{"id":527970,"date":"2026-07-15T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:13:15","slug":"fifa-world-cup-argentina-parade-malvinas-banner-after-semi-final-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527970\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Argentina parade \u2018Malvinas\u2019 banner after semi-final victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political tension between the nations can be traced back to 1982 and Argentina\u2019s invasion of the Falkland Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The war between Britain and Argentina lasted for 74 days and resulted in the deaths of 907 people, including 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 from Britain and three Falkland Islanders.<\/p>\n

\"Argentina'sArgentina’s players showed a banner that reads in Spanish, “The Malvinas [Falkland Islands] belong to Argentina”. Photo \/ Thomas Coex, AFP<\/p>\n

Argentine forces surrendered on June 14, 1982, which effectively ended the conflict and handed victory to the British.<\/p>\n

Back on the pitch, Diego Maradona\u2019s \u201cHand of God\u201d goal<\/a> at the 1986 World Cup<\/a> has been a sore spot for England supporters, but the Argentine forward followed it with one of the most impressive goals ever seen at the tournament.<\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s players have been filmed throughout the tournament singing songs about the \u201cMalvinas\u201d<\/a>, the name Argentina give to the islands, but their coach Lionel Scaloni sent a message to fans to remind them the fixture is just a game.<\/p>\n

Before the semi-final kicked off<\/a>, Argentina\u2019s Vice-President Victoria Villarruel called the English \u201cusurping pirates\u201d, while Argentina fans were also seen burning British flags.<\/p>\n

Fifa have strict rules about political expressions within stadiums during the World Cup, but did not take any action against the South American nation around their changing room chant. <\/p>\n

Go all in to unlock every Fifa World Cup 2026 match with a TVNZ+ Event Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The political tension between the nations can be traced back to 1982 and Argentina\u2019s invasion of the Falkland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,8018,230657,665,49324,105532,23552,10542,1634,260835,36862,3096,260833,111,139,69,1523,34258,260834,6725,10702,5500,21231,213,165,8982,5977,377],"class_list":["post-527970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-argentina","tag-argentine","tag-around","tag-banner","tag-belonged","tag-claimed","tag-cup","tag-england","tag-falkland","tag-fifa","tag-islands","tag-malvinas","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-parade","tag-paraded","tag-pitch","tag-players","tag-semifinal","tag-semifinals","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-victory","tag-which","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}