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AFA’s restrictions may prove too little, too late for local football

10-04-2021 08:28 A costly shutdown looks inevitable for Argentina’s top flight, after more than 100 players test positive for Covid-19.

by Dan Edwards

ARGENTINE FOOTBALL

Tinkering leaves Argentina’s lower leagues stripped bare

27-03-2021 08:06 A stampede has formed at the AFA’s gates on Viamonte Street as clubs battle for one for a one-in-four-decade chance.

by Dan Edwards

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona's Italian son granted Argentine nationality

25-03-2021 15:29 Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra Junior, the Italian son of the late footballing legend, was awarded his father's Argentine nationality on Thursday.

Coronavirus vaccine

Uruguay revokes residence of Argentine who hosted 'illegal party'

23-03-2021 14:50 Uruguay revokes temporary residence of Argentine citizen after police raided an illegal party attended by more than 500 people at a private home in Maldonado department.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Long winter lies ahead for Argentine football

20-03-2021 07:12 One year on from the Covid lockdown, it would be comforting to think that normality, or something approaching it, should now be on the horizon. On this first anniversary, however, there is little optimism on that front.

by Dan Edwards

RONNIE SCOTT

Fighting fit at 103, the veteran who left Argentina behind to fly Spitfires for Britain in WWII

09-03-2021 07:00 Meet Ronnie Scott, a 103-year-old war hero, born in Argentina in 1917. He's a man with an incredible story to share, a story which shines a light on a chapter of the World War II story almost lost to history.

by Lord Ashcroft

NEW FILM

Ronnie Scott, 103-year-old WWII veteran, stars in new documentary

09-03-2021 07:00 Ronald David Scott is a well-known face among the local English-speaking community. Now, his incredible story is going global, thanks to a new film from Grammar Productions.

by James Grainger

Tennis

Diego Schwartzman claims Argentina Open title

08-03-2021 14:35 Diego Schwartzman beat Francisco Cerundolo 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday to lift the ATP Argentina Open.

'BOMBA ARGENTINA'

Report: 'Argentine Firecracker' Fanne Foxe dead at 84

24-02-2021 16:35 Fanne Foxe, an exotic dancer known as the "Argentine Firecracker" who was at the centre of one of the US capital's most notorious sex scandals, has died aged 84.

ALBERTO IN MEXICO

President arrives in Mexico for talks on business, vaccines

22-02-2021 14:05 Alberto Fernández landed in Mexico City today for an official visit geared towards “strengthening commercial ties” between two countries. President set to meet Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador, billionaire businessman Carlos Slim and visit an AstraZeneca vaccine laboratory.

FOOTBALL – PREMIER LEAGUE

Bielsa says Leeds should wait before extending his contract

22-02-2021 13:01 Marcelo Bielsa says it would be better for Leeds United to wait until the end of the season before deciding whether to extend his contract.

LOCAL FOOTBALL

Argentine football continues to come back in torrents

06-02-2021 09:16 The dust has barely settled on the Copa Diego Armando Maradona but in just one week's time, the 26 Primera teams will lock horns once more in a brand-new tournament.

by Dan Edwards

Beatle in Buenos Aires?

Alberto: 'If Paul McCartney plays Blackbird in my office, I’ll stop eating meat'

20-01-2021 14:11 During meeting with Argentine Vegan Union (UVA), President Alberto Fernández tells campaigners he'll give up eating meat if Beatles singer Paul McCartney turns up and plays a tune in his office.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Investigators seek blood samples to help identify 600 bodies from dictatorship era

08-12-2020 09:04 World-renowned Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) launches campaign calling on relatives of those who disappeared during 1976-1983 military dictatorship to come forward and provide blood samples, as group strives to identify remains of some 600 victims.

DIPLOMACY

Fernández, Biden agree to improve US-LatAm ties in phone call

30-11-2020 23:32 President Alberto Fernández first Latin American leader to call US president-elect and offer congratulations for election win. In 35-minute phone call, Biden says he seeks "solid relationship" with region.

DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA (1960-2020)

Maradona: Out of this world

28-11-2020 07:35 Diego Armando Maradona, the popular icon that Argentina was crying out for, blessed us mortals with 60 years in his magnetic presence. But now, the ‘Cosmic Kite’ has finally been called back to his home planet.

by Dan Edwards

Coronavirus pandemic

'Hammer' Roldán, rival of Hagler, Hearns, dies of Covid-19

18-11-2020 23:42 Argentine boxer Juan Domingo Roldán, who challenged the likes of Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns for the world middleweight title in the 1980s, has died of Covid-19 at the age of 63, medical sources said Wednesday.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Top-flight football returns in Argentina, but Covid's presence looms large

30-10-2020 02:00 The long wait is over. After more than seven months of wistful stares at empty stadiums Argentine football is back, on none other than the 60th birthday of wayward legend and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata coach Diego Maradona.

by Dan Edwards

BARCELONA PRESDENT

Bartomeu resigns as Barcelona president, says club in for Euro Super League

27-10-2020 18:17 Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned as Barcelona president on Tuesday, along with his board of directors, and left with a bombshell admission that he had accepted a proposal for the club to play in "a future European Super League."

Coronavirus pandemic

AFA confirms top-flight football in Argentina will return on October 30

15-10-2020 00:54 AFA chief Claudio Tapia confirms that top division teams will restart matches on October 30, after seven months without Argentine league football.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope meets with Australian cardinal acquitted of child abuse charges

12-10-2020 12:35 Pope Francis met Monday with Australian Cardinal George Pell for the first time since he was jailed – and then acquitted – on child sex abuse charges.

SPANISH FOOTBALL

Lionel Messi says it’s time for Barcelona to unite

30-09-2020 14:09 Lionel Messi wants to put his dispute with Barcelona behind him and called for the club and its fans to unite.

MESSI TRANSFER SAGA

Messi trains alone as Barça reintegration begins

07-09-2020 15:25 33-year-old trains alone in first session since Ronald Koeman was appointed coach and his first since he said on Friday he had been forced to stay at Barcelona.

BARÇA-MESSI SAGA

Rosario left deflated but still hopeful, as Messi says he'll stay put

06-09-2020 08:09 Rosario had dared to dream, but it was left disappointed after the city's most celebrated son Lionel Messi announced he was staying at Barcelona on Friday.

Argentine superstar

Lionel Messi confirms in interview he will stay at Barcelona

04-09-2020 13:39 Messi confirms he will stay at Barcelona, insisting he could never go to court against "the club of his life" and letting rip at Club President Josep Maria Bartomeu.

MESSI TRANSFER SAGA

No agreement in meeting between Barcelona and Messi’s father

02-09-2020 23:56 Argentine's future no closer to being resolved, after initial meeting between player's father and club officials on Wednesday.

Argentine superstar

Barcelona wants face-to-face meeting to change Messi’s mind

01-09-2020 15:48 Talks with Messi’s father, who is also his agent, are expected this week in Barcelona, but the club also hopes to sit down with the player himself.

Argentine superstar

Messi skips required coronavirus testing with Barcelona

30-08-2020 08:42 In another strong sign that Lionel Messi’s time with Barcelona may be coming to an end, the player did not report for required coronavirus testing scheduled for the whole squad on Sunday.

RALLY IN ROSARIO

Newell’s Old Boys fans dream of an unlikely Messi homecoming

28-08-2020 00:17 Messi’s surprise decision to leave Barcelona has sparked unlikely dreams among the residents of Rosario that he may return to play to Argentina to play with Newell’s Old Boys.

MESSI: END OF AN ERA

Top European clubs circle as Messi calls time at Barcelona

26-08-2020 09:14 Lawyers for Argentine star sends club a fax confirming Messi's desire to rescind his contract by triggering a release clause, sending shockwaves throughout the world of football.

ARGENTINE SUPERSTAR

From Ballon d'Or to abject humiliation: why Messi seeks pastures new

26-08-2020 09:08 Barcelona have insisted in the past they had plans for coping with Messi's retirement, whenever it came, but the truth is their number 10 is irreplaceable.

END OF AN ERA?

Goals, records, trophies: Messi's glittering career

26-08-2020 08:51 After announcing he wants to leave the Catalan club, here's a look at the career highlights of one of football's all-time greats.

SINO-ARGENTINE RELATIONS

Argentina’s ties with China deepen under Fernández

22-08-2020 08:27 Peronist leader leads charge to develop ties with Asian giant, which is now Argentina’s largest trading partner. Trip to Shanghai pencilled in for early November, with business, the pandemic and pork topping the agenda.

by Juan Luis González

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Nacional's high-fliers mocked as AFA’s creates another monstrosity

20-08-2020 22:25 The men from Viamonte have done it again: just when you thought they couldn’t mess up the national game anymore, they’ve created another monstrosity, rendering a host of already played matches irrelevant in the process.

by Dan Edwards

CYBER MILITANTS

Cristina vs. Google and the invisible battle for Wikipedia

08-08-2020 09:07 It’s unclear whether Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is aware or not, but a silent culture war is being fought in the digital theatre. Wikipedia is one of the main battlegrounds.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG

Argentina bonds are trading as if the pandemic never happened

07-08-2020 12:34 Debt accord has left the bonds trading at pre-pandemic levels, even as the country lacks the outline of a credible economic plan to get itself out of the current deep crisis.

GRONDONA’S LEGACY

Don Julio’s shadow still looms large over Argentine football

01-08-2020 10:01 Six years on from his death, Julio Grondona continues to live long in the public’s memory. That is a measure of his towering presence – but also the inability of his successors to clean up the mess he left behind.

by Dan Edwards

SPANISH FOOTBALL

Bartomeu has 'no doubt' Messi will stay at Barcelona

27-07-2020 15:54 "Messi has said many times that he wants to retire here and I have no doubt that he will re-sign," says club president.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mexico identifies remains of another of missing 43 students

07-07-2020 23:50 Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), which has been advising Mexican Attorney General’s Office on investigation, confirms remains have been identified of a second of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who disappeared in September 2014.

'El Presidente'

FIFA 'mafia' depicted in new Amazon Prime satire from Argentine creator

04-06-2020 01:44 New series "El Presidente," brought to life by Argentine writer Armando Bo, is a witheringly satirical take on the 2015 "Fifagate" corruption scandal. Oh, and it's 'narrated' by Julio Grondona, from beyond the grave...

EDITORIAL

Debt, default, devil, detail

23-05-2020 09:39 It is still well worth asking why it has come to this. The government’s debt strategy of pressing for a settlement in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic baffles any conventional wisdom.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Claudio Tapia re-elected as AFA president for another term

21-05-2020 23:33 Media mogul Marcelo Tinelli, who also serves as president of San Lorenzo, elected director of the new Liga de Fútbol Profesional, which will replace the Superliga.

Coronavirus pandemic: Varados

Cabin fever: Argentine waitress 'distressed' by cruise ship confinement

07-05-2020 15:25 Argentine waitress Analia Navarrete has been shut up for almost a month inside a cabin on a luxury liner trapped at Lisbon port, thanks to the coronavirus epidemic.

ARGENTINE FOOTBALL

AFA’s attempt to be decisive only ends up being divisive

02-05-2020 09:00 If any observers were hoping that questions about the future of Argentine football would be answered this week they were to be sorely disappointed, if not entirely surprised.

by Dan Edwards

VACA MUERTA

Pandemic, plunging oil prices and default – a killer combo for Vaca Muerta

25-04-2020 11:32 Halt in activity and slump in prices is having a negative impact on the potential “gold mine” which is Vaca Muerta shale.

by Patricia Valli

EASTER WEEKEND

Pope Francis guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

10-04-2020 09:51 Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown.

OFF COAST OF CRETE

Italian cruise ship isolates passengers after Argentine gets virus

24-03-2020 09:58 The company said the unnamed Argentine was "in stable condition at a hospital facility" in Crete, where the person was taken off the ship on Sunday.

Coronavirus pandemic

President Alberto Fernández's letter to Argentines on coronavirus shutdown

20-03-2020 14:55 Read President Alberto Fernández's letter to the Argentine people, detailing the motives for his decision to order a nationwide lockdown in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

OBITUARY

Renowned scientist and philosopher Mario Bunge dies at 100

25-02-2020 18:47 Argentine physicist and philosopher dies in Montreal at the age of 100. Mario Augusto Bunge was one of the most cited Spanish-speaking scientists in history, respected for his pioneering work in epistemology.

ARGENTINE FOOTBALL

Man City’s ban sparks dreams of prodigal sons

23-02-2020 16:41 UEFA bombshell greeted with glee in Argentina, but calm down, the top stars are not returning home anytime soon.

by Dan Edwards

News of argentine

AFA’s restrictions may prove too little, too late for local football

Tinkering leaves Argentina’s lower leagues stripped bare

Maradona's Italian son granted Argentine nationality

Uruguay revokes residence of Argentine who hosted 'illegal party'

Long winter lies ahead for Argentine football

Fighting fit at 103, the veteran who left Argentina behind to fly Spitfires for Britain in WWII

Ronnie Scott, 103-year-old WWII veteran, stars in new documentary

Diego Schwartzman claims Argentina Open title

Report: 'Argentine Firecracker' Fanne Foxe dead at 84

President arrives in Mexico for talks on business, vaccines

Bielsa says Leeds should wait before extending his contract

Argentine football continues to come back in torrents

Alberto: 'If Paul McCartney plays Blackbird in my office, I’ll stop eating meat'

Investigators seek blood samples to help identify 600 bodies from dictatorship era

Fernández, Biden agree to improve US-LatAm ties in phone call

Maradona: Out of this world

'Hammer' Roldán, rival of Hagler, Hearns, dies of Covid-19

Top-flight football returns in Argentina, but Covid's presence looms large

Bartomeu resigns as Barcelona president, says club in for Euro Super League

AFA confirms top-flight football in Argentina will return on October 30

Pope meets with Australian cardinal acquitted of child abuse charges

Lionel Messi says it’s time for Barcelona to unite

Messi trains alone as Barça reintegration begins

Rosario left deflated but still hopeful, as Messi says he'll stay put

Lionel Messi confirms in interview he will stay at Barcelona

No agreement in meeting between Barcelona and Messi’s father

Barcelona wants face-to-face meeting to change Messi’s mind

Messi skips required coronavirus testing with Barcelona

Newell’s Old Boys fans dream of an unlikely Messi homecoming

Top European clubs circle as Messi calls time at Barcelona

From Ballon d'Or to abject humiliation: why Messi seeks pastures new

Goals, records, trophies: Messi's glittering career

Argentina’s ties with China deepen under Fernández

Nacional's high-fliers mocked as AFA’s creates another monstrosity

Cristina vs. Google and the invisible battle for Wikipedia

Argentina bonds are trading as if the pandemic never happened

Don Julio’s shadow still looms large over Argentine football

Bartomeu has 'no doubt' Messi will stay at Barcelona

Mexico identifies remains of another of missing 43 students

FIFA 'mafia' depicted in new Amazon Prime satire from Argentine creator

Debt, default, devil, detail

Claudio Tapia re-elected as AFA president for another term

Cabin fever: Argentine waitress 'distressed' by cruise ship confinement

AFA’s attempt to be decisive only ends up being divisive

Pandemic, plunging oil prices and default – a killer combo for Vaca Muerta

Pope Francis guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

Italian cruise ship isolates passengers after Argentine gets virus

President Alberto Fernández's letter to Argentines on coronavirus shutdown

Renowned scientist and philosopher Mario Bunge dies at 100

Man City’s ban sparks dreams of prodigal sons

From hero to zero: Uruguay's coronavirus boomerang

Joe Biden sounds the retreat

Carlos Tevez seeks to avoid paying Argentina's new wealth tax

Inflation in Argentina speeds up, prompting government crackdown

China's Coronavac 80% effective at preventing Covid deaths, says Chile study

Este domingo llegan 864 mil dosis del "mecanismo Covax" pero se retrasó la Sputnik V

Taxis, subte y peajes aumentan este domingo tras el alza de los combustibles

La Justicia rechazó un amparo de padres por la suspensión de clases presenciales

Cristina Kirchner, clases presenciales y Vacunatorio VIP, los reclamos de la marcha del 17A

Marcha del 17A: intentaron arrojar una valla metálica sobre la reja de Casa Rosada