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Scene from "Con los mismos colores"
Featuring Mario Boyé, Norberto "Tucho" Méndez (both of whom are featured in this image), and Alfredo Di Stéfano, Con los mismos colores (1948) elevated fútbol players from secondary characters to the fore.
Various images of Argentine soldiers during the Malvinas War (1982)
Images of Argentine soldiers during the Malvinas (Falklands) War in 1982; two images of Argentine POWs under British control at Port Stanley; Argentine soldiers manning an anti-aircraft cannon. [Image 1, image 2, image 3, and image 4 accessible at…
Image of a badge
Badge for players who participate in the Eva Perón youth tournaments
Soldados argentinos en las Malvinas, 1982
Images of Argentine soldiers during the Malvinas (Falklands) War in 1982, including POWs captured and detained at Port Stanley (photographs from Ken Griffiths). [Image accessible at Wikimedia Commons]
Scene from "El hijo del crack"
This 1953 features Armando Bo as a down-on-his-luck fútbol player struggling to survive, make sense of his life, and raise his only son.
Scene from "El hijo del crack"
This 1953 features Armando Bo as a down-on-his-luck fútbol player struggling to survive, make sense of his life, and raise his only son.
Scene from "El cañonero de Giles"
Comedic actor Luis Sandrini sits a card table with others in the film El cañonero de Giles.
Scene from "El hincha"
Enrique Santos Discépolo was a famed tango composer who crafted a screenplay that shared his other passion in life: fútbol. The film is heavy on social commentary that was populist in nature, and also centered on what Discépolo saw as the essence of…
Scene from "El hincha"
Enrique Santos Discépolo was a famed tango composer who crafted a screenplay that shared his other passion in life: fútbol. The film is heavy on social commentary that was populist in nature, and also centered on what Discépolo saw as the essence of…
Poster for the film "Escuela de Campeones"
Escuela de campeones helped immortalize Alexander Watson Hutton as the "father" of fútbol in Argentina, making him criollo by virtue of his commitement to Argentina and its people.
Scene from "Escuela de Campeones"
This scene shows how education and schooling became important vehicles for the dissimination of football. Here, Scotsman Alexander Watson Hutton teaches his young "criollo" pupils a lesson about sports and life in general.
Scene from "El centroforward murió al amanecer"
The main character, played by Luis Medina Castro, tries to escape the clutches of the mysterious Mr. Lupus.
El dueño de la pelota
Sculpture of a "pibe" holding a soccer ball - emblematic of the young men who played hours on end in the streets of empty lots of many cities across Argentina.
The Dribbling Game
A football match from the 1890s depicted by illustrator Stanley Berkeley for the book Athletics and Football by Montague Sherman.
The Association Game
A football match from the 1890s depicted by illustrator Stanley Berkeley for the book Athletics and Football by Montague Sherman.
Se inició en River Plate el campeonato de fútbol infantil 'Evita'. La sra. María Eva Duarte de Perón saluda a uno de los integrantes de uno de los equipos que tomarán parte en el certamen.
Evita salutes youth athletes (soccer players) at the opening ceremony