This article is helpful in understanding how Argentine sports writers imagined the criollo player and the values he espouses, which addresses masculinity and gender.
Very helpful to see the history between British football and Argentine fútbol. Even though the matches involved clubs teams from both countries, these matches were nonetheless "national" in tone.
Mexico earned the hosting rights to the 1955 Pan-American Games, which would include women's basketball, volleyball, and other sports. Photographs show the Argentine and U.S. men's basketball teams, which repayed the final from a the previous year…
One article tries to summarize why a fan struck the referee with an orange in the left eye, while the other article blasts fans who should be exiled to uncivilized places of the world.
The article shows some of the pomp and circumstance with the opening of the 1951 Pan American Games. An interesting side note: FA matches receive much higher billing, and more text, than the Pan American Games.
Keeping fútbol fanatics up to date, Argentine newspapers reported every step of the national team's tour of Great Britain, including its stay in London and practice facilities at Arsenal Stadium.
A fairly balanced account of the opening games of the inaugural Pan-American Games. The president and first lady are mentioned, but so too are other notable figures in sports and politics.
Various excuses are given for why Argentina lost to England in the first match between both national teams (locality, weather, historic quality of English football), but overall the sense is that trip showed Europeans the quality of Argentine fútbol.…