Game Five v Atletico Tucuman
Argentinos Juniors 2 Atletico Tucuman 1 It’s difficult to explain to anyone who is not a rabid, obsessive football fan what makes a person travel for endless hours across the country in a rickety bus...
View ArticleGame Six v Godoy Cruz
Godoy Cruz 2 Argentinos Juniors 4 Crates of Malbec all round please waiter. This victory against Godoy Cruz – the team from the western region of Mendoza in the heart of Argentina’s wine growing...
View ArticleGame Eleven: v River Plate
River Plate 0 Argentinos Juniors 1 It’s now been four days since the superclásico, the twice yearly clash between Boca Juniors and River Plate which Boca won 2-0. The newspapers are still full of...
View ArticleGame Thirteen: v Rosario Central
Rosario Central 0 Argentinos Juniors 1 I couldn’t tell you exactly how many beauty parlours, hairdressing salons, tanning shops, gyms and plastic surgeries I pass on the journey from my house to the...
View ArticleGame Sixteen: v Gimnasia y Esgrima de la Plata
Argentinos Juniors 3 Gimnasia y Esgrima de la Plata 1 My voice is a little hoarse from all the shouting at this afternoon’s game so you’ll have lean closer to the screen. The Red Bugs were back on...
View ArticleGame Seventeen: v San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo 1 Argentinos Juniors 2 How joyous it must be to have the best player in the world pulling on your club shirt. They had that for a while at Argentinos Juniors when on the 20th October...
View ArticleGame Nineteen: v Huracan…..Champions!!!
Huracan 1 Argentinos Juniors 2 The main reason I adopted Argentinos Juniors as the team to write this blog about was that they were crap. I watched them a couple of times a year or so ago and...
View ArticleReflection
After strong complaints from bus passengers and members of my family, I’ve put the Argentinos Juniors shirt I was wearing at Sunday’s championship-clinching game in the wash. It’s a symbolic sign that...
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