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The news this week

Hasta El Gol Siempre 19 November @ 07:49 PM EST
HEGS has lost a little of its news value lately due to diminishing spare time on my part, so as of today I'm going to try and remedy that slightly. As Thursday turns into Friday at the start of each round from now on, I'll be giving a quick rundown of some of the main [...] Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 14th & 15th November 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 18 November @ 06:00 AM EST
Well, the national team were abroad, of course, but we're not counting them. The Brazilian and Mexican leagues were the major top flights in action in spite of the international break during the weekend just gone, and there were goals in both of them. You can read about them and watch them right here, as [. Click to continue reading...

Riquelme’s Corinthian spirit

Hasta El Gol Siempre 15 November @ 03:15 PM EST
Stories in the Brazilian press at the start of the week had Corinthians, one of the country's biggest clubs and the current employers of Ronaldo, planning to sign Juan Román Riquelme from Boca Juniors in a bid to boost their Copa Libertadores campaign in 2010, their centenary year. I've written about it for Soccernet, and [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 6th November to now

Hasta El Gol Siempre 11 November @ 06:55 PM EST
Argentines Abroad is delayed slightly this week by the Monday night fixture bumping the normal domestic coverage a day on, and the fact I've been writing an article for another site (more of which later in the week). That's useful in some ways because the Copa del Rey in Spain has ensured there's action to [. 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...

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...

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...

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...

Argentines Abroad: 3rd & 4th October 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 06 October @ 05:30 AM EST
As the selección converge on Ezeiza from all corners of the world (well, western Europe) for the final, must-not-balls-up-this-time double-header of World Cup qualifiers against Peru (Saturday in El Monumental) and Uruguay (a week on Wednesday in Montevideo's Estadio Centenario), it's heartening that some of them have had more auspicious weekends than Carlos Tevez, who [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 12th-13th September 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 15 September @ 06:00 AM EST
After a week of recriminations for the selección, Diego Maradona travels to Europe to bang some heads together and break the news to some players that he'll be picking Argentine-based players over them in future. All the same, there's some food for thought for him ('thought', Diego: that's 'pensamiento' in castellano, a word you might [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad – some good news

Hasta El Gol Siempre 09 September @ 05:22 PM EST
The chaotic 3-1 defeat to Brazil on Saturday night wasn't the only action for Argentine players over the weekend. There was a full programme of matches in Mexico's Primera División, and plenty of Argentines had starring roles. In a little taster as a first proper Argentines Abroad of the season, Tom Clark gave me a [. Click to continue reading...

Riding into the Sorín-set

Hasta El Gol Siempre 28 July @ 07:48 PM EST
His fifteen year career took in ten titles: four Argentine leagues, one Copa Brasil, one French Cup, one Copa Libertadores, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Panamerican Games title, and one Youth World Cup. He was part of the most successful River Plate team of all time, and played for ten clubs in six different countries. Click to continue reading...

Some pre-season action

Hasta El Gol Siempre 26 July @ 07:56 PM EST
Boca Juniors' squad took off for Europe on Sunday in readiness to take part in the Audi Cup in Munich (their first match is on Wednesday against Manchester United), but over the weekend there have already been some Argentine clubs and players in pre-season action. River Plate beat Everton thanks to a great Ariel Ortega [. Click to continue reading...

HEGS / MA Award for Best Argentine Abroad 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 17 July @ 08:00 AM EST
The votes have been counted, and after the Copa Libertadores was decided on Wednesday night, it's time to reveal the real question all of Latin America wants answering: who, in the opinions of the readers of Hasta El Gol Siempre and Mundo Albiceleste, has been the best Argentine footballer playing in a non-Argentine league over [. Click to continue reading...

Movement of jah people

Hasta El Gol Siempre 14 July @ 07:20 PM EST
Next season's Argentines Abroad (on which note, the HEGS / MA Award winner will be announced on Thursday) are swelling their ranks in the annual exodus from the banks of the Paraná and Río de la Plata (the rivers of Babyl... I'll stop, shall I? OK). Rodrigo Palacio is finally leaving La Bombonera and Santiago [. Click to continue reading...

Use your vote!

Hasta El Gol Siempre 04 July @ 10:00 PM EST
If you've not already voted for our Argentines Abroad award, now's the time. Less than 24 hours remaining! Argentina has recently had its own elections, but this week sees the culmination of a far more important one. You've got only six days left to vote, if you haven't already, for your winner in the HEGS / [. Click to continue reading...

Use your vote!

Hasta El Gol Siempre 29 June @ 10:00 PM EST
Argentina has recently had its own elections, but this week sees the culmination of a far more important one. You've got only six days left to vote, if you haven't already, for your winner in the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad. Pick Lionel Messi, Christian Giménez, Diego Milito or Pablo Zabaleta, [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 30th May – 1st June

Hasta El Gol Siempre 02 June @ 06:00 AM EST
The European league seasons are now all over, as is the Mexican championship, but Argentines have once again had a say, with European places still up for grabs, another title claimed in France and one of Maradona's new boys very nearly turning the tide of the Mexican playoff final. With the trophies wrapped up in [. Click to continue reading...

HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award 2009: the nominees

Hasta El Gol Siempre 01 June @ 06:00 AM EST
The nominations have been counted for the 2008-2009 HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad, and they're an interesting bunch. Four players were nominated, and last year's winner Carlos Tevez isn't among them. The top flights of Italy, Spain, Mexico and England have provided us with the nominees, of whom three haven't previously [. Click to continue reading...

Award nominations closed

Hasta El Gol Siempre 27 May @ 10:01 PM EST
Nominations for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for Best Argentine Abroad 2008-2009 have now closed. Any which reach me after this post won't be counted. When a full rundown of all the nominees has been prepared (probably over the weekend) they'll be posted both here and over on MA, and the final round of [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad – 23rd & 24th May 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 26 May @ 06:30 AM EST
The final full-length Argentines Abroad of 2008-2009 comes with just a day and a half left for you to get your nominations in for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for the Best Argentine Abroad of the season that's now finishing. So far we've had relatively few nominations in, so if you'd like your favourite [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 16th & 17th May

Hasta El Gol Siempre 19 May @ 06:30 AM EST
After last week's midweek cup finals in Spain and Italy, the gongs are starting to be handed out for the competitions people actually care about now, and already we've got three more league champion sides in Europe with Argentine representation to add to AZ in the Netherlands and Porto in Portugal. The Spanish, Italian and [. Click to continue reading...

A mini midweek Argentines Abroad

Hasta El Gol Siempre 14 May @ 05:06 PM EST
It's not too often I write one of these covering midweek matches, but Wednesday 13th May was a bit of a high watermark for Argentine representatives in foreign football this season. The Copa Libertadores and CONCACAF Champions League, as well as the national cup finals in both Spain and Italy, all had important contributions from [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 9th and 10th May

Hasta El Gol Siempre 12 May @ 06:00 AM EST
HEGS Award voting season (nominations to the address in that post please) got underway with another championship for a team with Argentine representation this weekend, as Porto claimed their fourth consecutive Portuguese crown. Elsewhere Martín Demichelis celebrated the birth of his child with a rare goal in Germany, and Hernán Crespo started for Internazionale! Click to continue reading...

HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for Best Argentine Abroad 2008-2009: Nominations open!

Hasta El Gol Siempre 07 May @ 09:33 PM EST
Nominations for the 2009 HEGS award for Best Argentine Abroad (formerly known as Best Argentine In A Foreign League) are now open. This year the award is being run in conjunction with Seba and John at the wonderful Mundo Albiceleste, so hopefully we'll have more voters than ever before. The award looks to recognise the Argentine [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad - 3rd & 4th May…

Hasta El Gol Siempre 06 May @ 09:02 PM EST
...Plus the European Cup semi-final second legs. That's an easy one to get out the way quickly: Carlos Tevez didn't feature as Manchester United booked their place in the final, whilst Lionel Messi had a quiet game for Barcelona but set up a last-gasp equaliser for Andrés Iniesta to put Barcelona through on away goals [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 25th & 26th April 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 28 April @ 06:00 AM EST
With league titles on the verge of being decided across Europe, there were some important contributions made by Argentines this weekend, and at least one other could come on Tuesday when Lionel Messi's Barcelona take on Chelsea in the European Cup semi-final first leg. To see who did what over the weekend just gone, though, [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 18th & 19th April

Hasta El Gol Siempre 21 April @ 06:00 AM EST
An anniversary was marked in fitting fashion by one of our foreign contingent in the weekend just gone, whilst another won a league title and two claimed a Brazilian state trophy - to find out which ones, you'll have to read on. The winners in Brazil were Andrés D'Alessandro and Pablo Guiñazú, who helped Internacional do [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: a pre-qualifiers round-up

Hasta El Gol Siempre 24 March @ 07:30 AM EST
The latest double-header of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is upon us this weekend, so with my head now sufficiently back on track after two weeks back home, it seems as good a time as any to have a look at what our boys abroad have been doing this weekend. [...] Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad - 31st Jan / 1st Feb; and the domestic callups

Hasta El Gol Siempre 03 February @ 07:00 AM EST
Diego Maradona announced the home-based players for the France friendly on Monday (surprise surprise, Boca Juniors won't be inconvenienced by any call-ups...), after another fun-packed weekend for the foreign legion, during which Nico Burdisso rescued a record for his manager in Italy, Lucas Lobos got his first goal of the season in Mexico, Lucho González [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 24th & 25th Jan 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 26 January @ 06:55 PM EST
It was a relatively quiet weekend for Argentina's representatives in the exterior in the week prior to the announcement of Diego Maradona's squad for the friendly with France (which is announced on Tuesday and will include Seba Verón and Juan Román Riquelme), with some of the main stories being transfer rumours. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 17th & 18th Jan 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 20 January @ 07:00 AM EST
It's been a quiet-ish week for the main Argentine contingent in Europe, but there have been one or two scorers. In Mexico, meanwhile, the new year's championship is already underway, and there were five goals from Argentines as well as a couple of other decent contributions there. Step this way... In Italy, Serie A leaders Internazionale [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 10th & 11th Jan 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 13 January @ 07:00 AM EST
This will be a very quick roundup, because January always makes me a little lazy with the amount of stuff I want to write, due to the lack of meaningful domestic league action. Still, there were some performances from our boys abroad in the last week, and one perhaps notable absence. That absence was Carlos Tevez, [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: a special for Hernán Cristante

Hasta El Gol Siempre 16 December @ 09:34 PM EST
Hernán Cristante keeps goal for Toluca in the Mexican first division, and on Saturday he won his fifth championship for the club in the liguilla final against Cruz Azul. Tom Clark, who's kept me up-to-date with Argentine goings-on in Mexico for Argentines Abroad recently, has written about it. I happen to think his writing's rather [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 6th & 7th December 2008

Hasta El Gol Siempre 08 December @ 09:46 PM EST
This will be a quick one, because I've left it late, but there's just time to see who's been scoring for which teams this weekend. A goalkeeping record has finally fallen in Mexico, Diego Milito won the Genova derby for his team, Real Madrid aren't optimistic of their hopes against Lionel Messi's Barcelona at the [. Click to continue reading...