ABSTRACT
The virtues of the male hybrids produced in Argentinian football had a transgressive quality because they were able to subvert the dominant model based on English male virtues. The spread of football and other sports was a product of Britain’s world power status and its active presence in commerce, industrial production, territorial control and international finance. Football expanded, and many clubs were founded in Argentina. The majority of them sprang out of British schools located in Buenos Aires and surrounding neighbourhoods. The pioneering period of Argentinian football is inseparably linked to the building of the railways, beginning in the 1860s in Buenos Aires and reaching the rest of Argentina. In the context of the 1920s, when football was consolidated in Argentina and became part of the global world of sport, El Grafico developed the theory of the two foundings of Argentinian football: the first founding was British, the second was criollo.
