Articles tagged with "river-plate"
I Done Seen Everything
By Scott | November 24th, 2008A bigger man than myself would extend some sympathy to the current plight of River Plate. Fresh off the heels of their latest championship, ...
Final week of Rosgosstrakh Championship of Russia
By j | November 23rd, 2008The Russian Football season concluded with the big match of the day being Zenit Saint Petersburg dominating Spartak Moscow 3-1 and securing the final spot ...
Daily Dose: Nov 21st, 2008
By Daryl | November 21st, 2008Something to read while you dream of what might have been... Cristiano Ronaldo's alternative method for terrorizing fullbacks (Off the Post) What did Marta mean exactly? (WPS ...
Lucas Viatri: Goalscoring Phenom/Accused Salon Burglar
By chris | November 18th, 2008Hard to imagine there are greater things as a 21 year old lad in Buenos Aires than being the next goalscoring superstar and scoring the ...
Daily Dose: November 7th, 2008.
By chris | November 7th, 2008Stuff to read while you bring a hand grenade to show and tell...... "Can a Scottish team ever win the Champions League?" (SoccerLens) Manchester United brings in ...
Boca Takes Superclasico With 10
By chris | October 20th, 2008A crippling victory for Boca at the hands of their bitter rivals, as they took a 1-0 win at El Monumental, with the lone goal ...
The Weekend Watch: Superclasico Time
By chris | October 17th, 2008GAME OF THE WEEK River Plate v Boca Juniors. When: 1720 local, 1520 EST. Where: El Monumental, Buenos Aires. Why: Because it's one of the biggest derbies in ...
River Plate vs Boca Juniors Superclásico Odds
By Daryl | October 17th, 2008It's the Argentinean Superclásico on Sunday night: River Plate vs Boca Juniors at El Monumental. It's always a great event, but neither team is in form. ...
Luciano Figueroa to La Bombonera
By j | October 9th, 2008With his playing time vanished, Luciano Figueroa has been loaned to Boca Juniors till the end of June. This will be a tremendous return home ...
Sebastian Mendez's Bruce Lee Impression
By chris | September 3rd, 2008There's really no debating this one, Sebastian Mendez of San Lorenzo had zero intention of going for ball. It appears he'd just been watching too ...
Mitrovic glistens at Cobham Cup
By Jack | August 23rd, 2008Chelsea's Under-16 showcase, The Cobham Cup, kicked off today. And Marko Mitrovic stole the show. In his Chelsea debut, the highly-touted Swede -- signed by Chelsea ...
The New Staff
By Jeremy | August 7th, 2008The first game of the season is upon us and I haven't really mentioned the new staff. So here we go. Fernando Andres Gamboa - ...
ex-NOB Ortega to Rivadavia?!?
By Jeremy | August 6th, 2008Well, I know he is a River player, but he had some good times in Roario back when he won the Aperatura '04 with la ...
Thanks for the memories, Ricky
By Jeremy | August 1st, 2008What the crap? Apparently, Hernan Bernardello was sold to a group of investors (don't get me started on that garbage, that's a whole 'nother ...
Salcedo sold to River, finally
By Jeremy | August 1st, 2008Lopez held out and got $6 million or so for Salcedo. River bought 80% of his pass, and of course his services. $3 ...
All Star Angel Going International? River Plate Calling?
By Dave Martinez | July 24th, 2008First of all, congrats to Angel, who came off the bench in the second half for Blanco, and did an excellent job, with a goal ...
World Soccer's 50 Greatest Derbies
By Daryl | July 17th, 2008The July issue of the ever-informative World Soccer magazine has a great front page feature: The 50 Greatest Derbies in World Football. Unfortunately, the full ...
Pipino Moves His Goals to Brazil and Nacional Lose Their Heart.
By Mauro | July 17th, 2008Nelson "Pipino" Cuevas has left Club Libertad in his native Paraguay to join his new team Santos of Brazil. Cuevas, who, in my opinion, had ...
The Offside Podcast, Episode 24
By Daryl | May 22nd, 2008In Episode 24 of the Offside Podcast, Ian interviews Stuart Fuller, author of the Fan's Guide to European Football Grounds. They talk about the joys ...
The Offside Podcast, Episdode 22
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008They say it's all donwnhill once you hit 22. And that proved right as technical glitches mean The Offside Podcast is a little late this ...
Episode 22: Superclásico, Ligue 1 and Premiership Roundup
By Ian Rose | May 8th, 2008It's that time of the week again, and after a week of technical glitches that made me very nearly give up on the computer altogether, ...
The Boca vs River Superclasico Dance Off
By Daryl | May 5th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMSrw5Dq3U[/youtube] Above is Sebastián Battaglia's `14th minute header from a Juan Roman Riquelme corner, which gave Boca Juniors their first win over River Plate in three ...
First Legs Complete in Copa Libertadores Last 16
By Daryl | May 2nd, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XLg6CG880[/youtube] The fist legs of the Copa Libertadores knockout round were played this week, and two already juicy encounters just got juicier. In the big Argentina ...
Episode 21: Paris is Burning
By Ian Rose | April 29th, 2008No, film buffs ... we will not be talking about the drag documentary, but Paris St. Germain is a main topic of discussion this week, ...
Players To Watch In The Next Round.
By Mauro | April 28th, 2008I figured it would be best to start from the top of the fixture list I published late last week. Corporación Deportiva Atlético Nacional vs. ...
Round of 16 Matches Are Set.
By Mauro | April 24th, 2008With the end of the group stage coming to a close, these are the round of 16 ties. You'll find that there are no teams ...
Some Numbers of Interest, So Far.
By Mauro | April 21st, 2008This week will see the end of the Copa Libertadores second round group stage come to a close. Groups 3, 4 and 7 will be ...
CF America Squeak Through, Thanks to Goal Posts and Ochoa's Hands.
By Mauro | April 18th, 2008Played at the same time as the River Plate-San Martin match taking place in Buenos Aires, Universidad Catolica faced off with CF America for one ...
River Plate Demolish San Martin.
By Mauro | April 18th, 2008Instead of walking into this match thinking about the 2-0 loss in their opening match against tonight's opponents, River came out onto the pitch with ...
Group 5 Decided Tonight!
By Mauro | April 17th, 2008I want to apologize since it looks like I will not be able to provide you all with the proper previews for tonight's matches. What ...
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