El pez volador

Yustrich is at the top- Jaime Lema (San Lorenzo de Almagro) below.

Juan Yustrich was Boca's first choice goalkeeper from 1932-37, winning league titles in 1934 and 1935. He represented Argentina once (in 1940).

Alumni A C

1910 

In their 15 year existence Alumni Athletic Club won 22 major trophies:

Primera División : 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911

National cups:
Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires : 1905, 1906

Copa de Competencia Jockey Club: 1907, 1908, 1909

International competitions:
Tie Cup: 1901, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
Copa de Honor Cousenier: 1906

Perinetti, Recanatini & Onzari

This 1932 edition of El Grafico featured 3 seasoned campaigners.

Natalio Perinetti (Racing Club de Avellaneda)
Perinetti's ghost is said to haunt the Estadio Juan Domingo Perón, though he never played there. He won 5 Primera División titles with Racing and was capped 7 times by Argentina. 

Humberto Recanatini (Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata) 
Recanatini was 34 when he joined Gimnasia. He had represented Argentina 17 times (1919-31).

Cesáreo Onzari (Club Atlético Huracán) 
The scorer of the original Gol Olímpico won 15 caps (1922–24).

Parque Central

Boaters de rigueur. 22,000 at Montevideo's Parque Central to see Uruguay defeat Argentina 2-0 on 02.12.23

José Laguna

 

José Durand Laguna, known as 'El Negro', was a prolific forward for Huracán. 

He represented Argentina 4 times, scoring 3 goals.

His debut came in unusual circumstances. At the 1916 South American Championship of Nations Laguna went to watch the Argentina vs Brazil game at Gimnasia y Esgrima in Buenos Aires (10.07.16).

Alberto Ohaco was unable to play and Laguna was called from the stand to fill the vacancy. 

He gave Argentina the lead in the 10th minute. The game finished 1-1.

Laguna later moved to Paraguay where he played for Olimpia. He also managed the Paraguay national side at 2 South American Championships and the 1930 World Cup.

Goal by Scarone

The 1928 Olympic Final replay.
Roberto Figueroa gets past Segundo Medici and sends in a cross; René Borjas beats Paternoster and heads the ball into the path of the oncoming Hector Scarone. 'Yours, Hector!' 
2-1 Uruguay, 73rd minute.
The illustration is not contemporary as the artist has drawn a D (penalty arc). 
I have seen evidence of the D being used on the continent before 1937 (I will cover this in a later post- someday!)
At 3:54 in the film it does look like there is a D!



Looks like it was an action packed game.

Argentina v Atlético Madrid, 1928

We have seen that Argentina stopped off in Portugal for a  friendly international en route to the 1928 Olympic tounament. They also played 2 matches in Spain.
On 08.04.28 Atlético Madrid were beaten 2-0, and on 22.04.28 Barcelona beat the visitors 4-1.
 Here is a rather novel team photograph from the Atletico match:

Ángel Bossio	Club Atlético Talleres
Ludovico Bidoglio	Boca Juniors
Fernando Paternoster	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Ángel Segundo Médici	Boca Juniors
Adolfo Zumelzú	Club Sportivo Palermo
Luis Monti	Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro
Natalio Perinetti	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Pedro Ochoa	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Manuel Ferreira	Estudiantes de La Plata
Roberto Cherro	Boca Juniors
Raimundo Orsi	Independiente

Irish Association Football in Argentina

Lobos Athletic Club 1892

Here is a link to the article Irish Association Football in Argentina by Víctor Raffo. 
The influence of Irish settlers on the development of football in Argentina, particularly the Lobos Athletic and Club Atlético Porteño is examined. Lobos A.C were important in the development of Alumni A.C.
Lobos were also the first Argentine side to play abroad: In 1899 they traveled to Montevideo, beating  Albión (2-1) and Peñarol (2-0) before a revolution forced their departure aboard a battleship!

Portugal v Argentina, 1928

Argentina's first official international against European opposition came on their way to the 1928 Olympic Tournament, On April 1st 1928 they faced Portugal at Sporting's Estádio do Lumiar.
The game, watched by 20,000,  ended in a goaless draw. 

Portugal
António Roquete	Casa Pia
Carlos Alves	Carcavelinhos
Jorge Vieira  ©	Sporting
Martinho Oliveira	Sporting
de Serra e Moura	Sporting
César De Matos	Belenenses
Valdemar Mota	Porto
João dos Santos	Vitória Setúbal
Pepe	Belenenses
Vítor Silva	Sporting
Sub: Alfredo Ramos (Belenenses)  replaced Vítor Silva @ 32 minutes

Argentina
Octavio Diaz	Rosario Central
Ángel Segundo Médici	Boca Juniors
Ludovico Bidoglio ©	Boca Juniors
Saul Calandra	Estudiantes de La Plata
Fernando Paternoster	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Rodolfo Orlandini	Club Sportivo Buenos Aires
Natalio Perinetti	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Pedro Ochoa	Racing Club de Avellaneda
Roberto Cherro	Boca Juniors
Domingo Tarasconi	Boca Juniors
Raimundo Orsi	Independiente

    Jorge Vieira

   Ludovico Bidoglio

Alumni, 1905

Between 1901 and 1911 Alumni were champions of Argentina on 9 occasions**. Here is the victorious team of 1905.
The line up:

GK	José Buruca Laforia
FB	Carlos Carr Brown
	Jorge Gibson Brown
HB	Andrés Arturo Mack
	Patricio Barron Browne
	Ernesto Alejandro Brown
FW	Gottlob Eduardo Weiss
	Juan J. Moore
	Alfredo Carrow Brown
	Eliseo Brown
	Eugenio Moore

And here is the story of their season. I'm intrigued that their one defeat should have been so comprehensive!

14.05.05	Lomas Athletic	1	7	Alumni
21.05.05	Alumni	14	0	Reformer
25.05.05	Quilmes	0	1	Alumni
01.06.05	Atlético Estudiantes	0	3	Alumni
11.06.05	Belgrano Athletic	0	2	Alumni
30.07.05	Reformer	0	3	Alumni
06.08.05	Alumni	1	5	Belgrano Athletic
	Alumni	wo		Barracas Athletic
	Alumni	wo		Barracas Athletic
08.09.05	Alumni	11	1	Lomas Athletic
17.09.05	Alumni	1	1	Atlético Estudiantes
24.09.05	Alumni	wo		Quilmes

P	W	D	L	F	A
12*	10*	1	1	43	8

* 3 walk overs

**Alumni were previously English High School AC, Champions in 1900.