Sunday, April 15, 2007

Swan song

Guillermo Barros Schelotto played the final four minutes for Boca Juniors against River Plate today. The score was 1-1 and Barros Schelotto did not score. Presumably he's headed towards Columbus after the match. All signs point toward him joining the Crew soon. We'll see if that happens in the next week or so, or maybe sooner.

EDIT: Thanks to acromm, here's a link to see the goals from Boca-River.

8 comments:

Crewcat said...

The FSC commentators seemed to think he could head to Chivas USA instead of Columbus. Have you heard anything in regards to that?

L.B. said...

I've heard nothing of Chivas USA looking to Argentina, let alone at Barros Schelotto. I'm going to do some digging and see what I unearth.

Anonymous said...

We should know soon. Transfer window closes soon.

Anonymous said...

Boca/River The pace that they kept up all game was unreal.

That game should be used as an example at how soccer is to be played at its highest level. The intensity, grit, and most importantly their technical ability at such high speeds and under pressure is incredible.

I'll take a game like that over anything Europe can produce.

Anonymous said...

Boca-River is the best rivalry in the world and today's game was the most intense game I've seen all year--including the Barcelona-Real Madrid game. If all games were like that, soccer would be the US's favorite sport...vamos guille, columbus te espera...

L.B. said...

It was a helluva game.

As far as rivalries go, you can't go wrong if you rate Boca-River tops among all rivalries in any sport anywhere in the world. It's either that or Rangers-Celtic in my opinion.

Just pure unadulterated hatred, which produces excellent soccer.

Hops said...

Thanks for encouraging me to watch that - i probably wouldn't otherwise. Funny enough I went to Buenos Aires to play soccer when I was 16. When I was there I bought a River Plate shirt. It soon became my favorite shirt becaause I liked the way it looked. I had no idea who they were. For years people would stop me when I wore that shirt and talk to me about River Plate or say someting to me in Spanish which I didnt understand. Yesterday I FINALLY understood why it was such a big deal. I guess it says something that you could grow up playing soccer in the mid 90's in this country and had no idea about these teams. Something tells me its different for kids these days.

L.B. said...

hops, that is awesome. thanks for sharing that with us.

hey, just thought of something. you should send us a picture of you in your shirt and we'll publish it as the first "Show us your colors" piece. That'd be cool.