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 happen frequently during a competition (the broken leg of the starting goalkeeper Nery Pumpido) opened the door to the “miracle Goycochea”, the goalkeeper who stopped four penalties in two definitions in that way, against Yugoslavia in the quarterfinals and against Italy in the semifinal, and allowed Argentina to reach its second consecutive World Cup final.
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