50 IMPACTS: What were the greatest milestones in the history of Argentine sport

The Davis Cup is the most prominent sports event of 2016.And it brings together many condiments that place it among the most prominent facts of all time in Argentine sport.With the difficulties that always occur when comparing different activities and times, the nation offers a review of 50 milestones that marked our history.

1) Mexico 86.

Date: 6/29/1986.Place: Mexico DF.Result:Argentina 3 vs..Germany 2 in the final.Unexpected, forceful, after leaving several of the countries with more tradition in football (Italy, Uruguay, England and Germany) ... This was probably the most celebrated victory of Argentines.Say Mexico 86 reaches to awaken countless happy memories, at a very particular sociopolitical moment for the country.A team that was expected absolutely nothing, gave a solid sample of group cohesion in search of a goal.A group that, at least for a month, exceeded internal fights and allowed the coexistence of strong and dissimilar personalities.The aggregate, which is not less, is that as rarely earlier in the history of our sport, an Argentine, Diego Maradona, was unquestionably recognized as the number 1 of the planet.The popular explosion in the return of the team to Buenos Aires is another of the reasons that raise the conquest and make it incomparable.

2) The golden generation.

Date: 8/28/2004 (the game ended on 29 in Greece).Place: Athens, Greece.Result: Argentina 84 vs..Italy 69.It was the impossible triumph.Without the popular fervor that football can grant, the feat of the golden generation, commanded by Manu Ginobili, is another unparalleled point in this tour.Every day, the review of the deed leaves the historical story a little further behind to become a legend.Because to break the NBA (triumph in the semifinal) was a utopia for those years.Doing it from a country with few resources and does not have basketball as the main discipline, is even more incredible.But it happened.

3) The first world football title.

Date: 6/25/1978.

Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Result:Argentina 3 vs..Holland 1.

In any memory of the World Cup, it is impossible to forget the social context and political meaning of that tournament, reasons that led him to be clearly differentiated from the conquest of Mexico.Sports, César Menotti's team, with Mario Kempes as a scorer, mobilized the country and unleashed the celebration in very difficult times.

4) Davis Cup.

Date: 11/27/2016.Place: Zagreb, Croatia.Result: Croatia 2 vs.Argentina 3.It was the most anticipated title and in the competition that most times punished Argentines with frustrations and bitterness.The Davis Cup triumph will remain forever as a magical moment.For the commitment to start the year playing without figures.For the miraculous return of Juan Martín del Potro, who was on the verge of retirement.For the triumphs of the Tandilense over Andy Murray and Marin Cilic.For always playing a visitor.For turning that anguish final series after being 1-2 below.Those are some reasons to explain the place on the podium of this ranking.

5) The KO of Monzón to Benvenuti.

Date: 11/7/1970.Place: Rome, Italy.Result: Triunfo per Ko in the 12th round.Stripped of technical virtuosity, the progress of challenger Carlos Monzón on Nino Benvenuti was constant and safe.The image of the right in the champion's jaw will be remembered by the definition, but the Argentine had already made a dent in the spirit of the Italian throughout the fight.The Santaffino won the medium amb and CMB title, to start a saga of 14 successful defenses.

6) Vilas wins the US Open.

Date 11/9/77.

Place: Forest Hills, New York, EE.UU.

Result: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 and 6-0 to Jimmy Connors (No. 1, United States).

A triumph loaded with symbolisms.The same year in which he reached the final of Australia and conquered Roland Garros, won L No. 1 of the world at home and reached the highest point of a fantastic season.At the end of the year he completed 16 titles and 134 wins, to be considered the best player in the world, beyond computers calculations.

7) Fangio's feat in Nurburgring.

Date: 4/8/1957.Place: Nürburgring, Germany.The maximum achievement of the history of motor racing.Hollywood movie, Hollywood.The best circuit, the complex nürburgring of the 22 kilometers and more than 170 curves with ups and downs, impossible to memorize.The unexpected mishap: an excessive delay in the boxes.Juan Manuel Fangio and his Maserati left 48 seconds behind the Ferrari of Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins.There were 12 laps left.Very long, yes.The Argentine accelerated as possessed and established records in each turn.The best was 8 seconds shorter than ... the return of the pole position.And in the penultimate Fangio first beat Collins and then Hawthorn.The last lap was total glory.Fifth World Champion of Formula 1, in the absence of two dates.An overwhelming supremacy.The consecration of his career and the most emblematic career in automotive history.

8) Racing, first world champion.

Date: 11/1/1967.Place: Montevideo, Uruguay.Result: Racing 1 vs..Celtic 0.The indelible shoe of Chango Cárdenas will be recorded forever as the first title of an Argentine club at the intercontinental level.After the triumph of the Scottish in Glasgow (1-0), the academy was imposed 2-1 in Avellaneda, with goals from Raffo and Cárdenas, and pushed the series to a third game to unpack.More than 20.000 fans traveled to Uruguay to see Juan José Pizzuti's team in the centenary.

9) Sabatini wins the US Open final to Graf.

Date: 9/9/1990.Place: Flushing Meadows.Result: 6-2 and 7-6 (7-4).The greatest triumph of Gabriela Sabatini's career at a time when the German Steffi Graf, number 1 in the world, seemed unbeatable.It occurred at a time when his career was questioned by the lack of successes in the Grand Slam.There he got his only title in the 21st attempt in a major.

10) Pato Cabrera Champion in Augusta.

Date: 4/4/2009.

Place: Augusta, Georgia, EE.UU.

Result: triumph in the second rack -up hole (205 strokes).

Augusta is the center of the golf world.The most prestigious tournament that can be played.The Cordoba, often belittled in the circuit, won his green sack after beating the Americans Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry.

11) Galíndez's dramatic triumph against Richie Kates.

Place: 5/5/1976.Place: Johannesburg, South Africa.Result: KO in the 15th round.It was the biggest brave sample that reminds national boxing.On the edge of the defeat by technical KO for a deep cut in the right cheekbone, with a swollen and disfigured face, Víctor Emilio Galíndez bathed the shirt of the referee from referee Stanley Christodoulou and demolished the American to seconds of the last round of the last round of the last round.Thus he retained the crown of the semi -marked in a wild fight at the Rand Stadium.The date has a very special meaning for Argentine boxing, because that same day, hours before, Oscar Ringo Bonavena was killed.

12) Del Potro wins the US Open.

Date: 9/14/2009.Place: Flushing Meadows.Result: Roger Federer won the final (Switzerland, No. 1) 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (7-4) and 6-2.The explosion of Del Potro's blows reaches its maximum point in a perfect tournament, in which Rafael Nadal also valed in the semifinals for a triple 6-2.With the indomitable power of his right he twisted Federer's arm on the fifth set of a very closed encounter.

13) by Vicenzo conquero the British Open.

Date: 7/15/1967.Place: Royal Liverpool GC, Merseyside, England.Result: it won with 208 blows, beat Gary Player (South Africa) and Jack Nicklaus (EE.UU.).“20 years after my first time passed here.I lost my hair in England ".Always friendly and good humor, those were the words that Vicenzo's teacher said at the time of receiving the prize for winning his first and only Major.

14) Ginobili reaches the top of the NBA.

Date: 6/23/2005.Place: San Antonio, EE.UU.Result: 4-3 in the final to Detroit Pistons.Manu Ginobili was not chosen as the best player of that final just by a vote (the Gandor was Tim Duncan).And several of the journalists who were in charge of the MVP election recognized that they had changed their decision if they let them vote at the end of the exciting party in which San Antonio was consecrated and not after the third quarter, as happened.An Argentine as one of the greatest figures in basketball mecca is another of those unimaginable moments of Argentine sport.

15) Bronze Pumas.

Date: 10/19/2007.Place: Paris, France.Result: 34-10 vs.France.It meant the closure of a romantic era.The end of innocence.The Argentine rugby, with a majority of professional players, but with a selected and an amateur union, surprised the world and beat several teams that surpassed him long in budget and structure.Agustín Pichot, a reference for that squad, would be in charge of leading the change from that moment.

16) Pascual Pérez, first world boxing champion.

Date: 11/26/1954.Place: Tokyo, Japan.Pascual Pérez's trip to Japan aroused little hope.The favorite was the local, the fly champion Yoshio Shirai.The worst thing was that the Argentine suffered an injury to the eardrum and had to get a blood clot.The fight, which should be on November 10, was postponed for 25.But that day there was a storm and the fight, on an open baseball court, the Korakuen Stadium, was postponed one more day.The first delay raised doubts about the physical state of the Argentine.They even discounted 50% of his bag for change (he charged $ 1000).In the end "Pascualito" won by points after 15 rounds and conquered the first world title for our country.

17) Nalbandian, from fishing to win the masters.

Date: 11/20/2005.Place: Shanghai, China.Result: Roger Federer (Switzerland, 1st) 6-7 (4), 6-7 (11), 6-2, 6-1 and 7-6 (3) beat Roger Federer (3-7).The Argentine already had everything prepared and was on his way to Río Pico, in Chubut, to start his vacation, fishing with friends.An emergency call changed the plans.Andy Roddick, injuring, announced his retirement from the tournament.A call that changed the fate, because there the major of his life got.

18) Lionel Messi, first Argentine to win the Golden Ball.

Dates: 7 and 12/21/2009.

Place: Paris and Zurich.

For the first time in history an Argentine footballer conquers the award as the best player in the world.Lionel Messi won the two awards that were given at that time, the Golden Ball, and the FIFA World Player, after a fantastic year with Barcelona, in which he won six titles: (League, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup, Champions League, European and World Club Super Cup).Later, the Barcelona star won four times more the distinction.There is no other player in the world that has achieved such achievement.

19) Boca's blow in the prelude to the galactics.

Date: 11/28/2000.Place: Tokyo.Result: Boca 2 vs.Real Madrid 1.The arrival of Florentino Pérez to Real Madrid inaugurated a time of great transfers, known as the era of the "galactic", with the recruitment of Luis Figo (60 million euros) just that year.But in the first international final, Carlos Bianchi's mouth surprised him thanks to Martín Palermo's goals and the great performance of Juan Román Riquelme.

20) Football recovers Olympic gold.

Date: 8/28/2004. Place: Athens, Greece.Result: Argentina 1 vs..Paraguay 0.In Athens 2004, after 52 years without winning gold medals at the Olympic Games, the selection of Marcelo Bielsa, with Carlos Tevez as a scorer and team figure, allowed the national anthem to listen again at the Olympic Games for the first time fromHelsinki 52.

21) The 2016 champions in Rio.

Date: 8/8/2016.Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Result: Argentina 4 vs..Belgium 2.In the shadow of the lions for many years, Carlos Retegui's team uncovered in Rio and showed an unknown face.A couple of draws in the initial wheel before powers such as Holland (3-3) and Germany (4-4), strengthened the confidence of the group, which won the most unexpected of the golden medals of our delegation.

22) The Roland Garros Legion.

Date: 6/6/2004.Place: Paris, France.Result: Gastón Gaudio beat Guillermo Coria 0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 and 8-6.In a moment of dream for national tennis, Gaudio's triumph was accompanied by the presence of three Argentines in the semifinals.In addition, seven other titles were won in the circuit and there were four Argentines top ten.

23) Argentine basketball expires to the NBA.

Date: 4/9/2002.Place: Indianapolis, EE.UU.Result: United States 80 vs.Argentina 87.In the last match of the second wheel of the World Cup, the team led by Rubén Magnano becomes the first team to defeat the United States NBA after an undefeated 10 years and 58 games.Although other countries managed to beat the NBA later, Argentina is still the only one who succeeded twice.

24) Vilas wins his first Grand Slam.

Date: 5/6/77.Place: Paris, France.Result: Brian Gottfried beat in the final 6-0, 6-3 and 6-0.First Grand Slam title in history for Argentina.At the peak of his career, Guillermo Vilas overwhelmed the American and only allowed him to win three Games throughout the game.

25) Nicolino dethrona to Fuji.

Date: 12/12/1968.Place: Tokyo, Japan.Result: He won by KO in the 10th round.The special envoys say that 40 minutes before the fight allowed them to enter the locche's locker room.The Argentine, after a massage session, had fallen asleep with a towel on his eyes.The anecdote defines the serenity of the boxer who won the fights without paste.Although in that duel with Takeshi Fuji, to conquer the jurors being challenger, he had to leave his libretto, and ended up winning the title Amb Superigero by Ko.

26) Pareto, the little giant.

Date: 6/8/2016.Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Result: He beat the Korean Bakyeong Jeong in the final.Paula Pareto became the first Argentine woman to win the Olympic gold.While judo does not have a great diffusion in our country, the demand for sport is huge internationally and the little one linked in consecutive years the two most important titles (World and Olympic Games).

27) Luis Alberto Nicolao, the only world record.

Date: 5/27/1962.Place: Rio de Janeiro.Result: world record of the 100 meters butterfly, with 57s.It was in a competition in Brazil, at the Guanabara Regatas Club.It is still the only Argentine who had a homologated world record.

28) Argentina World Basketball Champion.

Date: 11/3/1950.Place: Buenos Aires.Result: Argentina 64 vs..United States 50.Argentina had decided not to participate in the World Cup, in Brazil, and the government of Juan Domingo Perón concentrated great attention in the organization of the First Basketball World Cup.A litter of great players managed to defeat the American team on the remembered night of the torches.

29) Lange beats cancer and conquers gold.

Date: 8/16/2016.Place: Rio de Janeiro.Results: First in the Nacra 17 class.For cancer, in 2015 they removed a lung.But Santiago Lange did not stop, and he barely received the discharge began the preparation for the games.Together with Cecilia Carranza, he won the gold medal in a mixed class that had its premiere in Rio.

30) Cabrera Champion of the US Open.

Date: 6/17/2007.Place: Oakmont, Pennsylvania, EE.UU.Result: With 285 blows, it exceeded the Americans Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk.In addition to getting the first Major for Argentina after the triumph of De Vicenzo in 1967, the success of Angel Cabrera reached greater notoriety since on the last day of competition it was imposed after fighting for the first place throughout the day with Tiger Woods.

31) Triumph against the juniors springboks.

Date: 6/19/1965.Place: Johannesburg.Result: Pumas 11 vs.Juniors Springboks 6.If it is observed with coldness, the game was barely a match with the second South African team, not with the main.That party transcends the sporting fact and internally charged enormous notoriety for being the birth of the legend of the Pumas.

32) Fangio wins his first F title.1.

Date: 10/28/1951.Place: Pedralbes, Spain.The Argentine project of a pilot competing in Europe crystallized its goal: Juan Manuel Fangio became the best in the world.When winning the Grand Prix of Spain, the last of the season, aboard an Alfa Romeo, the Balcarceño was crowned over Alberto Ascari, emblem of a Ferrari team that began that year its triumphal course, and another Italian, Giuseppe Farina, theFirst monarch of Formula 1.National motor racing reached the international top.

33) Firpo takes it out of the ring to Dempsey.

Date: 9/14/1923.

Place: New York.

Result: defeat by KO in the second round.He was nicknamed the wild bull of the Pampas.

Luis Angel Firpole connected a fulminant right to Jack Dempsey, the world champion of heavy, in a bestial fight.The Argentine had fallen seven times before taking off Dempsey from the ring.With a permissive account the champion returned and hardly survived the round, and then win by KO in the second.The fight was followed by radio in Argentina and people crowded at the door of the newspaper La Nación to listen to the transmission in speakers specially installed for a sporting event that paralyzed the country.It was a defeat, but marked the national sport forever.

34) Reutemann wins the Monaco GP.

Date: 5/5/1980.Place: Montecarlo.The Principality, the story, the difficulty, a torrential rain: the victory of Carlos Reutemann through the narrow streets of the Costa Azul became an unforgettable achievement.The Santaffino left second with his Williams and was soon surpassed by his partner, Alan Jones;He stayed close to him until the Australian left for the differential, and then chased Didier Pironi until the third march of the Ligier caused a dismissal to French.Reutemann inherited the avant -garde on the wet ground of Montecarlo and took more and more advantage.A greater rain, more difference.The circuit became barely passable, to the point that some wondered why the race was not suspended.And the Argentine ended up imposing himself with abysmal 73 seconds of margin to the Light of Jacques Laffite 77 to the Brabham of Nelson Piquet.Prince Rainiero III gave him the trophy on the podium.

35) World champion students.

Date: 10/16/1968.Place: Manchester, England.Result: Manchester United 1 vs..Students 1 (I had won the first leg 1-0).Students changed the history of Argentine football for being the first, outside the five greats, to win a title in professionalism.The achievement of the Osvaldo Zubeldía team was magnified with the conquest of the Copa Libertadores, and reached its maximum point with the Olympic return in Old Trafford.

36) Jeannette Campbell, first woman who wins an Olympic medal.

Date: 10/8/1936.Place: Berlin.For the first time Argentina sent a woman to compete to an Olympic event.With 21 years, I didn't have much experience in the 100m free, but won the silver medal in Berlin 36.He left for Alemaina two months before the Olympic Games and had to train in the ship's pool.It was just 5 tenths of gold, who won the Dutch Rita Mastenbroek.

37) Sabatini wins the masters.

Date: 11/20/1988. Place: New York, EE.UU.Result: PAM Shriver was imposed by 7-5, 6-2 and 6-2.It was the first major title for Sabatini and the one that finished installing the worship of the American public by the Argentine player.

38) The neighborhood club beat Milan the Intercontinental.

Date: 12/1994.Place: Tokyo, Japan.Carlos Bianchi knew how to exploit Milan's self -sufficient.Several of the Italian players belittled Vélez: "We are going to play against a neighborhood club, we don't know him," they said.The DT used it to motivate his team, who surprised with a 2-0 win with goals from Omar Asad and Roberto Trotta.

39) Curuchet and Pérez recover amateur gold.

Date: 8/19/2008.

Place: Laoshan, Beijing, China.

Argentina had recovered Olympic gold in 2004, with the triumphs of football and basketball, two professional sports.But amateur sport was still relegated.Juan Curuchet, with 43 years, and Walter Pérez, with 33, found the right time to give the greatest bars in the history of Argentine cycling.With a surprising strategy, they conquered gold in the American test at Laoshan Velodrome after overcoming couples in Spain and Russia.

40) Maravilla Martínez triumphs in Las Vegas.

Date: 9/9/2011.Place: Las Vegas, EE.UU.Maybe Sergio Martínez does not occupy a place of privilege among the best national boxers of all time, but his fight with Julio César Chávez Jr.For the medium CMB title he caught the country.Due to its history of injustices and leaders.He dominated the fight with a master class, but suffered the power of Chávez, with a fall in the last round.The detail that gave more drama to a fight very anticipated by the Argentines.

41) Argentina World Youth Champion.

Date: 7/9/1979.Place: Tokyo, Japan.Result:Argentina 3 vs..Soviet Union 1.With the fervor for the 78 -year -old World Cup, the youth team of Diego Maradona and Ramón Díaz quickly won the love of the people.People listened to the games on the radio in the early morning and after the conquest in the final against the Soviet Union the celebrations in the streets were repeated.

42) Juan Carlos Zabala Olympic Champion in Marathon.

Date: 7/8/1932.

Place: Los Angeles.

The first great triumph of the Argentine Fund was in irregular conditions.The regulation of the time prevented competing for children under 20 for the risks of the demand of the 42 kilometers.Juan Carlos Zabala was 19, but President Agustín P.He had just supported his career and generated a new documentation.“I told Pierre de Freddy, the president of the International Olympic Committee.He also seemed like a ridiculous rule, ”he acknowledged several years later Zabala, in an interview with El Graphic, who also thanked Jorge Miter for the victory, the director of the newspaper La Nación, who solved a good part of his expenses for the preparation in Europe.The night after winning gold in the marathon, the ñandú Criollo said he was invited by Jesse Owens for a dinner in Hollywood.

43) Castro changed fate with one hand.

Date: 11/12/1994.Place: Monterrey, Mexico.RESULT: Jorge Castro expires Ajohn David Jackson by Kot in the ninth round (medium).The presence of Stanley Christodoulou as a referee left reminiscences of the historic combat Galíndez-Kates.Losing the fighting, Jorge Castro, with his face cut, wrapped the blood in the judge's shirt to see and pretended to be felt;He lay on the ropes and waited until the North American trust.Then, he took out a pista that changed the fate.

44) Independiente beats Juventus

Date: 11/28/1973.Place: Rome.Result: Juventus 0 vs..Independent 1.Ajax resigned from his right to participate and Independiente had to play the final for the maximum club title against the European runner -up, Juventus.Unlike previous editions, the final was played at a single game, and in Italy.Ricardo Bochini scored the remembered goal of the Reds after a wall with Daniel Bertoni.

45) Volleyball wins bronze in Seoul.

Date: 10/1988.Place: Seoul, South Korea.Result: Argentina beat Brazil 3-2 (15-10, 15-17, 15-8, 12-15 and 15-9).Hugo contemp.

46) World Champions.

Date: 12/8/2002.Place: Perth, Australia.Result: Argentina 1 vs..Holland 1 (4-3 en los penales).Many people were awake until 3 in the morning to see the team that had Cecilia Rognoni as the best player and gave a huge impulse to a developing sport.

47) Grabich, the first podium in a swimming World Cup.

Date: 6/8/2015.Place: Moscow, Russia.Result: bronze medal at 100m free.He is the only Argentine who visited a podium in the pool in the swimming World Cups, and did so in one of the main speed tests.

48) Argentina Champion of the Cup of Nations.

Date: 6/6/1964.Place: Rio de Janeiro.Result: Argentina 1 vs..England 0.The frustrations in the World Cups of 1958 and 1962 generated an unthinkable discredit in the national team.The tournament had no official value, but Argentina beat three of the best teams in the world in a week (2-0 to Portugal on 31/5, 3-0 to Brazil on 3/6-in San Pablo, and 1-0 to England on 6/6).

49) Argentina wins the Golf World Cup.

Date: 3/6/1953.Place: Montreal, Canada.Result: Argentina won the trophy in pairs, with 287 blows, and Antonio Cerdá achieved the individual trophy, with 140.The first world tournament had Cerdá and Roberto de Vicenzo integrates.The contest format evolved, but our country never won a title again.

50) Cabrera Olympic Champion in Marathon.

Date: 7/8/1948.Place: London.Delpho Cabrera entered the Wembley stadium in second place, behind the Belgian Ettiene Gallly.

With the collaboration of Pablo de Rosa Barlaro

The criteria they used for the selection

What are the 50 greatest impacts that Argentine athletes achieved?The question arises immediately after the exciting conquest of the national team in the Davis Cup.It is never easy to compare different sports, different times.There are many issues to put on the balance: the surprise, the popularity of the sport, the hierarchy of the discipline, the impact and the diffusion that the fact had.

Even criteria can generate controversy.In this case, a group of five was selected:

Even made the clarifications, many will remain without matching the list.And it is logical in such a complex task.That is why the debate is permanently open.

They deserved to be...

There are dozens of events that, after being evaluated, were left out of the payroll.Sports and events that, beyond the merits, were at the gates of the ranking.

The fans of the Pole can feel like that, who won the first Olympic gold medal for the country in Paris 1924.And lovers of riding, because Carlos Moratorio's world title is not included in the full test in Burghley, England, in 1966.

Some formidable facts that could also have had a place: