Batten Down the Hatches - Argentina v Guatemala in LA

07:46 PM, Saturday, 09 February 2008

This won’t be a long post for the week, we’ve closed up shop at Forza Futbol and we’re moving to Champions Soccer Radio Network. The leagues have grown dark for midweek games, Italy dominated Portugal in a friendly and Spain did en... Posted by forzafutbol · Comments (0) Topics: FIFA,Serie A,La Liga,CONMEBOL,CONCACAF,Argentina,argentina,Ezequiel Lavezzi,Guatemala,Higuaín,Javier Mascherano,Juan Roman Riquelme

Argentina v Guatemala at the LA Colisseum on Feb 6th

03:18 AM, Saturday, 26 January 2008

Forza Futbol is taking in some live sublime football in our neck of the woods. Mando and I will be there for this exciting game as Argentina prepares for the Olympics. My prediction 7 - nil. Look at all the River Plate alumni Full 18 Man Roster: ... Posted by forzafutbol · Comments (0) Topics: Serie A,La Liga,Real Madrid,Argentina,River Plate,SSC Napoli,argentina,Ezequiel Lavezzi,Gago,Guatemala,Javier Mascherano,kun agüero,Riquelme

Forza Futbol - Tim Vickery Interview

12:59 AM, Sunday, 30 December 2007

Today we welcome Tim Vickery, co-host for the World Football phone-in and podcast on the BBC World Service, and their South American correspondent covering the best of South American football. He gives us a rare insight into the players that have crossed the Atlantic and have impacted the... Posted by forzafutbol · Comments (0) Topics: Italy,Spain,Serie A,La Liga,Brazil,Argentina,argentina,brasil,italy,La Liga,serie a,South America,Spain

Boca Blow Up

05:44 AM, Thursday, 27 December 2007

Diego Armando Maradona is mad. Yes, he wants to meet the President of Iraq and plans on getting a tattoo of Venezuelan supremo Hugo Chavez, but that’s not the form of the word I’m talking about. He’s angry because the guy he helped bring in to coach his beloved Buenos ... Posted by forzafutbol · Comments (1) Topics: England,Italy,Spain,Copa Libertadores 2008,Argentina,Boca Juniors,argentina,Boca Juniors,Diego Maradona,espanyol,Gabriel Batistuta,Martin Palermo,Riquelme

The mistery math of FIFA ranking

06:03 PM, Wednesday, 19 December 2007

All right, so Kaká is the best player of the world right? Messi got second place. There's not a lot to contest specially after we saw how Kaká played in the FIFA Club World Cup final against Boca Juniors. He is definetly the best footballer of the year. Then we have Marta. A... Posted by ManoGil · Comments (0) Topics: FIFA,Miscellaneous,argentina,brazil,FIFA

Milan is good but Boca Juniors is better, says Argie coach

12:56 PM, Saturday, 15 December 2007

In a interview to Diario Ole from Argentina (which has no connections whatsoever with our Ole Ole community), Argentine coach shot this one:  “Los jugadores de Milan son buenos pero míos son los mejores” (Milan players are good but mine are the best). I guess independently... Posted by ManoGil · Comments (0) Topics: FIFA Club World Cup 2008,AC Milan,FIFA,Boca Juniors,ac milan,argentina,Boca JRs,Carlo Ancelotti,fifa club world cup,italy,Miguel Russo

Boca Juniors says: "We won't make the same mistakes as Pachuca" (leave your score prediction)

01:52 AM, Wednesday, 12 December 2007

     Boca counts on Palermo experience to lead them to their 4th Intercontinental Finals  It seems that everything is calm on Boca’s side here in Japan. The Argie team is confident and motivated to win the game against the Tunisian surprise of Etoile ... Posted by ManoGil · Comments (1) Topics: FIFA Club World Cup 2008,FIFA,Argentina,Boca Juniors,argentina,Boca Juniors,fifa club world cup,Japan,palermo,Riquelme

VOTE FOR THE BEST ARGENTINE PLAYER EVER - you may even win a PELÉ 1970 replica jersey

09:04 PM, Wednesday, 03 October 2007

Hello my friends, As there is this eternal dispute for the player football player ever I came up with the idea of a segmented poll. It's gonna work like this: I separated the best players (the ones that people most argue about) into countries or categories. Some countries like... Posted by ManoGil · Comments (12) Topics: FIFA,argentina,the best

Draws now, Argentina in two days!

11:22 AM, Sunday, 09 September 2007

Melbourne Victory drew with Adelaide on Friday night 1-1 after Rodrigo Vargas scored, then conceded a penalty which was converted by Travis Dodd. But with Argentina already in the country and playing against Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday night (eastern time) there is... Posted by AusTeo · Comments (3) Topics: Australia,A-League,Melbourne Victory,Asia,Argentina,argentina,Lionel Messi,Melbourne Victory,Nathan Burns,Rodrigo Vargas

REF ruining the semi

03:07 AM, Friday, 20 July 2007

i was really looking forward to watching the all south american semi-finals in the u-20 world cup but the stupid ref ruined the game. Horrible decision by the referee and the red cards killed the game that had the potential in skill n talent to be a classic. But the stupid ref ruined... Posted by afgnumber10 · Comments (2) Topics: FIFA,World Cup U-20 2008,argentina,bad referee,Chile,semi,U-20,world cup