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Argentinian Clausura

AFA hopes to curb enthusiasm with new league format

AFA hopes to curb enthusiasm with new league format

15 May 2012 | Rupert Fryer

The Argentine Football Association have voted to return to a regular 38 game season, eschewing the Apertura and Clausura format. How will this affect club football in the country?

Boisterous Boca, binary no more

Boisterous Boca, binary no more

27 March 2012 | Rupert Fryer

Boca Juniors are barely recognisable from the team that marched their way to a league title on the back of a series of 1-0 wins.

Love lost between Boca’s odd couple

Love lost between Boca’s odd couple

23 January 2012 | Rupert Fryer

Both have statues of themselves at Boca Juniors’ La Bombonera, but that’s where the similarities end. Juan Roman Riquelme and Martín Palermo are different in every way imaginable.

South America - Best of 2011

South America - Best of 2011

31 December 2011 | Rupert Fryer

Strap yourselves in as our man Rupert Fryer casts his mind back over a weird and wonderful year in South American football!

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