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  • WELCOME
    • HOW IT ALL BEGAN....
  • EARLY HISTORY
    • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    • FIRST SETTLERS
    • RACETRACKS IN CORTE MADERA?
    • A VILLAGE EMERGES
    • BITS & PIECES >
      • Views from East Peak
    • 1913 "BOOSTERS"
    • RAILROADS
    • 1899 to 2014 VIEWS >
      • ANNOTATED PHOTO & MAP
    • PUSH FOR GROWTH
  • CORTE MADERA BECOMES A TOWN
    • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY >
      • EARLY MAP - CHRISTMAS TREE HILL
    • HOMES ARE BUILT
    • HISTORIC PHOTOS
    • HISTORIC PLACES
    • CORTE MADERA WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORY >
      • CM WOMEN'S CLUB IN THE 2000'S
    • 1926 Aerial View from 15,000 Feet
    • LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    • REAL ESTATE AD
    • FAMILIES GROW
    • SCHOOLS
    • BUSINESSES
    • CHURCHES
    • SPORTS
    • OLD TOWN SQUARE
    • MEADOWSWEET DAIRY >
      • STREETS RENAMED
  • OLDTIMERS' MEMORIES SHARED
    • WILLIAM ISAAC PIXLEY
    • HARRY RICHARDS
    • SONIA DELEW
    • LLOYD REA
    • HAROLD & MARY BATES
    • ELSIE THIERBACH
    • AUDA BORDANARO
    • HARRIET CONOW MADEIROS
    • FRED MORRIS
    • LOUISE LAMB
    • JAN VALK
    • AUGUSTINE HALL
    • ALBERT & JEAN LEVESQUE
    • MARY SCHWERDT
    • EDITH SCHLOBOM
    • WILLIAM TALLEY
    • GERALD GRANUCCI
    • ELVA WILSON
    • A VISIT WITH DOROTHY MALMGREN
  • BIG CHANGES AFTER WW II
    • 1952 MASSIVE GROWTH
    • REC CENTER
    • LIONS CLUB
    • BUSINESS BOOM
    • LIBRARY
    • SCHOOLS
    • NEIGHBORHOODS >
      • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY
      • MARINER COVE
      • VISTA DEL BAHIA
      • MADERA DEL PRESIDIO
      • MIRA VISTA
  • PUTTING THE BRAKES ON GROWTH
    • NEW ZONING ORDINANCE CUTS DENSITY
    • PUBLIC OPEN SPACE >
      • CORTE MADERA NORTHRIDGE
      • RING MOUNTAIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE
      • CORTE MADERA ECOLOGICAL RESERVE >
        • HEERDT MARSH
        • CORTE MADERA MARSHES
  • SHARE YOUR OWN STORY
    • ROBERT CARLETON
    • EARL & DONNA HART FAMILY
    • SUE BIGALL
    • KURT NORSTAD
    • ANNETTE PERRY
    • HARRY RICHARDS
    • BILL & PEGGY THOMAS
    • HARRY & ANNETTE SCHRIEBMAN
    • ANDY VIRENO
    • BOB VOGEL
    • ART DONATI
    • LUIS KUBICHEK & BOYS' SOCCER
  • THE TOWN WE LOVE
    • CORTE MADERA SONG
    • SCENIC VISTAS
    • CELEBRATIONS >
      • 50TH ANNIVERSARY
      • COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE
      • 75TH ANNIVERSARY
      • WOMEN'S CLUB 100TH BIRTHDAY
      • CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
      • MARQUART LAGOON REGATTA
      • JULY 4TH PARADE 2017
      • 4th of JULY PARADES
      • OKTOBERFEST
      • OKTOBERFEST 2018
      • CMWIC SPRING TEA 2019
      • CORTE MADERA WOMEN'S CLUB
  • CENTENNIAL YEAR EVENTS 1916-2017
    • NEW YEAR'S EVE KICKOFF
    • RAGTIME NIGHT
    • HISTORY WALKS
    • VINTAGE CAR SHOW
    • RING MOUNTAIN HIKE
    • WEEKEND100 EVENTS >
      • 75th ANNIVERSARY TIME CAPSULE
      • FAMILY FUN NIGHT >
        • 2016 TIME CAPSULE
      • WEEKEND100 BIKE PARADE, GAMES, MUSIC, CAKE
      • WEEKEND100 VIDEO
      • WEEKEND100 GROUP PHOTO
      • WEEKEND100 FIREWORKS
      • WEEKEND100 CHILI COOK-OFF & BALL GAME
    • FRED ASTAIRE NIGHT
    • ICE CREAM SOCIAL
    • OKTOBERFEST
    • SNOW DAY
    • TURKEY TROT 2016
    • TURKEY TROT 2017
  • THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF CORTE MADERA
  • LEGAL DISCLAIMER
  • CONTACT US
  • Women's Club Photos
Corte Madera Memories

CORTE MADERA BOYS' SOCCER TEAM GOES TO
1978 WORLD CUP IN ARGENTINA

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Former Corte Madera resident Luis Kubichek says that one of his treasured  memories is of accompanying a group of under-14 youth soccer players to Argentina in June 1978 for the World Cup.
 
 The boys had played remarkable soccer that season, Uruguay native Luis Kubichek recalls, so the idea of taking them to see the world’s best players came naturally. Kubichek poured energy into raising funds for the trip, and contributed generously to the cause himself, friends say. Some of the boys couldn't imagine the long trip, saying the most they had traveled was from Corte Madera to Novato.

With coach Pat Kehoe, Director of Recreation Jackie Branch, under-10 coach Ron Evans and wife Britt, Luis and wife Judy, and some parents along to chaperone, the group of about 25 enjoyed a month of cultural exchange and soccer fever.

An  Argentinian friend of Kubichek's, Jacobo Merlin, had many connections that made the trip such a wonderful experience for the boys. The Argentinian government gave the group the best accommodations in a Sports Center and arranged for them to visit a local school. Since they were the only boys team from the U.S. to participate in the boys' tournament, they were regarded as the U.S. boys national team.  They were invited to see the games of the World Cup, where soccer fans came  up to the astonished boys and asked for their autographs.
The group then traveled by train to the city of Mendoza in Argentina’s wine country, where each stayed at the home of a local family.  Later the boys went by hydrofoil boat from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Uruguay, where they   again stayed in private homes and participated in student exchange activities, storing up wonderful memories.
 
                                                                                                                                                                                      “I still smile when I think about the great time we had,” Kubichek says.


We would be glad to post the recollections of others who were on this 1978 trip. 
Please send them to us at Grassroots.CorteMadera@comcast.net

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Many thanks to Ron and Britt Evans for sending this in 2012 when we first began collecting longtime residents' stories about life in Corte Madera over the years:
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