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Reaction: ARG 4 – USA 1
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It was like 1996 all over again, as 2 goals from former millonarios Hernan Crespo, and one golazo from Pablito Aimar, helped lead Argentina to a 4-1 win over the US in Copa America last night. Eddie Johnson scored the lone goal for the US on a penalty early in the first half, yet [...]
Starting XI Named for Argentina USA match
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Soccernet has both rosters up on their site:
USA
KellerÂ
Califf Conrad Moor WynneÂ
Clark Feilhaber Kljestan MappÂ
Gomez JohnsonÂ
ARG
Abbondanzieri
Zanetti Ayala Milito Heinze
Verón Mascherano Cambiasso Riquelme
Messi Crespo
So apparently the strategy is to use, um, Marvel Wynne to “contain” Messi and Crespo. Oh boy. On paper, this isn’t quite the scrub team that everyone is making it out to be. Do I think the US will [...]
Category: ArgentinaMy Cup(s) Overfloweth
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Sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend, but I was fully occupied with the Gold Cup here in Chicago. (USA! USA! USA!) Of course Copa America begins tomorrow, with the U.S. and Argentina clashing on Thursday. I’ll have a more in depth preview on Wednesday. I’m still ecstatic from yesterday’s win, but with [...]
Argentina Announces Copa America Squad
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Alfio “El Coco” Basile just named his 22 starters for Copa America. On paper, this has to be the best national team squad in the world right now. As I thought, Juan Pablo Carrizo is the only current member of River to be named. Former players are in bold below. Disappointed to not see Saviola [...]
Category: Team NewsRiver Gives Peace Cup a Chance
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River Plate will take part in the third edition of the Peace Cup, a tournament held every two years in South Korea, and featuring teams from around the globe. River have been drawn into Group B with Olympique Lyon, Reading, and Japanese side Shimizu S-Pulse. The winner of that group advances to play the winner [...]
Category: Team NewsGood Night for River
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Locoxriver has a great post on Diego Buonanotte on his blog. He’s been touted as the future of the club; will this be the year he becomes a starter?
Yes, that’s him with above with Maradona. Hopefully it won’t be a jinx.
Category: Team NewsMujeres de River
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Usually, most sites claiming to be “dedicated to female fans of River Plate” are usually just shots taken by horny men of scantily clad women wearing nothing but a wet River jersey and a red thong. Research of course beckons that I know of such things.
But a new site has just been launched by actual [...]
Category: miscellaneousSilly season begins
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With the Clausura season (thankfully) behind us, we can now look forward to three months of unsubstantiated gossip and trade rumors. Since I tend not to follow most of it, seeing as it’s usually speculation and not news, I’ll try to only focus on player deals that are imminent, involving big clubs, or on former [...]
Pipita Campeon!
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Congratulations 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 the first goal by Jose Reyes.
It was only last October that I was in the Monumental, singing along with 60,000 River fans for the Superclasico, and witnessed Pipita’s two incredible [...]
Category: Team NewsRiver Plate 3 – Velez 2
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At last, our 2007 Clausura campaign came to a close last night, with River coming from behind, beating el fortin 3-2 at el Nuevo Gasometro, with goals from Galvan, Gerlo, and Abelairas. Having already qualified for next seasons Copas, River had nothing to play for other than the points and to leave on some sort [...]
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