When Perón didn't rhyme with the ball. In the book "The Soccer Boys", the journalist Ariel Borenstein studies the long strike of the players in the 50s.
"Peronism lost its way with soccer," he says. "To the extent that soccer in Argentina moved from English schools to the pastures, since its practice became popular, politics paid attention," he adds. In fact, the presidents of the AFA people people were still, in Maradona terms, footballers.