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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Soccer and Repression: 1978 and the World Cup in Argentina

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The story of the 1978 World Cup, a cautionary tale about democracy. The world spotlight on the junta that controlled Argentina that year helped focus some attention on the plight of the victims of a vicious dictatorship, but locally, may have enhanced support for the regime. We talk about soccer and politics, we talk about democracy and the dangers of losing it, we read a bit of Eduardo Galeano's Excellent Soccer in Sun and Shadow. Music from Lee Rosevere  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I hope you will join me today on the American Revolution podcast. Polano-Uno, Argentina Trace, bright blue and white figures intersect and spin with orange.

0:54.0

The ball is white with the illusion of spinning black circles created by so many triangles on its surface.

1:01.0

The stands, a house of confetti spilling into the sky and

1:06.4

onto the green field below. The audience is a raging beast stomping on the

1:12.4

floor and beating the stadium. Roaring with each kick.

1:17.1

Argentina, Argentina, go all no. No one cheers for the Netherlands who would dare in the Estadio River Plotting or the Estadio Monumental in the south end of the city of Buenos Aires, country of Argentina, 70,000 fans.

1:39.3

Still the Dutch are not intimidated at all.

1:41.4

The Alandeses have a style of play that is fluid, rapidly changing,

1:45.9

dynamic. I'll let the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galiano explain it. He can do a better job than me.

1:53.0

They called the Dutch team in Clockwork Orange, but there is nothing mechanical about this work of imagination

1:58.3

that everyone be fuddled with its incessant changes.

2:01.8

This orange fire flitted back and forth, panned by an all-knowing

2:05.9

breeze, sped forward, then it pulled back. Everyone attack and everyone defended, deploying and retreating in a vertiguous fan.

2:16.0

A Brazilian reporter called it organized disorganization.

2:20.0

And you can see it on the color TV a flurry of orange players.

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