‘Diego, give us a hand’: Argentina v England revives historic tensions
‘Diego, give us a hand’: Argentina v England revives historic tensions. Decades after the Falklands war and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, the fixture is once again being discussed as far more than a game When Argentina’s national football team burst into the dressing room after beating Switzerland 3-1 , they celebrated by singing The Fourth Star, the country’s unofficial World Cup anthem.
Decades after the Falklands war and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, the fixture is once again being discussed as far more than a game When Argentina’s national football team burst into the dressing room after beating Switzerland 3-1 , they celebrated by singing The Fourth Star, the country’s unofficial World Cup anthem. “For Malvinas, for Diego,” Lionel Messi and his teammates chanted, invoking both the Falkland Islands – known as Islas Malvinas in Argentina – and their football legend Diego Maradona.