More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
On Tuesday night, the 2018 Copa Sudamericana got underway, and one of the ties saw Argentina's Colón de Santa Fe visit Venezuelan side Zamora. An early goal from Javier Correa and a late one from Diego Vera gave Colón a 2-0 win to take back to Santa Fe for the second leg, which will be... Continue Reading →
Starting this week, I have a weekly football column for Argentine English-language news site The Bubble. I've been given free rein to write about whatever I fancy from week to week (suggestions are always welcome, especially in quiet weeks!), and have started with this: a piece on Huracán's first-ever international cup final, which begins in a... Continue Reading →
As I mentioned in the previous post on HEGS, which was two Best XIs from last year in Argentine football, River Plate did quite well in the nominations for the 2014 South American Footballer of The Year, which was announced as usual on the 31st December. Leonardo Pisculichi finished third in the voting, Carlos Sánchez came... Continue Reading →
As the clock ticks towards 2015, I present here not one but two best XIs of Argentina-based players during 2014. The reason it's two is simple: the sides who won the main trophies (the two domestic leagues and the two continental cups) dominate the actual best XI, and I felt sorry for the others. At... Continue Reading →
In about twenty minutes' time, the biggest superclásico since the 2004 Copa Libertadores semi-final will kick off in La Bombonera, as Boca Juniors host River Plate in the semi-final first leg of the 2014 Copa Sudamericana (South America's second most important club cup). This match is televised in South America by Fox Sports, not by Fútbol Para... Continue Reading →
River Plate's first competitive match outside Argentina since 2009 ended in defeat on Thursday night, but they're not entirely without hope. At 2,100 metres above sea level, they lost 2-1 to Ecuador's Liga de Loja in the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana tie, with Osmar Ferreyra scoring River's away goal. Pedro Larrea gave Liga... Continue Reading →
Three cup matches involving Argentine sides were played on Wednesday evening. In the Copa Argentina semi-finals, San Lorenzo de Almagro were held to a 1-1 draw by third tier Estudiantes de Caseros, but eventually prevailed 4-3 on penalties. Almost simultaneously with that, Lanús put in a clinical performance to thrash Universidad de Chile 4-0 in... Continue Reading →
On Wednesday afternoon, CONMEBOL drew the fixtures for the first round [CORRECTION: this is the second preliminary round, not the first] - the preliminaries - of the 2013 Copa Sudamericana, with the biggest news from an Argentine point of view being River Plate's return to continental competition four years after their last appearance (it's also... Continue Reading →
In Victoria on Tuesday night, Tigre played in a continental semi-final for the first time in their history, in spite of the fact that in the league their form has been so poor they're still without a domestic win this season. In each of their previous Sudamericana home matches, they'd scored four goals. The pattern... Continue Reading →
There are no Friday evening games in the Torneo Inicial this weekend, partly because of the midweek action in the Copa Sudamericana, so this seems a good reason to catch up with those matches - and they were a pair of crackers. On Wednesday night, Boca Juniors and Independiente drew 3-3 in a fantastic match... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 