Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great soccer carnival was run with efficiency, and the prevailing mood was one of warm hospitality. A foreigner walking through the swarming center of Buenos Aires was in danger of being danced with, and no visitor could escape being asked by young schoolgirls or dignified businessmen to predict Argentina's victory in the final...
Forty-five minutes later, the sturdy Argentines, famed for their aggression on the field as well as their fearsome behavior in the stands, took the field against Peru, a team of elderly stylists. The peculiar system of the rankings dictated that Argentina needed to win by four goals to advance to the final. Otherwise a disappointing Brazilian team would have faced the Dutch. The Argentines won 6-0, a result hard to obtain in soccer even if both teams are kicking in the same direction...
...standing-room sheep pens and refused to move. For the better part of an hour after the game, they remained where they were, bouncing rhythmically up and down, throwing whatever bits of paper they had forgotten to throw earlier, waving thousands of blue-and-white national flags and roaring, "Argentina! Ar-gen-ti-na!" To mark the occasion, antigovernment terrorists known as the Montoneros strewed pamphlets about Buenos Aires, praising the team but deploring the nation's rulers, and bombed the house of the Treasury Secretary...
...great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved...
None of these ponderous matters bothered the Argentines in the least. In the big three-tiered River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, at the outset of a first-round game between Argentina and Italy, the Argentine fans filled the floodlit night sky with a spectacular storm of torn-up paper. The shock waves set off by their cheering were perceptible as much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal...