More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
The domestic football season has now come to an end across Europe, and also in Mexico. Argentines have been key to the denouements of leagues and cups across western Europe, so here's the rundown of who's won what - from the FA Cup to the Mexican Clausura - and who else has impressed in the... Continue Reading →
This week saw confirmation on Tuesday that two Argentines - Carlos Tevez and Pablo Zabaleta - will feature in next season's European Cup; at least assuming Tevez stays with Manchester City, who beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 to confirm a top four place in England's Premier League. Alejandro Faurlín, of course, will be joining them in... Continue Reading →
Argentines Abroad is late this week because my birthday on Monday has ended up being celebrated in some form or another for what seems like most of the week so far. It's well worth getting this online now though, however late, because there's news of the first Argentine champions of the European season in Portugal,... Continue Reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata were 1-0 down away to Paraguay's Guaraní in Group 7 of the Copa Libertadores, and bottom of the provisional table at half time of their visit to Asunción. Former Tigre and Racing forward Pablo Caballero had scored from the penalty spot just before half time to complicate things for his countrymen,... Continue Reading →
On Saturday one group of Argentines abroad got off to a very good start in a new campaign - José Luis Brown's national Under 17 team beat Honduras 1-0 in the first match of their age group World Cup in Nigeria. Sergio Araujo scored the only goal of the game. Around the world in the... Continue Reading →
One of the matches on Wednesday night featured a 'national' team playing Ghana in Córdoba. Martín Palermo scored both goals and, as a result, has convinced everyone in the press that he'd be ideal to play as the number 9 in the World Cup qualifiers against Peru, ahead of Diego Milito and Gonzalo Higua'in. Hmmm.... Continue Reading →
Needing a three-goal win against a team they'd never previously beaten in three encounters - the most recent of which was just three days ago - Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata left it oh so late but, in the last twenty minutes, they struck three times - the last two goals coming with only nine... Continue Reading →
An anniversary was marked in fitting fashion by one of our foreign contingent in the weekend just gone, whilst another won a league title and two claimed a Brazilian state trophy - to find out which ones, you'll have to read on. The winners in Brazil were Andrés D'Alessandro and Pablo Guiñazú, who helped Internacional... Continue Reading →
There's no headline to describe it, really. Diego Maradona's first competitive match in charge of Argentina went like a dream, but his second was the kind of nightmare in which you realise partway through that all is not as it seems, but you just can't wake yourself up, and it brought the worst defeat in... Continue Reading →
Diego Maradona's side have arrived in Bolivia for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in La Paz and, although the boss is keeping his cards close to his chest, it looks like there'll be one or two changes, the most notable of which are Lucho González replacing Newcastle's Jonás Gutiérrez, and Sergio Agüero starting on the bench.... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 