A fullback had a whole country dreaming and the goalkeeper whose mistake overshadowed an otherwise brilliant tournament. The Socceroos who starred and didn’t against Lionel Messi’s Argentina.
The Socceroos’ campaign is over after a brave,thrilling,captivating 2-1 defeat in the round of 16,but there are worse ways to get knocked out of a World Cup than at the hands of Lionel Messi.
The national mood in Argentina is confident ahead of a last-16 clash with football minnows Australia. The black hole of defeat isn’t worth contemplating.
The list of accolades and statistics make a convincing case that Lionel Messi is the best we’ve ever seen,but there’s one stat line he can’t shake. World Cups:0.
Dancing,insults and other mental trickery are par for the course when World Cup survival boils down to a penalty shoot-out - the ultimate test of nerve.
Argentina and Australia come from opposite sides of the soccer tracks,but they’re paying mutual respect as they prepare to clash.
Gavin De Niese,from Noble Park in Melbourne’s south-east,moved to Argentina alone at 13 to join powerhouse club River Plate.
Time is a circle. It’s the only way to make sense of Graham Arnold’s life as a Socceroo and the line of destiny that links his journey as a player and a coach.
In 1988,Frank Arok’s Socceroos achieved one of the greatest triumphs in Australian sport when they beat the 1978 and 1986 world champions,Argentina,4-1 to burst into the final of the Bicentennial Gold Cup.
We take a deeper look at Australia’s historic World Cup round-of-16 showdown with the South American champions.
With an Argentinian father and an Australian mother,the two Fratantoni children have a hard decision to make on Sunday morning.