Irish Roots in the Argentine World Cup Winner Team Mc/Mac Allister?

[Rich One]

Amazing story Alexis Mac Allister member of the Argentina National Team. Now plays in the UK , Man . United ?

The incredible story of Donabate, the Irish town who supported Argentina thanks to Alexis Mac Allister
Noel McAllister lives in a town in County Dublin and claims to have the same root as Alexis: how is the link and why their surnames are spelled differently.
December 21, 2022, 4:43 p.m.

Irish roots of Argentina's World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister | The Irish Post

IRELAND may not have been at the World Cup in Qatar but Irish fans were able to get behind Argent...

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Further comments, 90 % of the players come from Argentine Provinces, small towns / Interior. ... None from CABA or AMBA? Why?

 

[Johnny]

Amazing story Alexis Mac Allister member of the Argentina National Team. Now plays in the UK , Man . United ?

The incredible story of Donabate, the Irish town who supported Argentina thanks to Alexis Mac Allister
Noel McAllister lives in a town in County Dublin and claims to have the same root as Alexis: how is the link and why their surnames are spelled differently.
December 21, 2022, 4:43 p.m.

Irish roots of Argentina's World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister | The Irish Post

IRELAND may not have been at the World Cup in Qatar but Irish fans were able to get behind Argent...

www.irishpost.com

Further comments, 90 % of the players come from Argentine Provinces, small towns / Interior. ... None from CABA or AMBA? Why?

Señor Mac Allister plays for Brighton & Hove Albion. When he last played in Argentina he played for Boca Juniors.

 

[Rich One]

Multitudes shown now on TN greets Mac Allister in Santa Rosa , La Pampa.. A personal observation most players of this Seleccion come from a middle class background..?

 

[nikad]

Multitudes shown now on TN greets Mac Allister in Santa Rosa , La Pampa.. A personal observation most players of this Seleccion come from a middle class background..?

Most come from lower than middle class ( DiMaria, Martinez, Alvarez, Messi )

 

[Alby]

Travelling in northern Argentina in October and November of 1995, I well remember that Maradona had just returned to play his final stint at Boca, with his hair dyed blue and gold. We became a bit interested in football and would watch the games on television and have a bit of a chuckle at the comentators' pronunciation of the name of a red-headed player on the same team: MACAlister. We assumed he was some kind of import or player on loan from the UK, and Google didn't exist in those days to find the information at the push of a button. In fact, it was Carlos MacAllister, Alexis' father, later a secretary for sport in Macri's administration.

 

[Rich One]

Most come from lower than middle class ( DiMaria, Martinez, Alvarez, Messi )

Well just from a bird eye view evaluation Messi et. al. seem to come from a higher level than Villa Fiorito for Tevez and Maradona. They all had a warm plate of food..! every day.

 

[nikad]

Well just from a bird eye view evaluation Messi et. al. seem to come from a higher level than Villa Fiorito for Tevez and Maradona. They all had a warm plate of food..! every day.

Most likely yet they are not middle class. Maradona's family was closer to indingent.

 

[Rich One]

Just to agree ? , there is lower and upper middle class....!

 

[RichardP]

On another board I read that the lack of porteños on the team accounts for the lack of egos.

 

[ArgentinaVet]

There are many hundreds of thousands of Irish descendant Argentines and Irish surnames are actually more common and more familiar here than you might expect in a Spanish speaking country. There are many Irish origin surnames among the traditional landed gentry families and it's been that way for the last 150 years or so.