More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
Hand Of Pod, the internet's only English-language Argentine football podcast, is back from the summer break, and you can listen to it right here. Or for details of how to subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn, follow this link to the HOP blog.
Last week for The Bubble, I wrote the first part of a preview of this year's Primera championship. This week, with the top flight season starting on Friday, I've written the second part of that preview - picking out a few of my teams to watch (for a variety of reasons) from outside the Big Five.... Continue Reading →
In this week's opinion piece for The Bubble, I've written the first part of two which will serve as a preview to the 2016 Primera División transitional championship, which kicks off at the end of next week and runs until late May. This week, I run the rule over the Big Five and the summer transfers... Continue Reading →
My latest piece for The Bubble welcomes the new year with a look at how the Primera championship that will be held in the first half of the year is structured. Three and a half months, two groups, home-and-away clásicos and a final at the end of May to decide it all. Oh, and only one relegation.... Continue Reading →
The 2013-14 season is almost upon is in Argentina; Godoy Cruz host Argentinos Juniors in about three-and-a-half hours to get the opening weekend of the Torneo Inicial underway. No doubt you'll be wanting some previews. I have a written one in three parts for you, and an audio one, so here we go. If reading... Continue Reading →
Tuesday night sees Arsenal de Sarandí get the ball rolling in the first match of the 2012 Copa Libertadores, which is being played as this post goes online because I hadn't realised it kicked off so early in the evening. I'm still in summer holiday mode, you know. Aside from Arsenal in the qualifiers, Argentina... Continue Reading →
Hand Of Pod’s two resident Racing fans are both on holiday this week, but Sam and Australian Dan are battling on, insistent that their partners' absence is but a flesh wound, and are joined by the one and only Joel Richards, who does a sterling job of patching the bleeding. On the menu is a... Continue Reading →
It's finally here! At 9pm local time tonight, the 2010 Torneo Apertura de Primera División will kick off as Arsenal Fútbol Club host Lanús in the only Friday evening game of the weekend. If you're knew to the Argentine league this year, you'd probably like a bit of a guide to the teams who are... Continue Reading →
I'm a little late linking to this, but better late than never, as they say. I've been busy this week writing a preview of the 2010 Copa Libertadores, and you can read it right now, simply by clicking this link, which will take you to ESPN's Soccernet. It examines the big names in Brazil, the... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday the AFA announced the first weekend's fixtures for the 2009 Torneo Apertura in the Primera División, and their website promptly decided to stop working (for me at least, but I've had some internet issues tonight so maybe it's the only site that's still not loading on my PC). The remaining fixtures haven't yet... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 