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It's a little bit late this week, on account of my having spent Monday night working on a piece for
Soccernet, but there's one player who deserves mention on his own, so here's a very brief
Argentines Abroad roundup from the week in which Guillermo Barros Schelotto was named the Most
Valuable Player in the [.
That's 'Pre Diego', for those who can't work it out. The Argentina manager and most of his squad
have arrived in Glasgow and begun training for Wednesday's friendly against Scotland in the city
where Maradona scored his first senior goal for his country, back in 1979. It makes sense,
then, to take a quick look at [.
The new season is now a few weeks old in Europe, so I thought it was about time we had a look at
the contributions of some of Argentina's foreign legion in the European leagues. So far Sergio
Agüero and Gonzalo Higuaín have enjoyed great starts for the two Madrid sides in Spain,
whilst in [...]
There's been an award for an Argentine player in MLS, a bucket-full of goals for Argentines in
Italy, the captaincy of the national team bestowed upon Javier Mascherano in England,
another goal for Fernando Cavenaghi in France, and plenty of goals in Mexico too. The headline act
of the weekend, though, was in Spain: Gonzalo Higuaín continued [.
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 [.
Another season is drawing to a close in Europe, and the time arrives for the first reprise in Hasta
El Gol Siempre's brief existence. Ladies and gentlemen, the second annual Hasta El Gol Siempre
Award for Best Argentine Footballer in a Foreign League is upon us! Voting for the 2008 award opens
as soon as [.
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 [.
Pablo Osvaldo had a good time on Sunday, making a few headlines in Italy. The striker, who recently
announced his intentions to represent Italy rather than the country of his birth, got sent off for
his Gabriel Batistuta-emulating goal celebration after a late winner for Fiorentina. The performer
of the weekend, though, was Sergio Agüero.
It's been another important weekend for Argentines abroad. In Italy there were vital performances
from Esteban Cambiasso and Ezequiel Lavezzi; in France, two goals from Fernando Cavenaghi helped
Bordeaux to keep dreaming of a title, and Mauro Zárate got another for Birmingham to rescue a
point. There were also Argentine goals in Mexico and the [.
It's been a relatively quiet week for Argentines in Europe, with most of those who represented the
selección during the week still recuperating from their journey home. In the wake of Alfio
Basile's resignation as Argentina boss though, this weekend was a chance for certain other hopefuls
to prove to the next man that they [.
It's been a mixed couple of nights for some of Europe's top Argentine players. On Tuesday night,
Inter's Argentines (and the odd Italian, Brazilian, Swede etc.) lost out to two late goals against
Javier Mascherano's Liverpool at Anfield, whilst Lucho González and Lisandro López couldn't help
Porto to an away goal, as they lost 1-0 [.
I'm away this weekend, so the next site update will be a bumper results and goal videos package on
Monday night, but when I return the nominations for the HEGS Award for Best Argentine in a Foreign
League will close, at midnight (BST) on Monday night. So far the nominations have been less
one-sided than [.
