🇳🇴 Bryne, south western Norway This is the farm from which Erling Braut Haaland gets his raw milk. As I was driving past his hometown I thought I’d turn the journey into a bit of a Haaland pilgrimage, accompanied by Martin, of course. I’ll be twice the size in a few days 💪 🤣

More ramblings about the World Cup based on no research whatever beyond my own thoughts and experiences macdonnchada.substack.com/p/the-argent...

🇺🇾 OTD 1950: The ‘Maracanazo’ Brazil 🇧🇷 1-2 🇺🇾 Uruguay Brazil only needed a draw to win the 1950 World Cup on home soil, the final group game held at Estádio Maracanã in front of over 200,000 (officially 173,850, but…) spectators. The defeat was a national tragedy, labelled ‘Brazil’s Hiroshima’

🇦🇷 El Obelisco, downtown Buenos Aires as Argentina see off England in the World Cup semi-final

🇺🇾 OTD 1950: The ‘Maracanazo’ Brazil 🇧🇷 1-2 🇺🇾 Uruguay Brazil only needed a draw to win the 1950 World Cup on home soil, the final group game held at Estádio Maracanã in front of over 200,000 (officially 173,850, but…) spectators. The defeat was a national tragedy, labelled ‘Brazil’s Hiroshima’

🇦🇷 OTD 1933: River Plate’s Carlos Peucelle had a last-minute winner ruled out for offside by referee Néstor Roldán. Roldán was surrounded by River players and fainted, carried off to his changing room. Roldán later admitted he had faked his fainting to avoid a beating 🤣

Argentina, even if you've lived it it's hard to understand it, my friend who lives in a posh area miles from here has just sent me a similar video

🇦🇷 El Obelisco, downtown Buenos Aires as Argentina see off England in the World Cup semi-final

Lionel Messi and Argentina have now won 14 consecutive World Cup matches. Another record Lionel Scaloni’s side have 🤯

The ‘Topo Giglio’ celebration from Enzo

Tango, Argentina’s national dance, was originally a dance between men waiting in line at Buenos Aires’ brothels. Huge numbers of men emigrated initially to BA, the disequilibrium of men-women meant tango became a cold and aggressive man-go-man dance… the semi-final continues

1986. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs 🇦🇷 Argentina at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City 🇲🇽 Raúl Gámez (shirtless, right) was a part of Vélez Sarsfield’s barra brava which travelled to México; he would later serve as Vélez’s president over three terms between 1996 and 2017!

Egersund, Norway 🇳🇴 🇦🇷 💥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Predictions?!

🇦🇷 OTD 1930: Argentina made their debut in the FIFA World Cup. Argentina 🇦🇷 1-0 🇫🇷 France ⚽️ Luis Monti (who would represent Italy at the 1934 World Cup!) 🏟️ Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾 🏆 1930 World Cup group stage

🇦🇷 OTD 2009: Juan Sebastián Verón’s Estudiantes de La Plata side won their fourth Copa Libertadores title beating Brazilian side Cruzeiro 2-1 over two legs. This was ‘el recibimiento’ at Estudiantes’ home leg in Argentina 😳😳😳

Can't beat having a siren

🇦🇷 OTD 2009: Juan Sebastián Verón’s Estudiantes de La Plata side won their fourth Copa Libertadores title beating Brazilian side Cruzeiro 2-1 over two legs. This was ‘el recibimiento’ at Estudiantes’ home leg in Argentina 😳😳😳

🇦🇷 OTD 1930: Argentina made their debut in the FIFA World Cup. Argentina 🇦🇷 1-0 🇫🇷 France ⚽️ Luis Monti (who would represent Italy at the 1934 World Cup!) 🏟️ Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾 🏆 1930 World Cup group stage

🇦🇷💥🇪🇸 Finally a Finalíssima?! Spain (as Euro 2024 winners) and Argentina (2024 Copa América winners) should have played the Finalíssima earlier this year but negotiations broke down with both parties blaming the other. Did Argentina bottle it?! Will we get a 🇪🇸 vs 🇦🇷 final?!

🇦🇷 Beso at La Bombonera Argentina manager Daniel Passarella had said he ‘wouldn’t accept a homosexual in his team’. Diego Maradona responded saying he’d ‘smack a kiss’ on Claudio Caniggia's lips and Caniggia's hattrick vs River on this day in 1996 was the opportune moment 💋

Here's a thread on the surprisingly close relationship between England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and Argentina 🇦🇷 ahead of #ENGARG this Wednesday. First up, the abridged history of the rivalry between the two countries: outsidewrite.substack.com/p/animals-an...

🇦🇷 Argentina will wear their away kit in Wednesday’s semi-final with England, as they did in 1986 and 1998.

5) The Language of Argentinian Football How have English words found their way into Argentinian footballing parlance, sometimes with comical iterations? @hylland.bsky.social wrote a whole book about it: open.spotify.com/episode/5bIs...

🇦🇷 Argentina will wear their away kit in Wednesday’s semi-final with England, as they did in 1986 and 1998.

🇦🇷 Fantastic angle of Julián Álvarez’s fantastic extra-time goal overnight 😍

Just read that Argentinian football player Antonio Rattín has died. He was instrumental in the invention of red and yellow cards, when in the QF of the 1966 WC he refused to leave the field when #referee Kreitlein sent him off. In the end, policemen took him off. It led Ken Aston to devise … /2

🇦🇷 Fantastic angle of Julián Álvarez’s fantastic extra-time goal overnight 😍

ARGENTINA ARE READY 💪

Norwegian Crown Prince Håkon sitting with Infantino 🤮 Here you have a man whose wife is implicated in the Epstein Files, his step-son imprisoned for sexual assault and rape, rather than saying No Thanks to sitting there with a corrupt elite, he is sitting there. Twat

🇦🇷 vs 🇨🇭 Argentina vs Switzerland A repeat of the 2014 knockout game which was only decided by 117th-minute Ángel Di María goal 🫶🏻 Predictions for tonight?

🇦🇷 vs 🇨🇭 Argentina vs Switzerland A repeat of the 2014 knockout game which was only decided by 117th-minute Ángel Di María goal 🫶🏻 Predictions for tonight?

🇦🇷 Boca Juniors have resigned Colombian winger/attacker Sebastián Villa from Independiente Rivadavia for a fee of US$6.5m. Villa played 172 games (29 goals, 32 assists) for Boca between 2018 and 2023 but had his contract terminated for a domestic abuse charge.

🇵🇪🤝🇳🇴 Haaland 🫶🏻 Perú 563 new born Peruvians have been named after ‘el Androide’. And that must be just the start: how many more children born the next few months will be added to the list?! 🥰 Still, better than Unión Comercio’s defender Osama Vinladen Jiménez! 😳

From ‘Dame Bola: A Journey Through the Language of Argentinian Football’

OTD 2007: Argentina 🇦🇷 3-0 🇲🇽 Mexico Copa América semi-final in Venezuela 🇻🇪 Lionel Messi scores Argentina’s second goal with a delightful lob, known as a ‘vaselina’ in Argentinian fútbol. It was also the goal that birthed the phrase ‘They’ll have to close the stadium!’ (See next)

Hi, Norway and Norwegians. A little something you might enjoy reading, especially if you like football. A Love Letter to Norway medium.com/@joshbutler....

Ahead of the biggest night in its men's football history, get to know Norway's domestic #groundhopping scene with a local @mariushelgaa.janitsjar.net 🇳🇴 ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/776h... #NORENG #WorldCup2026 📸 @hylland.bsky.social at Vålerenga

OTD 2007: Argentina 🇦🇷 3-0 🇲🇽 Mexico Copa América semi-final in Venezuela 🇻🇪 Lionel Messi scores Argentina’s second goal with a delightful lob, known as a ‘vaselina’ in Argentinian fútbol. It was also the goal that birthed the phrase ‘They’ll have to close the stadium!’ (See next)

You've got to respect it

🇦🇷🤯 OTD 1971: Temperley vs Almirante Brown. Penalty thrice retaken! Temperley get a penalty, Almirante Brown’s ‘keeper Migueluchi comes off his line early THREE TIMES, and gets sent off. Almirante Brown have to put a defender —Ricardo Tello— in goal, who saves the fourth penalty!!

OTD 1916: another 🇦🇷💥🇧🇷 Argentina played Brazil in their first competitive match (having previously played only two friendlies in September 1914, the same year Brazil played their first international against Exeter City on 21st July 1914). The Copa América game ended 1-1. 1/2

Argentina campeón! 🇦🇷💥🇧🇷 COPA AMÉRICA FINAL Argentina 1-0 Brazil @ Estádio Maracanã Argentina’s first trophy in 28 years and the first of three in three years. Will that be four in five years?!

🇦🇷 9th July is Independence Day in Argentina with now 210 years of independence from the Spanish crown. Independence was declared by the representatives of the United Provinces of the River Plate on this day in 1816.

🇦🇷 OTD 1991: BIELSA AT LA BOMBONERA! Marcelo Bielsa’s Newell’s Old Boys won the Campeonato se Primera División after beating Boca Juniors on penalties at La Bombonera!

🇦🇷 vs ⛔️🇦🇷 This is pretty funny, to be fair. Despite being a self-professed ‘Argentinophile’, I can imagine being an opponent or a neutral watching Argentina can be… frustrating/enraging/disheartening!

🇦🇷 vs ⛔️🇦🇷 This is pretty funny, to be fair. Despite being a self-professed ‘Argentinophile’, I can imagine being an opponent or a neutral watching Argentina can be… frustrating/enraging/disheartening!

🇧🇷 OTD 1957: a 16-year old Edson Arantes do Nascimento —Pelé—made his debut for Brazil, coming on in the second half against Argentina at Estadio Maracanã and scoring in a 2-1 defeat in the Copa Roca (aged 16 years, 8 months, 17 days). The first of O Rei's 1,279 goals!

🇧🇷 OTD 1957: a 16-year old Edson Arantes do Nascimento —Pelé—made his debut for Brazil, coming on in the second half against Argentina at Estadio Maracanã and scoring in a 2-1 defeat in the Copa Roca (aged 16 years, 8 months, 17 days). The first of O Rei's 1,279 goals!

🇦🇷 OTD 2021: THE ARRIVAL OF DIBU ‘I can see you’re nervous. Watch as I eat you up!’ Emiliano Martínez made a name for himself for his verbal antics as much as his match-winning performances, like this vs 🇨🇴 in the Copa América semi. 🇦🇷 beat 🇧🇷 in the final at Maracanã for first title in 28 years

🇦🇷 OTD 1924: Boca Juniors played their first match at their Estadio de Brandsen y del Crucero: a friendly against Uruguayans Nacional. The ground was never officially named and therefore was referred to by the streets which boxed it in. Today’s La Bombonera sits on the same site.