The Never-Ending Story

So you thought that with another round of World Cup qualifiers over, we wouldn’t be hearing anything about Juan Román Riquelme for a while, eh? Well, you thought wrong. Argentina will have to wait a while to put behind them the memories of last night’s defeat, but one major member of their squad could soon [...]

A game of two halves

Fourteen years ago, Colombia travelled to Buenos Aires to take on an Argentina who’d been in three of the previous four World Cup finals (winning two) and were given no chance whatsoever of getting a result. Inspired by Carlos Valerrama and with Faustino Asprilla hitting a hat-trick, they blew the hosts away, 5-0. Tuesday night [...]