Argentina national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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Associatoon
Argentine Football Association
Current coach
Marcelo Alberto Bielsa, 1999-
Most capped player
Diego Pablo Simeone: 106
Highest goalscorer
Gabriel Batistuta: 56
First International
Uruguay 3 - 2 Argentina (Montevideo, Uruguay; 16 May, 1901)
Largest win
Argentina 12 - 0 Ecuador (Montevideo, Uruguay; 22 January, 1942)
Largest defeat
Argentina 1 - 6 Czechoslovakia (Helsingborg, Sweden; 15 June, 1958)
Argentina 0 - 5 Uruguay (Guayaquil, Ecuador; 16 December, 1959)
Argentina 0 - 5 Colombia (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5 September, 1993)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 13 (First: 1930) Best result: Winners: 1978, 1986
Copa America
Finals appearances: ? (First: 1916) Best result: Winners, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993

The Argentina national football team is one of the most successful national football teams, having won two World Cups. Argentina and Uruguay hold the record for the most international matches played against two countries, there have been 161 matches played against each other since 1901. The first match against Uruguay was the first official international match to be played outside Britain. (Although Canada and the United States played two internationals in 1885 and 1886, neither match is considered official; Canada did not play an official international until 1904 and the USA did not play one until 1916.)

Argentina has appeared in four World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost 4-2 to Uruguay. They won the final at their next attempt in 1978, beating the Netherlands 3-1 and also won in 1986, a 3-2 victory over West Germany . Their last final was in 1990, which they lost 1-0 to West Germany.

Argentina have been very successful in Copa America, winning it eleven times and also winning the 'extra' South American Championships in 1941, 1945 and 1946.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Runners-up
• 1934 - Round 1
• 1938 - Did not enter
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 - Round 1
• 1962 - Round 1
• 1966 - Quarter finals
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Round 2
• 1978 - Winners
• 1982 - Round 2
• 1986 - Winners
• 1990 - Runners-up
• 1994 - Round 2
• 1998 - Quarter finals
• 2002 - Round 1

• Gabriel Batistuta
• Alfredo Di Stefano (also played for Spain)
• Mario Kempes
• Diego Maradona
• Daniel Passarella
• Diego Pablo Simeone