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Barcelona made it safely through to the group
stages of the Champions League despite losing 1-0 at
Wisla Krakow on Tuesday. The Spanish giants went into this third qualifying round second leg tie on the back of a 4-0 first leg win over the Polish champions and qualified 4-1 on aggregate. The two-time European champions were missing Lionel Messi, the Olympic gold medalist with Argentina...
The 2008 Men's Olympic Soccer Tournament will be
remembered for some classic matchs, amazing goals, and for
most American fans, for a terrible elbow and tournament that was shorter than it could have been. It should also be remembered for ...
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World Cup 2010: Argentina 1 - 1 Paraguay
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Beijing 2008 was a great Olympiad, and it
had no shortage of hot moments. Here are The
Top 5. Featuring Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Redeem Team USA and more!
Soccer Examiner explores the fate of Olympic soccer
after an entertaining tournament in China these past few
weeks.
August 23 --- MLSNet.com: Argentina achieved revenge over
Nigeria for their 1996 defeat with a narrow victory
in the Olympic final in the blazing heat of the Bird's Nest stadium. --- Lionel Messi, the 21-year-old Barcelona player whose participation in the tournament was threatened after his club won a legal battle with FIFA, proved the pivotal influence laying on a goal for Angel di Maria...
Second gold in his pocket and to end
12 years of trauma Nigerian: the argentina soccer team
today won the title at the Olympic Games in Beijing to a 1-0 defeat by Nigeria with a great performance Angel Di Maria and decisive presence of Lionel Messi. With the success before 91,000 spectators in the emblematic "of Bird Nest", the soul of the Games, Argentina...
Argentina defeated 1 - 0 Nigeria in the
Final of the Beijing Olympics 2008. Angel Di Maria
scored the single goal of the match, after receiving a beautiful pass from Lionel Messi. Nigeria did not took advantage of some danger situations they created and did not gave too many problems to the "albiceleste" national team.
Angel Di Maria's graceful floater over Nigerian goalie
Ambruse Vanzekin in the 58th minute and Argentina's defense
got the job done 1-0, and Argentina are Olympics champions for the second straight Games!
Four years after the gold in Athens, another
1-0 scoreline confirmed Argentina as Olympic football champions. In
2004, the match-winning goal had been scored by a certain Carlos Tevez; this year in Beijing, salvation came from above. “Little Angel” Di María flapped his celestial wings and delivered a fatal blow to finalists Nigeria, exploiting an inch-perfect pass by Lionel Messi.
Barcelona have won their Court of Arbitration for
Sport (Cas) appeal to keep Argentina's Lionel Messi out
of the Olympic football tournament in Beijing. Barcelona, Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 had taken their case to Cas after arguing that Fifa's ...
August 23 --- NBCOlympics.com: Angel di Maria provided
the finish to another piece of Lionel Messi magic
and Argentina won its second Men's Olympic soccer title in a row, a 1-0 victory over Nigeria on Saturday afternoon. --- This match was watched by a crowd of 89,102 at Beijing's 'Bird's Nest'. (Nigeria were the 1996 Olympic Champions, and had earlier knocked out the USA in this tournament.)
August 23 --- NBCOlympics.com: Here are the official
results; this is the second consecutive Gold for the
Argentina Men's Olympic Team, who won Saturday afternoon's Final 1-0. --- Angel Di Maria collected a through ball from Lionel Messi in the 58th minute for the victory, leaving Nigeria, champions in 1996, the Silver. --- This match was watched by a crowd of 89,102 at Beijing's 'Bird's Nest'.
The defending champion Argentina has come all the
way to the final to take on Nigeria, inspired
by Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi. If you have missed the match, catch it on MightyFootball.com website.
One more match to go in the Olympic
soccer tournament. We should all be taking the advantage
to watch Lionel Messi, one of the world’s finest players, do his thing.
Neither Lionel Messi of Argentina nor Ronaldinho of
Brazil could find net, but Argentina's Sergio "Kun" Aguero
stole the show by scoring twice and drawing a penalty to singlehandedly lead Argentina's 3-0 beatdown of Brazil.
Does the bad blood between these two soccer
superpowers ever take a break?
Sergio Aguero is the toast of Argentina as
he scored two second half goals, and an assist,
to shut out the Brazilians. Argentina played a great match with intelligence and personality. "It was Argentina's best match in the Olympics so far,"
Check out the Soccer Examiner take on Argentina
knocking out Brazil with three second half goals in
the Olympic semifinals to reach the gold-medal game, where they will play Nigeria. Lionel Messi helped set up two of the scores, and Brazil had two men sent off in the second half. Messi got the better of his duel with former Barcelona teammate Ronaldinho.
Lionel Messi The New Maradona
August 18 --- MLSNet.com: Soccer fans and media
have called him the new Maradona, but Lionel Messi
knows better. --- He likes to say that he is the first Lionel Messi and that will do fine for Argentina's Olympic soccer team, thank you.
Argentina vs Holland (1 - 1) Olympic Football
Quater-finals 2008 Argentina needed an extra time effort from
Di Maria to see them into the Semi Finals of Olympic Men’s tournament. 14′ Lionel Messi 36′ Bakkal Extra Time 105′ Di Maria
Lionel Messi (left) and Juan Román Riquelme have
helped Argentina through to the medal round with three
victories in group play.

















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