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Various news and notes
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1. Happy birthday to me. You’re welcome for reminding everyone. Don’t worry, I had a great time.
2. Congratulations to River Plate, the latest champions of Argentina. Don’t kid yourself, they couldn’t have done it without the three points they took from Argentinos in, sadly, perhaps the best match Argentinos played on the road all season.
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Looking to avoid Eight Belles’ fate
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What? it’s too soon? Fine, I got two-year-old Barbaro jokes that I’ve never been able to use. Anyway, the idea is “down the stretch we come”, etc. The season is finishing up and Argentinos Juniors is (for once–and probably last) in the thick of something, though it’s not the title.
Finally, Bigger Things to Worry About
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The team is coming together (somewhat), due to the two-match winning streak and the three-match streak with no losses. This past Saturday night they took it pretty hard to Olimpo de Bahía Blanca and actually disgraced themselves by only winning 1-0.
At Least We’re Not Racing
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Only one match has taken place since the last post and here’s the summary of everything you missed, Argentinos lover located so far away…
New feature: Argentine round-up
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For the first time, I wrote a post only to have the contents disappear when I pressed “Save”. I wish I knew how to recover it, because it was quite brilliant. Here it is in truncated form:
Category: Team NewsGame on!
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It’s back! Finally, after two seemingly endless months of nothingness, our brave boys will be taking the field again tomorrow afternoon for the first match of the Clausura 2008 in San Juan against San Martin de San Juan. It will be a riveting attempt at payback for a highly disappointing 1-0 loss in [...]
Remember us? Well, we remember you.
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We’re back after a lolng layoff. Nothing happened while you were all out living your lives. Congratulations on any promotions, engagements, births, etc. Argentinos Juniors fell HARD again Estudiantes de La Plata two weeks ago…3-0. Yeah, I sort of went into hiding
Category: Team News“Pelé’s Brother”
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Olé, the sports section of the newspaper Clarín, did a very nice write-up on our boy Pereira. Almost perfect, except for the fact that…it’s also racist at times. Anyway, click here for the link to the original for those who can read Spanish. My translation is below. A decent story about a great guy. Hopefully [...]
Category: Team NewsWhere We Stand
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Almost every one of Argentina’s top division clubs has played 10 matches (they are still working on completing these things in a logical manner…outlook doubtful), which marks the halfway point of this 19 game tournament. What does this mean? What do the next 9 matches hold? What role will Argentinos play in [...]
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