Football World Cup 1998 / Argentina

Argentina reached the quarter -finals of the 1998 World Cup in France .

qualification

rank	country	Games	Gates	Points
1.	Argentina	16	23:13	30th
2.	Paraguay	16	21:14	29
3.	Colombia	16	23:15	28
4th	Chile	16	32:18	25th
5.	Peru	16	19:20	25th
6th	Ecuador	16	22:21	21st
7th	Uruguay	16	18:21	21st
8th.	Bolivia	16	18:21	17th
9.	Venezuela	16	8:41	3

Argentina	-	Bolivia	3: 1
Ecuador	-	Argentina	2-0
Peru	-	Argentina	0-0
Argentina	-	Paraguay	1: 1
Venezuela	-	Argentina	2: 5
Argentina	-	Chile	1: 1
Argentina	-	Uruguay	1: 1
Colombia	-	Argentina	0: 1
Bolivia	-	Argentina	2: 1
Argentina	-	Ecuador	2: 1
Argentina	-	Peru	2-0
Paraguay	-	Argentina	1: 2
Argentina	-	Venezuela	2-0
Chile	-	Argentina	1: 2
Argentina	-	Uruguay	0-0
Argentina	-	Colombia	1: 1

Argentine contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Carlos Roa	RCD Mallorca	08/15/1969	5	0	1	0	0
12	German Burgos	CA River Plate	04/16/1969	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Pablo Cavallero	CA Vélez Sarsfield	04/13/1974	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Roberto Ayala	SSC Naples	04/14/1973	5	0	1	0	0
3	José Chamot	Lazio Rome	05/17/1969	4th	0	2	0	0
4th	Hector Pineda	CA Boca Juniors	07/13/1975	3	1	0	0	0
6th	Roberto Néstor Sensini	AC Parma	October 12, 1966	3	0	1	0	0
13	Pablo Paz	CD Tenerife	01/27/1973	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Nelson Vivas	FC Lugano	October 18, 1969	4th	0	1	0	0
midfield player
5	Matías Almeyda	Lazio Rome	December 21, 1973	5	0	1	0	0
8th	Diego Simeone	Inter Milan	04/28/1970	5	0	1	0	0
10	Ariel Ortega	Valencia CF	03/04/1974	5	2	2	0	0
11	Juan Sebastián Verón	Sampdoria Genoa	03/09/1975	5	0	1	0	0
15th	Leonardo Astrada	CA River Plate	01/06/1970	0	0	0	0	0
16	Sergio Berti	CA River Plate	09/17/1969	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Marcelo Gallardo	CA River Plate	January 18, 1976	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Javier Zanetti	Inter Milan	08/10/1973	5	1	0	0	0
striker
7th	Claudio Lopez	Valencia CF	07/17/1974	5	1	0	0	0
9	Gabriel Batistuta	AC Florence	02/01/1969	5	5	0	0	0
18th	Abel Balbo	AS Roma	06/01/1966	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Hernán Crespo	AC Parma	07/05/1975	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Marcelo Delgado	Racing Club	March 24, 1973	0	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Daniel Passarella		05/25/1953

Games of Argentina

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Argentina	7-0	9
2	Croatia	4: 2	6th
3	Jamaica	3: 9	3
4th	Japan	1: 4	0

June 14, 1998 in Toulouse
Argentina	-	Japan	1: 0 (1: 0)
1-0 Gabriel Batistuta (28th)
June 21, 1998 in Paris
Argentina	-	Jamaica	5: 0 (1: 0)
1: 0 Ariel Ortega (32.) 2: 0 Ariel Ortega (55.) 3: 0 Gabriel Batistuta (73.) 4: 0 Gabriel Batistuta (79.) 5: 0 Gabriel Batistuta (83./ penalty)
June 26, 1998 in Bordeaux
Argentina	-	Croatia	1: 0 (1: 0)
1-0 Hector Pineda (36th)

Round of 16

June 30, 1998 in Saint-Etienne
Argentina	-	England	2: 2 n.v. (2: 2, 2: 2), 4: 3 i. E.
1: 0 Gabriel Batistuta (6th / penalty) 1: 1 Alan Shearer (10th / penalty) 1: 2 Michael Owen (16th) 2: 2 Javier Zanetti (45th)

Quarter finals

June 30, 1998 in Saint-Etienne
Argentina	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (1: 1)
0: 1 Patrick Kluivert (12th) 1: 1 Claudio López (17th) 1: 2 Dennis Bergkamp (89th)