increased security measures in place<\/a> because of the historical tensions.<\/p>\n“It’s part of the Argentine culture,” Argentine journalist Nicolas Rotnitzsky told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“It’s like ‘we are not them – we are us’. So we have to jump to prove that we are not one of them.”<\/p>\n
Rotnitzsky says that, alongside Brazil, England are considered Argentina’s greatest football rivals.<\/p>\n
“It’s not about hate, not at all,” Rotnitzsky said.<\/p>\n
“It’s important, getting our identity around what happened with the Malvinas. It’s about who we are.”<\/p>\n
Argentina midfielder Rodrigo de Paul said the chants are “very much about our heroes” and not about politics. <\/p>\n
“We have to understand that this is a football match and that the Malvinas issue needs to be discussed elsewhere,” De Paul said.<\/p>\n
England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said it’s “just a game of football” and predicted “football will do its talking”.<\/p>\n
Argentina’s April 2 War Veterans Federation has insisted the game is “not an armed rematch nor historical compensation”.<\/p>\n
But it is an inevitable clash between politics and sport.<\/p>\n
Argentina’s foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, said this week that the population of the Falklands Islands was “artificially implanted by the occupying power”. <\/p>\n
The UK government hit back, insisting Falkland Islanders are “British with a right to determine their own future”.<\/p>\n
Even Fifa cannot ignore the politics. <\/p>\n
Premier League referee Anthony Taylor was a contender to officiate the 2022 World Cup final but was ruled out when Argentina reached it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, has been a British Overseas Territory since 1833.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-549479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}