Sergio Batista today named his Argentina squad to take on Spain in the second friendly of his
caretaker managership with the team. The match will take place at 5pm local time on Tuesday, 7th
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If you're an Argentine football fan and a bit of a glutton for punishment or if you're otherwise
interested in what exactly Diego Maradona demonstrated to us during Argentina's World Cup campaign
you can click here to read ... Continue reading →
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The octopus predicting Argentina's downfall was right. On Saturday, Diego Maradona's team crashed
out of the 2010 World Cup, thrashed 4-0 by an excellent Germany side meeting their own first real
challenge of the knockout stages. A lack of creativity ... Continue reading →
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Argentina's passage to the second round of the 2010 World Cup having been confirmed on Tuesday, the
country's main concern during Wednesday's matches was who their rivals in the quarter-finals will
be should they see off Mexico on Sunday. There ... Continue reading →
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Argentina confirmed their place in the second round of the 2010 World Cup on Tuesday with a 2-0 win
over a very defensive Greece side in Lionel Messi's first match as captain of the selección. It
took a while for ... Continue reading →
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Lionel Messi will turn 23 years old on Thursday. He's managed quite a lot already in his club
career (indeed, if he keeps scoring for Barcelona at his current rate he'll be their all-time
highest scorer six months before he ... Continue reading →
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Argentina will almost certainly secure their qualification for the second round of the 2010 World
Cup on Tuesday when they take on Greece. They can afford to lose by five goals against Greece, and
even then they might not go ... Continue reading →
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A quick note to say that those who are interested can now see a map of the birthplaces of all of
the Argentina squad for the 2010 World Cup, provided to me by Bill's Sports Maps, on the new 'Squad
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Argentina's performance yesterday against South Korea was highly impressive, and plenty of people
have suddenly started suspecting they could go all the way and win the World Cup after all. Four
years ago, though, we were in the same place ... Continue reading →
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Well, it's fair to say the sceptics didn't expect this. The noises coming from the Argentina camp
about team unity and just needing to spend some time together look like they weren't just hot air
on Saturday the selección ... Continue reading →
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Diego Maradona broke the Argentine national side's self-imposed media blackout (bar Sergio
Agüero's infuriatingly over-exposed Twitter account) on Tuesday with a press conference two days
before he'd been expected to call one. Javier Mascherano sat alongside him, mute for the ...
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If simply knowing which players are in the squad isn't enough, Argentina-watchers can rejoice
today: the full list of which players will use which shirt numbers during the 2010 World Cup has
been released. Lionel Messi takes the number 10, ... Continue reading →
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First, apologies to anyone who saw the starting XI I posted shortly before kick off, and accepted
it as gospel. I was copying it from Cancha Llena (La Nación's sports website) and they got it
completely wrong (it wasn't the ... Continue reading →
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In the next couple of hours (supposedly) Diego Maradona will confirm the 23 names he's taking as
members of the Argentina squad to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Olé are confident
enough that they've got the list ... Continue reading →
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There were numerous lists before Maradona's preliminary squad of 30 was announced yesterday
speculating on who might be included, and outlining who the author would include if they were the
manager. Well, I thought I'd try something a little different. ... Continue reading →
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Having sat inside all bloody afternoon waiting for an announcement that was supposed to come at 3pm
and eventually arrived just after 7, this will only be a brief post, but all the same I thought I'd
put up a ... Continue reading →
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Oh yes. It's back! After a bit of a break whilst I packed to come away and settled into my new
hometown, Argentines Abroad returns now I've got some time and no jetlag. It was a less than
spectacular weekend for the usual suspects in the top flights of England and Spain, but two new
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Esta vez no se vieron las caras Andrés Iniesta , Diego Forlán, Sergio Agüero
, Kaká y Sergio Ramos, para disputar una partido de fútbol sino para
formar parte del videoclip "Hay Haití" , aunque los mejores
cantantes no lo son pero el solo hecho de atreverse a participar habla mucho
de su persona.
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Esta vez no se vieron las caras Andrés Iniesta , Diego Forlán, Sergio Agüero
, Kaká y Sergio Ramos, para disputar una partido de fútbol sino para
formar parte del videoclip "Hay Haití" , aunque los mejores
cantantes no lo son pero el solo hecho de atreverse a participar habla mucho
de su persona.
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Esta vez no se vieron las caras Andrés Iniesta , Diego Forlán, Sergio Agüero
, Kaká y Sergio Ramos, para disputar una partido de fútbol sino para
formar parte del videoclip "Hay Haití" , aunque los mejores
cantantes no lo son pero el solo hecho de atreverse a participar habla mucho
de su persona.
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Lionel Messi had the weekend off, putting in a relatively quiet shift, but Gonzalo Higuaín scored
again as Real Madrid kept up the pace in La Liga. Elsewhere two Argentines got their hands on the
French League Cup, Martín Demichelis donned a face mask to return to action for Bayern München
(he'll be using it [.
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Getafe 2 - 4 Real Madrid(1-0) 13' Ronaldo, (2-0) 20' Higuain, (3-0) 23' Higuain, (4-0) 37' Ronaldo, (1-4) 38' Parejo, (2-4)
80' Pedro Leon
It had been widely reported before the match that
Real Madrid had a worse game to
points ratio in El Coliseum than in the Camp Nou.
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Virtuoso performances from David Villa and Sergio Agüero ensured the Spanish contigent of
Atletico Madrid and Valencia passed through to the quarter-finals of the Europa
League. On a night full of goals,
Sergio Agüero provided two of his own, as his
one-man show in the first half was enough to push Atlético over the line.
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A very late Argentines Abroad this week, because I was in Manchester over the weekend and didn't
get home until Tuesday night. One advantage of this is that we saw a very mixed midweek lot of
action. In England it was a bad night for Argentines in the FA Cup Pablo Zabaleta and Julio [...]
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This weekend has seen Juan Pablo Carrizo damage his cause in the battle for the national #1 shirt;
Internazionale drew with Germán Denis' Napoli, and Gabriel Heinze was involved in a war of words
with Real Madrid's sporting director Jorge Valdano. Roberto Abbondanzieri looks set to move from
Boca Juniors to Internacional de Porto Alegre.
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For a change, Carlos Tevez had a quiet match in the Premier League, with Manchester City losing to
Everton (Pablo Zabaleta wasn't much better). Elsewhere though, Argentines were in form again.
Lionel Messi became the youngest player ever to score 100 competitive goals for Barcelona and also
the youngest to score 101.
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Atlético Madrid are pure entertainment. The Jekyll and Hyde of
Spanish football added
another chapter to their colourful past as they achieved what no other team had ever achieved in
Copa del Rey history; to come back from a first-leg 3 goal deficit. And in typical
Atlético style, they did it hard way.
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The first proper Argentines Abroad of the new year sees a narrow spread of criollo achievement, but
an impressive one nonetheless. Lionel Messi started the defence of his numerous player of the year
awards with a hat trick. His next goal for Barcelona will be the hundredth of his club career. In
England, Manchester City [.
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