Tragedy in Argentina

Atletico Madrid settle Velez Sarsfield dispute over teenage duo
tribalfootball.com - March 21, 2008

Atletico Madrid have settled a transfer dispute with Velez Sarsfield over the signing of two teenagers.

Gonzalo Bozzoni, 18, and 16-year-old German Pacheco were at the centre of the row after their move to Atletico upset Velez directors.

Following threats of taking the case to FIFA, the two clubs reached a compromise agreement which will see Atletico pay appearances fees and also include a sell-on clause in each players’ contract.

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who are these kids?

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About Riquelme,
It looks now like Riquelme will be ready to play Egypt afer all.
He’ll miss the league game this Sunday against Colon (Santa Fe) but might be back for the second match against Colo-Colo at La Bombonera.

I thought Riquelme wasn’t in the squad for Egypt?

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ajNYHC, you’re right. Riquelme is not in that list.
He’s been selected for the olympic team, not the friendly against Egypt.
My bad.

Mascherano is sooooo under rated at Liverpool its always Torres-Gerrad but without a doubt he is the best player in Liverpool.

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GOLAZO,
I agree concerning Lisandro Lopez. He deserves to start.

Mascherano is the best defensive midfielder in the galaxy, far from the others. But he plays far too much and Benitez is absolutely right complaining about how he’s used with the Argentina NT. How many players must be injured because of games high frequency? I remind you guys that we’ve lost Maxi Rodriguez (who had almost his carreer ended) and Crespo for la Copa 07. Messi was recovering of his “Ridjkaard” injury in 2006 too.

TAMIM,
This is a friendly. Winning is not that important. It will be a very entertaining friendly with lots of gol. Egypt are very tactical and play a nice futbol. It’s a good test for Argentina. I hope our team will do its tactical job after attacking on 4-1-3-2 style.

If Basile plays 4-3-1-2 with this group, i would do this:

———-Ustari————
Zabaleta–Colo–Dimi–Heinze
–Zanetti–Masche–Maxi—–
———-Lucho————-
—–Lopez——-Cavegol—-

This team would amazingly collective and Egypt wouldn’t touch a single ball

In the second half, Test Aguero as a #9 with Lavezzi and Gago at Mascherano’s place. Il Capitano should be subbed with Burdisso too, with Zabaleta moving upfront.

Zanetti, Cambiasso, Mascherano should have not been called by Basile. They are dying physically…

Its Tevez vs Mascherano at sunday,Manchester united vs Liverpool going to be a great match. I want tevez to score again!!!!!!

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I’ve read that Roman might be out for 4 weeks?

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JAMES,
Yes, he has played too much for 1 year, he teared his thigh, the classical injury when you play too much. It’s a warning. Next time, it could be worst. It’s the same kind of injury that Crespo (at la Copa) and Messi lately with Barca, suffered…

wow, Tevez not playing for Man U cause Sir Alex decided to go with an ultra defensive lineup. And Masche picked up a 2nd yellow and is out for the game. a pity, as he was playing really well up to that point. still not sure what happened as it was close to half time, but Liverpool won a free kick, and Torres was given a Yellow for some reason and Masche went to complain on Torres’ behalf and got his 2nd booking. Very strange…

I’ve watched Inter - Juve yesterday.

Burdisso showed his limits once more. He was really bad and gave the second gol to Trezegol. He isn’t good enough to play with the NT.

Zanetti was dying on the field. Really tired. He was very elegant thanks to his technique, but in defence, he didn’t even have the strenght to press. He gave to much space to the nerobianchi. I wonder if he’s gonna play against Egypt. I think it would be a mistake.

Trezeguet was at the right place, at the right time, as always.

Cambiasso didn’t play.
(Mancini does the bad choices, he played horrible Stankovic once more and subbed his chilean playmaker when it was really not needed..)

Concerning the other boys, Cavenaghi rested and didn’t play with Bordeaux (who lost). Maxi Rodriguez, one of our most important players, played like always: very collective, moved a lot and created spaces. He scored. Aguero is really an excellent second forward and was very disturbing for Sevilla who is losing the battle with Athletico for the Liga 4th place.

Ferguson doesn’t play Tevez? It’s a shame.

Drogba is my favourite striker of all. Sorry Bati.
Chelsea and Man-U are a notch above the rest of the teams of the world, the way I see it.
Those two teams can play power-football without converting the pitch into a pinball machine.
Watching any other PL teams, feels like watching a ping-pong match. Long kick to the opponent, long kick back…
Just an opinion.

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too bad for mascherano today — but i’m glad he’s learning this stuff at liverpool — just as long as he doesn’t get kicked out of a world cup quarterfinal

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how was neri cardozo today? and who is that new kid cristian chavez for boca and bou for river?

J-Argie, Neri Cardozo was not in his best night during Boca 2-1 Colón Santa Fé.
Dátolo was. Gracián played well too.
Great game by RONCAGLIA: (remember that name), and Monzón.
Morel is as good as they come but he belongs to Paraguay…
Don’t know much about Cristian Chávez, other than: he is an 18 year old player with less than a year of experience and very few minutes played. He’s a midfielder who currently subs for Gracián, who at the time subs for Riquelme.

River has been showing good football too.
And Carrizo is probably the best GK we have at the moment. Hello Coco…?
BTW, Esteban Cambiasso misses the friendly in Egypt due to injury.

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Alexa,
Messi is also learning his stuff at Barca so that he doesnt get injred in a world cup quarterfinal. I am glad Mascherano and Messi are learning.

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Hi all!
Mascherano really screwed things up yesterday. You can not run 20 meters and complain to the referee when you already have been booked. Tevez is tired and is not the same player now as he was some weeks ago. He said some months ago himself that he needs a break. I think we will see the real Tevez the next season. Aguero is such a great player. I get so impressed by him almost every time I see him play.

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Gago was excellent yesterday. He was very dynamic and was surprisingly physically impressive.

I’m sure the Higuain fans here have seen how he played yesterday. As a winger by Schuster. Worrying for him. He never plays and when he does a little, he wastes HUGE opportunities like yesterday when he couldn’t even score at 2 meters from a lying golkeeper. Higuain will maybe be a good player one day, but now he’s nothing except a very marketed player since he left River. He’s nothing. He needs to get out of the circus quickly.

ALBO,
I believe Manchester are absolutely over-rated. I’m sure they will be eliminated by Roma in The Champions. Roma will block the wings and use their tactical 4-5-1. The first game at Rome will be very important.

Yes ALEXA, you are right. It’s better for them to learn this kind of things at their clubs. But this time, unlike Tevez or Aguero’s exclusions, it made me laugh. Mascherano is pretty funny when he shows his feelings. Giants like Patrick Vieira were sent off many times in this league were players must never complain about the refering.

RUNE,
The risk is that we could never see the real Argentina if players such as Riquelme, Masche or De Michelis are never fit. Man, Tevez is even frightened to play Brazil because he’s afraid of being too tired…

ALBO,
I didn’t know that Cambiasso was injured. Wow. It is VERY worrying.

Players who generally play each 3 days, Riquelme, Messi, Cambiasso are all injured in a month. Zanetti is dead each time he plays. Tevez doesn’t even wanna play anymore. Fuc#… And nobody moves a single finger except Wenger, Benitez or Mourinho or Houllier in the past. The powerfull coaches never stop complaining but nobody cares. WC 2002 was the demonstration that players need to be fit to play good football. This situation is just amazing.

The clever guy is Crespo. He has always done the same at Parma, Lazio or Inter: each time he gets a new contract at his club, you don’t see him unless there is an international competition or if his contract ends…

Well Argy of the weekend was Aguero. I will state again that Aguero can and should be a number 9 for the national team. Anyone watching the game can see that Aguero switches back and forth to the number 9 with Forlan. Most of the time he is playing a number 9 role!

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Starting Midfeild with cambiassso out is most likely Mascerano and gago in the center with Lucho on the left and mazi on the right. What i would like to see is a 4 1 3 2 with mascerano in front of the defense and then Gago Maxi and Levenssi in the midfeild with Aguero and caveniggi upfront.

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Mascherano pleads ignorance over red card

Javier Mascherano still has no idea why he was sent off against Manchester United during Liverpool’s 3-0 Premier League defeat at Old Trafford.

While the possibility persists that the Argentinian could yet have to serve more than the mandatory one-match ban - because he failed to leave the pitch immediately after being red-carded - Mascherano remains non-plussed over the initial reason for yesterday’s dismissal.

Referee Steve Bennett had already booked him for a foul when Mascherano sought to make his feelings known to the official after Fernando Torres had also been given a yellow card.

It was then the referee gave the midfielder his second booking for dissent.

But Mascherano claimed: ‘I do not know why I was sent off.

‘I asked the referee what was happening. I did not swear; I was not aggressive and I did not confront him.

‘All I did was ask him what was happening, nothing else.’

Mascherano, who subsequently lost his cool as he made his way off the field, told the Liverpool Echo: ‘When he showed me the second yellow card and sent me off I could not believe it.

‘I am sorry to my team-mates because that meant we went down to 10 men - and that made things even more difficult for us.’

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