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The traditional start to Argentina's footballing year, the Torneo de Verano ('Summer Tournament')
celebrates its 40th year in 2008, and the AFA have announced the fixture list for the mini-league,
which features the 'Big Five', on Friday. The tournament will run from the 11th January to the 2nd
February and matches will take place in [.
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 [.
The selección took most of the headlines this weekend, of course, but a few other things were
happening. Boca manager Miguel Russo talked of his 'optimism' going into the final rounds of the
Apertura, River Plate have lost one of their forwards to injury on international duty, and
Almirante Brown have announced their intentions to [...]
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 [.
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 [.
And so it arrives. In a few hours' time, either Lanús will be the champions of Argentina, or the
title race will be heading towards a playoff between them and Tigre. For that to happen, Boca -
with nothing but pride to play for - must beat Lanús in La Bombonera, and Tigre have to [...]
The most important score of the weekend, of course, was Lanús's 1-1 draw against Boca in La
Bombonera, which means they can break out the Queen CD in the dressing room for the first time in
their history. Elsewhere, though, Central also won a game, River took a pasting, and Independiente
and Vélez served up [.
So you thought that with another round of World Cup qualifiers over, we wouldn't be hearing
anything about Juan Román Riquelme for a while, eh? Well, you thought wrong. Argentina will have
to wait a while to put behind them the memories of last night's defeat, but one major member of
their squad could soon [.
The goals from the latest round of Apertura matches, including the one which gave Lanús their
historic title win, are online now, and can be seen through the TN website by clicking here. If you
read on you'll find the running order for this clip, as well as my personal favourite goals from
the weekend, [.
The managers at Argentina's two biggest clubs have some complication selection issues going into
this week's Copa Sudamericana return legs. Boca Juniors, who won the first leg of their tie against
Sao Paulo 2-1 but conceded a last minute away goal which will make for very tricky business in
Morumbí on Wednesday night, have seen [...]
Following Tigre's and Lanús's wins on Friday night, it's getting tighter than a nun's proverbials
at the top of the table, with both Boca and Independiente dropping points and River winning - wait
for it - away from home - to be able to keep dreaming. Three points separate the top four. Just six
separate [...]
