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Lope$’ strategy
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It’s looking more and more like Lope$ will fight a delaying battle. By having the junta disallow three hundred or so signatures because they weren’t paid up to the minute since 2004, and not just the last three months like the judge said, Lope$ is sending the message that he is desperate and willing [...]
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Pay the Players, Please
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In what is a recurring theme for Newell’s, the players held a closed door meeting concerning back wages. After practice, a couple of them headed off to see the head dictator at his office and see what was up.
Category: Team NewsSomething I Missed on Monday
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Just to add a little fuel to the fire, on Monday the administrative staff of Newell’s went on strike to protest because they haven’t been paid in FIVE, as in one, two, three, four, five, months. Yet another reason that Lope$ needs to go. And if he gets voted out, I doubt they [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Rat Bastard Strikes Again
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Despite a ruling by the Sante Fe Justice Department, the Newell’s Old Boys Election Board decided to throw out 300 signatures from the MoLe list, leaving them with only 975 valid ones, short of the minimum to become candidates.
Category: Team NewsSomething Interesting
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Well, we aren’t fighting for the title, but there are still continental competitions to jockey for and there is this little tidbit. La Lepra currently have only 3 losses on the season, which is fewer than any other team. So 7 wins and 7 draws sees us done for the title, but it [...]
Category: Team NewsNewell’s 1 - 0 Velez
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Well, it was a game full of effort, but not much finishing. But I’ll take a win any day. With the three points, La Lepra leapfrog Velez in the standings and now sit fifth. Video of the goal after the jump.
Category: Team NewsThe Man Who Would Be King, Part II
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Guillermo Lorente is heading the list of candidates to take over the direction of Newell’s Old Boys in the December 14th election. Who is Guillermo Lorente, you might ask? I know I did. Well, to the best of my ability, not ever having met him and knowing nothing about him, here is [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Man Who Would Be King (or at least president) Part I
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As November gives way to December, the longgggg awaited elections at Independence Park seem possibly to finally be on the verge of happening.
Before I try and take a look at Guillermo Lorente, who is the opposition candidate for president of Newell’s, let’s take a quick look at how we got here, staring waaaay back in [...]
Category: Team NewsI Forgot One Thing
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Seems like Gamboa isn’t happy with the physical conditioning of the team. He went even so far as to blame the regimen of the previous coaching staff as the reason. You can imagine what previous coach Ricardo Caruso Lombardi had to say to that. Roughly translated, he said Gamboa is full of [...]
Category: Team NewsNewell’s out of Championship Race
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With last Friday’s draw with Arsenal, Newell’s is officially out of the championship hunt, seven points back with three to go. Now it is a fight to finish as high as possible in the table, increase the promedio, and get into next years Sudamericana.
And honestly, I don’t feel too bad about it. This [...]
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