South American Futbol - Libertadores, Sudamericana, World Cup 2010

Five months after his latest coaching disaster, Diego Simeone is about to confront what’s currently the most difficult job in Argentine soccer: manager at San Lorenzo, a club sunk deep into crisis. Simeone’s job will be to pull the team out of the doldrums, and eventually help the Buenos Aires giants return to being one [...]

Is Argentine soccer a one-team show? As we near the conclusion of the group stage of the 2009 Copa Libertadores, all but one of the five Argentine participants are in danger of missing out on a place in the knockout phase. Predictably, the only survivor is likely to be Argentina’s most dominant club, Boca Juniors. [...]