Martín Palermo's out for a while, but Boca Juniors provided themselves with a morale boost in the wake of a traumatic few days following their hero's injury. After Palermo's record-equalling goal set them on their way to a first-leg victory in Sarandí, it was back to La Bombonera for the second leg of the Recopa Sudamericana, [. Click to continue reading...

Following the experimentation of the North American friendlies last week, it was back to serious business for the selección on Sunday night, with a World Cup qualifier against Ecuador which was expected to be a mere warm up for the midweek clash away to Brazil. It proved a little trickier than that, though, with Argentina's [. Click to continue reading...

Following their away goals defeat to LDU Quito in the Copa Libertadores semi-final, and their dreadful campaign in domestic competition in Mexico, Club América are after a manager, and former River Plate, San Lorenzo and... um... Oxford United boss Ramón Díaz looks set to take charge with Miguel Angel Russo likely to replace him in Boedo [. Click to continue reading...

In the first leg of the Copa Libertadores quarter-final, Boca Juniors played host to Mexican side Atlas in Vélez Sársfield's stadium as a result of the ban CONMEBOL imposed on La Bombonera following an incident at the end of their previous home match against Cruzeiro. The change of scene didn't suit Boca one bit; having [. Click to continue reading...

It's been four years since Boca Juniors last beat River Plate in La Bombonera, during which time their sole consolation has been that River haven't won any trophies and they have done. On Sunday, though, with River arriving in La Boca on top of the league table, the run came to an end thanks to [.. Click to continue reading...

Apologies for the lack of coverage of Saturday's matches - my phone line (and with it my broadband) crashed on Saturday morning and was only fixed on Sunday - but the first competitive superclásico of 2008 is now just a few hours away. I type during the first few minutes of the Milan derby, but the [. Click to continue reading...

They didn't quite get the five goals they needed to make it absolutely certain off their own backs, but Copa Libertadores holders Boca Juniors nonetheless qualified for the knockout stages of the tournament on Tuesday night courtesy of their own three-goal victory over Maracaibo, and Colo Colo's 1-1 draw against Atlas of Mexico. Click to continue reading...

Independiente haven't won in La Bombonera for twelve years, and that run continued on Sunday afternoon in the latest clásico of the weekend. In a lively match, they took the lead early on and saw Boca reduced to ten men shortly before the break, but had to settle for a point after a fine equaliser [. Click to continue reading...

Boca took a while to finally stamp their authority on their Mexican visitors, only getting the goal that finally killed the game off with nine minutes left, but all the same, the defending champions played their first home match of this year's campaign, and got their first win to partly expunge the bad memories of [. Click to continue reading...

The champions of South American began their defence of their Copa Libertadores crown on Wednesday night, and stumbled against Unión in Maracaibo, falling behind with just ten minutes left before rallying to claim a point. Sebastián Battaglia equalised for Boca Juniors just minutes after Miguel Mea Vitali appeared to have handed his team three unlikely [. Click to continue reading...

The goals from the first round of Torneo Clausura matches are online, and you can watch them all on TN simply by clicking this link. As ever, HEGS makes allowances for the facts that you may not want to see all of them, only the best, and that you might not know which shirts belong [...] Click to continue reading...

South America's grip on the Club World Cup tournament was broken in the revamped competition's third edition on Sunday, with European champions A.C. Milan running out 4-2 winners over Boca in easily the most entertaining final since the tournament was re-launched in 2005. Click to continue reading...

The Apertura is now less than 48 hours away and, if you've already checked out our introduction to the clubs who'll be contesting the Primera A this season, you may be wondering which players will be likely to attract attention. Well, I can't help you with any reliability (although I suppose I could ensure that [...] Click to continue reading...