Beat me to it. Loads of Italians went to Argentina. The Argentinian spanish even has an Italian intonation. Mauricio definitley from Italian, and I'd imagine his surname to. Quite a few Germans went there as well, hence Heinze who used to play fro Man U. Edit: Perhaps the Italian intonation is only Buenas Airies (spelling?) as I saw an excellent film, The secret of their eyes, which was based there.
