Political football

Posted on Saturday, 30 October 2010 by

If you’ve been wondering why HEGS has been fairly quiet this week, it’s because I’ve been attempting, in the wake of Néstor Kirchner’s death on Wednesday, to write an article on the links between Peronist politics and football in Argentina, and to keep that article down to a mere 1,000 words. It’s not been easy, but today you can see the fruits of my labour over on ESPN Soccernet. Enjoy it here.

About hastaelgolsiempre

Sam Kelly is an English football writer based in Buenos Aires, specialising in all things Argentina - the national team and the domestic league - as well as across South America for When Saturday Comes, ESPN Soccernet, the Hong Kong Jockey Club and In Bed With Maradona among others.
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2 Responses to Political football

  1. Gallina says:
    Sunday, 31 October 2010 at 6:09 pm

    Sam

    Forgive the sycophany, but your article on the Kirchners and football was fabulous. Could you ever post an unabridged version on HEGS?

    • hastaelgolsiempre says:
      Sunday, 31 October 2010 at 11:35 pm

      The psycophancy is quite alright with me, Gallina. I’m not sure I can put an unabridged version up on HEGS, partly because I don’t keep earlier drafts of articles on my computer, and partly because I think that’d go against the agreement I have with Soccernet (who do, after all, pay me for what I write for them).

      I am going to see if I can put something up here in the future on a similar topic, though.

      By the way, if you’ve not got a website, no need to type N/A into the box in the comments – just leave it blank! Otherwise it comes up as a link to http://n/a, which I’ve deleted this time.

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