ABSTRACT
The fi nal selection of players representing the individual nations does not present too many surprises. Mexico’s manager, René Cardona, knowing a thing or two about fi ghts, fi elded Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata (The Man in the Silver Mask), who was fl anked by two mexploitation directors, Federico Curiel and Miguel M. Delgado. On the bench were two very physical players just in case things got nasty, Wolf Rubinskis, aka Neutrón, and Murciélago (Bat) Velázquez. Argentina’s formation was picked by Spanish Narciso Ibáñez Menta, who relied on the unpredictable vision of Armando Bó while León Klimovsky and Emilio Vieyra did the more mechanical work; Bó’s secret weapons to distract the opposition were Isabel Sarli and Libertad Leblanc. What about the most imaginative team in the football world, Brazil? Player-manager José Mojica Marins/Zé do Caixão counted with Iván Cardoso to produce some magic and bury the opposition’s efforts. If you want to know how Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil performed, you will have to read the match reports in the fanzine 2000 maniacos.1
