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Vélez Sarsfield suffered a setback in Quito in the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana
semi-final, away to LDU Quito. With two goals from Hernán Barcos, the Argentine former Racing
and Huracán striker, Liga won 2-0 at home to set ... Continue reading →
Thursday night was the time for Vélez Sarsfield's quarter-final second leg in the 2011 Copa
Sudamericana, and it was a brilliant match. Having drawn the first leg 1-1 away to Santa Fe of
Colombia last week, Vélez stormed into a ... Continue reading →
Defending Copa Sudamericana champions exited the tournament at the hands of 2009 winners Liga de
Quito on Wednesday night, winning 1-0 on the night in the Estadio Libertadores de América but
losing 2-1 on aggregate by virtue of Liga's 2-0 ... Continue reading →
It was inevitable, in spite of a certain lack of cohesion in their play to date, that at some point
River Plate were going to click and put in a good team performance, and that their opponents that
day were ... Continue reading →
In the Superclásico de las Américas, Argentina's domestic national team lost 2-0 to their
Brazilian counterparts on Wednesday night in Belém, going down to a 2-0 aggregate loss. Lucas
opened the scoring for Brazil, and Vélez Sarsfield defender Emiliano Papa ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield have had a woeful start to the season, by their own high standards, but on
Thursday night their engine finally crunched and ground into the gear they'd been looking for, and
the result was a 4-0 thrashing of ... Continue reading →
Wednesday night saw two big matches in Argentina: Independiente vs San Martín de San Juan, left
over from the first round of the Torneo Apertura due to Independiente's pre-season trip to Japan,
and Godoy Cruz vs Lanús in the second ... Continue reading →
In the latest episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam and the Dans discuss Denis Stracqualursi, and what
Everton fans can expect from him in the Premier League, and an interesting weekend of Torneo
Apertura matches which saw the championship finally ... Continue reading →
Six Argentine clubs play off against each other this week and next for the right to go into the
round of sixteen of the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, thus beginning the new season of continental
football. The first two to face ... Continue reading →
The end of season special of Hand Of Pod is an epic an hour and three quarters for which I
apologise, but there's good reason: South American football broadcasting legend Tim Vickery was
talking to us in person over ... Continue reading →
In the 23rd episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan, Seba and Dan return to guide our listeners into the
closing rounds of the Torneo Clausura. We cover the Nigeria v Argentina match last week which is
being investigated by ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield exited the Copa Libertadores on Thursday night in a thrilling match against
Uruguayan giants Peñarol, in which the visitors took the lead on the night to go ahead 2-0 on
aggregate, and eventually went through on away goals ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield suffered their first defeat of their Copa Libertadores knockout stages on Thursday
night, losing 1-0 to Uruguayan giants Peñarol in Montevideo's Estadio Centenario. Darío
Rodríguez scored the game's only goal on the stroke of half time to complicate ... Continue
reading →
We had difficulty shutting up this week. A full 45 minutes of actually quite good stuff (if we say
so ourselves) was cut, and the podcast still comes in at over an hour. Diego Maradona is the focus
of much ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield returned to the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores seventeen years after they
last reached that stage on Wednesday night, with a 4-2 away win over Libertad in Asunción,
Paraguay. The scoreline meant a 7-2 aggregate victory for Vélez, ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield weren't allowed to play the home leg of their Copa Libertadores quarter-final in
the Estadio José Amalfitani on Thursday, owing to incidents involving pyrotechnics during Monday's
Primera División match against Banfield, and as a result they played in ... Continue reading →
In the nineteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, me, Dan, Seba and Dan greet a couple of special guests to
preview this Sunday's superclásico in La Bombonera. Samuel (no, not Sam) is our tamed River Plate
fan, and the four ... Continue reading →
Thursday night saw Vélez Sarsfield as the last Argentine club standing in the 2011 Copa
Libertadores. The Liniers side got a highly impressive 2-0 win away to Liga de Quito to complete a
5-0 aggregate win over the 2008 champions, ... Continue reading →
Those who are already avid readers of world football website In Bed With Maradona will probably
have noticed that it's relaunched this week, and I'm pleased to say that relaunch has prompted to
contribute something for them again. It's an article ... Continue reading →
In the seventeenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Seba rejoins Sam, Dan and Dan. He's not happy with the
way referees have been treating his club, and he's not afraid to make his anger heard, but a little
surprisingly it's ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield put one foot in the quarter-finals of the 2011 Copa Libertadores on Tuesday night
with a comfortable 3-0 win over 2008 winners Liga de Quito of Ecuador. Augusto Fernández got
Vélez's first two goals in the opening minutes, ... Continue reading →
In the sixteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan and Dan discuss the weekend's footballing action
in Argentina, which included a hat trick at La Bombonera from a visiting forward you may never have
heard of, a double strike ... Continue reading →
This is around 20 hours late, but last night Vélez Sarsfield went top of the 2011 Torneo Clausura
after winning their postponed match against San Lorenzo 2-0 in an empty Bombonera. Goals from
Santiago Silva and Augusto Fernández sealed the ... Continue reading →
Both Argentine sides in Group 8 of the 2011 Copa Libertadores exited the competition on Tuesday
night, after very different results. Seven-times winners and Copa Sudamericana champions
Independiente already all-but out, barring a miracle visited Peñarol in Montevideo, ... Continue
reading →
In the fifteenth episode of Hand Of Pod Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba discuss what we can only term a
startling revelation from Racing full back Iván Pillud. We round up all the salient points from
the Torneo Clausura in ... Continue reading →
In the fourteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan and Dan are once again back on the fernet (after
an alcohol-free episode 13), whilst Seba is dry as ever. We discuss the two giants of Argentine
football; Boca Juniors, ... Continue reading →
In Mexico City, Argentinos Juniors were on Wednesday night playing in a stadium known (in my
opinion fittingly) in Spanish as 'mythical' the Estadio Azteca, the only ground to have hosted two
World Cup finals. They were away to ... Continue reading →
Independiente, the most successful club in the history of the Copa Libertadores de América, were
all but eliminated from this year's Copa on Tuesday night by a 1-1 draw at home to 2008 winners,
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito of ... Continue reading →
Uruguayan giants Peñarol beat Godoy Cruz for the second time in their Copa Libertadores group on
Wednesday night, 2-1 in Montevideo with goals from Juan Olivera and Andrés Frietas (Peñarol
defender Darío Rodríguez's own goal was a temporary equaliser for ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata travelled to Colombia to take on Deportes Tolima in Group 7 of the 2011
Copa Libertadores on Wednesday night. Federico Fernández gave them the lead midway through the
first half, but it didn't last long; Nelson ... Continue reading →
Argentinos Juniors started Tuesday still unbeaten in all competitions in 2011, and were seeking
another win in the Copa Libertadores that would have ensured their qualification for the knockout
stages with two matches to play. They were at home to ... Continue reading →
Three Argentine teams took part in only two matches of the 2011 Copa Libertadores on Thursday
night. First up Vélez Sarsfield travelled across the Andes to Santiago de Chile, where they
started woefully and, although they recovered in the second ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata were 1-0 down away to Paraguay's Guaraní in Group 7 of the Copa
Libertadores, and bottom of the provisional table at half time of their visit to Asunción. Former
Tigre and Racing forward Pablo Caballero had ... Continue reading →
Argentinos Juniors visited Montevideo on Wednesday night, and with a goal from pint-sized striker
Franco Niell, they beat Nacional 1-0 to go top of Group 3, with seven points from three matches.
You can see Niell's goal right here. Copa ... Continue reading →
In the ninth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba talk about River Plate and Olimpo, the
league leaders who are also battling against relegation. The non-Argentines also field a question
on how they came to support ... Continue reading →
Guillermo Barros Schelotto's return to Gimnasia La Plata still hasn't seen a win yet, after
Olimpo blew their hosts away in the second half of a topsy-turvy game to win 3-1. A miss from
Barros Schelotto was crucial, as was ... Continue reading →
In preparation for the second weekend of the Torneo Clausura, perhaps you'd like to give a listen
to the new episode of Hand Of Pod? This week myself and the Dans welcome the lovely Seba García,
of Mundo Albiceleste, to ... Continue reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre turned four years old on Thursday. To celebrate the milestone, I spent most of
the day sitting indoors in front of my computer, recording one podcast and producing another, which
had been recorded the previous evening. ... Continue reading →
Three big matches took place on Wednesday evening at various levels of the Argentine game. At the
most senior level, the least important game was played; Argentina beat Portugal in a friendly
thanks to a first half goal from Ángel ... Continue reading →
With the Torneo Clausura getting underway on Friday evening, and the 2011 Copa Libertadores about
to get serious, I thought I'd write a post outlining something which, if you're a HEGS reader, is
absolutely certain to be of interest to ... Continue reading →
