More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
Argentina's World Cup campaign is up and running, courtesy of a Gabriel Heinze header early on to give them a 1-0 win against Nigeria on Saturday. It wasn't a match with very many highlights, and those that there were invariably involved Lionel Messi. If you're at all interested in it of course, you've either already... Continue Reading →
In forty minutes, Diego Maradona will return to direct involvement in a World Cup for the first time since that drug test in USA 94. Argentina vs Nigeria will be underway. Maradona has named the starting XI that was predicted earlier in the week. For your second match preview in as many days from me, check... Continue Reading →
After the military-style concentración for the first week of Argentina's stay in South Africa, and the opening-up of training to the press over the last few days, the selección's players have finally been allowed an afternoon off following a morning training session, as Diego Maradona edges closer to deciding on his starting XI against Nigeria.... Continue Reading →
If simply knowing which players are in the squad isn't enough, Argentina-watchers can rejoice today: the full list of which players will use which shirt numbers during the 2010 World Cup has been released. Lionel Messi takes the number 10, of course, whilst other notable choices see Javier Mascherano stick with his preferred 14, first-choice... Continue Reading →
First, apologies to anyone who saw the starting XI I posted shortly before kick off, and accepted it as gospel. I was copying it from Cancha Llena (La Nación's sports website) and they got it completely wrong (it wasn't the only thing - they're now claiming that Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins, who sung the... Continue Reading →
In ten minutes, Argentina vs Canada will kick off in the Estadio Monumental, and Diego Maradona's starting XI looks a little different to that which, following the Germany friendly last year, he'd insisted would be his starting lineup for the first match of the World Cup against Nigeria. It's also similar, in midfield and attack,... Continue Reading →
Diego Maradona has confirmed the 23 names he's taking as members of the Argentina squad to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ariel Garcé, of Colón de Santa Fe, is going to South Africa, as is Boca Juniors' Martín Palermo and Estudiantes' Juan Sebastián Verón, but the other Argentina-based players called up in... Continue Reading →
There were numerous lists before Maradona's preliminary squad of 30 was announced yesterday speculating on who might be included, and outlining who the author would include if they were the manager. Well, I thought I'd try something a little different. With the players Diego's already named, who would I pick for the starting XI and... Continue Reading →
Having sat inside all bloody afternoon waiting for an announcement that was supposed to come at 3pm and eventually arrived just after 7, this will only be a brief post, but all the same I thought I'd put up a few initial thoughts on Diego Maradona's list of thirty players, from whom 23 will be... Continue Reading →
Diego Maradona's 'longlist' of 30 names to take to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa next month has been announced. HEGS had heard that Javier Zanetti and Gabriel Milito would both be included... but in the end, after a long, long delay in the list's publication, they were left out. You can follow Mundo... Continue Reading →
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