On 22 October 1969, Estudiantes-Milan, the return match of the Intercontinental Cup, was staged in Buenos Aires. At the time the South American was playing against the European in a double match between home and away, with the 3-0 at San Siro which seemed to put the situation down. Upon entering the pitch the AC Milan fans are greeted with hot coffee on their heads, so much so that in the photos they are stained with coffee, the Argentinians with a ball each hit them with a ball each. Making it clear what the mood was.
Lodetti returned to the incident years later. “The match was agony, a continuous manhunt. When you had the ball they came and kicked you. To hurt you, mind you. The referee didn’t care. We took the lead with Rivera, then they overturned the result. but by then it was too late, we were safe for the final victory, given the 3-0 in the first leg. So the Argentines, since they could no longer win the Cup, decided to beat us for the rest of the match. There was a full-back who mowed down Prati, throwing him to the ground. Then the goalkeeper Poletti arrived and kicked him in the back. The real problem was our striker Nestor Combin they said that they considered him a traitor there, since he was Argentine but became French naturalized, what’s more he had also “dared” to score on the first leg, in short, they had promised him, they would make him pay on the way back, they told him and perhaps it was lighthearted to bring him . We had such an advantage after the first leg…”
Combin stops a pass in midfield and a defender enters with his feet at hip height. goalkeeper Poletti – who was later banned by the Argentine Football Federation, which was later revoked – punched him, breaking his nose and cheekbone, making him faint. At the end of the match, the Argentine police arrested Combin on charges of desertion. He was released after the intervention of the President of the Republic. In 1975 and 1978 the Intercontinental was not played for precisely this reason: in Argentina no one wanted to play anymore. Aguirre Suárez and Manera were arrested with a 30-day prison sentence and disqualified: the former for 30 league matches and 5 years of international activity, the latter for 20 matchdays and 3 years.