Until 1940, Argentina was known due to its agricultural exporting capacity, in times when the Old World was suffering the consequences of starvation and two world wars. Then everything started to change. During the 50’s, motor sports show emerged with Juan Manuel Fangio and his five F-1 world championships.

Since then, there has been a long road of spectacular sports events and sport stars, up to the present time, in which if you are in India and you say “Argentina”, the immediate answer you will get is “Maradona”. Perhaps this is the right surname to summarize the essence of Argentine soccer.

Intuition, improvisation, creativity and talent were the common elements which “rooted” our own and particular way of playing soccer. Early in 1925 Boca Juniors showed that incipient way of playing soccer, during the first tournament of an Argentine team in Europe. San Lorenzo Soccer Club and others followed these achievements, until that quality opened to the world after the first emigration, suffered after the 1948 strike.

Adolfo Pedernera, Néstor Rossi and Alfredo Di Stéfano, among others, went to Colombia. And it did not take long until Spain saw his talent, and took Di Stéfano to the Real Madrid where he won six Euro Cups.

While the international soccer was running out of international competitions, and racing drivers were another example of the epic contents of sport symbolized in the prevailing of brothers Juan and Oscar Galvez, soccer players were exported by their natural conditions, something that would continue in the new millennium in which this phenomenon has grown incredibly.

After the failure in the World Cup Championship of Sweden 1958, and the poor performances in Chile 1962 and Germany 1974; Argentina- the one that in the ’30 had been World Cup Sub-champion in Uruguay-, conquered the World Championship Cups of ’78 and ’86.

As a remarkable causality in those times, also grew in other sport branches at a worldwide level, the figures of the boxer Carlos Monzón and Guillermo Vilas; indispensable to the tennis achievement of popularity as never before. The achievements of the past decades added to the media explosion, had not done anything but to bring back to life the flame of interest to get the contest of Argentine players, always with a stamp of the individual quality which seems to be never-ending. There is no place in the world in which the technique and positive effect are not appreciated.

That ability is the key which has opened the gates to go in ever since a long time to Spain (Di Stéfano, Rial, Kempes…) and Italy (Argelillo, Maschio…) but also to France (Bravo, Bianchi, Piazza, Alonso…) and England ( Ardiles, Villa, Sabella, Marangoni…) and so many other places where soccer vibrates and where necessary that show of unique quality that the Argentine player who has taken from his predecessors the post stage and added to the technique a professionalism indispensable to keep on being a trademark.