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Author of “Tears at La Bombonera: Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America” and “Dame Bola: A Journey Through the Language of Argentinian Football” (out January 2025)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

🇦🇷 TÉVEZ’S ‘GALLINITA’ in a SUPERCLÁSICO 💥 OTD 2004: Carlitos scored a late goal against River Plate in their Libertadores semifinal, second leg and celebrated by mocking River’s chicken nickname. Tévez was sent off, missing the first leg of the final 🤦‍♂️

🇦🇷 BANDERAZO AT TIMES SQUARE Argentina fans took over Times Square in Manhattan singing one of their classics ‘He who does not jump is an Englishman’

Rabona at La Bombonera! OTD 2015: Jonathan Calleri scores Boca Juniors' second goal versus Quilmes in quite spectular fashion!

🇺🇾 Uruguay manager Marcelo Bielsa on a viral photo: ‘I don’t have to explain anything. I was in front of the cameras and that’s the photo they got. I’m not a model. There’s a limit to what one has to explain: if one uses glasses or not, why?… 1/2

Outspoken?! From the book ‘Diego Dijo’ by Andrés Burgo and Marcelo Gantman… 1996: ‘If I see Castrilli in the street, I’d spit at him’ 1996: ‘Make Castrilli take a drugs test!’ 1996: ‘I’d like to see Castrilli’s face smashed in’ 👀

Maradona was outspoken about Castrilli. When speaking about his challenges in life, Diego analogised: ‘It’s like I’m losing 5-0 and the referee is Castrilli.’ Also: ‘Look how football has changed: before we counted goals, now we count how many red cards Castrilli has issued.’

🇦🇷 OTD 1996: Paraguayan goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert scored twice against 8-man Boca Juniors in a 5-1 home win for Vélez Sarsfield (red cards to Maradona, Javier Mac Allister & Néstor Fabbri). Maradona confronted controversial referee Javier Castrilli after the game… youtu.be/NlSsGxrOSPQ