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Class acts: the maths teacher who taught Argentina’s Álvarez and Fernández
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The Guardian·about 15 hours ago

Class acts: the maths teacher who taught Argentina’s Álvarez and Fernández

Luciana Alvarengue likes to think she had the smallest of influences on two of her old pupils as they take aim at another World Cup

For all Argentinians, sitting down to watch the 2022 World Cup final was special – but for Luciana Alvarengue there was additional emotion.

In the Argentina side were not one but two players to whom she had taught maths at school: Enzo Fernández and Julián Álvarez.

“They are still my students, even if they are no longer in the classroom,” she says.

“To see it with my son telling me: ‘Mamá, there are your students’ … that’s really nice.”

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Sources: The Guardian

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