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Once again Argentinos started out playing like crap. Argentina fell behind early 1-0 when Colombia’s Dorlan Pabon ripped the twines in the 44^th minute.

That’s the way it stayed until Lionel Messi finally got off the schnid. He nailed an empty netter in the 60^th minute give Argentina the 1-0 lead.

Mate Jose Sosa fired a great cross into the box.

Colombia’s keeper David Ospima miss played the cross and this allowed Messi an open shot on goal.

Argentina salted this puppy away in the 84^th minute.

Messi fired a rocket to mate Gonzalo Higuain. Higuain ripped a shot that was kicked away by Ospima. Argentina’s Sergio Aquero tucked the rebound into the back of the net.

Game, set, and match to Argentina.

This was not a convincing win for one of the better clubs in the world.

Messi said this- “It was hard. We did not deserve to go one goal behind to the opponents, as they were not better than us.

“We wanted to forget about the tie against Bolivia [1-1 draw on Friday]. That was very hard for us and I think we did.

“Sometimes you can play better, and other times you have to fight harder. This game was one of those days.”

Higuain added- “We wanted to win. We were very low after the game on Friday and we promised to do better here.

“It was a great match, very difficult to play at a demanding venue, but we improved our performance in the second half and did it.

“Now, we have six months to try to find our best shape. The qualifiers are long and we made a good step today.”

Chile knocked out Paraguay 2-0.

Ecuador shut out Peru 2-0.

Venezuela edged Bolivia 2-1.

Now it’s off for six months and then back to the WC qualifying.

Uruguay sits atop the heap with seven points.

Argentina is second with seven points.

Uruguay is a plus six while Argentina is a plus three.

Venezuela is third with seven points but they are a zero plus minus.

Fourth place belongs to Ecuador with six points.

Chile sits in fifth place with six points

The Chileans are a minus three.

Colombia and Paraguay each have four points however the Colombians are a plus minus zero so they sit in sixth place.

Paraguay is a minus three and have seventh place all to themselves.

Peru is eight with three points.

Bolivia brings up the butt end of the table with point.

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On Tuesday Argentina battles Colombia.

Ecuador has a hot date with Peru.

Chile-Paraguay.

Venezuela- Bolivia.

Brasil shut out Egypt 2-0 in a friendly on Monday.

The guys played very well.

Jonas hit the daily double to lead Brasileiros to the win.

Coach Menezes rested most of the big stars.

He started Hulk, Jonas, and Cesar up front.

Diego was in net and Alves, Luiz, Silva on the back line.

Brasil seemed out of it until Hulk fired a long-range bomb on goal.

This woke the guys up.

Brasil is the host nation for the 2014 World Cup so they don’t have to go through the grind of qualifying.

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Once again Argentina has a ton of talent and they are coming up short time in and time out.

Argentina and Bolivia tied one all.

Bolivia is at the butt end of the table.

This is a very disturbing trend for Argentinos.

Bolivia scored in the 55^th minute.

Marcelo Moreno ripped the twines to give them a 1-0 lead.

Argentine answered the call in the 59^th minute.

Ezequiel Lavezzi found the back of the net to level this sucker at one all.

That’s where we stayed.

Messi had some really good chances but he couldn’t covert.

Uruguay routed Chile 4-0.

Paraguay beat Ecuador 2-1.

Colombia and Venezuela tied one all.

Uruguay sits atop the table with seven points.

Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, and Venezuela each have three points.

Argentinos has a plus two so they have the second spot

Colombia is third with a plus one

But lets remember the Colombian squad has a game in hand.

Fourth place is Paraguay with a minus one.

Venezuela has fifth place with a minus one.

Bolivia is dead last with a point.

The next round will happen on Tuesday.

Colombia-Argentina.

Ecuador-Peru.

Chile-Paraguay.

Venezuela- Bolivia.

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Brasil battled Gabon in an international friendly.

Brasileiros are the 2014 host for the World Cup. Brasil’s already has their spot booked.

The samba boys were dominant from the out set.

Goals by Sandro 12^th minute, and Anderson Hernanes in the 35^th minute sealed the deal for Brasileiros.

UOL wrote this- Os brasileiros do segundo escalão da Europa não tiveram dificuldade no teste diante do Gabão e conquistaram uma fácil vitória por 2 a 0. A maior dificuldade do Brasil foi a estrutura do estádio de Libreville. O gramado que já era ruim virou um pasto com a chuva ocorrida antes da partida. E os jogadores ainda esfriaram um pouco porque dois apagões atrasaram o início da partida em 18 minutos e forçou o time a realizar um novo aquecimento em campo. O jogo valeu mais para Hernanes aparecer bem pela seleção.

Menezes started Hulk, Willian, Dudu, and many of his lesser know players. Neymar, Ronaldinho Gaucho and many of the top stars didn’t play.

This was an easy match for Brasil. It seems that the problems before have been solved.

We will see.

Fora os problemas antes do início da partida e a necessidade de se segurar para evitar lesão no campo e tomar cuidado com um perigoso degrau entre o campo e a pista do atletismo no entrono do campo, a seleção brasileira não teve dificuldades para vencer o jogo.

Logo com dois minutos de partida, o primeiro ataque já demonstrou a ingenuidade da seleção local nas bolas aéreas em lance que só não rendeu o gol porque Jonas chutou para fora. Depois de uma leve pressão, a zaga gabonesa falhou feio e o Brasil abriu o placar aos 11 min.

Globo Esporte wrote- Não havia Kaká, Marcelo, Daniel Alves, Neymar, Ronaldinho… Tampouco o gramado apresentava condições de receber uma partida de uma seleção pentacampeã mundial, que ainda enfrentou um apagão de 18 minutos antes do apito inicial. Mas, mesmo longe do ideal, o Brasil desta quinta-feira derrotou o Gabão, por 2 a 0, em amistoso disputado no Estádio L’Amitié, na capital Libreville. Ambos os gols foram marcados no primeiro tempo: Sandro abriu o placar aos 11 minutos, enquanto Hernanes deu números finais aos 34.

Let’s hope the guys are on the right track.

Later today Argentina battles Bolivia in World Cup qualifying.

Uruguay has a hot date with Chile.

Colombia- Venezuela and Paraguay-Ecuador.

The Uruguayans are the pole sitter with four points.

Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela all have three points but lets remember that Ecuador has a game in hand.

Bolivia is at the butt end of the table with nada, zippo.

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Boca Juniors is sitting a top the Apertura with 32 points.

Los Xeneizes tied with Velez Sarsfield nil-nil.

Racing is second with 24 points.

Sarsfield shut out Argentinos Juniors 1-0.

Sitting in third place is Lanus with 23 points.

Lanus defeated Banfield 2-1.

Fourth place belongs to Atletico Rafaela with 23 points.

Rafaela and Belgrano tied nil-nil.

River Plate was regulated to D-2 ball.

Los Millionaires is top dog with 26 points.

It sure looks like River Plate will be back to the big boys next season.

Los Millionaires destroyed Gimnasia 4-1.

The guys in Europe are off due to the international break.

The EPL will return to action November 19^th.

On Friday Argentina will battle Bolivia in World Cup qualifying.

Uruguay-Chile.

Columbia-Venezuela battle on Saturday.

Paraguay-Ecuador take to the pitch on Saturday também.

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This was another one of those nut cutting time matches for Brasil. Sure this sucker was only a friendly but a ton was riding on the outcome.

Brasil scored a 2-1 win over Mexico.

The Mexicans used their top guys while Brasil rested most of their premier players. Only Ronaldinho Gaucho and Neymar played.

Enter the second team that featured Hulk, Oliveira Jefferson in goal, Adriano, Luis Fernando.

An own goal in the 12^th minute by Luiz and a stupid red card given to chief idiot Dani Alves almost killed Brasileiros chances of winning.

These were two huge brain farts.

Mexico looked good.

The Mexicans shredded the Brasil defense however they could not put the ball into the back of the net against the second string.

This is not good.

Brasil showed heart.

The guys didn’t quit.

Goals by Ronaldinho Gaucho 79^th minute and Marcelo in the 83^rd minute sealed the deal for Brasil.

Menezes is not that good of a coach.

Brasil is missing their best playmaker in Kaka.

Kaka is regaining his form.

Yet, without his playmaking ability Brasileiros will struggle scoring.

The guys can’t finish.

This is a big problem.

Ronaldinho Gaucho is slowly regaining the form that made him one of the best players in the world.

This happened when he was sent back to Brasil in disgrace. Gaucho needed to learn how to stop being a star and learn how to be a teammate.

Flamengo and now Brasil are reaping these rewards.

Is Gaucho the answer?

In the short run yes not in the long run.

UOL wrote this- Ronaldinho Gaúcho e Marcelo salvaram a seleção brasileira em amistoso contra o México. Mesmo com um jogador a menos e em noite pouco inspirada, o meia e o lateral brilharam e garantiram a virada por 2 a 1. O resultado ofuscou as falhas do sistema defensivo montado por Mano Menezes. A equipe fez gol contra com David Luiz no início do confronto e teve Daniel Alves expulso ainda no primeiro tempo.

Principal aposta de Mano nesta fase da seleção, Ronaldinho encerrou tabu com a camisa da seleção brasileira. O meia tinha a marca de quatro anos sem marcar pela equipe. Seu último gol havia sido na vitória por 5 a 0 sobre o Equador, nas Eliminatórias da Copa-2010, em outubro de 2007. O desempenho de Marcelo também foi importante, já que o lateral deve ganhar mais espaço após passar período sem ter chances com o treinador

The big surprise of the day came when mighty Argentina came crashing back to earth.

Argentinos had their pride stomped on by Venezuela

Venezuela defeated Argentina 1-0.

Messi and company stunk the joint out.

Maybe Argentina is a team full of head cases.

This is the first time a Cesar Farias side defeated Albicelestes.

A goal by Fernando Amorebieta in the 61^st minute sealed the deal for Venezuela.

Paraguay and Uruguay tied at one all.

Diego Forlán scored for the Uruguayans.

Cristian Riveros scored for the Paraguayans. 

Chile doubled up Peru 4-2.

Columbia downed Bolivia 2-1.

After two matches Uruguay has four points and they sit a top the leader board.

Ecuador, Argentina, Columbia, Peru, Chile, and Venezuela all have three points.

Paraguay has one point and Bolivia is at the butt end of the table with nada.

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World Cup qualifying is underway on Tuesday.

This is round of two of the long qualifying process to see who makes it to Brasil in 2014.

Chile battles Peru.

Paraguay battles hated foe Uruguay.

This should be a real war.

Venezuela takes on Argentina.

Bolivia has a hot date with Columbia.

Messi and Gonzalo Higuain are the two headliners for Argentinos.

With Tevez out Argentina is playing like a real team.

Higuain said this- “I hope I can keep playing this way. Playing for the national team is great – I’ve dreamt about it since I was a kid. I’ve always dreamt of wearing the number nine shirt of Argentina.

“This is just the beginning of the qualification. Winning the first match is good, but it’s just the first step.

”Both of these guys play for Barca so they know each other very well.

“We get on with each other very well. To me, it’s a pleasure to play by his side,” he said. “With both Angel (Di Maria) and Leo I feel very good when we attack, because we can profit from the spaces we have on the field thanks to their speed.”

Both Argentina and Venezuela both won their opening matches.

Diario Hoy wrote this about the match-

Tras el debut exitoso ante Chile, el seleccionado argentino viajó a Puerto La Cruz para ratificar este buen inicio en las eliminatorias sudamericanas clasificatorias para el próximo Mundial de Brasil 2014, cuando enfrente esta noche a Venezuela, con cambio de sistema y algunos nombres.

En poco más de un mes, estos combinados se volverán a encontrar, porque fresco está el último antecedente en Calcuta, India, donde se produjo el comienzo de la era Alejandro Sabella en septiembre, cuando Argentina venció 1-0 con gol de Nico Otamendi.

El estadio José Manuel Anzoátegui estará repleto por unas 40 mil personas, que aguardarán por ver un triunfo local y terminar con las derrotas ante Argentina. Pero además del rival habrá otros factores a tener en cuenta, los cuales podrían influir en el estado de los futbolistas. La temperatura, la humedad y el clima lluvioso serán datos no menores, como el pronóstico cercano a los 30 grados en ese horario.

Más allá de la buena versión que mostró el viernes pasado, Sabella tocará la formación inicial.

Teniendo la posibilidad de incluir a Javier Mascherano, quien cumplió la fecha de suspensión, y a Martín Demichelis, recuperado de un traumatismo en la cabeza, el seleccionador nacional se adaptará a la propuesta del adversario y a los jugadores que tiene a disposición para trasladar el dibujo 4-4-2 a un sistema 5-3-2 en zona defensiva, pasando a un 3-4-3 cuando esté en ataque.

Las apariciones de Masche y Micho obligarán a dejar el once titular al doble cinco del viernes, Braña-Banega, por lo que habrá un funcionamiento distinto, con más defensa y contragolpe, como también libertad para el accionar individual de mitad de cancha hacia adelante.

La otra cuestión pasa por la continuidad de Mariano Andújar en el arco, ya que Chiquito Romero no tiene al 100% su tobillo izquierdo.Tomando aquellas variantes, Zabaleta y Rojo cumplirán la función de laterales volantes; en la zona defensiva, Demichelis sobrará para jugar de líbero teniendo a Otamendi y Burdisso como stoppers. En el medio, Mascherano se ubicará como único volante central, con Sosa más adelantado, y en la parte de arriba, Di María se tirará por izquierda y Messi quedará libre para abastecer al solitario Higuaín, que viene de meter un triplete en el Monumental.

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World Cup qualifying begins for 2014. Jeez I can’t believe it is just around the corner. The 2014 World Cup will be held in Brasil so that means Brasil already is in.

The host nation is guaranteed a spot.

Argentina started off their quest with a convincing 4-1 win over Chile.

Argentinos was led by Lionel Messi.

Messi scored a goal but his mate Gonzalo Higuain hit the triple lotto.

He dialed up the hat trick.

Uruguay doubled up Bolivia 4-2.

Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani each scored a goal while Diego Lugano hit the daily double.

Peru beat Paraguay 2-0.

Ecuador shut out Venezuela 2-0.

The Peruvians win over Paraguay was a real shocker.

The other big news is that Carlos Tevez was not named to the Argentina National team.

Juan Riquelme from Boca Juniors was also left off the squad.

This was only the first match in the long qualifying process but is was good to see Peru beat Paraguay. Peru This Week wrote this about the win-” The Peruvian soccer team defeated Paraguay 2-0 on Friday night.

According to Andina, Peru played in front of more than 45,000 spectators, in what was Peru’s first qualifying match for the FIFA 2014 World Cup.

During the first half of the game, Peru’s attacks were constant but failed to outplay the strong Paraguayan defense.

20 minutes into the match Paraguay began to attack more frequently and created some dangerous situations for Peruvian goalie Raul Fernandez.

Peru scored it’s first goal 2 minutes into the second half, after a play started by Jefferson Farfan, who passed the ball to Guerrero, who managed to pass between two defenders and score.

The second goal came at the 27th minute of the second half, when a pass by Pizarro managed to find Guerrero in front of the goal.

With the win, Peru scored its first three points in South American qualifying round for the FIFA 2014 World Cup.

Peru is attempting to reach the World Cup after a 29-year absence.”

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Paraguay had another one of those PK shootouts. Los Guaranies and Venezuela tied nil-nil after 120 minutes of futebol.

This was déjà vu all over again.

Brasil and Paraguay did the same dance in the quarterfinals.

It once again came down to a PK shootout for Paraguay.

Los Guaranies made all of their shots while La Vinotinto missed one PK and this cost them dearly.

Justo Villar was the hero when he stopped Venezuela’s Franklin Lucena’s shot.

Game, set, and match to Paraguay.

Paraguay and Uruguay will meet in the Copa finals on Sunday.

Los Guaranies advanced to their first Copa finals since 1979.

Nestor Ortigoza said this after the match- “Today we played bad, we played good. The important thing is we won.”

His mate Nelson Haedo Valdez added- “I hope we are having some champion’s luck, because in truth we suffered a lot,” Paraguay striker Nelson Haedo Valdez said. “We were very lucky, but football is like this, not always the winner is the best.”

After the win in the PK shootout both sides decided to settle the affair with fist a cuffs.

The police had to separate both clubs.

Paraguay and Venezuela blamed each other for the brawl.

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Uruguay has booked their spot in the Copa America finals.

Charruas defeated Peru 2-0.

La Blanquirroja put up a hell of flight but Peru couldn’t crack the code.

Luis Suarez led the way with the daily double.

His mate Diego Forlan set up the first puppy in the 53^rd minute.

Forlan fired a rocket into the teeth of the goal. Keeper Raul Fernandez stopped the first volley.  Shot. Save. Rebound. Score off the boards by Suarez.

Peruvian Juan Vargas was given the early showers in the 68^th minute.

La Blanquirroja played a very dirty game.

Peru was going after the Uruguay players with the intent to do bodily harm.

I was pulling for Peru but I can’t stand dirty futebol.

This cheap dirty play has no place in the game.

Uruguay is going after the 15^th Copa title. If Charruas wins they will leap frog over Argentina.

Argentinos has fourteen titles tambem.

Charruas coach Oscar Tabarez was asked about taking his star player out in the second half- “It is one thing with Suarez, it is another without him in the final,” Tabarez said. “He (Suarez) is a great forward, an elite player among forwards in the world. … He often determines the outcome as he did today.”

Sergio Markarian, who was born in Uruguay, took over Peru’s team a year ago and has improved it quickly.

“We played in this tournament against teams that had almost 100 percent of their players playing abroad,” Markarian said. “You could tell in their experience, sense of how to play the match. … But we are working hard to get better.” 

Suarez plays for Liverpool had this to say after the match- “The first half was tough because we knew Peru would be very defensive,” Liverpool striker Suarez said. “We had to try to take advantage of some chance to score. The goal in the first few minutes was a big blow to Peru.”

Peru coach Sergio Markarian, born in Uruguay had this to say about quick improvement since he took over a year- “We played in this tournament against teams that had almost 100 percent of their players playing abroad. You could tell in their experience, sense of how to play the match. … But we are working hard to get better.”

On Wednesday night Paraguay will battle Venezuela to see whom books the other spot in the final that will be held on Sunday in Argentina.

My guys from Flamengo battle Palmeiras on Wednesday night.

This is a must win for Mengao.

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