A long roundup of historic shirts, starting with the one worn in 1901 by the players of the multiple-champion club pupils and including those used in different teams by the great idols of Argentine football over time; important jerseys of the national team such as that of Onzari who in 1924 scored a famous Olympic goal against one of the Lionel Messi of the 2014 World Cup and another of Lautaro Martinez in the 2021 America’s Cup; going through all the decades and the 1978 and 1986 World Cups; pelotas de tiento from 1890 and others from different eras; legendary stadium seats; All these objects and many others are part of it the exhibition ‘Passion of Multitudes’ that the National Historical Museum opened on Thursday 22 December last to keep alive the fever for the consecration in Qatar 2022.
Among original materials of incalculable historical value, photographic and audiovisual documents, sporting myths and legends, the museum rooms will offer a retrace of the entire history of Argentine football from that June 20, 1867 when the ball rolled for the first time where it is today. Planetarium is located in the Buenos Aires district of Palermo.
The proposed itinerary begins with British clubs, the emergence of Creole football, its popularization and the apex of amateurism until 1931. From there, with the arrival of professionalism, the story is told decade after decade.
Through the shirts of the various idols, boots, trophies and archive images, we present the history of Argentine professional football together with that of its unforgettable teams: River Machine, José Racing, the San Lorenzo Matadors, the multiple champion Red de América, Estudiantes de Zubeldía, Ferro de Griguol, Newell’s de Bielsa and Boca de Bianchi, among many others.
Another important part of the tour will be dedicated to women’s football: the first match dates back to 1913 and was played in the city of Rosario; in 1991 the first First Division A women’s football championship took place and in 2019 professionalisation was completed. Betty García’s T-shirts, one she wore at the 1971 World Cup in Mexico and another at Racing Club in 1978, are part of the exhibit.
“We chose football because it is a central cultural and sporting expression for Argentina. Next year will be the 130th anniversary of the first Scudetto, and therefore it is a very long and interesting story to tell it in a serious way, as this museum does, and by putting together a very attractive heritage that allows us to understand the richness that this game has for national history”, says Gabriel Di Meglio, director of the Museum.
The tour has a special room dedicated to the greatest legend of Argentine football: Diego Armando Maradona. Together with T-shirts and other objects that belonged to the star, a mural by the Maradona artist San Spiga becomes one of the selfie-points of the exhibition.
The history of the Argentine national teams (including the display of their major trophies) will also have a specific sector within the exhibition, as will football’s relationship with the press, politics and popular culture. There are also rooms dedicated to stadiums and fans. And you can see an audio-visual tour of the history of national football.
“The objective of the exhibition is twofold, on the one hand to invite those who love football to retrace the history of this sport, surprise them with unknown data and amaze them with some very significant pieces; as well as entertain those who are not passionate about football but enjoy an exhibition armed with the seriousness and professionalism that distinguishes the National Historical Museum. And our second goal is that many people who have not come to the museum discover it and also get to know our other collections, our exhibitions focused above all on 19th century Argentine history,” says Di Meglio.
Pasión de Multitudes will be exhibited for more than eight months, during which a rich program of public interviews, conferences, debates, projections of audiovisual material and some other surprises will be developed which will be suitably presented.
The passion of the multitudes can be visited at the National Historical Museum (Defensa 1600, CABA) until 31 August 2023.
Source: Clarin
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