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Images show public and political reception of national team as heroes
El caudillo se "confiesa"
El Grafico tries to find out what happened in the game against England, as well as the entire tournament for the national team
Éstas lágrimas valen
players felt they were good enough to win the World Cup, others blamed their loss on a "fix", one even relates this "robbery" to the England taking Las Malvinas
La más digna de la derrotas
Rattin's expulsion, refereeing, and a bad tactical approach all led Argentina to lose to England…but in loss the team earned dignity
Campeonato argentino de fútbol: 4 finalistas…y un escándolo
El Grafico tries to contextualize behavior of players and coaches that was still out of bounds
Ésta alegría de Independiente, éste amargo final…
An in-depth look at how Independiente played "a lo hombre", with hard tackles ("jugando al futbol o pegando") San Lorenzo, in turn, demonstrated an un-sportsmanlike conduct by not bothering to play the last minutes of the match in protest to both…
Página negra en Cochabamba
Highlights the incidents that marred a match between Argentina and Bolivia, and led AFA officials and players to consider withdrawing from the tournament out of safety concerns
Sin sentido
This time, Bolivian police and fans were the chief protagonists during violent incidents at a match between the 2 countries
La piedras no reemplazan goles
Brief description of an incident where a referee was injured by a rock thrown from the stands
Los expulsados de River están en la cuerda floja
The ghost of AC Milan-Estudiantes seems to hover over Argentine soccer matches. A distaste for "hombria" and physicality seems to have taken hold.
Así caminamos al desastre de 1978
The commentator is worried that Argentina is ill-equipped to host a World Cup when scenes of mayhem and referee intimidation are a constant in the national pastime.
Government documents on the accord to end the referees' strike
AFA and the UTEDYC come to an agreement on the salary for referees. These documents ratify the accord and stipulate the new salaries for officials.
Letter to the Minister of Labor and Social Security from AFA
AFA's letter to the Minister of Labor lays out a case that the association has acted in good faith to meet the demands of the referees and their labor union: UTEDYC (Unión Trabajadores de Entidades Deportivas y Civiles). Instead, the referees have…
Opinión de árbitros británicos
English referees offered a negative view on Brazilian soccer, complaining about the hard field, vicious attacks from fans, the need for armed security forces, and even an anecdote about a Brazilian referee giving his English counterparts a knife…
Los jugadores de fútbol fijaron ayer su posición en el conflicto
The FAA releases a statement that blames AFA and club directors of the impasse and postponement of the 1948 season. In the letter, the players union points out that the first formal grieveances they issues to AFA took place in 1945. Their decision to…
El día del fútbol; various game summaries of the first weekend of the season
Club distributed Argentine flags in honor of "El día del fútbol," which also included an initiative furthered by the Peronist state to support Argentina's rights to the Antarctic. The paper also notes how few incidents marred soccer games that…