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Boca and Flu, to Work it Out in Seven Days.
By: Mauro |
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Boca was looking to take apart Fluminense from the get go and at times it seemed like they were going to be able to do it. With inspired play from Juan Román Riquelme and a seemingly unstoppable Rodrigo Palacio, Boca seemed poised to absolutely destroy Fluminense.
Category: Tournament NewsBoca Look to Get a Leg Up.
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Club Atlético Boca Juniors vs. Fluminense Football Club (Estadio Juan Domingo Perón “El Cilindro de Avellaneda”, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
LIVE @ 5:30pm on Fox Sports Español. Online radio here, courtesy of Radio Rivadavia (in Spanish). Online TV here. Gamecast here.
With their home stadium, La Bombonera, still under suspension, Boca must host Fluminense in Racing Club’s stadium [...]
Category: Tournament NewsLDU Quito Has The Advantage. Well, Maybe.
By: Mauro | 4 Comments
In the battle of the unexpected teams, América hosted LDU Quito in the Azteca last night a stadium I figured, as many of you might have, would not be hosting another Copa Libertadores match. It is becoming very difficult to mention América’s name and not talk about the way in which they arrived where they [...]
Category: Tournament NewsUnexpected Guests.
By: Mauro | No Comments
So, I had some trouble logging into the site last night and I realized after trying again this morning, I’m not that good a speller after all.
So with that said, I am including the preview, of course, the match has been played, so that doesn’t really make it a preview. But still, I wrote it [...]
Category: Tournament NewsTwo Names, One Transfer Fee.
By: Mauro | 2 Comments
Marcelo Martins Moreno of Brazilian club Cruzeiro, with eight goals in ten matches in this year’s Copa Libertadores, has been transferred to Shaktar Donetsk of Ukraine. The transfer was reported late last week with Shaktar exchanging 14 million dollars for the Bolivian international’s services. Cruzeiro will only see about 40% of the transfer since it [...]
Category: Tournament NewsSantos Win But In The End Lose.
By: Mauro | No Comments
Ok, so someone needs to get América coach Juan Antonio Luna out to Buenos Aires to give Diego Simeone a little tutorial on how to field a good defense, because América’s boys really did their all to keep Santos at bay. Of course, I’m well aware that it does help when you can line up [...]
Category: Tournament NewsLDU Quito, the Argentine-Killer.
By: Mauro | 1 Comment
LDU Quito had something to prove in this match. This was one of their first really big and important matches, in my opinion. It was this tie and the match at home against Fluminense that were the biggest matches for LDU Quito and they drew both of them so far.
San Lorenzo, meanwhile, has taken out [...]
Category: Tournament NewsAmerica, One Step Away From The Semis.
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Santos Futebol Clube vs. Club América (Estadio Vila Belmiro, Santos, Brazil)
LIVE @ 6pm PST on Fox Sports Español. Gamecast here. Online TV here.
The only thing standing in América’s path to the Semi-finals is Santos. Quite a big thing to get past, I should say. Santos are not anything to scoff at. They are unbeaten at [...]
Category: Tournament NewsLDU Quito Look to Finish Off Their Third Argentine Opponents.
By: Mauro | 1 Comment
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito vs. Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro (Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, “La Casa Blanca”, Quito, Ecuador)
LIVE @ 3pm (LIKE NOW!!!) on Fox Sports Español. Gamecast here. Online TV here. Online radio feed here.
I’m a bad, bad blogger. I am writing this as the match begins. Hopefully I’ll get to the [...]
Category: Tournament NewsFlu’s Dream Lives On.
By: Mauro | No Comments
Earlier in this tournament, Flu happened to qualify for the round of 16. Not a big deal for most teams but given that it was something they had never done before it was a historic right of passage of sorts and a huge deal the supporters and the club. After last night, Flu has become [...]
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