ALMOST 400 Irish-based Argentina fans descended on Dublin’s Temple Bar last night to watch their country’s crucial World Cup clash with Croatia.
Unfortunately, the game did not go as they would have hoped, with Jorge Sampaoli’s side suffering a 3-0 loss to Croatia, which left them on the brink of an early exit from the competition.
The42 attended the event and spoke to fans before, during and after to get their thoughts on the team’s World Cup hopes, the longstanding Messi-Maradona debate and whether they can recover from the Croatia setback.
The event was one of many hosted by Argentinos en Irlanda. For more info, you can check out their Facebook page here.
Additional reporting by Paul Fennessy and Chris O’Brien
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Prices in Temple Bar are heartbreaking enough.
Hopefully they’ll realise that their national side is just like Argentinian football in general, a pale shadow of what it was, and going nowhere. Maybe they’ll throw their lot in with rugby
@Richard: yeah like the some of the plastic fans here
@robbie: how is rugby a minority sport?
@Roibeard O’ Beachain: because high levels of participation and interest are limited to a small sub set of countries ie 6 nations and southern hemisphere. top countries dont even have to qualify for world cup. group stages are pretty much formality apart from 1st/2nd place . Dont see any real interest from RFU to spread the game either – Gerogia would be a good addition to 6 nations if they could get a local club in the pro14 maybe.
@Roibeard O’ Beachain: It’s because the vast majority of the world’s population doesn’t even know it exists?
@Richard: The fact is most people in Argentina dont care about rugby, soccer is their game. I was there during the last World Cup and even though they reached the semis you would hardly even know the tournament was on
Glad there was no argy bargy
All these comments are very Messi !!