¡VAMOS ARGENTINA!

I know I just wrote about Messi and Argentina the other day, but today Sport's Illustrated's Jonah Freedman realized his "World Power Rankings". Normally this is used to describe which clubs he feels are the best in the world right now. Again usually this is used for clubs, not national teams, but this week he made a special exception for Argentina because of all the great soccer news coming from this nation. Here is what he had to say:

"Alert Arge-phile Ray Hudson. Instead of clogging up the Rankings, let's just do a catch-all and take a moment to salute the Land of Maradona which, short of winning the World Cup, is spewing tons of feel-good stories all over the soccer world. Tiny Arsenal de Sarandí made it a clean Argentine sweep of major South American club tournaments, knocking off San Lorenzo, Goiás, Chivas, River Plate and Club América on its way to its first-ever Copa Sudamericana title. Equally small Lanús held on to win the Argentine Apertura, the first trophy of any kind in its 92-year history. Boca Juniors are in the final of the Club World Cup and look forward to a Libertadores title defense with Riquelme back on the roster. Barça's Messi may well be the best player on earth right now. And oh yeah, that No. 1 FIFA world ranking is nice, too."

Reading this put a smile to my face. With the exception of the Copa America loss it has been a great year for los albicelestes. ¡VAMOS ARGENTINA!

I didn't know who Ray Hudson is so I looked him up and found that he has several very funny quotes from commentating soccer matches. Some are a bit lewd and crude.