AFA deliberates on what to do with players that left for Colombia and to prevent more from leaving. AFA president Valentín Suárez floats several ideas to discourage others from following suit, such as denying a re-entry visa to those players who…
A match between Lanus and Racing is delayed by a player feigning injury, then attacked by police, then escorted off the field, and finally the home team tying. Police (not surprisingly) launch gas canisters at unruly crowd. The accompanying article…
A tension between modern styles (predicated on defensive tactics) and traditional soccer (more offensive in approach) is emerging in Argentine soccer This is a conflict pushed by the magazine, which is influential in sports discourse
The magazine continues to build a narrative of the early season, where boring soccer has held sway This match, according to El Grafico, is one of the first examples of good soccer
Huracan fans, angry watching a losing match, found no other way to show their displeasure than to begin throwing projectiles which hit a player–laid out on the floor–that led to police intervention. The downpour of projectiles received a response…
Fans attack Cossio, a referee at a match at Newell's Old Boys, leaving him seriously injured at the hospital. A brief recap of the escalating violence at stadiums prefaces the coverage of November 8, including reports of bullets fired at a match…
After a Lanús player harshly fouls Rácing player Villalba, he returns the favor by kicking his aggressor and is promptly expelled. As Villalba leaves the field, Lanús players attack him and a trainer that accompanied him to the locker room.
The article blames the referee and police for violence inside the stadium, often using quotes around the police ("guardianes del orden") as a form of sarcasm
The summary traces a direct line between the excessive physicality of a player, the referee who sanctions these offenses, the fans who get riled up, and the player who responds by confronting fans and referee. The atmosphere becomes heated and leads…