River Plate News

River Plate won 3-2 over Chacarita for the second match of the Clausura Tournament.

Leonardo Astrada's River Plate will face the former winner of the 2009 Apertura Tournament, Banfield.

Argentinean giants River Plate have made a bid for striker Ernesto Farias who is in his third season at FC Porto since leaving the club.

Argentinian club football is beset by problems, but the country's 1978 World Cup-winning captain hopes to fix them as River Plate's newly-elected president Daniel Passarella with the World Cup after Argentina's 3-1 victory over Holland in 1978.

Franco Jara and Matias Perez scored first-half goals to give Arsenal de Sarandi a 2-1 over Newell's Old Boys and deny Newell's a return to the top of the Argentine Apertura tournament Sunday.

River's Ortega netted at the 45' of the second half and tied the result with Estudiantes at the Monumental Stadium for the sixteenth match of the Apertura Tournament.

River Plate is beating Godoy Cruz 1-0 during an Apertura Tournament game at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza Province.

This was the week in which Argentina legend Ariel Ortega was slapped in the chops, Kaka's clone took the pitch for Real Madrid, Bobby Zamora scooped Soccernet 's miss of the season award, White Hart Lane sold its soul to the highest bidder and previously unseen footage of Jan Molby's legendary goal against Manchester United was finally released.

Argentinos scored during the last minutes of the second half, but River won 2-1 over Argentinos Juniors at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium for the eleventh match of the Apertura Tournament.

River Plate's striker Diego Buonanotte has dismissed speculation linking him with a move away to Italian Calcio Serie A in January, revealing his intention to achieve qualification for next year's Copa Libertadores with his current club.

During the 2009 Clausura, Boca Juniors and River Plate met at La Bombonera in El Superclasico .

A goal apiece from veteran strikers Marcelo Gallardo and Martin Palermo ensured the Argentine "Super Clasico" between River Plate and Boca Juniors finished in a 1-1 draw on Sunday.

Buenos Aires is currently gripped with Superclasico fever ahead of the biggest game of all in Argentina and River fans are dreading the fixture with their old rivals following a run of shocking recent results that make the Boca clear favourites to claim a famous win at El Monumental.

Martin Palermo and Boca Juniors travel across town to visit Gustavo Cabral and River Plate in the latest edition of the Superclasico.

Jonathan Cristaldo scored twice as title holders Velez Sarsfield heaped more misery on Huracan to remain in touch with leaders Estudiantes in the Argentine Apertura championship on Sunday.

Radamel Falcao's early goal gave defending champion Porto a 1-0 victory over a nine-man Sporting in the Portuguese league on Saturday.

River Plate's Ariel Ortega was recalled by Argentina for the first time in six years on Thursday for a friendly against Ghana next week.

Vetaran striker Ariel Ortega fired the winning goal to give River Plate a 4-3 home victory over newly-promoted Chacarita Juniors on Sunday in the second round of the Argentine Apertura tournament.

LISBON, Portugal - New striker Radamel Falcao's early goal helped four-time defending champion FC Porto beat Naval 3-1 in the Portuguese league on Saturday.

A brace by Eduardo Salvio helped Argentina's Lanus come back from a goal down to beat giants River Plate 2-1 as visitors in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Stage.