Comments on: Egypt v Argentina – Live

By: carioca

carioca — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:10:59 +0000

johnlin, the gull! how can you compare romario or bebeto with messi, aguero and teves? I mean, bebeto is in their league but the three argentinians would fall short of a romario!! time to get down to earth.

By: toddutah

toddutah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:56:24 +0000

Have a good weekend.

By: toddutah

toddutah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:20 +0000

Trezeguet urges Juventus to buy Argentine
tribalfootball.com – March 28, 2008

David Trezeguet wants Juventus to buy Argentine in the summer.
The Argentine-born France international striker told Tuttosport that Lanus pair Agustin Daniel Pelletieri and Diego Valeri, Estudiantes attacker Pablo Piatti and River Plate starlet Diego Buonanotte should all be signed by Juve.

Trezeguet said: “They are all players of genuine class, my friends speak very well of them. And enough with the reports that they’re too young. In recent years two lads have exploded on the world scene called Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero.

“Argentina is a great source of talent

By: toddutah

toddutah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:40:24 +0000

Big weekend lets see if Aguero can give Riquleme some revenge against Villareal.

By: Albo

Albo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:37 +0000

Boca Juniors came back twice to beat Colo-Colo at La Bombonera 4-3, playing the whole second half with 10 men (Monzon sent off).
The game was not technically good at all but showed the world the guts of Boca players who refuse to go down in their own house.
Rodrigo Palacio belongs with the best floating forwards we have.

By: aimar10

aimar10 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:34:27 +0000

i hope basile rest most of his regular starters for the next friendly against america. since its just days before a crucial game against brazil. i would definately like to see lopez and cavinaghi start this one and sosa pulling the strings in the midfield.

By: Rune

Rune — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:02:32 +0000

Ok, just to answer…
Maradona:
I like Roman very much, but my point is that we need a backup plan for the games when Roman plays badly or finds it hard to create. I do not like that we are a team who are too dependent on Roman. If the opponents shut down Roman, we are in big troubble….If they manage to take Roman out of the game, they know that Argentina are not half as good. That is my point. We are very vulnerable here. We need a plan B.
I said that Roman has “off days” in real big games….The biggest club games he has played in his career are the two leg semi finals against Arsenal in CL 05/06….What did he do in these games? Very little. Against Inter he was great, but in the following round when thet mey a real top class team from England, he failed to deliver the goods.. And in the biggest game for Argentina..in the quarterfinal against Germany in WC 06…apart from that corner…what did he do? Very little. I think Peker was wrong to sub him, but he did not have a very good game. He was good against the mediocre teams, but not very good against the only real top class team that we met in this WC. And against Brazil in the Copa final…he did not do much…partly because the Brazilians kicked him out of the game, but one good question is: Why the hell did Coco let him take every single free kick when he didn’t create danger with them?? Again…where was plan B? I know he was awesome in the Copa Libertadores last year…And I am happy he was. But that tournament does not hold the same level as the CL in Europe. He was terrific in the Copa America…against the mediocre teams…but when we met a top class team, he didn’t have his best game. So again…my only point is that Roman is not Superman, and we need to find other ways to create danger in the real big games against real top class teams.

Albo:
I said Basile is a weird man based on the fact that he choose Cruz over Cavenaghi and always gives Lucho another chance…I said it just to sum up my post…..I also have to admit that I said it because Basile has picked Roman for the olympics, before I suddenly remembered that it is of course Batista, not Basile who is the olympic coach. Sorry…my bad.
I read on the Mundo Albiceleste web page that Argentina did not play a good game, but maybe the writer there was a bit too negative. So I should maybe have read all the posts here before jumping to conclusions. I am very happy that we played a good game after all.

By: James

James — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:06:16 +0000

Oh yeah and Golazo Batista (not Basile) is a big fan of the 4-1-2-3. He played Banega behind and Sosa next to Roman in that friendly against Guatemala.

I think that someone like Valeri can learn ALOT from playing with Roman, which I think will be great for the future. Just imagine the passing lanes that will open up.

By: James

James — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:56:50 +0000

One word to describe Boca’s performance last night: HUEVOS

By: Albo

Albo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:15:20 +0000

I notice some of our bloggers feel pretty irritated with Basile for what I read.
I believe we lost to Brazil in Copa America because our players chocked when they so the yellow jersey.
Yes, chocked, like it has happened before.
I’m not saying that it happens every time we play Brazil.
I saw Argentina beating Brazil 3-1 and in that oportunity it was the Brazilans who couldn’t get their game going and looked scared to death.
In the last Copa America finals against Brazil, it was our players who lost the game, not Basile.
Same in WC06 against Germany. It was our players not Peckerman.