As seems to be common, the week following an international break sort of works as a slow start back into the stream of futbol. The great matches don't start until the Champions League picks up on Tuesday. Most clubs are back in action this weekend, but there aren't any marquee matchups to talk about.

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The title race gathers pace. At the top, joint leaders Banfield visit Independiente, who will move to within three points with a win. Fellow pace-setters Newell's Old Boys are at home in the clásico rosarino, perhaps the country's most passionate. Third- and fourth-placed sides both play tonight: Colón are away to Lanús, prior to which [. Click to continue reading...

Listo, ya está, después de ver al (¿otrora?) gran equipo de Lanús colgado del travesaño, no me caben dudas que Central está muy bien.
No jugamos un gran partido, ningún jugador estuvo "iluminado", nadie pasó de los 6 puntos, pero nos sobró para ser más que Lanús. Click to continue reading...

Así marcha el Apertura 2009 en la Argentina, con un Banfield que no cree en nadie y sigue invicto con 32 puntos, y el Newells a pesar de tener 2 derrotas marcha pegadito tambien con 32, el Colón sorprende y esta con 28 puntos. Boca y River muy abajo en este torneo.
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Over the course of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, the mantra of fútbol para todos has transmogrified into something meaning that one easily embeddable, easily findable goal video for the whole round has become increasingly hard to find. The closest I can find are the four videos embedded here, which viewed in order will give you [. Click to continue reading...

The fourteenth round of the Torneo Apertura ended on Monday. Relegation strugglers Racing claiming a hard-fought win over the champions of South America, Estudiantes de La Plata, thanks to a goal from a former Estudiantes player. Estudiantes' city rivals Gimnasia tore Huracán to shreds, running out 4-1 winners in a match which saw two superb [. Click to continue reading...

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Newells había ganado su partido así. Bánfield le hizo 3 a Vélez.
Estos son los punteros del apertura 09.
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Due to the AFA's complete inability to comprehend that some of us are running blogs about their league in our spare time from a time zone three hours ahead and rather enjoyed having not much to do on a Monday evening, Monday afternoon and evening matches begin in earnest this week. Rodrigo Archubi, found guilty [. Click to continue reading...

The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red) vs Central (blue & yellow [. Click to continue reading...

Bánfield viene puntero e invicto. Se convierte en sensación menos por juego que por resultados, pero sus números son irrebatibles. La semana pasada se comió al león (Estudiantes) y ahora comió al cuervo (San Lorenzo).
Entre sus virtudes - también reflejada en los números de la valla menos vencida - se destaca la de cerrarse bien en el fondo que, acompañada de un buen contraataque y un buen trabajo de pelota parada, caracterizan a este Bánfield de Falcioni. Click to continue reading...

The thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura ended on Monday night with a late, late goal from Arsenal de Sarandí midfielder Diego Galván which clinched a point for El Arse after they'd trailed for practically the entire second half to Huracán. Angel Cappa's team were thus denied a third win of the campaign. Click to continue reading...

Fecha 13


Se van quedando
ARGENTINOS JUNIORS 1 X 1 ROSARIO CENTRAL
(Nicolás Pavlovich; Emilio Zelaya)


InesperadoINDEPENDIENTE 1 X 0 GIMNASIA(Eduardo Tuzzio)

Resurrección LANÚS 0 X 3 CHACARITA JUNIORS(Cristián Milla, Facundo Parra -2-)

Un respiroGODOY CRUZ 3 X 1 RACING CLUB(Jesús Vera, Federico Higuaín, Cristián Chávez; Leonardo Sigali e/c)

Quieren la sexta estrellaNEWELL'S OLD BOYS 2 X 1 RIVER PLATE(Joaquín Boghossian -2-; Diego Buonanotte)

Todavía luchaATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN 4 X 2 TIGRE(Juan Pereyra -2-, Jonathan Blanco e/c, Emanuel Gigliotti; Matías Giménez, Carlos Luna)

Quieren la primera estrellaSAN LORENZO 0 X 1 BANFIELD (Sebastián Fernández)

No decaeESTUDIANTES 3 X 0 VÉLEZ SARSFIELD(Leandro Desábato, Mauro Boselli, Leandro Benítez)

Futuro NegroBOCA JUNIORS 0 X 0 COLÓN
LEE ADEMÁS:LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: BANFIELD NO PARALÍNEA DE CINCO: ¿EL BATACAZO DEL AÑO? Click to continue reading...

At the end of Week 13

1. Banfield – 29
2. Newell's Old Boys – 29
3. Estudiantes 26
4. Colon 25
5. Velez Sarsfield 24
6. San Lorenzo – 23
7.

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At the end of Week 13

1. Santiago Silva (Banfield) – 11
2. Federico Nieto (Colon) – 10
3. Antonio Boghossian (Newell's Old Boys) – 7
4. Dario Gandin (Independiente) – 6
5.

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Let's start this off by congratulating our two new continental champions. South Korea's Ponang Seelers took the AFC Champions League title this weekend with a 2-1 defeat of Saudi club Al-Ittihad. In Africa, the CAF Champions League title was won by Congo Democratic Republic's TP Mazembi who defeated Nigeria's Heartland FC.

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Following Newell's Old Boys' victory over River Plate on Saturday, the other sides hoping to keep up in the race for the title had to win on Sunday, and two of them managed it. Banfield overcame San Lorenzo 1-0 in Boedo for their first win away to El Cuervo in 13 years, and Estudiantes brushed [...] Click to continue reading...

The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell's and Banfield are at home River and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [. Click to continue reading...

Fuente: Arsenal de Sarandí
Tabla del Apertura 2009
(Campeón va a la Libertadores 2010)
Confirmando el excelente rendimiento mostrado a lo largo del campeonato por ambos equipos, Banfield y Newell's lideran con una luz importante de ventaja sobre sus competidores, por lo que asoman como firmes candidatos a pelear hasta el final por la corona del Apertura. Click to continue reading...

Fecha 12


Una sana costumbre
VÉLEZ SARSFIELD 2 X 0 GODOY CRUZ
(Fabián Cubero, Leandro Somoza)
Despierta de la pesadilla
RACING CLUB 4 X 0 ATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN
(Pablo Lugüercio, Pablo Caballero, Adrián Lucero, Lucas Aveldaño)
La deja ir
GIMNASIA LP 2 X 2 SAN LORENZO
(José Vizcarra, Rubén Maldonado; Juan Carlos Menseguez -p-, Pablo Pintos)
Comparten todo
CHACARITA JUNIORS 2 X 2 ARGENTINOS JUNIORS
(Cristián Grabinski, Facundo Parra; Nicolás Pavlovich, Mauro Bogado)
Granate encendido
RIVER PLATE 0 X 1 LANÚS
(Maximiliano Velásquez)
Día del arquero
ROSARIO CENTRAL 2 X 1 BOCA JUNIORS
(Jesús Méndez, Germán Castillejos; Juan Krupoviesa)
Muestra las credenciales
BANFIELD 2 X 1 ESTUDIANTES
(Santiago Silva, Walter Ervitti; Juan Sebastián Verón)
El candidato menos esperado
TIGRE 1 X 2 NEWELL'S
(Joaquín Boghossian e/c; Mauro Formica, Joaquín Boghossian)
Ironía del destino
COLÓN 3 X 0 HURACÁN
(Federico Nieto -3-)
LEE ADEMÁS:
LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: RACING ESTÁ MOTIVADO
FUTEBOL PORTENHO: NEWELL'S E BANFIELD SEGUEM NA LIDERANÇA DO APERTURA
GONZALO BONADEO: ¿A QUÉ JUGAMOS? Click to continue reading...

O primeiro jogo do Mundial Sub-17, foi realizado em Ijebu Ode, no Gateway International Stadiu, com uma temperatura de 31º C, envolvendo 2 seleções sul-americanas, Argentina (6º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Colômbia (30ª no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo:
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Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions Estudiantes, Colón� and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever. Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F. Click to continue reading...

Como siempre nos acusan de vivir del pasado, de festejar goles de otras décadas, de ser hinchas de nuestros hinchas, etc. me voy a referir a algo de extrema actualidad: le ganamos los últimos dos partidos disputados a Boca.
La crónica de mi colega Homero ha sido tan objetiva y certera que me revela de hacer más comentarios sobre el encuentro. Click to continue reading...

Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26 points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could go joint third [. Click to continue reading...

Después de decir que estos torneos breves dan campeones de racha, oyendo de tiempos cortos y calendarios frondosos o de seleccionadores sobre entrenadores y de sucesión de compromisos, confirmemos que Bánfield y Estudiantes se encuentran en un buen momento y que por eso pelean la punta con Vélez. Click to continue reading...

The twelfth round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 got underway on Saturday, and I'm afraid to say, following the midweek round of matches and the fact I was out on Friday night, that it caught me out. On Saturday, champions Vélez hosted and brushed aside Godoy Cruz, before Racing Racing! gave Atlético Tucumán [. Click to continue reading...

Fecha 11
NEWELL'S OLD BOYS 1 X 0 RACING
(Juan Insaurralde)
ATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN 1 X 2 VÉLEZ SARSFIELD
(Javier Páez; Rolando Zárate y Maximiliano Moralez -p-)
GODOY CRUZ 1 X 2 ESTUDIANTES
(Cristián Chávez; Jorge Curbelo e/c y Leandro Desábato)
GIMNASIA LP 0 X 1 BANFIELD
(Santiago Silva)
HURACÁN 1 X 0 ROSARIO CENTRAL
(Eduardo Domínguez)
INDEPENDIENTE 3 X 2 COLÓN
(Andrés Silvera, Ignacio Piatti -2-; Federico Nieto, Alfredo Ramírez)
BOCA JUNIORS 3 X 0 CHACARITA JUNIORS
(Federico Insúa, Nicolás Gaitán, Sebastián Battaglia)
LANÚS 4 X 0 TIGRE
(Eduardo Salvio, Marcos Aguirre, Sebastián Blanco, Santiago Biglieri)
ARGENTINOS 1 X 2 RIVER PLATE
(Néstor Ortigoza -p-; Diego Buonanotte, Mauro Rosales)
LEE ADEMÁS:
LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: EL BANFIELD DE FALCIONI
LÍNEA DE CINCO: COMO EN LAS VIEJAS ÉPOCAS
GONZALO BONADEO: DELICIAS DE NUESTRO FÚTBOL
VALE CHUMBAR: APUNTES DE LA 11 FECHA
FUTEBOL PORTENHO: TRÊS LÍDERES E SETE NA BRIGA PELO TÍTULO
LA REDÓ: EL PROSAÍSMO AL PODER
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The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all 29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red & black [. Click to continue reading...

Sol, calor, humedad, todos daba para un partido en el que el primer equipo que se cansaba primero o no pegaba de una perdía. Por suerte el que vino sin ganas fue Tigre, el conjunto de Cagna que perece que no tiene mas ganas de jugar este campenato.
Por suerte el Grana fue efectivo y en el primer tiempo liquidó el partido para tranquilidad de los que rezábamos que Tigre no gane un partido justo contra nosotros. Click to continue reading...

At the end of Week 11

1. Estudiantes – 23
2. Banfield 23
3. Newell's Old Boys – 23
4. San Lorenzo – 22
5. Colon – 21
6. Velez Sarsfield – 21
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At the end of Week 11

1. Santiago Silva (Banfield) – 10
2. Federico Nieto (Colon) 7
3. Dario Gandin (Independiente) 6
4. Mauro Boselli (Estudiantes) – 6
5. Gabriel Hauche (Argentinos Juniors) – 5
6.

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Boca Juniors beat Chacarita Juniors by three golazos to nil (losing Juan Román Riquelme to a foot injury until 2010 in the process), and Lanús dismembered Tigre in El Sur, but the big story of Thursday was River Plate's 2-1 victory over Argentinos Juniors the Núñez giants' first away win in 17 attempts, with [. Click to continue reading...

Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán that came thanks to a [. Click to continue reading...

Desde que murió la mirada vertical de Dios nos encontramos en un caos de miradas horizontales pugnantes por establecerse. Así, entre tantos puntos de vista – y tantas verdades simultáneas - la "verdad" devino en consenso.
Ganó Banfield (0-1) en el bosque platense de Gimnasia y Esgrima y se subió al lote de los punteros como único invicto del torneo, con la valla menos vencida y con un gol del "pichichi", Silva, que hizo 10 en 10 partidos: inobjetable. Click to continue reading...