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It'll be on the back page on tomorrow's News Of The World in the UK, but it's all over Twitter
right now: Carlos Tevez has reportedly handed in a written transfer request to Manchester City,
citing Roberto Mancini's negative playing ... Continue reading →
Colombian midfielder Andrés Pérez spent a few years playing in Argentina with Quilmes San Lorenzo
and Arsenal de Sarandí. The best moment of his time in Argentine football was probably this famous
rabona goal for San Lorenzo against Independiente in a pre season friendly (Torneos de Verano) in
2006.
The full fixture list has been released for the 2011 Torneo Clausura de Primera División. The
campaign will start on the weekend of the 13th February and end on the weekend of the 19th June, in
time for the Copa ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield claimed a 2-1 victory at home to Tigre on Tuesday evening in the final match of
the 16th round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura, to remain only two points behind Estudiantes de La
Plata as the championship edges ... Continue reading →
Lucho González scored in France, whilst there was a goal for Javier Saviola in Portugal and
Argentine scorers on both sides as Internazionale played Parma in Serie A. There was also the small
matter of Lionel Messi for once failing ... Continue reading →
For some reason, the seventeenth round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura gets underway in a couple of
hours' time, when Arsenal de Sarandí visit Olimpo in Bahía Blanca. The rest of the games are
being played in the normal slots ... Continue reading →
Independiente lost the first leg of the 2010 Copa Sudamericana final on Wednesday night, 2-0 away
to Brazilian club Goiás, who in the same week as their semi-final win were relegated from the
Brazilian top flight. First half goals from ... Continue reading →
The third episode of Hand Of Pod, featuring myself and the Dans English and Australian, is online
now. We discuss Cristian Fabbiani's girth, Martín Palermo's slowness, Juan Sebastián Verón's
lack of pace and reveal just how little we know about ... Continue reading →
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi came close to stepping down as Tigre manager on Thursday afternoon amid
accusations from the club's Colombian full back Juan Angulo Villegas. If you've not heard of
Villegas before, don't feel bad: he arrived in Tigre during ... Continue reading →
Racing easily saw off Gimnasia La Plata with some very nice football on Friday evening, but the big
story was in Floresta, where All Boys beat Banfield 2-1 and, in the last action of the match,
visiting striker Rubén Ramírez ... Continue reading →
Boca Juniors at long last claimed another win on Sunday with a 1-0 defeat of Quilmes in La
Bombonera. After recent talk of veterans including on the Hand Of Pod it was 20-year-old Cristian
Erbes who got the ... Continue reading →
The fourth episode of Hand Of Pod is online now, less than 24 hours before I return to England. You
can listen to myself and the Dans discussing Argentine football over frankly slightly too much
Fernet Branca on the HOP ... Continue reading →
The fourth episode of Hand Of Pod is online now, less than 24 hours before I return to England. You
can listen to myself and the Dans discussing Argentine football over frankly slightly too much
Fernet Branca on the HOP ... Continue reading →
I would not normally post an update on two competitions in the same post, but I don't normally have
the bad fortune to be on an aeroplane when potentially decisive matches are played in both of those
competitions. So excuse ... Continue reading →
On Thursday, the penultimate round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura concluded with wins for both Olimpo
now unbeaten in five games, into the bargain and Quilmes. The latter beat San Lorenzo 1-0 and, with
Ramón Díaz one of ... Continue reading →
It's here. The final round of the 2010 Torneo Apertura is upon us, and the destination of the
Argentine league title will be decided on Sunday. With the Copa Libertadores places already wrapped
up and relegation issues still another torneo ... Continue reading →
Obviously they couldn't both win, but from a neutral point of view it almost felt that way on
Friday evening as Godoy Cruz visited All Boys and, for the second Tomba match in a row since
securing Copa Libertadores 2011 ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata have won the 2010 Torneo Apertura after a 2-0 win at 'home' in Quilmes over
Arsenal de Sarandí. An edgy and at times frustrating match was settled late on by goals from
Gastón Fernández and Rodrigo ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata were crowned champions of the 2010 Torneo Apertura on Sunday thanks to a
2-0 win over Arsenal de Sarandí with two goals late on from Rodrigo López. Vélez Sarsfield also
won 2-0, away to Racing with ... Continue reading →
There were an awful lot of ones on the scoreboards of Argentina's top flight on Monday as the 2010
Torneo Apertura drew to a close, but River Plate, at least, ended a difficult year on a high note
with a ... Continue reading →
A day after the 2010 Torneo Apertura came to an end (for everyone bar Independiente and Tigre), the
consequences of the campaign are being felt at clubs across the league. Whilst some have pleasingly
exceeded their targets (All Boys) and ... Continue reading →
The fifth episode of Hand Of Pod is online now, and you can listen to it right here on the HOP
blog. Myself and the Dans discuss the climax of the Torneo Apertura as well as Independiente's Copa
Sudamericana win ... Continue reading →
Argentine striker Damian Akerman has played professional football for a number of different clubs
in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. The club where he has spent the best part of his career is
Deportivo Morón in the lower leagues of Argentine football. he is a popular player with the fans,
understandably so given the quality of this goal against Club Atlético Estudiantes in 2007.
This extended Argentines Abroad has been made possible by the fact that I didn't have time to do
one last week, but forgot to let my correspondents know and as a result we've got two weeks' worth
of submissions ... Continue reading →
It's been a week of as many changes off the pitch as we expected following the exodus of managers
in the closing few weeks and immediately after the conclusion of the Torneo Apertura. Julio César
Falcioni took charge at Boca ... Continue reading →
Oh, Diego. It's been weeks, maybe even a month, since your last outburst. We were starting to
think you forgot about us, the football writers and bloggers who thrive on controversy and quotes.
Welcome back, sir. Diego Maradona is suing Argentine Football Association president Julio Grondola
for defamation of character.
No matter how high the years climb, one never gets too old for pettiness.
Julio Grondona is the president of the Argentine FA and a man of 79 years. He's also the man
responsible for canning Maradona's ass after his all sizzle, no steak World Cup showing in the
summer, among other things, and they're beefing, as you'd expect with Diego the man's ribeye is
never far from the grill.
Andrés D'Alessandro has been named by Uruguayan newspaper El País as the 2010 South American
Footballer Of The Year, an award informally known as the 'King Of The Americas'. The Internacional
de Porto Alegre playmaker succeeds countryman Juan Sebastián Verón, who ... Continue reading →
