Argentina's National/Olympic Team

Argentina’s National/Olympic football team is one of the best in the world. In 1978 and 1986 they brought home the World Cup. They have turned out Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, who are considered by many to be the greatest football players of all time. Constantly Argentina is battling with Brazil, and are one of the very few teams who can actually beat them. During the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, the team won the gold medal and then went on to defend it in Beijing in 2008, which hadn’t been done in a long time. These achievements, along with a great number of somewhat lesser ones, are what makes Argentina one of the fiercest teams when it comes to playing football.
- Charlotte Rand