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Copa America 2011 Preview

This Friday (1st July) the eyes of South America will turn to La Plata, Argentina, as the host nation take on Bolivia in the opening match of the much awaited Copa America, a tournament that will showcase some of the most talented individual players on the planet. The Copa America returns to the place where…

Fergie Time: Didier Drogba’s Malaria Proves That Nobody Knows Anything

Welcome to Fergie Time, a roundup/newsletter type deal that delivers news, opinion and links directly to your screen. As the name suggests, there will be some exaggeration, nsfw moments, canceled press conferences (oh, who are we kidding) and late, late, late scoring of points. You’ll like it, trust me. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: Screenwriter William Goldman…

CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol)

CONMEBOL is the South American Football Confederation (officially known as the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol) which covers the majority of the continent of South America. It is the oldest of FIFA’s confederations, originally forming in 1916, almost a century ago. The federation’s formation was begun by Héctor Rivadavia Gómez who had a grand plan for a…

The Best Goals of 2008 Part 4 (Americas)

From North America (MLS, Mexico) to South America (Argentina, Brazil and all the rest), the best goals of 2008:

Should we abandon automatic qualification in Euros and World Cups?

Many would agree that allowing the hosts of a tournament free passage into the competition is simply an absurd policy. However, this policy seems to imbue the two major world soccer tournaments today — The World Cup and the European Championships or the Euro, as is more popularly called. In the World Cup, 32 places…

Brazil Stun Argentina: Fresh Lessons Learned

Watch Argentina v Brazil live online. I have been, traditionally, a Brazil fan. I don’t remember since when, but I still did occasionally like Argentina. Although that was more due to a certain Diego Maradona. But ever since the departure of that colourful Argentinian my loyalties became pretty much concrete – with the Selecao. Until…

Argentina beat Mexico to set up Brazil dream final

For Argentina, today was just another day. Glorious, free-flowing, creative football so typical of the Albiceleste was on display yet again. For Mexico, it was just another Copa America. Nobody beats them at reaching Copa semi-finals and then bowing out. Argentina continue to produce some amazing goals as they hit three past Mexico this evening….

Classy Argentina storm into semis

Four high quality goals from Argentina saw them comfortably through to the semis. Peru was completely outplayed as Riquelme started and finished proceedings in style. Despite no goals being scored in the first-half, Argentina created a couple of chances – the best ones coming off Messi’s boots. The 20 year old is slowly settling into…

Mascherano powers Argentina to the top

The Liverpool man is considered by many to be amongst the best holding midfielders in the world. Today he did just a little more. A second-half Javier Mascherano strike was enough to put Argentina atop group C setting up a quarter-final date with Peru.

USA: Striker Wanted

Another day, it happens the same way. Team USA was handed its second loss of Copa America last night, this time at the hands of Paraguay. It’s almost comical to watch at this point. The US clearly had more opportunities to win this game, and yet time and time again, these chances were flubbed by…