Futbol Follies: A Blast from the Past
The guys from Buller organized a football match last Wednesday after work. Although it was 3am and I was dead tired from class and work I couldn’t turn down the invitation. This was the second time I’ve played soccer since I’ve been down here and my skills haven’t improved a bit. I consider myself a […]
How to Survive a Futbol Match in Buenos Aires
I decided to take a page out of Kate Hudson’s book and create a “How To” guide for Argentina football fans who want to attend a match here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is the first of many “T2T How To Guides” about traveling to Buenos Aires. Hopefully it will be a good travel resource & […]
FOTO FRIDAY: Velez vs River Argentine Football
the boys getting geared up for our first Argentine Football experience. We headed out to the Velez Sarsfield stadium where the Velez faithfuls cheered their club to victory over the might River Plate. Read all about my first Football in Argentina Experience Checkout the video on “How To: Survive a Futbol Match in Buenos Aires” […]
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 […]
Football in Argentina – Velez vs River
I knew my first Argentine football match here was going to be a great experience when a gang of rowdy football fans came running threw our section before the game shoving people around yelling “SING! DANCE! CHEER!” That was the only pep-talk we needed. Greco and I waved our hands and lip-synced Velez fight songs the […]
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 […]
South Africa, Meet Argentina!
No team had more to loose last night than Argentina as it faced off against Uruguay, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Win and they’re in. Loose and most likely they were out (as well as the end for their most famous coach). As you can see from the picture, they came up big and coach Maradona is […]
Quilmes Commercial For Argentina
Beer and sports go great together anywhere! As a marketer I love seeing great advertisements. Especially ones that connect with the hearts of the people. Sergio showed me this one after he saw my post about Maradona. Quilmes is the most popular beer company in Argentina and they ran this campaign in 2002 during the World Cup in Korea […]
The Soccer Project
Pelada from Rebekah Fergusson on Vimeo. [I suggest full screen] Although as an American, I can’t truly understand the connection futbol has with the people and culture of Argentina just yet, I think it goes without saying that’s its HUGE (Fuccillo voice)! After living in London for awhile and now here in Buenos Aires, I’m […]