Argentina Soccer

Idols like Maradona, Passarela, or Kempes, live long in the history of Argentina soccer fans, even decades after they're done with their career. Why? because in Argentina, soccer is part of the country's culture and just like in Brazil, it's almost a secondary religion. I'd like to dedicate this entire section to Argentinean soccer, as it is one of the most beautiful and passionate in the World and trust me; it holds some tales worth telling.

Despite the fact that the Argentina national team and the Argentinean championship had a small decline, they're back and stronger than ever. Argentinean club teams are amongst the strongest in the Americas and they're constantly battling Brazilian teams over supremacy on the continent.

The national team has a large pool of exceptional players, some of which are playing in the local Primera championship, others playing for big clubs in Europe. All in all, I'd say that in terms of soccer, Argentina has a bright future that will probably soon live up to its even brighter past.

And since Argentinean soccer has a lot of fans throughout the World, this section is entirely dedicated to it. I made some small previews of the subsections you'll find here, in order to give you a taste of what you can read inside the articles. Here they are:

Argentina World Cup Soccer Team

This subsection will focus on the Argentinean national soccer team, which is one of the most successful in the World, after Brazil, Italy and Germany. 2 World Cups and another 2 finals are not a small feat for any national team and Argentina proved over and over again that it starts out each competition it participates in as one of the main favorites.

The article focuses on those four finals played by the Argentina soccer team, but it does also cover the rest of its history, starting from its debut on the international stage in the 1930 World Cup, throughout their slightly darker period in the 50s and 60s, all the way to Passarela and Maradona's World Cup winning teams and of course, today's Argentina soccer team, which looks stronger than ever and more importantly, it looks like it's fit to win yet another World Cup in 2010.

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Famous Argentina Soccer Players

When Pele created his "Top 125 soccer players of all times" list, he included no less than 5 Argentineans, which says a lot about this country's past in the game.

Daniel Passarela, Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo or Alfredo DiStefano are all players that are worth talking about, as they left a strong mark wherever they played at, not to mention the first two lead the Argentina soccer team to World Cup success, but each in a different year.

This section will give you some info around those players, linking you to more detailed articles about each of them. Obviously, Argentina has a lot of other legendary players that were not on Pele's list, players such as Kempes, Burruchaga, Ariel Ortega or Ramon Riquelme, which I might cover in the future.

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