Ataque
“Ataque”, a card game simulating football manufactured in Buenos Aires by Vigor S.R.L., 1958.
“Ataque”, a card game simulating football manufactured in Buenos Aires by Vigor S.R.L., 1958. Two teams - red and blue - attack and defend each other’s attempts to score a goal by playing their cards wisely. See the Rules►


Above: the blue team and the five football cards from “Ataque”, a card game simulating football manufactured in Buenos Aires by Vigor S.R.L., 1958. 45 cards + rules in box.

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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