“If They Can Die for Italy, They Can Play for Italy!”: Immigration, Italo-Argentine Identity, and the 1934 Italian World Cup Team

In 1934, four Argentine-born soccer players participated for the Italian team that won the FIFA World Cup on home soil. As children born to parents who participated in a wave of Italian immigrants that helped reshape Argentine society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these four...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bigalke, Zachary
Other Authors: Aguirre, Carlos
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22654