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General Jorge Videla, chief of the Argentinian Junta, presenting the World Cup trophy to Argentina's team captain Daniel Passarella at the Buenos Aires River Plate stadium.

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When Argentina Used World Cup Soccer to Whitewash Its Dirty War

‘We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers,’ wrote proponents of an international tournament boycott that year.

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