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The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA). Argentina has the world record for most international titles won by any national team.
Argentina is one of the most successful national football teams in the world, and is currently sixth in the FIFA world rankings. The team has twice won the FIFA World Cup, in 1978 and 1986. Argentina has won the Copa América 14 times, a record shared with Uruguay, won the Confederations Cup in 1992 and the Olympic Football Tournament in 2004 and 2008.
Argentina and France are the only national teams which have won the three most important men's titles organized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament.
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The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA). Argentina has the world record for most international titles won by any national team.
Argentina is one of the most successful national football teams in the world, and is currently sixth in the FIFA world rankings. The team has twice won the FIFA World Cup, in 1978 and 1986. Argentina has won the Copa América 14 times, a record shared with Uruguay, won the Confederations Cup in 1992 and the Olympic Football Tournament in 2004 and 2008.
Argentina and France are the only national teams which have won the three most important men's titles organized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament. They have both also won their respective continental championship (Copa América for Argentina, and UEFA European Football Championship for France)..
World Cup
La Selección, also known as the Albicelestes (Light blue and whites), has appeared in four 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 3-1. Argentina, led by Diego Maradona won again in 1986, a 3-2 victory over West Germany. Their most recent World Cup final was in 1990, which they lost 1-0 to Germany by a much disputed penalty. Argentina's World Cup winning managers are César Luis Menotti in 1978, and Carlos Bilardo in 1986.
Argentina has been very successful in the Copa América, winning it fourteen times and also winning the 'extra' South American Championships in 1941, 1945 and 1946. The team also won the FIFA Confederations Cup and the Kirin Cup, both in 1992, and an Argentine team (with only three players of over 23 years of age included in the squad) won the Olympics football tournaments in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
Argentina also won six of the fourteen football competitions at the Pan American Games, winning in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1995 and 2003.
In March 2007, Argentina reached the top of the FIFA World Rankings for the first time.
World Cup 2006
Argentina had been eliminated at the group stage at Korea/Japan 2002 FIFA World Cup, although they had been among the pre-tournament favourites. There was a high expectation of a better performance in the Germany 2006.
Argentina qualified for the knockout stages with wins over Ivory Coast (2-1) and Serbia and Montenegro (6-0), and a 0-0 draw with the Netherlands.
In the round of sixteen, Argentina defeated Mexico 2-1 in extra-time, the winning goal by Maxi Rodríguez winning an online poll organised by FIFA, as the best goal of the World Cup . In the quarter final, they lost 4-2 in a penalty shootout against hosts Germany after a 1-1 draw. A brawl erupted between the Argentines and Germans after the game ended. Unused substitute Leandro Cufré was sent off for kicking Per Mertesacker, while Maxi Rodríguez hit Bastian Schweinsteiger from behind. Following an investigation of video evidence, FIFA doled out 4-game and 2-game suspensions for Cufre and Rodriguez, respectively. Germany's Torsten Frings was suspended for the semifinal match for punching Julio Ricardo Cruz.
Shortly after the elimination, coach José Pekerman resigned from his position. AFA appointed Alfio Basile, who had previously managed the national side during the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Copa América 2007
Argentina won all three games in the group stage, beating United States, Colombia and Paraguay. After convincing victories over Peru and Mexico in the quarter final and semi final respectively, they were favourites to beat Brazil in the final, but were defeated 0-3.
Competitive record
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| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
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| 1930 | Second Place | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 9 | | 1934 | Round 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1938 | Withdrew | |
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| 1950 | Withdrew | |
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| 1954 | Withdrew | |
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| 1958 | Round 1 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | | 1962 | Round 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1966 | Quarter-finals | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | | 1970 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 1974 | Round 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 1978 | Champions | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | | 1982 | Round 2 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | | 1986
| Champions | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | |
| 1990 | Second Place | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | | 1994 | Round 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | | 1998 | Quarter-finals | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | | 2002 | Round 1 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | Quarter-finals | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | | Total | 14/18 | 2 Titles | 65 | 33 | 13 | 19 | 113 | 74 |
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- *Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
- **Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won. Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
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| 1896 | No football tournament | |
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| 1900-1920 | Did Not Participate | |
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| 1924 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 1928 | Runners-up | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 7 | | 1932 | No football tournament | |
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| 1936-1956 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 1960 | Round 1 | | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | | 1964 | Round 1 | | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1968-1984 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 1988 | Quarter-finals | | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | | 1992 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 1996 | Runners-up | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | | 2000 | Did Not Qualify | |
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| 2004 | Champions | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
| 2008 | Champions | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | | Total | 7/24 | 2 Titles | 32 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 78 | 28 |
Honours
Senior team
- Winner (1): 1992
- Runner-up (2): 1995, 2005
- Winner (14): 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946 (extra edition), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993.
- Runner-up (12): 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1959 (extra edition), 1967, 2004, 2007.
Olympic team
A selection with limited team selection (only 3 players over 23 years could be included in the squad), won the following honours. The matches in these tournaments are generally not included in the statistics of the national team.
Kit Evolution
Managers
Current team status
Argentina is currently participating in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.
2010 FIFA World Cup
Qualification Standings
Last and next games
KEY: F = Friendly match; WCQ2010 = 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
Players
Current Squad
The following players were named for a friendly match against France in Marseille on February 11, 2009.
Caps and goals as of February 11, 2009, subsequent to the friendly match against France.
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Recent call ups
The following players have been called up for the team after June 2008.
Previous squads
Most capped players
As of February 25, 2009, the ten players with the most caps for Argentina are:
Top goalscorers
As of August 27, 2008, the ten players with the most goals for Argentina are:
Notable players
To appear in this section, players should have played 50 games or scored at least 10 goals for Argentina, or been part of a World Cup or Copa América winning team.
Facts
*Argentina and Uruguay hold the record for the most international matches played between two countries. The two teams have faced each other 161 times since 1901. The first match against Uruguay was the first official international match to be played outside the United Kingdom.
- Marcelo Trobbiani was a member of the Argentina world cup squad in 1986, but he only managed two minutes of play in the entire tournament, he came on in the 88th minute of the World Cup Final against West Germany. This two minutes of football equalled the world record for the shortest World Cup career set by Tunisia's Khemais Labidi in 1978.
- In the 2006 World Cup Leandro Cufré was given a red card and sent off after the end of the Quarter Final game with Germany for his part in the brawl after the match, even though he was a substitute and had not participated in the game itself. It is the only occasion of a player being sent off in a FIFA World Cup match after the final whistle. Four years earlier, in the 2002 World Cup Claudio Caniggia was sent off for swearing at a match official from the substitute bench.
See also
Footnotes
External links
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