Word: hollander
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Argentina and Holland clash for soccer's World...
...join the host country in an exhausting series of round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star of the magnitude of Holland's Johan Cruyff and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1974. But when all but two of the national teams had limped off to apply diathermy and beer to their wounds, anyone not given to xenophobic sulking could agree that justice had been done. The teams that had been eliminated...
...Holland's Yongblood stopped a breakaway at the 12-minute mark of the first overtime, signalling the end--his fullbacks had simply run out of gas after nearly two hours of "total futbol...
Argentina scored the third goal just minutes into the second overtime to kill Holland's hopes and set off a celebration the likes of which has never been seen in Argentina...
Argentina 3, Holland...