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Not an awful lot has happened really. The selección landed in Bogotá on Sunday and Carlos Tevez
gave a press conference alongside Juan Román Riquelme on Monday, in which he stated, among other
things, that 'It will be a very difficult match, as it always is when Argentina visit Colombia in
the qualifiers...
Two transfer stories have dominated the Argentine headlines more than any others today. Andrés
D'Alessandro, following four-and-a-half years in Europe for Wolfsburg, Portsmouth and Real
Zaragoza, may soon be on his way back to River Plate, whilst a young Argentine who's never played
professionally in his homeland is making a move from Chile to Chelsea.
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 [.
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 [.
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.
Alfio Basile has named his squad for Argentina's opening two World Cup 2010 qualifiers, at home to
Chile and away to Venezuela on the 13th and 16th of October. Juan Román Riquelme, despite being
stuck in limbo after failing to find his way to another club before the European transfer window
closed, is included, and [...]
Alfio Basile has named the five domestic-based players who are called up to the Argentina squad for
the two upcoming World Cup Qualifiers at home to Bolivia on Saturday and away to Colombia three
days later. The final squad of 22 players will meet for training on Monday morning in Ezeiza, and
will consist of [...]
It's been a mixed pre-Christmas weekend for Argentine footballers in Europe. On the good side, we
had Gabriel Heinze and Fernando Gago included in the Real Madrid side who beat Barcelona 1-0 in the
Camp Nou, and the irony of two ex-River Plate players, Julio Cruz and Esteban Cambiasso, scoring to
down the side who [.
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 [...]
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 [...]
One let-down on a weekend of generally good displays by Argentines in Europe, this one. On
Saturday, Carlos Tevez didn't have the best of days for Manchester United, who went down 1-0 at the
Reebok Stadium to Bolton Wanderers. Tevez having only got off the plane back from Buenos Aires the
day before the match was rushed into [.
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 [.
Not a story at all, merely a point of interest and an excuse to post a video: a very happy birthday
to former River Plate, Millonarios (Colombia), Real Madrid, Espanyol, Argentina and Spain striker
Alfredo Di Stéfano, who turned 81 on Wednesday. Perhaps the greatest of all time (although I
realise our Argentine readers will [...]
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...
...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 [...]
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 [.
I've been away for a couple of days, hence the lack of updates yesterday, but with it being
pre-season not much of interest has been happening anyway. Except for two developments in the
transfer market. Last week, I told you with some scepticism that the British newspaper The
Independent had reported Ángel Di María's imminent [...]
Julio Arca for Middlesbrough was the only Argentine involved on the first weekend of the English
league season, on Saturday, and the country's representation in Europe for the season began in
earnest on Wednesday. First of all, Barcelona travelled to Munich to play Bayern in the Franz
Beckenbauer Cup, and somewhat more importantly (because it was [.
Juan Román Riquelme has signed a two year contract with Atlético Madrid. There, it's done at
last. Now let's move on. Juan Pablo Carrizo will fly back from Rome to Buenos Aires on Friday to
rejoin River Plate on loan for six months. 'Complications' (which given some of the fuss a few
years ago with in [...]
I should admit something before I begin: I'd already had a couple of cocktails when in Messi's
honour, I decided to end the evenining with a fernet with Coke (very popular in Argentina, you
see) about half an hour before coming back to my hostel to write this, so how coherent the
following will be, I'm not [...]
Argentina make their debut in the 2010 World Cup campaign tonight, with everything prepared to be
the main focus for the start of a ball-obsessed weekend for the nation's sport fans. On Sunday, the
national rugby side will play the biggest match in their history when they take on South Africa in
the Rugby World [...]
Perhaps not the most serious problem really, given that he didn't take part in either of the first
two qualifiers. Hernán Crespo suffered a slight contraction in his right leg whilst training with
the selección on Thursday, and is now a doubt for Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Bolivia.
Juan Román Riquelme and Andrés D'Alessandro are recent favourites on either side of the River -
Boca divide, and there's been talk on Wednesday that either or both of them may be on the way back
home soon. It seems, however, that for now, that won't be happening. Riquelme admitted he's not
prepared to sacrifice [.
With the top three tiers in Argentine football having broken up for the summer (speaking of which
the lower division results service will make a belated return tomorrow for Primeras C and D), the
main focus for Argentine fans this weekend was on their Europe-based players. In England, Carlos
Tevez and Javier Mascherano found themselves [.
Ernesto 'Tecla' Farías must be feeling a little disorientated right now. In the last few days he's
flown from Buenos Aires to Toluca in Mexico, then back to Buenos Aires, and on Monday he touched
down in Oporto in Portugal. Whilst in Toluca, he'd found the time to apparently sign for the local
club, newly [...]
Yes I know, it all sound terribly official and whatnot. It's not really, though, more just an
encouragement for you to give me some feedback on the site, which is now 5 1/2 months old. With the
Apertura starting in a week-and-a-half, I'm doing some work in the background to expand and improve
the site [...]
Two rather different attitudes to problem players are being demonstrated today, on either side of
the Atlantic. Villarreal, who have a playmaker many sides would be delighted to get their hands on,
are trying to get rid of Juan Román Riquelme. And River Plate, who have a second striker no-one
else will touch with a [...]
'The fans must be hurt... we don't have a player of his characteristics who can replace him.
[But] we're going to fight for big things.' - Racing manager Gustavo Costas, on Maxi Moralez's
US$7million move to FC Moscow
...being a professional footballer when a member of your family is one of the best players on the
planet. But Maxi Biancucchi isn't doing too badly for himself lately. In June, Lionel Messi's
cousin won the Paraguayan Apertura with Sportivo Luqeño, scoring eight goals and impressing so
much with his line-leading duties that he came to the [...]
As an Argentine forward, there are surely more sensible career moves than going to play for Napoli.
With a crowd who still worship a certain Señor Maradona to this day, you wouldn't think anyone
would be prepared to risk the (inevitably unflattering) comparisons - would you?
It's perhaps not quite right to refer to Australia as 'Down Under' on this site, being as how
Buenos Aires is actually further south than Sydney, but nearly all the players named in Alfio
Basile's squad for the 11th September friendly against the Socceroos will have to fly in from
Europe, and the remaining one [...]
Away in Caracas against a Venezuelan side who surprisingly won their first qualifier thanks to what
some are calling the greatest free kick of all time, the selección may have been more concerned
with getting the job done than with doing it in style, especially with so many of the players in
for a long [...]
Argentina's two biggest clubs both suffered knock-backs on Thursday from living legends to their
fans. José Manuel Llaneza, a Villarreal director, explained that Juan Román Riquelme still hadn't
come to an agreement with Boca Juniors about his transfer home from the Spanish club, where he fell
out with manager Manuel Pellegrini around a year ago.
Juan Román Riquelme finally returned to La Bombonera permanently on Thursday, signing a contract
which should keep him at Boca Juniors for the next three years. Diego Maradona, meanwhile, went on
a meet-and-greet. Riquelme's apparently told Villarreal that they needn't pay him the money they
owe him, 'for another year and a half,' and his [.
The Apertura is over, then, and immediately the game of managerial musical chairs has started.
Diego Simeone leaving Estudiantes was probably the least surprising development, whilst elsewhere
Ossie Ardiles has walked out on Huracán. Gustavo Costas, recently relieved of his responsibilities
at Racing, is set to take on a foreign posting.
Somehow the announcement of a new River manager always seems to be met with slightly more fanfare
than at other clubs. Perhaps because River's fans have a reputation for being Argentina's most
difficult to please, perhaps because the board are amongst the least competent so there's an always
an element of who'll last longer, them [.
