Dante Panzeri

Dante Panzeri

The Argentine sports journalist, whose enormous intellectual capacity led him to write from a young age on topics not only sports, stood out for the great influence of his opinions, especially those published in the magazine El Gráfico. His idea of football as a “dynamic of the unthinkable” had a great impact on the way of seeing that game, both for fans and professionals of this mass sport. His sharp, independent and incisive criticism provided him with numerous enemies throughout his career, to which Panzeri always replied by appealing to ethical and professional moral questions.

With his extraordinary journalistic vocation and his unforgettable teachings he trained several generations of journalists who, even today, claim him with remembrance. "Apparently it is just like that, che, Dante: when we get it, in life and on the pitch, where the balls are seen, the ball looks for the player.