Even in the moments after England-Argentina was confirmed, there was fittingly a tension, that arose from different perspectives.
It was almost comic. Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni immediately insisted “this is a football game and that is all”, at pretty much the same moment all of his players were singing in the dressing room about winning “for Las Malvinas”.
It was the same with the “Muchachos” song that soundtracked the 2022 World Cup. There’s immediate mention of “the kids of Malvinas, that we’ll never forget”.
“You can feel it,” Javier Zanetti said when speaking in Diego Simeone’s documentary about the 1998 last-16 tie between the teams, Simeone himself adding that England-Argentina is “not related to football, but there’s something different about it.”
This is a true World Cup epic, and there are only a handful of fixtures that compare. Maybe Brazil-Italy, for the colour and football history, if not real history. Brazil-Argentina, but that happens all the time. In that sense, not even England-Germany feels the same, since that can also happen in the Euros.
It was almost comic. Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni immediately insisted “this is a football game and that is all”, at pretty much the same moment all of his players were singing in the dressing room about winning “for Las Malvinas”.
It was the same with the “Muchachos” song that soundtracked the 2022 World Cup. There’s immediate mention of “the kids of Malvinas, that we’ll never forget”.
“You can feel it,” Javier Zanetti said when speaking in Diego Simeone’s documentary about the 1998 last-16 tie between the teams, Simeone himself adding that England-Argentina is “not related to football, but there’s something different about it.”
This is a true World Cup epic, and there are only a handful of fixtures that compare. Maybe Brazil-Italy, for the colour and football history, if not real history. Brazil-Argentina, but that happens all the time. In that sense, not even England-Germany feels the same, since that can also happen in the Euros.
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