John Jones/Icon Sportswire Less than 24 years after celebrating its MLS Cup title, Atlanta United announced its year-end roster moves, but the big newscame from Madrid, where Argentine international Gonzalez “Pity” Martinez, one of the stars of River Plate’s Copa Libertadores triumph, all but confirmed his move to the Five Stripes, where heis expected to […]
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What They're Saying: Leonardo Uranga
“We wanted people to be able to follow the game in a more relaxed way. The doctor was there to give tips to people who were listening, to remind them not to eat too much, to get plenty ofexercise beforehand, to drink lots of water and not so much alcohol.” — Leonardo Uranga, the commentator […]
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What They're Saying: Luana Munoz
“Women are not accepted in this environment yet. That’s why there’s so much resistance to broadcasting female sports, especially soccer. It has to be promoted, people need to knowthat it is being played, they need to know the name of the players, and the tournament has to be competitive.” — Argentine women’s national team defender […]
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What They're Saying: Pablo Perez
“There is little to enjoy and I’m not enjoying it. I am trying to treat it as a World Cup final and think about it all the time so that no details escape me.” — BocaJuniors captain Pablo Perez on the first Boca Juniors-River Plate final in the Copa Libertadores, which starts on Saturday. The […]
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What They're Saying: Carlos Tevez
“If Barcelona and Real Madrid are playing each other, but there is a golf tournament on another channel, I’ll choose to watch the golf instead. I don’t watch any football on television. I don’t likefootball, I’ve never been a fan of football, I simply like to play and to have the ball at my feet.” […]
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Coup: MLS's San Jose Earthquakes land top Argentine coach
Assured of their worst record in their 21-year MLS history, the San Jose Earthquakes have pulled a coup in landing Argentine Matias Almeyda as their new head coach for the 2019 season. Almeyda, 44, comes to San Jose after spending the last three seasons at Guadalajara, which won the 2018 Concacaf Champions League. Almeyda’s Chivas […]
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What They're Saying: Diego Maradona
“I would have liked for him to have sent everyone to hell. Because it’s not his fault not to be a world champion.” — Diego Maradona, saying Lionel Messi should quit theArgentine national team because he’s always blamed when any Argentine team, whatever the level, loses. (Clarin via ESPN FC)
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Argentina gives national team job to under-17 coach Lionel Scaloni on an interim basis
In no rush to name a successor to Jorge Sampaoli, the Argentine federation appointed under-17 coach Lionel Scaloni as interim senior coach for upcoming friendlies against Guatemala andColombia in the United States. Scaloni, who played for Argentina at the 2006 World Cup, was an assistant to Sampaoli at Sevilla and with the Argentine national team. […]
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How confederations fared: European teams dominate, but not against South America
One of the greatest appeals of World Cup play is so rarely do teams from the same confederation play each other. In the first round that concluded Thursday, 42 of the 48 games matchednations from different confederations, which provides a fairly large data base from which to compile head-to-head records. As one might expect, the […]
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Croatia evokes memories of 1998 semifinal squad
It’s been two decades since a World Cup debutant rolled all the way to the semifinals before losing to the eventual champion. Playing in its first World Cup since gainingindependence from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia finished second to Argentina in Group F and knocked off Romania (1-0) and Germany (3-0) before falling to France and […]