The highest-profile of the friendlies being played next week during the international break is
almost certainly the one in Buenos Aires on Tuesday 7th September, when Argentina will host new
world champions Spain in the Estadio Monumental. It'll be the ... Continue reading →
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I went to two matches in the weekend just gone, and one of them has already been covered by Daniel
Colasimone over on the excellent Argentina Football World, so if you want to read about Tigre vs
Quilmes, you can ... Continue reading →
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Here is my expert analysis of the Mascherano to Liverpool "I know the lies about Hodgson but I'm
not telling because I'm in such a good mood" story: Masch is kind of a dick. Certainly the
accompanying photo in the Guardian doesn't help, as if the photographer advised him to "look as
smug as you possibly can, then try and look twice as smug as that.
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Claudio Borghi said some words earlier in the week which were universally interpreted by the
Argentine press as meaning he'd stand down in the event that Boca Juniors fail to win on Sunday
against Vélez Sarsfield. He's now been up ... Continue reading →
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The H List 27 August @ 06:53 AM EDT
1. Opposition
Since the departure of Ronaldo and Tevez, Man United have not looked as accomplished an outfit as
their main title contenders, Chelsea. With a lack of big money investment this summer, the west
London outfit are favourites to claim back-to-back Premiership titles.
Despite undoubted class, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes will play increasingly diminishing roles, and
in the absence of a firing Wayne Rooney, the ‘attack attack attack' nature of United looks less
threatening now than in recent years.
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There are some do-or-die matches coming up in the Torneo Apertura this weekend. Boca Juniors have
to win to keep Claudio Borghi in a job, and play Vélez Sarsfield, never easy opponents at the best
of times. And Borghi's got ... Continue reading →
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Julio Grondona came as close as he's ever done yesterday to confirming that caretaker manager
Sergio Batista will become Diego Maradona's successor as Argentina boss on a permanent basis after
December. Talking to Radio Independencia in Tucumán, the AFA president ... Continue reading →
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Estudiantes de La Plata didn't play badly, but lost in the first leg of the 2010 Recopa
Sudamericana. All the same, the 2009 Copa Libertadores winners will be confident of overturning the
deficit in the second leg of the showpiece, ... Continue reading →
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As Boca Juniors prepare for a crunch match against Vélez Sarsfield early in their season,
championship-winning manager Claudio Borghi is already feeling the heat of the position. El Bichi
has made it known he's strongly considering leaving the club if ... Continue reading →
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I'm going to start a series today based on my thoughts about the match (or one of the matches) I
attended over the weekend in the Argentine Primera División. The weekend just gone, that was
Sunday's clásico between River Plate ... Continue reading →
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Sergio Batista today named his Argentina squad to take on Spain in the second friendly of his
caretaker managership with the team. The match will take place at 5pm local time on Tuesday, 7th
September, in River Plate's Estadio Monumental. ... Continue reading →
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Alan Curbishley Premiership Words Week 2by
CARL ELDRIDGEBLACKPOOL caused the biggest upset of the new Premier League season with a thumping 4-0 win at
Wigan - but Ian Holloway's men are in for a drubbing of their own when they visit Arsenal.
Expert pundit Alan Curbishley, former manager of Charlton and West Ham, reckons the Gunners will
chalk up a 5-0 victory.
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The 2010 Torneo Apertura is already one-nine-and-a-halfth of the way through, and with River plate
hopeful of putting together the kind of run they need to avoid relegation, Boca Juniors still
waiting for Juan Román Riquelme to return to fitness ... Continue reading →
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...And Julio Grondona has spoken. As well as defending himself against Diego Maradona's accusations
of lying ('Time will tell whether I lied'), he's also insisted he has no problem with Carlos
Tevez's statements of last week either. He claims he'd ... Continue reading →
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There's some odd stuff coming from the mouth of Diego Maradona's European agent Walter Soriano
today. A couple of news sites in the UK are reporting that Maradona is considering a number of
European managerial jobs, and that his agent ... Continue reading →
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Banfield recorded their second win of the campaign on Friday night in the evening's only Primera
División match. Substitute Cristian García got the only goal of the game with twelve minutes to
play to hand El Taladro a victory away ... Continue reading →
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by CARL ELDRIDGE
MANCHESTER United will taste victory in the race for the Premier League title this season...and
you, too, could enjoy a win and collect a colossal £10million thanks to Britain's best football
results prediction game,
soccermillionaire.com.
Sir Alex Ferguson's side will snatch back the top-flight crown from Chelsea and will record a 3-0
victory over Premier League new boys Newcastle at Old Trafford on the opening day of the new
season.
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On This Day In Spurs History: 13th August
1969 On this day in 1969, Spurs bounced back from an opening day defeat against Leeds, with a
4-0 win over Burnley. Peter Collins, Jimmy Pearce, Jimmy Greaves and Martin Chivers scored the
goals for Tottenham.
1984 Today is the 26th birthday of Niko Kranjcar.
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Magath Has Revealed That A Move To England Would Suit Him In The Future.
Schalke's Felix Magath, who has emerged as one of the leading football managers in the
Bundesliga and Europe after great success with Stuttgart, Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg. Seemingly,
Magath has achieved all he really can in Germany, and has hinted that he would like to try his hand
at an English side.
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After more ins and outs, ups and downs and all round tedious moaning than a particularly tawdry
adult film, Juan Román Riquelme has finally signed his new four-year contract with Boca Juniors.
Putting pen to paper earlier today, the Boca ... Continue reading →
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Ángel Di María scored the most important goal of Sergio Batista's reign as Argentina's youth team
manager the winner in the Olympic Football Tournament final in Beijing 2008 and today he scored the
first goal of Batista's spell ... Continue reading →
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In an hour and a half, Argentina will play their first post-World Cup friendly with an entirely
foreign-based squad, under the caretaker leadership of Sergio Batista, the youth teams' manager for
the AFA. Lionel Messi arrived in Dublin last night ... Continue reading →
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Respected Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill's resignation earlier today was a shocker that few
saw coming. And although the coach didn't list a reason why he was moving on from the EPL side I
think it was quite obvious why he in fact is. O'Neill, like most professional football managers,
is likely unhappy with his front office's interest to make money off of the sale of star
footballers rather then the notion of spending money to bring in such stars.
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Arsenal de Sarandí have a reputation, as I mentioned in my club-by-club guide to the new season,
for getting the rub of the green where refereeing decisions are concerned, and in the opening match
of the 2010 Torneo Apertura, they've ... Continue reading →
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It's finally here! At 9pm local time tonight, the 2010 Torneo Apertura de Primera División will
kick off as Arsenal Fútbol Club host Lanús in the only Friday evening game of the weekend. If
you're knew to the Argentine league ... Continue reading →
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This is actually merely catching up with yesterday's news, because reporting it yesterday would
have seen it get swamped by Diego Maradona's press conference, so I didn't. Juan Román Riquelme
has finally renewed his Boca Juniors contract for another four ... Continue reading →
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This is a quick announcement about a new world football site I've agreed to write about Argentina
for. It's called In Bed With Maradona, and aims to provide a truly global sweep on the world game.
Once the Torneo Apertura ... Continue reading →
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Just under an hour ago, Diego Maradona walked into a packed press room to give a prepared speech to
Argentina's press on his thoughts after refusing to sign the contract extension the AFA offered him
yesterday. He fired some shots ... Continue reading →
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Just a quick post to confirm the story posted here on HEGS yesterday: the AFA have just announced
officially that Diego Maradona's contract as national team manager won't be renewed. Julio Grondona
seemingly deliberately made Maradona an offer he knew ... Continue reading →
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It's been a long day for everyone following the business behind closed doors between Julio
Grondona, the AFA president, and Diego Maradona, who was expected to sign on the dotted line and
put his name to a new four year ... Continue reading →
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Friday morning saw confirmation that Mariano Pavone will move to River Plate for the upcoming
season, the Núñez club having beaten San Lorenzo to his signature after Ramón Díaz's club
almost managed to hijack the offer at the last minute. ... Continue reading →
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That's how Juan Román Riquelme has described Boca Juniors' offer to him to give him a new three
year contract. After breakfasting this morning with the news that Claudio Borghi had described the
playmaker's contract negotiations as '80% closed,' Román ... Continue reading →
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One of River Plate's main winter transfer targets has been a centre forward who can provide a,
shall we say, slightly more consistent goal threat than Rogelio Funes Mori for the new season.
Having already brought goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo ... Continue reading →
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My internet connection is down for the weekend at home (I'm typing from a cafe/bar in San Telmo
called La Poesía, which I heartily recommend to anyone of a literary bent who's visiting or living
in Buenos Aires), but fortunately ... Continue reading →
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This just in from the AFA's recently concluded meeting: Diego Maradona is to be offered a new
four-year contract to continue as manager of the Argentine national team until the Brazil 2014
World Cup. This will take him through next ... Continue reading →
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Wednesday has been an interesting day for the suits at the AFA, now back home, who've been
embroiled in some heated discussions about the future of the national team. It's taken up so much
of their time that, in between ... Continue reading →
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If you're an Argentine football fan and a bit of a glutton for punishment or if you're otherwise
interested in what exactly Diego Maradona demonstrated to us during Argentina's World Cup campaign
you can click here to read ... Continue reading →
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The octopus predicting Argentina's downfall was right. On Saturday, Diego Maradona's team crashed
out of the 2010 World Cup, thrashed 4-0 by an excellent Germany side meeting their own first real
challenge of the knockout stages. A lack of creativity ... Continue reading →
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With moments to go before Argentina and Germany kick off their World Cup quarter-final, you can
click here if you'd like to read the preview of the match I've contributed to the When Saturday
Comes website. Filed under: Argentine football, ... Continue reading →
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On Saturday, Argentina take on Germany. It's a rematch of the tie at the World Cup quarter final of
2006, when the then host nation eliminated Argentina on penalties before some ugly scenes in
Leipzig. This Argentina side aren't as ... Continue reading →
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