Fuente: Arsenal de Sarandí
Tradición de Noviembre
Como es la costumbre en los fixtures de las últimas temporadas, la fecha 14 del Apertura se juega en Sarandí ante Boca Juniors. Pero a diferencia de los campeonatos anteriores, hoy ninguno de los equipos se juega cosas importantes pensando en el corto plazo (de acá a fin de año). Click to continue reading...

El interminable goleador argentino Martín Palermo se sumó a la lista de los futbolistas que saltaron al campo de juego con una máscara protectora nasal. Curioso.
Entre los tantos que debieron recurrir a este duro antifaz se encuentran el italiano Giampaolo Pazzini, el inglés John Terry y el japonés Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, por nombrar sólo a algunos de los más reconocidos. Click to continue reading...

Lo conocí una mañana de viernes, hace 9 años, en un aula cualquiera de la Facultad de Ciencias Juridico-administrativas de Castellón. Yo entré como siempre despistado a mi clase de Inglés de la Empresa, desorientado tras haberme levantado a las cinco y media de la mañana para coger ese tren que me llevaba de Valencia a Castellón. Click to continue reading...

Fecha 10
COLÓN 2 X 1 SAN LORENZO
(Federico Nieto -2-; Marcelo Goux en contra)
ESTUDIANTES 1 X 0 ATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN
(Mauro Boselli)
BANFIELD 3 X 0 GODOY CRUZ
(Santiago Silva -2-, James Rodríguez)
VÉLEZ SARSFIELD 1 X 2 NEWELL'S
(Jonathan Cristaldo; Jorge Boghossian -2-)
ROSARIO CENTRAL 2 X 0 INDEPENDIENTE
(Jorge Broun -p-, Emilio Zelaya)
CHACARITA JUNIORS 1 X 0 HURACÁN
(Mariano Echeverría)
RACING 1 X 1 LANÚS
(Claudio Yacob; Eduardo Salvio)
RIVER PLATE 1 X 1 BOCA JUNIORS
(Marcelo Gallardo; Martín Palermo)
TIGRE 1 X 1 ARGENTINOS
(Martín Morel; Néstor Ortigoza -p-)
LEE ADEMÁS:
LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: RIVER 1 BOCA 1
DAME PELOTA: A MANO Y EN DEUDA
LA REDÓ: DUELO Y MELANCOLÍA
FUTEBOL PORTENHO: COLÓN VENCE MAIS UMA E É O LIDER
VALE CHUMBAR: SE FUERON COMO VINIERON
FÚTBOL RUSO: SABOR A POCO
TM: CENTRAL DE OFERTAS
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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 [...] Click to continue reading...

Como en el Clausura 2009 River y Boca empataron uno a uno, esta vez en El Monumental. Los goles, al igual que en el superclásico del torneo pasado, los convirtieron Martín Palermo y Marcelo Gallardo. A pesar de que no se jugó bien, Boca siempre tuvo la iniciativa ante el planteo ultradefensivo de un rival al que el empate le caía como anillo al dedo.

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I'm a bit late due to a computer issue the match is already 8 minutes old but is still at 0-0 presently. Open this post, and refresh periodically for sort-of-live-ish text updates on a thoroughly middle-of-the-table superclásico. River Plate 0 0 Boca Juniors (8 mins) 8 mins: Shortly after Nico Domingo drags a shot just [. Click to continue reading...

There's a vital grudge match in England this afternoon as Liverpool host Manchester United in the Premier League, and also today Indian football hosts a less globally famous but no less passionate derby with Mohun Bagan taking on East Bengal. For a change, I'm not going to bill the superclásico as the world's biggest derby [. Click to continue reading...

No pasa por una cuestión presupuestaria: no son comparables las cotizaciones ni el juego de Marcelo Gallardo, Ariel Ortega, Matías Almeyda, Martín Palermo, Hugo Ibarra y Juan Riquelme con los de Cristiano Ronaldo o Lionel Messi. Sin embargo el superclásico argentino se cataloga entre los eventos deportivos más destacados del mundo, incluso por sobre los derbys Barcelona – Real Madrid, Inter – Milan o Glasgow – Celtic. 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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Que es de madera, que no tiene cintura, que no sabe jugar con los pies. Una y otra vez Martín Palermo, goleador histórico Xeneize y (desde hoy) héroe nacional, tuvo que soportar las críticas de sus detractores. Hoy el Optimista del Gol se puso la camiseta albiceleste, y bajo una intensa lluvia, salvó al equipo de Maradona de un empate que complicaba de sobremanera las chances de clasificación a Sudáfrica.

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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. Martín Palermo has waited ten years for the chance to atone [. Click to continue reading...

It appears that Pipita Higuain will be in the starting lineup against Peru.

A Messi-Higuain partnership is exciting and with the help of Aimar and Di Maria, Argentina's attack will get a boost. There is goal scoring potential with those players on the field.

Hopefully, the national team will get back to scoring goals and winning on Saturday.

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La pelea arriba en la Fecha 7 (OTRA VEZ PERDÓN POR POSTEAR HOY)
PICÓ AL LEÓN
ARGENTINOS 1 X 0 ESTUDIANTES
Matías Caruzzo
NO SE ANIMARON
COLÓN 0 X 0 BANFIELD
MARTÍN DE LEJOS
BOCA 3 X 2 VÉLEZ SARSFIELD
Sebastián Battaglia, Juan Román Riquelme, Martín Palermo; Leandro Caruso x 2
CHOLO SE FUE PIPO
SAN LORENZO 2 X 1 RIVER PLATE
Leandro Romagnoli -p-, Bernardo Romeo; Diego Buonanotte -p-
__________________________________________
El resto de la fecha


INDEPENDIENTE 2 X 1 TIGRE
HURACÁN 3 X 1 RACING
NEWELL'S 3 X 0 ATLÉTICO TUCUMÁN
GIMNASIA 2 X 0 CHACARITA
LANÚS 1 X 0 GODOY CRUZ
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Lee además:


LÍNEA DE 5: NO SE METAN CON EL BICHO
LA PELOTA NO DOBLA: BICHI COLORADO
FÚTBOL RUSO: JORNADA DE LOCALES
TREMENDAMENTE MOTIVADOS - URBANO: NOS ROBARON
VALE CHUMBAR: PREMIOS VALE CHUMBAR
FUTEBOL PORTENHO: FENÔMENO É PALERMO
TRISTELME: WALLPAPER 27

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Will Palermo be in the starting lineup?
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The practice sessions have begun for Saturday's must win WC qualifier against Peru.

Maradona called up Estudiantes central midfielder Rodrigo Braña because Mascherano arrived from Liverpool with muscular fatigue and it is not known yet if Masche will be fit for the Peru game.

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Lo dijimos antes del partido, el partido de hoy ante Vélez era una final sin campeón, un partido necesario para que este Boca, que venía mal, golpeado, comenzará a levantar. Y así lo tomaron los jugadores. Once leones que hoy dejaron todo en la cancha, once jugadores que nos volvieron a dar una enorme alegría, una alegría que los Xeneizes necesitabamos como el agua para seguir creyendo en este equipo.

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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 Martín Palermo scored [. Click to continue reading...

No fue media cancha, fue adelante. Unos dicen que 45 metros, otros que 38, unos más que 39. Yo solo digo que Martín Palermo es un goleador de raza, nato, tiene dibujada la portería y hacer lo que hizo significa una forma más de tener la meta grabada entre ceja y ceja.

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Martín Palermo scored an amazing 45-yard header to win a five-goal bonanza in La Bombonera as Boca Juniors became the first team this season to beat Vélez Sársfield. It's got the more excitable elements of the Argentine press (which is to say, the Argentine press) insisting that he should start for the selección. Click to continue reading...

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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One of the matches on Wednesday night featured a 'national' team playing Ghana in Córdoba. Martín 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. Click to continue reading...

Martín Palermo
Originally uploaded by Avanzando Martín Palermo es uno de los delanteros mas controversiales del futbol. Quien no recuerda sus tres penales fallados en un mismo partido con la selección argentina. Veamos:
Palermo cumplirá en noviembre 36 años y no hacía goles en la selección argentina desde la Copa América de 1999; tiene cinco tantos en nueve encuentros. Click to continue reading...

En un partido que sirvió para reunir cordobeses, aplaudir a Maradona y lesionar a cualquiera, Argentina le ganó a Ghana 2-0 con goles de Martín Palermo que pide pista para las eliminatorias.
No es tan complejo el asunto si sobran centros y bajitos y faltan goles y hombres por delante de Messi. Click to continue reading...

Argentina's full selección may be struggling to stagger across the line in the race to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but one country who are already there will take on a locally-based B team in Córdoba on Wednesday night. The starting XI isn't being reported as I type this up, but [. Click to continue reading...

Es muy difícil para mi poder escribir algo sobre este presente de Boca, como supongo que para ustedes también será muy complicado poder opinar de este tema. En los últimos años nos acostumbramos a festejar, a ver a un Boca arrollador, avasallan-te, tanto de local como de visitante.

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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...

I've been in Barcelona on holiday since Wednesday, hence the lack of action on HEGS during the past few days, but before I left I still kept myself busy off-blog by writing a piece for ESPN Soccernet on the managerial pressures at Argentina's two domestic giants, River Plate and Boca Juniors. If you'd like to [. Click to continue reading...

Diego Maradona confirmed his list of players that will take part in the upcoming friendly match against Ghana in Córdoba on September 30th. The biggest surprise of the this list was the return of Ariel Ortega after a six-year absence. The River Plate captain has been out of the national team mix since 2002 after he was part of the disappointing Argentine side that was booted out in the group stages in Korea and Japan. Click to continue reading...

So while the national team manager is on vacation in Italy doing whatever it is that he is doing, Carlos Bilardo is taking charge of the call up list and in reality, the national team, for the upcoming friendly against Ghana.

The players called up will be from the domestic league only.

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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. Martín Palermo was sent off for the visitors for a violent challenge on national side left back Emiliano Papa, and Jonathan [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

As you may be aware, Argentina play Brazil later on Saturday (kick off at 21:30 local time, 01:30 Sunday morning UK time) in a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Brazil don't need to win but Argentina, if they're going to keep alive realistic hopes of qualifying automatically, have to. Click to continue reading...

So, we might see Palermo upfront with Messi and Schiavi as one of the center backs against Brasil.

Speechless............

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Diego Maradona llamó a Palermo para jugar ante Brasil

Además convocó a Rodrigo Braña y Rolando Schiavi.

El entrenador del seleccionado argentino, Diego Maradona, convocó esta noche otros tres jugadores del ámbito local: Martín Palermo, Rodrigo Braña y Rolando Schiavi, para los próximos partidos por las eliminatorias mundialistas.

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Only a quick news update here: there have been a few late call-ups by Diego Maradona for the Argentine national team as they prepare for their World Cup qualifiers at home to Brazil (in Rosario, on Saturday) and away to Paraguay (in Asunción next week). This was expected because Maradona left the door open for [. Click to continue reading...

It was the Argentine league sponsored by AARP. The stars of the weekend happened to be three of the elder statesmen of the league.
Ariel Ortega played a putrid 70-plus minutes until he assisted on the equalizer and scored the game-winner on a brilliant chip shot to put a moribund River Plate over Chacarita Juniors at the Monumental with what might be the goal of the week. Click to continue reading...