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Argentinos Juniors 2 Boca Juniors 2 It’s not my fault that the Argentine Football Association scheduled the start of the season smack-bang in the middle of the summer holidays. That’s why I found myself in Bolivia when Argentinos Juniors kicked off possibly the biggest game they’ll play all season against the always glamorous but not always [...] Tigre 1 Argentinos Juniors 1 A rather disappointing draw for Argentinos Juniors against the bottom team, but they’re still up there with the title contenders. However, all eyes today were on the big local derby, the Superclásico between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors, which also ended 1-1. This one always steals the limelight. [...] Argentinos Juniors 2 Atletico Tucuman 1 It’s difficult to explain to anyone who is not a rabid, obsessive football fan what makes a person travel for endless hours across the country in a rickety bus to stand on the terraces at a ramshackle ground to watch your team lose – and then spend all [...] La Bombonera – a ground of three thirds Boca Juniors 2 Argentinos Juniors 2 Well, I thought it was worth waiting the extra week for the Argentine football season to begin. The players were fitter, leaner and hungrier. Not a single nil-nil draw and plenty of surprises. The Argentine season is very short, just nineteen [...] |
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