Marcelo Gallardo has put together an impressive CV in his six years in South America.
Pep Guardiola is a big fan of River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo and it’s looking increasingly likely the Manchester City coach will be able to see his work more closely in the coming year.
“What Gallardo has done with River is incredible,” Guardiola told an Argentine TV station. “Some things are inexplicable. Every year three coaches are named as the best in the world, and he’s never among them. I can’t understand it. It’s as if there’s nothing else in the world apart from Europe.”
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Marcelo Gallardo has put together an impressive CV in his six years in South America.
Pep Guardiola is a big fan of River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo and it’s looking increasingly likely the Manchester City coach will be able to see his work more closely in the coming year.
“What Gallardo has done with River is incredible,” Guardiola told an Argentine TV station. “Some things are inexplicable. Every year three coaches are named as the best in the world, and he’s never among them. I can’t understand it. It’s as if there’s nothing else in the world apart from Europe.”
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Gabriel ‘Gabigol’ Barbosa and Bruno Cortez square-off in Wednesday’s Copa Libertadores semifinal first leg.
The all-Brazilian semifinal of the Copa Libertadores always held promise — and Wednesday’s first leg certainly did not disappoint.
In the battle between the two best footballing sides in the land — Gremio and, especially, Flamengo — fought out a pulsating 1-1 draw, punctuated with enough talking points for the discussion to last all the way to the rematch in three weeks’ time.
Champions in 2017, Gremio are appearing in the semifinals for the third consecutive year. They are a well established…
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Pepe scored Gremio’s equalizer in the 88th minute.
Gremio survived intense pressure and a string of favourable VAR decisions to grab an equaliser with two minutes remaining and rescue a 1-1 draw against Flamengo in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores semifinal on Wednesday.
The visitors from Rio had three goals chalked off in a game they controlled almost throughout but were sunk at the last when Pepe nipped in at the back post to put away an inviting low cross from the right.
The 51,000 mostly-Gremio fans went wild and the relief was palpable…
Ramon Abila knows Boca Juniors have a mountain to climb in the Copa Libertadores semifinal.
Before their team’s home game against historic rivals Boca Juniors, three River Plate fans each held aloft a large inflatable number — a nine, a one and a two.
It was a reference to a date: Dec. 9, 2018, when the two Buenos Aires giants met in the final of the Copa Libertadores and River won 3-1.
Oct. 1 will not be seen as a date of equal significance. This, after all, was only the first leg of the semifinal. But River’s 2-0 win on Tuesday puts them right on course to make it through to this year’s…
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Rafael Borre celebrates after opening the scoring for River Plate against Boca Juniors on Tuesday.
A goal in each half, the first from a VAR assisted penalty, gave River Plate a 2-0 win over arch-rivals Boca Juniors in a tense semifinal first leg of the Copa Libertadores on Tuesday.
Rafael Borre converted a spot kick with seven minutes gone after the Brazilian referee consulted with the VAR and adjudged the same player to have been felled in the penalty area.
Ignacio Fernandez doubled River’s lead with 70 minutes gone when he flicked home a Matias Suarez cut back from the right wing.
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Any game between River Plate and Boca Juniors is always full of emotion.
Buenos Aires is bracing itself twice over for the events of Tuesday. First, heavy rain is forecast. Second, there could already be enough thunder and lightning supplied by the first leg of the Copa Libertadores semifinal between River Plate and Boca Juniors — a half anticipated, half dreaded meeting of historic rivals.
Last year, of course, they met in the two-legged final. The whole saga proved too big, too dramatic, too intense for the city, and after fan violence outside River’s stadium the…
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ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol thinks Sadio Mane’s temper tantrum is “the reason Liverpool are so good.”
ESPN FC’s Alejandro Moreno speaks of Virgil Van Dijk’s importance to Liverpool, after the Dutch star-man was awarded UEFA player of the year.
Gremio president Romildo Bolzan Jr. has said potential FIFA Club World Cup opponents Liverpool are “beatable.”
The Brazilian side are in the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores, where they will face Flamengo — and the winners of that tie will take on either Boca Juniors or River Plate in the final.
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The winners of the Libertadores will go into the FIFA Club World Cup in December alongside all the continental champions. No non-European side…
River Plate manager Ramon Diaz spoke ahead of his side’s ‘Superclasico’ with Boca Juniors and discussed the history behind the fixture
In the early hours of Thursday a violent storm broke over Buenos Aires — mere prelude, perhaps, to the matchup in the semifinal of the Copa Libertadores that has been both desired and dreaded.
Historic rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate will meet over two legs in October for the right to play in this year’s final. Last year, of course, it all proved too much and, following fan violence outside River’s stadium, the decisive second leg was controversially switched to Madrid. The rumblings have yet…
In an interview with ESPN, Seattle Sounders star Nicolas Lodeiro discusses how MLS has grown and his desire to return to Boca Juniors before he retires.
On Sunday River Plate meet Boca Juniors in Argentina, while Flamengo face Palmeiras in Brazil.
These are huge league games involving giant clubs who are fighting for the domestic title. And by strange coincidence, they may also serve as rehearsals for the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores, South America’s Champions League.
The last four of the competition will be defined over the next three days and, on the evidence of last week’s quarterfinal first legs, the most likely scenario in the next round…