For over a century, violence has plagued Argentinian football. Popular understandings of the problem, however, are sorely lacking, with violence too often written off as an external force invading the game. This article provides an alternative view, arguing instead that violent behaviours are endemic to the sociocultural composition of the game itself, and that incidents of belligerence and antagonism cannot be separated from its wider context. To approach this, I analyse a corpus of chants produced by supporters of River Plate, one of the largest clubs in Argentina, and indeed Latin America. The aim is to provide a more nuanced vision of violence, taking into consideration how it is conceived, regulated and discussed by a plurality of supporters. Focussing on the native concept of aguante and the specific sociocultural formation of masculinity in Argentinian football, I suggest that a range of aggressive, harmful behaviours are naturalised and legitimised by prevailing cultural tendencies in Argentinian football.

一个多世纪以来，暴力困扰着阿根廷足球。但是，人们对这个问题的认识非常缺乏，暴力经常被作为入侵游戏的外力而被注销。本文提供了另一种观点，认为暴力行为是游戏本身的社会文化组成所特有的，好战和对立事件无法与其更广泛的背景分开。为了解决这个问题，我分析了由River Plate的支持者制作的一首歌集，River Plate是阿根廷乃至拉丁美洲最大的俱乐部之一。目的是提供一种更加细微的暴力观，同时考虑到多个支持者如何构思，规范和讨论暴力。专注于阿瓜特人的本土概念 以及阿根廷足球中男子气概的特定社会文化形成，我认为阿根廷足球盛行的文化倾向使一系列侵略性，有害行为得以自然化和合法化。