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Guillermo Stábile
Image of Huracán and national team player Guillermo Stábile on the cover of El Gráfico, August 2, 1930 (Issue No. 577). Stábile was the top scorer at the 1930 World Cup and the longest tenured manager of the national team. He rose to fame at Huracán,…
Racing-San Lorenzo (circa 1930)
Worm's-eye-view of a league game played circa 1930 between Racing and San Lorenzo.
Argentine Football Championship opens: Racing defeat Boca four-one
British referees make their debut at the start of the 1948 first division season. The Buenos Aires Herald notes that the foreign officials "controlled all the games, and each one did a definitely good job of work."
Tear-Gas on football field
Fan disorder leads to police using tear gas canisters at a match between Newell's Old Boys and San Lorenzo in Rosario. "Women Faint; Reporters Flee"
Estreno de hoy; Advertisement
The 1954 film, "El cura Loenzo," premiered at the Metropolitan cinema. The movie follows the life of the priest Lorenzo Massa, whose outreach efforts towards children in the impoverished barrio of Almagro, helped lay the foundation for Club Atlético…
Solicitud de informes a la Football Association
AFA seeks information to ascertain whether any San Lorenzo player should face disciplinary action (eventually Sanfilippo is named).
Incidencia delegación Club San Lorenzo de Almagro Expte. 16266
San Lorenzo player Narciso Doval is accused by the flight crew of Aerolineas Austral of sexual harassment and belligerent behavior on a flight to Buenos Aires. AFA presents the details of the accusations and promises further investigations, but…
Incidentes durante el partido por la final del campeonato Metropolitano de primera división, entre los equipos representativos de los clubes San Lorenzo de Almagro (campeón) y Estudiantes de la Plata, jugado en el estadio de River Plate
Police intervene in match between Estudiantes and San Lorenzo in 1968
¿Y ahora qué?
The penalties against referee Velarde, for purposefully omitting incidents in match reports that could have turned around a result between San Lorenzo and Independiente, seem to support the notion that River lost the championship in 1963 due to…
Viento en contra
Before television, soccer fans who could not attend matches at the stadium depended on newspapers and radio stations for an understanding of what occurred at a given match. River accuses some of these journalists in the press of abusing this trust by…
¡Carraduras!
River implies that newspapers like Democracia are biased against River and try to influence the outcome of the soccer season.
Otra vez el Tribunal de Penas contra River
The magazine once again portrays River as a victim of its success. This time, the Tribunal de Penas is doing what it can to prevent yet another River championship season by suspending its key player right before a match against the title challenger.…
¿El fútbol o la guerra?
The article asks several questions. Why has a climate of war taken hold at matches [note: the word "garra" and "guerrero" are constantly referenced in magazines like River]? Why were players from River attacked if the anger was directed at the…
Esto ya es el colmo
San Lorenzo fans attack referee and River players
La adversidad parece haberse ensañado con nuestra hinchada
A look at stadium safety
Otro arbitraje desastroso
A recurring theme in 1954 is the lack of penalties called in favor of River [also appears the following week]