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In the 1978 final, Menotti thought of using Daniel Killer (high defender of Rosario Central) to mark a dutch giant who had just entered. But he didn’t have time. Nanninga, she was called, and headed the partial equalizer from her six foot ninety.

This Dutchman who has now marked the discount to put his heart in our mouths it reminded us of that anguish to those of us over 50. The same was Rensenbrick’s shot at Fillol’s right post, when nothing was missing and the extraordinary Argentine goalkeeper was defeated.

that anguish it has now covered 44 years and 13,000 kilometres until the bombardment of the Dutch 11 which hit the outside of the goal, moved the net and made us think for a tenth of a second that the Netherlands had equalised.

The suffering was such that when in the 8th minute of stoppage time Paredes hit the ball against the left wing, he looked for the opponent’s free kick and when the referee blew his whistle, he clenched his fist and celebrated it as a goal.

Immediately Nahuel Molina, who he played the match of his life and defined in the first goal as if it were Romario, he burst a ball in the stands as if he were the number four of Cambaceres.

In the next play, the last of the match, he arrived the free kick executed with a stick and chalk. A game of billiards, prepared, to be equalized with the malice of deception.

We all rushed to clear the ball which arrived soft and from below for the recipient – still the big man who had scored the header – who only turned around and looked for a corner from Dibu to put everything as if it had just begun.

The Dutch coach Van Gaal has thus obtained, with the ingenuity of his expert blackboard, extend his good run of never losing a World Cup match in 90 minutes.

He did it with a trick. Just us, we don’t go a weekend without taking the foul.

The tie was a wreck.

Think of Walter Nelson’s epic phrase –“I got out of there, Wonder”when the boxer was in shock, and we started thinking about Di María.

We don’t know why, this time we didn’t want to go to penalties.

We used the first half of extra time to take a deep breath, grit our teeth and see a little disappointment that the Dutch seemed to have other things to do.

We thought of Di María just when Scaloni put him to disarm the 5 line that had given us so much satisfaction during the normal match that ended a century ago.

Let’s think about Lautaro he should have one and he did. He brought it up a Dutchman with a pear in the corner.

Here is the selection he had three goal situations in two minutes We didn’t even want sticker penalties.

Lautaro immediately turns around and kicks with his left foot. The goalkeeper only arrived because he is 2.03 meters tall and he is The tallest footballer in World Cup history.

But not even that came to him when Enzo Fernández blew up his right post, on the last play of the last minute of the final extra time.

And then we started thinking about Dibu and Mascherano, shouting at them somewhere: “Today you become a hero.”

And we have already seen it.

And it was true that Lautaro would have had one. Inside the last penalty, with heart rate at 200.

Only those over 50 can think that this afternoon of fire in thermometers and hearts couldn’t end so badly. In the stands was Kempes, our immortal hero from that freezing night against the Netherlands when Maradona was a little boy and Messi still had 9 years to come into the world.

There, in Qatar, The matador He clenched his fists with a converted penalty and we Argentines read his lips in the close-up that the TV made at that moment: “Come on, damn it.”