Kempes scored 149 goals in 246 official matches for Valencia, numbers that describe production but not the feeling he left behind. A year later, with fellow Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano as coach, Valencia won the European Cup Winners’ Cup and then the European Super Cup. The publication became a cultural bridge, carrying the authority of Argentine football into European offices where South American players were often evaluated through photographs, dispatches, and instinct. Afterward, Kempes scored 27 times in 92 matches. Valencia sent him to River Plate in March 1981, but the Argentine club could not complete the 300 million peseta payment, about 1.8 million euros.