South American Futbol - Libertadores, Sudamericana, World Cup 2010

Argentinos Juniors rescued a last-gasp 2-2 draw with Arsenal de Sarandi at the Julio Grondona stadium on Monday night, but the result wasn’t enough to see them climb to the top of the Argentine Clausura championship table, a position that is still occupied by Estudiantes de La Plata and Independiente after fifteen rounds of the [...]

Diego Maradona, the coach of the Argentine national team, confirmed his defense for their World Cup opener against Nigeria on June 12. Maradona also assured Jonas Gutierrez and Angel Di Maria of starting roles. On May 10 ‘El Diez’ will have to present FIFA with a preliminary list of 30 players, from which he will [...]

Angel Cappa, the new coach of River Plate, affirmed that his team will try to claim as many points as possible in their final five matches of the Argentine Clausura championship, even if he knows that the matches mainly serve for him to evaluate the squad looking ahead to next season’s Apertura championship. During his [...]

After Boca Juniors thrashed Arsenal de Sarandi 4-0, in the dressing room Juan Roman Riquelme made reference to the simple manner in which Martin Palermo scored his two goals to become the highest goal-scorer in the history of Boca with 220 goals. But Palermo was less than impressed by Riquelme’s rude remarks. “That way anybody [...]

Revelation clubs Godoy Cruz and Argentinos Juniors climbed to the top of the Argentine Clausura championship after convincing wins in round 14 of the competition. Godoy Cruz thrashed Tigre 6-2 while Argentinos beat Colon de Santa Fe 3-1. Both clubs find themselves with 28 points, one point more than Estudiantes de La Plata and Independiente [...]

Martin Palermo became the highest scorer in the history of Boca Juniors in the 10th minute of the clash with Arsenal de Sarandi on Monday night at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires. After meeting a delicious side-pass from playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme, Palermo poked the ball into the back of the net for his [...]

Leonardo Astrada was sacked as the coach of River Plate after the Argentine giants were held to a goalless draw by Atletico Tucuman on Sunday. Astrada refused to make declarations to the press after the result, because he had already been given the news by River president Daniel Passarella. River picked up a point against [...]

Abel Alves presented his resignation after Boca Juniors were thrashed 3-0 by Colon de Santa Fe on Thursday. Earlier in the week Alves stated that he would continue at Boca right until the end of the season, but the humiliating defeat to Colon was the final straw for the coach. Alves will be replaced by [...]

Guillermo Barros Schelotto, the main candidate to succeed Abel Alves as the coach of Boca Juniors, affirmed that he has yet to be approached by the Argentine giants and that at the moment he is still thinking like a footballer and not like a coach, even if the idea of becoming the coach of the [...]

Rosario Central put an end to a 20-year wait to beat Boca Juniors at the Bombonera stadium on Sunday, with a 2-1 win. Boca played poorly, but seemed set to claim a point, however, they conceded a silly goal in the final five minutes, after a mistake from inexperienced goalkeeper Javier Garcia. To make matters [...]