Less than two months remain in an Argentine Apertura Championship that has been anything but normal. Some great soccer has been overshadowed as matches were postponed or suspended due to escalating crowd violence all around the country. Thankfully, those issues haven’t taken away from an exciting title race, and they haven’t masked the biggest surprise: [...]
Boca Juniors prides itself as the Argentine club of the commoner. River Plate has built a heritage out of its workmanlike approach to scoring goals. But Rosario club Newell’s Old Boys can be characterized simply as an organization that values its own unpredictable nature. Last Sunday they missed a glorious opportunity to climb atop the league [...]
Less than a month since taking over as Argentine national team boss, Alfio Basile is already feeling the heat. After two matches, his squad has dropped two consecutive matches, starting with last month’s painful 3-0 loss to archrival Brazil in London. It couldn’t have been a worse debut for Basile, a manager who had been [...]