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...first thing that comes to mind is the failure of France and Argentina to reach the second round. That makes me wonder whether the French, who showed an exquisite touch in their own World Cup (1998) where they were crowned as champs for the first time, merely had a bad year this time around or simply couldn't shake out the souffl? factor - you have to eat it while it's fluffy and hot, and it can't be reheated. Four years later, and playing away from la patrie, they may just have cooled off. The Argentineans had too much...
...good thing Chung is used to hard knocks. For months, the co-chairman of South Korea's World Cup Organizing Committee has been dropping coy hints about running in the country's presidential election this December?an election that will likely be as rough-and-tumble as an England-Argentina match. Now that South Korea's can-do football team has battled its way to the semifinals, the nation is awash in feel-good vibes and a newfound sense of national unity. All that is rubbing off on Chung. The latest polls give him 15% in a race with...
...service the engines of eight British-made Hawker Hunter fighter jets like those used to attack Chile's presidential palace. The standoff at the engine plant near Glasgow lasted five years. Apart from his discussion of Chile's covert assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett's focus on political symbiosis seems narrow. "You could say," he writes, "that Britain and Chile have acted as each other's political subconscious." It is arguably true that British businessmen gave Chile "its first harsh taste of international capitalism" and that...
...most excruciating example of an needlessly elaborate game strategy came in Argentina's final outing, against Sweden. With the Swedes reluctant to leave their own half, the South American champs were easily able to feed the ball to Pablo Aimar and Ariel Ortega, who were in turn meant to create scoring opportunities for Gabriel Batistuta. Both of these diminutive players have had the misfortune of being tagged "the new Maradona." Perhaps the heavy burden of that label compelled them to show off their dazzling skills every time they received the ball, weaving one way, then the other, deceiving a couple...
...their final games, both France and Argentina had the ball nearly twice as much as their rivals. The gospel of possession football, preached by coaches everywhere, promises victory to the side that keeps the ball the longest. But this only works when the opposition actually wants the ball. Against France, the Danes didn't: they were happy to let Les Bleus play around for as long as they wanted. And the team that won the "Group of Death," Sweden, had less than 50% possession in each of its first-round games. It isn't about how long you have...