🇦🇷✏️ Mafalda’s creator Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón —aka ‘Quino’— would have been 94 today. His birthday is celebrated as ‘The Day of the Cartoonist & Graphic Artist’. Mafalda is a 6-year old whose social and political commentary is just as relevant now as when created in the 1960s.

🇺🇾 OTD 1916: Uruguay campeón! The first Copa América (then Cameonato Sudamericano) was won by Uruguay after a 0-0 draw with hosts Argentina. Four nations competed 🇨🇱🇧🇷🇦🇷🇺🇾 Uruguay would retain the trophy the following year on home soil. Uruguay have won 15 of the 48 Copa Américas played (1916-2024)

🇦🇷 OTD 1927. Real Madrid —under Santiago Bernabéu’s leadership — continued their tour of the Americas. The previous day, the Spanish side had beaten Boca Juniors 2-1 in Buenos Aires but were humbled in Rosario the following day with a 4-0 thumping by Newell’s. Madrid played 5 games in 🇦🇷: W1, D1, L3

🇳🇴 Bryne, south western Norway This is the farm from which Erling Braut Haaland gets his raw milk. As I was driving past his hometown I thought I’d turn the journey into a bit of a Haaland pilgrimage, accompanied by Martin, of course. I’ll be twice the size in a few days 💪 🤣

🇺🇾 OTD 1950: The ‘Maracanazo’ Brazil 🇧🇷 1-2 🇺🇾 Uruguay Brazil only needed a draw to win the 1950 World Cup on home soil, the final group game held at Estádio Maracanã in front of over 200,000 (officially 173,850, but…) spectators. The defeat was a national tragedy, labelled ‘Brazil’s Hiroshima’

🇦🇷 OTD 1933: River Plate’s Carlos Peucelle had a last-minute winner ruled out for offside by referee Néstor Roldán. Roldán was surrounded by River players and fainted, carried off to his changing room. Roldán later admitted he had faked his fainting to avoid a beating 🤣

🇦🇷 El Obelisco, downtown Buenos Aires as Argentina see off England in the World Cup semi-final

Lionel Messi and Argentina have now won 14 consecutive World Cup matches. Another record Lionel Scaloni’s side have 🤯

The ‘Topo Giglio’ celebration from Enzo

Tango, Argentina’s national dance, was originally a dance between men waiting in line at Buenos Aires’ brothels. Huge numbers of men emigrated initially to BA, the disequilibrium of men-women meant tango became a cold and aggressive man-go-man dance… the semi-final continues

1986. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs 🇦🇷 Argentina at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City 🇲🇽 Raúl Gámez (shirtless, right) was a part of Vélez Sarsfield’s barra brava which travelled to México; he would later serve as Vélez’s president over three terms between 1996 and 2017!

Egersund, Norway 🇳🇴 🇦🇷 💥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Predictions?!

🇦🇷 OTD 2009: Juan Sebastián Verón’s Estudiantes de La Plata side won their fourth Copa Libertadores title beating Brazilian side Cruzeiro 2-1 over two legs. This was ‘el recibimiento’ at Estudiantes’ home leg in Argentina 😳😳😳

🇦🇷 OTD 1930: Argentina made their debut in the FIFA World Cup. Argentina 🇦🇷 1-0 🇫🇷 France ⚽️ Luis Monti (who would represent Italy at the 1934 World Cup!) 🏟️ Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾 🏆 1930 World Cup group stage

🇦🇷 Beso at La Bombonera Argentina manager Daniel Passarella had said he ‘wouldn’t accept a homosexual in his team’. Diego Maradona responded saying he’d ‘smack a kiss’ on Claudio Caniggia's lips and Caniggia's hattrick vs River on this day in 1996 was the opportune moment 💋

🇦🇷 Argentina will wear their away kit in Wednesday’s semi-final with England, as they did in 1986 and 1998.

🇦🇷 Fantastic angle of Julián Álvarez’s fantastic extra-time goal overnight 😍

ARGENTINA ARE READY 💪

Norwegian Crown Prince Håkon sitting with Infantino 🤮 Here you have a man whose wife is implicated in the Epstein Files, his step-son imprisoned for sexual assault and rape, rather than saying No Thanks to sitting there with a corrupt elite, he is sitting there. Twat

🇦🇷 vs 🇨🇭 Argentina vs Switzerland A repeat of the 2014 knockout game which was only decided by 117th-minute Ángel Di María goal 🫶🏻 Predictions for tonight?

🇦🇷 Boca Juniors have resigned Colombian winger/attacker Sebastián Villa from Independiente Rivadavia for a fee of US$6.5m. Villa played 172 games (29 goals, 32 assists) for Boca between 2018 and 2023 but had his contract terminated for a domestic abuse charge.

🇵🇪🤝🇳🇴 Haaland 🫶🏻 Perú 563 new born Peruvians have been named after ‘el Androide’. And that must be just the start: how many more children born the next few months will be added to the list?! 🥰 Still, better than Unión Comercio’s defender Osama Vinladen Jiménez! 😳

From ‘Dame Bola: A Journey Through the Language of Argentinian Football’

OTD 2007: Argentina 🇦🇷 3-0 🇲🇽 Mexico Copa América semi-final in Venezuela 🇻🇪 Lionel Messi scores Argentina’s second goal with a delightful lob, known as a ‘vaselina’ in Argentinian fútbol. It was also the goal that birthed the phrase ‘They’ll have to close the stadium!’ (See next)

🇦🇷🤯 OTD 1971: Temperley vs Almirante Brown. Penalty thrice retaken! Temperley get a penalty, Almirante Brown’s ‘keeper Migueluchi comes off his line early THREE TIMES, and gets sent off. Almirante Brown have to put a defender —Ricardo Tello— in goal, who saves the fourth penalty!!

Argentina started the match with 9 players and had to ask two players watching in the stands to get changed to play; one of those players scored 🇦🇷’s goal (Huracán’s Laguna). The two nations have played a total of 110 games; Brazil have 45 wins, Argentina 42 (179 goals to 174)

Argentina campeón! 🇦🇷💥🇧🇷 COPA AMÉRICA FINAL Argentina 1-0 Brazil @ Estádio Maracanã Argentina’s first trophy in 28 years and the first of three in three years. Will that be four in five years?!

🇦🇷 9th July is Independence Day in Argentina with now 210 years of independence from the Spanish crown. Independence was declared by the representatives of the United Provinces of the River Plate on this day in 1816.

🇦🇷 OTD 1991: BIELSA AT LA BOMBONERA! Marcelo Bielsa’s Newell’s Old Boys won the Campeonato se Primera División after beating Boca Juniors on penalties at La Bombonera!

🇦🇷 vs ⛔️🇦🇷 This is pretty funny, to be fair. Despite being a self-professed ‘Argentinophile’, I can imagine being an opponent or a neutral watching Argentina can be… frustrating/enraging/disheartening!