Argentina Invading the U.S.

On a different note,

And here’s to Porto (with their 5 argies all on the pitch for the first time). They destroyed Amadora 6-0, with 2 goals by Lucho and one by Lisandro Lopez, to become “Tri-Campeao do Futebol Portuguese” !!!

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A good weekend for Argie players so far, Aguero got a brace today making it 23 goals in all competitions, Coloccini scored and so did Pavone scored his 12th of the season. Albo you’re right about it being difficult to replace Zanetti and Sorin. I saw Grimi play in the UEFA cup agaist Rangers and he was outstanding!! i reckon we need a pacey left back with brilliant defensive skills like Zanetti!! hope someone fills this position soon!!

Wow that’s great for our Porto boys!

Did someone watched the Sevilla-Villareal game? How was Gonzalo Rodriguez who played the whole game???

Aguero, Pavone, Coloccini scored. Aguero is becoming a Liga crack.

Basile said one day that he doesn’t like SW running a lot between attack & defence. This is why he often uses Heinze & Burdisso on the flanks for a “strong” defence. Personnaly, I hope it’s not the end for Sorin.

ZANETTI,

Javier isn’t excellent in defence. He conceeds to much opponent crosses and doesn’t press a lot. But with the ball, he’s awesome. Class.

Villarreal are overperfoming, this was quite clear today.
Gonzalo made to many bad tackles. That’s a NT disaster waiting to happen.
Fazio played well for Sevilla as DM. All in all, deserved victory for Sevilla.

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Barca 0 - 0 Getafe

Yet another forgettable performance by Barca. Its like they didnt have any forwards.

MAXI LOPEZ

I agree with you on that! Apparently i’ve heard that Emiliano Insua is doing really well for the Liverpool Reserves. why doesnt Basile play Escudero? i mean when argentina won 5-0 against Honduras,he was sublime as a left back and could also switch to a left sided midfielder if needed..

Barca are really missing Messi!! cnt wait to see him back in action!

if you are nostalgic or was to young,missed or wanna see some legendary games again just click on the link.
http://youtube.com/user/kimjjj
full matches.

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i dont think gonzalo is a disaster waiting to happen.
he just came back from the injury that kept him out almost 2 years.
did you see him last week or the other weeks he did great,fantastic.
yes today was not his day the whole villarreal team sucked beside the goalkeeper,dont judge someone because of 1 game,mascherano was terrible and behaved like a child against man utd that doesnt take anything away from him because of 1 bad game he follewed it up with a monster performance against arsenal.so please have patient gonzalo deserves that.thanks.

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FAZIO started to.he is really very talented but must still learn.he must work on his passing abilities and concentration to not make blunders like against arsenal,i seen that happen many times to him he just passes the ball to the opponent.but still with time he will learn.

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insua is going to be part of the liverpool squad next year a the talk is rafa is going to give him a chance to compete to be the starting leftback.hope he grabs the chance!

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http://goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=648593

check the ratings for the argies.

Spain really needs to do away with racism. There were loud monkey chants when Uche came on today. That takes the fun out of the game. Organized fans are usually responsible for this and like in Argentina, the Spanish teams themselves created these monsters.

Racism is absolutely everywhere. You can’t beat it. People are too stupid and far too many. Racism belongs to the human genes and we need to stick to it. All the sport managers can do is to get it out from the stadiums.

ALFIO, i’m positive for Rodriguez. Pellegrini is a clever coach and has never stopped protecting him in order to recover of his 2 big injuries. I don’t know why French Cygan doesn’t play anymore but Gonzalo must be happy of the coach’s confidence in him.

Messi is needed what a wasted opportunity by barcelona!! And on your own pitch. Right now nobody seems to want to win the title in spain and watch out MAn U here comes Chelsea.

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It is kind of funny (and so pathetic at the time) that a team hires an African player and pays him a ton of money the make their team better, for their own fans to assume the player was sent from hell and deserves a racist treatment and a lesson in hatred.
What in the world do those fans have in their rotten minds?
Do they feel they’ve been invaded from planet of better athletes????
How stupid our human behaviour….

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1819054434941432566&q=Lan%C3%BAs+-+River&total=199&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

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keep an eye out for Martin Bravo of San Martin(SJ).

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MY very Dear Alfio,
Thanks a lot for your recent comments. I am so glad
to see you back on our blog.
You are right about Mascherano having a great game
against Arsenal. I cannot believe it that Arsenal
did not win that game. I predict that Liverpool
will finish them at Anfield. Did you notice how
Kuyt played at the back after the equalizer?
Since I have so much respect for you, may I
ask your point of about the recent Kosovo independence
and your prediction about the CL winner. Thanks
again for the youtube connection of that fellow
downloading those world cup games. May God bless.
Best wishes,
KEN

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amazing goal J-Argie

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hi ken.
i always read the blog but i had and have some personal problems in my life.
this season i did not watch much football for that reason so i couldnt comment on players performance,i like to know what i write.
i think arsenal is going to win against liverpool,my prediction is arsenal or man Utd gonna be the champions.

the kosovo independence is a great thing for us,we now can begin a new life and have a future,everybody knows is going to be hard but if we work work we can archive that.
thanks.

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Dear Alfio,

Thanks for your response. I am so happy
to hear from you. With regards to your personal
problems, it appears you went through a hard time.
I believe that we all how have issues in this
short life. But the wiser ones RESPOND to them
instead of reacting to them. That is it is more
important how one responds to a given problem
that matters most. This applies to health, money or relationship. I will pray for you.

Going back to football, I want Man utd to win. But I believe that Liverpool
will win it because Rafa Benitez’s side will eventually prevail in part because of mascherano, Gerald, Rise, Torres and Rafa’s ability to shift stategy during the game. For example how he made Kirk Duyt played defense after the equalizer in the recent Arsenal game.

Thanks for your take on Kosovo’s independence. I am very happy for your country.

Special regards to Riquelme, the blogger and the rest of the bloggers.
Best wishes,
KEN

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It’s great to see you back on the blog, Alfio!

I wonder how many Argentines are playing in the Champions League…I do know that if Liverpool win the Champions, the reason they’ll win will be because of nobody else but Mascherano.

I’m still holding out the dimmest hope for my Barcelona. I hope they don’t blow it on Wednesday.

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Alexa,
It is good to see that you
are still active on
our blog. Rune, maxilopez the Corsican friend , Albo etc along with others
were among the first
to passionately comment about the WC 2006. We are now
in April 2008 and it is really good
to see some of us still commenting.
With regards to your favourite team Barca,
they have not been doing great lately specially in la ligua.
Messi’s absence is very notable. I think that the team
is no longer what they used to be two years. But that
won’t stop them from winning CL.This is another beauty
of football. It is so unpredictable as anything can happen.
Cheers,
KEN

ALEXA & KEN,
The Barca problems are in the locker room. It must not be easy to manage people who are not motivated (Ronaldinho), who create conflicts (Etoo, Deco) and new stars who try to be efficient in this difficult atmosphere (Henry, Thuram). Add pressure from the medias which has the consequences to make Ridjkaard play his best players each 3 days and injure them (Messi, Ronaldinho, Etoo, everybody), brings you a team that suprisingly doesn’t work. The players that need to be respected are Iniesta & Xavi. They are excellent.

Pekerman excluded Veron, Zanetti and maybe Placente to avoid all this. I’m not saying he was right. I just say he wanted to avoid problems that Barca are facing nowadays. I don’t think Pekerman’s choice had an impact on our WC result by the way. He must have had his reasons that we don’t know. Same goes for Pellegrini concerning Riquelme (even if it seemed also difficult to understand).

ALFIO,
Almost nobody here can realize the kind of “work” you need to achieve. But we wish you good luck and the best for a very near future. This future is yours. And don’t worry for futbol, since WC 2006, nothing happened.