iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12h

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

"Hard left" = the wild notion that a country should own its own infrastructure, that people should be treated equally and taxed fairly. Join the "hard left". The big money seems to be afraid of us. join.greenparty.org.uk

2130773

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 18h

Fascism is on the rise in the UK. We must resist. My latest article 👇 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/first-they...

harryeccles94.substack.com

First they came for...

The scary rise of fascism in the UK

23218

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🇨🇱 Lovely to see Lamine Yamal’s homage to the originator of the ‘no rabona’ move, the Buenos Aires-born Chilean Matías ‘Matigol’ Fernández. Here Matigol pulls off the move playing for Colo-Colo against Estudiantes de La Plata all the way back in 2006!

0123

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 19h

David Trézéguet turns 49 today! Trézéguet's parents are Argentinian; father Jorge played in France when David was born. David grew up in Buenos Aires, starting his career at Platense. Returned to Argentina after 16 years in European football; playing for River Plate & Newell's.

072

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 18h

🇦🇷 OTD 1995: Boca Juniors 1-0 Argentinos Juniors (at Vélez’s El Fortín stadium) Maradona scored the only goal of the game —and what a goal!— against the club where it all began and where Diego played 166 first team games. An emotional moment for El Diez.

050

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 19h

OTD 1972: River Plate 5-4 Boca Juniors 🏟️ Vélez's El Fortín River led 2-0 before Boca scored four unanswered goals to lead 4-2. But River Plate weren't done; three goals later they'd won 5-4 in the most thrilling of superclásicos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Va...

020

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 19h

OTD 2006: Estudiantes de La Plata beat Gimnasia La Plata 7-0 in the clásico platense! A Juan Sebastián Verón-led Estudiantes —on their way to winning the 2006 Apertura title— delivered a traumatic pummelling to cross-city rivals Gimnasia at Estadio Único de La Plata. (SEVEN).

010

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 19h

072

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

0123

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

Football Heritage @footballheritage.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The anarchist movements of the early 20th century in Argentina saw the potential of football as a mutually beneficial activity for workers. They founded community clubs and gave them football departments as a way to facilitate mutual aid, solidarity and education.

194

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Argentinian striker Ramón 'Wanchope' Ábila turns 37 today. The No. 9 is a legend at Huracán. The nickname 'Wanchope' is in honour of former Derby Country, West Ham & Man City striker Paulo Wanchope, who briefly played in Argentina.

002

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Two sets of fans at La Bombonera! 🥹 Boca Juniors 🇦🇷 0-1 🇧🇷 Vasco Da Gama Copa Sudamericana semi-final, first leg It was a duel on the pitch, and a duel in the terraces! Second leg in Rio de Janeiro next Tuesday…

001

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

001

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

002

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

OTD 2007: TWO Juan Román Riquelme free-kicks saw Argentina beat (Marcelo Bielsa’s) Chile 2-0 at El Monumental 🚀 🚀

021

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🇦🇷 Argentina’s second tier: All Boys vs Godoy Cruz. Referee Lamolina gives Godoy Cruz a second penalty of the match, All Boys captain Ivan Zafarana gets his smartphone to show the referee the foul had taken place outside the box! The match ended 0-0.

181

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m not justifying it but one needs to be open and try understanding more than what’s seen in the video, imho

220

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In a society where you feel the dark forces are everywhere (corruption, dodgy refereeing) and where the difference between making it or not has financial consequences for your family this kind of explosion might be justified by the players

130

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

181

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

OTD 2007: TWO Juan Román Riquelme free-kicks saw Argentina beat (Marcelo Bielsa’s) Chile 2-0 at El Monumental 🚀 🚀

021

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

OTD 2022: Marcelo Gallardo announced he was to leave River Plate after nearly 9 years. During his first period as manager the club won a league title, three Copa Argentinas, a Copa Sudamericana & two Copa Libertadores earning Gallardo a 8-metre tall statue outside El Monumental!

010

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇦🇷 Newell’s Old Boys and Newell’s Old Girls! The Rosario club celebrated the birthday of 104-year old fan Beatriz Lorenzo de Venditti, a member of the club for 83 years!

040

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇦🇷 OTD 1904: Club Atlético Atlanta were founded. Rod Stewart’s favourite club, Atlanta call the central Buenos Aires neighbourhood Villa Crespo home. They play in Argentina’s second tier and going well this season 👀

041

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇦🇷 OTD 1913: Club Atlético Talleres were founded in the city of Córdoba. Talleres means workshop; the club was formed by railway workers and Preston-born president Thomas (Tomás) Lawson chose the colours of Blackburn Rovers for his new club for ‘La T’.

022

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OTD 1962: San Lorenzo 2-2 Boca Juniors San Lorenzo legend José Sanfilippo (207 goals in 258 games) scored an iconic flicked backheel goal over Boca 'keeper Antonio Roma, whom Sanfilippo had told BEFORE THE GAME that he'd score twice past him, including an early backheeled goal!

121

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇦🇷 Podcast alert! The excellent @footballheritage.bsky.social: ‘The Anarchist Roots of Argentinian Football’ with Tomás Rothaus

020

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

121

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

022

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

041

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇦🇷 Former defender Roberto Néstor Sensini celebrates his 60th birthday today! Sensini started his career at Newell's Old Boys (winning the league in 1987/88) before spending 17 years in Italy with Udinese, Parma and Lazio. Capped 59 times for Argentina, playing in 3 World Cups.

041

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OTD 1974: Argentina played their first game under César Luis Menotti, drawing 1-1 against Spain at El Monumental in Buenos Aires. It was the first game on la albiceleste's way to winning their first World Cup, the 1978 edition on home soil.

140

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇦🇷 It was San Lorenzo hosting Riestra* and it was the hosts who took the three points, denying the visitors who had travelled all of 342 metres to Estadio Pedro Bidegaín

020

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇦🇷 TONIGHT: Platense vs Argentinos Juniors, 9pm KO (UK time) An unlikely clásico with 7km separating the two clubs, only 80 encounters to date. The rivalry started in 1980 when Platense needed a win; rumours were rife that Maradona’s Argentinos —who had already qualified— …

121

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think there’s more honour in the two Dundee clubs’ rivalry. There is a huge mismatch in San Lorenzo’s size vs Riestra’s! (That said, 0-0 after 43 mins!)

010

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And in Norwegian we call it a ‘brasse’ (a Brazilian!)

100

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

…but who’d been given ‘incentives’ to win to allow River Plate to leapfrog El Calamar in the table. Platense lost 2-1 in a tetchy game and were knocked out of the Torneo Nacional. An odd rivalry based on one match but a fierce clásico nonetheless!

010

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

121

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My mistake: San Lorenzo host Deportivo Riestra! * 0-0 11 minutes in

000

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Only 342 metres separate Deportivo Riestra’s Estadio Guillermo Laza and San Lorenzo’s Estadio Pedro Bidegain (colloquially known as El Nuevo Gasómetro)

142

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇧🇷 A ‘chilena’ in Brazil vs Argentina?! Former Manchester United forward Geyse Ferreira scored this overhead kick in yesterday’s superclásico friendly in Porto Alegre!

141

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇧🇷 Clarence Seedorf is Corinthians’ new manager! Seedorf —who was married to a Brazilian and played for Rio de Janeiro club Botafogo between 2012 & 2014— will join fellow Dutchman Memphis Depay and Jesse Lingard at the São Paulo club.

010

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Only 342 metres separate Deportivo Riestra’s Estadio Guillermo Laza and San Lorenzo’s Estadio Pedro Bidegain (colloquially known as El Nuevo Gasómetro)

142

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇦🇷 Curious fixture tonight with Riestra hosting neighbours San Lorenzo. Upstarts Riestra were in Argentina’s fifth tier 12 years ago; their modest ground (capacity of 3,000) sits in the shadows of Big 5 club San Lorenzo (50,000 capacity) 📸 My photos from Riestra in 2023

121

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Alfio 'Coco' Basile was hired as Argentina manager following Carlos Bilardo's departure after losing the 1990 World Cup final. Basile won two Copa Américas (1991 & 1993) but the 1994 World Cup was overshadowed by Maradona's expulsion; Coco was replaced by Passarella after that World Cup.

020

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇦🇷 🥩 DÍA DEL ASADO 11th October is the Day of the Asado, the Argentinian barbecue. The asado comes from gaucho (cowboy) culture and is key to life in Argentina, a ritual defining national identity (along with yerba mate 🧉 and fútbol ⚽️!)

020

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

OTD 1992: SUPERCLÁSICO DELIGHT AT LA BOMBONERA ‘Manteca’ Martínez’s winning goal—and iconic fence-climbing celebration— saw Boca Juniors beat River Plate 1-0 in the superclásico! Notice Carlos Mac Allister, father of Alexis, climbing the fence with Manteca!

010

Reposted by 📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)

📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What a photograph of Maradona's attemped rabona finish, saved by Independiente's Luisito Islas!

021