Posted August 25, 200915 yr The home based players will be named at the end of the month but when you look at the list below you have to wonder whether they need anyone else. That is until you realise two of the players are from Newcastle........... Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar), Juan Pablo Carrizo (Real Zaragoza), Mariano Andujar (Catania) Defenders: Nicolas Burdisso, Javier Zanetti (both Inter Milan), Gabriel Heinze (Olympique Marseille), Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle United), Nicolas Pareja (Espanyol) Midfielders: Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Fernando Gago (Real Madrid), Maximiliano Rodriguez (Atletico Madrid), Jonas Gutierrez (Newcastle United), Jesus Datolo (Napoli) Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid), Carlos Tevez (Manchester City), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli), Diego Milito (Inter Milan), Lisandro Lopez (Olympique Lyon)
August 25, 200915 yr such waste that these players and more are at a coach as out of his depth as maradona. they've double the talent of england, and half the manager mcclaren was.
August 25, 200915 yr Atomic forward line, average midfield and a decidedly poor defense. Unless they score plenty, I don't see them doing much. EDIT: G4, completely agree about Maradona. We (Bulgaria) tried the same with Stoichkov and it was a disaster. The huge ego and lack of experience won't do him much good. Edited August 25, 200915 yr by Virosh
August 25, 200915 yr How the hell did Coloccini get in the team? He's an absolute f**king liability, even at Championship level. Same with Gutierrez, he's just a crap Dirk Kuyt (and that's saying something!).
August 31, 200915 yr How the hell did Coloccini get in the team? He's an absolute f**king liability, even at Championship level.Same with Gutierrez, he's just a crap Dirk Kuyt (and that's saying something!). Famous last words... they've both been pretty good the last two games.
September 1, 200915 yr Author Two players from the championship!! Not even england are that desperate! Maybe that's because England are not good enough collectively to afford the luxury of two players from the Championship
September 2, 200915 yr Famous last words... they've both been pretty good the last two games. A case of that player finally finding their level. If Newcastle were smart, they will give Colocinni away assuming they get promoted next year. He was lost this past year, a truly terrible CB. But then again, Newcastle have a way of turning serviceable defenders into laughing stocks
September 5, 200915 yr Argentina are still only 4th in their qualifying group (which is the last qualifying spot) and play Brazil (who are top) at home next. If Brazil win (here is hoping they do with a blatant hand ball - yes I'm STILL bitter) and Ecuador beat Colombia then Argentina drop to fifth which is the play off position (they do make it easy for Brazil and Argentian don't they). For all reasons of petty revenge I would take great schoolboy pleasure out of Argentina failing to qualify for the World up whilst Maradona is in charge.
September 5, 200915 yr What's up with the other Milito (the defender) ? He has been injured forever! And I would pick Federico Fazio ahead of all their centre backs. Oh wait, we aren't playing FM 2009 and it isn't 2012 yet. ;)
September 10, 200915 yr I'm watching the Paraguay - Argentina match atm. Argentina are a shambles, with no cohesion whatsoever. Paraguay have been all over them, save a couple of good instances of personal brilliance (they do have Messi, after all). The Argies are 1-0 down, and Veron got sent off after 50 minutes.
September 10, 200915 yr Lol, oh god just get rid of Maradona, it's just too painful to watch. (Never thought I'd say that about this Argentine squad)
September 10, 200915 yr It really has been, as KrazyTea put it, "painful to watch"... Veron is just not good enough, and Maradona has quite frankly got it all wrong...he was a great player, but not even a decent manager. The defence is struggling alot, and the midfield isn't gelling. A Riquelme is missing... ;)
September 10, 200915 yr That is Argentina down to 5th in the group now - come on Uruguay!! Come on Terry Butcher - give us s smile.
September 10, 200915 yr All 10 teams in the group play each other home and away and the top 4 teams qualify automatically for World Cup 2010. The fifth placed South American team will play off with a team from Concacaf (Caribbean, Central and North American Confederation) October 14 2009 Brazil v Venezuela Chile v Ecuador Paraguay v Colombia Peru v Bolivia Uruguay v Argentina October 10 2009 Argentina v Peru Bolivia v Brazil Colombia v Chile Ecuador v Uruguay Venezuela v Paraguay If they do finish 5th, they will probably play either Honduras or Costa Rica- (outside chance it could be Mexico or El Salvador) -over 2 legs on the 14th and 18th November. Wonder what the Argy press are saying about it all ?
September 10, 200915 yr Brazil may decide to 'roll over ;) ' against Venezuela in their last game, if so Venezuela would leapfrog Argentina for 5th place (if the argys fail to beat Uruguay, in Uruguay, the same day).
October 11, 200915 yr The Argies scraped past (bottom of the table) Peru in Buenos Aires, with an injury time winner. If they dont beat Uruguay (away) in the last game, the best they can do is 5th place (play off position), but if Ecuador beat Chile (who have already qualified for the WC) then the Argies will be out of next years tourney. :(
October 12, 200915 yr The Argies scraped past (bottom of the table) Peru in Buenos Aires, with an injury time winner.If they dont beat Uruguay (away) in the last game, the best they can do is 5th place (play off position), but if Ecuador beat Chile (who have already qualified for the WC) then the Argies will be out of next years tourney. :P ive seen a couple of the chile games and they are a good outside bet for the 1/4 finals at least for me.
October 12, 200915 yr apprently they have had 73 different players in the squad over the campaign. Ridiculous. Maradona isn't good enough as a coach....eg that time he took them to Boliva (i think it was Bolivia) to a high altitude on the day of the game.
