Summary: Anto is joined by Argentina football correspondent and producer Joel Richards from Buenos Aires to discuss a number of highly publicized issues surrounding the game in Argentina at the moment. It starts nowhere else but the opening night fallout for Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores during a return flight from Venezuela where an eruption between manager and some players came to a head and were ultimately cooled down for at least a bit longer. Then we move to a rather scary story at San Lorenzo where a youth team player was attacked in almost shocking parallel to the situations that seemed to plague River Plate during its fight to stay out of the relegation zone, where local supporter groups have begun to exert their political and economic self interest with dire consequences. We also get into the matter of the political issues over renaming the Argentina competition after a sunken battleship during the Malvinas - or Falkland Islands - conflict nearly 30 years ago with a bit more historical perspective to illustrate just how unusual attempts have been to block this name change. Then we turn our attention to the matter of River Plate and its newest arrivals, particularly in the legendary figure David Trezeguet, who has arrived to help the club regain first division football along with the likes of Fernando Cavenaghi and Chori Dominguez. Then we close on the matter of Carlos Tevez and how it has been viewed with a slightly different prism and the introduction of Erik Lamela into the National Team which completes his meteoric rise from relegation at River Plate to the cusp of football super stardom in the near future with AS Roma and Argentina as an international break is right around the corner.
