Waldemar Iglesias
07/20/2021 21:13
Clarín.com
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Football
Updated 07/22/2021 12:14 PM
There are milestones that have to do with beauty.
No one will ever ever be able to discuss Diego Maradona's second goal to the English between
the imperishable magic of the Azteca stadium. It keeps beating as if 35 years have not passed. There are other types of milestones as well: those linked to circumstances. The first goal of that 2-1 to the English in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico is the paradigm, perhaps already unbreakable. But there is a third type of milestone: the one that is built with the virtuosity of the best of its interpreters. A notable example in this regard, of course, is Brazil in 1970.
Cracks everywhere at the service of the collective
. That team that had Pelé as its most visible face gave birth to that World Cup and football of all time.
But this case, that
of the 1957
Carasucia team
, could be considered
a kind of perfect amalgamation of the three milestones for a while
. There is no analyst who has seen it and disputes it. Since that Wednesday April 3, in which Argentina was consecrated by beating Brazil 3-0, that forward of Oreste Osmar Corbatta, Humberto Maschio. Antonio Angelillo, Enrique Sívori and Osvaldo Cruz began to be part of the profuse mythology of Argentine soccer. Even some fans under 30 years of age are encouraged in this newsroom to say them from memory.
Maschio, a star of that time and of that team, pointed it out: "People always remember us. Maybe because we played very little and everyone stayed with those South American games.
We made some friendlies before traveling, but I insist: we almost couldn't see in Argentina
".
The beloved
Bocha was right
: the compliments came from Lima, but hardly anyone saw those rising stars who got together for a while and did wonders in the South American in Peru.
For this reason, that forward is already in the DNA of Argentine football.
Argentine national team in 1957: Los Carassucias all together, ready to teach in Peru.
Since then and forever they are the unbeatable
Carasucias
.
It was simple from the assembly that team that became a legend.
"
Don Stábile did not ask us for anything strange
. He was calm to give directions. And if he had something to say to you, he would approach you and speak in your ear. For example, he asked me to always uncheck. But he gave us freedom to play ",
Maschio, the top scorer in that tournament with nine goals, counts along with Uruguayan Javier Ambrois, both with six games played.
Messi figures.
On the day of the consecration, the team offered its best level: they beat Brazil 3-0 and celebrated to the applause of everyone present.
The statistics also show the size of the team: it was the highest scorer, with 25 goals, and Rogelio Domínguez had the least defeated goal, with 6.
The only negative aspect was the farewell to the tournament: a 2-1 defeat against Peru, on the 6th. of April.
They were different times.
Maschio portrays it: "
And he happened to us to go to celebrate. We did not continue to concentrate and that hurt us. When the game ended, a colonel entered the locker room and complained about the performance against Stábile. And he told him to rearrange the team because three days then we had to play against Peru again, a friendly, in Lima
. And that's how it was: Don Stábile made us concentrate, no celebrations ... And in the end we won 4-1 in a great team game ".
Particularities of that team without forgetting.
The memory of Maschio
Maschio told
Clarín about it
in a heads up with Oscar Barnade: "It
was a brilliant team, without much filming
. We played two or three games before going to Lima. We kids were not starters (he, Angelillo and Sívori), but in a practice match, I think that against Huracán, we broke it. And Don Guillermo Stábile, who was quiet but very observant, made headlines for us. Look, Sívori and Corbattita (he refers to Osmar Oreste like that) had incredible ability, they dribbled, they made goal passes, they kicked the goal, two phenomena. Angelillo and I were simpler, and Cruz, left wing, did not shoot crosses: he made passes, to the head, to the foot. In the middle Pipo Rossi, he ran little, he wanted them all close, but he was the leader. And, well, the rest, Rogelio Domínguez, archer, Giménez, Dellacha, Schadlein, Vairo.
We won and we thrashed. "
And he continued: "We beat Brazil 3-0. That day, the Peruvians were cheering for them, but they ended up applauding us."
Until the stumble due to laziness and late-night festivities, the team - they say - was a delight;
the campaign until that April 3 had been stupendous.
Eight to two to Colombia, an exhibition, the champion was already showing and that 21-year-old Maschio, -beyond the physical characteristics and / or location on the field- was already unstoppable.
And Corbatta, Angelillo and Sívori with their inevitable low socks were not far below that step.
Neither did the generous Cruz.
The Bocha Maschio, a timeless crack.
But that team that had everything to continue enchanting the world missed its great universal chance.
The circumstances or the logic of those days
prevented those cracks from playing with Maradona and Messi in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.
Without the best, that World Cup, which marked Pelé's debut,
was a martyrdom
.
Argentina said goodbye in the first round with a win that today and will always sound absurd 1-6 against Czechoslovakia, in Helsinborg.
In Ezeiza
the worst reception seemed to have covered those Carasucias de Lima
.
But no, there are no confusion: those stelae of the memories of that consecrated team will continue to fly among so many memories.
Even today.
Look also
Stábile, the specialist in America Cups who had an ungrateful end
Enrique Sívori, the perfect Carasucia
