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jamesisapain (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
haha after awarding the penalty the ref does a run round the goals to avoid the argentina players. man i reckon if you pushed a ref like that these days you'd be sent off
OliveiraBR22 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
El estreno de Diego Simeone....
munrubenmario (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
If you ask me a dive is when you fall over without being hit. Frank was definitely taken out. Mind you, when he was hit he made sure the ref knew all about it. As an aside, how good is Frank's mullet? Champion!!
Impossible71 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Wow! In its historical context an absolutely sensational performance by the Socceroos. The reigning world champions (albeit minus Maradona, Valdano, Burachaga et al) not just beaten but absolutely humbled. Got to be the Aussies best performance ever..
Odd8Jobs (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
LOL Paul Wade Looks So Much Different Now
1546592 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Before the Olympics we had David Mitchell adn Eddie Krencivic in europe. After the Olympics Frank Farina went to Club Brugge, Arnold to Roda JC, Slater to RC Lens Charlie Yankos to Paok Salonika and Vlado Bozinovski to Sporting Lisbon. In addition to that Kalantzis and Hristodulu went to Panathanaikos and Patikas to AEK Athens. So that was a big factor in the poor performance of that campaign as no Australian manager had had to deal with that before.
1546592 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Yakoman123, the loss to Fiji that you mention was actually 18 months after this match at the beginning of the world cup qualification campaign for Italia 90, so that defeat actually occured under Frank Arok. In his defence though that was the beginning of the era of departure of our best players to European clubs.
1546592 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Cont on from previous post - Our guys to a man, were playing part time in the now defunct NSL and held down full time jobs while playing for their clubs anc countries. S on that score it is a tremendous result. And we showed it was no fluke a few months later in the Olympics when we beat Yugoslavia with Dragan Stoickhovic (Red Star, Marseille and Verona) and Sreko Katanec (Sampdoria) in their side. to be continued.
1546592 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Its true, this was not Argentina full strength side. But it wouldn't be correct to call it a second XI either. Many of these players would have being in Argentina's first choice team anyway. However the important thing to realise that these guys were professionals playing in the Argentine Clausura for world famous clubs such as Riverplate, Boca Juniors and Estudiantes etc etc. (Sorry my fellow posters from Argentina if I have left your club out as their are so many great Argentine football clubs
yakamon123 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Yeah ur right, I actually think there was a 2-0 loss to Fiji and even an abismal 1-1 with New Caledonia recorded somewhere about 18 months before this match aswell. He was a brillian coach, just a little arrogant in his demeanour, not a gentleman like Eddie or Rale. Still I agree with you, he did work wonders for Aussie football, set the platform for Eddie the vid above proves it. |
