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The friendly between the United States of America and Argentina in New Jersey on Saturday evening
saw the visitors dominate and produce moments of really nice play, but eventually only get a draw
against a well-motivated American side. After a ... Continue reading →
Sergio Batista has just announced a preliminary squad for the 2011 Copa América which starts in
Argentina one month tomorrow which will be trimmed slightly to 22 players for the final squad.
Carlos Tevez, after the amazing about-turn ... Continue reading →
With Argentina's friendly against Portugal in Geneva just a few hours away, HEGS readers have a
wide choice of previews. First, if you'd like to remind yourself of the main players in the
Argentine side, you can get yourself over ... Continue reading →
In the 23rd episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan, Seba and Dan return to guide our listeners into the
closing rounds of the Torneo Clausura. We cover the Nigeria v Argentina match last week which is
being investigated by ... Continue reading →
With little going on during the summer break, HEGS has been quiet as I've been earning some
spending money whilst on my visit to England, and seeing friends. Off the pitch though, some
transfer dealing has been happening, and some ... Continue reading →
Sergio Batista has announced his first Argentina squad as permanent boss, having been only
caretaker manager when he named the squad to face Brazil late last year. When Argentina take on
Portugal in Switzerland on the 9th February, they'll do ... Continue reading →
Argentina take on the United States in a friendly in New Jersey this evening, and Sergio Batista
has gone with virtually the same starting eleven as the one that saw off Portugal 2-1 in a friendly
last month. The only ... 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 →
In early June, a side representing Argentina will play friendlies away to Nigeria (on the 1st, in
Abuja) and Poland (the 5th, in Warsaw). It won't be a full Argentina team, but it's infinitely more
worthwhile than the ‘local selección' ... Continue reading →
Argentina's 'Under-25′ B-team played a friendly in Abuja, Nigeria on Wednesday, and got thumped
4-1 by a home side who looked infinitely more up for the match than their visitors. A side
captained by Pablo Zabaleta were 3-0 down at ... 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 →
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 →
Sergio Batista announced on Saturday the three names to be cut from the 26-man preliminary list for
the Copa América. The Argentine press describe it as 'without surprises', but I have to confess
I'm slightly taken aback that Diego Milito ... Continue reading →
As kick off edges closer, now only just over three hours away, there's another preview of the Copa
América by me; this time focussing more on the Argentine national team and how they're likely to
line up, as well as ... 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 →
Argentina's second performance in the 2011 Copa América they are hosting had to be better than the
first, or people were going to start getting angry. Well, people are starting to get angry.
Argentina were a side without imagination or ... Continue reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre is back, ladies and gents. I apologise for the long absence of any posts on
here since the Copa América final, but I've been just as busy working as I was during the Copa
itself, if not ... Continue reading →
Hand Of Pod's two resident Racing fans are both on holiday this week, but Sam and Australian Dan
are battling on, insistent that their partners' absence is but a flesh wound, and are joined by the
one and only Joel ... Continue reading →
Alejandro Sabella has named his first squad as Argentina manager, in preparation for a pair of
friendlies against Brazil next month. The matches, before anyone gets too excited, will feature
only players from the domestic leagues of the two nations, so ... 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 →
The first round of matches of the new year have featured a few Argentine-inspired flashpoints, as
well as the news that Gonzalo Higuaín's season is officially over; an operation on a hernia will
sideline him for six months. Carlos Tevez ... 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 →
In their quest to outdo their predecessors of two years ago and qualify for this year's World Youth
Cup and the London 2012 Olympic Football Tournament Argentina's Under 20s got off to a good start
in the Sudamericano ... Continue reading →
Since Sergio Batista's Argentina squad list was made official on Monday, it's been strongly hinted
that one particular change would be made, and so it has come to pass. In a move that frankly makes
one wonder why the Estudiantes ... 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 →
He's not in Argentina's squad to face Portugal on Wednesday, of course, but Carlos Tevez celebrated
his birthday on Saturday with a first half hat trick against West Brom for Manchester City, and on
the very same day the world's ... 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 →
Hasta El Gol Siempre turned four years old on Thursday. To celebrate the milestone, I spent most of
the day sitting indoors in front of my computer, recording one podcast and producing another, which
had been recorded the previous evening. ... 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 →
It was an understated weekend last week for Argentines in the world's leagues, and as such I've
really only got some words from our contributors, for the most part. This post is late going up, by
the way, because after ... Continue reading →
In a friendly to mark the opening of the new Estadio Bicentenario in San Juan, one of the stadia to
be used in this July's Copa América, an Argentina side made up solely of players from the local
league beat ... 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 →
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 →
The thirteenth episode of Hand Of Pod sees Sam, Dan, Seba and Dan discussing things in a remarkably
sober manner. We look back on the USA vs Argentina friendly on Saturday, considering the
performance. Seba has a few words he ... Continue reading →
In the fourteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan and Dan are once again back on the fernet (after
an alcohol-free episode 13), whilst Seba is dry as ever. We discuss the two giants of Argentine
football; Boca Juniors, ... Continue reading →
Argentines Abroad is late this week because my birthday on Monday has ended up being celebrated in
some form or another for what seems like most of the week so far. It's well worth getting this
online now though, however ... Continue reading →
There wasn't a great deal of Argentine action last weekend, which is part of the reason this
edition of Argentines Abroad is going online so late. Carlos Tevez hobbled out of Manchester City's
Premier League game against Liverpool early on ... Continue reading →
This is around 20 hours late, but last night Vélez Sarsfield went top of the 2011 Torneo Clausura
after winning their postponed match against San Lorenzo 2-0 in an empty Bombonera. Goals from
Santiago Silva and Augusto Fernández sealed the ... Continue reading →
In the sixteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan and Dan discuss the weekend's footballing action
in Argentina, which included a hat trick at La Bombonera from a visiting forward you may never have
heard of, a double strike ... Continue reading →
In the seventeenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Seba rejoins Sam, Dan and Dan. He's not happy with the
way referees have been treating his club, and he's not afraid to make his anger heard, but a little
surprisingly it's ... Continue reading →
