gurkenjoe93 wrote:
The team's style was acting like brainless jerks then? I mean, destroying the glasses of opponents (Pachamé) or purposely breaking an opponent's jaw (Aguirre Sanchez) seems like total normal stuff to me - at least for psychopaths.
Kind of yes. That team had rough and harsh players, in fact by 1969 the different Argentine graphic media were beginning to consider them "anti-football", and not precisely because of these violent actions. They were not very technically gifted so they had to resort to a much more physical game than other teams. However, if you look at the biographies of the players you would agree that this just happened when they played for Estudiantes.
Of course, these are generalities; Ramón Aguirre Suárez, for example, WAS a violent player, regardless of his time at Estudiantes, Granada, or Salamanca. Carlos Pachamé, on the other hand, was a tough player, but not at all violent. Zubeldía, Bilardo, Togneri, Malbernat, and Verón were the calmest of that team.
gurkenjoe93 wrote:
And while those retards didn't end up in a lunatic hospital, they still were locked up in their own president..
And yes, Poletti, Aguirre Suárez, and Manera were arrested by the government after the Intercontinental final, but so was Milan's Néstor Combín. The president at that time, Carlos Onganía, was de facto president of a military coup; he was a dictator. The country's context at that time did not cooperate either; The popular mobilizations that had followed the "Cordobazo" had increased social tension amid political and economic unrest: the arrest of the players was only to demonstrate that whoever committed excesses would inevitably end up arrested. Their detention was simply a political trick that had nothing to do with the disaster that was that night on the field, if they had won the game they wouldn't have been sent to jail.
There is a quote by Carlos Bilardo that sums up this incident pretty well: "They (the government) told us it was either victory or Devoto.", Devoto being the name of the prison the Estudiantes' players and Combín stayed for a month.
If you want violent, or at least very harsh players from our football, I can suggest:
Ramón AGUIRRE SUÁREZ
Eduardo BENNETT
José Luis Félix CHILAVERT Blas Armando GIUNTA Enrique HRABINA
Julio MONTERO CASTILLO Rubén NAVARRO Tomás ROLAN Óscar RUGGERI Gastón SESSA Roberto TROTTA Flavio ZANDONÁ
Linfield All-Stars
Independiente Del Valle All-Stars
Cienciano All-Stars
Criciúma All-Stars
Auckland City All-Stars
