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Sergio Batista named his first squad as Argentina manager yesterday, as well as being officially
unveiled by Julio Grondona as the new permanent manager of the national side. Lucas Biglia was the
only new name on the teamsheet, whilst in ... Continue reading →
It's yet to be officially announced, but the Argentina starting eleven for the first match of their
World Cup campaign is now widely known and there are unlikely to be any surprises, barring
injuries. Jonás Gutiérrez is in at right ... Continue reading →
If you're an Argentine football fan and a bit of a glutton for punishment or if you're otherwise
interested in what exactly Diego Maradona demonstrated to us during Argentina's World Cup campaign
you can click here to read ... Continue reading →
In a few short hours, Argentina take on Germany in one the highest-profile international friendlies
of the week, in Munich. With Diego Maradona claiming he already knows the vast majority of the
squad he's taking to South Africa, the match is likely to give us some clue as to his thinking, if
indeed that isn't [.
Having sat inside all bloody afternoon waiting for an announcement that was supposed to come at 3pm
and eventually arrived just after 7, this will only be a brief post, but all the same I thought I'd
put up a ... Continue reading →
There were numerous lists before Maradona's preliminary squad of 30 was announced yesterday
speculating on who might be included, and outlining who the author would include if they were the
manager. Well, I thought I'd try something a little different. ... Continue reading →
In ten minutes, Argentina vs Canada will kick off in the Estadio Monumental, and Diego Maradona's
starting XI looks a little different to that which, following the Germany friendly last year, he'd
insisted would be his starting lineup for the ... Continue reading →
If simply knowing which players are in the squad isn't enough, Argentina-watchers can rejoice
today: the full list of which players will use which shirt numbers during the 2010 World Cup has
been released. Lionel Messi takes the number 10, ... Continue reading →
The octopus predicting Argentina's downfall was right. On Saturday, Diego Maradona's team crashed
out of the 2010 World Cup, thrashed 4-0 by an excellent Germany side meeting their own first real
challenge of the knockout stages. A lack of creativity ... Continue reading →
For a change, Carlos Tevez had a quiet match in the Premier League, with Manchester City losing to
Everton (Pablo Zabaleta wasn't much better). Elsewhere though, Argentines were in form again.
Lionel Messi became the youngest player ever to score 100 competitive goals for Barcelona and also
the youngest to score 101.
Lionel Messi returned to goalscoring form for Barcelona, whilst Carlos Tevez simply returned for
Manchester City and scored as well. Gonzalo Higuaín got another two for Real Madrid, Lisandro
López won a match for Lyon and in Serie A, whilst Diego Milito scored his fifteenth of the season,
Catania only had seven Argentines in [.
Diego Maradona's last chance to give his players a proper test prior to the announcement of the
provisional squad for the World Cup took place on Wednesday night and saw a dull match marked only
by Gonzalo Higuaín's second goal in his third match for his country. Martín Demichelis, playing
at his home stadium in [.
Oh yes. It's back! After a bit of a break whilst I packed to come away and settled into my new
hometown, Argentines Abroad returns now I've got some time and no jetlag. It was a less than
spectacular weekend for the usual suspects in the top flights of England and Spain, but two new
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Well, and the semi-finals, in the case of the Mexican championship. Across Europe though, league
championships have already come to a close a little earlier than normal due to the impending World
Cup in South Africa, and as usual Argentines ... Continue reading →
In the next couple of hours (supposedly) Diego Maradona will confirm the 23 names he's taking as
members of the Argentina squad to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Olé are confident
enough that they've got the list ... Continue reading →
First, apologies to anyone who saw the starting XI I posted shortly before kick off, and accepted
it as gospel. I was copying it from Cancha Llena (La Nación's sports website) and they got it
completely wrong (it wasn't the ... Continue reading →
After the military-style concentración for the first week of Argentina's stay in South Africa, and
the opening-up of training to the press over the last few days, the selección's players have
finally been allowed an afternoon off following a morning ... Continue reading →
In forty minutes, Diego Maradona will return to direct involvement in a World Cup for the first
time since that drug test in USA 94. Argentina vs Nigeria will be underway. Maradona has named the
starting XI that was predicted ... Continue reading →
Argentina's World Cup campaign is up and running, courtesy of a Gabriel Heinze header early on to
give them a 1-0 win against Nigeria on Saturday. It wasn't a match with very many highlights, and
those that there were invariably ... Continue reading →
After an opening performance from Argentina which ranged from the outstanding (Lionel Messi) to the
anonymous (Ángel Di María) by way of the pity-inducing (Jonás Gutiérrez), I've done a write-up
of the reaction in Argentina for ESPN Soccernet. You can ... Continue reading →
Argentina's preparation for the second match of their World Cup challenge gathers apace. The main
issues following the flawed but encouraging performance in the 1-0 win against Nigeria on Saturday
were the right back position where Jonás Gutiérrez clearly ... Continue reading →
In under seven hours' time, Argentina will be playing their second match in the 2010 World Cup,
looking to all but assure qualification by trying to beat South Korea, for whom Manchester United's
Park Ji-Sung, a good friend of Carlos ... Continue reading →
Well, it's fair to say the sceptics didn't expect this. The noises coming from the Argentina camp
about team unity and just needing to spend some time together look like they weren't just hot air
on Saturday the selección ... Continue reading →
Argentina's performance yesterday against South Korea was highly impressive, and plenty of people
have suddenly started suspecting they could go all the way and win the World Cup after all. Four
years ago, though, we were in the same place ... Continue reading →
A quick note to say that those who are interested can now see a map of the birthplaces of all of
the Argentina squad for the 2010 World Cup, provided to me by Bill's Sports Maps, on the new 'Squad
... Continue reading →
Argentina confirmed their place in the second round of the 2010 World Cup on Tuesday with a 2-0 win
over a very defensive Greece side in Lionel Messi's first match as captain of the selección. It
took a while for ... Continue reading →
Argentina's passage to the second round of the 2010 World Cup having been confirmed on Tuesday, the
country's main concern during Wednesday's matches was who their rivals in the quarter-finals will
be should they see off Mexico on Sunday. There ... Continue reading →
Argentina's preparations for their World Cup second round match on Sunday against Mexico continue
apace, with FIFA officially confirming that Juan Sebastián Verón's 135 successful passes against
Greece is a new record for a single player in a single match ... Continue reading →
Diego Maradona's been keeping everyone second-guessing for the last few days. It looked a day or
two ago like there would only be a couple of changes to the Argentina side that beat Nigeria 1-0 in
their first match of ... Continue reading →
Carlos Tevez is, according to Diego Maradona, el jugador del pueblo ('the player of the people').
On Sunday, hours after the controversy during Germany's 4-1 thrashing of England, linesman Stefano
Ayroldi confirmed to the world that he was indeed one ... Continue reading →
With two days still to go before Argentina take on Germany in perhaps the most evenly-matches
quarter-final of the South Africa 2010 World Cup, there's not a lot interesting to report Diego
Maradona won't be changing the formation, though ... Continue reading →
On Saturday, Argentina take on Germany. It's a rematch of the tie at the World Cup quarter final of
2006, when the then host nation eliminated Argentina on penalties before some ugly scenes in
Leipzig. This Argentina side aren't as ... Continue reading →
In an hour and a half, Argentina will play their first post-World Cup friendly with an entirely
foreign-based squad, under the caretaker leadership of Sergio Batista, the youth teams' manager for
the AFA. Lionel Messi arrived in Dublin last night ... Continue reading →
Ángel Di María scored the most important goal of Sergio Batista's reign as Argentina's youth team
manager the winner in the Olympic Football Tournament final in Beijing 2008 and today he scored the
first goal of Batista's spell ... Continue reading →
Sergio Batista today named his Argentina squad to take on Spain in the second friendly of his
caretaker managership with the team. The match will take place at 5pm local time on Tuesday, 7th
September, in River Plate's Estadio Monumental. ... Continue reading →
There'll be more on Argentina's brilliant 4-1 friendly win over Spain during the day on Wednesday,
but before I turn in for the night I'm going to post the highlights video here for those who want
to relive a memorable ... Continue reading →
Having taken slightly longer than planned to get around to writing this post, here I am with
something a bit more analytical (I hope) on the Argentina vs Spain friendly from Tuesday afternoon.
It was the world champions' first defeat ... Continue reading →
There were not one, but two big injuries to Argentines playing abroad in the weekend just gone. Of
course, you've all already heard about Marcelo Gallardo's horrible tendon break on his first start
for Nacional of Montevideo, which will rule ... Continue reading →
Sergio Batista has announced the Argentina squad which will travel to Tokyo for a friendly against
Japan on the 8th October. In spite of the injury he suffered against Atlético de Madrid at the
weekend, Lionel Messi is included, as ... Continue reading →
There were Argentine goals in seven European leagues this weekend, as well as plenty in Mexico from
players both old and new to that league. Carlos Tevez's strike for Manchester City against Chelsea
was the highest-profile one of the weekend, ... Continue reading →
