Argentina New Heroes

Labelled 'water-carriers' in cycling or the 'engine room' in rugby, in football they are the players who operate in the shadows with low-key, hard-working performances. Balance and toil are the qualities they bring to the table, and few men contribute those vital elements better than Inter Milan and Argentina duo Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso. FIFA.com takes a closer look at a pair of players more used to grafting away than grabbing headlines.

Mention Inter to most fans of the game and the players who first come to mind are usually strikers Samuel Eto'o and Diego Milito or playmaker Wesley Sneijder. Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar and South American centre-backs Lucio and Walter Samuel frequently get a mention too, as do the likes of Maicon, Ivan Cordoba and veteran defender Marco Materazzi.

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Rarely, however, does captain Zanetti come in for individual accolades, despite his 674 appearances for the Nerazzurri and rave reviews from his peers. For his Juventus and Italy counterpart Fabio Cannavaro, for example, the 36-year-old is “an incredible player and a perfect captain”.

As for Cambiasso, who seems to channel both Fernando Redondo and Bernd Schuster with his style of play, “he will be the next captain of Inter when Javier decides to quit,” according to club President Massimo Moratti.

Argentina And World Cup 2010

Despite a tortuous qualification campaign, Argentina are travelling to South Africa with serious designs on winning the title for the first time in 24 years. To achieve that goal, the 1978 and 1986 world champions have pinned their faith in coach Diego Armando Maradona, the country's most famous footballing son and the inspiration behind the second of those memorable triumphs.

His task is made easier by the fact that he has a star-studded squad at his disposal, one that features several survivors of the team that reached the quarter-finals at Germany 2006, not to mention Lionel Messi and a host of other young stars with several youth titles to their name. Given that roll call, the Argentinians appear to have the resources to atone for recent disappointments and win the country's first international trophy since the Copa America in 1993.

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The road to South Africa
The Argentinians made extremely hard work of qualifying for the finals, just as they did in 1985, the prelude to an electrifying charge to glory at the 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico™. The two-time world champions started the campaign under the stewardship of Alfio Basile, who made way for Maradona after a defeat to Chile on Matchday Ten had relegated them to third place. Yet after a series of setbacks, they eventually hauled themselves over the line with narrow victories in their final two games against Peru and Uruguay.

La Albiceleste collected 28 points in all, their lowest tally since the introduction of the ten-team group system, recording eight wins, four draws and six defeats. Three of those reverses proved particularly painful. After going down to their first competitive defeat to Chile, Argentina slumped to a humiliating 6-1 reverse in Bolivia and suffered only their second-ever home qualifying loss at the hands of Brazil. Maradona's men engineered a late revival, however, with Martin Palermo scoring a dramatic late winner in the driving rain against the Peruvians. And days later the Argentinians made sure of their place in the finals with a battling 1-0 win over La Celeste in Montevideo.

Facts About Argentina Footbaal National Team

• 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.

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Most Caped Players

# Name                     Career- Caps Goals

1. Javier Zanetti           1994 - present 136 5

2. Roberto Ayala         1994 - 2007 115 7

3. Diego Simeone        1988 - 2002 106 11

4. Oscar Ruggeri         1983 - 1994 97 7

5. Diego Maradona     1977 - 1994 91 34

6. Ariel Ortega            1993 - 2003 86 17

7. Gabriel Batistuta      1991 - 2002 78 56

8. Juan Pablo Sorín     1995 - 2006 76 12

9. Américo Gallego 1975 - 1982 73 3

10. Daniel Passarella 1976 - 1986 70 22

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1901-1910

1911-present

1958 (Away kit)

1978	1986	1996-1997	1997-1999
2000-2002	2002-2004	2004-2006	2006-2008

Argentina Trophy and Medals

Senior team

• FIFA World Cup

• Winner (2): 1978, 1986

• Copa America

• Winner (14): 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946 (extra edition), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993.

• FIFA Confederations Cup

• Winner (1): 1992

• Artemio Franchi Trophy

• Winner (1): 1993

• Nations' Cup

• Winner (1): 1964

• Panamerican Championship:
  
  
  • Winners (1): 1960

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 Friendly titles

• Copa Kirin:
  
  
  • Winners (1): 1992

• Copa Centenario Revolución de Mayo 1910:
  
  
  • Winners (1): 1910

• Copa Roca:
  
  
  • Winners (4): 1923, 1939, 1940, 1971

• Copa Lipton:
  
  
  • Winners (18): 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909,1913, 1915, 1916, 1917,

1918, 1928, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1957, 1962, 1968, 1976, 1992

• Copa Newton:
  
  
  • Winners (17): 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1916, 1918, 1924,

1927, 1928, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1957, 1973, 1975

 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.

• Gold medal (2): 2004, 2008
• Silver medal (2): 1928, 1996

Argentina National Football Team

Argentina National Football Team

The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Argentina has won most international titles by any national team - 19, a record shared with Uruguay.

Argentina is one of the most successful national football teams in the world, and is currently eighth 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 recognized 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).

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History

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. "La Seleccion" means the selection.

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.