As we reach the quarter finals and this blog is about to come into its own or meet its end. If both Germany and Portugal roll over, these pages will begin to come into their own.

But until then, the volume of traffic is steadily rising, with thanks to the wordpress tags, La Nacion’s football blogs, and a couple of links.

For the reactions of others in Argentina to the world cup, by the way, here’s a bunch of blogs in English.

The ’soccerball’ tag got added to this blog under the mistaken assumption it was an Americanism for football, much like basketball, baseball but more cute. A bit of thought revealed it actually refers to the ball itself, but to make it up to all those who visited specially, (and because there’ve been no pictures for a while) here’s a soccerball, signed by Messi, no less:

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