Banfield keeps on going at Libertadores Cup. In Montevideo, against Nacional, got a valuable draw and almost reaches next round’s passage.

Estudiantes la Plata had to play 3,680 meters high above sea level, displaying great physical strength, and managed to bring home a valuable point.

Lanus will be happy after a good result obtained in the dreaded Bolivian heights after their 4-1 victory over Blooming in the first stage of the Libertadores Cup. The ‘Granate (Maroon)’ breaths a little in hard times, and keep chances of qualifying open. Sebastian Blanco, Santiago Salcedo and Diego Lagos twice, scored for the Argentine side.

Ricardo Gareca is Velez Sarfield’s coach, but also a former player. A striker, and in the context of his team’s Libertadores’ Cup match today against Deportivo Italia in Venezuela, he gave his opinion on a matter that he most certainly is qualyfied to: ‘who wouldn´t want to have Palermo?’, said the ‘Tiger, in reference to Boca Juniors’ striker particular moment.

Banfield demolished Deportivo Cuenca at the Ecuatorian heights by 4 to 1 with goals from Ervitti, Sebastian Fernandez (2) and James Rodriguez. Great result for Falcioni’s team, who won the Argentine championship, but will not settle. For the joy to be complete, Lanus (Banfield’s fierce rival) lost in Peru: 2 to 0 against Universitario.

After Cruzeiro was defeated in the final of Libertadores Cup, by Atlético Mineiro, they make fun of their classic rivals on an animated video where the captain of Estudiantes and the Argentine National team coach Diego Maradona, are two characters playing a song dedicated to the team of Adilson Batista.

Estudiantes de La Plata defeated Brazilian Cruzeiro to capture South American club football’s greatest prize, the Libertadores Cup.

At 2.50 a.m. the bus arrived at the hotel with the champions and Estudiantes’ fans seemed to explode when Juan Sebastián Verón, team’s captain, raised the Cup.

Estudiantes de La Plata will travel today to Brazil with the mission of defeating Cruzeiro in theyr own stadium and winning the Libertadores Cup, an award the Argentine team can not reach since 1970.

Estudiantes played with Verón in the field aagainst Cruzeiro on the final phase of the Cup.

Estudiantes de La Plata will try to give the first step towards the conquest of Libertadores Cup of America 2009, when tomorrow faces Cruzeiro of Brazil.

The midfielder, who has refused to play for our country under Diego Maradona, is believed to be for sale due to Boca Juniors’ financial problems.

The South American Confederacy of Football (Conmebol) ratified today the cities of La Plata and Belo Horizonte to host the finals of the Libertadores of America Cup.

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Estudiantes de la Plata beats Nacional of Montevideo 2 – 1 and reaches the final of the continental tournament.

Over 10 thousand fans crwded the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo to support their team.

Boca Juniors coach, Carlos Ischia, admitted that he does not think to leave office and is going to continue until December, when his contract with the entity “xeneize” should finish. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Boca Juniors, with its greatest star, Juan Román Riquelme and all its potential, was looking forward to getting in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores Cup, when it received in its stadium Defensor Sporting, from Uruguay.

The match that Defensor Sporting, of Uruguay, and Boca Juniors had to play this Thursday, for the Libertadores Cup, in Montevideo, was postponed one week by safety matters.

River Plate, in a disappointing performance, was defeated last night 4-2 by Nacional de Paraguay, in Asunción, and was eliminated in the phase of of the Libertadores de America Cup.

Boca Juniors, lost 1-0 to Deportivo Cuenca, in Ecuador, in a match corresponding to the Group 2 of the Libertadores Cup.