Alexander Watson Hutton plaque

A plaque, commissioned by the Radio Rivadavia station in Buenos Aires, recognising Alexander Watson Hutton as ‘the Father of Argentine football’. Hutton was born in Glasgow’s Gorbals in 1853 and moved to Argentina in 1882 to work as a teacher. He founded the Argentinian League in 1891 and the Argentinian Football Association two years later. He also set up a football club called Alumni, who won 10 of the first 12 Argentine championships and provided the complete starting XI for the first ever international match played by Argentina, which ended in a 6-0 win over Uruguay in 1902. Watson Hutton died in Buenos Aires in 1936, aged 82.