Boca Juniors capped its Argentine Apertura championship by defeating Olimpo Bahia Blanca 2-0 in the last round on Sunday at Bombonera stadium.Matias Silvestre scored off a header in the 14th minute and Rodrigo Palacio made it 2-0 in the 59th for a seventh straight win for Boca, which won the tournament last week.It was Boca's fourth cup in less than a year, after the South American Recopa and Copa Sudamericana, and the Clausura championship.Boca ended with 43 points, followed by Lanus with 35, River Plate with 34, Gimnasia Jujuy on 33, and Gimnasia La Plata at 32.River Plate defeated host Quilmes 3-1 in a match which was suspended in the 67th minute because of fan violence.Boca, Gimnasia La Plata, River, Banfield and Velez will play in the 2007 Copa Libertadores. The same teams plus Lanus and San Lorenzo will strive to wrest the Sudamericana from defending champion Boca.Instituto and Tiro Federal were relegated to second division.Argentinos Juniors and Olimpo will play with two teams from second division, and the two winners of the home-and-away series will play in the first division next season.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Herman Van Holsbeeck is looking for new talent in Argentina, and the 22-year-old Renato Civelli has caught his attention. Civelli is a central defender who is playing for French side Olympique Marseille on loan at the moment.Nevertheless, Banfield are the owners of the tall Argentinian defender. Also Olympique Marseille want to sign Civelli, but the transfer fee of 2.5 million euros seems to high for them
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell's 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.
Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.
Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.
With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.
Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.
In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.
Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.
River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.
Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.
Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.
With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.
Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.
In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.
Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.
River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Winger Daniel Bilos, who plays for Argentine league team Boca Juniors, told sports broadcaster TyC Sports on Wednesday that he still dreams of being called up for Argentina's World Cup team.
The World Cup, "is a dream I hope comes true, although it is difficult. There is not much time left and the manager has little time to try out new players," he said.
Bilos, 25, has rejected the call up from Croatia, where his grandparents were born, despite repeated entreaties from Croatia national soccer team manager Zlakto Kranjcar.
Bilos played 45 minutes of November's friendly Argentina, Qatarmatch, in the Qutari capital, Doha, but his performance has suffered since that date and he was never summoned by Pekerman.
However, on Sunday, when Boca massacred Estudiantes 4-0, Bilos showed the form he had shown when he first arrived at Boco, tranferred from Banfield, in the middle of 2005.
"I had a bad patch, but these things happen to everyone. The same thing happened to me in Banfield, but it was not so imporant. Luckily, things began to turn out for me again when I got to Boca.I hope to stay this way," he said.
The World Cup, "is a dream I hope comes true, although it is difficult. There is not much time left and the manager has little time to try out new players," he said.
Bilos, 25, has rejected the call up from Croatia, where his grandparents were born, despite repeated entreaties from Croatia national soccer team manager Zlakto Kranjcar.
Bilos played 45 minutes of November's friendly Argentina, Qatarmatch, in the Qutari capital, Doha, but his performance has suffered since that date and he was never summoned by Pekerman.
However, on Sunday, when Boca massacred Estudiantes 4-0, Bilos showed the form he had shown when he first arrived at Boco, tranferred from Banfield, in the middle of 2005.
"I had a bad patch, but these things happen to everyone. The same thing happened to me in Banfield, but it was not so imporant. Luckily, things began to turn out for me again when I got to Boca.I hope to stay this way," he said.
