00:00They were playing England for the quarterfinal against Argentina.
00:05We are seeing now the Argentina practicing for this match and also the English team.
00:12Harry Kane is going to be one of the worries of Debo Martinez, the golfer from Argentina.
00:18But I was telling you about those teams.
00:20They know each other, even though Messi never played.
00:23It's one of the few teams that Messi never played against England.
00:26But let me go back to 40 years ago.
00:30Argentina faced England in the quarterfinal, and Nacho Lemus is going to tell us what's happened there.
00:40He avenged for the country that, 44 years ago, suffered the loss of its young people at the hands of
00:46British imperialism.
00:48When the Malvinas War began, someone foresaw his thirst for justice.
00:52I believe that if all these people, and all of us, were asked to give our lives, we would certainly
00:58do so.
00:58Residents living near the Azteca Stadium recall seeing Diego Maradona deliver divine justice against England on a football pitch.
01:09We've always stood in solidarity with social justice.
01:14First, regarding the attempt to strip Argentina of the Malvinas Islands.
01:20El Peluso was always one of a kind.
01:27At the 1986 World Cup, Argentina was emerging from a dictatorship that had led the country into the absurdity of
01:34a preventable war against the illegal occupier of the Malvinas Islands.
01:39Today, it also faces contradictions with a government that supports imperialist plunder of its national territory.
01:50Historically speaking, I identify most with Churchill, Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.
01:57Margaret Thatcher is responsible for the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, which had more than 300 crew members
02:04on board.
02:06In a Latin America where resources and sovereignty are being plundered or are under threat, the Malvinas issue resonates from
02:13Patagonia to the Rio Bravo.
02:18The Spanish stole a lot from us here, ships full of gold, they took everything they could.
02:27It's the same thing, I compare it from that perspective, it's almost the same as what happened to Argentina with
02:33the British.
02:35Residents recall that in 1986, the post-war tension was palpable in the area around the Azteca Stadium.
02:43I was already working here at the hotel, and I saw the tension that was going to arise between the
02:50English and the Argentines because of the fight that had broken out.
02:55The way those wretched Englishmen had robbed Argentinians of their Malvinas Islands.
03:03The English were really pissed off because the Argentines had beaten them up, and they were already looking to start
03:09a fight, so they had to call the police.
03:13For the first time, Lionel Messi will face England.
03:18Just like in Mexico 86, the World Cup stirs up Argentina's thirst for sovereignty, with the wounds from England's theft
03:25of the Malvinas still fresh.
03:26I want to go back to the pond.
03:28I don't know.
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