Everyone's patience has a breaking point. It seems that finally, that of River Plate's board has reached the same point that Diego Simeone's got to a few months ago, because it was announced on Saturday that Ariel Ortega, the playmaker who had a vital role in River's first championship in four years during the Torneo [. Click to continue reading...

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi has stepped down as manager of Rosario club Newell's Old Boys, one week before the start of the 2008 Torneo Apertura. The manager has left the club after ten-and-a-half months in charge, probably a result of a poor relationship with club president Eduardo López and certain senior players, although for his own part he [. Click to continue reading...

One of the winter's longest-running transfer sagas has finally come to an end on Friday with the news that the apple of Diego Simeone's eye, Newell's Old Boys' Paraguayan striker Santiago Salcedo, has left Rosario to join River Plate. The champions have been ceded Salcedo's registration by Fernando Hidalgo and Eduardo López, a pair of businessmen who've just [. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Liverpool are meeting Rangers in a friendly match Saturday August 02th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here   Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!   Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Hertha Berlin are meeting Newcastle in a friendly match Friday August 01th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

San Lorenzo won the Copa del Invierno late on Wednesday night, beating Independiente 2-0 in the final in Mar Del Plata. San Lorenzo, without Andrés D'Alessandro and Diego Placente, have an otherwise almost unchanged playing squad from that which fought through the Clausura, but a new manager. Independiente, by contrast, have the same manager as [. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Celtic are meeting Tottenham  in a friendly match Friday August 01th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

Andrés D'Alessandro was heading back out of the country on Wednesday, again in a north-easterly direction, but not this time as far as Europe. In fact, he's making a short hop over the Río de la Plata and Uruguay to the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where 2005 Copa Libertadores winners Internacional are waiting [. Click to continue reading...

HEGS is back, but it feels, I must say, a bit like I hadn't really been away. When I left for Havana, Sergio Batista had named Lionel Messi in the squad for the Olympic Football Tournament, and Barcelona president Joan Laporta was making some decidedly 'we'll have to see about that'-type noises. The novel seems [. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Burgenland are meeting Arsenal in a friendly match. Watch the highlights here at footiedb.com Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Stuttgart are meeting Arsenal in a friendly Wednesday July 30th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!   Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Dundee united are meeting FC Barcelona in a friendly match Saturday July 26th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Kaizer Chiefs are meeting Manchester united in a friendly match Saturday July 26th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Chengdu Blades are meeting Chelsea in a friendly match Saturday July 26th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM her at footiedb.com. Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Celtic are meeting Cardiff city in a friendly match Thursday July 24th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

 2008-09 Pre season match: Hibernian are meeting FC Barcelona in a friendly match Thursday July 24th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM her at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Toluca are meeting Atletico Madrid in a friendly match Wednesday July 23th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Brondby are meeting Juventus in a friendly match on Wednesday July 23th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Chelsea are meeting Guangzhou Pharmaceutical F.C. in a friendly match Wednesday July 23th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Celtic are meeting Middlesbrough in a friendly match Tuesday July 22th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Athletic Bilbao are meeting FAR Rabat in a friendly match Tuesday July 22th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Arsenal are meeting Szombathelyi Haladas in a friendly match Tuesday July 22th. Watch highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

Pre season 2008-09: Orlando Pirates FC are meeting Manchester United in a friendly match Tuesday July 22th. Watch highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Hertha Berlin are meeting Liverpool in a friendly match Tuesday July 22th. Watch highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com   Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

Now, here's a surprise. For days, his departure has been a given, but on Monday Oscar Ahumada, who's been arguing with River Plate's directors about his contractual status for over a week, agreed to a contract extension with the Núñez club which will see him remain with the champions for the foreseeable future. Click to continue reading...

So the saying goes, and so it's proven this weekend. Germán Denis has moved clubs and continents, joining Ezequiel Lavezzi at Napoli, and is scoring as freely as ever in pre-season for his new side. He got a hat-trick in his first appearance (as did Lavezzi last year, funnily enough) and scored again on Sunday [. Click to continue reading...

A quick note to let you know that during the 2008 winter break (that's summer for our northern hemisphere readers!), the page formerly known as 'squad lists' has been renamed 'transfers', and will contain a list, updated as frequently and accurately as I can manage (but please bear with me) of all the ins and [. Click to continue reading...

Odd to be thinking this, never mind writing it, so soon after the previous season ended in South America (and delayed congratulations, by the way, to forwards Damián Mansó and Claudio Bieler, and manager Edgardo Bauza for ensuring some Argentine glory in the Copa Libertadores as Liga de Quito beat Fluminense on penalties last week), but [. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Tickets for Tranmere`s pre-season  friendly match against Liverpool this Saturday, 12 July, are sould out. Watch the highlights and livestream here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!   vs Post from: FootieDB.com Tranmere vs Liverpool: Highlights and Livestream - pre-season match Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match 12th July: Tranmere 0 - 1 Liverpool. Watch the highlights here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!    Post from: FootieDB.com Tranmere vs Liverpool 0-1: Highlights and Livestream - pre-season match Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Aberdeen are meeting Manchester United in a friendly match on Saturday. Watch the highlights here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!          Post from: FootieDB.com Aberdeen vs Manchester United: Highlights - Pre Season Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Aberdeen are meeting Manchester United in a friendly match on Saturday. Watch the highlights  and LIVESTREAM here re-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!          Post from: FootieDB.com Aberdeen vs Manchester United 0-2: Highlights - Pre Season Click to continue reading...

That's the message being sent to fans of Primera A clubs by the AFA. From the start of this year's Apertura, new regulations will be introduced to increase safety in the top flight stadia of Capital Federal. As part of a long-delayed initiative, clubs including River Plate, Boca Juniors, Vélez Sársfield and San Lorenzo will have to have 90% of their [. Click to continue reading...

Oscar Ahumada made a bit of a stir during River's successful Clausura campaign, criticising the club's fans in the aftermath of the superclásico defeat in La Bombonera before going on to be one of the team's best players in the subsequent matches, superb in particular against championship competitors Estudiantes. Click to continue reading...

It's an appalling pun I know. But the manager himself is a good one, according to Héctor García Cuervo, the administrator who chucked Blanquiceleste out on their ears a few weeks ago. The manager who (eventually) saved Racing from relegation will continue in his post next year. Meanwhile, Lanús youngster Lautaro Acosta has joined Sevilla, and [. Click to continue reading...