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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 →
We had difficulty shutting up this week. A full 45 minutes of actually quite good stuff (if we say
so ourselves) was cut, and the podcast still comes in at over an hour. Diego Maradona is the focus
of much ... 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 →
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 →
A dramatic afternoon's action in the Primera División has left Quilmes relegated, Gimnasia La
Plata and Huracán having to play a tie-breaker to decide who goes down and who gets a crack at the
relegation playoff, and River Plate in ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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
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There's only one topic for this week's Hand Of Pod, and we make no apologies for that. Dan, Dan,
Seba and River fan Sam try to make some sense of what none of us quite thought would come to pass:
... Continue reading →
Sunday afternoon was bright and sunny in Buenos Aires, but there's a metaphorical black cloud
hanging over the Estadio Monumental as, against what everyone expected back at the start of the
Apertura, the unthinkable has actually come to pass: River ... 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 →
After a poor showing and a 1-0 loss to Ecuador in the first match of the final stage of the
Sudamericano Sub 20, Argentina got their campaign back on track on Thursday night, and kept
themselves in with a fighting ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Sunday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Clausura were overshadowed by tragedy, as death returned to the
stadia of Argentina's top flight. Ramón Aramayo, a 36-year-old fan (I would like to stress, not a
barra brava), got involved in a struggle ... 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 →
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 →
River Plate got back to winning ways after two weekends of dropped points on Saturday evening,
hosting Newell's Old Boys and beating them 2-1 with two goals from I hope you're sitting down
Leandro Caruso, who was only ... Continue reading →
After six matches of stubborn refusal, Boca Juniors manager Julio César Falcioni finally caved in
and sent a team out built around playmaker Juan Román Riquelme on Sunday night. He was rewarded,
in the midst of a fairly drab match ... Continue reading →
I've been lazy about uploading the goal videos after each day's play this weekend, so in this
bumper post you'll find every one of the twenty-six goals scored in Argentina's top flight this
weekend, including both River Plate with ... Continue reading →
