The history of Argentine football is exhibited in the Passion of Multitudes exhibition, organized by the National Historical Museum and in which Racing Club has an exhibition space with its own material, as part of a general tour that exhibits more than a century and a half around the sport most popular and identifying in our country.
It is part of the idiosyncrasy as well as the national culture and has been an essential part of the life of much of society for more than a hundred years. Undoubtedly football transcends the sporting plan in our country. And what was experienced during the last World Cup together with the popular sentiment that manifested itself in a general way after the consecration of the Argentine national team as the best in the world, has done nothing but confirm that football arouses and mobilizes passions like nothing else. But football has its own history within the national territory and the National Historical Museum -Defensa 1600, CABA- takes care of making it known to the general public through the Passion of Multitudes exhibition from last Thursday until the middle of next year. And within the extraordinary exhibition Racing Club has a space that allows you to see some objects of incalculable representative and historical value.
In the aforementioned samples, original objects are exhibited that represent nothing more or less than the history of football in the Argentine Republic on a male and female level, from its birth in the second half of the 19th century up to the present day. Various objects of the most varied nature, among which more than a hundred jerseys from different clubs stand out, together with audiovisual and photographic material, form part of a unique and unmissable gallery from which obviously the Primo Grande could not be missing.
Upon direct invitation from the organization to the Club’s Historical Archives and subsequent management of the area which had the definitive approval of the Board of Directors, Racing has made available to the MHN a series of objects of incalculable historical value and which form part of the of the institution. Everything will be exhibited in the space reserved for the Academy together with other contributions from private collectors, to reconstruct the life and work that took place around our colours.
Some of the objects that belong to the club and that can be seen in the exhibition are the card of Honorary Member of Ramón Cereijo -Minister of Finance during the government of Juan Domingo Perón and the remarkable participation in the construction of the Cilindro-, a program in English of the first final of the Intercontinental Cup played in Scotland against Celtic and signed by the British actor Sean Connery -his photograph illustrates this publication-, a Memoria y Balance from the year 1912 or the construction plans of the President Perón stadium, among many other documents, photographs and representative elements of different racinguista moments.
The opening day of Pasión de Multitudes saw an initial speech by the Director of the MHN, Gabriel Di Meglio, and then with the words of Tristán Bauer, Minister of Culture of the Nation, on the historical importance of the exhibition and its access to the general public audience, eight months long which will have an agenda of talks, interviews, debates and screenings.
