When Argentina takes the field tomorrow afternoon against Uruguay in Buenos Aires, their 9th fixture in CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifying, there will be more at stake then simply performing well against their rivals from across the Rio de la Plata.
Riding a 5 game winless streak, with one loss and 4 consecutive draws, and questions of [...]

Your thoughts on the list of players called in for the November World Cup Qualifiers released today? Personally, I’m excited about Carrizo in goal, newcomer Luciano Monzón, Di María, and of course, my man Carlitos.
Heinze? Not so much.
List of 18 Players
Juan Pablo Carrizo (Lazio)
Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar)
Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle)
Martín Demichelis (Bayern Munich)
Gabriel Heinze (Real [...]

After a disappointing 1-1 draw to Paraguay this past weekend, Argentina now travel to Lima, Peru tonight for Matchday 8 for 2010 World Cup Qualifying.
Not only does the team need all three points to end a 4 game winless streak in qualifying, with one loss and 3 consecutive draws, but with Brazil playing minnows Bolivia [...]

I just want to apologize for not posting in a while, things have been pretty hectic, and I haven’t been able to devote as much time to this as I would have liked.
Now, let’s talk about the Olympics and Argentina v. Paraguay. First, of all, I’d just like to establish a few things:
1. Revenge [...]

Argentina continues its quest towards South Africa 2010 this afternoon when they host current group leaders Paraguay at the Monumental Stadium in Matchday 7 of World Cup Qualifying.
After two consecutive 0-0 draws for the national team, first away to rivals Brazil in the previous WCQ fixture, then to Belarus in an international friendly, Argentina have [...]

Let me take a brief moment to thank all of the readers and posters who this past week made this blog the most popular of any non-Europe page on the World Cup Blog, a great acheivement considering the extensive coverage of the Euros right now. Looking over the numbers, it turns out we had over [...]

And we’re almost underway in Belo Horizante. Already it’s looking like a tough night for Coco Basile men, who have to endure their national anthem amidst boos from the home crowd.
For a breakdown of every single matchup between these two, check out FIFA’S Argentina page.
Basile will start the following:
Abbondanzieri
Burdisso, Coloccini, Heinze, Zanetti
Mascherano, Gago, Jonás Gutiérrez
Riquelme
Messi, [...]

UPDATE: Argentina Roster Announced
Abbondanzieri
Burdisso, Coloccini, Heinze, Zanetti
Mascherano, Gago, Jonás Gutiérrez
Riquelme
Messi, Cruz
La seleccion is in Belo Horizante, preparing ahead of tonight’s clasico against Brazil in the 6th fixture of World Cup qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. You can watch live on JumpTV at 8:50 PM ET.
After Brazil’s loss to a 10-man Paraguay over the weekend, [...]

And we’re underway, live from the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires.
Argentina:
Roberto Abbondanzieri
Nicolás Burdisso, Martín Demichelis, Gabriel Heinze
Javier Zanetti, Juan Sebastián Verón, Javier Mascherano, Maximiliano Rodríguez
Juan Román Riquelme
Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero

After driving 2100 miles ‘cross country from Chicago to my new home in San Diego, and spending the past few days getting used to my new digs, I can at last put all my focus back on the futbol, and specifically, tomorrow’s qualifier against Ecuador, which you can watch live online on JumpTV at 5:10PM [...]