South American Futbol - Libertadores, Sudamericana, World Cup 2010

Universidad Catolica thrashed Santiago Morning 3-0 and in doing so remain top of the Chilean Clausura championship after 15 rounds. Catolica dominated their opponents right from the start to the finish, and won the game with two goals from Juan Jose Morales and another from Damian Diaz. Next up for the league leaders will be [...]

Flamengo defeated league leaders Palmeiras 2-0 with two goals from Serbian midfielder Dejan Petkovic on Sunday. The Rio de Janeiro giants dominated their opponents, continuing their good run of results from the past few weeks. Vagner Love, who recently rejoined Palmeiras missed a late penalty in a game that would best be forgotten for the [...]

South American World Cup qualifying has finally come to an end after two years of competition. Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Argentina assured themselves of direct World Cup qualification, and rightly so. Uruguay will now have to face CONCACAF’s fourth placed side Costa Rica over two legs next month. It will be the third successive time [...]

Tigre fought back from two goals down to force a 2-2 draw against Huracan at the Monumental stadium of Victoria on Wednesday. The round 8 Argentine Apertura Championship game was highly contested, especially because Tigre never threw in the towel, even if it seemed that they would suffer their seventh defeat of the season. Huracan, [...]

Banfield moved atop of the Argentine Apertura Championship after claiming a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Newell’s Old Boys at the Florencia Sola stadium on Friday. The first period was very evenly balanced as both teams fought hard in the midfield, and created several clear goal-scoring opportunities. Banfield came closest to going ahead when Uruguayan striker [...]

Brazil and Paraguay already booked their tickets for the 2010 World Cup, but six other teams are still in the running. There are only two automatic tickets left for South America, and one playoff berth against the fourth-place team from CONCACAF. The South American World Cup qualifying zone is the most difficult in the entire [...]

Dario Gandin scored twice in the first half to hand Independiente a 2-1 win over arch-rivals Racing Club in the highly disputed Avellaneda derby at the Cilindro de Avellaneda on Sunday afternoon. Independiente pushed to the attack straight from the kick-off, and they went ahead inside the first two minutes after a fine finish from [...]

Check out who I think will be the top.10 World Cup contenders… 1. Brazil The Selecao are the hot favourites to win a record sixth World Cup in South Africa. With their heroic victory over Chile last week, they extended their winning streak to 11 matches and their unbeaten run to 19. Brazil are highly [...]

With their extraordinary victory over arch-rivals Argentina in Rosario on Saturday, Brazil became the first South American nation to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. The Selecao came into the contest as the overwhelming favourites and once again proved superior to their arch-rivals. The win extended Brazil’s winning streak to 10 matches and their unbeaten [...]

After a couple of years with nothing to show, FC Barcelona has finally been transformed into the most feared club in Europe. The Catalan giants have been nothing short of extraordinary this season, and if their magnificent form continues, they could be on track for a rare triple. Despite the overwhelming depth in its star-studded [...]