Spanish La Liga side Las Palmas have just completed the signings of Deportivo Maldonado duo Jonathan CALLERI and Hernan TOLEDO, with both undergoing medicals at the club.
23-year-old CALERRI who spent last season on loan at West Ham United but only managed to find the net once in 17 appearance for the Lodon club. Meanwhile TOLEDO who is 21 years old was most recently on loan at Argentine side Lanus.
It is now official that Guido PIZARRO will join Sevilla. The 27 year old midfielder will join fellow Argentine coach Eduardo BERIZZO in Spain. He was playing for Tigres in Mexico and his new contract with Sevilla is set to run until the summer of 2021. He has won several trophies with Tigres in his 4 years with that team (joining them from Lanus). He won his first cap a few months ago for Argentina’s national team playing vs. Bolivia. Just as a reminder, Sevilla have also brought in fellow Argentina national team midfielder Ever BANEGA from Inter Milan this summer. Let’s hope this helps our national team.
I think personally this is a good signing for PIZARRO. The Spanish League is known for being one of the most competitive leagues in the world. He will be be playing with Ever BANEGA who is supposedly one of SAMPAOLI’S favorite players. I’m looking forward to seeing this new Sevilla team in action. What do you all think?
VAMOS ARGENTINA!
Argentinos Junior, the club which launched the career of Diego MARADONA is back among the boys!
Three years after being relegated to the Primera B Nacional, Argentinos managed by Gabriel HEINZE defeated Gimnasia de Jujuy 1-0 thanks to a goal from Nicolas GONZALEZ; which kept them 13 points clear of nearest rival Chacarita Juniors with 3 games left to play.
Even MARADONA took the opportunity to congratulate them on his Facebook page.
“I want to congratulate the players of Argentinos Juniors, ‘Gringo’ HEINZE, his technical body and the managers for returning the ‘Bug’ to where it belongs, a big hug to all the fans!!!”
According to French football news outlet L’Equipe, 20 year old Ezequiel PONCE of AS Roma will be loaned to out French side Lille OSC who currently managed by non other than Marcelo BIELSA.
PONCE is a product of Newell’s Old Boys youth academy and started his professional career there; the same club which El Loca played and managed once. Last season the player who is nicknamed the Tank was on loaned with La Liga side Granada FC.
Gabriel BATISTUTA spoke about Lionel Messi, Sergio AGUERO, Gonzalo HIGUAIN and more.
The last player to score for Argentina in a final which they won. It’s been 24 years since Batigol scored twice in the 1993 Copa America final for Argentina against Mexico in the 2-1 win. Speaking in an interview with FIFA.com, the former leading goal scorer for his country gave his opinion on Gonzalo HIGUAIN’s misses in the finals, Lionel MESSI and more. Here’s what he had to say:
“They’ve had a lot of bad luck, especially Higuain. He missed key chances in the three finals (the 2015 and 2016 Copa America finals and the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ Final). I say it’s bad luck because he was the one who created those three opportunities. It’s not like a team-mate did everything and left him through on goal. His bad luck was that he didn’t put those chances away. Against Germany, for example, he only messed up in front of goal after he’d latched on to a loose ball because he was alert and tuned in, because he did everything a No9 has to do. He did everything right, apart from putting the ball away. If it had happened in another match or in the group phase, nobody would have said anything. In fact, we’d have all praised him for creating the chance in the first place.”
“The same thing I’m saying to you now. I did say that to him. I talked to him. I can understand it because I was a No9. But the fans don’t know what goes through your head at a moment like that, especially in that last match against Chile, when he had the ball at his feet for a few yards. You can imagine what was going on. From the moment he gets on the ball till the moment he shoots, he’s picturing in his mind the chance he missed against Germany and the one in the previous final against Chile. All those thoughts make it harder for you. Maybe it would have been easier if he’d got a rebound and hadn’t had any time to think. But that’s football for you.”
“I did say it, but I was trying to protect myself against the press and the public. I said it, so they’d stop asking me things. I was finding the training all too much. You have to remember I was playing in Italy in the good times. There was a lot of pressure and everyone talked about football all the time, which I found pretty boring. It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training and everything that happens on the pitch. I wasn’t that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion. I ended up living and breathing football. Now, I have difficulty walking because of it, because I gave more than I had to give.”
“The truth is somewhere in between. I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don’t like so much are the interviews (laughs), the controversy and all the external stuff.”
“I’d seen it coming for five or six years. I actually thought he’d have got there earlier! It’s a record that was close to my heart, but he’s beaten it and that’s that. I broke the record myself back in the day (laughs). It’s what happens.”
“No! I thought we would win in 1995 too (laughs). But seriously, no I never imagined it. No way! It’s incredible that Argentina haven’t won anything since then. They’ve always been close. But when we won the Copa America in 1991 it had also been a long time since we’d last won it. Historically I would say it hasn’t been very easy for us.”
“It’s not easy. If you’re looking for reasons, one of them could be that Argentinian players are playing abroad all year. They are playing a lot of matches, much more than players from other national teams. They arrive at the Copa America tired or injured and can’t give 100%. Apart from Brazil, I can’t think of any other team where all 25 of their players are based abroad.”
“I watch but I’m pretty calm. Of course I’m an Argentina fan and I want them to win. I used to experience all those situations that the Argentinian players were experiencing as if it was me out there, I put myself in their shoes… But now I don’t get so nervous.”
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