“On another level, photographs of football players dancing in single-sex couplings called attention to the explicit masculinity of this representation of the nation; women were clearly not integral to the proceedings.”—Matthew Karush on the use of soccer imagery as a way to establish “Argentinianness” as early as the 1920s. 1

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1Matthew Karush, “National Identity in the Sports Pages: Football and the Mass Media in 1920s Buenos Aires.” The Americas60, no.1 (2003): 17.