Wrote:
Ahmed Farouk
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Monday, May 11, 2020
7:06 PM
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In the first edition of the World Cup, which Uruguay hosted in 1930, the Argentine national team emerged as a prominent footballing power, and qualified for the final match before losing the title to the benefit of the landlords.
But that step was not followed by a major development at the global level, despite the distinction of the Argentine national team in the continental competition “Copa America”, which caused great frustrations for Argentine football, especially in light of the brilliance of Uruguay and then Brazil in the World Cup.
Argentina won the right to host the 1978 World Cup, and it seemed an opportunity to end the patience that has spanned exactly half a century, since FIFA made the decision to establish the World Cup in 1928.
The Argentine World Cup was the most controversial version in the history of the World Cup tournaments, as it witnessed many claims to boycott the tournament for political reasons, due to human rights violations in Argentine soil during that era, and Dutch legend Johan Cruyff refused to participate in the tournament after he was threatened.
That tournament was also the first World Cup tournament to witness the presence of a sponsor for the version, as it was sponsored by a soft-water company, and the first World Cup that saw its rules of penalty shoot-out in the event of a tie, but the penalty shootout did not come to light except in the next version, due to lack of Any match surpassed its time by a draw.
The 1978 World Cup also witnessed one of the most “dubious” results in the history of the World Cup, after the hosts swept the Peruvian national team with a clean sixth at the end of the two groups ’quarter-final competitions, which were directly qualifying the leaders to the final confrontation, and that result caused the Argentine national team to outperform its Brazilian counterpart. On goal difference, qualifying to meet the Netherlands in the final.
The Argentine national team opened its tournament in the first group behind its Italian counterpart, before leading the second group in front of Brazil, Poland and Peru in the quarter-finals, and in the final confrontation in which the Dutch national team suffered from an unusual atmosphere, the Argentine team won 3 goals against a goal, after The game ended in a 1-1 draw, and the Tango dancers embraced the Gold Cup for the first time.
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