Before they used to say "You were the champions? Sure, when football didn't even exist, but today they're looking at us in a different light," Edinson Cavani said in an interview in El Pais this month about the impact of Uruguay's World Cup campaign, which saw the country reach fourth place after decades of absence from center stage.
These are the top 10 storylines to keep an eye on in 2011 as Serie A resumes play:
If his agent and the selling club are to be believed, Palermo's Javier Pastoré is the market's most wanted commodity today, with the "pressure" from interested giants Real Madrid and Barcelona increasing in the hope to secure the young Argentinian's talents.
Traffic came to a standstill and subway service was suspended Friday in much of Buenos Aires during its second heavy downpour since Monday, the country's official news agency Telam reported.
Where have all the wonder teams gone? There was a time -- perhaps there still is that time -- when the Serie A championship was totally dominated by the three superpowers: Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus. Not only has this trio won 26 of the last 33 league titles, it has also tended (at least one has) to utterly dominate the season, home and away.
Italian paramilitary police carried out massive arrests Tuesday against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, "decapitating" the organization's leadership structure, the head of the city's carabinieri said.
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A huge police operation leads to the arrest of nearly 80 alleged mafiosi and brings an old gang war to light
Italian police capture the reputed new head of the Sicilian Mafia and his son in a major victory in the battle against organized crime
When San Lorenzo won its first Argentine title since 2001 last season, it demonstrated all the qualities of a true champion. Not only did the team play an attractive style of soccer, but it also showed the necessary temperament to defeat difficult opponents.
If there was any question who the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere is, Boca Juniors provided an empathic answer on Wednesday. Boca's stunning 5-0 aggregate victory over Gr�mio in the final of the Copa Libertadores was the most one-sided score line in the history of Latin America's ultimate club competition.
South America's most sophisticated city sure knows how to kick up its heels. But you better pace yourself: primetime is way north of midnight.
FOR THE TYPICAL EXPENSE-ACCOUNT traveler in Buenos Aires, exploring the city all too often means grabbing a bite to eat in the drab financial district. But with Argentina getting back on its feet a...
Rescuers have saved at least 23 of the 38 people on board a small plane that went down Saturday in the waters off Sicily, Italian officials said.
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