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		<title>Game Fourteen:  v Racing Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinos Juniors  2  Racing Club  1 With the seconds slipping away the home side continued to pile on the pressure in search of the goal that would give them the victory they so richly deserved. Intense bombardment of the visitor’s goal had come to nothing through a mixture of wayward finishing, excellent goalkeeping, bad luck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/05/game-fourteen-v-racing-club-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Thirteen:  v Velez Sarsfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Velez Sarsfield  0  Argentinos Juniors  2 It was almost inevitable that after last week dubbing Velez Sarsfield as my tip for the title, they would lose at home to a team struggling to find form and personality. So it came to pass and by all accounts, Argentinos Juniors were worthy winners. The goals came from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/05/game-thirteen-v-velez-sarsfield-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Twelve: v Atletico de Rafaela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinos Juniors  0  Atletico de Rafaela  0 It’s a long holiday weekend and many people are away, Argentinos Juniors haven’t won at home all season and have scored very few goals and rain was threatening. So it wasn’t surprising that the terraces were as sparsely populated as a gathering of the John Terry Appreciation Society. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/04/game-twelve-v-atletico-de-rafaela-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Eleven v Colon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colon 1  Argentinos Juniors  0 Unless you’re involved in business in Argentina you might not realize just how endemic corruption is. Everyone pretty much accepts that the Customs office and the police force are riddled with corruption. Politicians, on moderate wages, cavort like millionaires. “But what can you do?” the people ask. They shrug their shoulders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/04/game-eleven-v-colon-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Ten:  v Belgrano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinos Juniors  0  Belgrano  0 I’ve just returned from a mission in search of one of the great unanswered questions of this or any other time. No! Not where lies the Holy Grail. Even if it did exist, I’d not be much interested. It would probably be a dusty, battered goblet with a bright light emanating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/04/game-ten-v-belgrano-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Nine: v Boca Juniors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boca Juniors  2  Argentinos Juniors  1 Boca Juniors really should have been my team. When I first visited Argentina I said I was a Boca fan since my wife supported them and it was the obvious thing to do. It was either them or River Plate and it was never going to be River since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/04/game-nine-v-boca-juniors-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Eight: v  Tigre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tigre  1  Argentinos Juniors  2 See! If you keep playing good football and believe in yourself then the rewards will come. Argentinos Juniors were unjustly defeated last week by Estudiantes but outplayed another of the in-form sides, Tigre, for a well-deserved victory this weekend. Two goals from Fabian Bordagaray. Tigre are in the odd position [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/04/game-eight-v-tigre-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Seven:  v Estudiantes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinos Juniors  1   Estudiantes  2 I use this blog as a way of exploring and analyzing Argentina. And I chose football as the vehicle with which to conduct that exploration since I don’t have to be good at it as I would if I’d chosen, for instance, tango. I simply have to stand on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/03/game-seven-v-estudiantes-4/</link>
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		<title>Game Six:  v Lanus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lanus  0  Argentinos Juniors  1 I suspect that I’m sometimes seen as a bit of a freak in Buenos Aires…especially in the leafy middle-class neighbourhood where I roam. No, nothing to do with the lederhosen I wear in public nor the poetry recitals in the local bakery. That’s perfectly acceptable if done with the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/03/game-six-v-lanus-2/</link>
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		<title>Game Five: v San Martin de San Juan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentinos Juniors  1  San Martin de San Juan  1 It wasn’t so much the fierce mid-afternoon sun baking Buenos Aires to a crisp that was hard to bear. It was the intense, wet-blankety humidity that brought rivulets of sweat pouring from every crevice and orifice of anyone brave or foolish enough to take their head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.handofdan.com/2012/03/game-five-v-san-martin-de-san-juan/</link>
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