River Plate have made a successful transition from the Marcelo Gallardo era to the Martín Demichelis era with a clear and emphatic triumph in the Liga AFA competition. Here is the final league table: Final actual and expected table of Liga de Fútbol Profesional de la AFA, 2023 season. Match data supplied by DataFactory Latinoaméricano. […]
The group stage of the 2023 Copa Libertadores reaches its conclusion this week. Nine clubs have qualified for the last 16 of the competition; only one team has been eliminated from continental competition. Below is a whiparound of the eight groups and where things stand. (Teams qualified for the knockout stage have been highlighted in […]
The preliminary rounds of the 2023 CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores came to a conclusion last week. This phase of the competition has some similarities with the UEFA Champions League with representatives from lower-ranked countries eliminating each other first, and the survivors joined by teams from higher-ranked national associations. With a ten country confederation, the preliminary rounds […]
After seven matches of the “league” phase of the 2023 Argentina Primera División season, we can see some familiar patterns and new teams jockeying for the highest positions in the table. San Lorenzo lead the Liga Profesional by a point over River Plate after the first quarter of the season, joining River as the only […]
Argentina won their third World Cup after a month that started with a mammoth shock and ended in not just the greatest and most thrilling World Cup final of all time, but arguably one of the greatest football matches of all time. Lionel Messi didn’t need to win the World Cup to achieve legendary status, […]
Goiás Esporte Clube, located in the interior of Brazil, are one of the elevator clubs of Brazilian football. Along with Sport Recife, Vitória, and Santa Cruz, they are tied for the second-most relegations from Brazil’s Série A to Série B. América Mineiro and Coritiba have been relegated the most — six times — from the […]
Palmeiras are the champions of Brazil — the Brasileirão Série A — for the 11th time in their history. It’s most unfortunate that Athletico Paranaense denied us the Copa Libertadores final that we neutrals deserved, but the Brazilian league title is a fine reward for Palmeiras’ efforts. (And quite lucrative, too.) When I wrote my […]
Boca Juniors completed a sweep of 2022’s Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF) competitions in Argentina: the Copa de la LPF during the first half of the year, and the single round-robin Liga Profesional tournament that concluded on October 23rd. It’s a common saying in football that at the conclusion of a season, the table informs […]
If the report from The Athletic turns out to be accurate, Josef Martínez will not return to Atlanta United for the 2023 MLS season. After a difficult two years that included a major knee injury, a rocky recovery, quarrels with coaching staffs, and the inconsistency and bad breaks that characterized the 2022 season, a departure […]
This was supposed to be a mid-season check-in of Argentina’s Primera División championship, also called the Liga Profesional de Fútbol AFA, or commercially the Torneo Binance. One thing and then another happened, and before you knew it, two-thirds of the season has gone. It’s time to write that post before the entire season is over. […]
