Forty years after the World Cup in Argentina in 1978, if you want to know how this competition really was, you will have to ask someone who lived in those years.

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

It was not yet the Maradona's National Team, he was only 17 years old and, to the surprise of Argentine fans, it was not called by Luis Menotti. Years later, Menotti and Maradona, will say that it was the saddest day of their lives. Diego also said that was the day in which he  promised himself to win a World Cup with Argentina. And he will.

Kempes was the only footballer in the squad that was playing in Europe, in Valencia, and finished as the top scorer of the World Cup with 6 goals. Also Argentina could count on the captain Daniel Passarella and Osvaldo Ardiles.

In the first round Argentina won the third game against Peru 6-0, qualifying for the final. That was a suspicious victory: it is rumored that the Argentine Government had paid the Peruvian players to lose by more than 4 goals difference, to allow Argentina to pass the round. In the final against Holland the Argentinian national football team played a spectacular match at the Monumental in Buenos Aires. El Matador Kempes scored 2 goals, and Argentina won its first World Cup, achieving the plan of Jorge Videla.

Eight years later, Diego Maradona's La Albiceleste won the 1986 World Cup, when Argentina was already a democratic country.

Forty years after the first World Cup won, Retrofootball® launches the shirt with which Maradona scored the most famous goal in the history of football against England 1986.

Retro shirt Maradona Mano de Dios Argentina 1986

Buy the retro shirt of Argentina away shirt of 1986,
when Maradona scored the Mano de Dios goal