Peru vs. Argentina and the Military JuntaThere are a handful of great stories and tidbits from the 1978 World Cup in Buenos Aires, a tournament that saw the country's military junta take to the games like MSG to Chinese food, seeing them quite rightly as an excellent opportunity to promote its nefarious agenda. Today, I bring you the story of Peru vs. Argentina (and the junta).
In order to make it to the final, Argetina were faced with beating Peru at least 4-0, needing goal difference to make it past South American rivals Brazil. As it turned out, that was something of a walk in the park. Argentina spanked the turd out of Peru; the final score was 6-0.
Of course there are those who believe that the 35,000 tons of free grain that made its way from Peru to Argentina in the months surrounding the tournament and the $50 million in interest-free loans the junta threw to Peru may have had something to do with the game's outcome.
And then there's the fact that Peru's goal keeper, who played like a maniac, lunging in strange directions and apparently turning a blind eye to a number of goals that should have been easy save, was born in Argentina, and was of Argentinian ancestry.
We may never know what really went down, but those are some very suspicous circumstances.
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