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 →
Boca Juniors v River Plate: watch the Copa Sudamericana semi-final first leg live
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 →
Copa Sudamericana 2011: Vélez stumble in their semi-final first leg
Vélez Sarsfield suffered a setback in Quito in the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana semi-final, away to LDU Quito. With two goals from Hernán Barcos, the Argentine former Racing and Huracán striker, Liga won 2-0 at home to set up an awkward second leg for Vélez on Tuesday night. One plus for Vélez is... Continue Reading →
Copa Sudamericana: Vélez win a thriller late on to advance to the semis (video)
Thursday night was the time for Vélez Sarsfield's quarter-final second leg in the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, and it was a brilliant match. Having drawn the first leg 1-1 away to Santa Fe of Colombia last week, Vélez stormed into a 2-0 lead and looked like they were sailing, only for their opponents to pull the... Continue Reading →
Copa Sudamericana: Vélez and Arsenal march on, but Godoy Cruz go out (video)
Before the start of the twelfth round of Torneo Clausura action, I thought I'd give HEGS readers a chance to catch up the Argentine clubs in the Copa Sudamericana. Apologies that these videos weren't posted after the matches in question, but I've had a weekend full of deadlines and, with spring very much in the air... Continue Reading →
Copa Sudamericana: Independiente go out despite a win (video)
Defending Copa Sudamericana champions exited the tournament at the hands of 2009 winners Liga de Quito on Wednesday night, winning 1-0 on the night in the Estadio Libertadores de América but losing 2-1 on aggregate by virtue of Liga's 2-0 home win in the first leg. Leonel Núñez got the only goal of the night... Continue Reading →
River Plate hit seven in the Nacional B, Vélez win away in the Sudamericana (video)
It was inevitable, in spite of a certain lack of cohesion in their play to date, that at some point River Plate were going to click and put in a good team performance, and that their opponents that day were liable to get pretty nastily thrashed. So it proved in River's first midweek match of... Continue Reading →
Brazil beat Argentina; Independiente lose in Quito (video)
In the Superclásico de las Américas, Argentina's domestic national team lost 2-0 to their Brazilian counterparts on Wednesday night in Belém, going down to a 2-0 aggregate loss. Lucas opened the scoring for Brazil, and Vélez Sarsfield defender Emiliano Papa scored an own goal for the second. In the Copa Sudamericana, Independiente lost 2-0 away... Continue Reading →
Vélez click into gear to thrash Arsenal in Copa Sudamericana (video)
Vélez Sarsfield have had a woeful start to the season, by their own high standards, but on Thursday night their engine finally crunched and ground into the gear they'd been looking for, and the result was a 4-0 thrashing of Argentinos Juniors in the second leg of the playoff for the Copa Sudamericana. The first... Continue Reading →
Independiente win with a caretaker boss (video)
Wednesday night saw two big matches in Argentina: Independiente vs San Martín de San Juan, left over from the first round of the Torneo Apertura due to Independiente's pre-season trip to Japan, and Godoy Cruz vs Lanús in the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana qualifiers. The latter finished goalless, sending Godoy through on away... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 