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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - San Lorenzo captured its first
league title since 2001 with a 4-2 win against Arsenal at Pedro Bidegain on
Sunday.
Second-placed Boca Juniors earned a 1-0 victory over Belgrano earlier in the
day, which cut San Lorenzo's lead to just o... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Ruben Ramirez scored a late goal
for Colon on Sunday to give his team a 2-1 win against Boca Juniors, leaving
San Lorenzo with a four-point lead at the top and just two games to play.
Colombian midfielder Freddy Grisales gave Colon a 1-0 lead i... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Boca Juniors moved a little closer
to league-leaders San Lorenzo on Sunday as they earned a point in an
entertaining 3-3 draw with Argentinos Juniors.
San Lorenzo dropped a 2-1 decision to Velez Sarsfield on Saturday, which
allowed... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Miguel Angel Russo will replace
Ricardo La Volpe as Boca Juniors' coach after the team lost the Argentine
championship in a playoff earlier this week.
Volpe, whose team lost three straight games to lose the Argentine Apertura
title to... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - The Argentine outfit, River
Plate, has rejected Real Madrid's advances on acquiring striker Gonzalo
Higuain, only adding to the France versus Argentina battle for the 18-year-
old.
The French-born Higuain turned down offers to par... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Chelsea striker Hernan Crespo will
not be with the Argentinean nation team Saturday for its match against
Paraguay.
Crespo is suffering from a thigh injury and did not travel to Buenos Aires to
meet up with his teammates. Atletico Mad... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Argentina defeated Brazil,
3-1, on Wednesday night en route to becoming the first team from the South
American bracket to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Hernan Crespo netted two goals and Juan Roman Riquelme also found the ... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Boca Juniors striker Rodrigo
Palacio got his first competitive call-up to the Argentina squad for World Cup
qualifiers against Bolivia and Colombia.
Palacio made his debut in a 1-1 friendly draw with Mexico earlier in March,
but now will... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Argentinean striker Gabriel
Batistuta retired Monday at the age of 36.
Batistuta leaves the game as Argentina's leading international goal scorer
with 56 tallies in just 78 matches. He left the national team in 2002 when the
squad was e... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Boca Juniors named Jorge Benitez
its permanent coach Tuesday, just days after winning the Copa Sudamericana
title.
Benitez, 54, was named the interim coach at Boca in November after Miguel
Brindisi resigned. The Argentine giants struggl... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Despite a 2-0 loss at Independiente
Sunday, Newell's Old Boys captured the 2004 Argentine Apertura.
Newell's finished the 19-game season with 36 points, two ahead of second-place
Velez Sarsfield. Velez had a chance to force a playoff, but were held ... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Olympic hero Carlos Tevez has been
left off of Argentina's squad for Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against
Venezuela.
Tevez, the 20-year-old striker who led Argentina to Olympic gold in Athens,
has struggled this season while playing ... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Boca Juniors coach Miguel Angel
Brindisi has stepped down following Sunday's 2-0 loss to arch-rival River
Plate.
Brindisi took over during the summer, but Boca has struggled to 10th place in
the Apertura championship.
"I am the only ... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Racing Club coach Ubaldo Fillol
resigned Tuesday after a losing streak and receiving death threats.
Fillol, a former goalkeeper, won the World Cup with Argentina in 1978. He took
over as Racing's boss at the beginning of the season and won his... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - New Argentina coach Jose Pekerman
named his 23-man squad for World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Chile.
Pekerman, who recently took over for Marco Bielsa, will be on the sidelines
leading the Olympic gold medalists in their attempt to q... |
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Havana, Cuba (MySportsbook) - Argentine legend Diego Maradona returned to
Cuba Tuesday to resume his rehabilitation for cocaine addiction.
The move follows a relapse which left Maradona confined to a psychiatric
hospital in Buenos Aires. His family originally tried to keep him at ... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Jose Pekerman will replace Marcelo
Bielsa as Argentina's national team coach.
Pekerman, 55, is Argentina's former youth coach, where he guided many of
Argentina's current stars.
"I feel like I'm returning home," said Pekerman. "I didn't e... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (MySportsbook) - Nestor Gorosito resigned just two
matches into the current season as coach of Argentinean club San Lorenzo.
Gorosito, 40, informed his players of the decision during practice on Tuesday.
San Lorenzo has not yet decided on a new coach, but a de... |
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