Posted on Saturday, 30 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
The Primera B Metropolitano finally has its playoff finalists. The Reducido was delayed by the long gap between the 13th and 14th minutes of the Almirante Brown vs. Estudiantes de Buenos Aires championship playoff (finally won by Brown earlier in the week). Estudiantes played and won 2-0 against All Boys, and their reward is a final against [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 30 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Ezequiel Lavezzi, who was the subject of the Argentine summer’s most tedious transfer saga in January before eventually not moving from San Lorenzo to River - good decision, as it turned out - could now be going to Boca Juniors. A US$10 million offer from a Ukrainian club (either Dynamo Kiev or Shakhtar Donetsk, it’s thought) [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 30 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
The Under 20 World Cup Canada 2007 gets underway today (Saturday 30th June) when Poland take on Brazil in Montreal. As ever, Argentina are among the favourites.
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Posted on Friday, 29 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Nueva Chicago have a case to answer in three of Argentina’s courts next week. The manslaughter of Marcelo Cejas, the Tigre fan who was killed by a flying stone, and the subsequent rioting which followed Chicago’s relegation in Monday’s playoff second leg, will go to the courts where Chicago will also have to explain just [...]
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Posted on Friday, 29 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Mariano Pavone, the player of the Apertura and Estudiantes’ leading scorer as they won that championship and came third in the Clausura, leaves the La Plata side today for Seville, where he’ll be playing for Real Betis. There were offers from Udinese and Genoa in Italy, as well as one Greek and one Mexican club, but [...]
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Posted on Friday, 29 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Argentina started slowly against the USA, so slowly in fact that they went a goal down in the 8th minute to an Eddie Johnson strike. And in truth, they never really shone except in patches against a reserve side from a weaker footballing nation. What they did do, however, was score a few of their [...]
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Posted on Friday, 29 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
[Now updated with goals]
What was always going to be a tricky opening game for Colombia started off remarkably evenly, with Paraguay’s supremacy in the first half still not preventing the Colombians from getting a penalty after around 25 minutes. But Newell’s goalie Justo Villar saved from Alvaro Domínguez, and minutes later Roque Santa Cruz had [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 28 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
After the appetisers, the main course for Argentine fans (and fans of Argentina) finally arrives tonight. The selección kick off their Copa América campaign with a match against the United States, who as is now well documented have sent a reserve team to the tournament. Playing Mascherano at 5 between two box-to-box midfielders in Verón and [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 28 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
You’ve probably heard by now, because if there’s one result from the opening round of the Copa América that’s bound to go all over the world, it’s the great Brazil ballsing up their first match of the tournament. Mexico showed that their failure in the Gold Cup final was an aberration on a general upward [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 28 June 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
[Updated with goals]
The Copa América was graced on Wednesday night by one of those matches that just makes you glad you follow this game. Going at each other hammer and tongs right from the start, the two knew that this was a crucial game for both their qualification hopes, since the other two sides in [...]
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