Two clubs come to mind when people think of fútbol en Argentina: Boca Juniors and River Plate. While their global reputations are deserved, focusing on only these two misses the deeper truth about the sport in Buenos Aires. This is a city that lives and breathes football, regardless of the club locals follow. Neighbourhoods are organised around football and matchday. The best Buenos Aires...

The image of Lionel Messi lifting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is already one of the most iconic in the sport. For those from outside Argentina, nobody could begrudge arguably the greatest player that has ever lived his crowning moment. However, for Argentinians it meant more. It was confirmation for them that fútbol is life, and life is fútbol. It is lived with...