Articles tagged with "south-america"
Worldwide Derby Weekend Wrap Up
By Jan | October 25th, 2009This has been a fantastic weekend to hate somebody and wish him ill almost everywhere around the world. As Daryl pointed out earlier, this weekend's fixture ...
River Plate: 'This Number Has Been Disconnected'.
By chris | October 14th, 2009Things are not great in Argentina at the moment. The national team is, as you may have heard, riding through tumultuous times at the hand ...
Some Days You Really Do Not Get The Luck
By Rob | September 19th, 2009Meet Juan Manuel Olivera. His week has been worse than yours. He's currently recovering in hospital, because not only was he knocked out cold during ...
Justice Files: Kung Fu Kicks Get One Year Bans, Apparently.
By chris | September 2nd, 2009A transfer window of frugality kicking off the international break makes this, officially, the most boring week in the history of football. My desire for ...
Eastern European Fans Strike Again.
By chris | August 21st, 2009Inside the stadium, outside the stadium - it matters not to fans of Eastern European football. Where there's a crime to be done, a protest ...
Romario to Play Again, at the Age of 43
By Daryl | August 14th, 2009Seems that Romario can't stop playing football. The striker, who graced the likes of PSV, Barcelona and, er, Miami FC during his 23 year career, ...
Velez Sarsfield's Hot Girl Mission To Fix South American Football
By chris | August 13th, 2009South America has had a very poor reputation in the footballing community of late, and for good reason. Flying knees and knife attacks are an ...
Ronaldo Is Immune To Things Such As Surgery
By chris | August 13th, 2009About a month back there were some rumors that Ronaldo, while already under the knife for a broken wrist, had some fat sucked out of ...
Now That's A Proper Pitch Invasion
By chris | August 11th, 2009This video really needs no words, as it's destined for YouTube infamy. But you know, plenty of people invade pitches. They run on, get their moment ...
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 ...
Brazilian Soccer Player Red Carded After Changing His Shorts
By Daryl | August 11th, 2009Náutico defender Vagner Silva was sent off in Brazil last week, after changing his shorts on the field. If you want to be pedantic (and ...
Penarol vs Newell's Old Boys: A Not so Friendly Friendly
By Daryl | August 9th, 2009This was supposed to be a friendly between Penarol (of Uruguay, yellow and black) and Newell's Old Boys (of Argentina, red and black). But the game ...
The First Ever Game On Easter Island
By chris | August 6th, 2009If we were to rank games on a "coolness scale", this would be right at the top. Chilean big boys Colo Colo flew miles and ...
Argentinean Football Is The New Al Capone
By chris | August 5th, 2009[101 Great Goals] The Argentinian season is going down like a mob boss. Whether it's the news, TV or make pretend video games, we've all heard ...
A Loan Ends When A Loan Ends, Damnit.
By chris | July 31st, 2009Nothing ever happens in plain vanilla style down in South America, does it? The Apertura Bolivian championship was won by Bolivar of La Paz a ...
Daily Dose: July 27th, 2009.
By chris | July 27th, 2009Stuff to read while you watch Zlatan star in his own viral at the airport...... Now watch Zlatan's presentation in front of 70k. (101 Great Goals) ...
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 ...
The 8 Second Red Card
By chris | July 13th, 2009Ze Carlos set a highly dubious record this weekend in Brazil, getting sent off despite being only the third person to touch the ball after ...
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, ...
Colombian Player Gets A Bit Sensitive, Kills A Heckling Fan.
By chris | July 6th, 2009Last week the major news out of Colombia was that Santa Fe coach Ruben Israel resigned due to death threats, despite never having coached a ...
Vanderlei Luxemburgo is the New Ashton Kutcher
By Daryl | June 30th, 2009I've seen it reported on the internets recently that Vanderlei Luxemburgo resigned as Palmeiras coach via Twitter. Brilliant as that may sound, it's sadly not ...
Going From Bad To Worse In South America
By chris | June 30th, 2009Starting off with "Ooh...ahh...death threats in Colombia!" probably won't read any different than any other news story about South American football which hits the news ...
No Enemies Among Friends?
By chris | June 22nd, 2009[Dirty Tackle] This is arguably the greatest season in Huracan's history. With one game left in the Argentinian Clausura, Huracan sit atop the table with one ...
Corinthians Needs Some Good PR - Stat.
By chris | June 9th, 2009Ronaldo couldn't save them. But then again, not even Ronaldo in his prime could save them. Corinthians, you might remember, spent the winter courting then-chunky ...
Brazil: Great At Football, Not So Great At Celebrating.
By chris | June 3rd, 2009For the second time in as many months, a Brazilian celebration went all kinds of wrong - and this time it resulted in serious injuries. Last ...
Weekend Quiz: Away from CONMEBOL
By Laurie | May 16th, 2009Last week our quiz was about players who were born in Africa but moved on to ply their trade elsewhere. Today we're doing the ...
Mexico and CONMEBOL Split Over Swine Flu
By Daryl | May 11th, 2009Remember the big debate over where Mexican teams Chivas and San Luis were going to play their Copa Libertadores games? Basically, due to swine flu ...
Photo: Adriano Is Melancholy.
By chris | May 7th, 2009Forget the smile, can we discuss the image in the background where he's billed as the Emperor Of Rio (I presume)? Does this man really ...
Testing the Limits of Stupidity in Brazil
By chris | May 4th, 2009I challenge everyone to find their nearest 5 year old and ask this question: what happens when you shower fireworks with a blanket of thousands ...
Swine Flu Hits Copa Libertadores
By Daryl | May 1st, 2009The swine flu epidemic/pandemic/panic [delete as appropriate] isn't just threatening the Confederations Cup, it's causing trouble for a real tournament too: Copa Libertadores. Two Mexican ...
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