Wrote:
Ahmed Farouk
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Monday 11 May 2020
07:06 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 football power, and qualified for the final confrontation before losing the title to the interests of the hosts.
However, this step was not followed by a major development at the global level, despite the distinguished Argentine national team at the continental competition “Copa America”, which caused great frustrations for the Argentine football, especially in light of Uruguay’s brilliance 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 spanned exactly half a century, since the FIFA decided to establish the World Cup in 1928.
The Argentine World Cup was the most controversial version in the history of the World Cup tournaments.
That tournament was also the first World Cup to witness the presence of a sponsor of the copy, as it was sponsored by one of the carbonated water companies, as was the first Mondial version that witnessed the rules of asylum for penalty shootouts in the event of a tie, but the penalty shootout did not come to light except in the next version, due to the lack of Any confrontation exceeded its time with a tie result.
The World Cup 1978 also witnessed one of the most “dubious” results in the history of the World Cup, after the hosts swept the Peruvian team with a clean six in the conclusion of the two groups of the quarter-finals, which qualified the leaders directly to the final confrontation, and that result caused the Argentine team to outperform its Brazilian counterpart Goal difference and qualify for the Netherlands in the final.
And the Argentine team opened its career in the tournament by describing the first group behind its Italian counterpart, before leading the second group against Brazil, Poland and Peru in the quarter-finals, and in the final confrontation during which the Dutch team players suffered from an extraordinary atmosphere, the Argentine team won three goals against a goal, after The match ended in a draw, with a goal in play, for the Tango dancers to embrace the gold cup for the first time.
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