The Enganche is born!

The definite place to find out all you wanted to know about Argentine football but was never available in English. 

News, debate, interviews, the local league, the national team and the most informative and entertaining podcast show you will find. 

Everything from Diego, clásicos, choripan, wunderkids, scandals of all description… If its Argentine and to do with football, its on The Enganche.

The Enganche [en-gahn’-chay]

Noun

1. Hook

2. Bounty money

3. Connection

4. Down payment (Mexico)

5. Playmaker (Argentina)

Meet The Enganche team:

Joel Richards: 

Joel Richards is an English freelance sports journalist and producer based in Buenos Aires. After three years at Real Madrid TV, he moved to Argentina and has written and worked for Diario AS (Spain), The Guardian, FourFourTwo, When Saturday Comes, BBC and FIFA.

Sam Kelly: 

Sam Kelly first travelled to Argentina in 2003, and was introduced to the country and its football by a River Plate fan. He's been writing about it since he debuted on UK-based amateur football site Voice Of Football (now defunct) in October 2006. He's contributed to various blogs and websites including Pitch Invasion and Extra Football. In print, he's written for British magazine When Saturday Comes, and back on the internet, since September 2008 he's been the South America correspondent for ESPN Soccernet. Sam also runs Argentine football blog Hasta El Gol Siempre, and when he's not watching or writing about the game, likes dancing salsa, travelling and taking photographs. Anyone willing to send him football scarves or pennants from around the world is especially welcome to get in touch.

A sports journalist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977, Sebastián García has worked for Clarín newspaper, ESPN Latin America and most recently he started working in sporting events such as the Olympics in Beijing, the Winter Olympics in Torino and the Asian Games in Doha 2006, the Rugby World Cup and the Rio de Janeiro PanAm Games 2007. He writes his own blog dedicated to Argentina (Mundo Albiceleste) and collaborates with magazines such as FourFourTwo and Placar. He has been watching the Argentine Top Flight for almost three decades now and has been to almost every ground. He currently works as a producer for Racing TV, a show about Racing Club de Avellaneda.

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