Boca Juniors' recent performances in 1959 surprises sports writers, who praised the team for mixing a hard-working and serious effort with an attractive style of play.
Argentina's triumph at the 1959 South American championship raised expectations among fans and journalists that the Argentine style, defined by its "viveza criolla," was on the verge of returning to league matches. Instead, the 1959 season brought…
By praising the serious and measured approach of the national team ahead of the 1959 South American championship, Goles indirectly suggests that the problem in previous years was that players, fans, and journalists were too overconfident about the…
Brazil's World Cup triumph shattered the prevailing narratives in Argentina before 1958. Then, England was the "master" of the game and Uruguay Argentina's closest South American rival. But with England's poor performances in international football,…
Depite the concerns and fears of Argentine sports writers, they nonetheless became optimistic about Argentina's chances to make history at the World Cup in the days before the team left for Sweden.
Rossi's comments are not out of the ordinary for a professional player. But his belief that Argentina could win the World Cup - after a prolonged absence - became part of the prevailing narrative in the press echoed by sports officials, club…
The recurring theme in the lead-up to the World Cup emphasized the need for Argentina to remain faithful to its traditional approach to and style of fútbol.
Goles joins the chorus of other sports publications in lamenting the decline in the quality of fútbol in 1957, as well as the lack of new talent to replace those who have left the country.
Drawing on stereotypes, of sorts, Goles describes Soviet players as disciplined and well-trained but unimaginative and predicatble when it comes to their playing style.