The last time there was a wave of visits by the likes of England and the then West Germany was in the build-up to the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, the last finals to be held in South America.
An exception was when Franz Beckenbauer brought his young side to Buenos Aires for a friendly in December 1987, a year after Diego Maradona's Argentina had beaten the Germans in the Mexico final and three before exacting revenge in Rome.
Guillermo Tofoni, a FIFA agent who organises Argentina's friendly calendar, said he had a remit to bring top teams to Argentina.
"We're working on that idea with level A national teams, to arrange South American tours including Argentina and Brazil from here to 2014," he told Reuters.
Tuesday's friendly, arranged before Spain were crowned world champions in South Africa in July, appears a first step in that direction, reigniting the interest of top sides to visit South America.
Since Germany's 1987 visit, the only leading sides to have come to Argentina were Denmark in 1993 when they were European champions and the former Yugoslavia in 1996.
Spain will be Argentina's second opponents since their World Cup elimination by Germany in the quarter-finals in June after which Maradona was not retained as coach.
