Argentina Football: Banfield Wins, Messi is Nasty & The World Cup is Set
Lots of big news in the Football world over the last few weeks and Argentina was in the middle of it all. 1. Banfield won the Argentine Apertura 2009. In their final match of the Apertura 2009 tournament Banfield faced off against the most popular club in Argentina Boca Juniors, at Boca. A friend and I actually went […]
Lionel Messi wins the Ballon d’Or Award
The Argentine hero now has a golden ball! Lionel Messi became the first Argentine to win the Ballon d’Oras France Football magazine’s European club player of the year. The 22-year-old, Barcelona forward was a near-unanimous pick, beating Cristiano Ronaldo by a record 240 point difference. The award is decided by a poll of world football journalists from a list of […]