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Since I have to work British office hours rather than Argentine ones, I’ve been a bit too tired, the last few days, to have finished the off-the-pitch look back on 2008 yet. It will go online in the closing hours of New Year’s Day, though, so don’t feel you’ve missed out. HEGS has readers right across [...]
Filed under: Hasta El Gol Siempre | Tagged: Happy new year | 9 Comments »
To start the ball rolling for the next edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) have released their latest all-time league table of the best teams since the competition began. And thus, 2009 can end on a happier note for River Plate fans of a slightly idiotic bent. Because [...]
Filed under: Argentine football, Argentinos Juniors, Arsenal de Sarandí, Banfield, Boca Juniors, Colón de Santa Fé, Continental football, Copa Libertadores, Estudiantes, Football, Football clubs, Gimnasia, History, Huracán, Independiente, Lanús, Newell's Old Boys, Quilmes, Racing Club, River Plate, Rosario Central, San Lorenzo, Vélez Sarsfield, league table | Tagged: Argentine football, Copa Libertadores historical table, South American football | 1 Comment »
Boca Juniors, the newly-crowned champions of Argentina, have been doing bit of re-jigging, but the key man will be very familiar to them. Monday brought confirmation that title-winning coach Carlos Ischia will be staying for another year, after signing an extension to his contract. The long-awaited comeback of another manager who’s had a teensy bit [...]
Filed under: Argentine football, Argentine league, Argentines abroad, Boca Juniors, Carlos Ischia, Domestic, Football, Football clubs, Football managers, International football, Players, Primera A, Roberto Abbondanzieri, Transfers | Tagged: Argentine football, Bianchi, Boca, Córdoba, Ischia, Primera A, Transfers | 4 Comments »
Hopefully all HEGS readers had a good few days off for Christmas (those who had days off for it, at least). After a couple of days away from the keyboard myself (you only need a mouse to play Football Manager), I hope I’ve now got things straight enough to look back on what was a [...]
Filed under: 2008 Torneo Apertura, Argentine football, Argentine league, Boca Juniors, Colón de Santa Fé, Domestic, Football, Football awards, Football clubs, Goal videos, Hasta El Gol Siempre, Independiente, José Sand, Lanús, Lucas Viatri, Martín Morel, Newell's Old Boys, Players, Primera A, River Plate, Tigre, Vélez Sarsfield | Tagged: Apertura 2008, Apertura review, Argentine football, Battaglia, Blanco, Boca, Fuertes, Independiente, Lanús, Morel, Newell's, Primera A, Ramírez, River, Salvio, sand, Tigre, Vélez Sársfield third shirt, Viatri, Zuculini | 4 Comments »
Christmas will mean a day or two off, but for the sake of keeping up to speed I’m going to set this post to go up at some point on Christmas Day, because it’s a short but important point. Julio Grondona’s been talking again. For a change, there was one very interesting piece of good sense [...]
Filed under: Argentine football, Argentine league, Domestic, Football, Primera A | Tagged: Argentine football, Grondona, Primera A | 4 Comments »
HEGS will return to normal service a little later in the week (depending on how long I take to get bored at the prospect of a four day weekend with nothing to do but watch TV and eat), but for now, to all those of my readers from Argentina to Japan (oh yes, we’ve got [...]
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In the end it was the most nail-biting of finishes, as Tigre tried and tried to break down Boca’s resistance, but the most incredible of titles wasn’t to be. Boca lost the match, 1-0, to a Leandro Lázzaro header midway through the second half – but with all three sides tied on three points in [...]
Filed under: 2008 Torneo Apertura, Argentine football, Argentine league, Boca Juniors, Carlos Ischia, Diego Cagna, Domestic, Football, Football clubs, Football managers, Goal videos, Primera A, Results, Tigre | Tagged: Tigre, Argentine football, Primera A, Boca Juniors, lázzaro, Morel, Ischia, Cagna, Gracián, Dátolo, Apertura 2008, Boca Tigre, Boca campeón, García | 8 Comments »
By the end of today, Argentina will have a new champion. San Lorenzo are out of the running due to the goal difference mathematics, so it’s a straight race between Boca Juniors and Tigre. Boca have won twenty-eight titles (amateur and professional), whilst Tigre have finished second, once – and that was a year ago. [...]
Filed under: 2008 Torneo Apertura, Argentine football, Argentine league, Boca Juniors, Carlos Ischia, Diego Cagna, Domestic, Fixtures, Football, Football clubs, Football managers, History, Players, Primera A, Tigre | Tagged: Argentine football, Primera A, Tigre Boca, Apertura 2008, Boca Tigre, Argentine playoff, Primera A playoff | 7 Comments »
It’s been mostly pretty dire on the pitch, but 2008 will be remembered fondly by fans of Racing Club de Avellaneda. After years of fan protests and struggles, Blanquiceleste were finally pronounced unfit to run the club earlier in the year, and on Sunday 21st December, elections were held for the first time in eleven [...]
Filed under: Argentine football, Argentine league, Domestic, Fans, Football, Football clubs, Primera A, Racing Club, Results | Tagged: Argentine football, Lalín, Molina, Racing, Racing elections | 6 Comments »
The AFA’s incompetence in organising a playoff system that might have either rendered the final match meaningless, or ensured that one team would go into it without any motivation to win, has been papered over by Boca Juniors, who on Saturday evening beat San Lorenzo de Almagro 3-1 in Racing’s stadium. One (very) depressing point: one [...]
Filed under: 2008 Torneo Apertura, Argentine football, Argentine league, Boca Juniors, Carlos Ischia, Clásicos, Domestic, Football, Football clubs, Football managers, Juan Román Riquelme, Lucas Viatri, Miguel Angel Russo, Players, Primera A, Results, Rodrigo Palacio, San Lorenzo | Tagged: Apertura 2008, Argentine football, Boca San Lorenzo, Chávez, Forlín, Forlín Silvera video, Palacio, Primera A, Riquelme, Silvera, Solari, Viatri | 8 Comments »
