Mauro Toledo

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the white and red half. I came to this country as a baby so I grew up here in the US as an American. English is my second language, although you’d never know it unless I told you. I have been watching football since I was 11 years old. I have been watching teams play the Copa Libertadores since those matches have been televised on Fox Sports Español and few years before that when I would have to sit through an hour of Mexican football highlights and news on Univision or Telemundo only to see the just the scores from this competition. I am an avid fan of River Plate of Argentina, a team I inherited from my father who was a member of the club and my family, including an uncle who actually played in the youth ranks for River, but have been able to retain a level head about my team’s performance with respect to the rest of the world and have done a good job of being impartial in my writing. I played football as a young man but a knee injury put an end to my short lived, completely below amateur career. I am a professional Designer/Art Director and do this blog on the side, follow the Argentine Primera league and Copa Libertadores closely, tend to my two small dogs, make handmade books and plush characters, make dinner for me and my wife and I and manage to squeeze in a surprising amount of football matches throughout all that as well as a lot of reading. So, that’s me in about 275 words, no nutshells.