‘El primer deportista‘: the political use and abuse of sport in peronist Argentina

Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s

“…27 Perón cultivated his relationship with sports associations, even some with elite status, through which he promoted his vision of a nation united through sports programmes. 28 Perón spared no expense in the games and assured sports directors that they could rely on a steady flow of funds for their preparation. 29 Eva created strong ties between the Peronist Party and working-class sports clubs by sponsoring tournaments and providing funds for equipment.…”

Un parque para cada pueblo : Julio Enrique Monagas and the Politics of Sport and Recreation in Puerto Rico during the 1940s

“…4, the PRS and the PASC, both under the Department of the Interior, merged creating the Public Amusement and Parks Commission (PAPC), under the War Emergency Program of the Insular Government. This merger, similar to the sport centralization in Perón's Argentina under CADCOA (Rein 1998), meant that Commissioner Monagas was thereafter the sole person responsible for all planning, executing, and administration of everything related to parks, sport, and recreation, in addition to being the head of the Puerto Rican National Olympic Committee; thus becoming the person in charge of all matters of sport-a sports czar. Attending a meeting in preparation of the Tenth Caribbean Series of Baseball in Venezuela, Luisín Rosario, Director of Sport for the new PAPC reflected on Puerto Rico's sports progress.…”

“…1 Instead, Puerto Rico's history of sport has been mainly told in either documentary or laudatory terms (Álvarez and Lorenti 2007;Colón Delgado, Mercado, and Rosario 2002;De la Roda 1995;Fonseca Barahona 2008;Huyke [1968Huyke [ ] 1973Stewart 1998;Tomasini 1992;Torres 1999;Uriarte González 2009Varas 1984Varas & 1985. This article hopes not only to contribute to Puerto Rican historiography of politics and sports, but also to the growing scholarship of sport in the Caribbean (Carter 2008;Chappell 2001;DuBois 2010;González Huertas 2006;Klein 1991;Pérez Jr. 1994;Pettavino and Pye 1994) and Latin America (Alabarces 2000;Andrade de Melo 2009;Arbena 1988Arbena , 1992Arbena , 1999Arbena , and 2000Arbena and LaFrance 2002;Chappell 2001;Elsey 2011;Mangan and DaCosta 2002;Rein 1998;Wood 2007).…”

The Decline of Nationalism among Football Fans

“…Politicians, who recognize the power and impact of sport and its athletes on the people, have been keen on generating national myths via sport as a means of glorifying the state and its leaders, while also boosting national identity and sentiment in the process (Bairner 2001). Some twentieth-century fascist leaders even went as far as to interfere with the direct outcome of football matches (in particular), in a bid to promote their own political agendas (Karush 2003; Large 2007; Martin 2004; Murray 2003; Rein 1998).…”