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Argentina's poor performance against Uruguay, in a game marked by violent behavior by players on both sides, raises alarms in the Argentine press. This is the second such match in less than two months.

Sanfilippo's behavior on San Lorenzo's tour to Europe became a problem for AFA. With the lack of star strikers in the country, it forced sports officials (with suport from journalists) to bury his indiscretions ahead of the World Cup. Nonetheless,…

FIFA will treat the South American case, especially its decision to exclude Argentina from the 1970 World Cup in Mexico

Foreign reactions were commonly reprinted in Argentine newspapers. Here, a Swiss paper describes Argentinian players as the best in the world but, if they had only a minimum of discipline and dignity, they would be champions of the world. Instead,…

This article uses the 1917 South American championship as a way of highlighting the sportsmanship of its partiipants, the spirit of good will - even in defeat, and the benefits of international play.

Record of penalties for players and clubs in 1945, and for the previous ten years-very useful.

An example of how the federal government, via its interventor, penalized players for improper conduct

Helpful data for tracing the degree of violence in fútbol