Thursday 17 July 2008, 12:42
When this blogger lived in Argentina in 2001, the rush for European passports was immense. As the country teetered on the brink of collapse – which came, sure enough – hundreds of thousands of residents looked up their past in an attempt to find a way...
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Wednesday 16 July 2008, 18:00
Well this blog might not have too much to do with football, but what is happening in Argentina today is quite unlike anything I have ever seen. My office is located on a wide Parisian avenue that connects the Congress building and, 15 blocks away, the...
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Thursday 10 July 2008, 14:15
Can you remember how incensed you were when all-seater stadiums became law? "It's going to lose the atmosphere of the terrace!" they shouted. And well, I think it has. So as FIFA demand that Argentina's Primera clubs do likewise, the...
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Friday 04 July 2008, 12:29
So now we are in the off-season and have six weeks to enjoy idle gossip about transfers until the first game of the new season on August 8. Thankfully, this blog won't be filled with such meaningless tattle (well it will, but I'm making a point...
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Monday 30 June 2008, 18:04
Well all the praying to the virgin and various other, slightly non-authorised saints seems to have worked as Racing stayed in the Primera thanks to a horrendous miss by Belgrano. Not that anything should be taken away from a gallant Racing. In front of...
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Friday 27 June 2008, 11:32
"I've been hassling the Virgin Mary a lot," Racing's manager Juan Llop told the press before the first leg of the playoffs to determine whether his side stays up. 24 later Llop was back on his knees and crossing himself after a draw...
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Thursday 26 June 2008, 11:34
It's the last game of the season and Argie Bargy drags itself down to La Republica de Boca. It was all in the name of spreading the word about football. Yep, there are actually people who have not been to a football game and three were with me on...
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Wednesday 18 June 2008, 15:10
There may have been no wars and no sneaky handballs. But for Argentines, the 'clasicó' against Brazil is more important than any game against England. There has been little trouble between the fan groups, instead Argentina and Brazil are united...
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Wednesday 18 June 2008, 07:00
Argie Bargy recently braved a freezing Buenos Aires evening - is it always four degrees colder on a football terrace? - to watch the national side take on Ecuador in a World Cup qualifier; the sold out River Plate stadium shaking with the excitement of...
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Monday 09 June 2008, 14:37
The presumptuous barra brava had the fireworks ready. And with 10 minutes to go, River Plate's jam-packed Monumental stadium erupted in flame. In the penultimate game of the season the Millionarios extended their lead over Estudiantes and won the...
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Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30
River Plate have extended their lead over Estudiantes after a comfortable home win against mid-table Colon , despite playing most of the game with 10 men. River are now two points clear with two more games to play. However, with Estudiantes on 35 points...
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Thursday 29 May 2008, 17:00
With two games to go the domestic league is wide open, with six teams within six points of each other. But however important it is to Argentine football fans for their team to win the championship, each would gladly lose the title to their arch rivals...
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Thursday 22 May 2008, 11:57
Even in Argentina the Champions League final threatened to push Boca's quarter-final win over Mexico's Atlas off the city's café screens... but not quite. Anyway, for those not flicking through FourFourTwo 's photo archive of recent events...
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Wednesday 21 May 2008, 14:00
Argentina is an undeniably macho society. Men wolf-whistle, stare and call out comments at pretty much any female passing. Women generally stay at home - granted this is changing, but we are still looking at 1950s Britain as a comparison - and they earn...
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Friday 16 May 2008, 18:15
Just take a look at this . There are few bloopers that may have such lasting effects. In the first - and home - leg of San Lorenzo's Copa Libertadores quarter final, the team from the Almagro neighbourhood went one nil down against Liga de Quito with...
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