the full Argentina squad for the qualifiers and Argentine watch

Does anyone know which channel will the game be on? Thanks.

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Gol TV Mondsy tho at 9 et

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Maxilopez,
what I have said earlier:

How can a loser ever win? This applies both to Basile and AFA. They are
both losers and they will reiterate that again. Argentina has the best world class players but does NOT have a world class team because of serious
deficiency in tactics and strategy. They need to get rid of Julio Grodona of the AFA, bring someone of the caliber of Arsene Wenger. Juergen Klinnsman can also do that job. Remember as fans we have been waiting since 1986. Is it not time for a change or a revolution? Carlos Bilardo, a medical Doctor and winner of the 1986 WC as a coach and Diego Armanda Maradona, winner of the 1986 wc also think it is time for a change. Unfortunately, the argentina public is way too passive. and as fans we can only watch that great players such as Riquelme, Messi, Mascherano, Sorin, Zanetti, Crespo get wasted away without the glory they so well deserved. Their only mistakes are that they were born in the wrong country. What a waste of talent!

Regards to all who truly care,

Ken

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well said Ken. Though some people might hate you for saying that, I just want to say that you took words out of my mouth.

I love to see lovely football, thats why I am a fan of Argentina. I am not an Argentine, but my heart is there, it is not bound by the boundaries of the nations. I hurts me when we lose, I do not want our team to lose.

As you said, its been long, 1986, I was a kid. Its really time, its long overdue. We have so many great players. And right now, I believe we can beat almost anyone, apart from Brazil.

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Ken, interesting article about Bilardo:

http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/winners/code=68/player=2147483647/interview.html

Yes, he’s really a champions.

Cheers

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Ken,

?????????Argentineans fans are way to passive. Do you have tyc sports. You don’t know what your talking about so with all respect, SHUT UP you have no idea what you talking about the argentineans in argentina know way more about football then you will ever know. AND FYE they do not like Grondona. And if they wanted to put anyone in charge it would be Diego Maradona not a forgeiner like Arsene Wenger or Juergen Klinnsman. A forgiener will never be in charge of AFA. Maybe a COach never in charge of the AFA. In tyc sports, they say if Basile doesn’t win both game. He would get sacked and if he does and they say one of these managers would get the job Diego Maradona Fabio Capello Jose Mourinho Mario Kempes Hugo Tocalli Diego Simeone Daniel Passarella and Ricardo de La Volpe

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Ken,
I am from Argentina. I applaud you man. I am an engineer. I hope
someday we will meet at a world cup game. Your analytical mind is
phenomenal. Have you ever been to argentina? Please do not pay attention to my compatriot Albo. We have many like him in Argentina who as you describe are passive and refuse to rock the boat because of their own insecurities. Keep on the writing Ken!
Saludos

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What is this, Rio?
Why are you so upset with me?
I don’t even remember having talked with you more than once and you made it clear we disagree.
What is all this agressive attitude?

Monday, October 08, 2007
Local players for qualifier

5 names:

German Denis (Independenti) ST
Fernando Belluschi (River Plate) Winger
Juan Pablo Carrizo (River Plate) GK
Hugo Ibarra (Boca Juniors) FB
Daniel Montenegro (Independenti) Winger

The 25 players enlisted are for both qualifiers against Chile and Venezuela. First match on 13.October at 5:30pm, second one in Maracaibo on the 16th.

We got some wingers and forward backups with this local player list. I don’t see how Denis will get to play with the current form Tevez and Messi are in though. And even if the 2 have problems, there are still Saviola and Aguero waiting for the call!

And other thing I just had to ask, WTF IS IBARRA DOING HERE? Is this Basile’s great white hope for fullback? The dude is 33!
saludos,
Rio

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WHat does it matter that your an engineer? I agree with Albo point of you.
Ken you have no idea what your talking about. Its people like you who ruin the NT, you have no faith over your players or the Coach because at the end of the game its the players on the field who wins games not the manager. And we have the best players in the world. We just gotta have faith in our managers and players its there job they obviously know more about football then you will ever know so just have faith in your manager he knows more then YOU.

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Golazo,
With all due respect to you as a 14 year old, I am not
an engineer. As Maradona stated earlier, I also do NOT
have a Ph.D in Physics. What I do have is a background in
Physics and Optometry.
Golazo, you are 14 years old. So you can wait. I am tired
of waiting for a trophy, having waited since 1986! . It pains me to see a player of the caliber of Riquelme and Messi retiring without having been a winner of a wc. Do you get it buddy? Regards to you Golazo

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————pato-
hienze-diaz-milito-zanetti-
——–mascherano
Messi—-Riquelme….maxi
—–Aguero————
————-Denis—
subs
mascherano out, in gago
aguero out, in tevez
Riquelme out, in Belluschi

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Sorry, about the egineer it was directed to Rio. We are going to win the next world cup. Basile probably wouldn’t be there but if he is I’m going to support him.

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Golazo,
Before we win , we have to qualify first. Bielsa, an argentinean, current
coach of Chile will keep throwing long balls at us. If we win, I will be ecstatic. Regards,
Ken

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Linda,
Because you believe that I went out of line, I will
NEVER write one single line again. May God bless
you all.
Farewell to you all
Ken

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Guys does anyone know, if the game will be shown on GOL TV in america, or any of the spanish channels??? i am sure livefooty will show it, but wanted to see if i could watch it on TV.

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messay…if you live in usa go to soccertv.com….it shows all the soccer matches that get shown in us in all channels even ppv….and yes goal tv is showing the both argentina games on delay…..linda….barcelona may play with speed …but they also guard the ball and pass it around quite a bit….i love how henry messi and ronaldinho get toghether to form small triangles and walls to beat the defence…watch the second goal againts ath madrid…i can see that working for us perfectly..although i have to agree..the barcelona system is not a perfect system for riquelme … but i still think its good for messi an aguero playing on the opossite of messi..jsut so u know in independiente aguero played plenty on the left wing and did awesome stuff..iff not watch the goal againts racing where he picks the ball at mid field on the left and goes all the way to scora ala messi and maradona….i just want messi in a place where he can succeed…and i think aguero can play more than one position because he can dribble score pass and head….ken….you get offended by everything..maybe you should reconsider enterin a discussion if your gonna get mad everytime someone disagrees with you..speciallly when you say that argentines have no passion…you oviously never been to a soccer game in argentina or even walked the streets..just ask banega if argentinians have no passion……btw ..i hope rolfi gets a chance to play some minutes…hopefully replacing riquelme if he is ineffective…rolfi is so fast and can pass so well i think he would compliment messi perfectly….and whoever said that belluchi should sub in for riquelme hasnt seen river play a lot….beluchi is no enganche ..he always plays winger…and he always has his best games when the creative role goes to someone else..like ortega….last thing..someone earlier said alexiz sanchez is as good as aguero…really??? am i missing something…it musta been that same guy linda was talking about..the same guy that said some guy in the portuguese league is a ss good as messi…

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I think it was MaxiLopez who asked me a few days ago “why are people in Argentina so indifferent to the upcoming matches. (If it was someone else, I’m sorry for the misquote.)
Right now it’s getting all the attention. It took until this week but now is in first page everywhere and it is only sharing importance with the Pumas.
Fortunately, they won’t be competing for fans this time. Argentina-Chile is played this Saturday and Pumas-Springboks for rugby WC semifinals is on Sunday.
People know Messi is in Buenos Aires, same Agüero, Tevez, Riquelme, Mascherano, they wanna see them playing together. I believe Messi makes Argentina something special.
Of course the Monumental at Nuñez is totally sold out.
Everybody wants Messi to do well and give them a reason to dream of a better future.
There is something special this time. Messi, he is that something special.
And if Bielsa throws 2 or 3 defenders at him, it’s up to our other guys to take advantage of the empty lanes.

By the way, today was the day for nice words. Basile plus several players (Heinze, Riquelme, Zanetti) talked to the media and expressed their respect and admiration for “el loco” Bielsa.
Bielsa in time felt grateful for those words and mentioned that Argentina during these qualifiers was going to be in the eyes of the whole world.
Other South American coaches also complemented the talent Argentina was fielding.
Luis Fernando Suárez, (Ecuador): Argentina is now the “reference team” in South America and they already have a place in WC10.
Jorge Pinto, (Colombia): There is no better talent than them.

All this hype of course is not what we want coming into qualifiers but I guess these players, and more specifically Lionel Messi, make it impossible to avoid.

It is very possible that, from the start, Chile will play pressure defence across the entire pitch. This is going to complicate the flow of our game. It is a very annoying style of football and Argentina might commit lots of errors.
Basile and his players know all this. The deal is to support it and try to avoid getting scored on, at least until the end of first half. Because it’s impossible to play with that intensity for more than 50 to 60 minutes. I would almost say that if Chile don’t score early in the game, it’ll be hard for them to beat us.

Dale Rojo!!, I was the one who said Alexis Sánchez is as good as Agüero.
I’m sorry if you took it as an insult. It was not my intention.
I’m a liberal Boca fan, I understand (by your nickname) that you are an Independiente fan. Alexis plays for River, if I hadn’t seen an enormous talent in that kid I wouldn’t have talked about him. I love Agüero. He’s special. But Sánchez is special too.
I’d like to see Rolfi Montenegro and German Denis playing together too. They’re “in the zone” these days, aren’t they? . Un abrazo.

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yeah i love independiente….and i didnt take it as an insult…im just surprised by the statement thats all…maybe i should watch him a lil more before making up my mind but i doubt it will change,,,,since aguero es mi idolo…..i seen aguero do things that make me stand up and yelll….like the goal againts river plate en la pretemporada…and keep in mind aguero is been playing for independiente since he was 15….i dont think u can compare them…on thing i love about sanchez..the kid has a lot of heart….i see him run after every ball like its his last chance ..i love that…..albo i went to the boca independiente game this last one….boca seems to have the refs in their pockets….it was so frustrating seeing every call go to boca..it was still a great game….sorry if i jumped to conclusions about sanchez…but i really dont think u can compare the two…aguero has already acomplished a lot more..but im cheering for sanchez to be great…..i think not only should we be fans of argentine soccer…but also be fans of south american soccer since we are all brothers…

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Today (Thursday), Basile made two teams and in turns they played a team of U-20s plus Ustari and German Denis.

Team #1:

Roberto Abbondanzieri; Javier Zanetti, Martín Demichelis, Gabriel Milito, Gabriel Heinze; Maximiliano Rodríguez, Javier Mascherano, Esteban Cambiasso; Juan Román Riquelme; Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez.

They beat the kids 1-0. Tevez scored, assisted by Riquelme.

Team #2:

Juan Pablo Carrizo; Hugo Ibarra, Fabricio Coloccini, Daniel Díaz, Nicolás Burdisso; Fernando Belluschi, Fernando Gago, Federico Insúa; Daniel Montenegro; Javier Saviola and Sergio Agüero.

They beat the kids 2-0. Goals by Montenegro and Kun Agüero.

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World cup is in the distance but we still need to mold a team for it. As a result, we need two younger right full backs. We need a young replacement for requelme. For the upcoming qualifiers, i’d love to see aguero in for tevez and Insua in for Combiasso.
We need D’allessandro in this team. He would replace combiasso for me.

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Argentina for life.. Ive watched Argentina against in their 2 qualifiers so far.. and im not impress with the forwards apart from messi. there is only one man missing,.. its CRESPO. trust me.. you can always expext crespo to score in any game. play your best players and i knw teves is getting there but he will never be as good scoring goals like crespo.. goals crespo will score alot of forwards in this world can only dream of doing.. kep crespo ..he is a goal scorer and a world football name everyone wants to see when it comes to argentina.. Crespo name on your team sheeets defenders alway worries..

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I am a die-hard Argentina fan, but aboveall, I’m a big time Crespo fan. Argentina is incomplete without Crespo. He is the genious, the master the killer. Had he played in Copa America final, the outcome could have been in Argentina’s favor. You can’t expect Requilme to score goals in set pieces in every match. Keep Crespo!!

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