El Presidente S01e06 H264 ✯ [TRUSTED]

Instead of handing it over, Micky lights a match. The celluloid hisses and curls.

Just twenty-four hours earlier, the continental championship — hastily rebranded as a "Championship of the South" to appease the Argentine and Uruguayan giants — hung in the balance. Brazil had threatened to walk out. Paraguay demanded a replay of a match decided by a referee who had admitted, sotto voce, to being "distracted by a woman in the stands." el presidente s01e06 h264

Santiago, 1936. The air in the backroom of the Club de la Unión smelled of cigar smoke and desperation. Miguel "Micky" Díaz, the newly appointed secretary of the hastily formed Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, stared at the telegram in his trembling hands. Instead of handing it over, Micky lights a match

The match the next day is a farce. Chile wins 3–1, thanks to a penalty called on a phantom foul. As the Chilean flag rises, Micky stands alone in the tunnel, clutching the H.264 film reel of the match — the only evidence of the fixed penalty. The General's men are waiting for it. Brazil had threatened to walk out

Episode 6 had not been kind to him.

The episode opens with a slow zoom on a rotary telephone. It rings. Micky answers. On the other end is General Molina, the Chilean strongman who has funded half the teams' travel expenses. "Micky," the General says, voice like gravel, "I didn't lend you my railroad cars so you could have 'fair play.' I lent them so Chile wins."