Los cuestionamientos a las alianzas selladas sobre la hora límite después de las acusaciones cruzadas entre los actuales compañeros de fórmula es el trasfondo de los intrigantes pasillos riverplatenses por estas horas: se trata de distinguirse como el menos oficialista.
Se "asegura" que el ultraguilarismo no es aceptado en las listas, ni aun de vocales. Click to continue reading...

No estoy de acuerdo con la declaración de nuestro Vice-Presidente Rayado, Luis Miguel Salvador, quien afirma que este equipo del Monterrey le debe su buen momento no solo a Vucetich, si no también a los demás técnicos que han pasado por el banquillo de Rayados.

Para mi este equipo tiene toda la mano de Vucetich, tiene todo el estilo de su director técnico, Victor ha logra conjuntar un equipo ganador, ha hecho que los jugadores se tengan confianza, se entiendan en la cancha, a logra hacer de Rayados un equipo disciplinado, tanto dentro como fuera de la cancha.

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Daniel Passarella (PEPELOTAS)
Originally uploaded by gjoffre Para los que no se acuerdan de este jugador y entrenador argentino (en Monterrey lo extrañan) aquí un poco de su palmares gracias a gioffre:
Daniel Passarella
Passarella, el gran DT
Si bien su carrera como futbolista fue de alto nivel y alcanza hitos destacadísimos, su carrera como técnico fue inicialmente meteórica y espectacular. Click to continue reading...

Hay div@s y div@s. No es lo mismo Jessica Cirio que Graciela Alfano ni Moria Casán que Zulma Lobato (?). Si bien es necesario un mínimo currículum para ingresar en el catálogo divesco, no podemos negar que con los cambios devenidos del signo de los tiempos, los métodos y mecanismos de construcción de imagen se diversificaron hasta límites poco imaginables. Click to continue reading...

El Diego comes off sounding more like a doting grandfather than a coach of a national squad that is struggling to put together a string of coherent performances.

He gets very passionate about Fidel Castro.

"After that we just sat there for hours talking about politics. Six or seven hours easily.

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Tuesday's been a fairly slow news day and I didn't get home until after midnight tonight, so forgive me for just linking to my writing elsewhere in October's first post. Over a year ago, prior to the 2007 Apertura kicking off, I suggested that one of the players to watch in the next twelve months [.. Click to continue reading...

Having left a week aside for Gimnasia de Jujuy and (especially) Racing fans to recover from their celebrations upon surviving, it's time to look back on another campaign in Primera A. It's been a momentous one for a number of clubs. Racing's survival joy was doubled by news that Blanquiceleste were out, River ended a [. Click to continue reading...

Reconciliation could be in the air in Núñez. Following Daniel Passarella's resignation from the manager's role at River Plate, numerous names have been thrown into the hat. Américo Gallego was an early favourite, before it emerged that River's playing legend (and perhaps, before too long, president), the Uruguayan ex-number 10 Enzo Francescoli, had ruled himself out [. Click to continue reading...

The penalty defeat to Arsenal in the semi-final of the Copa Sudamericana on Wednesday night was too much, it seems, and Daniel Passarella has kept his word, and resigned from the River Plate manager's role on Thursday. Back in May, Passarella, who had by that point overseen three trophyless years at the Monumental, declared that if River [...] Click to continue reading...

Somehow, Mario Cuenca kept River Plate from putting any goals past Arsenal in the Monumental in a match which the hosts had far the better of. Arsenal started more sharply and very nearly took the lead almost before the match had begun, but were denied by Juan Pablo Carrizo and thereafter, River dominated, particularly as [...] Click to continue reading...

This post was supposed to go up in the early hours of this morning, but when your modem stops talking to your computer at 2am, there's not an awful lot you can do, so now with about three hours to go before the second leg of the all-Argentine Copa Sudamericana semi-final, here are the starting elevens. [...] Click to continue reading...

The all-Argentine semi-final of the Copa Sudamericana, between Arsenal and River Plate, will kick off at 8:45pm (local time) on Thursday night in El Viaducto, and both sides look like they're going to be operating with slightly tweaked starting lineups from the norms. Click to continue reading...

The thrillingly close title race lost two possible contenders on Sunday, as River Plate and Independiente appeared to rule themselves out, managing only a draw at the Monumental, a result which serves neither of them especially well for dreams of title-chasing. Click to continue reading...

The Uruguayan press are today up in arms over Defensor Sporting's failure to get past River Plate in the Copa Sudamericana on Tuesday night, and it seems they've got every right to be. River played very poorly, allowed the visitors a good half-dozen clear scoring chances, but an inspired performance from Juan Pablo Carrizo, and [...] Click to continue reading...

...The end of my trip round Spain, at least. And, just possibly, for Juan Román Riquelme's freezing-out of Villarreal's first team. But definitely not for Juan Pablo Sorín's career, according to the man himself, and neither for both River's and Boca's challenges for international honours. Click to continue reading...

Contrasting Fridays for Daniel Passarella at River Plate, and for the players who've succeeded him and the generation of '78 in the national team. The selección were given a free morning before tomorrow's World Cup qualifying opener against Chile, but Passarella might not be so relaxed after comments from River's president... Click to continue reading...

Thanks to the editor of Futvolblog.es for linking to this vid in a comment to last night's match report. Highlights of Sunday's super: River Plate 2 - 0 Boca Juniors Click to continue reading...

So the pattern of River Plate's season goes on - as does their recent record against their most hated rivals. Battered 4-1 away by Argentinos in midweek, they played the champions of South America off the pitch back in the Monumental on Sunday, to such a convincing extent that the crowd (and the fans I [...] Click to continue reading...

One fixture looms over all, of course, as River host Boca in the biggest fixture anywhere in the world this weekend, hoping to give the visitors the full force of their frankly terrifying home form, and banish memories of their frankly terrible away form. In the last three years, River have been trophyless (unless one [...] Click to continue reading...

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 [...] Click to continue reading...