Christmas is coming! Special days to enjoy with the family of friends, reunions with loved ones that you have not seen for a long time. They are also days when we feel like giving original gifts to the people we love.

The end of the year arrived and so the Christmas holidays, a time to enjoy with family and loved ones, however, it also bring challenges.

The real challenge, no one is more excited about this tima a year than children, that´s why we have put ourselves in the task of finding the best Christmas gifts for them.

On the 22nd of June Diego Armando Maradona decided to write history. In the Quarterfinal of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico Argentina faced England. Maradona delivered two historic moments; that are known as the Hand of God and the Goal of the Century.

It was April 4 in 1976 when Panama for the first time in its history of soccer...

South Korea national football team qualified to each World Cup edition since 1986, when they returned to play in the tournament after twenty-eight years.

Costa Rica is the most successful national football team of Central America's history.

Nigeria will participate to a World Cup for the 7th time in its football history. 

Iceland arrives to Russia 2018 as the smallest nation who ever participated into a World Cup, after they catched the attention of the football fans in the last 4 years.

It was in 1992 when the Croatian National Football Team was officially admitted to FIFA. Two years before Croatia obtained the independence from Yugoslavia...

Argentina was under the ferocious dictatorship of Videla, and, unfortunately, football was used as a curtain to cover the macabre facts of the dictator.

Denmark will participate to a World Cup for the fifth time in the history of the national football team.

Official Rules for the Instagram contest "Retro World Cup"

An year before the 1970 World Cup Peru played a friendly match against Brazil. The Peruvians were winning 2-1 when the Brazilian Gerson committed a tough foul on Orlando de la Torre, known as El Chito.

Australia will play its fourth consecutive world championship in Russia, the fifth in its history. 

In 1958 FIFA assigned the organization of the World Cup to Sweden. It was the second World Cup broadcasted on TV, of course, in black and white. Perhaps for this reason we do not remember one of the best French national teams in the history.

The Iranians have only one chance to play the 1998 World Cup: the play-off against Australia. In the first leg to Tehran ends 1-1. In the return match Australia scores the first 2 goals and the game seems over. 

Morocco waited 20 years to return to play in a World Cup: when in 1998 the competition was played in France, the Moroccan team came third in the group, behind Brazil and Norway.

In the football history of the Portuguese team the first participation in a world cup and the best result have been in the same edition: England 1966.

The Spanish team after the 2008-2012 winning season with the world cup and the two conquered European Cups then did 2 disappointing performances in Brazil 2014 and France 2016.

The 1970s represented a period of rebirth for the Celeste. Twenty years after the triumph in Brazil in 1950 (when happened the Maracanazo) the World Cup 70 in Mexico could have been the third success 20 years after the last one.

Twenty years after the second qualification for the World Cup, Saudi Arabia will debut in Russia 2018 on June 14 against Russia. This represents the fifth participation of the Saudis, who managed to qualify for 4 consecutive times from '94 to 2006. 

Egypt is one of the outsiders of this World Cup in Russia, and the attention is all for the star Mohamed Salah: player revelation of this season in force to the Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp. The Pharaohs return to dispute the World Cup 27 years after their last participation (Italia 90). 
In the history of the Egyptian soccer team stands out the African Cup in 1986 when it was Egypt that hosted the competition.

Russia will host this World Cup and the national football team will debut next June 14 at the Lužniki Stadium in Moscow against Saudi Arabia. In the 80s the national football team of the USSR returned to compete in an international competition participating at the World Cup Espana ‘82 after a convincing qualifying phase. In Spain, the national team with the CCCP written on the shirt tested the Brazilian “Selecao” and passed the first phase, occupying the second place behind Brazil. This represents the first time in which the Soviets reach the final phase of the World Cup.

At Retrofootball, the home of vintage football shirts, we are happy to announce that we are going to e listed in Tiendeo as part of their Christmas' gift catalog.

As we have mentioned before, football is our brand’s inspiration; to be part of this initiative we have selected the vintage shirt of East Germany in the 1974 World Cup. This is a symbolic shirt as the DDR team was able to beat the world champions (West Germany) in the first phase of the tournamente with an inspiring goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser.

Enjoy the Tiendeo's Christmas's gift catalog and get ready for the holiday season!

Cheers!

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