It looks like Newell's Old Boys from sometime in the 80s so I'll say Tata Martino is one of the players though I'm not prepared to say which one he is.
La Bombonera in 1940 and today. I stepped on those hallowed grounds for the first time in 1969, at age 7.
"Arsênio Erico During the Chaco War, while the peasants of Bolivia and Paraguay were marching to slaughter, Paraguay’s soccer players were in other countries playing to raise money for the many who fell helplessly wounded in a desert where no birds sang and people left no footprints. That’s how Arsenio Erico came to Buenos Aires, and in Buenos Aires he stayed. Argentina’s leading scorer of all time was Paraguayan. Erico scored over forty goals a season. That magician had secret springs hidden in his body. He could jump without bending his knees, and his head always reached higher than the goalkeeper’s hands. The more relaxed his legs seemed, the more powerfully they would explode to lash out at the goal. Often Erico would whip it in with his heel. There was no deadlier backheel in the history of soccer. When Erico wasn’t scoring goals, he was offering them on a platter to his teammates. Cátulo Castillo dedicated a tango to him: Your pass from the heel or head is such a marvelous feat a thousand years won’t see a repeat. And he did it with the elegance of a dancer. “He’s Nijinski”, commented the French writer Paul Morand, when he saw him play." Taken from the book "Soccer in Sun and Shadow" by Eduardo Galeano.
Clockwise from top left: Len Shackleton (aged 28, Sunderland AFC), Fredi Lauten (27, RW Oberhausen), Jack Brownsword (26, Scunthorpe United), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (29, AC Milan), Robert Schlienz (26, VfB Stuttgart), Ted Ditchburn (Tottenham Hotspur, 30): "young old men: back then people had to grow up fast and aged early"
19th September 1970: Bayern München v Borussia Mönchengladbach, the two best sides in the Bundesliga, meet in Munich's Grünwalder Stadion. It is the 63rd minute, Bayern München leads 1-0 since the 14th minute via a goal by stopper Georg Schwarzenbeck, when Bayern's goalgetter Gerd Müller prevents Mönchengladbach's forward Herbert Laumen scoring the certain equalizer by using his hands which gave us this spectacular picture. This of course led to a penalty which was converted by Klaus-Dieter Sieloff. Ten minutes after this scene, Müller scores the 2-1 for Bayern, three minutes before the final whistle Jupp Heynckes equalizes, making an excellent game end in a 2-2 draw.
Here are the covers of each issue of "France Football" announcing the winner of the "Ballon d'Or" from 1956 to 1989: http://theantiquefootball.com/post/121532928873/france-football-covers-ballon-dor-winners
Can you explain this picture? is there a story behing it? I am seeing signs of Nazi supremacy but how is Pele seemingly welcomed there?
A break during filming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_to_Victory Don't forget to read this as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Match
Came across these elsewhere on the net. Not sure they fully fit the initial premise of the thread, but can't see them fitting better elsewhere. You may recognise a couple of the names and the Dutch number 4 might have had some potential.
Antoni Ramallets i Simón, más conocido como Ramallets (Barcelona, 1 de julio de 1924 - Villafranca del Panadés, 30 de julio de 2013), fue un futbolista y entrenador español. Jugaba de portero, desarrollando la mayor parte de su carrera en el FC Barcelona.