Argentine World Cup winner Diego Maradona says it is time to stop coddling Lionel Messi after Argentina lost the Copa America final, with the Barcelona star scoring just one goal insix games. “It’s logical to fall, it is easy,” Maradona told Argentine paper Ole. “We have the best player in the world, one who can go […]
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Why the USA Fell in FIFA's Rankings
Despite away wins against the Netherlands and Germany last month, the U.S. men’s national team actually fell seven places in the latest FIFA rankings released by soccer’s worldgoverning body on Thursday to No. 34. How is this possible, you ask? As NBC Sports points out, the USA’s international friendly wins count for far less in […]
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CBF Starts Initiative to Improve Brazilian Soccer
The Brazilian soccer federation (CBF) will summon former players, national team coaches, foreign coaches, club coaches and media representatives to help find a way of improving soccer in thecountry after a series of disappointing results in international tournaments. The decision comes less than a week after Brazil was eliminated in the quarterfinal of the Copa […]
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Jorge Messi Defends Leo From Argentina Criticism
Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge Messi, defended his son against claims that his Argentina career should be classed a failure. The four-time Ballon d’Or winner has longbeen touted as the best player of all time but plenty of Argentines believe he will always rank behind Pele and Diego Maradona unless he tastes international glory. Argentina recentlylost the […]
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TV Report: BeIN Sports draws 1.5 million viewers for Copa America final
BeIN Sports averaged more than 1.5 million total viewers on its two networks for the Argentina-Chile final at the Copa America. The match scored an average of one million viewers on beINSports en Espanol and 464,000 viewers on the beIN Sports English channel. Earlier in the tournament, beIN Sports delivered the highest-rated cable sports telecast […]
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Poor Final or Not, Chile Deserved the Copa America
If you picked just one game to watch this Fourth of July weekend, you would be sad if you chose to see the Copa America final between Argentina and Chile on Saturday instead of the Women’sWorld Cup final between the USA and Japan on Sunday night. In the end, the fight for the South American […]
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Video Pick: Gonzalo Higuain strikes another awful PK
Argentina’s Gonzalo Higuain had a pretty good season for his club Napoli with 18 goals for the Gli Azzurri. But he missed four of his seven penalty kicks. However, Argentina coachGerardo Martino decided to have Higuain shoot second in the penalty shootout in Saturday’s Copa America final against host Chile. The end result was not […]
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A Mouth-Watering Copa Final for Neutrals
Could there be any better game for neutrals than the Copa America final between Argentina and Chile on Saturday? The contest pits the favorite against the tournament’s high-scoringhost in a game that feels like a must-win for both countries. As AFP says, it is atrue clash of a pair of golden generations. Despite boasting the […]
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Martino Lauds 'Happy' Messi
Argentina coach Gerardo Martino noted that captain Lionel Messi doesn’t have to score goals — as he didn’tduring the Albiceleste’s 6-1 rout of Paraguay in the Copa America semifinal — in order to be happy. Messi was at his mesmerizing best, contributing three assists and being generally involved ineverything Argentina did on Tuesday night, despite […]
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Copa America: Messi leads Argentina to 6-1 win
Argentina clobbered Paraguay, 6-1, to move into Saturday’s Copa America final against host Chile. Lionel Messi assisted on three goals and helped set up twomore goals. On Angel Di Maria‘s second goal, Messi beat three defenders, nutmegging one of them, before he fed the Manchester United winger. June 30 in Concepcion Argentina 6 Paraguay 1. […]