Arrived in BA at 10am & it´s absolutely freezing! Some shock to the system after Rio, it´s like being back in Europe somewhere! But happy to be here all the same especially since we sorted 3 tickets to the Argentina game, happy days!
We´re staying in the Milhouse Hostel, right slap bam in the middle of Buenos Aires on Ave de Mayo! They seem to be big fans of Admiral Brown here considering they named one of their main streets after his native county & hundreds more across Argentina!
We´re staying in the Milhouse Hostel, right slap bam in the middle of Buenos Aires on Ave de Mayo! They seem to be big fans of Admiral Brown here considering they named one of their main streets after his native county & hundreds more across Argentina!
The hostel is really nice one of the best so far, but its well known for the mighty craic! We bumped into people from the hostels in Florianpolis & Iguazu straight away, this really is the gringo trail!
We dropped our bags, had a few beers & left for the game at 1pm. The football is being played in the River Plate stadium in north BA. Its a full house today with 70,000 fans braving the wind & rain in a stadium with no roof! The guides brought us into the tourist section of the ground 3hrs before kickoff! The tourist sections are usually safer but there´s not as much atmosphere & everything costs twice the price! But lucky for us the police decided to kick us out of that section & put in Paraguay fans instead, so we got thrown in with the real home fans!
The atmosphere was tense before the game, Paraguay are sitting in the top spot at the moment followed by Argentina so today´s a real grudge match. Messi & the other starting 10 took a walk on the pitch an hour before kickoff & the crowd went wild! Messi seems to be a god here.
The talent on show today includes: Messi, Tevez, Heinze, Zanetti, Mascherano, Riquelme & Agüero for Argentina & Santa Cruz for Paraguay not too shabby!!
There was four yellows in the first 20mins. Argentina dominated play but then a counter attack from Paraguay & Heinze made a horrible error clashing with the keeper. 1-0 to Paraguay after 15mins & the keeper was in bits, nice one Heinze! Then Tevez who was putting in a man of the match performance got a harsh straight red after half an hour. Argentina now down to 10 men & the back up keeper.
Argentina made a few important changes at half time, Diaz for Henize & Agüero for Maria. Things soon changed Messi came to life & played a one two with Riquelme & set up Agüero to slot home a cracker after 60mins (1-1). Paraguay looked strong throughout but Argentina had all the chances at the end, with Coloccini missing an absolute sitter! The weather was a real let down today but the football & atmosphere were top class. These South American´s really love their football!
Big night planned tonight, we´re heading to Buenos Aires´s biggest nightclub tonight - Pascha with a gang from the hostel. We´re not leaving for the club until 1:30am & it closes sometime around breakfast!
Joe
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Ha! Bet yere sorry ye shaved off the beards - that extra bit of insulation wouldve been handy
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