Brehme and Simón play again in the 1990 World Cup final
It must have been one of the Argentine teams that played the worst in a World Cup, but at the same time one of the most loved and remembered. She was received at the Government House by more people and with more fervor than the one that had been crowned champion four years earlier in Mexico.
An accident that does not usually occur during a competition (the fracture of a leg of the starting goalkeeper Nery Pumpido) opened the door to the “Goycochea miracle”, the goalkeeper who stopped four penalties in two penalty shootouts, against Yugoslavia in the quarterfinals and against Italy in the semifinals, and allowed Argentina to reach its second consecutive final in the World Cups.
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