With December fast-approaching, The Season is in the air. Christmas? Absolutely not. It's awards season. The Argentine sensation known as Lionel Messi has already nabbed the Onze d'Or, a precursor to the Ballon d'Or (with a heft more patriotism) which has predicted the BdO three times in the last four years. Click to continue reading...

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

Messi scored the last goal in Barcelona's 6-1 win over Real Zaragoza.

Really bad day for Juan Pablo Carrizo.

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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 [. Click to continue reading...

Maradona no le encuentra la vuelta a la conducción de la Selección, prueba (¿prueba?), arma y desarma, convoca y desafecta bajo un concepto difícil de establecer.

Venezuela (4-0): Juan Pablo Carrizo; Javier Zanetti, Marcos Angeleri, Gabriel Heinze; Maxi Rodríguez (m.

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Maradona gave the call up list of Argentina based players today and they are:

G Diego Pozo (Colón)

D Nicolás Otamendi (Vélez Sarsfield)
D Rolando Schiavi (Newell's Old Boys)
D Luciano Monzón (Boca Juniors)

M Juan Sebastián Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata)
M Enzo Pérez (Estudiantes de La Plata)
M Mario Bolatti (Huracán)
M Federico Insúa (Boca Juniors)

F Martín Palermo (Boca Juniors)

This is the complete call up for the last two WC qualifiers:

GK Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar)
GK Mariano Andújar (Catania)
GK Diego Pozo (Colón)

D Martín Demichelis (Bayern Munich)
D Nicolás Pareja (Deportivo Espanyol)
D Nicolás Otamendi (Vélez Sarasfield)
D Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
D Emiliano Insúa (Liverpool)
D Rolando Schiavi (Newell's Old Boys)
D Luciano Monzón (Boca Juniors)
D Gabriel Heinze (Olympique Marseille)

M Jonás Gutiérrez (Newcastle United)
M Javier Mascherano (Liverpool)
M Juan Sebastián Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata)
M Enzo Pérez (Estudiantes de La Plata)
M Angel Di María (Benfica)
M Pablo Aimar (Benfica)
M Mario Bolatti (Huracán)
M Luis González (Olympique Marseille)
M Federico Insúa (Boca Juniors)

F Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
F Ezequiel Lavezzi (Nápoli)
F Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
F Diego Milito (Inter Milan)
F Martín Palermo (Boca Juniors)
F Sergio Agüero (Atlético de Madrid)
F Gonzalo Higuaín (Real Madrid)

A few thoughts about the last WC qualifying call up list:

The GK's.

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Diego Maradona has announced a list of just eighteen Europe-based players for Argentina's final two World Cup qualifying matches at home to Peru and away to Uruguay. There are numerous big-name casualties of Diego's refusal to consider that any part of the defeats to Brazil and Paraguay might have been his fault. Click to continue reading...

 The legendary footballer and current Argentina manager Maradona chooses his squad without Real Madrid hitman Higuain nor Lazio Zarate..  Goalkeepers: Juan Pablo Carrizo (Zaragoza) Mariano Andujar (Catania) Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar) Defenders: Javier Zanetti (Inter Milan) Nicolas Pareja (Espanyol) Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle) Gabriel Heinze (Marseille) Nicolas Burdisso (Inter Milan) Sebastian Dominguez (Velez Sarsfield) Emiliano Papa (Velez Sarsfield) Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield) Midfielders: Fernando Gago (Real Madrid) Javier Mascherano (Liverpool) Maximiliano Rodriguez (Atletico [. Click to continue reading...

This round of World Cup qualifiers are a must 6 points for Diego Maradona's Argentine squad. Los Albicelestes face Brazil at home in Rosario on the Sept. 5th and then travel to Asuncion to take on Paraguay on the 9th.

19 players were called up with 3 domestic players to be named before the team gets together for practice on August 30th.

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This round of World Cup qualifiers are a must 6 points for Diego Maradona's Argentine squad. Los Albicelestes face Brazil at home in Rosario on the Sept. 5th and then travel to Asuncion to take on Paraguay on the 9th.
19 players were called up with 3 domestic players to be named before the team gets together for practice on August 30th. Click to continue reading...

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Pooooor fin! The Dona has picked his players who will face Brazil on September 5 next month. And no, Argentinean Prime Minister Cristina Fernandez has nothing to do with it... but who knows? She might be a closet Milito fangirl. Click to continue reading...

El técnico de la Selección Argentina, Diego Armando Maradona, dio a conocer los 19 nombres de los futbolistas que se desempeñan en las ligas del exterior, convocados para los próximos dos compromisos por las Eliminatorias sudamericanas para el Mundial FIFA "Sudáfrica 2010″.

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Friday saw the announcement of Diego Maradona's national team squad to face Brazil in Rosario on the 5th September, which will then take on Paraguay days later in Asunción. Matches between Argentina and Brazil are always intense affairs, but with so much riding on this game for Maradona's men in particular, el pibe de oro [. Click to continue reading...

Two seasons ago, Zaragoza surprisingly had that trap door open up under them and they fell into the netherworld that they call second division. Forty two matches later the celebration was on as Zaragoza fans filled La Romareda and the project to make this club a force in Spain that seemed to have failed miserably might be back on track for now. Click to continue reading...

Sin sorpresas el entrenador de la selección argentina, Diego Maradona dio a conocer la lista de convocados para el partido del 12 de agosto ante Rusia, en Moscú.

La lista completa:

Arqueros:

Juan Pablo Carrizo (Zaragoza)
Mariano Andujar (Catania)

Defensores:

Daniel Díaz (Getafe)
Javier Zanetti (Inter)
Emiliano Papa (Vélez)
Gabriel Heinze (Real Madrid)
Nicolás Burdisso (Inter)
Martín Demichelis (Bayern Munich)
Nicolás Otamendi (Vélez)

Mediocampistas:

Javier Mascherano (Liverpool)
Fernando Gago (Real Madrid)
Sebastian Battaglia (Boca)
Maximiliano Rodríguez (Atlético de Madrid)
Jonás Gutiérrez (Newcastle)
Juan Sebastián Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata)
Mario Bolatti (Huracán)
Jesús Dátolo (Napoli)

Delanteros:

Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
Sergio Agüero (Atlético de Madrid)
Lisandro López (Olympique Lyon)
Diego Milito (Inter)
Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli)

No veo sorpresas en la convocatoria argentina, me sorprende más que haya convocado a tanta estrella para un amistoso.

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Maradona selects his team for the August 12 frindly against Russia. Maradona is not very keen on going to Russia but will make the best of it. The two new faces to the call up are Jesus Datolo of Napoli. This ex-Boca wing man does his best work on the left. The other face is the central midfielder Mario Bolatti who was considered the top player of the 2009 Argentine 1st Division playing for Huracan (runner up to the champs Velez). Click to continue reading...

Boca Juniors' squad took off for Europe on Sunday in readiness to take part in the Audi Cup in Munich (their first match is on Wednesday against Manchester United), but over the weekend there have already been some Argentine clubs and players in pre-season action. River Plate beat Everton thanks to a great Ariel Ortega [. Click to continue reading...

Real Zaragoza have continued to strengthen their squad ahead of their return to La Liga after reaching an agreement to sign Ikechukwu Uche from Getafe.

Uche joins Jermaine Pennant and goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo as Zaragoza's third signing of the summer.

A club statement read:

"Real Zaragoza, Getafe and Uche have arrived at a principle agreement where, pending a medical, the Nigerian striker will spend the next four seasons with the Aragones club.

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Se Ledesma va in ritiro, ma probabilmente non farà parte del progetto Lazio, il neotecnico dei biancocelesti Ballardini potrà invece contare pienamente sul 29enne brasiliano Matuzalem.
E' di oggi la notizia del riscatto definitivo, da parte di Lotito, del centrocampista dagli spagnoli del Saragozza: "Sono felicissimo di essere rimasto, era quello che volevo''. Click to continue reading...

After their uneventful win against Colombia, Maradona is looking for new ideas and combinations for the High altitude game against Ecuador this Wednesday. The team might even be unrecognizable - There is also a very good possibility that Messi will not play due to a Yellow card that he received in a previous game which could jeopardize the next game against Brazil. Click to continue reading...

On a terrible pitch, Argentina played poorly on Saturday but took three points all the same from a Colombian side who pressured them all the way and made them work hard for the points. Getafe defender Daniel 'Cata' Díaz made the breakthrough in the eleventh minute of the second half. It wasn't a pretty performance, [. Click to continue reading...

After having successfully answered the questions about whether he was better than Ronaldo or not the next big challenge for Messi is to make sure that Argentina qualify for the World Cup.
If Argentina fail to beat Colombia on Saturday they risk missing out on the World Cup altogether.
Maradona has made a few changes in the squad - Estudiantes captain Veron returns to the side to replace Juan Roman Riquelme.

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Diego Maradona has called his roster for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers for Argentina. Los Albicelestes currently sit in 4th place in the CONMEBOL standings and look to win both of their upcoming matches to secure their place in South Africa 2010.

Among the surprises on the roster is Cristian Gimenez.

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Federico Vilar
Originally uploaded by Daniela Unger Dos argentinos que militan en el futbol mexicano Federico Vilar y Christian "Chaco" Gimenez fueron convocados por Diego Armando Maradona a la Selección albiceleste para los partidos eliminatorios ante Colombia y Ecuador. El Chaco segun dicen hasta lloro por el llamado. Click to continue reading...

Following from yesterday's post claiming that D'Alessandro and Guiñazu had been announced in Maradona's latest Argentina squad, I can confirm that the pair have not be called up.
To clarify the situation, the full Argentina squad for their qualifiers against Colombia and Ecuador is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Juan Pablo Carrizo, Mariano Andujar and Federico Vilar
Defenders: Javier Zanetti, Gabriel Heinze, Daniel Diaz, Nicolas Burdisso, Martin Demichelis, Emiliano Papa, Juan Forlin, Marcos Angeleri, Nicolas Otamendi
Midfielders: Javier Mascherano, Fernando Gago, Maxi Rodriguez, Jonas Gutierrez, Christian Gimenez, Sebastian Battaglia, Juan Sebastian Veron, Daniel Montenegro
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Diego Maradona has announced the squad for Argentina's next competitive matches, the World Cup 2010 qualifiers at home to Colombia on the 6th of June, and away to Ecuador on the 10th. The purpose of that 'B' international on Wednesday night has been revealed no fewer than nine players from the domestic game have [. Click to continue reading...

Italian paper "Corriere dello Sport" makes echo of the interest by Spaniards ATLETICO DE MADRID for Argentine goalkeeper JUAN PABLO CARRIZO who is currently with Italian Club LAZIO. The daily adds...br/ br/ Read all the news, results, details comments in English on Spanish Football Sportsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2. Click to continue reading...

There's no headline to describe it, really. Diego Maradona's first competitive match in charge of Argentina went like a dream, but his second was the kind of nightmare in which you realise partway through that all is not as it seems, but you just can't wake yourself up, and it brought the worst defeat in [. Click to continue reading...

There's no headline to describe it, really. Diego Maradona's first competitive match in charge of Argentina went like a dream, but his second was the kind of nightmare in which you realise partway through that all is not as it seems, but you just can't wake yourself up, and it brought the worst defeat in [. Click to continue reading...

Diego Maradona's side have arrived in Bolivia for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in La Paz and, although the boss is keeping his cards close to his chest, it looks like there'll be one or two changes, the most notable of which are Lucho González replacing Newcastle's Jonás Gutiérrez, and Sergio Agüero starting on the bench. Click to continue reading...

Diego Armando Maradona made his competitive debut as Argentina manager on Saturday night in a packed Estadio Monumental, with a team shorn of Juan Román Riquelme, who threw a hissy fit retired from the international game the day this squad was announced. Diego's old shirt - the number 10 - was handed from Román to [. Click to continue reading...

Fabio Capello isn't the only international manager calling up a goalkeeper who can barely get a start for his club side for the next round of World Cup qualifiers. Diego Maradona has not only included Juan Pablo Carrizo in Argentina's squad, but will make him his first choice stopper on Saturday at home to Venezeula. Click to continue reading...

The latest double-header of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is upon us this weekend, so with my head now sufficiently back on track after two weeks back home, it seems as good a time as any to have a look at what our boys abroad have been doing this weekend. [...] Click to continue reading...

In amongst the flurry of goals served up for us by Gimnasia de Jujuy and Rosario Central on Friday night, the fact got obscured (on HEGS at least - sorry) that Diego Maradona had named his first competitive squad as Argentina manager, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers at home to Venezuela and [. Click to continue reading...

Maradona submitted his much anticipated sqaud list for the next two qualifing games with Venezuela & Bolivia. Two brand new faces on Maradona's list are Federico Vilar, goalie for Atlante of Mexico (32 yrs. old) & Juan Forlín, defender for Boca Juniors.
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