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Godoy Cruz qualified for next year's Copa Libertadores on Friday night with a 3-1 away win over
Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, and in so doing they'll become the first team from the province of
Mendoza ever to play in ... Continue reading →
Lionel Messi had the weekend off, putting in a relatively quiet shift, but Gonzalo Higuaín scored
again as Real Madrid kept up the pace in La Liga. Elsewhere two Argentines got their hands on the
French League Cup, Martín Demichelis donned a face mask to return to action for Bayern München
(he'll be using it [.
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Zanetti out, as Messi leads Argentina charge
By STEPHEN WADE (AP)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — World player of the year Lionel Messi will lead Argentina's attack
at the World Cup.
There was no room for veteran defender Javier Zanetti in coach Diego Maradona's provisional
squad for the tournament, however.
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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 →
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 →
UK residents and regular HEGS readers will already be familiar with my semi-regular contributions
to When Saturday Comes, and it's with some pride that I encourage all of you to go out and buy the
new edition of the magazine, which ... Continue reading →
When the Argentine national team flew to South Africa a week ago today, twenty-two barra bravas
from Chacarita Juniors and Boca Juniors were on the same flight, in the economy section. The AFA
denied any knowledge of this, but one ... 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 →
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 →
Club Atlético Colón commonly known as Colón de Santa Fe or just Colón is a football team from
Santa Fe, Argentina. Colón has played in the top-tier of Argentine football, Primera División
Argentina, since the 1995/96 season. It has had three top three league finishes second place in La
Clausura 1997 and third place [.
TF3 ultra-favorite Jonathan Wilson is in Argentina... Besides sampling the malbec, milanesa,
churrasco, and chimichurri, he is reporting on the state of Argentine football. Anyone who has ever
lived, visited, or even watched Argentina matches on the tube, knows that football is king. In his
post to the Guardian, he writes that Argentina's romantic view of how the game should be played,
wide-open, attacking, sends shivers down his Euro-spine.
First, for all those who are as big on detail as myself, I apologise for that headline, because
there's nothing I hate more than English speakers referring to the world's most modest, understated
football club as 'Real'. But why let that get in the way of a not especially good headline? Real
Madrid might be [.
The first football of the new year is already underway in Argentina; on Saturday Banfield and
Huracán played out a 0-0 draw in which the champions of Argentina had more chances but couldn't
put them away with Santiago Silva, whilst in the first of the AFA's official triangular tournaments
(there's no round robin of the [.
River Plate and Boca Juniors drew 1-1 in the last clásico of the Torneos de Verano on Sunday
night, after which a penalty shootout decided that the Copa Revancha went to River, who won the
penalties 3-2. You can watch both goals and the shootout right here. Lucas Viatri headed Boca into
the lead after [.
The second round of the Torneo Clausura is upon us already, played in midweek so as to get ahead on
things with the Copa Libertadores coming up and the need to finish the championship in time for the
break prior to the World Cup. Estudiantes take on Gimnasia in the clásico platense on Wednesday,
Racing [.
A new internet connection at home has meant a few nights of dodgy connections, which is why the
goals from Wednesday night's match in Lima between Universitario and Lanús won 2-0 by the Peruvian
side are only going up on HEGS now. They're accompanied by some from an astonishing match which has
just [.
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 [.
Saturday's matches in the ninth round of the 2010 Torneo Clausura saw Independiente return to the
top of the table after Godoy Cruz took the overnight lead, Estudiantes beat Newell's thanks to
goals from Roselli and Boselli (the first of whom was playing for the visitors but scored in his
own net), and then two [.
Uruguayan champions Nacional visited their Argentine counterparts on Tuesday night in the second
clash between the two clubs in a week. Last week's Group 6 match in the Estadio Centenario had
ended 2-2, so Banfield went into the game with some hope of all but securing their qualification in
front of their own fans.
Round 10 only ended on Thursday afternoon, but already the eleventh round of the Torneo Clausura
arrives this evening. Godoy Cruz will be hoping to crank up the pressure on leaders Independiente
when they visit Estudiantes de La Plata in the weekend's first match, which might be their toughest
assignment yet Estudiantes themselves would [.
Diego Simeone stood down as manager of San Lorenzo on Saturday afternoon following yet another home
defeat for the Boedo team. Having lost 1-0 against Gimnasia La Plata, El Cholo announced his
decision to the press on the basis that, 'this is what's best for the club.' Under Simeone, San
Lorenzo had gone on a [.
I'm a little distracted with various things at present, not least the preparations for my move next
week to Buenos Aires. As such there's no Argentines Abroad this week, other than a congratulations
to Lionel Messi for that astonishing four-goal haul in tonight's European Cup match between
Barcelona and Arsenal, which makes him Barça's all-time [.
Hamit and Halil Altıntop from Turkey Vasili and Aleksei Berezutski from Russian Archil and Shota
Arveladze from Georgia Guillermo and Gustavo Barros Schelotto (born 1973), both Argentine football
(soccer) players Frank and Ronald de Boer (born 1970) from Dutch international football (soccer)
players Adam and James Chambers (born 1980)from England Philipp and David Degen from Switzerland
Jorge
Cappa returning to Argentine football.
Angel Cappa will be the new River manager.
Cappa made the announcement on his blog.
The fifteenth round of the 2010 Torneo Clausura features not one but two clásicos, both played on
Sunday. By the time they swing round, any of Godoy Cruz, Independiente or Estudiantes will have had
the chance to claim the leadership in the chase for the league title I'll be at River vs Godoy on
[.
Monday evening saw the final two matches of the 2010 Torneo Clausura, and there were late
equalisers in both of them for the visiting teams. Argentinos Juniors took the lead away to Arsenal
de Sarandí, but after the hosts had turned the match on its head it fell to Facundo Coria to
rescue a point [.
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 →
After the madness and midweek distraction of the World Cup preliminary squad list, it's back to
business for one last push in the domestic league: the final round of a nailbiting 2010 Torneo
Clausura is upon us, and either Estudiantes ... Continue reading →
The first big transfer story of the Argentine post-season has broken not here in Buenos Aires, but
England. Why did I move down here again? The Star, a highly-regarded British news publication*
claimed on Monday that Sir Alex Ferguson, the ... Continue reading →
Hearts were in mouths this afternoon in Ezeiza when Lionel Messi hit the ground in training after a
collision with Javier Mascherano which saw Argentina's medical staff running over to help him. He
is, apparently, absolutely fine though. And whilst ... Continue reading →
Whether or not Argentina wins this one too, this summer's World Cup will be just like 1986: all
Maradona. His manner of squad announcements breakin' legs and spittin' insults was only a teaser,
and the new levels of absurdity will be trumped every few days. The latest on the list: a special
bidet being installed for his royal asshole.
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 →
Boca Juniors are currently going through something of a miserable post-season tour of the United
States a few evenings ago they lost 1-0 to Los Angeles Galaxy and on Wednesday night they crashed
3-0 against Seattle Sounders (you can ... Continue reading →
Diego Maradona's selección trained with an audience for the first time since arriving in South
Africa on Thursday, inviting the press to watch. They opened more than just the gates to the
complex though, with several players commenting on the ... 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 →
