Our continent will bounce back but hopefully not with san lorenzo... This team is made up of players of 2nd division or below quality for the most part... Buffarini (Talleres and Ferro), Cauteruccio (Quilmes), Ortigoza (Argentinos Juniors), Mercier (Flandria, Tristan Suarez, Platense), Torrico (godoy cruz), Matos (all boys, deportivo armenio) Its by far the worst team to ever lift the trophy, and nacional would be playing in the Nacional B or probably the B Metropolitano or Argentina A (3rd divisions of Argentine football) a truly woeful team not even capable of threatening
I agree for the most part (think Mercier and Romagnoli are great players). But most of Argentina´s A players are subpar nowadays unfortunately.
Mercier is very good, he is a late bloomer, but when i think of the team our club had the last time we won the Libertadores... Burgos, Hernan Diaz, Celso Ayala, Berizzo, Sorin; Almeyda, Astrada, Berti, Ortega, Gallardo, Cedres, Francescoli, Crespo, Amato... Then came Solari, Salas, Angel, Aimar, Saviola... All of these guys played 1 world cup minimum from different countries too, and there isn't one world cup player on san lorenzo and probably no one who will ever play a world cup... And even now, they aren't close to being the best team in argentina. Sure they won the Inicial 2013, but they have been very poor since then... Hopefully Diego Milito and racing will bring them back to earth with a beat down this weekend
Sure, and lets not remember 86`s team unless we want to cry. Unthinkable today to have such players in a local team.
My family is pretty mixed too The only Bosteros are me and my father His brother and sister are gallinas My dads Uncle and his family are all Diablos My mom is a gallina along with her father And I think I have a distant 2nd cousin from Rosario that likes Newells Go figure
Now that Bauza is going to coach Paraguay, I wonder if he's gonna be coaching San Lorenzo for the CWC.
I will agree with Cruzeiro had more quality than this CASLA side, but when the ball is rolling, it’s a unique game every time and CASLA won fair and square. No cheating, no catimba, nothing. They minded their business, played soccer, and were humble. They knew theirs is a limited team; if you watch them play, their greatest strength is that theirs is a very organized side. Against Grêmio, CASLA had 1 or 2 shots on goal in 180 minutes? Grêmio then, IMO, wasn’t inferior, but CASLA did their part. This is why they are going to the Club World Cup. The World Cup, the Champions’ League, Copa América, every tournament… there are teams better than others, but once the match starts, it’s get the job done or go home. This wasn’t the first time a “lesser” team took the trophy. But as much as I may want to dislike CASLA because it’s an Argentine team (the rivalry between Brazil & Argentina), I just can’t. I didn’t watch the second half, but as far as I know, this team didn’t provoke opponents the way some Boca players provoked Emerson in 2012, and no CASLA player stole journalists’ gear as Santiago Silva took a cameraman’s camera. Finally, an argument can be made, as RiverGaucho said, that this is “by far the worst team to ever lift the trophy.” If Nacional had won, I’d agree strongly. And he also said his country’s soccer has died given the modesty of CASLA’s quality. Well, perhaps with the exceptions of CARP now, and Newell’s & Vélez (based on what I saw on their play earlier in this Libertadores), CASLA’s league needs to get better. I’m not knocking on CASLA; they won it fairly. But they were recently champions of their country without once defeating the next top-ranked teams. A strange way to be a champion. In Brazil, the champion of the league almost always defeats the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ranked teams.
True. As a matter of fact it looks like Argentine football in general is becoming better in the realm of sportsmanship and fair play. Their national team in the recent World Cup was one of the cleanest Argentine teams I've ever seen.