Kempes maradona biography
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Before Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona there was Mario Kempes – the star who fired Argentina to World Cup glory… then failed to impress in his Tottenham trial
When you think of Argentina’s greatest number 10’s, Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona instantly spring to mind.
Images of Maradona’s euphoric showing in 1986 still readily circulate as his legacy continues to shine, two years after his untimely passing.
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But eight years before Maradona’s finest hour, Buenos Aires toasted the name of Mario Kempes - the man that will be forever etched into Argentine folklore.
Kempes fired his nation to their first-ever World Cup triumph which was made even more special as it happened on home soil.
Argentina hosted their first-ever World Cup in 1978 in a tournament that boasted a Brazil side consisting of Zico and Rivelino and a West Germany team comprising of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Rainer Bonhof.
But it was a Netherlands side coached by Ernst Happel that Argentina had to overcome