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Where is Copa America on live?
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15-05-2011 7:22pm#1
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The Sparrow wrote: »Hope so too... Heading over to Argentina in July for the Copa. Can't wait... I've tickets for loads of games from the opening match through to the final.
Anyone else from here gonna be in Argentina for it?
We all hate you, go away.
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The Sparrow wrote: »Hope so too... Heading over to Argentina in July for the Copa. Can't wait... I've tickets for loads of games from the opening match through to the final.
Anyone else from here gonna be in Argentina for it?
Enjoy your trip, but when I do go to Argentina, it'll be for club football. 0 -
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bamboozling wrote: »I'm actually living in Argentina right now, just outside Buenos Aires
I'd just like to take this opportunity to express my hatred and jealousy of you at the same time.
Please fill us in on any ball related stories from over there.
I post this as Boca-River is on Setanta and I don't have the channel. :mad: Seems like it's only highlights/delayed coverage though as Livescore has Boca down as winning two-zip.0 -
I'd just like to take this opportunity to express my hatred and jealousy of you at the same time.
Please fill us in on any ball related stories from over there.
I post this as Boca-River is on Setanta and I don't have the channel. :mad: Seems like it's only highlights/delayed coverage though as Livescore has Boca down as winning two-zip.
I have a few!
First of all the people over here are absolutely mental about football. Everyone and I mean everyone has a team and follows it. It's the first thing people talk about and everyone watches it 24/7.
The tv coverage makes it very accessible. Every match is shown on the national tv, tv publica. I'm not sure about the ins and outs but I remember reading an article on it in World Soccer a few years back. The general gist is that the Argentinian government under Christina Kirchner decided to buy the rights cheap so the football would be shown for all in a populist move. What has resulted is that the game over is starved of money and the clubs other than the powerhouses live from one month to the next. The fact that 16 clubs out of the 20 in the first division are from the greater B.A area makes it doubly difficult for the small clubs.
But onto the football. My team is a team called Banfield. They are a small club from the city of Banfield about 16km outside the centre of Buenos Aires. They won the championship in 2009 which was their first ever trophy. They are the nearest top flight club to me and the colours are Green and White with an Orange away strip so it seemed to fit perfectly.
The first game I went to was against Argentinos Juniors, first club of one D. Maradona, in Estadio Florencio Sola in Banfield. The atmosphere was absolutely electric and the chants are brilliant once you get someone to help you understand them, my personal favourite being; 'Jump up and down if your not an Englishman!' to which the stadium en masse jump and down, the whole stadium shaking in the process!
The game itself was poor. Banfield are a limited team and don't play in the style you would expect of Argentinians. They were rather Stoke like in their tactics without the Stoke like efficiency or results. Their man problem being instead of a John Carew upfront they had 2 strikers barely 10 foot between them. Argentinos got a goal in the 30' minute and then got a second around the 65'. Banfield kicked the ball long all day long and it came out as quickly as it went up. Argentinos had the bald, old lad in the middle and he ran the show a real quality player.
At the end of the game it was a small bit strange. The away fans are let out first while the home fans wait for 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes I expected a bit of analysis and a bitching session, similar to what would happen in Ireland and England. But no the attitude was one of 'oh well these things happen, there is always next week.' They have a concept where someone who is negative about the team brings that negativity to the team so they don't like to be over critical after the match.
I'm hoping to get to another game before I go. I'd love to go to the game Banfield v Boca game in La Bombonera that would be pretty special. I'm also going to go to the Uruguay and Chile game during the Copa America and maybe 1 more. I'm working so it's not easy to just up sticks and follow the Copa for 3 weeks, and also nobody comes to Argentina to get rich I can definitively say that much!!
Am one other thing, the standard of play is frightening amongst everyone. There are people who do tricks at traffic lights to earn a bit of money. Some juggle but yesterday one guy's party piece was to get a tennis ball and start doing keepie-uppies. It was incredible, doing round the world, heel flicks trapping it on his neck and other outrageous shít. I thought that was wicked cool.
I was also playing with some kids from the barrio last week, just a game of 5 a side. I'm pretty competitive and like winning but the 11-12 year olds just made a mockery of me and rang rings around me. I was seriously tempted to put in a bone cruncher or two to let them know where I was but I restrained myself thankfully!!:pac:
There are other small stories, I just can't think right now. Fire away any questions if you want.0 -
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