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Tuesday saw Diego Maradona name his second Argentina squad, in preparation for the friendly against
France in Marseilles on the 11th of February. For the first time Lionel Messi was called up by
El Diego - as was my mate Carlos Tevez - who, clearly motivated by my words of encouragement
on Saturday night, scored for Manchester [.
In amongst the flurry of goals served up for us by Gimnasia de Jujuy and Rosario Central on Friday
night, the fact got obscured (on HEGS at least - sorry) that Diego Maradona had named his first
competitive squad as Argentina manager, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers at
home to Venezuela and [.
The latest double-header of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is upon us
this weekend, so with my head now sufficiently back on track after two weeks back home, it seems as
good a time as any to have a look at what our boys abroad have been doing this weekend. [...]
Argentina's starting XI for the crucial World Cup qualifier against Peru kicks off at 7pm on
Saturday (11pm UK time), and the starting eleven is exactly the same as the one manager Diego
Maradona has used in training for most of the week. Newcastle winger Jonás Gutiérrez is at right
back due to the injury [.
There's no headline to describe it, really. Diego Maradona's first competitive match in charge of
Argentina went like a dream, but his second was the kind of nightmare in which you realise partway
through that all is not as it seems, but you just can't wake yourself up, and it brought the worst
defeat in [.
Not I. Oh, heavens no. The heavens opened over the Estadio Monumental on Saturday night and, in a
frantic finish, a substitute chosen by D10s himself scored the winning goal to keep Argentina just
on track for qualification to South Africa 2010. Martín Palermo has waited ten years for the
chance to atone [.
The moment of truth arrives tonight. At 8pm local time (7pm in Argentina; 11pm British Summer Time)
Argentina will take to the pitch in the Estadio Centenario, the site of the first ever World Cup
final back in 1930. They need a result against their oldest rivals to secure qualification for
South Africa 2010.
Diego Maradona has announced a list of just eighteen Europe-based players for Argentina's final two
World Cup qualifying matches at home to Peru and away to Uruguay. There are numerous big-name
casualties of Diego's refusal to consider that any part of the defeats to Brazil and Paraguay might
have been his fault.
There's no headline to describe it, really. Diego Maradona's first competitive match in charge of
Argentina went like a dream, but his second was the kind of nightmare in which you realise partway
through that all is not as it seems, but you just can't wake yourself up, and it brought the worst
defeat in [.
An anniversary was marked in fitting fashion by one of our foreign contingent in the weekend just
gone, whilst another won a league title and two claimed a Brazilian state trophy - to find out
which ones, you'll have to read on. The winners in Brazil were Andrés D'Alessandro and Pablo
Guiñazú, who helped Internacional do [.
On Saturday one group of Argentines abroad got off to a very good start in a new campaign José
Luis Brown's national Under 17 team beat Honduras 1-0 in the first match of their age group World
Cup in Nigeria. Sergio Araujo scored the only goal of the game. Around the world in the [...]
Diego Maradona's side have arrived in Bolivia for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in La Paz and,
although the boss is keeping his cards close to his chest, it looks like there'll be one or two
changes, the most notable of which are Lucho González replacing Newcastle's Jonás Gutiérrez, and
Sergio Agüero starting on the bench.
After last week's midweek cup finals in Spain and Italy, the gongs are starting to be handed out
for the competitions people actually care about now, and already we've got three more league
champion sides in Europe with Argentine representation to add to AZ in the Netherlands and Porto in
Portugal. The Spanish, Italian and [.
It's been a qualifying campaign no-one who followed it from start to finish will ever quite manage
to forget, but eventually, somehow, in spite of their manager, their opponents and let's face it
their own often atrocious performances, Argentina have qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South
Africa.
On the 14th November Diego Maradona's Argentina will face Spain in Atlético de Madrid's Estadio
Vicente Calderón in a friendly as the first part of their preparation for the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa. On Friday, Maradona named his squad for the match, which will consist solely of
players playing for clubs outside Argentina, [.
On the 22nd December, Argentina will play a friendly against the Catalán national side. Diego
Maradona's not allowed to watch (the appeal against his ban was thrown out by FIFA on Wednesday),
but he's named the squad all the same. Catalonia were banned from playing a match with the USA back
in 2007 but, when [.
A cobbled-together Argentina side visited the Camp Nou for the Catalán national side's annual
pre-Christmas friendly on Tuesday evening, and were soundly beaten as the home crowd enjoyed
jeering Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuaín. Lionel Messi didn't play, according to Carlos Bilardo
because his club, Barcelona, had requested that he shouldn't.
Argentina's practice session on Wednesday produced a possibly glimpse into the mind of Diego
Maradona. Although a frightening place in which Jonás Gutiérrez is worthy of a place in the team
at right back, there were also one or two more lucid thoughts flitting about. In a kickabout
against Sergio Batista's Under 17 side, this [.
We've had possibly the first transfer of the new window this week, and it involves an Argentine
moving from Russia to Spain. Elsewhere Manchester City were once again rescued by Carlos Tevez;
Real Madrid had their Argentines to thank for taking three points at home; Ezequiel Lavezzi had a
mixed day for Napoli, and there [.
