Australia V Argentina - Highlights - 14 July 1988

Hahaha! Look at Frank Arok, dancing like a clown - what a joke. Now Eddide Thompson (seen quietly bemused in the background to Arok's left) there was a brilliant coach for the socceroos and a good man.

With or without their full strength team (no Valdano, Balbo, Caniggia, Burruchaga, Basualdo to name a few & needless to mention Maradona) in the context of 1988, even if it had been a 3rd division clubside from Argentina wearing the albiceleste, a loss to the Socceroos in that era was STILL completely unacceptable and inexplicable, especially a convincing win of such magnitude; 4-1!(bear in mind we held an almost full strength Brasil to a 0-0 draw earlier in the tournament. Credit to the Aussies

I am Argentine and yes while u are correct this was by far NOT Argentina's starting lineup, or squad for that matter, it was still none the less Argentina, defending world champoins, and soon to be runners up of Italia 90' aswell.

yeh but only on pay tv which is slowly gaining popularity particularly as more aussies are joining EPL...but the Champions league is shown on free to air..ppl dont watch both because the time differences make it a huge hassle.

Yep.

By the way, do you get Premiership games shown over there?

unlike england we have a local game called australia rules football which has much more popularity. we also have rugby which is also extremely popular. soccer/football finds it very difficult to compete with these other codes...thats why our world cup qualification was important because more people realised how good australia could be.
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As an Englishman, I'd like to know why Football has take so long to catch on in Oz. You lot are almost as bad as the Yanks, when it comes to appreciating the beautiful game.

Australia 4 Argentina 1! What a score! What lovely goals, especially from Charlie Yankos' first goal.

Must be the BICENTENNIAL tournament right ?
I have the official program...Brazil and Saudi Arabia were the others 2 teams...

Ok guys...this wasn't Argentina's national team. First, where is Maradona in this game?
There is only a couple of players from that world champion team in 1986(Luis Islas and Olarticoechea) we lose this game because we played with not even our second team...it was the Argentina's third team...only players from the national league, very very youngs, like Simeone for example, it was his 3rd match with the national shirt.
Please country-men it was soooo penalty, only Garre can do such of thing.

nice dive from frank

go frank!!!!

Wow! Charlie Yankos!

its now emerged that farina was personally responsible for the loss of joey didulica

even kossie his former team mate is on my side


"I say this in the nicest possible way, but Frank Farina was one of the biggest whingers I ever played with or against," Kosmina told News Ltd papers at the weekend.

"He was always moaning. Whether it was right or wrong he'd always have a whinge. Not much has changed."

farina is the biggest and best example of why the game floundered for so long in oz. hes up there with arnie and ange for the greats that completely ruined the game award.

Sounds like someone is a little butthurt that a bunch of amateurs was able to defeat his country by 3 clear goals.

that referee is a C**t it wasn't a penalty.
well at least the Aussies won that night but how about if you make it to a World Cup every four years and not 32?? jejejeje
VAMOS ARGENTINA!

it was cuz of his pnalty that Aus won that game thats what im tlkin about, u noob

pfft - farina a champ? you are a noobie to this game mate. i hope you dont want him to come to fc...

go FARINA what a champ, he set up the win. shame he aint coaching a better side now

i rekon we've always had a good team. itas only translated to world cup now but we've always had a fighting spirit and some skills to go along. our old socceroos should be remembered as battlers and good footballers

Farina's dive was even better than Yankos' goal!

We beat Argentina 4-1?

awesome! i know scott ollerenshaw he's awesome but charlie yankos what a legend!! who needs roberto carlos?