The goals from Saturday's matches are now online, and there are some true golazos among them, not
least from DarÃo GandÃn for Independiente and two magnificent free kicks in one match: the first
from Chacarita Juniors' Emanuel Centurión and the other, cancelling it out, from Sebastián Longo
of Atlético Tucumán.
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The lack of a single video featuring all the weekend's goals last week meant that the round 14
goals post was a rather fragmented one. From now on, then, I'll be posting each day's goals the
following afternoon or evening, when they're online (I've been a bit slow this first time, I
admit). This will: [.
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Well, the national team were abroad, of course, but we're not counting them. The Brazilian and
Mexican leagues were the major top flights in action in spite of the international break during the
weekend just gone, and there were goals in both of them. You can read about them and watch them
right here, as [.
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Over the course of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, the mantra of fútbol para todos has transmogrified
into something meaning that one easily embeddable, easily findable goal video for the whole round
has become increasingly hard to find. The closest I can find are the four videos embedded here,
which viewed in order will give you [.
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Argentina were thoroughly outclassed by the European champions on Saturday night in the Vicente
Calderón, losing 2-1. Xabi Alonso scored twice for the home side, the second a late penalty,
whilst Lionel Messi got a temporary equaliser also from the spot after just over an hour. I wasn't
in the best shape last night, hence [.
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Due to December's Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the Torneo Apertura eighteenth round
match between Central and Estudiantes de La Plata was moved forward to last night in order to avoid
a fixture clash later in the year for the South American champions. Taking their eye off the ball,
Estudiantes played dreadfully [.
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The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch
them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are
wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red)
vs Central (blue & yellow [.
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Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions
Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca
Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever.
Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F.
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Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab
a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26
points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could
go joint third [.
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The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all
29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure
which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red
& black [.
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On Saturday one group of Argentines abroad got off to a very good start in a new campaign José
Luis Brown's national Under 17 team beat Honduras 1-0 in the first match of their age group World
Cup in Nigeria. Sergio Araujo scored the only goal of the game. Around the world in the [...]
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The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN
Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening,
because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals
right here though, embedded [.
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The scores and scorers of the weekend will be up in a few hours' time after the super, Tigre and
Argentinos drew 1-1 in Victoria and Colón then took over the leadership of the table in the
weekend's final match with a 2-1 win over fellow contenders San Lorenzo in El Cementerio. For now
[...]
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Three teams are tied on twenty points at the top of the Torneo Apertura after Saturday's matches,
and San Lorenzo could join them on Sunday. As well as Central's 2-0 win over Independiente,
Estudiantes had already won on Friday night, 1-0 over Atlético Tucumán, and on Saturday Banfield
(3-0 at home to Godoy Cruz) and [.
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Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo travelled across the RÃo De La Plata on Wednesday night for the first
leg of their Copa Sudamericana quarter final against Uruguayan opposition Just like the national
team a week earlier, they came away with a narrow win, 1-0 over River Plate of Montevideo thanks to
a 71st minute header from [.
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It was a mixed week for Argentines in England Pablo Zabaleta was sent off and Carlos Tevez had to
toil on his own up front as Manchester City could only draw 1-1 with Wigan Athletic, and Javier
Mascherano and Emiliano Insúa's Liverpool lost in circumstances which were either hilarious or
exasperating depending on your [.
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There were only twenty goals scored in the Argentine Primera División during the weekend just
gone, but you can see all of them on the TN Sportblog by clicking this link. As usual, if you want
to see the order in which the goals appear and which teams are wearing which shirts, just read
[...]
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It's been a qualifying campaign no-one who followed it from start to finish will ever quite manage
to forget, but eventually, somehow, in spite of their manager, their opponents and let's face it
their own often atrocious performances, Argentina have qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South
Africa.
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This is probably the shortest Argentines Abroad update you're ever likely to read, but after
leaving it for such a long time before last week I'm eager not to break the habit. Also, with so
few leagues playing during the recent international break, Our Man In Mexico, Tom Clark, has
effectively written it for me [.
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The eighth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura finally ended on Monday night with the first match of
Leonardo Astrada's second spell in charge of River Plate. There wasn't even the shortest of
honeymoon periods, though Independiente took a 3-0 lead by half time and only a Marcelo Gallardo
penalty with a minute to [.
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Not I. Oh, heavens no. The heavens opened over the Estadio Monumental on Saturday night and, in a
frantic finish, a substitute chosen by D10s himself scored the winning goal to keep Argentina just
on track for qualification to South Africa 2010. MartÃn Palermo has waited ten years for the
chance to atone [.
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The goals from the seventh round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and they include some
crackers. Watch out in particular for Pablo Toranzo's screamer for Huracán against Racing, and
Juan Román Riquelme's equaliser for Boca against Vélez which was a far better goal than the
improbable 40-yard header MartÃn Palermo scored [.
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One of the matches on Wednesday night featured a 'national' team playing Ghana in Córdoba. MartÃn
Palermo scored both goals and, as a result, has convinced everyone in the press that he'd be ideal
to play as the number 9 in the World Cup qualifiers against Peru, ahead of Diego Milito and Gonzalo
Higua'in.
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Five teams remain unbeaten after the sixth round of matches in the Torneo Apertura, although
amazingly one of them San Lorenzo are down in 8th. Having drawn four, Saturday's five-goal thriller
over Tigre was only their second victory of the campaign. Chacarita finally got a win, whilst the
replay of last season's Clausura [.
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Both Lanus and San Lorenzo began their Copa Sudamericana campaigns proper during the last couple of
days, and they had very contrasting fortunes in their first legs. San Lorenzo battered Peruvian
club Cienciano 3-0 in the Nuevo Gasometro, whilst Lanus found themselves two goals down after six
minutes against Ecuador's LDU Quito, and chasing the [.
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All twenty-six of the goals from the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch them
through the TN Sportblog by clicking here. Read on for the running order, as usual. Running order
for TN Show de Goles: Huracán (blue) vs Estudiantes (red & white stripes) Colón (red & black
halves) vs Chacarita (white with weird [.
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Another 1-0 win for the home side in the second all-Argentine Copa Sudamericana preliminary tie saw
domestic champions Vélez Sársfield progress to the first round proper after a 2-1 aggregate win
over Boca Juniors. MartÃn Palermo was sent off for the visitors for a violent challenge on
national side left back Emiliano Papa, and Jonathan [.
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It's only the Copa Sudamericana, but San Lorenzo seemed rather pleased at their 1-0 win over Tigre
on Tuesday night, which takes them to the second round on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw.
Fabián Bordagaray was sent on as a substitute with nine minutes of the ninety remaining, and
scored the winner in [.
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After a week of recriminations for the selección, Diego Maradona travels to Europe to bang some
heads together and break the news to some players that he'll be picking Argentine-based players
over them in future. All the same, there's some food for thought for him ('thought', Diego: that's
'pensamiento' in castellano, a word you might [.
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The goals from the weekend's football action in Argentina are online now, and as you can see them
on the TN Sportblog, whose video this week deigns the round worthy of having all its goals shown
(something they've neglected to do on two occasions already this season). For the goals from the
Primera División, click [.
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On Friday night Racing and Gimnasia La Plata shared the points, and Argentinos took three away from
their visit to Newell's in Rosario. Saturday, though, has seen the outstanding result of the
weekend in Argentina: newly-promoted Atlético Tucumán hosted the mighty Boca Juniors and took all
the points with a 2-0 win which lifts them [.
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We've been here before, and there's not a lot else more to say. In Asunción on Wednesday night,
needing a win to remain in the automatic qualification spots for the 2010 World Cup, Argentina
slumped to a defeat which sees Paraguay qualify for South Africa. Seba Verón was sent off early in
the second half [.
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Saturday night saw the big South American clásico in Rosario as Argentina hosted Brazil in the
qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, and Diego Maradona's reign as manager will be marked forever by
the result: Argentina lost a qualifier at home for only the second time in their history. The first
was the 0-5 loss [.
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Largely thanks to the efforts of River Plate, Chacarita Juniors, Independiente, Vélez Sársfield
and Estudiantes, there were 33 goals in the Argentine Primera División Torneo Apertura during the
weekend just gone. You can watch all of them right here on this post, since the normal TN Sportblog
link for some reason doesn't include any of [.
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