Posted on Friday, 30 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
The fixture list is a bit of a mess this week, for mostly non-footballing reasons. A massive storm across the Argentine littoral, which has already killed two people in Entre Ríos Province, has caused the AFA to announce the cancellation of all matches played in Santa Fé Province this weekend.
The affected matches in Primera A [...]
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Posted on Friday, 30 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
To be honest I could copy and paste a review of any of River’s Libertadores performances this season - except for the first one - in here and it would be just as accurate. It was attack, attack, attack against LDU Quito at the Monumental late on Thursday night / early on Friday morning, and [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
This week’s article for Voice Of Football, which outlines the revolution at San Lorenzo since Ramón Díaz took charge at the start of the year, is online right now, exclusive to VOF.
Enjoy it here.
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Posted on Thursday, 29 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Rafael Di Zeo, head of Boca Juniors’ hooligan group La Doce, turned himself in to police at around lunchtime on Thursday, after close to three weeks on the run from justice. As mentioned previously, his brother and another La Doce gangleader had already been sentenced, but Di Zeo was the big draw. Today he was finally sentenced [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
There was no update on Vélez’s fortunes in the Libertadores last night, I’m afraid, because their match against Internacional in Porto Alegre kicked off far too late at night (by UK time) even for my tastes. Forgive me, then, for leaving it until now to report that for once this year, a match involving one or [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
You’ll all know this by now, of course, but Diego Maradona has celebrated the release of an Italian film about his life by being taken into hospital in Buenos Aires. Again. The reason given was an ‘imbalance’ in el pibe de oro’s health, nothing more specific - although the doctors wanted to make it very, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Juan Román Riquelme may be preparing to make his return to Boca permanent, according to La Nación tonight. The newspaper claims that ‘A Spanish daily’ (they don’t name them but a report appears in Marca) have revealed the midfielder’s house in Castellon was put up for sale a few days ago - the asking price [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Yet another rising star of Argentine football is set for Europe at a very young age. Sergio Romero, Racing’s stand-in goalkeeper, is 19 years old and has played one match for the first team. Yes, a 19-year-old goalkeeper. Yes, one match. And after a successful medical he’s now all set to move to AZ Alkmaar [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
… So they have done. From this Friday, cinema goers in Italy will be able to enjoy (or not) Maradona: The Hand of God, starring Marco Leonardi of Cinema Paradiso fame in the title role, and directed by Marco Risi. During the press conference in Rome to announce the film’s opening, Risi pointed out that [...]
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Posted on Monday, 26 March 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
So soon after the season’s started, it seems that TyC Sports have decided to stop making a downloadable version of their goals video altogether now. The view-in-your-browser one is still available, however. If anyone manages to save this to their hard drive in a file type they can play, please get in touch. You can [...]
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