Argentina claimed a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast in a pretty entertaining game. The Argies just about deserved their win, being impressive for 60 minutes, but Ivory Coast’s first World Cup appearance was encouraging.
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One of the great things about World Cup football is that it gives us all a chance to escape the reality of everyday life and to ignore things like politics. From time to time, though, football and politics become intertwined. On Sunday, the people of Montenegro voted to become an independent nation. [...]

There is a pretty funny MasterCard commercial posted over on our Argentina blog featuring Carlos Tevez who plays for Corinthians in Brazil, at least for now. The punch line being that it is priceless that the guy named the top player in the Brazilian league is an Argentine. I love this kind of [...]

How much does it mean for a player to be called upon to represent his country at the World Cup? For Martin Demichelis it means everything. The Bayern Munich midfielder is beyond devastated that he was not included on Argentina’s World Cup squad. “It’s not only that I don’t have any desire to [...]

It was a busy Sunday of roster naming as the World Cup coaches continue to release their squads ahead of Monday’s deadline. World Cup debutant Angola’s list of 23 includes few surprises other than uncapped keeper Mario being named to the team and injured Maurito left at home. The Palancas Negras are the [...]

We’ve presented you with our infallible predictions and we’ve showed you how they compare to Google’s selections. Now it is time for you to be the smartypants and to tell us how you think things will play out in each of the groups. Today you get to take a stab at Group C, [...]

Two of the tournament big boys announced their provisional World Cup rosters today and both have a few surprises. Lame duck manager Sven-Goran Eriksson shed his conservative sheikh robes to include 17-year-old Theo Walcott on the England team. Wayne Rooney is also listed as one of the four forwards despite his metatarsal maladies. [...]

Imagine the excitement we felt when we saw reports in the Spanish newspapers Friday that linked Argentine wunderkind Sergio Aguero with Atletico Madrid. Just last week we declared to the world that we have trademarked his name. Figuring the reports that Athletic Madrid would pay 23 million euros for our prodigal son were [...]

We’ve been hyping the Argentina teen sensation Sergio Aguero since before he was even a seed in his father’s loins. We’ve showed you his amazing skills on video, we’ve called him The Next, Next Maradona and we’ve revealed that 46.7% of the traffic that comes to our site is looking for information about our [...]

Buried in this article, which mentions you can get 32-1 odds that David Beckham will sport dreadlocks at the World Cup, is an interesting revelation that a fair number of people are betting on Ivory Coast to win the tournament. Graham Sharpe, a spokesperson for William Hill, says, “There’s been a lot of money on [...]