FIFA staged the 2018 World Cup in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But most striking, perhaps, was the 1978 tournament, staged in Argentina at the height of its dirty war, in which the military ...

Luis Galván played Argentina's all 7 games in the 1978 World Cup, never being substituted. He donned the #7 jersey and was 77 years old at the time of his passing Argentine “full-time” 1978 ...

Despite a threatened boycott by several nations in protest at the Videla military regime, all the qualifiers assembled in Argentina for the 1978 finals ... Argentina's first World Cup.