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First time I think I log in since an appearance or two during Copa America. It's been hectic (newborn being 2-month-old now, new job in which after a week of having started I had to look after all the things my boss was minding because he suffered a heart attack -he's fine now, but still not working). You can imagine what it's like to work 14-16 hours one day and come home to a baby boy, a jealous 5-year-old and a desperate housewife! But it's all good anyway!
My new job is as as production coordinator at a TV show (my face is not in it, luckily!) about the Argentine equivalent of the Football League. Two shows per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays -though this week it'll be Monday and Thursday). We show the goals of 5 divisions below the top flight on Tuesdays and then we tell stories, do interviews and prepare nice pieces for Thursdays.
You can watch it from the UK (or anywhere in the world) on: streaming.deportv.gov.ar (only when it's live: usually 8 PM UK -this Monday it'll be 11:30 PM-).
I had the pleasure of giving QPR some air time! How? By doing an interview with Alejandro Faurlin in which the connection was his time playing in the lower leagues in Argentina. Good old Ale was there drinking his mate and using Skype to be interviewed by the panel.
I couldn't let you all know in advance because I simply didn't have the time!
Here's a pic I took of that moment:
He spoke about QPR and its fans and how he loves it there.
You can watch some of the content of the show (unfortunately the Ale interview hasn't been uploaded yet) on our YouTube channel:
Hope you like it!
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 17:35 - Aug 9 with 6330 views
Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 05:09 - Aug 10 by QPR_ARG
Hey! As if mate was a drug or something! Nothing to do with that.
And by the way...I hate its taste! Never liked it. But I do appreciate and respect the importance it has in my country's culture.
I'd love to like mate, mate!
I actually had a mate-related conversation with Ale in Italy: he walked past with his mate gourd, and I having recently been in Uruguay blurted out "mate!", at which he smiled nervously and backed away.
I was in Uruguay for ten days and didn't get to leave the hotel, but saw loads of football shows beamed over from Argentina, there was an interview with Zarate in which he was probably slagging us off, so good to have Ale telling it as it really is!
I touched down in Argentina, but didn't have the chance to stop. Next time I hope. Long flight though!
A magnificent football club, the love of our lives, finding a way to finally have its day in the sun.
So a kind of bad tasting red bull tea with a bit of Japanese ritual thrown in. Now I know not to stir the yerba with the bombilla and end up looking like a gringo tw@t, I feel ready to book the flights to Buenos Aries.
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 10:03 - Aug 10 with 5882 views
Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 09:46 - Aug 10 by hopphoops
I actually had a mate-related conversation with Ale in Italy: he walked past with his mate gourd, and I having recently been in Uruguay blurted out "mate!", at which he smiled nervously and backed away.
I was in Uruguay for ten days and didn't get to leave the hotel, but saw loads of football shows beamed over from Argentina, there was an interview with Zarate in which he was probably slagging us off, so good to have Ale telling it as it really is!
I touched down in Argentina, but didn't have the chance to stop. Next time I hope. Long flight though!
Dunno if that counts as a conversation mate, maybe more of an interaction!
QPR - "shit but local"
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 10:16 - Aug 10 with 5865 views
So a kind of bad tasting red bull tea with a bit of Japanese ritual thrown in. Now I know not to stir the yerba with the bombilla and end up looking like a gringo tw@t, I feel ready to book the flights to Buenos Aries.
Google "asado" and "dulce de leche". The two things (along with football), us Argies, love more than we love "mate".
THEN, you'll be ready to book your flights.
Give me a buzz when you're around!
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 16:59 - Aug 10 with 5722 views
Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 16:59 - Aug 10 by hopphoops
No, that couldn't have been me, must have been someone else, I was only half drunk but completely naked.
I know dulce de leche, I had several tubs confiscated by customs at Paris
It struck me that everything in Uruguay is basically from Argentina - tango, mate, delicious lamb chops... is that the view on your side?
We were once part of the same "country". Originally, both Argentina and Uruguay were part of the Virreinato del RÃo de la Plata (The Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata), along with these places:
Intendency¹ of Buenos Aires: cities of Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Colonia and Carmen de Patagones. Government² of Montevideo: city of Montevideo. Government of Misiones: cities of San Ignacio, Yapeyú and Candelaria. Intendency of Paraguay: city of Asunción Intendency of Córdoba: cities of Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza and San Luis Intendency of Salta: cities of Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy Government of Chiquitos Intendency of PotosÃ: cities of Potosà and Oruro. Intendency of La Paz: city of La Paz. Intendency of Cochabamba: cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Intendency of Charcas: city of Charcas (modern Sucre). Government of Moxos ¹ Intendencia in Spanish. ² Gobernación in Spanish.
Both countries broke free in the early XIX century, but plenty of links/habits, etc, remain.
There is a dispute over where tango was born (especially Carlos Gardel, the man regarded as the best tango singer of all time. Some say he was born in Argentina, some say in Uruguay and some say in France. The only undoubted thing is that he was a fan of my team in Argentina: Racing Club. And even wrote a tango song dedicated to a Racing Club player from those early years of football in Argentina).
As for mate...I don't know where that's from, but what I can tell you is that Uruguayans are more die-hard mate consumers than we are. Even for us, when we visit Uruguay, we find it amazing to see just how many of them walk on the streets with a flask under their arms and a mate on the other hand.
They say their asado is better, but I think dulce de leche is 100% Argie.
One thing is for sure, Uruguayans pay far more attention to what happens in Argentina than viceversa. They get Argie channels on their cable TV packages and they consume a lot of what happens in Argentina (they watch our football league and we don't watch theirs. Surely because in the past, before they were going directly to Europe, the hottest destination and the highest level Uruguayan footballers could reach was the Argentine league).
Imagine if we never split up!
We'd have 4 World Cup trophies, 4 Olympic Golds (to Brazil's big fat 0!) and we could be lining up Messi-Aguero-Suarez (with Cavani, Tevez, Higuain and the rest, coming on as subs).
Oh, and marijuana is not legal in Argentina. They win, I guess!
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 17:31 - Aug 10 with 5684 views
Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 17:11 - Aug 10 by QPR_ARG
We were once part of the same "country". Originally, both Argentina and Uruguay were part of the Virreinato del RÃo de la Plata (The Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata), along with these places:
Intendency¹ of Buenos Aires: cities of Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Colonia and Carmen de Patagones. Government² of Montevideo: city of Montevideo. Government of Misiones: cities of San Ignacio, Yapeyú and Candelaria. Intendency of Paraguay: city of Asunción Intendency of Córdoba: cities of Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza and San Luis Intendency of Salta: cities of Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy Government of Chiquitos Intendency of PotosÃ: cities of Potosà and Oruro. Intendency of La Paz: city of La Paz. Intendency of Cochabamba: cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Intendency of Charcas: city of Charcas (modern Sucre). Government of Moxos ¹ Intendencia in Spanish. ² Gobernación in Spanish.
Both countries broke free in the early XIX century, but plenty of links/habits, etc, remain.
There is a dispute over where tango was born (especially Carlos Gardel, the man regarded as the best tango singer of all time. Some say he was born in Argentina, some say in Uruguay and some say in France. The only undoubted thing is that he was a fan of my team in Argentina: Racing Club. And even wrote a tango song dedicated to a Racing Club player from those early years of football in Argentina).
As for mate...I don't know where that's from, but what I can tell you is that Uruguayans are more die-hard mate consumers than we are. Even for us, when we visit Uruguay, we find it amazing to see just how many of them walk on the streets with a flask under their arms and a mate on the other hand.
They say their asado is better, but I think dulce de leche is 100% Argie.
One thing is for sure, Uruguayans pay far more attention to what happens in Argentina than viceversa. They get Argie channels on their cable TV packages and they consume a lot of what happens in Argentina (they watch our football league and we don't watch theirs. Surely because in the past, before they were going directly to Europe, the hottest destination and the highest level Uruguayan footballers could reach was the Argentine league).
Imagine if we never split up!
We'd have 4 World Cup trophies, 4 Olympic Golds (to Brazil's big fat 0!) and we could be lining up Messi-Aguero-Suarez (with Cavani, Tevez, Higuain and the rest, coming on as subs).
Oh, and marijuana is not legal in Argentina. They win, I guess!
thanks for the lowdown - which do you reckon s the better football city then, London or Buenos Aires? You'd have an impressive line up of local derbies if you weren't working all the time... and how about Independiente, are they as scummy as Chelsea?
One day I'll make it for a proper visit, it would take at least a month to do the place justice.
PS legal dope, asado and dulce de leche - soon to be the happiest and fattest population in the world...
A magnificent football club, the love of our lives, finding a way to finally have its day in the sun.
Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 17:31 - Aug 10 by hopphoops
thanks for the lowdown - which do you reckon s the better football city then, London or Buenos Aires? You'd have an impressive line up of local derbies if you weren't working all the time... and how about Independiente, are they as scummy as Chelsea?
One day I'll make it for a proper visit, it would take at least a month to do the place justice.
PS legal dope, asado and dulce de leche - soon to be the happiest and fattest population in the world...
Ha! Nice of you to put Independiente and scummy in the same sentence!
They are a funny bunch. They are a big big club (no doubt!). No other club have won more Copa Libertadores. Though this was mostly because they made the most of the era in which the defending champion entered the competition in the semifinal stage. Still, not easy to do, but it's a big factor.
I think if you include the Greater Buenos Aires area (and I think you should, for this purpose), then there's no contest between Buenos Aires and London. Buenos Aires wins! I mean...London doesn't even come close to Liverpool and Manchester in terms of club honours.
Buenos Aires (Boca -6-, River -3 as from last week-, San Lorenzo -1-, Velez -1-, Argentinos Juniors -1-) has 12 continental titles.
Add the greater Buenos Aires: Independiente -7- and Racing Club -1- and you have 19 (the most in the continent).
FIFA Club World Cup (in its various formats and names) were also won by most of those clubs.
This is not the best of times for measuring attendances (no away fans allowed since a couple of years ago), but the big 5 have a huge fanbase and attendances of +50,000 are (were) very common.
In fact, I'd have to think if there is a most successful football city in the world than Buenos Aires.
Independiente? It's 13 years since the last won a title. They got relegated for the first time in history two years ago. And they are bunch not famous for being loyal. Fair weather fans and all that.
I think Chelsea fans are worse. At least Independiente have proper history and tradition.
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Hello all: Ale on Argie TV. on 22:27 - Aug 10 with 5553 views
I remember reading a good while ago about a young Falkland Islander lad that was being scouted by a few Argentine clubs. Did anything ever come of that? Can't seem to find it on internet.
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. He didn't offer me the mate, mind. 
