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¡Ante el hecho insólito!; Rosario-Hinchas-Árbitros
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…
Ola de fútbol
As one fan commented, after many years of a soccer "drought", Argentines were treated to a series of international soccer matches when several European teams visited Buenos Aires
Como el año pasado
In the first match of the season, Boca plays a hard-fought game against Newell's
Los Rosarinos corren el riesgo de no ver actuar más equipos porteños
Graphic images of injured fans as stadium collapsed during the match played in Rosario. The news coverage attributes the disaster to unruly fans angry at decisions made by the referee, which they refer to as behavior that is out of place at sporting…
Newell's Old Boys fans
Any women?
Domingo Tarasconi
Image of Argentine national team and Boca Juniors stalwart, Domingo Tarasconi, who represented Argentina at the 1928 Olympics. Tarascone played as a right-wing forward, or "insider derecho," for La Albiceleste and as a striker for Boca Juniors, where…
El anti-fútbol
Tactics, according to the paper, are leading to games like this one where one team bunkers down and prevents a goal-kicking the ball downfield without any sense of offense-while the other team has no clue how to break their opponent's defense. A…
Una ingrata incidencia motivó la suspensión del juego; Hubo invasión de cancha y agresión al arbitro
Fans tore the fences, invaded the field, and tried to attack the match official (supposedly due to the inflamed passions of certain female supporters from Rosario).
Cuando el agua no alcanza para lavar la vergüenza
The same as it ever was. Fan disorder leads to excessive reprisals from police officers.
Francisco Lombardi, el 'resucitado' de nuestro fútbol, es síntesis de triunfo
Yet another example of how the sports press portrayed fútbol players as model citizens and symbols of middle-class ascendancy.
Hoy se realizarán dos matches de fútbol de gran significación
Pointing to their shared roots in La Boca neighborhood, La Nación characterizes the match between River Plate and Boca Juniors as a great rivlary match (but not as the defining match of Argentine fútbol as of yet). The second match of the day,…
Al marcar San Lorenzo un gol decisivo grave tumulto en Rosario; Como se produjeron los sucesos
Local fans ('adictos') in Rosario storm the south end of the field and tear down wire fences to attack the match referee for what they deemed as suspicious calls in favor of San Lorenzo. Police threatened to use tear gas, which only increased the ire…
Apuntes al margen
Describing the incidents as "an unprecedented scandal" ("un escándolo como no se recuerda otro en una cancha de Rosario"), the writer explains how no rational exists to justify what took place in Rosario, specifically the number of women and children…
Racing recuperó en el juego y en el score al Atlético de Bilbao; San Lorenzo de Almagro sufrió su primer traspié ante Real Madrid; En una reñida lucha Newell's Old Boys perdió en La Coruña
Press and soccer fans in Argentina closely followed the performance of major club teams involved in offseason exhibition games in Spain. Of note is that the game between San Lorenzo and Real Madrid turned hostile, with a Spanish government officials…
Los futbolistas argentinos volverán a enfrentarse hoy con los españoles
Press and soccer fans in Argentina closely followed the performance of major club teams involved in offseason exhibition games in Spain. In several of these articles, newspapers took note of the attendance for these matches (50-65,000), presumably to…
En pujante reacción San Lorenzo empató con Atlético de Madrid; Sufrió en España su primer contraste el equipo de Newell's; Tras lucha equilibrada e intensa Racing fue batido por Barcelona
Press and soccer fans in Argentina closely followed the performance of major club teams involved in offseason exhibition games in Spain. Here, San Lorenzo and Atlético de Madrid faced off in front of a large crowd, while Racing loses to Barcelona.