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Fútbol del Interior (del país)
Ahead of the 1978 World Cup, AFA proclaims amnesty for leagues that splintered from the naiton's governing body during labor disputes in the early 1970s.
Cantidad de ligas y clubes afiliados en cada provincia o territorio
Because many scholars considered the 1940s as the golden age of Argentinean soccer, this chart illuminates the popularity of the sport across the country. 477 clubs in Buenos Aires, 146 soccer leagues across the country.
Cantidad de ligas y clubes afiliados
This chart illuminates the popularity of the sport across the country. 523 clubs in Buenos Aires, 154 soccer leagues across the country.
Cantidad de ligas y clubes afiliados
Useful for charting the growth or decline of fútbol over the years
Cantidad de ligas y clubes afiliados
Useful for charting the growth or decline of fútbol over the years
Jugarían en ciudades del interior los equipos que quedan libres
The short article is only interesting because it characterizes porteño teams as being in debt with the fans of the provinces, and the provincial teams as more emblematic of a "humble, heroic, and progressive" nation.
Boca tendrá socios y filiales en todo el país
This is of interesting note, since it provides a date for when major club teams began to look towards the interior for more club members
Niños y jóvenes mostraron la hermosa realidad de la Nueva Argentina
CADCOA organizes an Olympic tournament for children of Argentina as part of Perón's outreach and propaganda.
Se quejan los afcionados del interior: "Buenos Aires se lo lleva todo"
Finding the irony of Argentine clubs complaining that their best talent gets pilfered by European clubs, when teams from Buenos Aires do the same to provincial teams, this article explores the tensions between the capital and the rest of the country…
Santos Ursino
Santos Ursino was a notable soccer player from the province who played for comercial and caught the attention of Ernesto Lazzatti, a reknowned sports journalist
Partidos de noventa minutos
The article praises the sportsmanship, morality, and heart of provincial teams and concludes that teams in the professional leagues could learn much from the provinces
El fútbol provinciano tiene su propio gobierno propio
Article 7 of a new statute approved on the 6th of May means that 2,500 teams, in 200 different leagues, have more autonomy The AFA, not the league of 16 Buenos Aires teams, is now in control (but the AFA is still from the capital…so is this a big…
Tucuman-Mendoza: síntomas de un mismo mal
Raul Colombo (head of AFA) witnessed the championship match and saw first hand the lack of quality soccer and the excess of elbows, shoving, and other physical play
Scene from "El cañonero de Giles"
Comedic actor Luis Sandrini sits a card table with others in the film El cañonero de Giles.
El fútbol criollo sufrió este año; la manía de los estilos importados
Several reasons appear as to why the quality of soccer dimished greatly, according to the magazine, in 1957: the import of players from the interior and overseas who are unaccustomed to how soccer is played in Bs As, the failure to develop strong…
XXI: Proyecto de declaración
What is interesting about this petition is that legislators attempted to use the power of government, and intervention in AFA, to include provincial cities like Córdoba, Tucumán, Mendoza, La Plata, and Rosario in the 1959 Copa Sudamericana.