Boca Juniors has been handling it's business and is now on the brink of a third successive championship. Boca beat Colon de Santa Fe and can wrap up the title next week in Cordoba. Rodrigo Palacio had his scoring boots on again and put away two in the last half hour of the game. The brace takes him to twelve goals on the season, equal to Velez Sarsfield's Mauro Zarate.Estudiantes de La Plata have kept up their end of the deal by winning their games and waiting for, the now, close-to-none possibility of Boca slipping up. Either way, Boca boss Ricardo La Volpe is feeling pretty good right now. He called the 4-1 destruction of Colon the best game Boca has played since he's been in charge.
With only two fixtures left in the season, Boca have a four point lead at the top over Estudiantes. Argentinos Juniors host Estudiantes on Sunday while Boca kickoff ten minutes later at Belgrano de Cordoba's Olimpico de Cordoba stadium. [TyC Sports]
In other Argentina news:
- The Racing Club v. San Lorenzo match, postponed a couple of weeks ago because the fans blocked the team buses from leaving their hotels, has again been put off. It was supposed to be played this upcoming Wednesday behind closed doors in the neutral city of La Plata. It was again the fans who caused the second postponement. FA officials, worried that fans would again stop the teams from leaving (and causing even more difficulties), decided to again push the game to a future date. I say they play the game and then just let everybody read about it in the newspaper the day after. This is getting beyond ridiculous. [Clarin]
- Is Patrice Evra really that much better than a fit Gabriel Heinze? Well, how about enough to loan him out in January? [Soccerway.com]
- Carlitos' translator: "I know I did very wrong in going and I have made it clear to the manager and my team-mates that I in no way meant to disrespect them." Meanwhile, someone please put out an APB on Javier Mascherano. [CNN]
- I'm sure their parents must have been thrilled that they were at a soccer game in Argentina. But hey, they've probably done worse. How long do you think it takes for the Secret Service to check out the Bombonera stadium and give it the all clear? [The Offside]
- In the 1980s, while Diego Maradona was playing for Napoli, the famous number ten was known to be very popular with the local ladies. One of the products of his "Giving Back to the People" program just caught on with a fourth division side (Serie C2) in Italy. Not wanting any more attention than was necessary to cash in on his father's identity, he declined to name the club he was playing for. [Ole]
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