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Operación salvemos un puntito
The cartoon depicts players crowding a goal to make it impossibe for opponents to score. This is a comment on the absurdity of tactics designed to prevent an opponent from scoring if you realice that your team is unable to score its own goals.
Benicio Acosta: conceptos: no dar ventajas-buscar resultados
Benicio Acosta shares his coaching philosophy (which sounds pragmatic and designed to not cede any initiative to rival teams-the style en vogue during the 1960s)
César Luis Menotti: el tigre herido
Menotti, whose philosophy about playing is elegance and simply being better than your rival, is increasingly becoming a fish out of water at Racing. After a brief spell of success at Rosario Central, Menotti is seeing the game drift away from his…
Los ingleses más que la técnica del juego cuidan el meor estado atlético
A look into how the English produce world class football, helpful for seeing a foreign lens.
El público prefiere el fútbol criollo con sus grandes virtudes y sus vicios
Another helpful article on what is "fútbol criollo" and what the "other" entails. (Note: no mention of these matches in Mundo Deportivo)
Temas del momento: Los cracks afectos al foul físico y verbal
This commentary tries to discredit Estudiantes' style by stating that it cannot best the English at their own style of rugged play.
Racing-Estudiantes de La Plata: frente a frente los teams que hicieron la revolución del fútbol
Before "Menottismo" and "Bilardismo", Racing and Estudiantes exemplified 2 distinctly different approaches. One places emphasis on high scoring with many forwards and playing long balls into space-a vertical style akin to what is practiced in Europe.…
Jugaron a no dejar jugar…; En la era de la velocidad y la fuerza, está visto que el talento no ha muerto
The first article examines the goal of Estudiantes against San Lorenzo: to not lose. In this aspect, Estudiantes played its typical ultra-defensive style. The second article is more of a commentary on how fútbol has changed from talent to speed and…
Estudiantes era fuerza y ahora es gol: su fútbol moderno tiene raíz en la vieja escuela
Based on early results from the South American club championship, the article believes that Estudiantes finally balanced their solid defense with good offense…thus exhibiting an older, more traditional approach to the game.
Estudiantes: el valor del puntero
Much of the focus of the article is on the lack of creativity in a very practical, results-oriented, Estudiantes team.
Racing abre nuevos rumbos para el fútbol argentino
The paper seems exhausted by the overly defensive style of teams, and low scores, that it celebrates Racing's explosive offense as a new way forward for Argentine soccer
Adiós a los engreídos
Pizutti showed that another playing style, and model for a coach, exists to counter Herrera's bombastic persona and coaching style.
Io sono Helenio Herrera al cento por cento' - Conozca al hombre más publicitado del fútbol
Argentine-born Herrera was perhaps the most famous coach in world soccer in the early to mid-1960s. This interview seeks to unmask hthe "philosopher" of fútbol.
Teoría sobre el mundial
Journalists like Panzeri have long been enamored of Menotti's philosophy about how to play soccer. This article focuses on Huracan's coach, who will eventually become the national team coach in the 1978 World Cup, and whay he values in soccer:…
Pizzuti, mano firme para la selección
A noticeable shift in direction of the national team occurs following the events of 1969 (World Cup failure and Estudiantes). Pizzuti, former coach of Racing, embodies an attacking style of soccer that makjes use of the long ball, or as it is known…
El caso Carrizo…
More violence on the pitch, as players and coaches are expelled in the match between Boca and River River's goalie, Carrizo, troubled by the refusal of how own to let him out of the game, punches a Boca player at the end The refreree is also struck…