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First of all, Merry Christmas to all HEGS readers. I'm a day late but I gave myself the day off
yesterday. Hope you don't mind. River Plate star Diego Buonanotte didn't have such a good time,
sadly. At 6:45 this morning, he was driving three friends back from a nightclub in Teodolina (his
hometown in [.
Is it December already? Then it must be time for Argentines across Europe to wonder what possessed
them to move to a continent where Christmas is celebrated in a cold climate. The performances are
still decent, though. Gonzalo Higuaín scored again for Real Madrid as Lionel Messi ensured
Barcelona kept their noses in front; Carlos [.
In the Estadio Florencia Sola they're celebrating along with those in the upper tier of La
Bombonera. Banfield may have lost to Boca Juniors, but for the first time in their 113 year
history, they're champions of Argentina thanks to San Lorenzo's 2 0 win away to Newell's Old Boys
which ended the lingering [.
Estudiantes de La Plata played the final of the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, and
despite leading for most of the match through a Mauro Boselli header, they found themselves taken
to extra time by another header this one from Pedro, who's made a bit of history himself. In the
extra [...]
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.
The fixtures for the 2010 Torneo Clausura have been available on the AFA's website for a couple of
weeks, but now the Apertura is well over and there's precious little else going on, it seems an
appropriate time to post them up in English here. All the dates given correspond to the Sunday of
each [..
The goals from the final day of the sixteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now. You
can see the crucial points of Newell's narrow away win over Colón (only their fifth ever),
Argentinos' edging out of Gimnasia and Lanús's extraordinary last-ten-minutes thrashing of Arsenal
right here.
The reason for AA going up a little later this week was, of course, widely forecast, but I still
wanted to wait for it to be made official. Don't count your chickens and all that. On Tuesday (or
late on Monday if you're in Argentina), Lionel Messi was named France Football's European
Footballer Of The [.
Going into the seventeenth round of fixtures in the Torneo Apertura, here's a brief rundown of
what's been going on off the pitch in the last few days. Estudiantes, of course, leave for the UAE
to take part in the Club World Cup this weekend, and they played their final domestic match of the
year [..
The right combination of results this weekend could see Newell's all but secure the title, or at
least ensure that they and Banfield will be the only teams left in the title hunt going into the
last two rounds of matches. Estudiantes' domestic 2009 is already over they drew 0-0 with Chacarita
Juniors last [.
Friday evening's matches saw Godoy Cruz and Rosario Central battle to a draw which doesn't suit
either team tremendously, and Racing get a win over Tigre thanks to a great finish from Sebastián
Grazzini. In the other match, Banfield travelled to Huracán and got a 1-0 win courtesy of a shot
from Santiago Silva (who [.
San Lorenzo lost 2-1 to Argentinos Juniors on Saturday, and just as I type this Boca Juniors have
lost at home to Independiente by the same score. River Plate don't even play until tomorrow, but
their bitter rivals losing matches isn't the best news of the day for them. Because on Saturday
night the votes [.
Following a controversial election which was 'won' by Rodolfo D'Onofrio by a margin of only two
votes, a recount was held which went into the early hours of Sunday morning, and the result is in:
Daniel Passarella, former player and manager, is the new president of Club Atlético River Plate,
having won 5,298 votes to [.
As the observant among you may already have noticed, there's now a HEGS Twitter feed displaying in
the left-hand sidebar of this site. Twitter ought to enable me to do a couple of things: first, of
course, it'll promote HEGS, but I also plan to put up updates over the course of the weekend
regarding [.
Nothing's been decided yet, but Banfield are clearly the biggest beneficiaries of the weekend.
Their win on Friday combined with later losses for both Colón (at the hands of Atlético Tucumán)
and Newell's (to Arsenal) to leave El Taladro two points clear of Newell's with two games to go.
Elsewhere, Vélez beat River with two [.
Completing the goal videos from the seventeenth round of the Torneo Apertura, we've got the goals
right here from Vélez's 3-1 win over River Plate (which confirmed the hosts as the top points
scorers domestically of 2009), Newell's 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Arsenal, and Lanús's win
over Gimnasia by two magnificent goals [.
Don't worry, Argentines Abroad (or a curtailed version of it) will be online at some point later in
the week, but the pressing issue for now is that the penultimate round of the Torneo Apertura takes
place in midweek. Banfield play after Newell's and Pablo Lunati, who refereed and gave some dodgy
decisions against [.
Tuesday evening saw just three goals spread across the three games: Huracán and Boca drew 0-0;
Colón beat Godoy Cruz 1-0, whilst Independiente and Argentinos Juniors drew 1-1 in Avellaneda. You
can watch all of those goals plus a couple of brief highlights of Huracán vs Boca right here.
Huracán (white) vs Boca (navy [.
As you may be aware, Estudiantes de La Plata are playing in the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi very
soon (it started on Wednesday). As you may also be aware, they've got a bit of history in the
competition back when it was the Intercontinental Cup, and Seba Verón's dad played no small part
[...]
The four goals from Wednesday night's matches in the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now. You can
watch them right here the video is only a click away. San Lorenzo (navy & red stripes) vs Lanús
(maroon) Gimnasia LP (white & navy) vs Newell's (red & black halves) Banfield (green & white
stripes) vs Tigre (blue & [.
The title race is going to the wire (both Banfield and Newell's will kick off at 17:00 local time
on Sunday), as is the final Copa Libertadores spot. Midweek rounds in the Argentine domestic league
always seem to be low scoring (maybe it's just my imagination, but...), and the highest scoring
match this week was [.
The final round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura will see the title decided along with the final Copa
Libertadores qualification place. Banfield visit Boca Juniors at the same time as Newell's host San
Lorenzo, with Banfield two points ahead of the rosarinos at present. If they finish level on
points, a playoff will decide the [.
The goals from Saturday's matches in the final round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now,
and you can watch them below. Argentinos Juniors signed off the year in style with a 5-1 thrashing
of Huracán, who after such a promising first half to the year will be glad to see the back of
[...]
Sunday's matches were orderly in scoreline if nothing else: there were four 2-0 scorelines, all but
one of those going to the away side (Boca, who beat Banfield 2-0, were the only home victors but
their victims didn't care because they took the title anyway). Vélez Sársfield vs Rosario Central
was the sole exception [.
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 [.
I really needed an early night on Monday, which is why the full scores from the final round of a
wonderful Torneo Apertura didn't go up as usual right after the last match. Monday's two games saw
only one goal Atlético Tucumán beat Gimnasia but you can watch it here all the same. [...]
Estudiantes de La Plata advanced to the final of the Club World Cup on Tuesday by beating South
Korea's Pohang Steelers 2-1 in Abu Dhabi. They'll meet either FC Barcelona of Spain, or Atlante of
Mexico, in the final on Saturday. Leandro Chino Benítez got both of Estudiantes' goals, and you
can watch them here.
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi confirmed on Wednesday night that he'll be Diego Cagna's successor at
Tigre, returning to the club whom he took from Primera B into the B Nacional (third to second
flight) in 2005. Not such good news from the judiciary system, though: Rafael Di Zeo, the former
capo of Boca Juniors' barra brava, [.
The Torneo Apertura started in chaos, with no-one sure which TV channels games would be screened on
and many finding it so difficult to find just one title contender that Boca Juniors, of all teams,
were held up by some commentators as the most likely candidates (I'd never make a silly mistake
like that of [.
According to TN and ESPN, that is. Argentina's a funny place. National news broadcaster TN decided
this year to run a ' Ten Best Goals Of The Apertura' feature, which their website says is,
'inspired by the Puskás Award [FIFA's new "best goal of the year" gong].' It's as if this weren't
an idea the [.
Claudio Bieler a Copa Libertadores winner with Liga de Quito in 2008 might be coming home. José
Sand, currently leading the scoring charts in the high-paying league of the United Arab Emirates,
might also return, and Lanús are adamant that if it's to them, Eduardo Salvio will be around too,
in spite of [.
