earlier today, the Boca ... Continue reading →

A brief update to the weekend fixture list posted here this morning: it now looks very much, according to an Estudiantes-supporting friend of mine in La Plata, like Estudiantes will indeed be playing Quilmes at 'home' in Quilmes' own stadium. ... Continue reading →

Following the resignation of Héctor Rivoira from the Huracán bench on Monday, the Parque Patricios club have moved swiftly to find a replacement. They announced on Monday that they'd given a contract to Miguel Ángel Brindisi, just over eight years ... Continue reading →

I'm a little late in linking to this, due to a daytrip to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay on Thursday, but today my latest post on In Bed With Maradona went online. It briefly looks back over the major action ... Continue reading →

Boca Juniors' season goes from bad to worse. Beaten in the superclásico and then left without a manager after Claudio Borghi finally (allegedly before the match, and independent of its result) decided his position was untenable Banfield's Julio César ... Continue reading →

Saturday involved an early start and a late finish for me in socialising terms in the evening, so here are the goals from it now. Quilmes claimed only their second win of the season, at home to All Boys by ... Continue reading →

Cristian Fabbiani has been without a club since having his contract terminated by River six months ago for being a fatso. During the current winter break, he's returned to (ahem) 'action' with newly-promoted All Boys, and it hasn't taken long ... Continue reading →

One of River Plate's main winter transfer targets has been a centre forward who can provide a, shall we say, slightly more consistent goal threat than Rogelio Funes Mori for the new season. Having already brought goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo ... Continue reading →

That's how Juan Román Riquelme has described Boca Juniors' offer to him to give him a new three year contract. After breakfasting this morning with the news that Claudio Borghi had described the playmaker's contract negotiations as '80% closed,' Román ... Continue reading →

As I've done in every year of HEGS' existence, always at great inconvenience to myself (seriously, you wouldn't believe how long it takes to pull this information together for such a short post) you'll find here the only single page ... Continue reading →

Friday morning saw confirmation that Mariano Pavone will move to River Plate for the upcoming season, the Núñez club having beaten San Lorenzo to his signature after Ramón Díaz's club almost managed to hijack the offer at the last minute. ... Continue reading →

The 2010 Torneo Apertura is almost upon us now it starts on Friday and HEGS will be gearing up for it during the week. I'll have the traditional 'meet the clubs' piece online later in the week, but ... Continue reading →

One day after Nike previewed the new Boca Juniors shirt for the coming season, Adidias' new take on River Plate's famous red sash came out. As part of the week previewing the new season in Argentina, I thought it'd sate ... Continue reading →

In another clear-sighted and popular move to further open Argentine football up to the people of the country, the AFA announced on Tuesday that ticket prices for the Primera División would, for the third time in 30 months, be hiked ... Continue reading →

It's finally here! At 9pm local time tonight, the 2010 Torneo Apertura de Primera División will kick off as Arsenal Fútbol Club host Lanús in the only Friday evening game of the weekend. If you're knew to the Argentine league ... Continue reading →

At last! Friday night sees the recommencement of the Argentine league, for a new season with some new faces and some familiar ones. Juan Román Riquelme still hasn't signed his contract, and there are rumours that Independiente are going to ... Continue reading →

Arsenal de Sarandí have a reputation, as I mentioned in my club-by-club guide to the new season, for getting the rub of the green where refereeing decisions are concerned, and in the opening match of the 2010 Torneo Apertura, they've ... Continue reading →

Two of the newly-promoted sides made their Torneo Apertura debuts on Saturday. Quilmes, who finished second in last season's Nacional B, did well; a last minute goal from J.J. Morales meant they claimed a draw at home to Colón, never ... Continue reading →

Sunday's matches in the 2010 Torneo Apertura saw Olimpo take an incredibly early lead in their first match back in the Primera, but eventually lose 2-1 to Banfield; River dominate possession but attack brainlessly and end up lucky to beat ... Continue reading →

The second round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura is upon us, and it's going on all the way into Monday evening. I went down to La Bombonera earlier to try and sort a friend out with tickets for Boca vs ... Continue reading →

Banfield recorded their second win of the campaign on Friday night in the evening's only Primera División match. Substitute Cristian García got the only goal of the game with twelve minutes to play to hand El Taladro a victory away ... Continue reading →

This didn't go up last night because (not for the first time), Flash kept crashing on my computer, meaning I couldn't navigate YouTube at all. But here it is now. Saturday's matches saw Lanús and Newell's draw, San Lorenzo and ... Continue reading →

Sunday's matches in the 2010 Torneo Apertura saw Ángel Cappa welcomed back to El Palacio as a hero. His River Plate team were more impressive than last week, but still ended up having to defend as if their lives depended ... Continue reading →

In the final match of the second round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura, Independiente and Argentinos Juniors met in the Estadio Libertadores de América on Monday evening. I was there, along with Ben Fawkes from the excellent Football Filter, and ... Continue reading →

The 2010 Torneo Apertura is already one-nine-and-a-halfth of the way through, and with River plate hopeful of putting together the kind of run they need to avoid relegation, Boca Juniors still waiting for Juan Román Riquelme to return to fitness ... Continue reading →

River Plate welcomed Ariel Ortega back to their training ground on Wednesday after he hadn't turned up on Tuesday owing to an ankle injury. The press had doubted the veracity of this claim Ortega was sent off for elbowing ... Continue reading →

The third round of the Torneo Apertura 2010 is already underway I've been under the weather today hence this fixture list is late in going up. Banfield are just kicking off at home to Estudiantes, two of the five ... Continue reading →

There were no goals in the first match of the weekend in El Sur, with Banfield and Estudiantes de La Plata drawing in a match that didn't live up to its billing as potentially one of the weekend's better ones. ... Continue reading →

Saturday saw San Lorenzo win the clásico against Racing with a spectacular headed winner by Sebastián Balsas from a corner with just a few minutes to go. It was a match Racing didn't really deserve to lose, but nonetheless San ... Continue reading →

On Sunday, River Plate continued their excellent form at the start of the season I was there whilst Boca Juniors lost 2-0 to All Boys, the promoted side claiming their first won of the torneo. Arsenal beat Huracán ... Continue reading →

I'm going to start a series today based on my thoughts about the match (or one of the matches) I attended over the weekend in the Argentine Primera División. The weekend just gone, that was Sunday's clásico between River Plate ... Continue reading →

As Boca Juniors prepare for a crunch match against Vélez Sarsfield early in their season, championship-winning manager Claudio Borghi is already feeling the heat of the position. El Bichi has made it known he's strongly considering leaving the club if ... Continue reading →

There are some do-or-die matches coming up in the Torneo Apertura this weekend. Boca Juniors have to win to keep Claudio Borghi in a job, and play Vélez Sarsfield, never easy opponents at the best of times. And Borghi's got ... Continue reading →

The fourth round of the Torneo Apertura begins this evening with Huracán hosting Newell's Old Boys, and ends on the 29th September with the La Plata derby, suspended for now due to Estudiantes' preparations for the second leg of the ... Continue reading →

Claudio Borghi said some words earlier in the week which were universally interpreted by the Argentine press as meaning he'd stand down in the event that Boca Juniors fail to win on Sunday against Vélez Sarsfield. He's now been up ... Continue reading →

Huracán and Newell's played out Friday's only Primera División game in Parque Caseros on Friday evening, and HEGS was there to see an utterly, utterly dull game characterised by two defences vulnerable to wide play, and two attacks seemingly unwilling ... Continue reading →

Saturday's matches saw a dull goalless clásico in the Zona Sur between Lanús and Banfield, before the round sprung into life in Victoria with Tigre's not really deserved 3-0 win over Quilmes. There were eleven goals in total, and six ... Continue reading →

Boca Juniors' Apertura is going so poorly that it was almost inevitable. They've finally won a match, and the result is that their bitterest rivals River Plate remain top of the table, Boca having beaten previous joint-leaders Vélez Sarsfield 2-1 ... Continue reading →