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The games that never stop
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While the world stands in awe to praise F.C. Barcelona and their wonderful football, the Colombian game keeps on going and even I have a hard time trying to keep up with it. I had to go on a forced hiatus right before I was going to post a review of weekend’s games and guess [...]
Category: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano NewsGroup B Preview: The cold weather is not in their hearts
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Group B features the 3 teams in this group stage that are from cold weather cities: Equidad (Bogotá), Once Caldas (Manizales) and Chicó (Tunja). The other one is Tolima from the very hot Ibagué. But whatever the weather is, i’m sure all this players will try to give their most in order to win.Â
Deportes Tolima [...]
Category: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano NewsMatchday Preview Group A: Let football do the talking
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This is it, folks. The Colombian Apertura tournament heads for the finals. Teams in group A will meet today with the dire necessity of starting this group stage on the right track. Group B will kick off tomorrow.Â
Junior- Deportivo Cali (6:20 pm Colombian time)
The sharks will look to start the party early with a victory [...]
Category: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano NewsWho is Ramon Cabrero?
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It’s really cool to find out that Atletico Nacional’s new coach is actually a spaniard. A spaniard who, nonetheless, has been living in Argentina since he was four. But I find this cool because it breaks off a cycle where every time teams would say “we will get a foreign coach this year” they would [...]
Category: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano NewsGroup B Preview: Sugar, Spice and Everything…Sharks!
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Group B seems to be set for a showdown of epic proportions between the Sugar Greens of Deportivo Cali and the Sharks of Junior. Nevertheless, the other two teams can’t be overlooked. One of them is the Warriors of Cucuta Deportivo, known internationally for beating Boca at home in 2006 but faltering tremendously at La [...]
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Tags: bogotá, Cali, Colombia, Envigado, Equidad, Fútbol Profesional Colombiano News, finals, FPC, Junior, Medellin, NacionalGroup A Preview: Hopes and Dreams
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Colombian football’s semi-final group stages begin this weekend amid the current trend of domination by the small teams that I was refering to in my last post (offside-only). Group A features four traditionally small sides that have made it this far thanks to their high workrate, collective spirit and great tenacity. Boyacá Chicó, [...]
Category: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano NewsThe Forgotten Four
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Hello again. I know it’s been a while. I’m really thankful with The Offside for waiting for me through all my ons and offs. I have a little more free time know. I promise I’ll try to keep my blog more up-to-date now.
As for the current state of Colombian football, I think the situation [...]
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