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Not an awful lot has happened really. The selección landed in Bogotá on Sunday and Carlos Tevez
gave a press conference alongside Juan Román Riquelme on Monday, in which he stated, among other
things, that 'It will be a very difficult match, as it always is when Argentina visit Colombia in
the qualifiers...
Fourteen years ago, Colombia travelled to Buenos Aires to take on an Argentina who'd been in three
of the previous four World Cup finals (winning two) and were given no chance whatsoever of getting
a result. Inspired by Carlos Valerrama and with Faustino Asprilla hitting a hat-trick, they blew
the hosts away, 5-0. Tuesday night [...]
So, it turned out on Sunday that the 18 names Alfio Basile gave us a few weeks ago weren't in fact
the only ones to be included in Argentina's squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against
Chile (in the Monumental) and Ecuador (in Quito). I'd like to emphasise that there was no hint of
[...]
Apologies for the lateness of the posting, I've been without internet for most of the weekend. Juan
Román Riquelme inspired Argentina to a 3-0 brushing aside of Bolivia in the Monumental on Saturday
evening, netting twice himself in the second half after Sergio Agüero had opened the scoring
before the break.
Alfio Basile has named his squad for Argentina's opening two World Cup 2010 qualifiers, at home to
Chile and away to Venezuela on the 13th and 16th of October. Juan Román Riquelme, despite being
stuck in limbo after failing to find his way to another club before the European transfer window
closed, is included, and [...]
Alfio Basile has named the five domestic-based players who are called up to the Argentina squad for
the two upcoming World Cup Qualifiers at home to Bolivia on Saturday and away to Colombia three
days later. The final squad of 22 players will meet for training on Monday morning in Ezeiza, and
will consist of [...]
Against tricky opponents, Argentina got off to a winning start in their campaign for the 2010 World
Cup. The goals in the Monumental came from near identical free kicks from Juan Román Riquelme, who
showed (as one of our readers has already suggested) that Alfio Basile had every reason to show
such confidence in him [...]
Argentina make their debut in the 2010 World Cup campaign tonight, with everything prepared to be
the main focus for the start of a ball-obsessed weekend for the nation's sport fans. On Sunday, the
national rugby side will play the biggest match in their history when they take on South Africa in
the Rugby World [...]
It's perhaps not quite right to refer to Australia as 'Down Under' on this site, being as how
Buenos Aires is actually further south than Sydney, but nearly all the players named in Alfio
Basile's squad for the 11th September friendly against the Socceroos will have to fly in from
Europe, and the remaining one [...]
The long-awaited clash in Melbourne between Australia and Argentina finally arrived on Tuesday,
and it was the visitors who emerged victorious from a well-fought match, by a narrow margin but
having put in a performance that both the squad and the press back home were more than pleased
with.
Away in Caracas against a Venezuelan side who surprisingly won their first qualifier thanks to what
some are calling the greatest free kick of all time, the selección may have been more concerned
with getting the job done than with doing it in style, especially with so many of the players in
for a long [...]
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.
Let's get the messy stuff out of the way first: Argentina's women's side became the unwitting
victims of a new record on Monday, as they were demolished 11-0 by Germany in their first match of
the Women's World Cup in China. Germany are seeking to defend their title and started in imposing
fashion with the [...]
Arsenal de Sarandí achieved the biggest result in the club's history on Wednesday night, a 1-1
home draw with Brazilian side Goiás seeing them through to the quarter-final of the Copa
Sudamericana in their first ever appearance in South American competition.
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. [...]
Contrasting Fridays for Daniel Passarella at River Plate, and for the players who've succeeded him
and the generation of '78 in the national team. The selección were given a free morning before
tomorrow's World Cup qualifying opener against Chile, but Passarella might not be so relaxed after
comments from River's president...
Germán Denis hit two against Gimnasia de Jujuy to take his tally for the Apertura to 15 goals as
his side ran out 3-0 winners on Tuesday evening, all the goals coming in the second half after the
visitors had caused a few problems before the break. Elsewhere, Colón beat Olimpo by the same
scoreline, [...]
