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History Boys: Humiliation in San Juan has Bianchi's Boca on the ropes

It was their birthday. 100 candles had been lit, one for each year spent in the Argentine top flight. Carlos Bianchi, the most successful coach in the club’s history, had returned to the dugout. Qualification for the last 16 of the Copa Libertadores – the competition that had defined that…

Brasileirao 2012 Team of the Year

One week on from the climax of the 2012 Brasileirão it is time to reflect on the stars of an enthralling competition. Attendances may not have been inspirational, but the season continued upon and upward trend for the domestic game. Another Brazilian side were crowned kings of the continent while…

Chile Boss Bichi Borghi Felling The Heat

‘Fuera Borghi’ (Borghi out) was the message scrawled onto Chile’s Juan Pinto Durán training complex in Macul after the 3-1 defeat to Ecuador in the World Cup qualifier. Accompanied by ‘Vergüenza nacional’ (national shame) and ‘Ladrones’ (thieves), the message was clear: changes needed to be made as Borghi’s reputation had…

Juan Román Riquelme: A Quixotic Enigma

Julio Falcioni was furious; his team disconsolate. The coach scanned his depleted dressing room, and found the one he was looking for: “You,” he bellowed. “You’re not the coach, I am!” His victim was shocked. Juan Roman Riquelme is a man defined by ambiguity, his face hard to read at…

Angelillo, Maschio And Sivori: Angels with Dirty Faces

Few nations can rival Argentina for the importance they place on their forwards. From the days of Bernabe Ferreyra, to those of Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona and now of Lionel Messi, Argentina have produced so many of the most exciting attackers that to list them all becomes an impossible…

Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed – The Moral Bankruptcy of Flamengo

Murder. Machine guns. R$40 million IOUs. Mysteriously disappearing blood samples. Barack Obama. Creaky hotel floorboards. 'Th’ whole worl’s in a terrible state o’chassis,' said Captain Boyle in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, but it is a sane and well-ordered place compared with the recent history of Brazil’s biggest club,…

Greatest Games: Racing 1 Celtic 0. Intercontinental Cup Final Play Off

It may not have been the greatest game of football in history and it is light years from being among the most attractive, but for controversy and polemic, few fixtures can compare with the impact of Racing Club’s 1967 Intercontinental Cup clash with Jock Stein’s Celtic. Scottish fans still rail…

A Football Girl In Chile

Cecilia (2nd from right) with the Juego de Damas panel

My life has revolved around football since I was 11, or perhaps before. But it was when I was 11 that I decided I would become a Sports Journalist and the first female football commentator in my country. I wanted to be the first play-by-play radio announcer of my gender,…

Carlos Tapia Leads Colo Colo Overhaul

New President Carlos Tapia is desperate to bring the glory days back to Colo Colo

With a game to spare Universidad de Chile and Unión Española saw progression to the knock-out stages of the Copa Libertadores confirmed as Chilean football enjoys a fruitful period on the continental stage. After all, Universidad de Chile became the first Chilean side to win the Copa Sudamericana last year.…

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