Once In A Lifetime: Argentina I Episode 1: Land Of Silver

[@castlescoke6073]

just dropping the whole series on us at once? how luxurious.

[@partizanrebelgrade7754]

Well we did wait for two full f@@@g years, that’s the least they could do for us

[@Cicero82]

Netflix style!

[@pablorabey8920]

As an argentine, i must say that there is one hell of a difficult task to capture and describe our very unique idiosincracy with such a level of detail and accuracy the way this documentary did. A real masterpiece.

[@arronblack67]

FINALLY……..! And to the Argentinian people we in Scotland love Diego’s first goal also 😉 Larga vida, Diego 🇦🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ratio2007]

So do some here in England. Peter Shilton got outjumped by a 5ft6" master. Argentina are the superior footballing nation hands down

[@TRFA-u4t]

BRAZIL 5 WORLD CUPS..... ARGENTINA ONLY 3 😭😭😭

[@sedef9502]

@@TRFA-u4t omg how ridiculous you are. Writing this under every video of this serie.

[@josuesanchez9190]

🇦🇷🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lobofooty]

As a Canadian born to Argentine parents, I love Scottish football, and my trip to Hampden was special knowing it was the site of Maradonas first international goal

[@inchaoswetrust]

I’ve been fascinated by Argentinian culture for as long as I can remember…then I went there and it multiplied tenfold. What an incredible place, 3 months there…met some of the most amazing people, saw unbelievable nature, architecture, eat unreal food. Can’t wait to go back.

[@raphanicaise]

Come back mate!

[@CavernSaga]

Nice

[@davidholt1250]

Is it true that the women are extremely beautiful but also very neurotic?

[@caheroyan]

The way that this documentary captures the Argentine essence is extraordinary. The best thing I have seen in ages.

[@believerofoneness]

I was in Argentina in March this year, but in the not so touristy San Juan, La Rioja and Catamarca province. The only other tourists there were Argentines from other provinces and Uruguayans. The people were so curious about what I was doing there, as they rarely see tourists. They were so surprised to hear that I had to fly 15 hours to get there and they asked so many questions. Where I am from, what am I doing here, if I like it here, and so on. And they loved that I made an attempt to speak in Spanish. In the end they would always say ''You are very welcome here''. I never had a bad experience. Such great people, amazing food and insane landscapes

[@Sergio2006A]

Glad you had a good time in my country and liked it.

[@datagonia]

That will be the kind of treatment you will get in most of latin america. Of course we have bad things, but we are probably the most welcoming people in this planet.

[@midogoratti7736]

Te queremos!

[@MrLaizard]

Argie here, more precisely from the Capital (City of Buenos Aires), after having travelled extensively across the world visiting "exotic" destinations in remote regions in other continents than the american one; I must admit that La Rioja and Catamarca rank among the most fascinating secret jewels worldwide

[@OnnyshkaWalk]

No es que no veamos turistas, es que somos curiosos y nos gusta hablar 😅

[@paulheat3460]

This must be the best documentary about Argentinian football I´ve ever seen. And its coming from an Argentinian. Great job.

[@ryanmartinez6722]

Copa90 is back. Please continue to produce this type of longer form of content. Like the Superclasico doc and the Southampton vs Portsmouth doc. Even the shorter Derby Day videos. This type of content is incredible. Bravo for covering the game like nobody else.

[@vishnunair7607]

I remember when I first watched "The crazy day Messi saved his and Argentina's legacy" video on Copa90. I was in tears because I saw a man will his team through the WC qualifiers despite all odds. Watching people crticize and troll Messi for not being able to win an International trophy was agonizing. I would pray for Messi to win just one international trophy before he retired and silence the naysayers. Fast forward 7 years, Messi has now won 2 Copa Americas, a Finalissima and the crowning jewel, a World Cup. He has silenced all doubters and converted many into believers. What a comeback. Unparalleled legacy. Thanks Copa90 for this.

[@StevenBallesteros-c5v]

As an Australian born from Argentine parents I’m speechless…. Everything that was shown & said is everything I was told by my parents (and relatives in Rosario) whilst I was a young boy to now. From immigration to the economy to food & football & el Gaucho it’s like I was listening to my family talk to me again Yes I’m Australian & love this country but I also have Argentine blood & passion that I cannot ignore & a tradition/culture that will stay with me for ever

[@ManoleitorArg]

As an Argentinian i can asure you if both of your parents are Argentinians, your are Argentinian, no matter where you born 😁

[@josepjose]

Un argentino nace donde quiere amigo!

[@sebastiand.9534]

this is THE BEST documentary of ARGENTINA. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for making this. Gracias.... totales.

[@ocfootball_2970]

Didn’t think you could top the Superclásico but wow…goosebumps.

[@tahigarcia9902]

The best football story ever told

[@elflacorodriguez]

Es una Verdadera Joya este documental. Bravo 👏

[@bakierfidan]

Just opened a six pack and gonna watch this. Fuck the job tomorrow! Cheers to Argentina and football 🍻

[@zenyatta18]

this is probably the 3 best sports series i've ever seen in my life ..... that's the way to make a sport series .. extraordinary filming , mixture of society and culture with the sport and a jaw dropping narrative ... hats off ... The modern El Grafico .. copa 90

[@DavidVujanic]

Football's Anthony Bourdain

[@spaps_]

THIS. 👏

[@ocfootball_2970]

Perfectly analogy

[@flavion3807]

Just as narcissistic and virtue signaling as well.

[@statealchemistkev]

@@flavion3807well Bourdain was a Chef, were all like that in a sense..

[@roman19044]

I didnt even seen the full first episode but as an argentinian and ex football player, I got to say you put in Words a lot of the feelings I had as a child playing everyday in the “potrero”. We didnt had a lot of things but just with a ball made of socks or a punctured old ball we were the most happy childs in the world, playing hours till the sun goes down. Congrats 👏🏻

[@kuroazrem5376]

Copa90 and Argentina are a match made in heaven.

[@darwleg]

I always pray for Argentina to return to being one of the main economic powers, just as it was between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. A country full of culture like Argentina has to reemerge like the Phoenix. Amen. 🙏

[@COMPASS_MDP]

Until mid XX century, ay least...

[@darwleg]

@@COMPASS_MDP *AT least, compa, at least 😉

[@NYCfrankie]

I'm Italian American from Bensonhurst Brooklyn born and raised 💯%🇮🇹 and I'm lucky enough to have dual citizenship in America and Italy my moms family is from Trapani in Sicily and my dads family is Neapolitan outside of Italy going to Argentina and Uruguay are absolutely my favorite places to go I'm a professional poker player so my job has allowed to travel around the world but I've recommended Argentina to so many people as a travel destination the food people and culture are just intoxicating Buenos Aries really is like being in Napoli

[@rogerzal7493]

❤

[@MrLaizard]

Altough most of argentinians of italian descent find thier roots in northern italian regions rather than in the Mezzogiorno

[@chopediaz8922]

Conocí Napoli hace dos años y para mí fue como estar en mi casa en Buenos Aires. Absolutamente todo me resultó familiar! Fue increíble!

[@CortinasforestalesChaco]

Frankie, you are welcome, it is true that Buenos Aires is similar to Naples in many ways, you can answer with a hand on your heart, which pizza is tastier, the one from the United States, Argentina or the Italian one, it doesn't matter the result.

[@lennywaters3088]

Brillante!!!!!!, lo mejor que vi hasta ahora de quienes somos los ARGENTINOS, muy bien elaborado para resumir en 35 minutos y fácil de entender... Aunque ser ARGENTINO es un sentimiento “No te lo puedo explicar, porque no vas a entender” ¡Un enrome abrazo amigo!. Brilliant!!!!!!, the best thing I've seen so far about who we ARGENTINES are, very well crafted to summarize in 35 minutes and easy to understand... Although being ARGENTINEAN is a feeling "I can't explain it to you, because you won't understand" ¡a huge hug friend!

[@Voltairec]

Surreallllllllllllllllllll……bless your soul amigo! You so beautifully focused all episodes on people and million emotions connected with football or life. Nowhere in the world is football/sport is so entwined with all aspects of life as in Argentina! Eternal thanks

[@MeatVision]

Man, I have to congratulate you because you showed the complex social relation between football and argentineans, with exquisite photography. Great reporting. Regards from 🇦🇷

[@CallumBlyth]

We are so fucking back boys

[@BxlHoppr]

We are so lucky to have this series dropping, I am so honest

[@extremeterrainwrestlingrob1660]

Yesss! Finally been waiting for a new video!

[@sedef9502]

Omg what a storytelling. I had goosebumps in several places of the video.

[@gabrieljucht8578]

Spectacular! great editing and music. And the mix between football and other aspects of the argentinian society, ive never seen before.

[@karbserk2661]

Beautiful documentary!! The only thing I don't agree with is the definition of "viveza criolla" shown. I think it's not necessarily relative to cheating and feeling satisfied for coming out triumphant despite that. Besides, the term covers more than this topic itself. Viveza criolla could save you from being robbed or scammed. But robbers or scammers could say that THEY are using it. It's complicated haha. In my opinion, what gives us satisfaction, at least in the case of the Hand of God, is the fact that it helped beating England right at that moment, after the so unjust war. It was like a very small revenge, compared to what came before. Anyway the second goal is like ok you want a "legal" goal? You got it.. So in that sense, I think that also gives to that match, and to Diego, a lot of validation, that makes the first goal secondary in terms of importance. For example, I don't enjoy the topic of the suspicious Bilardo's bottle against Brazil. Or some things about the 1978 WC aswell. I just wanted to mention this things, so that you don't get the idea that we are proud of, or trying to cheat as if it were our primary objective or method to begin with. Thank you!!!

[@datruccone]

Well said, "Viveza criolla" is like lateral thinking and can be used for good or bad. Many times the line between good and bad depends of who is using the "viveza" and the marketing on top of it.

[@robbiebalboa]

You just dropped 4 episodes all at once. F***** Christmas has come early. 🙏

[@RedFoxRun-44]

Great to see you back in action! Thanks for dropping all 4 parts at once!

[@StrachanFilms]

The nostalgia part is weirdly similar to Britain, the food/passion for football is Italian. Wonderful work guys, fascinating

[@Tupavada]

Excelente primer capítulo! Hay muchas afirmaciones que son subjetivas, pero en líneas generales reflejan muy bien la idiosincrasia de la pasión en la forma de vivir del argentino "promedio" Visualmente el documental está excelentemente grabado (nivel profesional) Felicidades por este material! Saludos fraternos!👏🏻👋🏻

[@AvinashMalla]

Love the constant background music. 10 minutes in and already engrossed. I'm very sure I'll finish the whole series tonight.

[@navii_xi]

amazing, worth the wait. love the editing and just the cinematography/music goes hand and hand. Brillant Work

[@Crespacion]

Como siempre de una calidad inmejorable. Pero me quedo con la gran cantidad de frases perfectas que consiguen describir el carácter e idiosincrasia del país. Todos los que aparecen se expresan perfectamente y saben elegir la frase adecuada para que Eli al montar el vídeo consiga hacer algo tan bueno.

[@UPTeVe]

I'm truly amazed by the quality and the narrative style f this video. it's absolutely flawless. Watching next ep right now. As a video producer and as an Argentinian, I can’t find words to describe who good this piece is. Thank You!!!

[@danielneilson3706]

Never clicked on a link faster. Come on Copa 90. You guys used to be this amazing always. Whatever your paying Eli quadruple it. Hes taught us so much through these videos. I need more

[@tylerharalam3411]

WE ARE SO BACK. C90 captured my love with Derby Days, and it’s reignited with this

[@ericneil8626]

One of the best documentaries involving football ever made. This series of videos is a masterpiece..

[@nachofernandez3228]

Dios tio pero qué puta pasada de video. Aguante Argentina!

[@jonashummel3330]

Wow. I don't even know what to say more than that. Spectacular!

[@chapero1]

Amazing stuff guys.

[@nanoz7734]

You just dropped a bomb man. What a video.....chills

[@jakaparker]

12:29 The perfect climax.

[@dagang2305michelin]

BANGGG YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

[@kokonana4086]

COPA90 divinely captures the heart and soul of Argentina! I've learned about Argentina and their great football culture from this documentary much than other hundred books and videos combined.

[@the-persian-boy]

lets fucking goooooo. the wait is over

[@oscarbrisenocanul5407]

Este documental inicia increíble y se pone, mejor y mejor

[@leopekar7933]

You have done such a brilliant job. It’s so hard to explain the passion and madness without understanding of the culture and social fabric. I feel 100% represented and characterised in the way you articulate and extract our essence. Well done ❤

[@electrodarkg]

AMAZING JOB. i can't waint for the next episodes of this saga!

[@JoacoCarnero]

As an argentinian, I can confirm you guys really spot on the "viveza criolla" concept.

[@Sr.ChilePepper]

Holy Shit! What a Christmas present and great way to start my day. I know the wait has been worth it. All my devices are on Do Not Disturb, cracking a cold one and sitting back to enjoy. Edit: That quote from El Secreto De Sus Ojos, hits every footy loving guy that watches it as the ultimate universal truth. Sort of a football equivalent to The Three Universal Truths of Buddhism.

[@JoacoCarnero]

Wow, what a great documentary! Argentina really is the best country in the world 🇦🇷🌎. Cheers from Mendoza, Argentina.

[@qkomodo9098]

I've literally been waiting for this moment for MONTHS and it dropped as I slept? This lunch break is gonna go HARD

[@jsrod88]

Increible trabajo, felicitaciones!

[@callumhitchcockcomedy]

At 4 minutes in I thought, 'This is Chasing the Sun but for football'. Eli's done it again.

[@callumhitchcockcomedy]

I'm 13 minutes in and this is way better than Chasing The Sun.

[@Sean-rm1in]

Love seeing the International Break footage from 2018

[@truthheidelberg]

After 1.21 mins i am already in love with this! ❤❤❤❤ The true essence of team-sports....it's never JUST a game 🙌🙌

[@manjunathprasadcv3332]

That Messi entry in the end.... Absolute Cinema ❤

[@valentina.montalvo]

Que emoción! GRACIAS 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@sowen3192]

These episodes are brilliant. Thank you

[@MrViperTech]

Holy shit, very nice video. Could've easily watched this on Netflix. Good Job. Greetings from the best country in the world. Argentina 😎

[@KebenCosme]

Glad that we have the usual lads from the Derby Days Superclasico running it back! Eli, Santi, Izzy..wow.

[@emiliano8669]

Lo bien que capturaste la esencia Argentina no te ye lo puedo explicar

[@Kmjr10]

The most beautiful documentary I have seen!❤️ just wow😮‍💨

[@sammysam961]

I’m less than 5 minutes into this episode and I can already tell it’s gonna be one of the best football documentaries I’ve ever watched

[@NerdOfVideoGames]

BOY I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! LETS GO ELIIIIIIIIII

[@bruno_tcs]

If you take the parts about football out of this documentary, it could well be a documentary about Argentina society history 😮 bravo! 🙌🏻

[@TheMarkieHD]

We love you Eli - so excited for this time to grab some popcorn 😊

[@wenceslaoswieczewski]

Es una locura el documental. Its mad the documental

[@nachosicardi]

wow these argentinians are awesome. saludos desde Argentina

[@everydayisfriday4885]

Waited for this so long without having any love for the team! This is a culture study!

[@user-vb1ye4gm1p]

Amazing.. I can't wait to see the next episode

[@josecravero5423]

Minuto 18 cuando hablan del Diego es imposible no emociarte te amo DIEGO

[@MrLaizard]

Lo he amado y amo como si fuese un hermano o un tío querido, vivo en Europa hace mucho tiempo y me he peleado fiero (sobretodo con gaitas acomplejados y ardidos) defendiéndolo contra todo tipo de ataque e insulto

[@laflamablancah]

I feel like I've missed Eli telling Football's stories. Glad we're back! Saw someone else call him Football's Anthony Bourdain; accurate.

[@xeneizexxii]

The documentary that shares to the world, exactly how our culture is! This series was above EPIC.

[@pabloara8806]

Tremendo documental!!! Excelente!

[@dan1canham]

Don't let us wait...amazing!!!

[@hrln3384]

This is the best serie on KZbin now pleas continu

[@JulianColombo-po9tr]

This is an absolutely brilliant documentary.

[@JonitoFischer]

The problem in 2001 was not debt, it was that banks robbed people's money (because they were allowed by the government) and when ordinary people tried to get its money back, it was not there, it vanished. Imagine doing that in the US...

[@0211brucetube]

Four episodes at once?!! Amazing 🎉

[@murray9807]

The Spanish named it "Rio de la Plata" because it was the river that connected the silver mines in Potosi with the Atlantic. Why can't no one get this right?

[@MrLaizard]

Actually "Plate" has nothing to do with silver, it was a mistake on translation from dutch seafarers who described the Rio de la Plata as a "Platt Rivier" since is its waters are tranquil flat and with a shallow depth

[@laquinta22]

31:30 , error , es mentira eso , hasta 1976 y la ultima dictadura militar los niveles de pobreza y desocupacion siempre fueron menores al 10% , de ahi para adelante todo fue un desastre sacando el kirchnerismo del 2003 al 2015 que fue el unico momento donde se bajo la pobreza, la desocupacion, aumento la clase media, los salarios y jubilaciones eran los mas altos de latino america y todo esto bajando la deuda del 118% del pbi al 45% , lamentablemente los grandes medios de comunicacion bombardearon a la pobacion proponiendo que se necesitaba un "cambio" el 55% asi lo entendio y volvimos a ser lo que fuimos desde la dictadura y donde estamos hoy

[@adriannuske]

Viveza Criolla: That uninformed and poorly worded journalist that says that it's the same for an Argentinian to make a feint and drugging a contender. That is NOT "viveza criolla". Viveza Criolla is the action of compensating for an injustice by means order or out of the rulebook. There's no "joy" in doing something "ilegal", but there's plenty in taking revenge in a way that cannot be repeated any other time, and brag about its timing and cleverness.

[@d.romero3014]

Everything Jonathan Wilson says is false. He only repeats the “black legend” taught in the Anglo-Saxon world. Rio de la Plata has that name because the Spaniards believed that by going up that river they would reach Potosi, the largest silver mine in America, and that they could use that river to transport the extracted silver in a more direct way than by going through the Pacific to present-day Colombia, through the jungle and into the Caribbean. The Spaniards never took “enormous quantities of gold” from the Americas. It is estimated that during the rule of the Spanish Empire some 165 tons of gold were extracted in four centuries. Only 19 tons reached peninsular Spain, the rest is in churches, hospitals and universities throughout Latin America. By the way, the Anglo-Saxons did not establish a single miserable Sunday school in America. There was never any indigenous genocide in Spanish America. Spain never devised or executed any plan to exterminate the natives. On the contrary, from the beginning of the conquest what they wanted was to integrate the population into the Spanish Empire and in many cases they succeeded. In the particular case of Argentina, in the current territory of Argentina, it is estimated that there were only about 100,000 inhabitants when the Spaniards arrived. The vast majority interbred with the Europeans. Compare that with what happened to the North American Indians...

[@alvarococovalenzuela]

That why we, as chileans, will never forget that we beat them twice in finals with Messi in the field. Great series! Congratz!

[@bigjoeofthe707]

About damn time!

[@paulpaulpianist]

Argentina is a country so nostalgic for the past that it has inflation, which is like having a very old disease, like tuberculosis. Let's keep talking about the past. It is bullshit to say that Argentina was an economic power between 1880 and 1930. It exported a lot, yes, but it imported much more and what it imported was much more expensive than what it exported. The main export of Argentina in those years of wealth was flour, the main export today as well. Nothing has changed in 150 years. Today it is still like that. While the real economic powers were manufacturing automobiles, airplanes, airships, elevators, gramophones or machine guns, Argentina was manufacturing cookies (although tinplate for packaging had to be imported and in periods of crisis it was complicated).More money went out than came in: for expensive imports, for debt payments, for dividends to foreign companies. The same problems as today. That Argentina, an economic power, had debts it could not pay, lived on foreign loans and investments. Those meat packing plants mentioned in the video were British, as were all the strategic sectors of that economic model.

[@robertodellavalle7884]

To everyone watching this video: it's Buenos Aires they are mostly talking about, not Argentina. The city is quite different from the rest of the country as a whole. But it's well done, anyways

[@samotonasiom7688]

You made me cry a lot!

[@pablochelini5914]

La hacemos corta... Argentina el mejor país del mundo!!! Y VIVA PERON !!!

[@nicolaskloster121]

Y esta vez fueron a la raiz bien al fondo, al nido de la serpiente, al drama psicologico que representa este placer y esta tortura que es el futbol para un argentino. Felicitaciones

[@pannagaj108]

Eli Mengem.... Football's greatest ever storyteller.

[@marianoborello7941]

2 años hubo que esperar para que alguien realmente explique lo que nos pasa con el futbol...brillante analisis sociologico

[@amenyonas3865]

best documentary

[@Timbsy]

ALREADY LIKED AND I HAVEN’T EVEN WATCHED 2 MINUTES YET

[@pibedebarrio]

Thank you for this 🫶🇦🇷⚽