🇦🇷 TONIGHT: Copa Libertadores quarter-final second leg Racing Club 🇦🇷 vs 🇦🇷 Vélez Sarsfield Racing have a 1-0 aggregate from the first leg in Liniers, Buenos Aires to take across the city limits to Avellaneda. 11pm KO (UK time)

🇦🇷 Flashback! Darío Carpintero’s balls of steel doing a Cruyff turn on the goal-line for Sacachispas

So how will the 'official' Diego Maradona 🔟 energy drink taste??? @hylland.bsky.social you tried this yet?

OTD 2000. 25 years to the day since a 13-year old Lionel Messi arrived in Barcelona from Rosario to start at La Masia. The rest is history.

🇦🇷 Rosario Central vs Boca Juniors from your balcony? Go on then! IG /tinocarballoo

🇦🇷🫶🏻 Rosario Central 1-1 Boca Juniors at El Gigante de Arroyito. Ángel Di María’s GOL OLÍMPICO earned Central a draw at home to Boca!

🇦🇷💥🇮🇸 PUSKÁS CONTENDER! Argentine Tomás Barletta scored this incredible goal for Icelandic side Ulfarnir against Skallagrimur! 🤩 It’s up there 🥇

Argentine commentator ‘Bambino’ Pons singing London Calling after Martín Zubimendi’s opener for The Arsenal at home to Nottingham Forest!

Here they would just play the theme from the great escape and it would be shit 😩😩😩

Argentine commentator ‘Bambino’ Pons singing London Calling after Martín Zubimendi’s opener for The Arsenal at home to Nottingham Forest!

🇦🇷 Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro’s ‘hinchada’ La Gloriosa Butteler from the terraces

🇦🇷 Talleres are struggling and have asked a pastor to undertake a ‘cleansing of bad energies’ at Estadio Mario A. Kempes. It seems a member of staff of Cordoba rivals Instituto threw salt on the pitch in May, cursing ‘La T’, ahead of a game Instituto won!

🇦🇷💥🇮🇸 PUSKÁS CONTENDER! Argentine Tomás Barletta scored this incredible goal for Icelandic side Ulfarnir against Skallagrimur! 🤩 It’s up there 🥇

🇦🇷 Argieball’s back after the international break! Boca Juniors will travel to Rosario Central, sadly without away fans. Imagine what a few thousand bosteros would look like in Central’s bouncing Gigante de Arroyito! This is Boca at Independiente Rivadavia from last month! 🔥

🇦🇷 The new Lanús new third — released ahead of the Gran Buenos Aires club’s Copa Libertadores clash with Fluminense — is inspired by their 1950s kit. I adore the badge! 🚩

🇧🇴 The final whistle of Bolivia’s 1-0 home win against Brazil which saw the Andean nation snatch the CONMEBOL play-off spot for the 2026 World Cup! 🥹 Bolivia were reliant on Venezuela dropping points at home to Colombia, which they did: the match ended 🇻🇪 3-6 🇨🇴!

El Banderín 🚩 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi played (what was probably) his last competitive game in Argentina (at El Monumental in Buenos Aires) on Thursday night 🎥/tds_v (IG) Tonight Argentina are away in Ecuador —without Messi— with both having already qualified. KO at midnight (UK)

🌎 TONIGHT! South American World Cup qualifying final round (18/18): Midnight: Ecuador 🇪🇨 vs 🇦🇷 Argentina The rest KO at 00:30am: Bolivia 🇧🇴 vs 🇧🇷 Brazil Chile 🇨🇱 vs 🇺🇾 Uruguay Perú 🇵🇪 vs 🇵🇾 Paraguay Venezuela 🇻🇪 vs 🇨🇴 Colombia All eyes on Venezuela 👀

El Banderín 🚩 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

NEW POST 📣 My next podcast, dropping tomorrow, is all about San Lorenzo de Almagro ❤️💙🐦‍⬛ Ahead of that, here’s my #groundhopping guide to visiting the ‘New Gasometer’ Have a read, and sub to the Outside Write podcast so you don’t miss tomorrow’s episode! open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...

🇵🇪 Perú’s 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign has been a disaster. But adidas have made sure all eyes are on the Andean nation anyway 😍 Burnley’s Oliver Sonne travelled all the way to Uruguay to sit on the bench for 90 minutes but probably gets to keep the gear so 👌

🇦🇷 Argentina 3-0 Venezuela. Lionel Messi with a brace in what might be his last competitive game at El Monumental. Messi has never lost at El Monumental: 28 games, 22 wins, 30 goals/assists! It remains to be seen if ‘El Pulga’ will continue with la selección after 2026 WC.

🌎 South American World Cup qualifying Paraguay letting the side down, so close to perfect symmetry! Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia and Paraguay qualify directly to the 2026 World Cup. The play-off spot is between Venezuela and Bolivia. Final round on Tuesday

🇦🇷 Building up to la selección’s game tonight with Juan Román Riquelme’s greatest goals in the albiceleste shirt 🥹

🇦🇷 Argentina host Venezuela at El Monumental tomorrow night. At the pre-match presser Lionel Scaloni spotted a teary journalist: ‘He’s crying.’ ‘You gave me the greatest happiness of my life,’ replies said journo, to which Scaloni also wells up 🥹🥰

🇦🇷 Building up to la selección’s game tonight with Juan Román Riquelme’s greatest goals in the albiceleste shirt 🥹

🇦🇷 Argentina host Venezuela at El Monumental tomorrow night. At the pre-match presser Lionel Scaloni spotted a teary journalist: ‘He’s crying.’ ‘You gave me the greatest happiness of my life,’ replies said journo, to which Scaloni also wells up 🥹🥰

TONIGHT! South American World Cup qualifying, round 17/18 12:30am: 🇦🇷 vs 🇻🇪 Colombia 🇨🇴 vs 🇧🇴 Bolivia Paraguay 🇵🇾 vs 🇪🇨 Ecuador Uruguay 🇺🇾 vs 🇵🇪 Perú 1:30am: Brazil 🇧🇷 vs 🇨🇱 Chile The fight for 7th is on! A much-expected Colombian win will see them take the final direct berth

🇦🇷 It’s Cristián ‘The Ogre’ Fabbiani’s birthday today! The Newell’s manager’s name is forever connected to this legendary commentary from 2008: Newell’s vs Rosario Central! Central chasing a goal, Ogro has the chance to make it 2-0 and seal the clásico…

Absolutely spectacular this . What the fuck was he doing there 🙄

🇦🇷 It’s Cristián ‘The Ogre’ Fabbiani’s birthday today! The Newell’s manager’s name is forever connected to this legendary commentary from 2008: Newell’s vs Rosario Central! Central chasing a goal, Ogro has the chance to make it 2-0 and seal the clásico…

🇦🇷 El recibimiento at El Monumental ahead of River Plate 2-0 San Martín de San Juan overnight 🎆

#OnThisDay 31 Aug 1910 🇧🇷 English amateurs @corinthiancasuals.bsky.social play an exhibition match in São Paulo, inspiring four local railway workers to form their own club, #Corinthians Here's my video about their connection 👇🏼 #VaiCorinthians www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Do...

Diego ♾️

🇦🇷 Diego Maradona’s ‘great nephew’ Hernán López Muñoz is doing bits for his new club Argentinos Juniors. Hernán scored a diving header against Racing at Estadio Diego Armando Maradona last weekend, and has just scored another golazo at Independiente Rivadavia. In the genes!

Pablo Cardozo is from San Telmo in Buenos Aires but since 2005 has been living in Rio de Janeiro, where he works as a caretaker at Christ the Redeemer! Having played in the 2005 Homeless World Cup, Cardozo was offered a trial at Manchester United, which he declined!

The final of the Homeless World Cup takes place today! Women’s Final: México 🇲🇽 vs 🇺🇬 Uganda Men’s: Egypt 🇪🇬 vs 🇵🇹 Portugal 📍 Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴

🇦🇷 There’s a bar in Buenos Aires called El Banderín — ‘The Pendant’ — and it was a pleasure to write about its footballing history for The World of Interiors ☺️ www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

I have recorded all podcast episodes until mid-October 🎙️ There are some great interviewees in the coming weeks, including @shafikmeghji.bsky.social on British football roots in South America @drpetewatson.bsky.social on Maradona, and @footballheritage.bsky.social on how we mark football history

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Arsenal fans – how do I get tickets for the away end when Kairat come in the Champions League? @hylland.bsky.social

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🇦🇷 There’s a bar in Buenos Aires called El Banderín — ‘The Pendant’ — and it was a pleasure to write about its footballing history for The World of Interiors ☺️ www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

🇦🇷 There’s a bar in Buenos Aires called El Banderín — ‘The Pendant’ — and it was a pleasure to write about it’s footballing history for The World of Interiors ☺️ www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

🇦🇷 This is what Rosario Central’s stadium El Gigante de Arroyito looks like on derby day! 💛💙 On Saturday evening Central beat city rivals Newell’s Old Boys 1-0 after a stunning freekick by local lad Ángel Di María! 🫶🏻

🇦🇷 There’s a bar in Buenos Aires called El Banderín — ‘The Pendant’ — and it was a pleasure to write about it’s footballing history for The World of Interiors ☺️ www.worldofinteriors.com/story/el-ban...

🇦🇷 This is what Rosario Central’s stadium El Gigante de Arroyito looks like on derby day! 💛💙 On Saturday evening Central beat city rivals Newell’s Old Boys 1-0 after a stunning freekick by local lad Ángel Di María! 🫶🏻

🇦🇷🕺 Club Atlético Lanús Last night Lanús drew 1-1 at home to River Plate at the Estadio Ciudad de Lanús, aka La Fortaleza.

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