Articles tagged with "estudiantes"
Club World Cup Schedule Released - Does Anyone Care?
By chris | November 12th, 2009I'll be frank: I don't. I think it's a ridiculous competition with nice ideals, but one which falls short due to that which has felled ...
Away At Estudiantes: A Chance To Get Back On Track
By Brett | September 26th, 2009I think the title sums it up pretty well – thus far, the season hasn’t been great for Los Xeneizes. In truth, it’s been an ...
Seba Verón Takes a Voluntary Pay Cut
By Daryl | August 11th, 2009Juan Sebastián Verón recently matched his famous father's feat of winning the Copa Libertadores with Estudiantes. But if there were any doubts about Seba being ...
Little Witch, Big Cup: Seba Verón Emulates Dad With Copa Libertadores Win
By Daryl | July 16th, 2009Cruzeiro were favourites to win the Copa Libertores final, having held Estudiantes to a 0-0 first leg draw in Argentina thanks to the heroics of ...
Photo: Health Conscious Fan At The Copa Libertadores
By chris | July 9th, 2009Caption: Brazil's Cruzeiro supporter smokes trough a surgical masks to protect against the swin flu before start the first leg football match of the Libertadores ...
Monterrey (2)3-3(3) Estudiantes.
By Jose | July 9th, 2009Rayados tied last night against Estudiantes Tecos by three goals and lost in penalties 2-3. Now Monterrey will face off nest Saturday against Jaguares for ...
Copa Libertadores Final First Leg: Fábio Puts on a Show
By Daryl | July 9th, 2009First leg of the 2009 Copa Libertadores final was last night: Estudiantes vs Cruzeiro, a classic Argentina vs Brazil affair. The game in La Plata, ...
We Beat Estudiantes!!
By Laurie | February 27th, 2009This is starting to feel less like preseason wishful thinking and more...real. We beat the Argentinian side Estudiantes de la Plata 3-1 today (yesterday?) ...
News & Opinions
By cathal | February 13th, 2009A little later than I planned, here's my take on some of the news stories that have been thrown out there in recent days. Ledesma: He ...
Nilmar Wins the Copa Sudamericana at the Death
By chris | December 4th, 2008You know how when you were a kid you used sit out in the backyard pretending to rise above the defense for the winning header ...
Inter Lifts Copa Sudamericana
By Bruno Romani | December 3rd, 2008She was the girl ignored by the Brazilians. "She's weird. She's not attractive. She's boring", thought all Brazilian clubs. But Inter decided to take this ...
Copa Sudamericana Heading to Brazil
By Bruno Romani | November 26th, 2008Today, Inter visited Estudiantes from Argentina for the first leg of the final of Copa Sulamericana/Sudamericana (choose your language). The club from Porto Alegre, one ...
Stakes is High
By Scott | November 18th, 2008Surely after an absence so pathetically long I would come in with guns blazing and summarize the last three months in great detail and with ...
More Proof That Referees Don't Like Being Yellow Carded By Players
By Daryl | November 6th, 2008Botafogo defender André Luís disagreed with the referee Carlos Chandía's decision to book him in last night's Copa Sudamericana quarterfinal versus Estudiantes, and registered his ...
Defender Shows the Yellow Card to The Ref (Literally)
By Bruno Romani | November 5th, 2008Some players are bound to brilliant moments in their careers. Some choose different paths to become big news. Andre Luiz, defender of Botafogo, is one ...
Gaston Machin is Leproso!
By Jeremy | July 25th, 2008Wow. That signing came out of nowhere. Independiente's talented 25 year old Gaston Machin midfielder will be taking Nico Cabrera's place in the ...
the line of defense
By j | July 23rd, 2008With a date with Puebla only days away the season is ready to unfurl. The headlines will likely tell the story again of striking duo ...
Emiliano Insua?
By j | July 15th, 2008Continuing the notion of keeping you up with all, or should I say "some", of the dirty little rumours this summer, I've ventured through a ...
Almeria Steals The New Messi
By chris | July 11th, 2008(Two minute intro, fyi.) How do you top a shockingly successful season in La Liga directly after promotion? Easy. Just shatter the club's transfer fee record ...
Looking to avoid Eight Belles' fate
By Scott | May 19th, 2008What? it's too soon? Fine, I got two-year-old Barbaro jokes that I've never been able to use. Anyway, the idea is "down the stretch we ...
I Meant To Do That, I Swear
By chris | April 27th, 2008These are my absolute favorite types of goals: the wondergoals which were never supposed to be, but decided to find their way into the back ...
Beyond the thumping
By Jeremy | February 24th, 2008Ok, instead of a recap/lowlight post, let's just say that la lepra laid an egg in the second half of a game tied at one ...
Clausura 2008 Kicks Off in Argentina
By Daryl | February 9th, 2008With the Cope de Verano (now called Torneos de Verano) over and done with, Argentinean football got serious again this weekend with the Clausura 2008 ...
The Venezuelan Tour: One up, one down and no Gio.
By Lugo | January 18th, 2008After its inaugural 4-2 loss to Maracaibo and its yesterday 1-0 victory at Trujillanos, Junior continues it's Venezuelan tour heading now to Merida. Coach Sachi ...
Juan Sebastian Veron is a Big Tease
By Martha | December 14th, 2007Just a few hours ago, the American sports media were abuzz with the news that Argentine great Juan Sebastian Veron was on his way to ...
Let's keep it going in La Plata
By Scott | October 6th, 2007Estudiantes de La Plata, who as recently as one year ago was on a magical run to a championship under the leadership of Juan Sebastian ...
The Perfect Award for the Player who can never Find his Keys
By Bob | December 14th, 2006As a reward for being named the most valuable player of the Copa Sudamericana final, Damian Alvares of the Mexican club Pachuca is given the ...
Boca Juniors to Face Rat Stabbers in Apertura Championship
By Bob | December 13th, 2006It is the rare Wednesday when we are treated to a championship football game and today is blissfully one of those rare Wednesdays. We ...
Threatening your Team with Death if they don't Lose is one way to Show Support
By Bob | November 9th, 2006I honestly want to like the football league in Argentina. It has some of the best young players in the world, there are teams ...
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