Moving on

Argentina’s Under 17s reached the quarter-final of their age group World Cup in Korea on Thursday, beating Costa Rica 2-0 with both goals coming from Boca centre back Gastón Sauro, in the 25th and 41st minutes of a very comfortable performance all round. Click here for highlights.
On Sunday, the junior selección will take on Nigeria, [...]

Two moves sealed, and a protest afoot

Juan Román Riquelme has signed a two year contract with Atlético Madrid. There, it’s done at last. Now let’s move on.
Juan Pablo Carrizo will fly back from Rome to Buenos Aires on Friday to rejoin River Plate on loan for six months. ‘Complications’ (which given some of the fuss a few years ago with in [...]

Apertura ‘07: round 5 goals

The near feature-length video of all the midweek goals is now online, and can be found through TN by clicking here. I suggest you put your feet up and get a cup of coffee beforehand. For those too lazy to sit through it, the best goals - which include one absolutely ridiculous piece of stoppage [...]

Apertura ‘07: round 5 scores and scorers

It’s been a very high-scoring round of football matches in the middle of the week, with 34 goals flying in in only ten matches and not a single 0-0 amongst them. There were three thrilling clásicos, a return to attacking form for River after a difficult few weeks both on and off the pitch, a [...]