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Inter Take The Libertadores. 19 Aug 2010 | 06:05 pm
With the Beira-Rio in all it’s glory, bathed in 50,000 + red shirts and lit with red flares, the drama started early. Really early. During the national anthems, in fact. The Brazilian band hired to p...
Inter Look To Lift The Trophy on Their Ground. 19 Aug 2010 | 06:19 am
So this is it. The BIG match. The one we’ve been waiting for since the end of January when the first stage matches began for this edition of the Copa Libertadores. But it feels like we’ve been here b...
Chivas With The Uphill Battle In Porto Alegre. 14 Aug 2010 | 07:34 am
Chivas suffered early on. Inter caught the home side on their back foot, found more space and were able to spend the first ten minutes in Chivas’ half. They even had a shot by Kleber go wide. But Chi...
Chivas Host Inter In The First Leg Of The Final. 11 Aug 2010 | 09:12 am
One of Mexico’s most popular clubs, Chivas de Guadalajara, is hosting, arguably, their most important international final match in the history of their club tonight. Club Sport Internacional come to t...
Inter Lose At The Morumbi But Get To The Final. 7 Aug 2010 | 04:46 am
Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is the way a semifinal of a major competition should be played. In front of almost 60,000 screaming fans, vuvuzelas blowing (That’s right U de Chile!), flares filling the st...
Inter Travel to São Paulo With One Foot in the Final. 6 Aug 2010 | 10:36 am
I’m looking forward to this match. While I may not be able to watch it live, I am recording it in case work rears it’s ugly head in the next few hours. Last week, in Porto Alegre, Inter was dominant....
Chivas With The Beat Down. 5 Aug 2010 | 08:54 am
Well, the men have definitely separated from the boys in the first semifinal of the Copa Libertadores. Unfortunately for us South American purists, Chivas showed how men play this game and have placed...
U de Chile Look To Close Out Chivas At Home. 4 Aug 2010 | 09:47 am
Ok, this is where we separate the men from the boys or like Alex Ferguson once said, “this is squeaky bum time.” Tonight, two of the four best teams in South America, and North America for that matter...
Inter Go All Out, But Only Get One Goal. 29 Jul 2010 | 08:04 pm
First off, hats of to those 40,000+ Inter fans who showed up and gave their side a proper show of support tonight. I was very impressed with their passion and chants throughout the match. And to São P...
Inter Host São Paulo in an ALL Brazilian Semi-Final. 29 Jul 2010 | 11:24 am
In Semi-final 2 taking place tonight we have an all Brazilian affair which guarantees that a Brazilian team will be in the final. The first leg of this tie will take place in Porto Alegre at the Estad...