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Sunday's biggest match in Argentina saw Martín Palermo a goal from a brilliant header in his final
superclásico, and Boca Juniors win 2-0 aided by an uncharacteristic error from River Plate
goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo in La Bombonera. Sunday's most ... Continue reading →
Argentinos Juniors and Estudiantes de La Plata played out a dull 0-0 draw in La Paternal on Monday
evening, but the best entertainment of the night was, fittingly, to come later, when all of the top
three were in action ... Continue reading →
Lionel Messi scored against a José Mourinho-coached team for the first time at the weekend, in the
clásico in Spain, but he wasn't the only Argentine to notch a goal in foreign lands. There were a
few beauties in the Mexican ... Continue reading →
Saturday's two games in the Torneo Clausura turned into only one game, thanks to a firefight
outside Newell's Old Boys' ground in Rosario which left one policeman wounded. The gunfight was
between members of Newell's barra brava, and it's not ... Continue reading →
Long-term HEGS readers will remember that in 2007, 2008 and 2009 I ran an award to find the Best
Argentine Abroad according to my readers. This year, in an attempt to widen the voting, the award
(which in 2009 was the ... Continue reading →
Sunday's Torneo Clausura matches saw Martín Palermo draw level with San Lorenzo legend José
Sanfilippo as joint fifth highest scorer in Argentine league history, with 227 league goals (he'll
need four in his final two games if he's going to ... Continue reading →
A dramatic weekend's action ended in Argentina with Martín Palermo's final match at La Bombonera
as Boca Juniors drew 1-1 with Banfield, but although that got more of the headlines and TV
coverage, Vélez Sarsfield are the biggest winners of ... Continue reading →
The eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura ended on Monday night with Racing
storming into a 2-0 lead courtesy of two goals from the Clausura's new top goalscorer Teófilo
Gutiérrez (his first came after just 43 seconds), ... Continue reading →
Saturday's goals from the 2011 Torneo Clausura are online now, including Godoy Cruz's 1-0 win over
All Boys in the day's late game. There were seventeen goals in all over the six matches played, and
if you're not sure where ... Continue reading →
Monday saw River Plate's squad travel to Córdoba for the first leg of their relegation playoff
against Belgrano de Córdoba. River will be without Diego Buonanotte, who was given a plaque by
president Daniel Passarella before Saturday's game in what ... Continue reading →
You've probably already seen elsewhere, but this is an Argentine football website, so I couldn't
let it pass un-noticed. 25 years ago today, Argentina took on England in the quarter-finals of the
1986 World Cup in the Estadio Azteca in ... Continue reading →
Wednesday saw two key clashes in the relegation struggle in Argentina's Primera División. First,
in La Bombonera, Huracán and Gimnasia La Plata faced off in a one-match, winner-takes-all (or
rather, loser-gets-nothing) tie-breaker to decide who was relegated and who gets ... Continue
reading →
The 43rd Copa América kicked off in La Plata on Friday night, and once again Bolivia were the side
charged with playing the hosts on the opening day, as they did in the previous two editions in 2007
and 2004. ... Continue reading →
On Friday night there was only one match in the 2011 Torneo Apertura, and it saw champions Vélez
Sarsfield visit Arsenal de Sarandí. After an entertaining first half, which saw both sides hit the
woodwork, had ended goalless, Arsenal held ... Continue reading →
Saturday's top flight football action in Argentina was restricted to just two matches, since the
bulk of the games will be played on Sunday and Monday for the ninth round of the Torneo Apertura.
Olimpo held Arsenal de Sarandí 2-2 ... Continue reading →
In the Superclásico de las Américas, Argentina's domestic national team lost 2-0 to their
Brazilian counterparts on Wednesday night in Belém, going down to a 2-0 aggregate loss. Lucas
opened the scoring for Brazil, and Vélez Sarsfield defender Emiliano Papa ... Continue reading →
Or rather, 'Argentines in Spain and Portugal,' with a few quick additions, since there wasn't a lot
to write home about elsewhere aside from Carlos Tevez's goal in the FA Cup. Ben Shave and David
Cartlidge, though, are here to ... Continue reading →
There wasn't much Argentine involvement during FA Cup weekend in England, but elsewhere there was
plenty to talk about. Another double from Lionel Messi this time late on was added to a Player Of
The Year award for ... Continue reading →
Three big matches took place on Wednesday evening at various levels of the Argentine game. At the
most senior level, the least important game was played; Argentina beat Portugal in a friendly
thanks to a first half goal from Ángel ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes impressed in the first half, and rode their luck in the second. Friday night still saw
them start their Clausura campaign with a victory though, 2-1 over Newell's Old Boys, for whom loan
signing Claudio Bieler from Racing missed ... Continue reading →
Saturday's matches in the Primera División saw Olimpo beat Banfield 2-1 with a goal in the last
minute in Bahía Blanca from Carlos Salom. Later on, San Lorenzo took the lead and looked
thoroughly impressive during the first half against ... Continue reading →
The first Sunday of the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw Argentina's two giants enter the fray. Boca
Juniors, who were one of the pre-season favourites for the title after a very strong showing in the
summer friendlies, hosted Godoy Cruz ... Continue reading →
Monday evening saw the final two matches of the first round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura, and Lanús
vs Arsenal de Sarandí turned unexpectedly into a thriller in the closing stages. Mauro Camoranesi
made his debut for the hosts, and ... Continue reading →
Guillermo Barros Schelotto's return to Gimnasia La Plata still hasn't seen a win yet, after
Olimpo blew their hosts away in the second half of a topsy-turvy game to win 3-1. A miss from
Barros Schelotto was crucial, as was ... Continue reading →
Saturday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw a surprise win for All Boys away to Vélez
Sarsfield which gives the Floresta outfit impressive at home during the Apertura but less so on
their travels another big scalp ... Continue reading →
In Sunday's big relegation clash, River Plate huffed and puffed in the first half, and eventually
blew down Huracán's unconvincingly-constructed house in the second with a brilliant goal from Erik
Lamela, and a counter-attack-finishing header from full back Pablo Ferrari. ... Continue reading
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San Lorenzo and Arsenal de Sarandí both got three points on Monday evening in the final matches of
the second round the 2011 Torneo Clausura. Both ought to be there or thereabouts at the top of the
table come the ... Continue reading →
In Italy, Rodrigo Palacio hit a double for Genoa in an incredible comeback from 3-0 down at home to
Roma, in which he helped his side to a 4-3 win. In England, Carlos Tevez helped Manchester City add
some gloss ... Continue reading →
Arsenal hosted Independiente in Sarandí on Monday night in the final match of the fourth round of
the 2011 Torneo Clausura, and the result, yet again, was a loss for the Avellaneda giants.
Independiente are now closing in on a ... Continue reading →
Esteban Fuertes once again proved that the more experienced players do it better in the Argentine
top flight on Sunday, as he scored two goals to give Colón a 3-2 away victory over Godoy Cruz in
Mendoza. In what's becoming ... Continue reading →
The first clásico platense in the new Estadio Único de La Plata didn't feature Juan Sebastián
Verón, but his team won anyway, 2-0, thanks to Gastón Fernández and Enzo Pérez, the latter from
the penalty spot. Racing, meanwhile, took a ... Continue reading →
Ramón Díaz's San Lorenzo had a tricky test in Floresta away to All Boys, who've claimed plenty of
big scalps this season since promotion to the Primera División. After Albo's midfield enforcer
Hugo Barrientos was sent off in the sixty-fifth ... Continue reading →
Olimpo and Banfield got simultaneous narrow wins on Friday night to move temporarily joint top of
the 2011 Torneo Clausura with ten points each at the start of the fifth round of matches.
Banfield's 2-1 away win over Tigre wraps ... Continue reading →
The weekend's games from the fifth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura are only getting written up
all together now, due to my housewarming on Saturday night. Saturday saw Boca Juniors lose away to
San Lorenzo in the weekend's clásico, ... Continue reading →
Independiente hadn't won a match in fourteen league games before Monday evening, but finally
managed it at the fifteenth time of asking after flying into a 3-0 half time lead at home to
Newell's Old Boys, adding a fourth in ... Continue reading →
Argentines Abroad is up late this week in honour of an infamous anniversary; it's twenty years
today since Diego Maradona played his final match for Napoli, failing a doping test after the game.
Napoli's current Argentine star, Ezequiel Lavezzi, scored ... Continue reading →
Saturday's games in the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw exactly two goals each, with two 2-0 scorelines,
and two 1-1. In Sarandí, Arsenal and River drew on Juan Pablo Carrizo's return to the River goal,
although Juampi himself put in an ... Continue reading →
Monday evening saw the sixth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura come to an end with a rare win for
Gimnasia La Plata, at home to Tigre it's only the fifth match they've won since the start of the
... Continue reading →
This weekend sees Argentina face the United States of America in a friendly on Saturday, so this
week's Argentines Abroad acts as a bit of a prelude to that, in many ways. One player not included
in Sergio Batista's squad ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata went top of the 2011 Torneo Clausura on Friday night, beating All Boys 3-0
thanks to two own goals and one from Leandro González. The win takes them top of the table on
fifteen points, although ... Continue reading →
