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Argentina take on Spain in just possibly the football world's most prestigious fixture of the day
on Tuesday, at 5pm local time. The match is being screened live on ITV4 in the UK, and on state TV
in Argentina, but ... Continue reading →
Independiente advanced to the first round proper of the 2010 Copa Sudamericana with a 1-1 draw in
the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona which contributed to a 2-1 aggregate victory over Argentinos
Juniors for El Rojo. Néstor Ortigoza levelled on aggregate ... Continue reading →
Following the resignation of Héctor Rivoira from the Huracán bench on Monday, the Parque
Patricios club have moved swiftly to find a replacement. They announced on Monday that they'd given
a contract to Miguel Ángel Brindisi, just over eight years ... Continue reading →
The highest-profile of the friendlies being played next week during the international break is
almost certainly the one in Buenos Aires on Tuesday 7th September, when Argentina will host new
world champions Spain in the Estadio Monumental. It'll be the ... Continue reading →
There's a clásico at La Bombonera on Saturday with Boca Juniors hosting San Lorenzo, and on Sunday
evening in the last match of the round, league leaders River Plate visit joint-second placed Vélez
Sarsfield, who've looked the most solid team ... Continue reading →
Friday evening's two games saw two firsts: Estudiantes de La Plata conceded their first goal of the
season in domestic competition, and Colón got their first win, at the fifth attempt. The
santafecinos beat Racing 2-1 in El Cilindro, thanks ... Continue reading →
Arsenal de Sarandí are the overnight leaders of the Torneo Apertura after beating defending
champions Argentinos Juniors 1-0 in Sarandí on Saturday afternoon. The big story, though, is that
Boca Juniors have lost again, this time at home to San ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield beat River Plate 2-1 in Sunday's big clash to leave Ángel Cappa's side off the
pace in the title race, and (for the first time this season) in the direct relegation spots of the
Promedio to boot. Vélez ... Continue reading →
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Spain's World Cup winners were greeted by Argentina President
Cristina Fernandez at her official government residence in downtown Buenos Aires on Monday.
Twenty of the 23 members of Spain's World Cup squad — and coach Vicente del Bosque — made
the trip to Buenos Aries ahead of their Tuesday friendly against Argentina before 65,000 fans at
River Plate's Monumental stadium.
There'll be more on Argentina's brilliant 4-1 friendly win over Spain during the day on Wednesday,
but before I turn in for the night I'm going to post the highlights video here for those who want
to relive a memorable ... Continue reading →
Having taken slightly longer than planned to get around to writing this post, here I am with
something a bit more analytical (I hope) on the Argentina vs Spain friendly from Tuesday afternoon.
It was the world champions' first defeat ... Continue reading →
The Torneo Apertura gathers apace on the back of the selección's impressive win on Tuesday over
Spain, and the return to domestic action is a suitably juicy one in spite of there being no
clásicos this weekend. Leaders Vélez Sarsfield ... Continue reading →
Colón de Santa Fe might have finally managed their first win of the season away to Racing last
week, but on Friday evening they found they're still unable to win in front of their own fans, with
a 1-1 draw ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw Godoy Cruz visit El Sur and smash Lanús 4-1 in their own stadium with no fewer than
three golazos. El Granate will be happy that that particular bad news day came on the same day that
Argentina's female ... Continue reading →
Champions Argentinos Juniors are still without a win this season after throwing away a lead at home
for the second time in this Torneo Apertura. This time the beneficiaries were Newell's Old Boys,
the rosarinos scoring twice in quick succession ... Continue reading →
The first Argentines Abroad of the new season will be a shortened one, with an appeal below for
HEGS readers who'd like to contribute to this section on a league of their choice. The main news in
the field this ... Continue reading →
Diego Buonanotte didn't play for River Plate on Sunday, and wasn't in training today but he's not
thrown a hissy fit at being left out of the starting lineup. The young attacker was given leave to
skip training, in ... Continue reading →
A very quick notice, to inform you that readers in the UK (and selected lucky ones who live in
other countries) will find a piece by me on the Diego Maradona succession story in the new issue of
When Saturday ... Continue reading →
Banfield have advanced to the round of sixteen in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, after a 1-1 draw with
Vélez Sarsfield in El Sur which, combined with the 1-0 win they'd claimed in the first leg, sent
them through. Marcelo Carrusca ... Continue reading →
My newest post has just gone up on In Bed With Maradona, looking over the biggest results of the
last weekend in the Torneo Apertura, and considering what some of the big clashes in the coming
round are likely to ... Continue reading →
As the clock ticked into stoppage time in El Coloso Del Parque, it looked like Newell's Old Boys vs
Estudiantes was going to be scoreless in the Copa Sudamericana second phase first leg. But then
youngster Daniel Salvatierra, off the ... Continue reading →
No clásicos this week, but all the same the Torneo Apertura continues to heat up. Leaders
Estudiantes visit relegation battlers All Boys on Sunday (HEGS will be present), whilst
joint-leaders River and Vélez are also both away, to Newell's and ... Continue reading →
Two comfortable wins for the home sides in Friday's two matches left fans of Gimnasia La Plata and
Racing celebrating. Gimnasia's 3-0 win over Huracán was not only their first victory of the
season, but also brought the first goals ... Continue reading →
San Lorenzo went top of the Torneo Apertura standings on Saturday with an efficient 3-1 win over
Olimpo, coming from behind after the visitors had taken a first half lead. Later in the day, Tigre
got another win to continue ... Continue reading →
Sunday's matches began with another brilliant win for All Boys, who deservedly beat pre-weekend
league leaders Estudiantes 2-1 in Floresta in a thoroughly absorbing game I was there and that
match will be the subject of this week's Thoughts ... Continue reading →
Independiente's woeful start to the season has made Daniel Garnero the first manager of the 2010
Torneo Apertura to leave his post, after a meeting at which club president Julio Comparada was not
present. Sporting director César Luis Menotti also ... Continue reading →
It's becoming a veritable Black Monday in the Argentine Primera División. Daniel Garnero resigned
as Independiente manager this morning, and now he's been followed by Huracán manager Héctor
Rivoira, who took charge of this morning's training session before phoning club ... Continue
reading →
There were not one, but two big injuries to Argentines playing abroad in the weekend just gone. Of
course, you've all already heard about Marcelo Gallardo's horrible tendon break on his first start
for Nacional of Montevideo, which will rule ... Continue reading →
Newell's Old Boys eliminated Estudiantes de La Plata from the 2010 Copa Sudamericana on Wednesday
night with a 1-1 draw in Quilmes which puts the Rosario side through with a 2-1 aggregate win.
Gastón Fernández opened the scoring for the ... Continue reading →
Sergio Batista has announced the Argentina squad which will travel to Tokyo for a friendly against
Japan on the 8th October. In spite of the injury he suffered against Atlético de Madrid at the
weekend, Lionel Messi is included, as ... Continue reading →
I'm a bit late with this, but here it is at last. Last weekend saw a lot of goals scored in the
first division, but in some ways perhaps the most important ones were scored in Floresta at the
clash ... Continue reading →
This weekend, we still have no clásicos but there are a number of tasty ties all the same.
Independiente will take a caretaker manager into their Friday night tie with Gimnasia; Nery Pumpido
has admitted he'll probably sign, but surely ... Continue reading →
Those HEGS readers who are living in London and, indeed, those who aren't are in for a special
treat today. From 9pm British Summer Time, you'll be able to enjoy the sound of my dulcet tones on
your ... Continue reading →
At 5pm on Friday, a pre-recorded interview with Diego Maradona was broadcast on Fox Sports, and
true to form, the former manager of the Argentine national team came out firing on all verbal
cylinders. He still believe he can retake ... Continue reading →
It's been a busy day. As well as making my radio debut (repeated on
http://www.resonancefm.com/listen tomorrow at 3:30pm UK time, or there's a podcast up in the next
couple of days for those who missed it earlier), I've also been ... Continue reading →
Diego Maradona makes my job really easy. You can always depend on him for something interesting
to write about when there may be a slow week. Today he said he would give his life to return to the
helm and avenge their World Cup quarterfinal humiliation.
"I'd give an arm to be back with the national team," Maradona, who was not retained by the
Argentine Football Association (AFA) after Argentina's return from the South Africa finals.
Independiente's caretaker manager Rivardo Pavoni celebrated the team's first win of the season on
Friday evening thanks to Leonel Galeano's 27th minute goal which consigned Gimnasia La Plata to
defeat. El Rojo won 1-0 in the Doble Visera to give ... Continue reading →
After last week's contrasting results, in which Estudiantes lost to All Boys and Boca convincingly
beat Colón, the celebrations switched on Saturday when Estudiantes beat Boca 1-0 thanks to a
Marcos Rojo strike in only the first minute of a ... Continue reading →
Those who didn't manage to listen in live (or on the repeat) to my UK radio debut for Resonance
FM's Cafe Calcio can now have the pleasure of listening to it whenever they please, as the podcast
of the show ... Continue reading →
River Plate were all set to go just one point off the lead of the Torneo Apertura on Sunday
evening, until former Boca Juniors midfielder Miguel Caneo popped up to head home a poorly-defended
free kick and earn Quilmes a ... Continue reading →
