Sunday evening brought the first domestic action in the Primera División in 2013, although it wasn't the beginning of the Torneo Final, but rather was mopping up some leftovers. Independiente v Tigre in the twelfth round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial was called off due to torrential rain causing floods in Avellaneda, and due to... Continue Reading →
Inicial 2012: Arsenal de Sarandí go out on a high, & Centurión’s equaliser means Unión end year winless (video)
Friday evening saw the first two matches of the final round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial. Outgoing champions Arsenal de Sarandí, who didn't have the best campaign in defence of their title, went out on a high note at least with a 1-0 away win over All Boys in Floresta, thanks to Emilio Zelaya's first... Continue Reading →
Inicial 2012: Newell’s tonk Rafaela, and Auzqui sees off San Martín
The penultimate round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial came to an end on Monday night with a 2-0 win for Estudiantes de La Plata over San Martín de San Juan, as 20-year-old Carlos Auzqui scored the first and second goals of his first team career late on in the match. Earlier, Atlético Rafaela had made... Continue Reading →
Inicial 2012: ¡Vélez campeón!, and a River Plate win puts Boca Juniors into the 2013 Libertadores (video)
Saturday's and Sunday's matches in the Torneo Inicial have seen an average of two goals each, and most importantly, on Sunday afternoon, Vélez Sarsfield won their ninth league title - and fifth in seven years - with a match still to play, courtesy of a 2-0 home win over Unión de Santa Fe. The fact... Continue Reading →
Inicial 2012: Newell’s held again, Stracqualursi helps San Lorenzo to a win, and Independiente & River draw in a four-goal clásico (video)
Saturday saw the start of the seventeenth round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial, and plenty of goals. Independiente hosted River Plate in one of the weekend's two clásicos, and drew 2-2; a result River scarcely deserved. Unión - one of two sides still without a win - took a 2-0 half time lead against Newell's... Continue Reading →
A BIG goal round-up: all the strikes from rounds 15 & 16, plus Brazil B beat Argentina Z in a friendly shoot-out
Last week was a busy one, and with just a one-day break between the midweek fifteenth round of Torneo Inicial action and the weekend sixteenth, I was too busy and too lazy to get a video up. So, here's a huge catch-up post. Thirty-eight league goals from two rounds which have seen Newell's Old Boys... Continue Reading →
Torneo Inicial: Lanús join the title race by thrashing Tigre (video)
Lanús pulled themselves to within just three points of league leaders Vélez Sarsfield on Sunday, with a 4-1 tonking of Tigre which leaves them third in the table. Surprisingly, none of the day's other three matches saw a single goal; there were goalless draws between San Martín de San Juan and Independiente, Colón and Boca... Continue Reading →
Inicial 2012: Vélez leapfrog Newell’s at top, River back to winning ways & Stracqualursi nets two (video)
Newell's Old Boys finally lost their grip on the leadership of the 2012 Torneo Inicial title race on Friday, after they were held 0-0 by Quilmes in Rosario, after which Vélez Sarsfield beat Godoy Cruz 2-1 with a double from Facundo 'Chucky' Ferreyra (this came after a hat trick for Chucky last week away to... Continue Reading →
Superclásico Inicial 2012: River Plate 2 – 2 Boca Juniors (video)
The superclásico returned to Argentina's top flight after a one-and-a-half year absence on Sunday, and although River Plate had largely the better of the play in a tetchy match, Boca Juniors midfielder Walter Erviti got a stoppage time equaliser to wipe the smiles from the home team's faces. I'll try and get a better quality video... Continue Reading →
Two superclásico previews: one written, and one spoken
A year and a half on from the last competitive fixture between Argentina's two biggest clubs, River Plate host Boca Juniors at 15:30 local time today (18:30 Greenwich Mean Time). There are a couple of options I can provide you with if you're after something in the way of a preview. First, this piece by... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 