Argentina Turns Professional

from OTD: Your Daily Dose of Soccer History · host 17 Laws Guy

OTD E0199 — 18 May 1931: Eighteen clubs broke away to form the Liga Argentina de Football, launching professionalism in Argentina. This episode traces the amateur fiction, the Río de la Plata pressure from Uruguay, the player strike, the failed amateur start, Boca’s first professional title, Estudiantes’ Los Profesores, the dissident league’s merger into AFA, the Big Five oligopoly, La Máquina, Estudiantes’ 1967 breakthrough, and Argentina’s global football impact.Ideas: [email protected]

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