May 15, 2006 - San Lorenzo
Boca Juniors capped its Argentine Apertura championship by defeating Olimpo Bahia Blanca 2-0 in the last round on Sunday at Bombonera stadium.Matias Silvestre scored off a header in the 14th minute and Rodrigo Palacio made it 2-0 in the 59th for a seventh straight win for Boca, which won the tournament last week.It was Boca's fourth cup in less than a year, after the South American Recopa and Copa Sudamericana, and the Clausura championship.Boca ended with 43 points, followed by Lanus with 35, River Plate with 34, Gimnasia Jujuy on 33, and Gimnasia La Plata at 32.River Plate defeated host Quilmes 3-1 in a match which was suspended in the 67th minute because of fan violence.Boca, Gimnasia La Plata, River, Banfield and Velez will play in the 2007 Copa Libertadores. The same teams plus Lanus and San Lorenzo will strive to wrest the Sudamericana from defending champion Boca.Instituto and Tiro Federal were relegated to second division.Argentinos Juniors and Olimpo will play with two teams from second division, and the two winners of the home-and-away series will play in the first division next season.
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May 9, 2006 - Soccer Recap
Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell's 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.
Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.
Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.
With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.
Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.
In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.
Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.
River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.
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April 28, 2006 - Newell’s Old Boys v San Lorenzo
Newell’s Old Boys and San Lorenzo managed a one-all draw as the home team blows a chance to close in on Boca.
Beluschi and Acevedo netted the goals within ninety seconds of each other in the 56th/57th minutes. The result was frustrating for the ‘Leprosos’ who watched their title challenge diluted by Acevedo’s goal in their backyard.
The Rosario squad is fourth with 29 points, and San Lorenzo is 10th with 22.
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April 18, 2006 - Paraguay soccer manager to travel to Argentina to watch matches
Anibal Ruiz, the manager of Paraguay's national squad, will travel to Argentina this weekend, to watch games where key Paraguayan players are due to feature in the Argentina league, local media said on Monday.
On Saturday, he will watch Estudiantes de la Plata and Olimpo, to watch defenders Juan Daniel Caceres and Jorge Nunez. Also on Saturday Newell's Old Boys will play San Lorenzo, where one team might employ goal-keeper Justo Villar and mid-fielder Diego Gavilan, while the other could deploy forward Jose Saturnino Cardoso.
On Sunday he will go to the Monumental Stadium to watch River Plate versus Argentinos Junniors, where Julio Cesar Caceres, who plays for the Plate "millionaires" might play.
Ruiz has said that he will publish his shortlist of 23 footballers on May 15, the deadline day set by FIFA.
"We have a base, but there is no reason to hurry. We have to respect the timetable, and although we have everything set, we won't publish until the day," he said.
On Thursday, he will visit Montevideo, Uruguay, to receive the best South American manager award for 2005, sponsored by Uruguay's El Pais daily.
After this weekend's visit to Argentina, he hopes to visit Brazil to watch Carlos Gamarra, who plays for Palmeiras; Julio Manzur, for Santos; and Cesar Ramirez who plays for Flamengo.
Paraguay is part of Group B in the World Cup, which begins in Germany in June. Its rivals in the Group are Trinidad and Tobago, England and Sweden.
Paraguay's first game is on June 10 against England in Frankfurt. On June 15 it meets Sweden in Berlin and on June 20 it will meet Trinidad and Tobago in Kaiserlauten.
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April 6, 2006 - Arsenal coach resigns in Argentina
| Jose Maria Bianco has resigned as coach of first division Arsenal the fourth coaching victim of the year in Argentina, local media said on Wednesday.
Bianco had been in charge of the unfashionable club since last August, when he took over from 1986 World Cup winner Jorge Burruchaga.
He was jeered by the home crowd during a 5-2 home defeat by Gimnasia-Jujuy on Sunday. The defeat left Arsenal 14th in the Clausura championship with 12 points from 10 games.
Gustavo Alfaro (San Lorenzo), Angel Zof (Rosario Central) and Fernando Quiroz (Racing Club) are the other coaches to have either resigned or been fired by first division clubs since the start of the year. |
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April 4, 2006 - San Siro to echo to a Latin American beat
The Bosman ruling ended the foreign “quota” limit on the number EU players allowed to play in European teams. There are few teams who have exploited this more than Inter Milan and Villareal who meet each other in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final.
The two sides – who meet at the San Siro – have a combined total of 25 Latin American players, the vast majority of whom have EU passports. Villareal also have a Chilean coach, Mauricio Pellegrini.
Even more staggering is the fact that 13 of the 25 are Argentines. Pellegrini himself won championships with Argentina’s River and San Lorenzo before he joined Villareal.
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March 27, 2006 - San Lorenzo held by late goal
Gimnasia from La Plata held San Lorenzo to a 2-2 draw in the 11th round of the Argentine Clausura tournament.
Adrian Gonzalez opened the scoring for San Lorenzo before Gimnasia battled back, with Jorge Cervera levelling the game five minutes before the break.
Four minutes after half-time, Leonardo Ulloa put San Lorenzo back in front but Gonzalo Vargas snatched an equaliser three minutes before time.
The result means San Lorenzo stay in seventh place with 16 points, five points behind leaders River Plate.
Gimnasia are a point further back with 15.
In Friday's (Saturday AEDT) other game, Instituto edged Racing 1-0 in a battle of the bottom two teams.
Gaston Caprari scored the only goal of the game to condemn Racing to their eight loss in 11 matches.
Racing are still without a win in the competition.
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March 9, 2006 - San Lorenzo bounces Boca Juniors
Goalkeeper Sebastian Saca converted a first-half penalty kick and San Lorenzo went on to win 2-1 at Boca Juniors 2-1 Sunday, highlighting the fifth round of the Argentine first-division.Saca?s goal in the 12 minute and Dario Bottinelli?s in the 71st minute gave San Lorenzo a 2-0 lead before Federico Insua tallied in the final minute of the game at Boca?s Bombonera stadium.
Estudiantes de La Plata, which beat Racing 2-1 on Friday, took over the league lead with 11 points. Velez Sarsfield, which defeated Quilmes 2-0 Saturday for its fifth straight victory, was in second on goals scored.
Colon and Santa Fe, which led the league entering the weekend round, played each other in a night match later Sunday.
In other matches on Sunday, it was Rosario Central 1, Instituto de Cordoba 0; Arsenal 3, Tiro Federal 0; and Olimpo 4, Argentinos Juniors 1.
Newell?s Old Boys and Banfield drew 2-2 on Friday, and Gimnasia y Esgrima won its first game of the Clausura season on Saturday, beating Independiente 1-0.
Racing?s loss came as former international midfielder Diego Simeone prepared to take over as coach of the last-placed team next week. Simeone, 35, who formerly played for Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and Lazio, holds the record of 106 caps with the Argentine national team, scoring 11 goals and winning two Copa America titles.
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