It’s here. Just what this World Cup needed, and it will complete a spectacular semi-final. The Argentina-England match will be historic, between two nations that clearly have unresolved social (the Falklands War) and sporting issues. This is a football match, but those 74 days in 1982 strained the relationship between the two countries to a degree that persists to this day.<\/p>\n
“And you see, anyone who doesn’t jump is an Englishman,” the Argentine fans often chant in the stands. And Wednesday’s game in Atlanta is going to be heated, at least on the field.<\/p>\n
Lionel Messi shares heartfelt moment with fan after receiving a blessed gift from the Vatican<\/p>\n
Interestingly, it is an unprecedented duel for Lionel Messi, who has never in his career (neither friendly nor official) faced the English National Team since his debut in the National Team in 2005.<\/p>\n
A sporting duel that Diego Maradona redeemed for his people with that 2-1 victory (the ‘Hand of God’ and the ‘Goal of the Century’) in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup.<\/p>\n
Earlier, in the 1966 World Cup, the so-called ‘Battle of Ratt\u00edn’ took place. The quarterfinal match between Argentina and England became famous because the Argentine captain, Antonio Ratt\u00edn (who passed away today), was sent off by German referee Rudolf Kreitlein. There were no cards in football back then. Ratt\u00edn remained on the pitch for 10 minutes and crumpled an English corner flag. That match led FIFA to create the system of cards for players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s here. Just what this World Cup needed, and it will complete a spectacular semi-final. The Argentina-England match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-537707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}