Lionel Scaloni called for calm. “The message,” he said, “is that this is a football game. That’s what I can say. We will be playing against a very tough opponent. They have an excellent coach. It’s a football game and that is all.”The Argentina coach had just emerged from his team’s dressing room after their dramatic extra-time victory over Switzerland in Kansas City on Saturday evening. The scene he had left behind was not just of euphoric joy but of patriotic fervour. His players were singing their songs, bouncing up and down, banging the tables, singing of their desperation to win their country’s fourth World Cup, to do it for Lionel Messi, for the late Diego Maradona … and for “Las Malvinas”.Advertisement
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