Happy Birthday Neymar! Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, Santos, Brazil, is 20 years old today, the most desired player and most valuable young talent in the world today. Goal.com celebrates his birthday by bring us the 20 most dazzling moments of a short career that is destined to last for many years to come. Have a look a this! Clive [...]
Over the coming couple of weeks most football championships in Central and South America will be starting – but how do they actually work? Football championships in Central and South America are split into two separate tournaments, an opening tournament ‘Apertura’ from August through to December and a closing tournament Clausura from January to June. Most football championships in Central [...]
Boca Juniors beat Banfield 3-0 on Sunday evening at the Bombonera stadium, Buenos Aires thus claiming the championship with two games to go. Clive Jagger – Football in South America
The Central and South American football leagues are coming to their half year end and there are few surprises. In Argentina, Boca Juniors just need a point from their last three games (and could be proclaimed champions today) if they get a point off Banfield at the “Bombonera”. In Uruguay, Peñarol sit top after an impressive 5-0 win yesterday over [...]
4 points separate the top 6 in the Uruguay League – with 6 points to play for! Of course, no one can doubt my special love affair with one of the smallest populated countries in the world – as you will know, if you have been reading this blog over the last few months. Indeed, I follow the Uruguay League [...]
The Golden Boy Award is for the most promising young football player according to “Marca”, based seemingly on players who play exclusively in Europe. At first, I was disappointed to see only two top Latin American football players on the list for “Golden Boy 2011”, a young players’ (under-21’s) award, equivalent to the well-known “FIFA player of the year” competition. [...]
How does one of the smallest populated countries in the world become one of the best footballing nations in the world? The answer: a school teacher! World Cup Qualifiers Montevideo, 11 November 2011, Centenario Stadium, Uruguay vs Chile, World Cup classification. After their impressive participation in the World Cup, achieving fourth spot, and the even more impressive victory in the [...]
If I were to tell you that I was in Tegucigalpa in the Honduras with David Beckham, I’d forgive you for thinking that I was dreaming up a fairy tale. In fact, I wasn’t dreaming and it wasn’t a fairy tale! Tegucigalpa is, as you may know, the capital of Honduras and I was there last week with David Beckham [...]
Last week, Pinto Da Costa, President of FC Oporto, sat down to negotiate the transfer of Radamal Falcao with Miguel Angel Gil, Managing Director of Atletico de Madrid. They agreed a transfer fee of 40 million euros for a footballer that had cost Oporto just 5’5m, two years ago from River Plate, in Argentina. The Falcao deal is simply the [...]