La Máquina (Spanish for "the Machine") is a nickname given to the River Plate team of the early 1940s. The core group of la Máquina were forwards Juan Carlos Muñoz, José Manuel Moreno, Adolfo Pedernera, Ángel Labruna, and Félix Loustau. Together, they won four Primera División in that decade.
The nickname was given to them by Borocotó, an Argentine sports journalist working for El Gráfico, after River Plate defeated Chacarita Juniors 6–2 in June 1942.[1]
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