Saturday's matches saw Newell's Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over
River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of
the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing
Tigre [.
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The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday
night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round
only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell's and Banfield are at home River
and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [.
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Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions
Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca
Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever.
Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F.
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Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab
a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26
points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could
go joint third [.
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Early on Sunday morning, violence once again reared its head in the world of Argentine football,
when Fernando Cáceres Independiente's reserve team coach and a former Argentina international was
shot by robbers, taking a bullet in his right eye. At the time of writing, he continues in the
Carrillo Hospital in Ciudadela [.
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The twelfth round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 got underway on Saturday, and I'm afraid to say,
following the midweek round of matches and the fact I was out on Friday night, that it caught me
out. On Saturday, champions Vélez hosted and brushed aside Godoy Cruz, before Racing Racing! gave
Atlético Tucumán [.
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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, [.
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The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all
29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure
which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red
& black [.
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Boca Juniors beat Chacarita Juniors by three golazos to nil (losing Juan Román Riquelme to a foot
injury until 2010 in the process), and Lanús dismembered Tigre in El Sur, but the big story of
Thursday was River Plate's 2-1 victory over Argentinos Juniors the Núñez giants' first away win
in 17 attempts, with [.
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Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with
Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after
champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán
that came thanks to a [.
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Barely has the dust settled from the tenth round, so full of action that the superclásico was all
but forgotten about by anyone reasonable, than the next round of matches is starting. It's a big
round for both Avellaneda clubs: Newell's host Racing on Tuesday afternoon for some reason Racing's
new manager, Lothar Matthäus [.
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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 [...]
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The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN
Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening,
because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals
right here though, embedded [.
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The most important game in Argentine football took place today.
This season's River-Boca ended in a 1-1 tie.
Marcelo Gallardo and Martin Palermo with the goals.
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The game of musical chairs atop the Primera División gathers apace. Estudiantes, Banfield and
Newell's have all led the table at various points since Friday afternoon, but at the end of the
weekend it's Colón who are left looking down on the rest of Argentina, after a 2-1 win at home to
San Lorenzo courtesy [.
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The scores and scorers of the weekend will be up in a few hours' time after the super, Tigre and
Argentinos drew 1-1 in Victoria and Colón then took over the leadership of the table in the
weekend's final match with a 2-1 win over fellow contenders San Lorenzo in El Cementerio. For now
[...]
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I'm a bit late due to a computer issue the match is already 8 minutes old but is still at 0-0
presently. Open this post, and refresh periodically for sort-of-live-ish text updates on a
thoroughly middle-of-the-table superclásico. River Plate 0 0 Boca Juniors (8 mins) 8 mins: Shortly
after Nico Domingo drags a shot just [.
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Here's something that does not happen every day in Argentine football, to say the
least.
German football legend Lothar Matthäus has reached an agreement with Racing Club to become the
club's new manager.
I haven't done the research but I do not believe that a German or a European has ever managed an
Argentine club.
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There's a vital grudge match in England this afternoon as Liverpool host Manchester United in the
Premier League, and also today Indian football hosts a less globally famous but no less passionate
derby with Mohun Bagan taking on East Bengal. For a change, I'm not going to bill the superclásico
as the world's biggest derby [.
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Three teams are tied on twenty points at the top of the Torneo Apertura after Saturday's matches,
and San Lorenzo could join them on Sunday. As well as Central's 2-0 win over Independiente,
Estudiantes had already won on Friday night, 1-0 over Atlético Tucumán, and on Saturday Banfield
(3-0 at home to Godoy Cruz) and [.
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One fixture will dominate the weekend in Argentina in terms of the international attention, but
although it probably pushes Liverpool vs Manchester United into second place on the list of Really
Big Rivalries in the football world this weekend, River Plate vs Boca Juniors won't mean anything
at either end of the table this time.
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Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo travelled across the RÃo De La Plata on Wednesday night for the first
leg of their Copa Sudamericana quarter final against Uruguayan opposition Just like the national
team a week earlier, they came away with a narrow win, 1-0 over River Plate of Montevideo thanks to
a 71st minute header from [.
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On the day that retired ex River Plate, Argentinos Juniors, Villarreal, Cruzeiro and Argentina full
back Juan Pablo SorÃn was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Belo Horizonte (the city he's
lived in three times during his spells at Cruzeiro), FIFA confirmed that another former Argentina
player is held in rather less high esteem.
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It was a mixed week for Argentines in England Pablo Zabaleta was sent off and Carlos Tevez had to
toil on his own up front as Manchester City could only draw 1-1 with Wigan Athletic, and Javier
Mascherano and Emiliano Insúa's Liverpool lost in circumstances which were either hilarious or
exasperating depending on your [.
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There were only twenty goals scored in the Argentine Primera División during the weekend just
gone, but you can see all of them on the TN Sportblog by clicking this link. As usual, if you want
to see the order in which the goals appear and which teams are wearing which shirts, just read
[...]
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We're now halfway through the Torneo Apertura, and two points separate 1st from 8th. How's the
AFA's playoff system going to work if everyone ends up on the same points total? San Lorenzo lead
after edging out Central on Friday evening, Racing and Gimnasia La Plata both lost on Saturday, and
Sunday saw Rolando Schiavi [.
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Well, okay. Not quite yet. But one of the candidates for River Plate's presidential elections at
the end of this year has just revealed an almighty ace from his sleeve. Rodolfo D'Onofrio an
economist whose father was a director of the Argentine FA in the early 1970s has confirmed that,
should he win [.
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Argentina's 2010 World Cup qualification campaign isn't likely be forgotten easily by anyone who
followed it from beginning to end. For anyone who wants to read a little about the likely fallout
from the decision to give the managerial job to a certified nutter, without (too much) mention of
crotch-grabbing in press conferences, you can [.
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For some reason I thought news out of the South American country would cool down a little since the
national team qualified.
It's still crazy.
This story quotes Maradona, Argentine Football Association head Julio Grondona, Juan Sebastian
Veron and a country's newspaper.
Questions and issues are still abound.
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Here we are already, halfway through the season. Champions (and currently second-placed) Vélez
have a Friday evening match away to Lanús, basement-proppers-up Chacarita are away to third-placed
Independiente on Sunday, and leaders Estudiantes are away to Newell's in the weekend's last game. A
week ahead of what might be the least consequential superclásico in living [.
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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.
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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.
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This is probably the shortest Argentines Abroad update you're ever likely to read, but after
leaving it for such a long time before last week I'm eager not to break the habit. Also, with so
few leagues playing during the recent international break, Our Man In Mexico, Tom Clark, has
effectively written it for me [.
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The eighth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura finally ended on Monday night with the first match of
Leonardo Astrada's second spell in charge of River Plate. There wasn't even the shortest of
honeymoon periods, though Independiente took a 3-0 lead by half time and only a Marcelo Gallardo
penalty with a minute to [.
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Club Atlético Platense is an Argentine football club based in Vicente López, in the north side of
Greater Buenos Aires. Platense currently campaigns in the 2nd tier of the Argentine football
pyramid, La Primera B Nacional, and was the first club of France and Juventus striker David
Trézéguet. On October 9th and in true Argentine kit launch [.
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