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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 [...]
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 [...]
...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 [...]
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 [...]
There have been injuries left, right and centre in Argentine football in the last 24 hours. Both
the selección and leading club sides have been hit, as have Boca by the death of Gustavo Eberto
and the news that Juan Román Riquelme won't be arriving from Villarreal this year.
There have been two changes to this weekend's schedule, for security reasons. River Plate's visit
to Tigre has been brought forward from the time published here yesterday, and will now be played at
11am on Sunday, whilst Arsenal vs. Racing also has a changed kickoff time, and will now started at
18:30 on Sunday.
One-hundred-and-ninety-one years after declaring independence from Spain, Argentina suddenly finds
itself very much directing proceedings - at least as far as some of La Liga's leading clubs are
concerned. After Leo Messi's superb show for Barcelona on Saturday night, both Madrid clubs found
themselves relying on contributions from Argentines.
Arsenal de Sarandí achieved the biggest result in the club's history on Wednesday night, a 1-1
home draw with Brazilian side Goiás seeing them through to the quarter-final of the Copa
Sudamericana in their first ever appearance in South American competition.
Independiente lost their 100% record in midweek to Boca, and on Saturday night it got worse as they
travelled to La Plata and lost 1-0 to Gimnasia. Roberto Salvatierra scored the only goal of the
game four minutes after half-time - the first time this season that Germán Denis has failed to
score. There was [...]
Saturday saw one of Argentina's less spoken-about footballing exports reach a major milestone.
Borussia Dortmund ran out 3-0 winners against Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga, and former Instituto
de Córdoba striker Diego Klimowicz got the second - the 33-year-old's 60th goal since he arrived
in the Bundesliga six years ago with Wolfsburg. Real Madrid meanwhile kept up [.
Alfio Basile may be having doubts about how exactly he's meant to replace Hernán Crespo in the
long run, with Diego Milito looking much less impressive during the Copa América than he does for
Real Zaragoza, but those will be eased for now by Valdanito's return to competitive action on
Sunday.
Alfio Basile can cheer up a bit. A good few weeks in advance of Argentina's opening World Cup
qualifier against Chile, it's become apparent that Lionel Messi's injury which kept him out of
Barcelona's 0-0 draw away to Osasuna on Sunday really isn't too bad - La Pulga is back training
with the squad now. [...]
After El Turco Mohamed's resignation on Tuesday, Huracán president Carlos Babington needs a
replacement who'll please those angered fans. Jorge Burruchaga has already annonced that if he goes
anywhere, it'll be to a Mexican club. So Babington appears to be honing in on a great name from the
club's past - Osvaldo Ardiles.
A dreadful pun, I know, and I truly am sorry for it. But the point is to put across that there are
quite a few Argentines involved in this week's first round of UEFA Champions League action. Among
the more prominent ones, Javier Mascherano's Liverpool struggled to a 1-1 draw away to Lucho
González's and [...]
The first two-thirds of the fixture list for this weekend passed without too much to write home
about, San Lorenzo picking up an easy win away to Central, Independiente brushing Olimpo aside with
ease and only Argentinos Juniors' 4-0 tonking of Newell's raising any real eyebrows - and even then
with the proviso that the [...]
Gustavo Eberto shuffled off this mortal coil on Monday, and on Tuesday reports were released
revealing that he was followed by a man who did, at least, live long enough to realise his
potential as a player. Juan Domingo Cabrera is not a name that will resonate with many fans outside
Argentina, but he had [...]
