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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Is it December already? Then it must be time for Argentines across Europe to wonder what possessed
them to move to a continent where Christmas is celebrated in a cold climate. The performances are
still decent, though. Gonzalo HiguaÃn scored again for Real Madrid as Lionel Messi ensured
Barcelona kept their noses in front; Carlos [.
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The reason for AA going up a little later this week was, of course, widely forecast, but I still
wanted to wait for it to be made official. Don't count your chickens and all that. On Tuesday (or
late on Monday if you're in Argentina), Lionel Messi was named France Football's European
Footballer Of The [.
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On the 22nd December, Argentina will play a friendly against the Catalán national side. Diego
Maradona's not allowed to watch (the appeal against his ban was thrown out by FIFA on Wednesday),
but he's named the squad all the same. Catalonia were banned from playing a match with the USA back
in 2007 but, when [.
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In England, there was a clash to bring back memories of when the superclásico was high profile
enough to form a Copa Libertadores semi-final, rather than being played between two teams who
probably won't even qualify for the tournament, as Javier Mascherano's Liverpool took on Carlos
Tevez's Manchester City.
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Las manos ya no solo sirven a los arqueros para rescatar a sus equipos de la derrota. Ahora,
también ayudan a los jugadores para avanzar en rondas finales, en copas del rey, en ligas y hasta
para conseguir un boleto del mundial.
A continuación, el top cinco de goles con la mano.
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Argentines Abroad is delayed slightly this week by the Monday night fixture bumping the normal
domestic coverage a day on, and the fact I've been writing an article for another site (more of
which later in the week). That's useful in some ways because the Copa del Rey in Spain has ensured
there's action to [.
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On the 14th November Diego Maradona's Argentina will face Spain in Atlético de Madrid's Estadio
Vicente Calderón in a friendly as the first part of their preparation for the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa. On Friday, Maradona named his squad for the match, which will consist solely of
players playing for clubs outside Argentina, [.
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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.
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Han pasado ya tres jornadas en la liga española en donde los Colchoneros de
Madrid no han conocido aún la victoria y solo tienen un mÃsero punto, producto
de un empate.
La preocupación es mucha pues este arranque de liga se asemeja mucho al inicio de liga en
1999-2000 en donde los primeros tres duelos sumó cero puntos
el conjunto de Madrid,despues al final del torneo los colchoneros sufrieron el descenso a
la segunda división española.
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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 [.
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Saturday night saw the big South American clásico in Rosario as Argentina hosted Brazil in the
qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, and Diego Maradona's reign as manager will be marked forever by
the result: Argentina lost a qualifier at home for only the second time in their history. The first
was the 0-5 loss [.
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Friday saw the announcement of Diego Maradona's national team squad to face Brazil in Rosario on
the 5th September, which will then take on Paraguay days later in Asunción. Matches between
Argentina and Brazil are always intense affairs, but with so much riding on this game for
Maradona's men in particular, el pibe de oro [.
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Wednesday afternoon saw Russia take on Argentina in a clash of two of FIFA's top ten ranked
national sides in a friendly in Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow. Diego Maradona's men, eager to recover
some sort of dignity and continuity to their play after iffy recent performances and results, won
against another side known for their neat [.
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On Wednesday Argentina play Russia in Moscow in an international friendly, with Diego Maradona's
charges looking to gain some sort of momentum to take into their World Cup qualifier at home to
Brazil in Rosario next month. Argentine sports daily Olé claim that Andrei Arshavin is viewed as a
'hope for the future' in Russia, [.
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On Wednesday evening Argentina will attempt to get over their recent altitude sickness with a World
Cup 2010 qualifier away to Ecuador. Victory would be a massive step towards ensuring that Gabriel
Heinze will be blighting the first African World Cup next year (injuries permitting of course), but
after the debacle against Bolivia on the 1st April [.
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On a terrible pitch, Argentina played poorly on Saturday but took three points all the same from a
Colombian side who pressured them all the way and made them work hard for the points. Getafe
defender Daniel 'Cata' DÃaz made the breakthrough in the eleventh minute of the second half. It
wasn't a pretty performance, [.
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Argentina host Colombia tonight at 6pm Argentine time (10pm British Summer Time) on the kind of
pitch that even Wembley Stadium Ltd. would be embarrassed to see England play on. After Argentine
rock band Los Piojos played in El Monumental last Saturday, the AFA have wait for it painted bits
of the pitch [.
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Saturday sees Diego Maradona and his men finally get the chance, after a two-month wait, to put
well and truly behind them that astonishing 6-1 humping they took in La Paz on April Fools' Day.
They take on Colombia on a pitch in the Estadio Monumental which Diego has said 'is worse than the
one [...]
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The European league seasons are now all over, as is the Mexican championship, but Argentines have
once again had a say, with European places still up for grabs, another title claimed in France and
one of Maradona's new boys very nearly turning the tide of the Mexican playoff final. With the
trophies wrapped up in [.
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Diego Maradona has announced the squad for Argentina's next competitive matches, the World Cup 2010
qualifiers at home to Colombia on the 6th of June, and away to Ecuador on the 10th. The purpose of
that 'B' international on Wednesday night has been revealed no fewer than nine players from the
domestic game have [.
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HEGS Award voting season (nominations to the address in that post please) got underway with another
championship for a team with Argentine representation this weekend, as Porto claimed their fourth
consecutive Portuguese crown. Elsewhere MartÃn Demichelis celebrated the birth of his child with a
rare goal in Germany, and Hernán Crespo started for Internazionale!
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...Plus the European Cup semi-final second legs. That's an easy one to get out the way quickly:
Carlos Tevez didn't feature as Manchester United booked their place in the final, whilst Lionel
Messi had a quiet game for Barcelona but set up a last-gasp equaliser for Andrés Iniesta to put
Barcelona through on away goals [.
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With league titles on the verge of being decided across Europe, there were some important
contributions made by Argentines this weekend, and at least one other could come on Tuesday when
Lionel Messi's Barcelona take on Chelsea in the European Cup semi-final first leg. To see who did
what over the weekend just gone, though, [.
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It was a subdued effort from most of the Argentine foreign legion last weekend, but here we are to
round it up as usual. The most notable Argentine contributions of the weekend past are right here,
including a championship win which, for some reason, didn't get as much coverage as Angel Cabrera's
US Masters win.
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The majority of the players who so failed to distinguish themselves last Wednesday were rested by
their clubs on their return from what Sir Alex Ferguson, Carlos Tevez's boss at Manchester United,
called 'Mars' this weekend. A few Argentines were in action, though, so here as ever is the rundown
- a rather briefer one than normal.
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Diego Maradona's side have arrived in Bolivia for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in La Paz and,
although the boss is keeping his cards close to his chest, it looks like there'll be one or two
changes, the most notable of which are Lucho González replacing Newcastle's Jonás Gutiérrez, and
Sergio Agüero starting on the bench.
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What a way to officially debut as the national team coach of your beloved country hey!? Well i
guess it helps when you have some of the world best youngsters on your team, but that's just one of
the perks when you're Argentinian I guess. On another note... and I don't want to sound like a
cynic here, but have you noticed that all the press has been about Maradona.
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Diego Armando Maradona made his competitive debut as Argentina manager on Saturday night in a
packed Estadio Monumental, with a team shorn of Juan Román Riquelme, who threw a hissy fit retired
from the international game the day this squad was announced. Diego's old shirt - the number 10 -
was handed from Román to [.
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The latest double-header of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is upon us
this weekend, so with my head now sufficiently back on track after two weeks back home, it seems as
good a time as any to have a look at what our boys abroad have been doing this weekend. [...]
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In amongst the flurry of goals served up for us by Gimnasia de Jujuy and Rosario Central on Friday
night, the fact got obscured (on HEGS at least - sorry) that Diego Maradona had named his first
competitive squad as Argentina manager, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers at
home to Venezuela and [.
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The goals from the third round of matches in the Torneo Clausura 2009 are online now, and you can
watch them on the TN Sportblog by clicking here. If you want the running order of this video,
or a link to the TN video of this week's goals from the lower divisions, read on... Running
order for [...]
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The biggest challenge of Diego Maradona's nascent international managerial career took place in
Marseilles on Wednesday evening, and Argentina passed their test with flying colours, showing guts
and a bit of good football to beat France 2-0. France vs Argentina was a fast-paced affair, with
Franck Ribery the main danger for the hosts early on.
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