Showing posts with label Racing Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racing Club. Show all posts
Hernán Rodrigo López vs Racing, Clausura 2011
On Sunday 20 March 2011 Primera División leaders hosted reigning Argentine champions Estudiantes in the sixth round of the Clausura 2011 tournament.
Estudiantes bossed the first half but couldn't make the breakthrough and in the second half Racing Club came out fighting. The hosts created a number of great chances to score and had a brilliantly taken Teófilo Gutiérrez goal wrongly disallowed for offside.
As is often the way Estudiantes capitalised on this bad call by scoring a late winner. The goal was this excellent chip from Uruguayan forward Hernán Rodrigo López, his second wonderful goal of the week and his fourth goal in two games.
Teófilo Gutiérrez not offside vs Estudiantes, Clausura 2011
On 20 March Clausura 2011 league leaders Racing Club hosted Estudiantes de La Plata in the 6th round of the tournament. They lost the game 0-1 which allowed Estudiantes to join them on 12 points and Olimpo to leapfrog them both into first position however things could have been completely different had the linesman not incorrectly ruled this Teófilo Gutiérrez offside. Had it not been disallowed Gutiérrez would have become the leading goalscorer of the tournament with six goals and Racing could have finished the weekend as league leaders.
More controversies from fecha 6
Racing Club 4-3 Olimpo, Clausura 2011 - Partidazo
On Saturday 5 March 2011 Racing Club hosted Olimpo in the fourth round of the Clausura 2011 tournament. Both sides had the opportunity to rise to the top of the table with a win, Racing were without the creative midfield force of Gio Moreno, who looks likely to miss the rest of the season but in Teó Gutierrez they seem to have found another Colombian gem of a player.
Racing Club got off to a blistering start with three goals in the first seventeen minutes, two from Pablo Lugüercio and a brilliant team goal finished off by Lucas Licht. For the rest of the half they toyed with Olimpo, seemingly trying to walk the ball into the net or to score the perfect goal. Many experienced commentators began saying that this was the most confident Racing Club performance in years.
When Teó Gutíerrez knocked in their fourth goal within the first two minutes of the second half many people began to fear a terrible humiliation coming for the visitors from Bahía Blanca however within 11 minutes of Gutiérrez scoring the fourth Olimpo were right back in the game with two goals from Ezequiel Maggiolo and a first goal for the club from Nicolás Bianchi Arce.
Olimpo had given themselves more than half an hour to find one more goal for a famous result but Racing looked the more likely scorers with Hauche looking particularly good.
For more great games involving South American teams, check out the rest of the Partidazo series.
Hugo Barrientos vs Gio Moreno
On 13 February 2011 in the opening round of the Clausura 2011 tournament All Boys played Racing Club in an ill tempered game featuring far more silly fouls and yellow cards than entertaining passages of play. The big moment of controversy happened on 78 minutes when All Boys' midfield enforcer Hugo Barrientos and Racing's Colombian midfielder Giovanni Moreno collided near the halfway line. Moreno was stretchered off and in the aftermath Barrientos received death threats against him and his family following the announcement that Moreno could be out for up to six months.
it is hard to see how Moreno ended up so badly injured, however if the referee had maintained better control of the game and stopped the pair from bickering all the way through the match this incident probably wouldn't have happaned.
Golazo: Mariano Pavone vs Racing Club, Apertura 2004
Back in 2004 Estudiantes de La Plata were not the all conquering team we have come to know in recent years, they were a mid table side that had endured more than 20 years without a major title. The foundations of success were being built by Reinaldo "mostaza" Merlo who led the team to a respectable 4th place finish. Their star player was Mariano Pavone who lived up to his nickname of "el tanque" (the tank) with some brilliant performances. This goal against Racing Club was one of his best moments of the season.
Game of the week: 15 December 2010 Racing 0-2 Vélez
On 12 December 2010 the Apertura 2010 championship in Argentina went down to the last round of fixtures. It looked like the tournament was destined for a championship playoff after Vélez Sársfield established a 2-0 lead against Racing Club a brilliant individual goal from Juan Manuel Martínez and an exceptional free kick from Maxi Moralex, and Estudiantes were being held 0-0 by Arsenal. It took two late goals for Estudiantes' ex Vélez striker Hernán López to secure a 5th domestic championship for the La Plata side.
Not only were the two goals brilliantly taken, but the atmosphere created by the Racing Club fans was amazing.
Part of the game of the week series.
Golazo: Juan Manuel Martínez vs Racing Club, Apertura 2010
On 12 December 2010 the Apertura 2010 championship in Argentina went down to the last round of fixtures. It looked like the tournament was destined for a championship playoff after Vélez Sársfield established a 2-0 lead against Racing Club with this brilliant individual goal from Juan Manuel Martínez and an exceptional free kick from Maxi Moralex, and Estudiantes were being held 0-0 by Arsenal. It took two late goals for Estudiantes' ex Vélez striker Hernán López to secure a 5th domestic championship for the La Plata side.
Golazo: Gabriel Hauche (taco y caño) vs Gimnasia La Plata, Apertura 2010
On 3 December 2010 Gabriel Hauche scored the opening goal for Racing Club against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in the 17th round of the Apertura 2010 tournament with a brilliant back-heel nutmeg on the goalkeeper. Racing Club eventually won the game 2-0.
What's that old cliche? You're never more vulnerable than when you've just scored.
On Saturday 28 November 2010 Banfield hosted Racing Club in the 16th round of the Apertura 2010 tournament in the Argentine Primera Division. All of the goals came in a quickfire five minute spell midway through the first half. Banfield scored a brilliantly worked equaliser but then less than a minute later Claudio Bieler scored the winner after only 24 minutes of the game, a perfect example of a team forgetting the the old managerial plea, "when you've just scored try to keep calm and concentrate".
For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.
En Contra: Facundo Quiroga bicycle kick own goal for Racing Club
On 28 September 2008 River Plate defender Facundo Quiroga scored one of the truly great own goals with a bicycle kick to start the scoring in an entertaining 3-3 draw with Racing Club.
For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.
Partidazo: Nueva Chicago 4-4 Racing Club, Apertura 2001
On 11 November 2001 Nueva Chicago hosted Racing Club in the 13th round of Apertura 2001. The game was significant for both teams, Nueva Chicago were embroiled in a desperate fight to avoid relegation and Racing Club were hunting their first league championship in 35 years. The game ended 4-4 and seven weeks later Racing Club won the league championship by a single point from River Plate. Nueva Chicago avoided relegation at the end of the 2001-02 season but since then the club has been in serious decline, they currently play in the regionalised 3rd division.
For more great games involving South American teams, check out the rest of the Partidazo series.
What ever happened to? Facundo Sava
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| Facundo Sava celebrating a goal with his mask. |
Sava bagged his first goal in English football on 25 August 2002 scoring the equaliser in an unlikely last minute comeback from 2-0 down against Middlesbrough at the Riverside stadium. He got his second goal for the club in a 1-0 win against Charlton on 7 October 2002, this time he played his party piece, pulling a zorro mask from his sock to celebrate the goal. He later said that the only reason he didn't do it against Boro was that he had left his collection of 250 masks back in Argentina.
One of the highlights of his time in England was netting two goals in a 3-2 win against Liverpool to end a 6 game winless streak back in November 2002.
In 2003 big spending manager Jean Tigana parted company with Fulham, his replacement Chris Coleman decided to rebuild the team in his own style and Sava was soon loaned out to Spanish 2nd division side Celta Vigo.
Sava helped Celta win promotion to La Liga, but his loan spell was not renewed for the following season and he was loaned out to Lorca Deportiva, another Spanish 2nd division side.
Fulham and Sava finally parted company in 2006 after his contract expired, in his time with the club he scored a total of 6 league goals for Fulham in 26 games although he only started half of them. Overall he played 42 games in all competitions, but apart from his 6 league goals, he only netted one other in an FA Cup game against Birmingham on 5 January 2003.
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| Sava had a great two year spell with Racing Club after returning to Argentina. |
In the summer of 2008 he was surprisingly sold to Arsenal de Sarandí where he fared less well, only netting 3 goals in 21 appearances. The following season he joined Quilmes of the Argentine 2nd division where he endured another hard season, scoring only 4 times in 21 games.
In 2010 he returned to his first club Ferro Carril Oeste, as many Argentine players do as a closing point for their career. After 14 years away from Ferro he scored 2 goals in 6 games for his boyhood team before calling it a day in September 2010 at the age of 36.
Sava is a qualified social psychologist and is looking to use his knowledge in that area to help him become a successful manager.
Sava will be remembered by Fulham fans for his goals, but for most people and football writers he will be remembered for inventing the silly mask celebration long before Newcastle's Jonás Gutiérrez spiderman celebration.
See also
- Top 10 memorable goal celebrations - Telegraph
- Top 10 memorable goal celebrations - Mirror
- El psicologo del futbol - Article about Sava (In Spanish)
- Facundo Sava tribute video
Part of the What ever happened to? series.
Golazo: Kun Agüero Independiente vs Racing Club, Apertura 2005
To celebrate Independiente's 1-0 win in the Clásico de Avellaneda today. Here is another great moment for Independiente against their greatest rivals Racing Club courtesy of a young Sergio Agüero during an emphatic 4-0 win in 2005.
Bichi Fuertes back header
Esteban Fuertes is the all time top scorer for Colón and it is no wonder given his ability to bag goals without even trying.
For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.
What ever happened to? Carlos Marinelli
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| Marinelli celebrates a goal with his Middlesbrough team mates. |
I don't want to be hard on the man, he was a teenager in a cold and smoggy city thousands of miles away from his home in Buenos Aires and he was never going to be as good as Maradona, so the "new Maradona" tag was an unfair burden. He did have a couple of good performances for the Boro, most notably netting two goals in a 5-1 win against Derby County in November 2001.
Boro fans will know that he failed to earn himself a regular place in the first team and made the majority of his appearances as a substitute. He was eventually farmed out on loan to Italian 2nd division side Torino FC, before joining the Italian club permanently in 2003 after making 53 appearances for the Teessiders in all competitions (29 as a substitute), netting only 4 goals.
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| Marinelli during his time in American "soccer" with Kansas City Wizards. |
The most regular run of first team football of Marinelli's career was probably his time at Kansas City Wizards between 2007 and 2008 where he held down a first team place making 41 appearances. he eventually left the club after a bust up with manager Curt Onalfo. He is remembered by Wizards fans as an unmotivated and infuriating player who wasted his potential.
Marinelli left the US to join one of the best names in world football, fallen Colombian giants Millonarios, (who were one of the best clubs in the world in the 1950s). He never settled there and was soon offloaded, he then showed up back in Argentina playing for 2nd division side Aldosivi in 2010, but was released by the club at the end of the 2009-10 season.
In September 2010 he joined Győri ETO of the Hungarian first division but again his stay there was a short one and in 2011 he turned up at Peruvian champions Universidad San Martín where he put in a brilliant substitute performance in a 2-0 win against San Luis in the 2011 Copa Libertadores.
It doesn't matter how many lies are added to Wikipedia to make him look a better player by his agent or greatest fan, he never lived up to the promise he showed as a teenager, he never scored enough goals, he has been criticised for ineffectual performances and lack of discipline on the field and for his poor attitude off it.
To give him some credit he has kept on playing and his career as an international journeyman footballer has given him a much wider experience in life than most of his armchair critics back in England. He has lived and played professional football in Argentina, England, Italy, Portugal, United States, Colombia and Hungary after all.
Part of the What ever happened to? series.
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