FOOTBALL in Argentina
A Football-Loving Country
Football is a synonym for Argentinian. The passion awakened by this wonderful sport that reached the country back in 1840 on English ships can be breathed in the streets, bars and workplaces.
Many of the immigrants who arrived on those boats settled down in these lands and founded colonies and colleges where the importance of physical education was encouraged.
That is precisely the reason why Scottish professor Alexander Watson Hutton is considered the father of Argentinian football, because he fostered this sport so much.
In 1893, Hutton founded the Argentine Association Football League, which later incorporated the Amateur Association to give origin to the Argentine Football Amateur Association.
During the same year, the local players started to become part of the teams that had only admitted English footballers so far. But this porteño sport was so popular that it was already being played in the streets and yards of the conventillos in the neighborhoods of La Boca, Boedo and San Telmo.
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A Universal Language
"Football is like a successful Esperanto, a universal language. And all the typologies may be found in the game: the lonely one, the generous one, the supportive one, the coward. All of them..."
(Roberto Fontanarrosa)
