Sixty years ago today Corbatta, Sivori, Maschio, Angelillo and Cruz were writing their names into Albiceleste history with a glorious Copa campaign
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If we judge by names alone, the famous forward lines of Argentina's football golden era back in the 1950s were far superior than the current incarnations that dominate world football. The MSN and BBC, formidable though they are, are essentially acronyms of broadcasting corporations, perhaps fitting for the media-saturated age we live in.
Sixty years ago, fans knew their idols in far more evocative terms. There was the famous 'Machine' of River Plate, spearheaded by Angel Labruna and Adolfo Perdernera, that took the Primera Division by storm in the opening years of that far-off decade.