Spectator sports
Argentina suffers an incurable addiction to sport: its males go
cold turkey at the thought of even one week without football, and
you'll hear informed and spirited debate in bars on sports as
diverse as rugby and the uniquely Argentine equestrian sport of
pato. The country has few exports as prestigious and reliable as
its polo and football players, but other sports have produced stars
that have risen to conquer the world stage, typically delighting
spectators with their flamboyance in the process - people such as
Guillermo Vilas and Gabriela Sabatini in tennis, who reached their
peak in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively; Carlos Monzón in boxing;
and the legendary motor-racing driver, Juan Manuel Fangio
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