Argentine “full-time” 1978 World Cup-winning defender Luis Adolfo Galván died Monday at the age of 77 due to bilateral pneumonia and kidney failure, just one year after that team's coach, César Luis ...

Despite a threatened boycott by several nations in protest at the Videla military regime, all the qualifiers assembled in Argentina for the 1978 finals. The same format as 1974 was adopted -- two ...

The 1978 football World Cup was an extraordinary event, marked by the victory of the Argentina national football team at Buenos Aires. Their iconic blue and white attire, the loud cheer of more than ...

One of the World Cup's oldest mysteries finally may be solved after claims were made this week of a sinister plot involving mass corruption, government interference and torture. Argentina's 1978 ...

For the first time in 16 years, the tournament returned to South America, and not without a little controversy. Argentina was governed by a military junta that had come to power in bloody fashion and ...

The 1978 World Cup came to South America at a time in which thousands of people were disappearing at the hands of a murderous military junta Roughly 10 blocks separate two structures in the Nunez ...

Argentina's Mario Kempes celebrates scoring against the Netherlands in the 1978 World Cup final in Buenos Aires. ((Getty Images)) The World Cup returned to South America in 1978, but political ...

The hosts' triumph may have been overshadowed by off-field events but Argentina still knew how to party. Argentina give country relief as Scots exit early The backdrop to the 1978 World Cup finals was ...

Argentina won their first World Cup - 48 years after reaching their first final - but the event was shrouded in controversy both on and off the pitch. There was huge opposition to Argentina hosting ...

Roughly 10 blocks separate two structures in the Nunez neighbourhood of Buenos Aires that are synonymous with Argentina's 1978 World Cup win and the country that celebrated. The first is River Plate's ...

Despite a threatened boycott by several nations in protest at the Videla military regime, all the qualifiers assembled in Argentina for the 1978 finals. The same format as 1974 was adopted -- two ...