Boca Juniors thumped Gimnasia de La Plata 4-0 at the Bombonera stadium on Sunday to claim their best win of the season. Although Alfio Basile´s side are out of the title race, they still have good chances of qualifying for the 2010 Copa Libertadores. The Apertura champions pushed to the attack straight from the kick-off [...]
Two-time world champions Argentina have dropped down to eighth place in the latest FIFA world rankings. Argentina´s deep struggles in their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, and their defeat to Spain last week saw them drop down from sixth to eighth. Meanwhile, thanks to their win over Argentina in Madrid, Spain overtook Brazil for top [...]
Antonio Caselli, Mariano Mera Figueroa and Rodolfo D´Onofrio, candidates for the River Plate presidency, affirmed that they won´t even think about selling Diego Buonanotte to a Mexican club, and will make sure he remains at Los Millonarios for another year. “Buonanotte has to stay at River, we can´t sell the players that will be the [...]
Brazilian playmaker Kaka of Real Madrid stated on Monday that Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi is the overwhelming favourite to be named FIFA World Footballer of the Year for 2009. Kaka, who finds himself in Oman to face the hosts in a friendly match with his national team, declared that AC Milan´s poor campaign last season [...]
Banfield remain on top of the Argentine Apertura championship after thrashing Velez Sarsfield 3-0 at the Florencio Sola stadium on Saturday. El Taladro put on one of their best performances of the season, winning the game with two goals from Cristian Garcia and another from James Rodriguez. The club from Buenos Aires´ South have never [...]
As was expected, Spain beat Argentina 2-1 in a highly disputed friendly match at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on Saturday. Diego Maradona´s side were never outplayed by Spain, and were unlucky not to have returned home with a draw. Spain commenced the match the stronger of the two sides and they came close [...]
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi rejected criticism for his performances for the Argentine national team, claiming that he would exchange all of the titles that he has already won with Barcelona for lifting the 2010 World Cup with Argentina. The Rosario-born player is very happy with the way Argentina have been working ahead of their high-profile [...]
Diego Maradona, the coach of the Argentine national team, has practically confirmed his starting XI for the high-profile friendly match against Spain on Saturday. The biggest news is that Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain, who play in Spain for Barcelona and Real Madrid, respectively, will lead Argentina´s lethal attack. For the first time in the [...]
Copa Libertadores winners Estudiantes de La Plata will face either Mazembe of Congo or Pohang Steelers of Korea in the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup in December, it was announced on Thursday. European champions Barcelona will face Atlante, if the Mexican outfit beat the winners of the quarter-final clash between Al Ahli and [...]
Rosario Central crushed Estudiantes de La Plata 3-0 and have increased their chances of remaining in the Argentine top-flight next year. Meanwhile, the loss meant Estudiantes failed to climb to the top of the table. Estudiantes fielded several reserve players for the match and paid the penalty. The beginning of the match was very intense, [...]
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