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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 [.
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.
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 [.
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 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 [.
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 [.
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 [.
It's been a mixed twelve months for Gastón Fernández. First he returned from Mexico to River
Plate, where he won the Torneo de Verano in January and was expected to be key to River's title
challenge in the Clausura. Then, for reasons best known to themselves, River's board authorised his
sale to San Lorenzo - [.
One of the best things in the whole world of football is a little off colour at the moment - Lionel
Messi's torn a muscle in his thigh. La Pulga is going to be out for around a month, and most
immediately, will miss Barcelona's Camp Nou showdown with Real Madrid this weekend. He can take
[...]
