🇦🇷 Last night’s superclásico ended with a 1-0 away win for Boca Juniors at River Plate’s El Monumental. Leandro Paredes’ penalty the difference.
Miguel Merentiel’s nutmeg is worth watching again and again…
🇦🇷 Last night’s superclásico ended with a 1-0 away win for Boca Juniors at River Plate’s El Monumental. Leandro Paredes’ penalty the difference.
Miguel Merentiel’s nutmeg is worth watching again and again…
TIREN PAPELITOS, MUCHACHOS
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The potential consequence of too much dry paper? A FIRE
El Monumental saw a fire break out just ahead of kick off in tonight’s superclásico 😱
🇦🇷 FIRE at El Monumental
River Plate vs Boca Juniors started with an incredible recibimiento with 86,000 River fans creating that atmosphere Argentinian football is famous for. However, a fire sparked in the stands, which —thankfully— was put out rápido
🇦🇷 EL MONUMENTAL
SUPERCLÁSICO: River Plate vs Boca Juniors
Thanks to Matías G for sending this from River Plate’s incredible recibimiento
🇦🇷 River Plate vs Boca Juniors
Kicking off now, after a recibimiento worthy of a superclásico! A reported 52 tonnes of ticker tape 😳😳😳
Just reporting what Olé reported. Sounds bonkers but 86,000 people want ticker tape so give ‘em ticker tape!!!
86,000 capacity, FULL 90 minutes before KO… 😳🥹
And yet the radio suggests there are still thousands outside waiting to get in…
🇦🇷 River Plate host Boca Juniors tonight: 52 tonnes of ticker-tape awaits the playing surface at El Monumental 😳
Via Olé
🇦🇷 El Monumental an hour before KO: el superclásico kicks off in an hour!
River Plate vs Boca Juniors
Sent by a friend (thanks Matías G 🥰)
🇦🇷 SUPERCLÁSICO! Tonight 9pm (UK)
River Plate 🔴⚪️ vs 🔵🟡 Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors will never let River forget their 2011 relegation, ‘The Ghost of B’ (B = second division)
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The most famous warm-up in football history.
On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹
One of the oddest things about this Arsenal team is that they take more risks passing the ball under pressure in their own thirty yards than they do in the opposition's half.
TONIGHT!
💥 El superclásico!
River Plate 🔴⚪️ vs 🔵🟡 Boca Juniors @ El Monumental
⌚️ 9pm KO (UK)/10pm (CET)
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Born on this day in 1946: Tomás Felipe Carlovich, "El Trinche"
The inventor of the "double nutmeg", Trinche was --in 1976-- called up to play for Argentina by César Luis Menotti but the mercurial midfielder decided to go fishing on a remote island instead.
Read more below ⬇️
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HT: VIF 0-0 LSK
But the tifos… wow 🥹
"What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange." Michel Platini. Simply peerless.
Great with politics, too, with the left
Born on this day in 1946: Tomás Felipe Carlovich, "El Trinche"
The inventor of the "double nutmeg", Trinche was --in 1976-- called up to play for Argentina by César Luis Menotti but the mercurial midfielder decided to go fishing on a remote island instead.
Read more below ⬇️
Luckily for him most of his contemporaries were in similar shape and in what we would today consider poor health for a sportsman (diet, smoking, drinking, drugs…!)
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Sports are all about having fun. This moment is pure joy and I love it. Don’t judge the man and his history. Just appreciate that moment.
That’s an 8 year old boy’s dream! And that’s why we play. ✌🏻❤️
The psychology of ritual in high-pressure moments fascinates me — how a simple warm-up becomes transcendent when the stakes are everything. That muscle memory mixed with raw nerves creates something almost mystical.
TONIGHT!
💥 El superclásico!
River Plate 🔴⚪️ vs 🔵🟡 Boca Juniors @ El Monumental
⌚️ 9pm KO (UK)/10pm (CET)
📺 Fanatiz (free trials available)
Will you be watching?!
Today’s footie:
2:30pm (Oslo time), Vålerenga vs Lillestrøm @ Intility Arena 🔥
5:30pm: C115ty vs The Arsenal 📺
10pm: River Plate vs Boca Juniors 📺
Happy 48th birthday to Gabriel "El Gringo" Heinze!
