Soccer World Cup 1982 / Argentina

This article covers the Argentina national soccer team at the 1982 World Cup .

qualification

Argentina automatically qualified as defending champions in 1978.

Argentine contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
2	Hector Baley	CA Talleres	11/16/1950	0	0	0	0
7th	Ubaldo Fillol	CA River Plate	07/21/1950	5	0	0	0
16	Nery Pumpido	CA Vélez Sarsfield	07/30/1957	0	0	0	0
Defender
8th	Luis Galvan	CA Talleres	02/24/1948	5	0	0	0
14th	Jorge Olguín	CA Independiente	05/17/1952	5	0	1	0
15th	Daniel Passarella	CA River Plate	05/25/1953	5	2	1	0
18th	Alberto Tarantini	CA River Plate	December 3rd, 1955	5	0	0	0
19th	Enzo Trossero	CA Independiente	05/23/1953	0	0	0	0
22nd	José van Tuyne	Racing Club	12/13/1954	0	0	0	0
midfield player
1	Osvaldo Ardiles	Tottenham Hotspur	08/03/1952	5	1	1	0
3	Juan Barbas	Racing Club	08/23/1959	2	0	0	0
4th	Daniel Bertoni	AC Florence	03/14/1955	5	2	1	0
5	Gabriel Calderón	CA Independiente	02/07/1960	4th	0	0	0
9	Américo Gallego	CA River Plate	04/25/1955	4th	0	1	1
10	Diego Maradona	CA Boca Juniors	10/30/1960	5	2	1	1
12	Patricio Hernández	Estudiantes de la Plata	08/16/1956	0	0	0	0
13	Julio Olarticoechea	CA River Plate	10/18/1958	0	0	0	0
striker
6th	Ramón Díaz	CA River Plate	08/29/1959	4th	1	0	0
11	Mario Kempes	CA River Plate	07/15/1954	5	0	1	0
17th	Santiago Santamaría	Newell's Old Boys	08/22/1952	2	0	0	0
20th	Jorge Valdano	Real Zaragoza	04.10.1955	2	0	0	0
21st	José Daniel Valencia	CA Talleres	10/03/1955	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	César Luis Menotti		05/11/1938

Argentina team matches

First round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	05: 10
2.	Argentina	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	04: 20
3.	Hungary	3	1	1	1	012: 600	+6	03: 30
4th	El Salvador	3	0	0	3	001:130	−12	00: 60

• Argentina - Belgium 0: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Camp Nou ( Barcelona )

Spectators: 95,500

Referee: Wojtech Christow ( Czechoslovakia )

Goals: 0: 1 Vandenbergh (62.)

• Argentina - Hungary 4: 1 (2: 0)

Stadium: Estadio José Rico Pérez ( Alicante )

Spectators: 32,093

Referee: Belaid Alcarne ( Algeria )

Goals: 1-0 Bertoni (26th), 2-0 Maradona (28th), 3-0 Maradona (57th), 4-0 Ardiles (60th), 4: 1 Pölöskei (76th)

• Argentina - El Salvador 2-0 (1-0)

Stadium: Estadio José Rico Pérez ( Alicante )

Spectators: 32,500

Referee: Luis Barrancos ( Bolivia )

Goals: 1-0 Passarella (22nd) 11m , 2-0 Bertoni (52nd)

World champion Argentina started the opening game of the World Cup against Belgium with its 21-year-old superstar Diego Maradona and many praise. The deserved 1-0 defeat was pure disillusionment, but not the end of the favorite. Already against Hungary in the second game the gauchos got going. The 2-0 win against the blatant outsider El Salvador was more worrying again. But the Belgians did not uproot trees either. 1-0 against El Salvador, which the Hungarians lost in the first game 1:10 (!). Against the Magyars, goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff & Co. managed a 1: 1 that was only secured late. But that was enough to win the second group ahead of Argentina.

Second round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	2	2	0	0	005: 300	+2	04-00
2.	Brazil	2	1	0	1	005: 400	+1	02: 20
3.	Argentina	2	0	0	2	002: 500	−3	00: 40

• Italy - Argentina 2: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Estadio Sarriá ( Barcelona )

Spectators: 43,000

Referee: Nicolai Rainea ( Romania )

Goals: 1-0 Tardelli (55th), 2-0 Cabrini (67th), 2-1 Passarella (83rd)

• Argentina - Brazil 1: 3 (0: 1)

Stadium: Estadio Sarriá ( Barcelona )

Spectators: 43,000

Referee: Mario Rubio Vazquez ( Mexico )

Goals: 0: 1 Zico (11th), 0: 2 Serginho Chulapa (66th), 0: 3 Júnior (75th), 1: 3 Díaz (89th)

Argentina initially met Italy in the second final round . In a very tough game, Argentina lost 2-1. Playmaker Maradona was covered by the uncompromising Claudio Gentile , but had no luck with the referee performance: Gentile knocked him down with a punch and only saw yellow. Maradona also set a free kick to the crossbar. Pasarella's late goal in the 83rd minute could not change the defeat. Argentina barely had a chance against tournament favorites Brazil and lost 3-1. Maradona had lost her nerve and kicked his opponent Batista in the stomach far from the ball and saw red. The subsequent goal fell in the 89th minute and couldn't turn the game around.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football World Cup 1982, Franz Beckenbauer, Bertelsmann Verlag ISBN 3-570-00686-7 , page 142