Brazil 2-0 Argentina | International match report
• Teenagers score in each half for Mano Menezes's side• Friendly played with only home-based players in each teamLucas and Neymar inspired Brazil to a 2-0 victory over their arch rivals Argentina in a friendly played with only home-based players in...
Carlos Tevez gets little sympathy in Argentina
The people's player is getting a bit of a earful back home. Pablo Ramon for Ole: " At Man Utd, Carlos Tevez enjoyed an idolatry that fell apart when the two parted company. Now he is ending in the other...
River Plate still making waves outside top flight
River Plate were relegated, they play in the B Nacional championship, their profile has sunk: Right, right, wrong.
As Argentine Football Association chief Julio Grondona put it, River are not adapting to the second division, the B Nacional is adapt...
The barra bravas: the violent Argentinian gangs controlling football
From the slums of Buenos Aires, there's only one escape – football. To play like Maradona or Tevez is the ultimate dream, but off the pitch there's another option: joining one of the violent gangs who control the sport. An extraordinary report o...
Argentina appoint Alejandro Sabella as coach
• Replaces Sergio Batista who was sacked after Copa América• Won Libertadores Cup with Estudiantes in 2009Alejandro Sabella has been appointed coach of Argentina to replace Sergio Batista, who was sacked after the country's disappointing exit from...
Sergio Batista resigns as coach of Argentina
• Batista walks after failure in Copa América• Hosts were knocked out in quarter-finalsArgentina's failure to win the Copa América and end an 18-year wait for a major title has cost the coach, Sergio Batista, his job.The Argentina Football Assoc...
Villar success highlights wider malaise
The prospect of Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar winning the player of the Copa America could highlight a deficiency in the football played at the tournament.
Sergio Batista on his way out
Alejandro Sabella could be the new coach of the Albiceleste The AFA is meeting on Monday to decide the fate of the embattled Sergio Batista under whom Argentina suffered a humiliatingly early exit in the Copa America. The general...
Sharing the wealth: Copa America and the Decentralisation of Argentinian Football
Sharing the wealth: Copa America and the Decentralisation of Argentinian Football is a post from: Just Football
Sharing the wealth: Copa America and the Decentralisation of Argentinian Football is a post from: Just Football Forget the penalties, the 2011 Copa America represents a landmark moment for Argentinian football. Making his debut for Just Football, Tom...Football quiz: Sergio Agüero
Today's questions may be replacing Carlos TevezIan McCourt
There’s No Place Like South America
So as wonderful as the Women’s World Cup has been, the Copa America has been just epic from the standpoint of a simple question: “Who?”
Was anyone expecting that much the summer after a full Euro season + World Cup year? Nay. Gaslights are all on, have been on, and the needles are about to break...
Argentina and Brazil lead the fall of the Copa América giants | Jonathan Wilson
There was a total absence of logic in the last eight as Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela made it into the semi-finalsThe giants woke up, but only to be felled. When Argentina and Brazil scored seven goals between them in their third group games at...
