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Newell’s go top and Atlético return to winning ways

Hasta El Gol Siempre 07 November @ 11:00 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 13 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 06 November @ 06:00 AM EST
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, [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 12 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 04 November @ 11:48 AM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

Two wins, two leaders

Hasta El Gol Siempre 02 November @ 09:52 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Cáceres shot

Hasta El Gol Siempre 01 November @ 05:13 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 12 fixtures / scores

Hasta El Gol Siempre 31 October @ 09:47 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Argentina squad to face Spain

Hasta El Gol Siempre 31 October @ 02:00 AM EST
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, [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 11 goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 30 October @ 05:55 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 11 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 29 October @ 09:51 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Independiente return home

Hasta El Gol Siempre 28 October @ 10:06 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 11 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 27 October @ 07:30 AM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 23rd – 26th October 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 27 October @ 05:00 AM EST
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 [...] Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 10 goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 26 October @ 05:48 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Superclasico Goals

Pasión Albiceleste 26 October @ 01:02 AM EST

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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Torneo Apertura 2009: round 10 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 26 October @ 12:00 AM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Superclásico highlights

Hasta El Gol Siempre 25 October @ 09:02 PM EST
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 [...] Click to continue reading...

River Plate vs Boca Juniors: Live updates

Hasta El Gol Siempre 25 October @ 02:27 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Lothar Matthäus new Racing manager

Pasión Albiceleste 25 October @ 11:26 AM EST



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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Superclásico Apertura 2009: the lineups

Hasta El Gol Siempre 25 October @ 08:02 AM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Inseparable

Hasta El Gol Siempre 24 October @ 11:20 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 10 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 23 October @ 05:00 AM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

Copa Sudamericana quarter final first leg: River Plate 0 – 1 San Lorenzo

Hasta El Gol Siempre 21 October @ 08:26 PM EST
Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo travelled across the Río 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 [. Click to continue reading...

Honour and dishonour

Hasta El Gol Siempre 21 October @ 05:55 PM EST
On the day that retired ex River Plate, Argentinos Juniors, Villarreal, Cruzeiro and Argentina full back Juan Pablo Sorín 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. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 17th & 18th October 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 20 October @ 06:00 AM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 9 goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 19 October @ 05:23 PM EST
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 [...] Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 9 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 18 October @ 08:57 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Rodolfo D’Onofrio wins River presidential elections

Hasta El Gol Siempre 17 October @ 05:14 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

A qualification campaign to remember

Hasta El Gol Siempre 16 October @ 06:25 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Argentina's in, still crazy

The Beautiful Game (2) 16 October @ 11:53 AM EST
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.
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Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 9 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 16 October @ 05:30 AM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

World Cup 2010 qualifying: Uruguay 0 – 1 Argentina

Hasta El Gol Siempre 14 October @ 08:43 PM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

Argentina starting XI away to Uruguay

Hasta El Gol Siempre 14 October @ 05:00 AM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad during international week

Hasta El Gol Siempre 13 October @ 05:55 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 8 scores, scorers and goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 12 October @ 05:22 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Soccer Babes Present the Atlético Platense Kappa 2009/10 Kits / Camisetas

Football Fashion 12 October @ 03:37 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...