River Plate and Boca Juniors drew 1-1 in the last clásico of the Torneos de Verano on Sunday night, after which a penalty shootout decided that the Copa Revancha went to River, who won the penalties 3-2. You can watch both goals and the shootout right here. Lucas Viatri headed Boca into the lead after [. Click to continue reading...

The goals from Saturday night's match in Mar del Plata between Independiente and Racing are right here. Racing claimed the Copa Ciudad de Mar del Plata with a 2-1 win over their Avellaneda rivals, with goals from new signing Claudio Bieler and Matías Cahais giving them the advantage before El Rojo's consolation with 8 minutes [. Click to continue reading...

It may not count for anything, but a superclásico always attracts a lot of attention regardless, so here are the goals from Wednesday night's 3-1 River Plate victory in the Copa Desafío in Mar del Plata. The two teams will square up again in Mendoza at the weekend for the Copa Revancha. Paraguayan starlet Ricardo [. Click to continue reading...

I'm giving the Torneos de Verano a fairly wide berth, as readers may have noticed, mainly because I find them mind-numbingly dull. All the same, it would be wrong to totally ignore them, and there've been some interesting results in the last few days. Here, then, you can watch the goals from Estudiantes' 4-1 demolition [. Click to continue reading...

There you'll see, during the Torneo de Veano, an Argentinean summer tournament won by Independiente via a 3-2 score, River Plate's Maximilliano Coronel achieve sitter missing infamy two minutes into the video. Fortunately for him, the tournament is rather insignificant; unfortunately, he now lives in the YouTube generation. Click to continue reading...

Here we are, finally back at full speed. Well, almost, anyway. We don't have the Argentine Clausura or Brazilian Serie A yet, but we do have the Torneo de Verano and Paulista League. Almost all of the European Leagues are back in action, save Russia, which won't start for several weeks yet. Nevertheless, we're pretty damn close.

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A quick news update this one: It was confirmed on Thursday that the Argentine national team will play two friendlies in Buenos Aires prior to leaving for the World Cup. The original plan was to play the matches in Europe (fans there have more money, you see), but the players apparently requested that they play [. Click to continue reading...

The first football of the new year is already underway in Argentina; on Saturday Banfield and Huracán played out a 0-0 draw in which the champions of Argentina had more chances but couldn't put them away with Santiago Silva, whilst in the first of the AFA's official triangular tournaments (there's no round robin of the [. Click to continue reading...

At first it appeared that we were finally back at a level in which we could bring back the Top Five Matches of the Week. The top three domestic leagues in the world were all back in action, as was the Liga Sagres. Also, the Torneo de Verano started in Argentina as well as the continuation of the Interliga in Mexico.

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First of all, happy new year, HEGS readers! On Sunday the first of Argentina's clubs returned to their training facilities to prepare for the pre-season of the Torneos de Verano and (for some) Copa Libertadores qualification. The new year brings familiar issues though: Banfield are starting to accept that they're likely to lose Santiago Silva, whilst [. Click to continue reading...