This decision handed down by FIFA in Zurich today on Argentine coach Diego Maradona is the reason why people in South America and in Argentine football fear Julio Grondona. He is a picture perfect clone of an old Vito Corleone.
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According to a report in the Madrid newspaper El Pais, Maradona has a business relationship with Gabriel Heinze's brother who owns a marketing business that promotes sporting events and represents sports figures.

Maradona is a client of Heinze's brother. The company has a business deal with Maradona in which they handle promoting the "Maradona brand".

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Asociación de Fútbol Argentino (AFA) president, Julio Grondona and veteran midfielder Juan Sebastián Verón have officially presented the Argentina World Cup 2010 home kit to the public. The new Albiceleste first choice strip will make its on the field debut in Madrid on November 14th when Argentina meets Spain in a friendly. Click to continue reading...

As part of next year's World Cup preparations, Argentina will play against Germany on March 3rd. The game will take place in Munich.

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Argentina jugará un amistoso contra Alemania, el próximo 3 de marzo en Münich

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BUENOS AIRES El seleccionado argentino de fútbol jugará un amistoso preparatorio para la Copa del Mundo de Sudáfrica 2010 ante Alemania, en la ciudad de Munich, el próximo 3 de marzo de 2010.

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La expresión fue grosera, soez, de un barbaján. La antítesis de los valores que debiera inspirar el deporte, pero sabemos que esto es así, que ahí mismo también se encuentran héroes que han levantado a las masas y se han rendido ante ellos, son una especie de "Hellboy" que viene del infierno para ayudar.

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No shock after all as Argentina made it to the Finals after downing Uruguay 1-0 in Montivideo thanks to an 84th minute goal from Mario Balotti. Emotional scenes followed the final whistle as Diego Maradona and old Carlos Bilardo hugged each other in ecstatic relief. The albiceleste's task had been made easier by Chile eliminating Ecuador, ensuring at least a play-off spot, Uruguay's consolation. Click to continue reading...

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As Argentina stands on the brink of failure to qualify for the World Cup, former striker Claudio Lopez looks on in disbelief.

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Argentina have two crunch matches coming up this week that will go a long way to deciding whether the albiceleste will make it to South Africa in 2010. Is it possible that Lionel Messi and coach Diego Maradona will not be there? Or like Brazil in 2002 will they finally come good and then go all the way and win the tournament?

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Craziness continues down in Maradona-Land.
Rumor is someone on the national team wants to break Leo Messi's legs, this according to some lawyer Marcelo Open.

Open said that "if we have a headcase threatening Messi and tells him he'll break his legs, and it's a colleague who's in the squad, there's something wrong.

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Maradona has Argentina on the Verge of the Untinkable
The grueling 18-game round robin CONMEBOL qualifiers are down to the last two match days. Only two teams, Brazil and Paraguay, have secured their pass to their pass to the finals. Two other teams, Peru and Bolivia, have been eliminated. Click to continue reading...

Diego Maradona has a penchant for showing the world what happens when infinite hubris and infinite ineptitude meet personal benefit.
According to Argentine sports daily Olé Maradona is flying to Europe to face the players that he once had as indisputable in his previous callups and tell them that they will not be a part of the national team in the upcoming friendly against Ghana on September 30th and in the final two matches in World Cup qualifying play against Peru and Uruguay. Click to continue reading...

When things could not be worse for the Argentine football federation, they did. A group of hackers calling themselves KKR were able to access the federation's website and place a picture of head coach Diego Maradona with a Brazilian jersey. Underneath the still they added "a picture is worth a thousand words. Click to continue reading...

Now is not a particularly good time to be an Argentinian. Not only have their most loathed opposition Brazil and England already qualified for the finals of the 2010 World Cup, but there is a serious likelihood� that the Albiceleste themselves might not even qualify for next year's tournament in South Africa, and coach Diego Maradona is receiving hitherto criticism in his home country.

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The day was busy. Many important matches going on at the same time and some countries can already rest assured to be visiting South Africa next June. The happy faces of the day? Paraguay, Spain and England.

Paraguay played in style and beat Argentina to give the hermanos more headache.

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The September 5th encounter between the Albiceleste and Seleccao fast approaches.

If there are any indications who feels most pressure, do not look to Dunga. The Seleccao are a team where the sum of the parts equals the whole. A physical and intimidating defense, a potent offense, and a creative midfield combining to form a well oiled machine that is firing on all cylinders.

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In this edition of the Mad About Futbol Show...
"The Tapper" Richard Farley is introduced officially as the newest member of the MAF team. We talk about the first round of Argentina as well as the latest goings-on with the Albiceleste as they prepare for the titanic clash against Brazil in Rosario. Click to continue reading...

Argentina coach Diego Maradona on Wednesday put Brazilian legend Pele in his place, insisting the latter was the second best player ever after himself. A FIFA internet poll in 2000 saw Maradona, who will lead the albiceleste against the five-times world champion Brazilians in a September 5 World Cup qualifier, come . Click to continue reading...

El Diego comes off sounding more like a doting grandfather than a coach of a national squad that is struggling to put together a string of coherent performances.

He gets very passionate about Fidel Castro.

"After that we just sat there for hours talking about politics. Six or seven hours easily.

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Gonzalo Higuain is apparently not ruling out the possibility of playing for the French national team.

In an interview with the French magazine So Foot, Higuain said "You never know" in response to being asked if he would like to represent the French national team in the 2010 world cup.

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The votes have been counted, and after the Copa Libertadores was decided on Wednesday night, it's time to reveal the real question all of Latin America wants answering: who, in the opinions of the readers of Hasta El Gol Siempre and Mundo Albiceleste, has been the best Argentine footballer playing in a non-Argentine league over [. Click to continue reading...

Durante este 2009, tres jugadores de Arsenal lograron ser convocados a la selección Argentina. Uno para la adulta y los 2 restantes para el combinado sub-21. Presentamos a continuación el desempeño de los 3 representantes del Celeste y Rojo.


SANTA FÉ - 20 DE MAYO DEL 2009
AMISTOSO PREPARATORIO

ARGENTINA 3 - PANAMÁ 1


En el amistoso preparatorio para las fechas eliminatorias de Junio, hizo su estreno en el arco albiceleste Cristián Campestrini. Click to continue reading...

What with the Copa Libertadores final first leg as well as those of the Promociones during the week, I didn't have time to post this link. Those who paid attention to HEGS last week will remember my debut appearance in a podcast over on Seba's wonderful Mundo Albiceleste, and on Tuesday night, in the face [. Click to continue reading...

When you can read this story, it means voting for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad has closed. The winner will be announced shortly no more votes please. Posted in Argentine football, Argentines abroad, Football, Football awards, Hasta El Gol Siempre, Other football sites, Players Tagged: Argentine football, Argentines abroad, HEGS [. Click to continue reading...

The Torneo Clausura now has just three matches remaining the final relegation clashes and the title decider, a preview of which you can hear, if you've not already, over on the Mundo Albiceleste podcast from earlier in the week. Argentina's representatives for the Copa Sudamericana are all confirmed after Saturday's matches, and for once [. Click to continue reading...

If you were wondering why I've not written much here on HEGS about the upcoming final weekend of the 2009 Torneo Clausura season, including the 'finalísimo' between Vélez Sársfield and Huracán and the relegation battles on Sunday, it's because I've been talking about them. Frequent HEGS comment-botherer, journalist, and fellow webmaster over at Mundo Albiceleste [. Click to continue reading...

Argentina has recently had its own elections, but this week sees the culmination of a far more important one. You've got only six days left to vote, if you haven't already, for your winner in the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad. Pick Lionel Messi, Christian Giménez, Diego Milito or Pablo Zabaleta, [. Click to continue reading...

The faultlines between Julio Grondona and Diego Maradona could deepen if these two cult of personalities square off on the potential inclusion of Juan Roman Riquelme to the national team.

Like Steve McLaren call up of David Beckham in England's faltering Euro 2008 campaign, Riquelme is on Grondona's lips because the Albiceleste are approaching a crisis point under Maradona in their World Cup quest.

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It's been almost 31 years since Argentina saw themselves in a precarious situation and a shift of venue did all the difference in the world for the eventual world champions back then. A loss to Italy forced the Albiceleste to leave Buenos Aires for Rosario and the confines could not have been better. Click to continue reading...

Maradona's Argentina continue to struggle in the World Cup qualifying campaign and they are now in danger of missing out on the place in South Africa. Once again high altitude proved a stumbling block for Albiceleste as they lost in Ecuador, whereas their fierce rivals Brazil returned to the top of the standings by beating Paraguay.

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A great strike by Walter Ayovi gives Ecuador a 71st minute lead which is then doubled in the 84th minute by a Pablo Palacios goal. Ayovi supplied the ball. The Argentinians paid dearly for two defensive lapses. First Battaglia and then Demichelis failed to protect the ball.

The Albiceleste maintain their fourth place in the CONMEBOL region but the Ecuadorians have closed the gap to within two points and lie in fifth place.

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The nominations have been counted for the 2008-2009 HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad, and they're an interesting bunch. Four players were nominated, and last year's winner Carlos Tevez isn't among them. The top flights of Italy, Spain, Mexico and England have provided us with the nominees, of whom three haven't previously [. Click to continue reading...

Nominations for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for Best Argentine Abroad 2008-2009 have now closed. Any which reach me after this post won't be counted. When a full rundown of all the nominees has been prepared (probably over the weekend) they'll be posted both here and over on MA, and the final round of [. Click to continue reading...

The final full-length Argentines Abroad of 2008-2009 comes with just a day and a half left for you to get your nominations in for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for the Best Argentine Abroad of the season that's now finishing. So far we've had relatively few nominations in, so if you'd like your favourite [. Click to continue reading...

Via ESPN Deportes
El seleccionado argentino, conformado por jugadores que actúan en el país, venció a Panamá en un amistoso realizado en Santa Fe, que sirvió para presentar en sociedad a un plantel distinto de Maradona
SANTA FE (DyN) -- El seleccionado argentino, conformado por jugadores que actúan en el país, venció 3-1 a Panamá en un partido amistoso realizado en el estadio de Colón de Santa Fe, que sirvió para presentar en sociedad al "plantel criollo" diseñado por Diego Armando Maradona. Click to continue reading...

The Antonio Vespucio Liberti Stadium in Argentina will welcome Diego Maradona's Albiceleste and Coffee Makers Colombia as both teams clash against each other on June 6, in yet another intriguing World Cup qualifier in South America's group zone. The Argentines appear to be completely devastated after suffering a shocking 6-1 hammering in the hands of Bolivia [. Click to continue reading...