Argentina
Features news coverage of Argentina and its players, including match reports and general football news.
A signed shirt from Robin van Persie, Lionel Messi, Maradona or Paul Scholes?
In the past and the present, football players have enjoyed a special place in a football fan’s life.
Top Christmas Football Deals
The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…
Retro Football Kits
Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China – it was called Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju. In 1872, the first ever international…
An Open Letter to Carlos Tevez
Dear Carlos Tevez, For five years now you’ve been a shedload of trouble for the entire English Premier League. With this letter, I’d like to invite you to please stop moaning about the loneliness of Northern England and return to Argentina as you have for so long suggested you’d prefer. The biannual farce which into…
Why Argentina Will Get Nowhere Trying To Copy Barcelona
So to get the most obvious fact out of the way first, Argentina should beat Bolivia. They should hammer them off the pitch. Messi should be dancing around the bloodstain pitch at full time with the still beating heart of Arias, the Bolivian goalkeeper, in his hand. Only metaphorically though. But they didn’t. In fact…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (10-1)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
Stat Attack: Messi beats Ronaldo in every single competition
Castrol Performance data shows that Lionel Messi has been involved in more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo in the top five European leagues this season. Both have surpassed everyone this season in terms of goal involvement. Having scored one more goal than Ronaldo, Messi has also been far more creative with 17 assists, more than twice…
Lionel Messi is all in – adidas
Lionel Messi, featured in an adidas commercial (filmed playing for Argentina v Spain), goes all in: This is a longer version release of the initial ‘adidas is all in’ branding video that was published last month. This video (and the previous one) is part of adidas’ branding campaign (‘adidas is all in’). Worth noting here…
Argentina 2011/2012 Kits
The new 2011/2012 kits to be worn by Argentina have been unveiled by adidas and they will be available for purchase here. These kits will be worn by the Argentineans throughout the Copa America which will be played in Argentina. 2010 World Cup came to an abrupt end for the Diego Maradona’s men when they…
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