

Articles tagged with "superclasico"
Superclasico 2009: River Plate 1 - 1 Boca Juniors
By Christian | October 27th, 2009Photo courtesy La Página Millonaria River Plate had one of their strongest performances of the year during Sunday’s Superclásico, but despite several opportunities to win the ...
Superclasico 2009: River Plate Announce Starting XI
By Christian | October 24th, 2009Here is the lineup Leo Astrada will start for tomorrow's highly anticipated Superclásico: Daniel Vega Paulo Ferrari, Gustavo Cabral, Nicolás Sánchez, Cristian Villagra Nicolás Domingo, Matías Almeyda, Matías ...
2009 Superclasico: Knowing Thyself
By Christian | October 23rd, 2009Yesterday I wrote about Boca Juniors's recent form coming into this Sunday's Superclásico. Now let's look at the Good Guys: How to summarize This River's season? ...
What Will You Watch This Weekend? El Súper Clásico, Superclásico, or Whatever We're Calling the Liverpool vs Man Utd Derby?
By Daryl | October 23rd, 2009We have three big derbies happening this weekend: We have El Súper Clásico in Mexico, the Superclásico in Argentina and what I'd consider the equivalent ...
2009 Superclasico: Knowing They Enemy
By Christian | October 22nd, 2009Every season, River Plate fans demand only three things: win the league, win the Copas (the Libertadores and the Sudamericana), and beat Boca Juniors in ...
Becks Up For Goal of the Week
By jen | August 31st, 2009View the nominees and then you decide. I'm happy that Beckham finally got a goal of his own. Great win on Saturday!
UPDATED: SuperClasico Tonight!
By jen | July 11th, 2009Just us here for live commentary in the (you guessed it) comments section. I would commit to live-blogging it, but I can't count on ...
Clausura 2009 - Superclásico Edition: Boca Juniors 1 - 1 River Plate
By Christian | April 21st, 2009River Plate managed to come back from a goal down on a terrific Marcelo Gallardo free kick in the second half, but an absolutely shocking ...
Daily Dose: April 20th, 2009
By Daryl | April 20th, 2009Something to read while you watch two sweet strikes from the Superclásico... ...and one deadly header from El Clásico (CD Guadalajara Offside) Energie Cottbus: bad at ...
Clausura 2009: River Plate 2 - 2 Gimnasia (LP)
By Christian | April 14th, 2009River Plate again disappointed this past Sunday at the Monumental, conceding a penalty in the second half to erase a one goal lead and finish ...
The (Sexy?) SuperClásico
By Richard | April 11th, 2009While searching for footage from last year's SuperClásico, I came across this rather unfortunate mash-up. Just a year later, it's hard not to find this ...
Galaxy vs. Chivas Preview
By jen | April 10th, 2009I don't think the match between the Galaxy and Chivas USA is going to be that clear cut. The odds are in Chivas' favor ...
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 ...
The Not-So Superclasico: Examining The Fallout, and Looking Ahead To The Copa
By Christian | October 21st, 2008To honestly appreciate what Sunday's crushing 1-0 defeat in the Superclasico meant to River Plate and it fans, one must consider some of the facts ...
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. ...
The Superclasico Returns!
By Christian | October 17th, 2008The wait is almost over. The tickets have long sold out. The fans are preparing for the incredible display of drums, streamers, banners, flags, and ...
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 ...
SuperClasico TONIGHT!
By Alex | August 14th, 2008Chivas USA take on the Galaxy tonight... at least what is left of the Chivas USA. The depleted team is trying to field a team, and ...
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 ...
Game Preview: SuperClasico, Galaxy vs. Chivas
By Laurie | April 25th, 2008SuperClasico. Tomorrow. (That would be Saturday.) We gotta win this one. To do otherwise would be humiliating, particularly after last year. Fortunately Chivas aren't ...
Superclásico: In Pictures
By Christian | October 8th, 2007Here I'll post some of my favorites of our win. Got any? Send them to me, or post a link in the comments box. Check ...
Superclásico: Thoughts
By Christian | October 8th, 2007RIVER PLATE 2 - 0 Boca Juniors One day. What more can be said? It was one day. One glorious day for millions of River fans ...
Ariel Ortega's Big Balls Win the Superclásico for River
By Daryl | October 7th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ueUVbsRXkpw[/youtube] It takes big balls to score a penalty in the Superclásico, especially when you're playing for River Plate at home and visiting Boca Juniors are ...
Beckham and Landon Jetting Back for SuperClasico
By Laurie | August 19th, 2007I'm sure you've heard this already, but it turns out that David Beckham is jetting back to the US immediately after Wednesday's England friendly against ...
Pipita Campeon!
By Christian | June 18th, 2007Congratulations to Gonzalo "Pipita" Higuain and Real Madrid, 2006/2007 Champions of Spain. Higuain came in as a substitute, and had a superb assist to setup ...
All Boca Eyes are on Lavolpe
By Bob | October 18th, 2006Blog reader and guest contributor Christian Denes is keeping a close eye on all things Boca Juniors as they struggle to rule the world under ...





