In probably the most unexpected development of the domestic league's fourteenth round, River Plate played with spirit and intelligence to overturn a deficit and actually win a football match on Sunday afternoon. 1-0 down after only two-and-a-half minutes at home to Atlético Tucumán, it looked like the same old story for River. 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
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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
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Saturday's matches saw Newell's Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing Tigre [. 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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En su visita a la tierra del Tiki-tiki, el equipo de Astrada rescató un punto que pudo haber sido una victoria, si Buonanotte hubiera aprovechado algunas de las chances que tuvo, o una derrota, si Vega no hubiese respondido de la manera brillante que lo hizo.
River pasó una semana muy movida en donde no faltaron las amenazas telefónicas, ni los dopings positivos. Click to continue reading...

La crisis en el futbol argentino no para de mostrar nuevas vertientes. A la mediocre actuación de la albiceleste en las eliminatorias y los problemas financieros que estuvieron a punto de detener la liga pampera, se suman problemas "individuales" en equipos importantes, tal es el caso del River Plate, que no conformes con llevar un paso deplorable en el Apertura 2009 ahora se le suma otro show: varios de sus jugadores recibieron amenazas telefónicas por parte de sus disgustados hinchas, quienes consiguieron sus números a través de una web del equipo argentino.

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La pelea arriba en la Fecha 7 (OTRA VEZ PERDÓN POR POSTEAR HOY)
PICÓ AL LEÓN
ARGENTINOS 1 X 0 ESTUDIANTES
Matías Caruzzo
NO SE ANIMARON
COLÓN 0 X 0 BANFIELD
MARTÍN DE LEJOS
BOCA 3 X 2 VÉLEZ SARSFIELD
Sebastián Battaglia, Juan Román Riquelme, Martín Palermo; Leandro Caruso x 2
CHOLO SE FUE PIPO
SAN LORENZO 2 X 1 RIVER PLATE
Leandro Romagnoli -p-, Bernardo Romeo; Diego Buonanotte -p-
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El resto de la fecha


INDEPENDIENTE 2 X 1 TIGRE
HURACÁN 3 X 1 RACING
NEWELL'S 3 X 0 ATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN
GIMNASIA 2 X 0 CHACARITA
LANÚS 1 X 0 GODOY CRUZ
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Lee además:


LÍNEA DE 5: NO SE METAN CON EL BICHO
LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: BICHI COLORADO
FÚTBOL RUSO: JORNADA DE LOCALES
TREMENDAMENTE MOTIVADOS - URBANO: NOS ROBARON
VALE CHUMBAR: PREMIOS VALE CHUMBAR
FUTEBOL PORTENHO: FENÔMENO É PALERMO
TRISTELME: WALLPAPER 27

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On Friday Néstor Gorosito announced that win, lose or draw against San Lorenzo today, he'd be stepping down as manager of River Plate. Fitting that he should do so against the man he replaced in the Núñez hot seat, in a way. Simeone seems to have rediscovered his touch after leaving River San Lorenzo's [. Click to continue reading...

Una mala salida de Migliore sobre Villalba (´30) provocó el primer penal para River de visitante en dos años: Buonanotte facturó y Ríver ganaba el partido, quebraba una racha negativa de 15 sin ganar de visita y despedía bien a Gorosito...
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Tuesday night saw a home win at the Gigante del Arroyito, not that it'll be much consolation for the majority of supporters of the selección. River Plate played ineptly and when Diego Buonanotte gave the ball away in midfield, Rosario Central were able to break and score their second goal in an eventual 2-1 win. Click to continue reading...

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All the attention is on River Plate this weekend, but of course the best photos were from Los Xeneizes' camp. Martin Palermo and Gabriel Paletta are muy feliz and rightly so, after Boca were able to escape with a 2-1 win over Lanus without the services of Riquelme.

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Sin la llegada de refuerzos, River continúa realizando la pretemporada en Canadá. Ya se jugaron dos partidos amistosos: frente al Toronto FC, donde casi no hubo muestras de mejoría; y contra el Everton, donde apareció en estado puro la magia del Burrito Ortega. El próximo martes terminarán los ensayos televisados de fútbol, con el partido frente al Montreal Impact y con el retorno del segundo gran referente que tiene este plantel: Marcelo Gallardo. Click to continue reading...

Falcao y Buonanotte: Jueguitos... from adidas Fútbol on Vimeo.

Great viral from Adidas featuring River Plate's Diego Buonanotte and Benfica's Radamel Falcao.
Who needs a ball when you have a cone and a lunch box.
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"Si tuviera que elegir un jugador destacado en la historia seria Pelé. Es cierto que fueron épocas diferentes pero digo Pelé porque me pareció superpoderoso físicamente, pero cada uno en su época fue incomparable (por Maradona), por eso afirmo que son los únicos reyes con una corona vacante". Click to continue reading...

The French city of Toulon is hosting a friendly Under 21 international tournament this month which Sergio Batista's boys have travelled to, and on Wednesday they played their first match against the Netherlands, and demonstrated after the embarrassment of the Under 20s' failure to qualify to defend their crown at the the Egypt 2009 World [. Click to continue reading...

At 5' 4" Christian Bermudez is one of, if not the smallest player in the MFL, and that's saying something. His size, or lack there of, is probably the first thing people notice. He is el Hobbit, after all.
Hugo Sanchez overlooked el Hobbit for his Olympic fiasco. He built a team that relied on precise crosses from the flanks to feed his less mobile forwards. Click to continue reading...

Argentina se volvió a detener en la tarde de ayer para contemplar una nueva edición del 'Superclásico' que enfrenta a los dos clubes más conocidos del país, Boca Juniors y River Plate. 55.000 espectadores abarrotaron La Bombonera para presenciar un encuentro en el que, como siempre, la victoria era un deber, más allá de los momentos puntuales que atraviesan uno y otro conjunto.

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Each team will make one major change to the starting XIs posted here on HEGS a few hours ago. Injury keeps Juan Román Riquelme out of the Boca Juniors lineup; his place will be taken by Osvaldo Gaitán. Radamel Falcao García, meanwhile, has been passed fit by River's medics, so Diego Buonanotte makes way and [. Click to continue reading...

This Sunday, the two biggest rivals of Argentine soccer are going to battle it out in Boca Junior's home turf, La Bombonera. This event is also referred to as the "Super Classic" or "Superclasico" in Spanish. This is a definite must see for any one interested in Argentine soccer or soccer in general. Click to continue reading...

Boca Juniors

River Plate

The two big headlines coming out of both camps as of Thursday was the injury suffered by Sebastián Battaglia during practice.� He twisted his ankle and had to leave practice early.� Reports coming out is that he is going to play alongside Fabián Vargas in the middle as part of the 4-3-1-2 that Boca will have step onto the pitch at La Bombonera.

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Boca Juniors

River Plate

The two big headlines coming out of both camps as of Thursday was the injury suffered by Sebastián Battaglia during practice.� He twisted his ankle and had to leave practice early.� Reports coming out is that he is going to play alongside Fabián Vargas in the middle as part of the 4-3-1-2 that Boca will have step onto the pitch at La Bombonera.

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It was only Néstor Gorosito's second competitive match in charge of River Plate, but their first win of 2009 already seems like it's been a long time coming, following the disappointments of the Torneo de Verano. On Thursday night, in their first Copa Libertadores group game against Paraguayans Nacional, they were disappointing again, but Diego [. Click to continue reading...

River Plate coach in waiting Néstor Gorosito has confirmed that the club will be forced to sell either Diego Buonanotte or Radamel Falcao Garcia in January in order to balance the books. Gorosito will inherit a River side that finished bottom of the Apertura tournament when he takes over at the turn of the year, and will face further problems with the news that he is likely to lose at least one Click to continue reading...

Lucas Viatri had hardly had a sniff of anything in the superclásico, but popped up in the 60th minute to decide the match all the same in a manner the great Martín Palermo, looking on, would have been proud of. The goal came after Boca had been reduced to ten men through the sending-off of [...] Click to continue reading...

You could tell it wasn't the league campaign, because River Plate, having crossed the estuary the club took its name from to Montevideo, actually won a match, and it was thanks to two goals from a rather unexpected source. Sebastián Abreu's transfer back to River from Israel only went through on Wednesday, clearing him to [. Click to continue reading...

The fallout from the clásico against San Lorenzo on Sunday is beginning to die down in Núñez now, after two days of bitter attacks on Cuervo defender Sebastián Méndez for his horrific attempt to snap Radamel Falcao García in two at the end of the match. Now, though, manager Diego Simeone has to look forward to the [. Click to continue reading...

Arjantin finalde Nijerya'yı yenerek altın madalyanın sahibi oldu. İki ülke 1996 olimpiyat finalinde de karşılaşmış o yıl altını, rakibini 3-2 ile geçen Afrika ülkesi kazanmıştı. Maçın tek golü Benfikalı Angel Di Maria'dan geldi. Atina 2004'de de altın alan Arjantin üst üste iki olimpiyatta da şampiyon olmayı başardı. Click to continue reading...

Argentina rounded off their Olympic Football Tournament group campaign with an academic defeat of Serbia on Wednesday. Having already qualified for the quarter-finals, Sergio Batista rested Juan Román Riquelme, Javier Mascherano and (to the disappointment of a Chinese crowd who'd turned up specially to see him) Lionel Messi, and was rewarded with a 2-0 win [. Click to continue reading...

Brazil are second-favourites to win the Gold medal in the men's football at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing after they eased to the top of the standings in Group C. Victories in their three group matches meant they advanced to the quarter-finals in a storming fashion. The 2007 South American Youth Championship victors eased past the hosts China 3-0 in their final match and they will now face Cameroon, who finished runners-up in Group D behind Italy.

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Porteros: Oscar Ustari (Getafe), Sergio Romero (AZ).

Defensas: Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol), Ezequiel Garay (Real Madrid), Luciano Monzón (Boca Juniors), Federico Fazio (Sevilla), Nicolás Pareja (Anderlecht).

Medios: Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Fernando Gago (Real Madrid), José Sosa (Bayern München), Ever Banega (Valencia), Juan Román Riquelme (Boca Juniors).

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Following their away goals defeat to LDU Quito in the Copa Libertadores semi-final, and their dreadful campaign in domestic competition in Mexico, Club América are after a manager, and former River Plate, San Lorenzo and... um... Oxford United boss Ramón Díaz looks set to take charge with Miguel Angel Russo likely to replace him in Boedo [. Click to continue reading...

River Plate defeated Olimpo by 2-1 for the eighteenth round of the Torneo Clausura 2008. Due to a combination of both this and Estudiantes' goal-less draw with Colon, "los Millonarios" were able to lift their 33rd Argentine League trophy.

River played an overall good game. Diego Simeone's team was able to go up 1-0 in the first half, after Diego Buonanotte successfully scored a previously-prepared set-piece.

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There were only 19 goals in the Primera A this weekend, but a lot of them were vital ones, and none more so than Facundo Sava's to help Racing avoid direct relegation, Diego Buonanotte's brace which gave River Plate the title, or Gonzalo Bergessio's hat-trick to hand San Lorenzo qualification for the Copa Sudamericana at [. Click to continue reading...

With one match remaining of the Torneo Clausura 2008, two issues at least are cleared up: River Plate are champions thanks to two goals from Diego Buonanotte, and San Lorenzo are in the Copa Sudamericana courtesy of a Gonzalo Bergessio hat-trick. Racing's defeat of Huracán means they won't be going down automatically, and thanks to [. Click to continue reading...