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...Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team - depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament - hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn - who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games - oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before the final. (His anguish after...
...counterparts in the French, Argentine and Portuguese squads learned that lesson the painful way. It will be a while before the hurt subsides and reasoned analysis of their failure begins. "We can't understand what happened," Argentine captain Juan Sebastian Veron told journalists as he and other players caught a train to Tokyo, where their families awaited them. "It still hasn't sunk in." Perhaps he and his mates might consider the advice of another former Argentine national coach: Carlos Bianchi warned against too much head-scratching over last week's events. "It makes no sense to search for explanations...
...just finish them off. He is given to "dropping back to start movements from down the middle or on the flanks," Bielsa says. Still, this is an underrated quality, perhaps because the Argentine team is already richly endowed with playmakers?none more creative than the midfield genius Juan Sebastian Veron. Bielsa, many commentators suggest, doesn't need an extra goalmaker; he needs a forward who concentrates on the business of slamming the ball into the back of the net. Ergo, he needs Batistuta...
...banks melting down and the currency as porous as the Faroe Islands' defense, victory on the playing field could be the only joy for Argentines for the next four years. Their hopes rest on stars like Lazio's lethal strike pair of Hernan Crespo and Claudio Lopez. Juan Sebastian Veron is capable of finding them anywhere on the pitch, and behind him is formidable Romanista Walter "the Wall" Samuel. Argentina easily won its qualifying group in South America, but now finds itself in the so-called Group of Death with England, Nigeria and Sweden. As Argentina boasts some of football...
...ship planes, tanks and gunships to Israel but not O.K. for Iran to ship guns and ammunition to the Palestinians? SEBASTIAN MELMOUTH Peoria, Ariz...