Argentinos Juniors are one of the biggest sensations in Argentine football in 2025. El Bicho, a cradle of talents like Fernando Redondo, Juan Román Riquelme, or the legendary Diego Armando Maradona, have established themselves as a contender for the Torneo Clausura. Positioned third in the Annual Table, the last direct...
A bullfighter keeps waiting for his arrival in Europe, while he continues making merits in the Middle East. Ezequiel ‘Equi’ Fernández is one of the most impactful Argentinian players to have emerged in recent times. Making it to Boca Juniors first team at the same time as Valentín Barco, both Xeneize...
CA Vélez Sarsfield is one of the biggest names in Argentine football. The club has won 10 national championships and multiple other titles. In 1994, they even won the Copa Libertadores and went on to become Club World Champion that year. After a bit of drought to start the early...
CA Vélez Sarsfield is one of the biggest names in Argentine football. The club has won 10 national championships and multiple other titles. In 1994, they even won the Copa Libertadores and went on to become Club World Champion that year. After a bit of drought to start the early...
CA Vélez Sarsfield is one of the biggest names in Argentine football. The club has won 10 national championships and multiple other titles. In 1994, they even won the Copa Libertadores and went on to become Club World Champion that year. After a bit of drought to start the early...
Argentina’s Primera División is heading into the latter stages of the second phase of the 2024 campaign, with just five points separating first and sixth. Joint-league leaders CA Huracán boast the division’s best defensive record in the second phase, letting in just four goals in 12 games — they are...
The Copa de la Liga Profesional is in full flow in Argentina and Club Atlético Barracas Central have surprised many with their fantastic start. Last season, Los Camioneros finished 13th out of 14 teams with just 10 goals scored and 14 points from 14 matches. However, this season, driven by youth...
If there is one club that is the envy of English football at present, then it's Brighton. Not only do the Seagulls have a young, inventive manager and a team playing attractive football, but their player recruitment drive is raking in hefty transfer fees. One of the summer's transfer sagas...
Upon the recent appointment of Julien Stéphan for his second stint as Rennes boss, the club’s technical director Florian Maurice, whose project with the Brittany-based side we recently analysed in detail here at Total Football Analysis, openly admitted to RMC Sport that a Rennes return for Stéphan was not his...
Talleres Córdoba occupied second place in the first phase of the Argentine Primera División, scoring 42 goals as the second strongest attacking line after River Plate, who scored 50 goals. After playing five matches in the second phase, they scored the most goals from corner kicks over the Argentinian league...
Boca Juniors are known for being a talent factory and for involving their top talents in the first teams' squad over the years, including some big names like Carlos Tévez, Éver Banega and Fernando Gago. Struggling financially, the "Xeneizes" were pushed to look into their youth teams, and lacking options...
South America has produced some phenomenal and out-of-this-world talents who, over the years, went to the Portuguese league, like Ángel Di María and James Rodríguez or, more recently, Enzo Fernández and Luiz Díaz. Besides their exceptional technical quality, these South Americans also brought their aggressiveness and passion to the European...
Over the years, the format of Argentina's top-flight football has experienced numerous changes, with those in charge constantly trying to switch things up in a bid to boost the reputation and financial benefits of the Primera División. While the division itself has lacked consistency in that sense, there has been...
In his fourth season as a loaned player by Boca Juniors, the 24-year-old Italian-Argentine Mateo Retegui is finally getting the credit and status he deserves, especially by clubs in the Serie A, like AC Milan, Inter and Fiorentina who intend to sign him in a summer move. In fact, such...
In this episode of the TFA Scouted podcast, host Adam Scully is joined by co-host Bryant Marques as the duo discuss a young Argentine midfielder who could be the heir to Sergio Busquets’ throne at Barcelona. In this verbal scout report, Adam and Bryant analyse Federico Redondo’s strengths, weaknesses, style...
Pep Guardiola has finally lifted the UEFA Champions League, 12 years after his last triumph against Manchester United in Wembley back in 2011. While City were the greatest evolution of Pep’s tactics, his Barcelona side at the beginning of the previous decade were revolutionary and are often deemed to be...
At nearly the halfway point of the 2023 Argentine Primera División season, San Lorenzo find themselves in second, just six points behind the league leaders River Plate, managed by the former Man City and Bayern Munich defender Martín Demichelis, who have accrued 41 points after the first 18 games. The...
Gabriel Heinze’s managerial career has been in progress for almost a decade now. In that time, his ideas and application to the coaching side of the game have been spoken of in high regard. However, his teams are yet to really live up to the hype that always seems to...
Some things come full circle in life. Having started out as a youth player in the River Plate academy in the early ‘90s as an upcoming prospect, Martín Demichelis is back at Rio del la Plata as a bright, young coach, attempting to lead the Argentine giants in a new...
Julio Vaccari’s path to becoming Defensa y Justicia’s manager is a unique one. The 42-year-old began his career working for none other than Marcelo Bielsa. As a video analyst, helping Bielsa’s famously extensive and detailed methodology, Vaccari first joined the former Premier League manager at La Liga’s Athletic Bilbao. He...
