Una muestra más de la decadencia del fútbol nacional. Hoy juegan Aguila-FAS, el clásico nacional, pero los dos periódicos más importantes no lo consideraron importante como para ponerlo en portada. ¿Se imaginan un Real-Barcelona que no aparezca en los periódicos de España? ¿O un Boca-River? ¿O un Liverpool-Manchester United? Click to continue reading...

En la madrugada del domingo el ex jugador de Argentinos, Boca, River, Independiente, Celta de Vigo y de la Selección Argentina, Fernando Cáceres fue baleado por delincuentes cuando manejaba su BMW negro por Ciudadela. En el cruce de Gaona y Falucho, un Siena lo intercerptó con cuatro personas a bordo.

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Her defasında futbolu Arsenal'de bırakmak istediğini söylüyor Henry. Ama son yıllarını Boca'da geçirse Boca-River derbisinde golünü atıp Bombonera'yı yıksa! Yapsa, etse... Click to continue reading...

There is soccer action galore on TV today, with a handful of top-notch rivalries on display.

Manchester United-Liverpool is the marquee game of the day, but there is so much more to watch. West Ham-Arsenal, Boca-River, Club America-Chivas and Marseille-Paris St. Germain are some of the quality tilts American soccer fans will have to choose from today.

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There is soccer action galore on TV today, with a handful of top-notch rivalries on display.

Manchester United-Liverpool is the marquee game of the day, but there is so much more to watch. West Ham-Arsenal, Boca-River, Club America-Chivas and Marseille-Paris St. Germain are some of the quality tilts American soccer fans will have to choose from today.

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There's a vital grudge match in England this afternoon as Liverpool host Manchester United in the Premier League, and also today Indian football hosts a less globally famous but no less passionate derby with Mohun Bagan taking on East Bengal. For a change, I'm not going to bill the superclásico as the world's biggest derby [. Click to continue reading...

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Call it Rafa's Last Stand.

When Manchester United travels to Anfield on Sunday to take on Liverpool, the defending EPL champions will have a very real chance of beating the struggling Reds and pushing Rafa Benitez one step closer to the exit door.

Liverpool has already lost four matches this year in the EPL, and dropped more points in Champions League at mid-week, making Sunday's match a virtual must-win for the under-fire Spanish manager.

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Call it Rafa's Last Stand.

When Manchester United travels to Anfield on Sunday to take on Liverpool, the defending EPL champions will have a very real chance of beating the struggling Reds and pushing Rafa Benitez one step closer to the exit door.

Liverpool has already lost four matches this year in the EPL, and dropped more points in Champions League at mid-week, making Sunday's match a virtual must-win for the under-fire Spanish manager.

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LA 12 EN EL GALLINERO! (BOCA X RIVER)
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Sentado frente al mundo es el mejor Blog Latinoamericano 2008 en los premios 20blogs y el buen Carlos un ecuatoriano muy futbolero de vez en cuando hace relatos sobre futbol como el siguiente acerca de las primeras barras bravas:
Los aficionados de Nocera viajaron a Pompeya para alentar a sus luchadores, como cuando ahora una fanaticada o barras organizadas de fútbol viajan a un sitio donde su equipo juega de visitante. Click to continue reading...

So branching out from the usual look at just this weekend's festivities, let's move into some present weirdnesses and see what the crystal bowl is showing us now about events around the bend (or off the deep end, as the case may be).
1. The indefinite delay of the Argentine Primera Division's 2009 Clausura season (read that story here), which is absolutely shocking to me. Click to continue reading...

River Plate's El Monumental has been Argentina's World Cup venue

Diego Maradona continues his divisive ways.

He was said to have complained about the state of the Mounmental stadium describing it as "a pasture" before the Colombia match. The topic cropped up again after the loss to Ecuador, when Maradona expressed his unhappiness about the stadium being the venue for the match against Brazil.

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Hoy me llegó un mensaje que me dio muchísimo gusto, habemos muchas mujeres que estamos involucradas en el fútbol que nos gusta platicar nuestras experiencias:

Roxana, una periodista argentina que vive en Israel tiene un blog donde platica todo lo que pasa, lo que ve y vive en el medio oriente, de ahí el nombre de su blog: "Medio Oriente.

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There weren't too many high points in Sunday's super, truth be told, but what the match did have was two fine goals from two veterans of the Argentine football scene. You can see Martín Palermo's smart turn and thirty-yard rocket, and Marcelo Gallardo's twenty-five yard free kick (he changed his mind about which side of [. Click to continue reading...

Sunday, 19th April sees what might be an historic clash in La Bombonera between Boca Juniors and River Plate. If Julio Grondona gets his (and the only rule that's ever followed in Argentine football is that what Don Julio wants, Don Julio gets) this will be the last� superclásico of the 'short tournament' era. Click to continue reading...

Hablar de un clásico tan importante en Argentina, no es fácil ni predicible. Son partidos especiales, únicos, dónde el ganador recibe una inyección anímica muy importante.

En éstos encuentros, el estado de forma no es evaluable. Pueden llegar al partido, bien, mal o regular pero el desenlace puede ser otro.

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The tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Clausura gets underway tonight, and a match between two sides who are off the pace in the race for the title has been taking up all the attention in the Argentine media for days now, and will on Sunday give Argentina the chance to show its league off [...] Click to continue reading...

El semanario inglés The Observer elaboró una lista de espectáculos deportivos que había que ver antes de morir: el primero era asistir a un Boca - River en La Bombonera. "La pasión por este partido es tan grande que no hay nada en el mundo que la supere", acotó Gavin Hamilton, editor de la revista World Soccer. Click to continue reading...

It's super clasico week. Guadalajara warmed up for their big game with Club America this weekend by blaming the ball for not going into the net in their Libetrtadores scoreless draw vs. Lanus. America, on the other hand anxiously awaits the stauts of their superstar, Salvador Cabañas, who strained a muscle after netting a hat trick vs. Click to continue reading...

At long last, we're within a week of the return of proper domestic football to the Argentine top flight. The curtain is coming down on the summer tournaments with a bad-blooded Copa Ciudad de Mendoza (AKA Copa Revancha) in which Boca Juniors outclassed River Plate, and plenty of other sides were in action over the weekend as well. Click to continue reading...

It's been a busy few days for Sergio Batista's Under 20 team in Venezeula whilst I've been away. Two more group matches have yielded four points in spite of underwhelming performances - you can see highlights of both games here. In Mar del Plata on Saturday, Boca Juniors beat River Plate in the year's first [. Click to continue reading...

This wasn't posted with the rest of the goal videos on Monday evening because I didn't want it to overshadow them, or vice versa, in people's attention. So, here is a nice long video for any Boca Juniors fans who want to re-live their side's 1-0 victory over River Plate in La Bombonera on Sunday [. Click to continue reading...

All 31 of the goals from the 13th weekend of the 2008 Torneo Clausura are now online, and you can see them - including Sebastián Battaglia's winner for Boca Juniors against River Plate and Kily González's late effort for Central against Racing in the relegation battle - right here through TN. For the lazy who [. Click to continue reading...

It's been four years since Boca Juniors last beat River Plate in La Bombonera, during which time their sole consolation has been that River haven't won any trophies and they have done. On Sunday, though, with River arriving in La Boca on top of the league table, the run came to an end thanks to [.. Click to continue reading...

Apologies for the lack of coverage of Saturday's matches - my phone line (and with it my broadband) crashed on Saturday morning and was only fixed on Sunday - but the first competitive superclásico of 2008 is now just a few hours away. I type during the first few minutes of the Milan derby, but the [. Click to continue reading...