Former River Plate forward Erik Lamela has enjoyed a fantastic start to the 2012-13 season, thriving as part of Zdenek Zeman’s attack-minded 4-3-3 formation, in a front three unit alongside countryman Pablo Osvaldo in the centre and [...]
Who Name: Juan Manuel Iturbe Arévalos Date of Birth: June 4, 1993 Nationality: Argentinian/Paraguayan Position: Forward Club: FC Porto Making his Name Juan Manuel Iturbe was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but the [...]
Peru vs Paraguay Chiqui Arce’s first competitive game in charge of Paraguay pits him against his mentor, Sergio Markarian who has got the bottom team from the 2010 qualifiers reorganized and motivated. The Peruvian’s [...]
Politics were the order of the weekend as Cristina Kirchner began her re-election campaign in Argentina, so the 2nd round of the Apertura was pushed back to midweek. Boca Juniors got their first win of [...]
30th June 1998 – One month before my 18th birthday. England vs Argentina in the Quarter Finals of the World Cup on the box. The unlikely setting for my viewing of this match was onboard [...]
With the Copa América now over and Uruguay deservedly crowned champions, it is only right we provide an in depth round-up of the past month’s action. We have broken down the review into several sections [...]
After the first round of Quarter-Final encounters on Saturday night, The Elastico’s very own James Uanhoro takes an in-depth tactical look at the first two encounters and how each team set about their task. Click [...]
Copa América Quarter Final 2 Argentina 1-1 Uruguay (Uruguay win 5-4 on Penalties) (Brigadier Gral. Estanislao López, Santa Fé. July 16 2011) (Pérez 6′; Messi 18′) The Quarter-Final stage of the Copa América has arrived [...]
After a slow start, the Copa America rumbled into life in the last round of group games. The glamour teams finally showed up, and the big-name players showed what all the hype was about. Uruguay [...]
Paraguay are yet to win in the 2011 Copa America, but are still in the running to challenge for a semi-final place, or beyond, in an absorbing tournament. At the time of writing 13 games [...]
