Argentina

Football
Business

The Argentine Footballers’ Union (FAA) has maintained it will press ahead with strike action this weekend over unpaid salaries, as the Argentine Football Association (AFA) threatened sanctions in a bid to ensure the domestic game returns to action.
Football
Business

Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi has signed a long-term extension to his endorsement partnership with German sportswear giant Adidas.
Events

Buenos Aires and Santiago, the capital cities of Argentina and Chile, have submitted bids to host the 2023 Pan American Games.
Basketball
Events

Argentina has revised its bid for basketball’s 2023 men’s World Cup by bringing in Uruguay as a proposed co-host for the national team showpiece.
Business

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board has agreed to add dance sport, karate and sport climbing to the programme for the 2018 summer Youth Olympic Games, which will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Football

The Argentinian football leagues have undergone numerous format changes in recent years but the country still struggles to generate commercial revenues abroad. Kevin Roberts speaks to Martin Mazur to assess the health of the game in the region.
Events

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved a revised venue masterplan for Buenos Aires’ staging of the 2018 summer Youth Olympic Games.

Rugby Union
Events

World Rugby has today (Tuesday) confirmed France, Ireland and South Africa as host candidates for its 2023 World Cup, as Argentina firmed up its proposed bid for the 2027 edition of rugby union’s showpiece national team tournament.

Rugby Union
Events

Organisers of the annual Rugby Championship, which features rugby union’s top four southern hemisphere national teams, are set to explore the possibility of staging more games in the northern hemisphere.

Football
Events

Argentinian club football is set for a major overhaul after a proposal to introduce a new Superliga competition was approved.

Football
Finance & Law

Barcelona and Argentina football star Lionel Messi has today (Wednesday) been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined €2m ($2.2m) after being found guilty of tax fraud, however the 29-year-old is unlikely to serve any jail time.

Football
Business

World football’s governing body Fifa has installed a normalisation committee at the Argentinian Football Association (AFA) to bring its administration into order and prepare it for presidential elections.

Football
Business

Argentinian Football Association (AFA) president Luis Segura has denied claims that the national team might withdraw from the forthcoming Copa América Centenario tournament in the United States amid disquiet over alleged government interference in the governing body.

Rugby Union
Events

The Argentinian government has said the country will bid for the 2027 Rugby World Cup in an effort to take the national team tournament to the Americas for the first time.

Rugby Union
Business

Sanzaar chief executive Andy Marinos has said the umbrella body for the Argentinian, Australian, New Zealand and South African rugby unions will put together a 10-year strategic plan with a view to overhauling its Super Rugby club competition.

Rugby Union
Events

London’s Twickenham stadium will host the first-ever Rugby Championship game to take place in the northern hemisphere, it has been confirmed today (Tuesday).

Motorsport
Events

The Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo circuit in Argentina will continue to host a MotoGP event for the next three years after an agreement was reached between local organisers and the motorcycling championship’s commercial rights holder, Dorna Sports.

Football
Events

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has given his tentative backing to a joint bid from Argentina and Uruguay for the 2030 World Cup, stating he is open to reversing the traditional stance of world football’s governing body in opposing co-hosting of its showpiece national team competition.