Dunga feels Neymar is better than both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at this point in the season. On Thursday night in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brazil will do battle in World Cup qualification for only the seventh time. Do the previous six meetings -- all of them this century -- have anything to tell us about the way this game might unfold? 2002 qualifiers: 3-1 Brazil win, 2-1 Argentina win With the previous campaigns following the same fixture list, the teams met each other in Brazil Read more [...]

Defence minister Agustín Rossi said that all the details of the contract for the purchase will be felt for the incoming government to decide Each aircraft costs $21.6 million and the total cost of $317 million includes five years of service maintenance. Read more [...]

Argentina coach Gerardo Martino has warned his players to beware the “superlative” form of Neymar as they prepare to take on Brazil in a heavyweight World Cup qualifying showdown.Barcelona forward Neymar returns for Brazil in Buenos Aires on Thursday after serving a four-match suspension stemming from his dismissal during the Copa America in Chile in June.The 23-year-old striker joins up with Brazil in prime form, fresh from scoring a sublime individual goal last weekend in Barcelona’s comfortable Read more [...]

It's all over, and Brazil take three much-needed points to leapfrog Paraguay in the CONMEBOL standings. Coincidentally, it's the same scoreline that occurred the last time the two teams met in a World Cup qualifier in Argentina, the September 2009 bout in Rosario that was overseen by Maradona.  With the Albiceleste cut adrift in the qualification table, talk of a crisis spreads through the Argentinian media, with some suggesting the team will follow up the 2014 World Cup by Read more [...]

Argentina coach Gerardo Martino. — Reuters picBUENOS AIRES, Nov 12 — Brazil will sit back and absorb Argentina pressure before breaking out in counter-attacks in today’s World Cup qualifier, according to home coach Gerardo Martino.   “I think it will be a match in which attacking should permit us to have less defensive worries,” Martino told a news conference yesterday. “It will determine if we are going to suffer more Read more [...]

Brazil coach Dunga has a good record against Argentina with victories in a 2006 friendly in London, the 2007 Copa America final in Venezuela, a World Cup qualifier in Rosario in 2009 and last year's triumph in Beijing. – Reuters pic, November 12, 2015.Brazil will sit back and absorb Argentina pressure before breaking out in counter-attacks in today's World Cup qualifier, according to home coach Gerardo Martino. "I think it will be a match in which attacking should permit us to have less defensive Read more [...]

CORPUS CHRISTI - Imagine a bicycle ride from Alaska to Argentina.It's a trip one young man is taking, to raise money for his family's medical bills.“My cousin... he got diagnosed first,” said 23-year-old Cameron Hatch. “He was playing basketball and got elbowed in the stomach, that's where they found the tumor.”Soon after, four members of Hatch’s family were diagnosed with metastatic paraganglioma, a rare and a genetic form of cancer.That started Hatch on a journey he calls Read more [...]

Oh, also because there's a World Cup in Russia (well, for now) in 2018. This is, somewhat dispiritingly, the third round of South American qualifiying fixtures. Already! In 2015. Crikey. And blimey. Crikeyblimey. Calm yourself. Sorry, when is it? Here's the tricky part. It's a 21:00 kick off local time, which means midnight GMT on Friday November 13. So it's a reason to extend your Thursday night activities into the following day. Although this must not, repeat not, turn into a chemsex session. Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES Nov 11 (Reuters) - Argentina's ruling party
presidential candidate would quickly slash grains export taxes
and gradually phase out other controls that hurt farm profits,
one of his top advisers said on Wednesday, changes that would
sharply break with current policy.

0 SharesprintLeonardo Senatore (second left) has signed to join Argentina team-mates in Super Rugby. Laurence Griffiths/Getty ImagesSuper Rugby will improve Pumas - Fernandez LobbeJuan Martin Fernandez Lobbe insists Argentina's new Super Rugby franchise will make an exciting Pumas side even stronger for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.Hourcade targets two more years with ArgentinaDaniel Hourcade has suggested Argentina's best route to glory at World Cup 2019 will feature "a new face" as head coach.Pumas Read more [...]