Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

What are the best football (Soccer) museum in Buenos Aires?

Boca Juniors, River Plate Argentinos Juniors are pioneering institutions in the assembly of museums to remember their own history. Here's a guide to avoid missing the main corners of each of these collections where football history lives on.

Boca Juniors Museum


It is one of the most sophisticated internationally for its technological equipment. Movies at 360 º surround sound and image, 72 monitors that project images of the main events of Argentina and the world in the twentieth century, touch screens that allow you to revive the famous  goals and original stories and computer databases.

In addition to the tour is possible to know the neighborhood's history and evolution of the shirt and access to information about the championships and objects that belonged to the players.

Brandsen 805, Capital Federal. T. 4362-1100. Every day from 10 to 18. (When game time is changed according to the time of the meeting). Those who wish may make the Stadium Tour, which includes a visit to the premises of the court (field, locker rooms, warm sector, stalls, tunnel) with a guide. Every day, between 11 and 17, there is a tour every 60 minutes. See if it rains.

Boca Museum Site 

River Plate Museum


It offers:

• The club's history narrated by idols and video projected on a 360 ° screen.
• A "time tunnel" which combines audiovisual and lighting and sound effects that transport the visitor through the various decades of the millionaire club history.
• Exhibition of the most important laurels reaped by the institution.
• The Machine: homage to the famous front of the club by a facility in which a locomotive-real-demolished a wall.
• History of the River jersey today.
• A review of the major celebrities who put the blue and white.
• Goals unforgettable. The 100 most celebrated and decisive. Original sound and visual experience.
• A giant model of the stadium to discover the depths of the Monumental and the various social, cultural and institutional features.
• Screening of a film uninterrupted homage to the great stars of the club.
Av Figueroa Alcorta 7597, Buenos Aires. T: 4789-1156 | 4515-0651/0652/0653. General admission: $ 45 / Resident: $ 35 / members, retirees and younger: $ 22. There are combos that include a visit to the stadium. Every day from 10 to 19. Stadium Tour: daily, hourly, from 11 until 17. See if it rains.

River Plate Site 


Argentinos Juniors Museum

The museum was inaugurated on November 25, 2009. The permanent collection consists of t-shirts, photos, banners, cards and souvenirs of the institution. One feature of the museum is that the material was donated by the institution's own fans (hence the collection is alive and varies according to the input). The history of the institution is told through videos.

It also offers a tour of the stadium which includes visits to the central hall, press room, dressing rooms and the playing field (even on game days).

Juan Agustín García and Boyacá, Capital Federal. Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 17, Saturdays from 10 to 13 and local match days.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Claudio Gentile: "Maradona is a lier"

Diego Maradona is a charlatan and I want nothing to do with it, "said today the former Italian defender Claudio Gentile, responding to allegations against him pronounced by the head coach of the Argentina.

"It knows how to lose and what he said does not correspond at all with reality," added the former coach of the selection "azzurra" Sub-21 in response to criticism from Maradona, who used it as an example to explain the faults that receives Lionel Messi.

"Every time he touches the ball Messi will go to the legs. It is scandalous. What?, Go back to the era of Gentile?" Asked Maradona, on the Italian bookmark it mistreated during his first World Cup in Spain 82 .

It was the point against referees at the World Cup and annoyed by a consultation on the wrong goal for Argentina sanctioned in the 3-1 victory over Mexico in the second round of the tournament.

"Before making some comments, (Maradona) should remember that in my career was never expelled," Gentile completed.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Buonanotte had a serious accident and is hospitalized with multiple injuries

The car was misled this morning on route 65, near Arribeños, and struck a tree. His three friends died instantly. They were returning from a disco dance in the area. The footballer was referred to a clinic in Venado Tuerto with fractures of the humerus and clavicle, and a pulmonary contusion.



Diego Buonanotte starred in a serious accident that killed three young men who accompanied him. The incident occurred this morning about 6:45, when the footballer and his friends were returning from a disco in the town of Arribeños. Apparently, the Dwarf lost control of the Peugeot 307 from his father, went off the road 65, about 15 km of Clementina, Santa Fe, and crashed into a tree. The impact was fatal. And as reported eldiarioteodelina.blogspot.com, Gerardo Suñé, Alexis Emanuel Melo Fulcheri and died soon after, with the wheel, the only survivor, derived the Sanatorium San Martin de Venado Tuerto.

The first official data provided Diego's Rove, Fire Chief of Clementina, who confirmed to Clarín.com there was only one car involved in the accident. And he told also that Buonanotte few friends in another vehicle coming up quickly to try to help and found the tragic scene. It also clarified that the Dwarf "was aware" but anyway that was referred to as Eye Deer had multiple wounds.

While initial reports said that the health status of the player for River was serious, since the Sanatorium San Martin de Venado Tuerto provided some comfort to the query Clarín.com and told that "came with multiple injuries, but he was lucid .

Minutes later, Eduardo Allegrini, director of the medical center, cleared doubts in a note explaining that Buonanotte TN "has fractured right humerus, right clavicle and a bruised right lung. He clarified that while "is out of danger," said she remains in intensive therapist "under observation".

Allegrini said no Buonanotte spoke about what had happened and, for that reason can not determine whether the Dwarf is aware that his other three friends died. The only testimony reflecting those of the player told Guillermo Fernandez, a volunteer firefighter in the town of Arribeños who said: "Diego told us he lost control of the car."