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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 [...]
Former Boca Juniors goalkeeper Gustavo Eberto died of leukaemia on Monday, aged 24. Eberto, a South
American Under 20 champion in 2003, who was viewed as one of Argentina's great goalkeeping hopes
for the future, had been battling testicular cancer since February.
President of Boca Juniors, Mauricio Macri, rejected Milan's proposal to buy Ever Banega for 14
million dollars. The price offered for one of the best Argentina's young players seemed too low for
Macri.
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.
The eighth round of the Torneo Apertura is to be played in midweek, on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. Central host fellow strugglers Gimnasia de Jujuy, leaders Independiente are at home to
Huracán - who were unbeaten two matches ago but have now lost twice on the trot - and
second-placed Boca host second-bottom [...]
Another round is over, and we've seen the last undefeated record in the top flight (Huracán's)
fall, other promoted sides claim important points and a clásico that finished all square and left
no-one really satisfied. Notable results in the lower divisions were Aldosivi's demolition job
against Independiente Rivadavia and Talleres' win over Instituto in this [.
Boca nearly went out on top on Sunday, looking like they were about to grab a draw in Santa Fé,
but the Elephants' Graveyard struck again and Colón won thanks to a late strike from Freddy
Grisales. Arsenal spanked San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasometro for the second time in five days,
Banfield came out on [...]
Boca returned to the top on Wednesday with an easy win at home against Olimpo. The previous day,
Tigre and Independiente had kept the pressure on them, going top one after the other by,
respectively, drawing with Newell's and beating Huracán. River played magnificently on Sunday, so
naturally were back to being rubbish on Wednesday, [...]
Hold the front pages - Ramón Díaz has said something that, in a certain light, could appear to
suggest that Ramón Díaz made a bit of a hash of things. He's not the only manager in today's
papers, though - Boca boss Miguel Angel Russo has been shooting his mouth off about his club's huge
[...]
Germán Denis is at it again. Independiente travelled to Santa Fé to take on Colón on Saturday
and ran out 3-1 winners to take the outright leadership of the Apertura table (Boca, three points
behind, play on Sunday). Colón were coming off the back of three straight triumphs, one of which
was against Boca in [...]
The goals from round ten of the 2007 Torneo Apertura went online a little while ago, and you can
watch all 32 of them courtesy of TN simply by clicking here. Regular readers know the drill by now
- read on for the full running order of this video, as well as a few of [...]
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.
It's that time of week again. Round 7 of the Apertura is upon us, with River vs. Vélez probably
acting as the round's standout fixture, although it'll be interesting to see how Huracán get on
under caretaker managership, as they host Gimnasia. In B Nacional, the theme is very much Mendoza
vs. Córdoba, with Independiente [...]
The goals from round seven of the 2007 Apertura are now online, all 29 of them, and can be viewed
right here thanks to TN. Read on through this post and as ever you'll find a full running order of
that clip, as well as my personal favourites from the weekend - which, for a [...]
Ricardo La Volpe is probably feeling pretty glad right now that he slept on his immediate feelings
after Sunday's thrashing at the hands of River Plate. The Vélez boss revealed on Thursday that he
came very close, after the 5-0 defeat in the Monumental, to resigning, even communicating his
thoughts to the club's board. In [...]
Primera A sees the clásico rosarino on Sunday as Newell's, without a win in three, host Central,
without a win at all this season, in El Coloso del Parque. Vélez visit Racing and two of the
newly-promoted sides meet as Huracán host San Martín. In B Nacional, Ferro take on Almirante
Brown on Friday. Step this way [...]
The weekend was doing quite nicely for goals - twenty in nine matches, with four each in El
Monumental and El Cementerio. But apparently, slightly more than two per game simply isn't enough
for Martín Palermo, who sought to prove manager Miguel Angel Russo's pronouncement that his side
feel at home in any stadium correct [...]
Sunday's clásico rosarino saw the fourth managerial casualty of the season in Argentina, under
probably the most worrying circumstances, as Newell's boss Pablo Marini stepped down after threats
from the club's barra brava following the loss to Central. The influence the barras have over
Argentine football generally is clearly too much, but at Newell's it's [.
On Wednesday 19th September, the Copa Sudamericana gets underway. The Sudamericana is South
America's second-tier club competition behind the Copa Libertadores, and is played in the first
half of the (European and Argentine) season. Think of it as broadly equivalent to the UEFA Cup,
with the proviso that some clubs play in both competitions. River [.
There were an amazing twelve red cards and thirty-two goals this weekend, all of which made typing
this entry an absolute pig of a job. Germán Denis grabbed two to take his tally for Independiente
to thirteen in ten matches as his side beat Olimpo. Boca ballsed up at home against Gimnasia de
Jujuy to [...]
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 [...]
That's the situation for Argentine clubs in the Copa Sudamericana following last night's second
leg in Morumbí, where Sao Paulo gained revenge for last year's Recopa defeat with a 1-0 win over
Boca Juniors which puts the Libertadores champions out in the first round proper. Aloísio scored
the game's only goal, and the Brazilians are [...]
The goals from round six of the 2007 Torneo Apertura can be viewed by clicking here. As ever, you
can see the running order for this clip, as well as my favourite picks from the weekend's 16
strikes, simply by reading on...
Well I couldn't be left out of all the fun that Jeff and Breton are having posting their daily
pieces on the MLS and EPL, so I am joining in with my 'daily' (note parenthesis) take on all things
La Liga. Note that most of my links are in Spanish because I'm an adopted Spaniard, [...]
The goals from the midweek fixtures are online now, and you can see the video right here thanks to
TN. Read on for a full running order of this clip, for those who don't know which shirts belong to
which teams, and for my pick of the best goals courtesy of our friends at GolesTV.
It's been reported fairly widely lately - on this website among many others - that Martín 'El
Loco' Palermo is within spitting distance of becoming Boca Juniors' all-time leading goalscorer. He
needs twelve or fifteen or twenty more, we are told. Well, on Tuesday this was looked into by El
Gráfico, a publication who always [...]
A mixed night for Argentina's sides in the Copa Sudamericana on Wednesday. Arsenal can be very
happy with themselves, River much less so and Boca are probably somewhere in between after
conceding a late goal in arguably the round's toughest tie. Lanús, meanwhile, can have no
complaints at all.
The fixtures for round ten of the Primera A Torneo Apertura include Central, still on a high from
winning their first match of the season in last week's clásico rosarino, hosting struggling
champions San Lorenzo, and overacheiving Tigre hosting River. Joint leaders Independiente and Boca
are both at home, to Olimpo and Gimnasia de Jujuy [...]
Two newly-promoted sides meet on Friday evening as Olimpo host Huracán. The 'derby of the
Gimnasias' (which is a phrase I made up, so I wouldn't use it to any Argentine friends unless you
want to get some very confused looks) takes place on Saturday with the Jujuy side at home, and
league leaders Independiente [...]
A video of the march by Racing fans on the AFA's offices, which took place on Friday night, has
gone up on the Akademia fansite, and can be found right here. On the pitch, in Sunday's clásico,
there was a 1-1 draw with River which didn't really suit either side - both now find themselves
[...]
