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WORLD CUP 2006: ARGENTINA SIX-NIL

Buenos Aires Herald

SIX-NIL

Their performance was packed with classy, high-speed football and marvellous individual displays amid great teamwork and memorable goals — including an early contender for best of the tournament by substitute Esteban Cambiasso.

The display was all the more remarkable as it was achieved against a Serbian team who conceded just one goal in their qualifying campaign in a group that included Spain and arrived in Germany with a reputation as a tough nut to crack.

That was shredded by one of the most complete 90-minute performances seen at a World Cup for many years.

Within moments of the players leaving the pitch the Argentine fans turned their attention to the watching Diego Maradona, hero of their second World Cup success in 1986, who was swinging his shirt in wild celebration in the VIP box.

But not even Maradona’s team, nor the 1978 vintage who won the tournament on home soil, produced such an emphatic display against high-quality European opposition and it was a collection of "new Maradonas" who deserved the adulation.

Argentina now face a showdown with the Netherlands to decide top-spot in Group C. Marco Van Basten’s team also made it through to the last 16 yesterday with a 2-1 over Ivory Coast.

Source: Copyright "Buenos Aires Herald" - Herald staff with Reuters

GLOSSARY

SIX-NIL = SIX TO NIL (seis a cero)
performance: actuación, desempeño
packed with: repleta de
classy, high-speed football:
fútbol veloz y con mucho estilo
amid:
en medio de
early contender:
rival anticipado
tournament:
torneo
remarkable: notable
achieved: logrado, alcanzado
qualifying campaign:
campaña de calificación
as a tough nut to crack:
de ser duros como una suela (como una nuez difícil de romper)
shredded:
recortado, trabajado

World Cup: Copa Mundial
pitch: campo de juego, cancha
watching:
expectante
swinging:
agitando, sacudiendo
wild celebration:
desenfrenado festejo
VIP box:
palco VIP (Very Important People)
not even:
ni siquiera
1978 vintage:
clásico del año 1978
on home soil: en suelo nacional (Argentino)
who deserved the adulation: que merecían ser elogiados
face a showdown:
debe asumir un enfrentamiento decisivo
top-spot:
el máximo posicionamiento
also made it through:
también lo logró

 

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