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Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup

By Rhys Richards
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By Rhys Richards
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Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup tells the story of the most controversial tournament in football history.

When Argentina hosted and won the 1978 World Cup, it did so just two years after the coup d'état that overthrew Isabel Perón. The tournament unfolded under the shadow of a brutal military dictatorship led by General Jorge Videla, during which up to 30,000 people, labeled "subversives," were forcibly disappeared.

Amid allegations of bribery, coercion, and a notorious fa...

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