How Argentina's Win Makes Brazil's World Cup Nightmare So Much Worse

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The Argentine fans leaned their entire torsos out of the bus windows, beating on the metal sides, singing, yelling and taunting the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. But mostly taunting

This was June 21 2014, the day Argentina played Iran in the World Cup's Group F. As Argentina soccer fans rode down Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana — one of Rio's main drags — you didn't need to be a soccer expert to see the palpable intensity of one of the sport's fiercest rivalries

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Sure, Copacabana was a place for fans from all countries to proudly sport their colors. But here, on match day, you could sense something different from the Argentines: more pointed, more barbed Read more...

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