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Hinchas love their players…too much

Ardizzone sees the 3-0 victory by Italy over Argentina as a just score for a team lacking direction

EL Grafico, enchanted by Menotti's intellect and romantic approach to football, covers his transfer to Racing and his ideas on soccer in an in-depth interview

Citing the numerous criticisms (not from El Grafico) about Racing's violent style of play against Celtic, Renato Cesarini explains that he could not risk having the national team play in a similar style In a separate piece, Valentin Suarez believes…

Stabile cites noticeable differences when Argentina plays in Europe, hosts European teams in Argentina, and plays in the Copa Sudamericana

Panzeri , exhausted of the now-routine nature of violence at Argentine soccer stadiums, sees the problem as much larger than the sport: Argentine civilization has fallen

The article rebukes the deteriorating climate at stadiums, and applauds Huracán for encouraging women to attend free, with roses and prime seats. (the adjoining article's last words are about the decline of creative fútbol and the growth of a climate…

Looks at the new youth national team, whose goal is to produce the basis for the 1970 World Cup team

In the first match of the season, Boca plays a hard-fought game against Newell's

Zubeldia is hired as new national team coach for the 1966 World Cup, despite a laundry list of conditions

"Savages", "fair play", "civility"…all come to question with the treatment El Grafico's writers claim to have received in Manchester Estudiantes are also held up as models of civility Propaganda

Panzeri believes that it is important to understand the root of the problems in Argentinean soccer In the first article, he takes a critical look at sports journalism and their role in perpetuating this situation if they do not realistically comment…

This article mixes sadness and anger at the failures of the national team and the state of soccer in Argentina The article is summed up with a simple statement: 'hay que volver a la nuestra'

In a preview of the debates that will explode after 1958, El Grafico looks skeptically at the newest trends from Europe predicated on overly defensive styles and rigid schemas

El Grafico 's interview with Lorenzo tries to gauge if there are any differences, or lessons learned, from 1962

Useful document because it shows that the matches between the champions of Europe and America were violent BEFORE Argentine teams participated
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