The great Alfredo Di Stéfano was honored by the Argentine government with the title of
Argentina Sports Ambassador.
The ceremony took place in Madrid. Julio Grondona spoke and presented Di Stéfano with an
Argentina shirt autographed by all the current national team players.
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This decision handed down by FIFA in Zurich today on Argentine coach Diego Maradona is the reason
why people in South America and in Argentine football fear Julio Grondona. He is a picture perfect
clone of an old Vito Corleone.
How much influence Grondona? How about the little letter he wrote Blatter.
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Soccerblog 15 November @ 01:22 PM EST
For his potty mouthed outburst following Argentina's win over Uruguay. (translation)
Here is an even more graphic video.
Till three weeks ago, Maradona remained unrepentant.
"I was getting it off my chest, and I don't regret it," Maradona said. "I gave my mother a
kiss on the forehead and told her: 'If I was wrong I ask your forgiveness, but nobody
else'.
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Un dÃa después de que se enfrenten en un partido amistoso las selecciones de España y
Argentina, el técnico Diego Armando Maradona viajará a Zurich acompañado del presidente de la
AFA, Julio Grondona para su audiencia disciplinaria relacionada con los incidentes
que se produjeron después del partido clasificatorio para la Copa Mundial de Sudáfrica entre
Uruguay y Argentina.
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Futbolita 06 November @ 07:55 AM EST
Julio Grondona and Pirates of the Caribbean star,
Veron, presented Argentina's 2010 World Cup jerseys yesterday. So what's the
verdict, futbolitas? D'ya like it enough to wear it? Also, Veron had to
be nice when they asked him what he thought of the ongoing Bilardo-Dona rivalry.
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Asociación de Fútbol Argentino (AFA) president, Julio Grondona and veteran midfielder Juan
Sebastián Verón have officially presented the Argentina World Cup 2010 home kit to the public.
The new Albiceleste first choice strip will make its on the field debut in Madrid on November 14th
when Argentina meets Spain in a friendly.
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In a meeting held between Maradona & Grondona it was decided that current Chacarita
Juniors manager Fernando Gamboa will become one of Maradona's assitants replacing Miguel Angel
Lemme whose contract expires next month.
It is not yet known what will happen with Maradona's other assistant, Alejandro Mancuso.
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For some reason I thought news out of the South American country would cool down a little since the
national team qualified.
It's still crazy.
This story quotes Maradona, Argentine Football Association head Julio Grondona, Juan Sebastian
Veron and a country's newspaper.
Questions and issues are still abound.
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Under-pressure Argentina coach Diego Maradona has announced that he might quit after must-win World
Cup qualifiers against Peru and Uruguay. "After the qualifiers, I will talk to (Argentine football
federation chariman) Julio (Grondona)," Maradona told reporters Tuesday. "I'll see if I carry on,
and it will be on my conditions," he said.
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According to a report published in the newspaper El Dia, Julio Grondona is considering
firing Maradona before the end of the WC qualifying campaign and replace him with Carlos Bilardo,
Sergio Batista and Jose Luis Brown as part of the new coaching staff.
Grondona met with Batista and Brown yesterday.
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The only thing left to finish off the national team.
Maradona back on drugs?
His doctor denies that Maradona is in Italy getting treatment for drug addiction.
Fox Sports
Niegan que Maradona haya recaÃdo en drogas
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. El médico personal de Diego Maradona negó que el ex jugador y actual
técnico de la selección argentina haya recaÃdo en las drogas y aseguró que su estadÃa en un
spa de Italia estaba planeada desde hace tiempo.
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Soccerblog 13 September @ 04:14 PM EST
Diego Maradona's power is being taken away. Carlos Bilardo is being asked to step in and help
with player selection.
Julio Grondona had requested Maradona to avail of Bilardo's advise after the Bolivia drubbing
but the manager who won Argentina the 1986 World Cup and helped catapult Maradona to the world
stage has been marginalized with little input in the selection.
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According to a published report out of Buenos Aires, because of Maradona's poor
performance as manager and the national team's recent losses and current place in the WC Qualifying
standings, Julio Grondona is stepping in and imposing a list of conditions to
Maradona.
Apparently, Grondona will no longer go along with everything that Maradona requests and does as
national team manager.
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Leo Messi's father is the latest person to publicly criticize Maradona's performance as
national team manager.
Jorge Messi spoke with national team secretary Luis Segura and told him the following:
"Leo (Messi) does not receive tactical indications from Maradona, Maradona does not talk to him
on the field.
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En la vida las decisiones deben ser bien pensadas pero con tiempo de anticipación y eso fue lo
que menos hizo el Sr Guillermo Franco.
Hace unos dÃas informamos a ustedes que "El Guille" se habÃa
contratado con Estudiantes de la Plata de Argentina pero hoy se dio la noticia de
que Franco podrÃa no jugar el torneo argentino.
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Según "Bloc de Periodista", Don Julio liberó los goles que tenÃan secuestrados los malos y los
va a repartir entre los pobres. ¿Un nuevo héroe?.
Por un mundo con hambre, inseguridad, pobreza y muuuucho fútbol. Fútbol para todos.
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I've had a lazy weekend writing-wise, with the last weekend before hostilities in Argentina
commence again giving one final chance for a bit of a break. All the same, I was busy at the end of
last week writing for Soccernet on why the Argentine league will be kicking off later than
scheduled this season, [.
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Futbolita 12 August @ 01:37 AM EST
via REUTERS
So after days of intense discussions about the state of the Argentinean championship
, the AFA finally reached a decision about the start of the country's
domestic league. The first game is scheduled for kick off on 21st August (as opposed to the 14th
this weekend).
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La teorÃa de los dos demonios es perfectamente aplicable en el contrato que "el fútbol" firmó
con "la televisión". O bien los dirigentes son muy ingenuos y no saben lo que la televisión
genera a nivel económico o están recibiendo un retorno que va directamente a sus bolsillos.
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The financial stand-off which last week forced the AFA to announce that Argentina's first division
championship wouldn't be able to start this coming weekend has taken a step towards concluding on
Tuesday, with the news that the clubs are to break away from the TV deal signed with TyC Sports. A
new financial package has [.
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Parece ser que los conflictos por los que pasaba la liga argentina está siendo superados de
manera factible, ya que se pudo saber que los clubes argentinos han decido fijar una fecha para el
inicio de la actividad futbolÃstica en Argentina.
El problema principal que sucede en Argentina se enfoca en las televisoras,
quienes han puesto trabas para el inicio del torneo pampero, pero Julio Grondona se ha
reunido con el Comité Ejecutivo de la liga para poner solución a este conflicto que comienzaba a
ser un cadillo difÃcil de quitar.
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Futbolita 10 August @ 10:49 PM EST
No Boca this weekend..... / VIA AP
Uh-oh, it looks like we may not get to see the likes of Boca Juniors and
Estudiantes this weekend in the Apertura after the AFA recently ran into major
monetary problems.
Yes, it seems that the top-tier Argentinean sides have amassed massive debts estimated to be a
whopping US$182 million and this has forced the Football Association to scrap the
Aug.
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Pre-season training is in full swing as the start of a new soccer season in Argentina is near.
There is much anticipation for the 2009 Apertura championship to begin, but it has been a
problematic offseason for numerous teams and the Argentine Football Association on a financial and
administrative level.
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On Sunday TyC Sports president Marcelo Bombau talked to Olé, telling them that he considered the
AFA's attitude towards the TV companies in the ongoing dispute over player wages to be 'illicit,
unjust and disrespectful.' Last week, of course, it was announced that the championship won't be
starting as scheduled this coming weekend.
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The Argentinian Football Association has had to indefinitely postpone the start of its football
season because a financial crisis has paralysed clubs.
The long awaited kick-off in Argentina was scheduled for 14 August but the Football Association
said there were clubs that still could not afford to pay players.
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Nutmegged 06 August @ 11:28 AM EST
So branching out from the usual look at just this weekend's festivities, let's move into some
present weirdnesses and see what the crystal bowl is showing us now about events around the bend
(or off the deep end, as the case may be).
1. The indefinite delay of the Argentine Primera Division's 2009 Clausura season (read that story
here), which is absolutely shocking to me.
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Argentina football season suspended due to debts
Reuters
August 5, 2009
The kickoff to the Argentine domestic football season was put on hold indefinitely on Wednesday,
while the game's national governing body sought a solution to clubs' massive debts.
Bussed-in protesters also attacked the Argentina Football Association (AFA) headquarters,
smashing windows and demanding the resignation of AFA president Julio Grondona.
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Wow, how massive is this...a whole country's top flight getting mothballed due to debt :
The start of the football season in Argentina has been delayed indefinitely because
many of the clubs involved are heavily in debt. The season had been due to kick off on 14 August,
but the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said some clubs did not have enough money to pay
players.
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The unthinkable is unfolding in Argentina as the Apertura season looks set for a false start. A
delay looms as clubs find it increasingly difficult to raise funds against the backdrop of the
global economic downturn
The new season is scheduled to start on August 14th but with clubs facing combined debts of over
£50 million AFA chief Julio Grondona has made it clear there is no guarantee the football will
kickoff on time.
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SÃ, tal y como lo leen. La Asociación de Futbol Argentino (AFA) por medio de
su presidente, Julio Grondona ha dado un comunicado en el que se toma la decisión
de suspender todos los torneos de futbol, incluyendo el Apertura 2009 de la Primera División,
debido a la precaria crisis económica que viven muchos de sus clubes.
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The threat of postponement to the start of the 2008-2009 season has been hanging over Argentine
football since the official fixture list for the Primera División was released last week. On
Wednesday AFA President Julio Grondona declared that the decision has been taken to provisionally
'postpone all the championships until FutbolÃstas Argentinos Agremadios [the players' [.
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Because of the debt (unpaid salaries) that the first & second division teams have with
their players, the start of the upcoming season is in doubt.
AFA president Julio Grondona has decided to temporarily suspend the start of the Apertura 09
until the teams in debt pay all of the players salaries.
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En un fútbol poco serio, lo que se dijo en torno a donde tenia que jugarse el partido contra
Brasil y las acusaciones cruzadas entre Maradona y la dirigencia de River le agregan otra mancha
más a nuestro deporte rey.
Grondona confirmó que ese partido se juega en Rosario, le guste a quien le guste.
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God knows why the AFA do this every bloody year. As usual, they've released the full fixture list
the day after the first weekend's fixtures were announced. What possible good comes of this is for
Julio Grondona to explain (not that anyone really cares enough to ask him), other than to guarantee
two straight days [.
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