You know that baby wanted a photo with Martin Palermo... but his family stopped Veron's sleek black ride instead as it drove up to Estudiantes' training ground last week. The baby's got the "Papa, you lied. We were supposed to go to Boca's training ground, dammmit!

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Julio Grondona and Pirates of the Caribbean star, Veron, presented Argentina's 2010 World Cup jerseys yesterday. So what's the verdict, futbolitas? D'ya like it enough to wear it? Also,� Veron had to be nice when they asked him what he thought of the ongoing Bilardo-Dona rivalry.

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"¿Sabés lo que me duele a mi? Acá lo estamos acusando como si Diego hubiera asesinado a 10 millones de personas. El se desahogó y es difícil ser Diego Maradona. Diego es un gran tipo pero no lo toquen en el lado que le duele para sacar provecho de eso".
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• Are you ready for this? The folks at Marca amusingly invented an 'award' for Kaka so that he'd come to their editorial offices and give em a scoop! You know they'd been waiting AGES for this day to arrive. "I will try to score as many goals as I can against Milan.

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1. The governing bodies have finally succeeded in stacking the deck so firmly in favour of the major footballing nations that it is almost impossible for them not to qualify. Portugal won just two of their first seven games, but still managed to reach the playoffs simply because over the course of such a long group, they had time to recover.

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A very lucid and honest analysis from Veron about the national team struggles. As he said, everything has been done wrong from Grondona all the way down to the players.

There aren't too many players that would make such a statement.

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Imagine a world cup without the world's best player? It's still a distinct possibility with Argentina stuttering over the finish line. Defeat tonight and the unthinkable may become a reality.

If Diego Maradona's Argentina lose to Uruguay and Ecuador beat Chile, who have already qualified, then Argentina will miss out.

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Here's a report by TELEFE on the possible starting lineup against Uruguay.

Veron is in. Palermo will be on the bench and Messi will be in the starting lineup no matter what as long as Maradona is the manager.

Demichelis is in. Insua is out.

Maradona will go with 4 central defenders (Demichelis, Schiavi, Otamendi, Heinze) against Uruguay.

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Javier Zanetti

1998 World Cup.

From one of the most unforgettable Argentina-England games. A well practiced free kick play, brilliantly executed by Batistuta, Veron and el Pupi Zanetti.

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Estudiantes de La Plata is a soccer club in from La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are currently on top of the Argentine Primera and are the defending Copa Libertadores (the South America equivalent of the UEFA Champions League) champions. Former Lazio, Manchester United, Chelsea and Inter Milan midfielder, Juan Sebastián Verón is currently Estudiantes [. Click to continue reading...

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The biggest surprise of the latest call up list is of course Pablo Aimar.

Will Aimar be able to step in and lead Argentina's attack?

Though not a traditional playmaker, Aimar is certainly capable of participating in the play build up and has good passing skills.

And what about Aimar linking up with the players upfront?

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We all know that Argentina-Brasil is the biggest rivalry and the biggest game in world football.

Because of Argentina's place in the WC qualifying standings, today's game is of even more importance than usual. Today's game is for Argentina, as big of a must win as any game has ever been against Brasil.

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Messi, Tevez & Veron after the practice session with their comments about the Brasil game.

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According to Maradona and the player, Veron will be fit and available for the game against Brasil.

I really find that hard to believe as injury prone as Veron has been.

Argentina will once again have a less than fit Veron in the lineup for a very important game.

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So Shevchenko has finally ended his Chelsea nightmare and rejoined Dynamo Kiev. Once the most feared striker in the world, he never really made an impact at Chelsea, which is a shame because it has tainted his once fearsome reputation, and he seemed to deal with the whole situation with some dignity. Click to continue reading...

Well, the big game is almost a week away and it is time to begin the speculation about the starting lineup.

So who will be in the starting eleven against Brasil?

The GK will definitely be Andujar.

And the rest?

Though this wouldn't be the ideal team in my opinion, I think Maradona will go with:

D Zanetti
D Burdisso
D Otamendi
D Heinze

M Maxi Rodriguez
M Mascherano
M Veron
M ?

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Only 2 weeks in and the "focos rojos" are already blaring.
Pumas did not have a very good pre-season. They have a hard time beating Atlas at the Jalisco and Cruz Azul at home. So it's really no surprise that they have yet to get off the schneid. To make matters worse, the first goal was one of the worst (yet hilarious) own goals we'll ever see. Click to continue reading...

With all that went on with the Gold Cup over the past week, I almost forgot that the Mexican 2009 Apertura kicked off last week. As usual, there were plenty of surprises: Jaguares winning at Cruz Azul, San Luis' last second spot kick equalizer vs. Big Brother, and the Chivas Toluca goalfest to name a few. Click to continue reading...

Rio Ferdinand is the latest United player to answer the question ´And how do you think you will cope next season without Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez?´

Like all the players before him, Rio reckons we will be just fine, as we always are after selling good players.

"When you lose any players, your team plays differently no matter who you lose," said Ferdinand.

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ESTUDIANTES CAMPEÓN DE LA COPA LIBERTADORES
Gracias. Muchas gracias. A los jugadores, a esos once leones que se plantaron en Belo Horizonte y dejaron la vida por la camiseta. A los que no estuvieron, por lesión o porque estuvieron en el banco. A los que confiaron, pese a los pesimistas. Click to continue reading...

Cruzeiro were favourites to win the Copa Libertores final, having held Estudiantes to a 0-0 first leg draw in Argentina thanks to the heroics of Fabio. But it was Estudiantes who won the second leg 2-1 in Brazil. Henrique put Cruzeiro ahead early in the second half, but Estudiantes equalized when Gaston Fernandez tapped in both [. Click to continue reading...

The 50th edition of Copa Libertadores had its final match tonight at the Mineirao, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. After the nil draw in Argentina, it seemed Cruzeiro, the home team, was ready to lift the third title in the competition, the first since 1997.

However, a "Mineirazzo" took place and one more time Brazilian clubs failed at home.

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Cruzeiro X Estudiantes
Originally uploaded by ESPORTEPRESS ¿Quien diría que la brujita Veron jugaría mejor en Estudiantes de La Plata que en Inglaterra, y que ademas fuera campeón de liga y Libertadores?
39 años después Los estudiantes gritaron y alzaron la Copa tal y como lo hicieron en 1968, '69 y '70. Click to continue reading...

The final will, for only the eighth time in history, be contested by a Brazilian and an Argentinian side. Cruzeiro take on Estudiantes in the two legged final, hoping to put some gloss on what has been a slightly disappointing competition. Who will light up the final - Kleber or Veron? Which South American giant will triumph?

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Is that Felipão's long lost brother from Estudiantes? Those balloons look lovely on him, by the way! At least El Loco over there came prepared to celebrate his team's 1-0 victory over Nacional in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores semi-final tie last night.

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First off, I want to give a shout out to blog commenter and new daddy Travis the Septopus and of course to all us old daddy's out there: Adrian, Alex, Caribkid, Russ, and anyone else who ever donated chromosomes!

On such an auspicious day I also want to give you guys nothing but good news!

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Nilmar started and scored the winning goal as Brazil came from a goal behind to defeat Paraguay 2-1 in their latest World Cup qualifier.
Inter's left back Kléber also continued in the side after playing in Brazil's win against Uruguay on the weekend with another solid performance in the number 6 shirt. Click to continue reading...

The knives are out for Maradona. What was a whisper campaign is now leading to high anxiety and open calls. Where is Bilardo? Where is Pekerman? Where is Bianchi? There is serious doubt building up in Albiceleste fans whether Argentina can qualify for the World Cup with Maradona at the helm.

The inspirational quality of Maradona as player is crumbling before Maradona, the clueless manager.

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After having successfully answered the questions about whether he was better than Ronaldo or not the next big challenge for Messi is to make sure that Argentina qualify for the World Cup.
If Argentina fail to beat Colombia on Saturday they risk missing out on the World Cup altogether.
Maradona has made a few changes in the squad - Estudiantes captain Veron returns to the side to replace Juan Roman Riquelme.

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El encuentro terminó empatado en dos y nuestros muchachos hicieron un gran partido. Ibarra, Elizondo, Genga, Jauck, Morugo, Lescano, Veron Lopez , Barrios, Teper y Arraya � .

Estos fueron el once inicial del combinado de futbolistas libres � en� el amistoso ante el CENEF, que se jugó en el predio del club BANCO HIPOTECARIO en Villa Celina.

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The Albicelestes are training hard to prepare for this Saturday's qualifier against Columbia. The Dona called up everyone from Veron to his son-in-law Kun to the squad. Oh, we're not kidding about that one.

On the other hand, Messiah wants you to know that it's 'rude' to compare him to Maradona.

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It's all starting to build up now. Every which way you turn you see, hear or...er...smell something about the Champions League Final. It's being covered almost around the clock by Sky Sports News and has huge coverage on almost every sports site. So, it seems fitting to take a look today at the different Champions League Final-related stories doing the rounds online.

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Estudiantes de La Plata is a soccer club in from La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are ever present in the Argentine Primera and have won the league title on several occasions. Their last was during the Apertura (Winter) 2006 season. Former Lazio, Manchester United, Chelsea and Inter Milan midfielder, Juan Sebastián Verón currently plies his [. Click to continue reading...