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Y…¿qué quedó de aquél futuro?
D'Amico the new national team coach? AFA hasn't contacted him for months The national team? No plans in sight This article looks at the lack of planning and organization with the national team
Éste es el hombre (¿será?)
El Grafico interviews the new national team coach, whose training in Europe and playing experience in Argentina played a role in his hiring The idea is to mold the national team into the best of the two approaches to soccer In this interview, he…
La selección nacional ¿Maschio v. Estudiantes, Estudiantes v. Maschio?
Interesting article to see how AFA and national team coaches do not embrace or accept Estudiantes, despite its success
Teoría sobre el mundial
Journalists like Panzeri have long been enamored of Menotti's philosophy about how to play soccer. This article focuses on Huracan's coach, who will eventually become the national team coach in the 1978 World Cup, and whay he values in soccer:…
Arnoldo Watson Hutton
Like many Anglo-Argentine footballers of the early 20th century, Watson Hutton was praised as a legendary teacher of the game by what he did on the field (but also for the lessons he learned from his father: Alexander Watson Hutton)
Dentro de lo previsto
Guillermo Stabile returns to coach the national team, the third coach in one year He can only count on players sceded by the clubs, which shows the lack of authority and organization by the AFA
Estamos encasillados en una sola mentalidad
Interesting because it lists many coaches in Argentina (including the long-running coach of the national team, Stabile) who favored tactical and defense-minded "no gol" approaches rather than a continuation of allowing players to improvise on the…
Hora de decisiones, hora de jugarnos todos
The magazine concludes that the performance of the national team at the Copa Sudamericana in Ecuador (losing to Uruguay 1-5 and defeating Brazil 4-1) demonstrates that the national team has no direction Instead officials (many of whom know little of…
Franqueza para el futuro o mas lágrimas en el futuro
Article looks at the state of affairs of the national team after Sweden 1958, and concludes that any positives and negatives have been a result of a common approach to changes: acting like it's an emergency This is not a way to move the team forward
Recepción
Paper finds the behavior of "hinchas" at the airport to have crossed lines with their taunting and insults The article also alludes to anonymous threats towards players, which prompted intense security at the airport Coins were thrown at the players
Carta al hincha que insulta al seleccionado
In a letter to critical "hinchas", the author wonders if it is beneficial for fans to launch insults to players as they prepare for the World Cup
Tarde feliz en Santiago
Of particular note is the focus on page 6 of how some critics believe that Argentina would perform better if they simply applied European tactics and training What is interesting is that Argentina had won the PanAmerican Games and the Copa…