Diego Maradona will present his longlist of 30 Argentine players to the AFA at Ezeiza in a few short minutes, and HEGS has heard that Javier Zanetti and Gabriel Milito will both be included. TyC Sports is also reporting that ... Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

As the selección engaged in a game of attack vs defence which supposedly revealed Diego Maradona's first-choice eleven for Saturday's World Cup debut against Nigeria, funny goings-on were underway on Tuesday morning back in Buenos Aires. The barra bravas deported ... Continue reading →

Just for fun, here are a couple of polls to see what HEGS readers think of Diego Maradona's squad so far. If you need reminding what it looks like, here it is in all its grisly glory. You can follow ... Continue reading →

Whilst both Argentina's and Brazil's preliminary squads for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa caused some consternation on the part of fans and the media in their countries, the lists announced by the managers of Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile ... Continue reading →

Wednesday will see Diego Maradona confirm which twenty-three of the thirty players named last week he'll be taking (injuries permitting) to South Africa, and of course HEGS will have the information with you just as soon as it's available (or, ... 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 →

Just in case you've been hiding under a rock for the best part of a year and a half, Maradona is the coach of the Argentina World Cup squad.

And yes, just like during his playing days, he's doing things HIS way.

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With the World Cup squad set to fly out to South Africa from Ezeiza airport on Friday, I thought I'd revisit the questionnaire I set two weeks ago today asking who HEGS readers felt should have been included (but weren't) ... Continue reading →

The Argentine national team arrived in South Africa at around 8am Buenos Aires time this morning, but before they left Ezeiza yesterday a few late changes were made to the list of squad numbers published a few days ago. Sergio ... Continue reading →

Diego Maradona broke the Argentine national side's self-imposed media blackout (bar Sergio Agüero's infuriatingly over-exposed Twitter account) on Tuesday with a press conference two days before he'd been expected to call one. Javier Mascherano sat alongside him, mute for the ... 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 will almost certainly secure their qualification for the second round of the 2010 World Cup on Tuesday when they take on Greece. They can afford to lose by five goals against Greece, and even then they might not go ... Continue reading →

Lionel Messi will turn 23 years old on Thursday. He's managed quite a lot already in his club career (indeed, if he keeps scoring for Barcelona at his current rate he'll be their all-time highest scorer six months before he ... 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 →

On This Day In Spurs History: 18th August

1952 On this day in 1952, Ricky Villa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having been park of the winning Argentina World Cup squad in 1978, Villa was signed by Spurs, along with his team-mate Ossie Ardiles. Villa played a total of 179 games for Tottenham and scored 25 goals.