World Cup 1978: Ticker Tape, Tragedy, and Kempes

from The World Cup of My Mind · host Jellypod

Billy Galligan looks back on the 1978 World Cup through the eyes of a kid watching Buenos Aires from a pub in Ireland, where Argentina’s dazzling football first felt like a glimpse of another world.He revisits Scotland’s heartbreaking near-miss, France’s borrowed shirts, Kempes’ breakout run, and the troubling political darkness that shadowed Argentina’s triumph.

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