Argentina national football team
Argentina national football team represents Argentina in men’s international football. La Selección, also known as La Albiceleste, has appeared in five World Cup finals. Argentina has been very successful in the Copa América, winning it 14 times. An Argentina team won the Olympics football tournaments in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. The River Plate stadium, Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, is a national stadium of Argentina national team.
About Argentina national football team in brief
Argentina national football team represents Argentina in men’s international football. La Selección, also known as La Albiceleste, has appeared in five World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost 4–2 to Uruguay. Argentina won in their next final in 1978, beating the Netherlands at extra time, 3–1. They won again in 1986, through a 3–2 victory over West Germany, and a tournament campaign led by the late Diego Maradona. Argentina last reached the World Cup final in 2014, where it lost 1–0 to Germany. Argentina has been very successful in the Copa América, winning it 14 times. The team also won the FIFA Confederations Cup and the Kirin Cup, both in 1992, and the 1993 Artemio Franchi Trophy. An Argentina team won the Olympics football tournaments in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Argentina also won seven of the 18 football competitions at the Pan American Games, winning in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1995, 2003 and 2019. In March 2007, Argentina reached the top of the FIFA World Rankings for the first time.
The River Plate stadium, Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, is a national stadium of Argentina national team that plays most qualifying and friendlies at that stadium. They play their matches outside the stadium at Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza, La Plata, San Juan and Santiago del Estero. The kit first worn by Argentina was a white shirt, at the official debut of the national side against Uruguay in 1902. In August 1908, Argentina debuted the light blue vertical stripe on white jersey. The away kits usually have been in dark blue shades, varying the colors of shorts and socks. At the 1958 World Championship, Argentina wore a yellow jersey of Swedish club IFK Malmö. The last moment Argentina changed the away jersey at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico is when manager Carlos Bilardo asked the team kit supplier Le Coq Sportif Sport for a lighter blue shirt that could not be provided for the quarter-final in three days against England.
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