You know that baby wanted a photo with Martin Palermo... but his family stopped Veron's sleek black ride instead as it drove up to Estudiantes' training ground last week. The baby's got the "Papa, you lied. We were supposed to go to Boca's training ground, dammmit!

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So it was Mask Wearing Extraordinaire, Martin Palermo's birthday yesterday (a November baby, like us. Now get running with that hint!) so Boca Juniors helped him to celebrate 36 years of his existence in this world.

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At the end of Week 11

1. Santiago Silva (Banfield) – 10
2. Federico Nieto (Colon) 7
3. Dario Gandin (Independiente) 6
4. Mauro Boselli (Estudiantes) – 6
5. Gabriel Hauche (Argentinos Juniors) – 5
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So in the end, Alfio Basile's army weren't able to obtain a crucial away victory against Los Millionares (how dare you mistake them for Chamillionaire!) but at least they came away with a 1-1 draw. As expected, El Monumental had all the ingredients for an emotional game and things got heated when Ariel Ortega hit his arm on Boca's defender, Julio Caceres' neck.

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The most important game in Argentine football took place today.

This season's River-Boca ended in a 1-1 tie.

Marcelo Gallardo and Martin Palermo with the goals.

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This has been a fantastic weekend to hate somebody and wish him ill almost everywhere around the world. As Daryl pointed out earlier, this weekend's fixture calendar was overflowing with big derbies and heated rivalries including three different flavored clasicos, inter-city and intercontinental matches. Click to continue reading...

There was a time when the names Diego Armando Maradona, Carlos Bilardo and the Argentine National team were synonymous with success. The magical run to the 1986 World Cup made both men house hold names in the sport, and heroes back home.

Boy, does that seem like a life time ago.

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So apparently, Riquelme says that his teammate, Martin Palermo's mask-wearing antics has helped him to score more goals at Boca's training sessions. He wants him to wear it for the game so that they can 'score more goals together'. Kkkkk...

Anyway, he also added that Boca must be careful in the Superclasico against River this weekend or risk "paying dearly".

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In a press conference yesterday Martin Palermo talked about the Maradona scandal and Messi's form with the national team.

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Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da América do Sul, em Buenos Aires, no Estádio Monumental de Nunez, para um público de 38.019 pessoas, as seleções da Argentina (6ª no ranking da FIFA) e Peru (74º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Copa do Mundo - 21-06-1978 - Argentina 6x0 Peru
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo - 14 jogos, 8 vitórias Argentina, 4 empates, 2 vitórias Peru, 21 gols Argentina, 11 gols Peru. Click to continue reading...

Well Maradona's boys are on their way to South Africa. To the delight of this football crazy nation, the two time World cup winners (1978 and 1986) managed to pull off a 1 – 0 score. A solitary goal from Mario Bolatti gave them victory over their worthy opponents at the Estadio Centenario, Montevideo in Uruguay last night in front of a very disappointed home crowd.

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Following Diego Maradona's eye-catching diving celebration after Martin Palermo's dramatic last-gasp winner against Peru, Goal.com looks at 10 other crazy moments during the footballing career of the current Argentina coach.
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Somewhat later than planned (for which we apologise), here's a round-up of last weekend's action from the World Cup qualifiers outside of Europe.
South America
With Brazil and Paraguay already in situ for a place in the 2010 World Cup Finals, it was Chile who were the next to take their chance by beating Colombia 4-2 in Medellin. Click to continue reading...

Imagine a world cup without the world's best player? It's still a distinct possibility with Argentina stuttering over the finish line. Defeat tonight and the unthinkable may become a reality.

If Diego Maradona's Argentina lose to Uruguay and Ecuador beat Chile, who have already qualified, then Argentina will miss out.

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Hello again, it's a brief one this evening but we'll have another couple of posts before the weekend with more news from the final round of qualifiers and a Premiership preview.

Our unbeaten run went out of the window at the weekend, but we're not reading too much into it: if Rio Ferdinand is having a 'blip' we'd rather he had it now than next June and imagine how disappointing it would have been if we'd been unbeaten until the first game of the tournament proper.

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Argentina se juega su clasificación al mundial en la última fecha, para su mala fortuna no está jugando su mejor futbol, además se enfrentan a Uruguay y de visitantes. Se ve muy complicado que argentina llegue a Sudáfrica 2010

Argentina todavía pelea un boleto porque Martin Palermo le salvo el orto a Maradona en el último minuto (ayuda arbitral incluida) en un partido que como locales ante la peor selección de Sudamérica no pudieron finiquitar, más triste aun son las declaraciones del chorrillano palacios, quien dice que Mascherano y otros les pedían bajar los brazos y dejar de buscar el empate que a la postre conseguirían sobre el minuto 90.

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Uruguay v Argentina
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay
Kickoff: 23:00 BST

Uruguay take on Argentina in a gripping finale to a topsy-turvy World Cup qualification campaign, highlighted by a fortune-changing weekend.

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STARTERS
YES! YES! YES! We are going to South Africa! It's now official, the USA have qualified for the World Cup for the 6th time in a row! Wow! We have come a long way since I was a kid learning about the game in the mid-70's.
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The Associated Press has quotes from MLS commissioner Don Garber talking about the league figuring out a way to match the international calendar. Click to continue reading...

Amidst all the World Cup qualifying craziness of Saturday came one of the most dramatic finishes seen in quite some time.

No, I'm not talking about the U.S. team's win vs. Honduras, which was dramatic in its own right. I'm referring to Argentina's late game-winner vs. Peru. With just seconds remaining and with Argentina facing the very real prospect of being knocked out of the World Cup qualifying race, forward Martin Palermo knocked home a loose ball for a game-winner that will go down in Argentine history.

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Amidst all the World Cup qualifying craziness of Saturday came one of the most dramatic finishes seen in quite some time.

No, I'm not talking about the U.S. team's win vs. Honduras, which was dramatic in its own right. I'm referring to Argentina's late game-winner vs. Peru. With just seconds remaining and with Argentina facing the very real prospect of falling into fifth place in South America's World Cup qualifying race, forward Martin Palermo knocked home a loose ball for a game-winner that will go down in Argentine history.

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Monday 12th October
19:45 Tranmere Rovers v Stockport County, League One, Sky Sports 1/HD1
Rovers are now John Barnes-free after a pretty awful start to the campaign. County are only a few places above them. Needless to say both teams are skint and don't have much to work with, squad wise. Click to continue reading...

Here's Martin Palermo being interviewed by TyC Sports after the game tonight.

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(video gol highlights di Argentina-Perù)
Il tuffo di Maradona a fine gara, sul campo zuppo di pioggia, la dice tutto su quanto era sentito questo match, sia da lui che, soprattutto, da un'intera tormentatq nazione che non vuole mancare al Mondiale 2010. L'Argentina ha battuto il Perù 2-1 a Buenos Aires in una partita valida per la qualificazione all'appuntamento sudafricano. Click to continue reading...

Ich hatte ihm zur Pause gesagt, die Sache für uns zu retten. Der heilige Palermo hat uns neues Leben gegeben.

Diego Armando Maradona, umstrittener Nationaltrainer Argentiniens, feiert seinen eingewechselten Stürmer Martin Palermo, der in der 93. Minute aus stark abseitsverdächtiger Position den 2:1 Siegtreffer über den Tabellenletzten Peru erzielt hat.

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An injury time winner by veteran Martin Palermo kept Argentina's qualification hopes well and truly alive. Argentina was cruising to a victory courtesy of a strike from Higuain but was stunned when Peru equalised in the 89th minute but was saved by a goal from Palermo deep into injury time. Click to continue reading...

The Pied Piper of Higuain may have opened the scoring for Los Albicelestes but it was Martin Palermo's close-range effort that secured a crucial win 2-1 win over Peru last night. The Dona actually dived into the wet grass on his stomach in celebration.

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The South American region had four 2010 World Cup Qualifying matches on Saturday, October 10, 2009. Here's a recap and video highlights of all the matches in CONMEBOL (South America) World Cup Qualifying on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

Argentina beats Peru 2-1 Video Highlights

Argentine moved up to 4th place in the qualification table with goals from Gonzalo Higuain and Martin Palermo.

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In an exciting day and evening of World Cup qualifiers across the globe, Côte d'Ivoire, Mexico, Paraguay, Serbia, Denmark, Germany and Italy qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In Europe, England lost their 100% record in Group 6 after goalkeeper Robert Green was dismissed early in the first half and Nazarenko's deflected goal was enough for the hosts in a match marred by flares thrown from the crowd. Click to continue reading...

What a tragic-comedy.

Higuain puts Argentina up 1-0 at the beginning of the second half. Then it starts pouring. And in the 90th minute, Peruvian substitute Rengifo nods one in to tie the game.

It's all over for Argentina, or is it?

In the 93rd minute, Martin Palermo equalizes for Argentina.

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A late late winner from Martin Palermo gave Diego Maradona a much needed win against Peru.

1-0 Higuain

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By NESTOR F. SEBASTIAN

When all is said and done next week following the conclusion of South America's two-year marathon of World Cup qualifying, fans everywhere will have witnessed one of the most exciting conclusions the continent's federation has ever produced since its decision more than a decade ago to switch to a home-and-away format for all 10 nations.

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By NESTOR F. SEBASTIAN

When all is said and done next week following the conclusion of South America's two-year marathon of World Cup qualifying, fans everywhere will have witnessed one of the most exciting conclusions the continent's federation has ever produced since its decision more than a decade ago to switch to a home-and-away format for all 10 nations.

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First of all, check out this insane header goal from Martin Palermo of Boca Juniors:
Then, read Jack Warner's comments about England's bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018. No word on whether others within FIFA feel the same way or not, but that can't be a bad thing for the USA bid. Click to continue reading...

Argentina boss, Diego Maradona in his desperation has called up Martin Palermo into his Argentine squad for the crucial World Cup qualifier against Peru and Uruguay. The last time Palermo was called up was ten years ago, when he was 25. To say this is a waste of national caps may be too judgemental but I would have thought that there could be better alternatives to Palermo as replacement for the injured Diego Milito. Click to continue reading...

Am Wochenende haben wir es in der Bundesliga erlebt, zwei Tore aus über 40 Metern in ein verwaistes Tor! Vom Torwart war bei diesen zwei kuriosen Toren nichts zu sehen, der musste aber auch vorher in allerhöchster Not außerhalb des Strafraums den Ball klären, weil ihn seine Abwehr schändlich im Stich gelassen hatte. Click to continue reading...