In my latest weekly opinion piece for The Bubble, I predictably took a look at Lionel Messi, who won the Ballon d'Or for the World Player of the Year for the fifth time on Monday. Individual awards are a bit daft in a team sport though, in my opinion, so rather than the achievement of winning the... Continue Reading →
Carlos Sánchez is South American Footballer Of The Year for 2015
As one year begins, another has just ended, and on Thursday (that was new year's eve, for those who aren't keeping up), Uruguay's El País announced the results of their annual poll to find the best players and managers in South America. Carlos Sánchez, who's just joined Mexican side Monterrey but played all year for River... Continue Reading →
Internacional superstar
Those who can remember the events of around a week-and-a-half ago (or who can scroll down the page a little way) will remember that Andrés D'Alessandro was recently awarded the 2010 South American Footballer Of The Year gong. If you'd like to read my considered thoughts on the award, you should click here, where you'll... Continue Reading →
D’Alessandro is the King of the Americas
Andrés D'Alessandro has been named by Uruguayan newspaper El País as the 2010 South American Footballer Of The Year, an award informally known as the 'King Of The Americas'. The Internacional de Porto Alegre playmaker succeeds countryman Juan Sebastián Verón, who won it in both 2008 and 2009, after a fairly ordinary year in the Brazilian... Continue Reading →
World Cup 2010: Messi nominated for the Golden Ball
One Argentine at least is in the running to win something at the South Africa 2010 World Cup. FIFA's ten-man shortlist for the Golden Ball, awarded to the tournament's best player, has been announced, and although he didn't score the governing body's technical team have included Lionel Messi in the list, along with his Barcelona... Continue Reading →
Argentines Abroad: 9th,10th and 11th January 2010
The first proper Argentines Abroad of the new year sees a narrow spread of criollo achievement, but an impressive one nonetheless. Lionel Messi started the defence of his numerous player of the year awards with a hat trick. His next goal for Barcelona will be the hundredth of his club career. In England, Manchester City... Continue Reading →
HEGS is now on Twitter!
As the observant among you may already have noticed, there's now a HEGS Twitter feed displaying in the left-hand sidebar of this site. Twitter ought to enable me to do a couple of things: first, of course, it'll promote HEGS, but I also plan to put up updates over the course of the weekend regarding... Continue Reading →
Lionel Messi wins the Ballon d’Or (and Argentines Abroad: 28th & 29th November)
The reason for AA going up a little later this week was, of course, widely forecast, but I still wanted to wait for it to be made official. Don't count your chickens and all that. On Tuesday (or late on Monday if you're in Argentina), Lionel Messi was named France Football's European Footballer Of The... Continue Reading →
HEGS / MA Award for Best Argentine Abroad 2009
The votes have been counted, and after the Copa Libertadores was decided on Wednesday night, it's time to reveal the real question all of Latin America wants answering: who, in the opinions of the readers of Hasta El Gol Siempre and Mundo Albiceleste, has been the best Argentine footballer playing in a non-Argentine league over... Continue Reading →
