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Yes, the Apertura's only just finished (well, if you're an Arsenal or Gimnasia fan, it hasn't even
finished yet), but already the fixtures for the 2008 Torneo Clausura have been released, so here
they are for your interest and enjoyment. The dates given for each weekend, as ever, are all
Sundays - fixtures will be [.
The traditional start to Argentina's footballing year, the Torneo de Verano ('Summer Tournament')
celebrates its 40th year in 2008, and the AFA have announced the fixture list for the mini-league,
which features the 'Big Five', on Friday. The tournament will run from the 11th January to the 2nd
February and matches will take place in [.
Good news for Independiente fans: the club's first transfer target is on the verge of signing, and
the deal should go through at some point on Friday. Freddy Grisales, the Colombian international,
will move from Colón de Santa Fe to the Avellaneda side. River Plate's hopes of keeping Fernando
Belluschi, meanwhile, are still uncertain.
When a small club do well in Argentina, there's a pattern which is generally followed in terms of
what happens next to their players: they move to River or Boca, and from there, if they continue to
shine, on to Europe. This year though, Lanús have impressed so much that an exception may be
about to [.
So, it turned out on Sunday that the 18 names Alfio Basile gave us a few weeks ago weren't in fact
the only ones to be included in Argentina's squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against
Chile (in the Monumental) and Ecuador (in Quito). I'd like to emphasise that there was no hint of
[...]
Guillermo Barros Schelotto is a very popular man in Argentina right now. Eight months ago, he left
Boca Juniors, where he'd become one of the most succesful players in the club's history, to move to
Columbus Crew of the MLS in the United States. On Tuesday it emerged that his boyhood club Gimnasia
La Plata [.
Several of River Plate's most notorious barra bravas have spent Christmas this year in jail, and
now they're to be joined for the new year by their boss, Alan Schlenker, after a senior judge
ordered the capo of Los Borrachos del Tablón to do time in a preventative institute for his
suspected 'intellectual' part in [.
Diego Simeone's management career thus far has been marked by one particular trait: all his teams
have included one midfielder around whom the side's play is based, who operates from deep and pulls
the strings. At Estudiantes, it was Juan Sebastián Verón. At River Plate, if El Cholo gets his
wish, it could soon be [.
On Monday night, two men were walking down a street in Buenos Aires and were stopped by three
others. Without saying a word, the three pulled out guns and opened fire, seeming to aim at one of
the pair in particular. Now, that man is lying brain dead in a Buenos Aires hospital. His name is
[...]
Another Argentine is set to move to Europe - but for a change this won't affect the domestic game
unduly. César 'Chelito' Delgado, formerly of Rosario Central, has for the last four years been
impressive for Mexico's Cruz Azul, and now looks set for the move across the Atlantic, probably to
Benfica of Portugal.
Well, not quite in full, because there's little point in retyping the first weekend all over again.
But step right this way for a full list of who will be playing who on which weekend during the
Primera A Apertura.
It's not been the best of weeks for Diego Simeone, in charge of Estudiantes. He saw his side
comfortably beat Banfield on the opening day last weekend, but fall in midweek to Lanús in the
first leg of the Copa Sudamericana qualifiers. On top of all this, Juan Sebastián Verón picked up
a knock in [...]
Having seen Tigre claim a stunning victory over Boca just before their own match against Gimnasia
got underway, Lanús's players knew they wouldn't be celebrating their club's first ever Argentine
championship on Wednesday whatever happened. But they also knew they could get a lot closer to it
with the right result.
The rhetoric surrounding the murder of Gonzalo Acro continued on Monday. With the Apertura now two
rounds of matches old and River still yet to play a match, the barra brava ringleaders are taking
it upon themselves to provide some form of distraction for the fans. At the end of last week,
Adrián Rousseau, the [...]
The selección took most of the headlines this weekend, of course, but a few other things were
happening. Boca manager Miguel Russo talked of his 'optimism' going into the final rounds of the
Apertura, River Plate have lost one of their forwards to injury on international duty, and
Almirante Brown have announced their intentions to [...]
It's now three-and-a-half months since the murder of Gonzalo Acro by rival members of River Plate's
barra brava in Villa Urquiza. On Friday, the judge presiding over the investigation into the murder
allowed Ubaldo Matera, the man who was accompanying Acro at the time and who was also hit, to walk
free due to 'lack [.
Pre-season continues with the returns of two touring sides - River and the national Under 20s - but
fortunately more interesting things have been happening to write about. San Lorenzo are losing
central midfielder Cristián Ledesma to Olympiakos of Athens for US$1.7 million (the club will get
US$1.2m, with the rest going to the agents [...]
The video of all the goals from the ninth round of the 2007 Torneo Apertura is online now, and can
be found here thanks to TN. As usual, read on for the full running order of that video, and my
personal favourite strikes from the weekend (dominated this week by Señores Denis and Belluschi),
courtesy [...]
All 29 of the goals from the sixteenth round of the Apertura can be seen right now thanks to TN by
clicking here. Read on as ever for the running order of this video for those who don't know which
kit is whose, as well as my personal favourite strikes of the week - including not [...]
Unbelievable. If you'd scripted this at the start of the championship, no-one in their right minds
would have published it. I heard a joke recently, after a striker in England's second tier
starred in Northern Ireland's recent Euro 2008 qualifying exploits. 'Roy of the Rovers reads David
Healy comics!
The penultimate round of the championship begins with a relegation clash on Friday night when
Central host San Martín, and ends on Sunday with Vélez's visit to Independiente. By the time that
match kicks off, Argentina could have a new champion football team. Tigre's visit to Argentinos
and Lanús's visit to La Bombonera will be played [.
In the last hour or so, it's been confirmed that Miguel Angel Russo has parted company with Boca
Juniors, leaving the club's managerial post vacant. Earlier in the day, the Boca board had taken
the decision to sack Russo's two assistants, Marcelo Trobbiani and Guillermo Cinquetti (assistant
coach and physical trainer, respectively), as a condition [.
The Apertura is now less than 48 hours away and, if you've already checked out our introduction to
the clubs who'll be contesting the Primera A this season, you may be wondering which players will
be likely to attract attention. Well, I can't help you with any reliability (although I suppose I
could ensure that [...]
Another campaign, another violent beginning. The problems never quite went away domestically in
Argentina, continuing through the playoffs with the death of a Tigre fan after their victory over
Nueva Chicago, and now onwards. But what was truly remarkable about Tuesday night's shooting -
which has now turned into a murder, because Gonzalo Acro died [.
Once again, there was no River Plate this weekend, their home match with Newell's having been
postponed until further notice following the death of Gonzalo Acro last week. There were nine other
matches, though, and unlike last week they all saw goals, with a rather nice total of 24 all in.
There was apparently some bad blood in the Boca Juniors squad on their return to training after the
2-0 loss to River Plate in Sunday's superclásico. Manager Miguel Angel Russo and the rest of
Boca's squad are reportedly furious with Ever Banega for picking up the red card which left them
playing with ten men [...]
Twelve short months ago, all was looking rosy in Argentina and South American competition for those
who like to see big clubs winning things. There was enough interest for the unexpected sides to
shake it up a bit – Pachuca were about to beat Colo Colo in the Copa Sudamericana final to become
the first [...]
After a two-week hiatus, Primera A football is back this weekend, with the title race entering its
endgame. Gimnasia will go into it a little disorientated, after manager Julio Falcioni announced he
won't be continuing in the post after the 2nd December, when the Apertura finishes. The big game is
the Avellaneda derby on Saturday, [.
It was all looking thoroughly buggered-up. Ninety minutes were up in Victoria, and somehow Tigre
had contrived to not win against, of all the sides in the league, Rosario Central. Rosario Central!
The hosts had let a half-time lead slip as José Vizcarra gave Central an equaliser just before the
hour, and the Apertura's worst [.
Another championship is over, and as the players (except Boca's) head off on their summer holidays,
it's time to reflect again on yet another thrilling short tournament. Unexpected champions was the
least of it - we've seen an avalanche of goals, players pushing themselves into the limelight and
yet more booing from the stands of the Monumental [.
The selección will play a friendly against Egypt, in Cairo, on the 26th March, and the AFA are
also in talks with the FMF about a friendly against Mexico in February, to be played in Dubai.
Domestically, the end of the championship - and the imminent re-opening of the European transfer
windows - mean it's [.
It's been one of those rare weeks in which the rest of the planet have actually been made aware of
something that's happened in Argentina. You're probably well aware by now that on Monday, it snowed
in Buenos Aires for the first time in 89 years. There's some football talk going on as well
though...
Following the now resolved doubts over the Tigre vs. Independiente match (see previous story), it
also became apparent on Friday evening that River Plate's home game against Newell's - which was
going to be Los Millonarios' first of the campaign - may now also be put back to a later date, for
very different reasons.
...it was safe to read about Argentine footballers being transferred, you're proved wrong. Juan
Román Riquelme and his agent claimed a few days ago that they'd reached an agreement with
Atlético Madrid, but that now appears to have been a load of rubbish because no-one's yet signed
the playmaker, the transfer window has closed, and [...]
Both La Plata sides are in the headlines a week and a day before the city's clásico, for different
reasons. Gimnasia got back to winning ways and kept Newell's miserable away run in the Apertura
going, beating them 2-0 in the Estadio Municipal last night in the postponed 12th round match.
Lucas Landa and Ignacio [...]
San Lorenzo's players and fans can't believe their luck after Ramón Díaz's decision to stay with
them rather than going back to River Plate, but they were perhaps just as fortunate in Friday
night's match with Olimpo. Díaz's two sons were both in the squad (Emiliano started, Michel was an
unused substitute) but the team, [.
In the end, it was a miracle too far for Tigre, who fell 1-0 away to Argentinos. At the same time,
in La Bombonera, Lanús were putting the seal on an astonishing Apertura by getting the result
they needed against Boca Juniors, away from home. José Sand's first-half goal was cancelled out by
Martín Palermo in the [.
It's a new era at Boca Juniors, where on Tuesday Pedro Pompilio, the man who played a major part in
Juan Román Riquelme's return last week to his boyhood club, was named the club's new president
after Mauricio Macri passed on the mandate to him. Elsewhere, River Plate are in trouble again and
Diego Simeone's [.
More bad news for fans of La Academia. Racing fans' favourite Claudio 'Piojo' López spoke to
Miguel Rosello, director of football at Blanquiceleste, the enterprise which controls the club, and
told him that he wants to rescind his contract. It's another blow for Blanquiceleste's hold on the
club following Thursday's protest from the fans.
And so, here it is. The wait is over. On Friday, the shouting stops and the 2007 Torneo Apertura
finally gets underway. Can Boca avenge their two narrow misses last season? Can River end their
trophy drought? Will San Lorenzo defend the title? All will be revealed in the next 19 rounds of
matches. We already have one [...]
