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Great article to see how journalists created notions of identity--national and soccer--through playing style.

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.

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.

Article dissects the idea of styles referred to as "la nuestra", "la de ellos", and other terms used to identify Argentine soccer in relation to others