By Doug McIntyre
FOX Sports activities Soccer Author
Editor’s observe: Every day between now and the kickoff of the primary match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Nov. 20, we’ll unveil a unique reminiscence from World Cup historical past. The countdown from 101 continues with Argentina’s grasp class in sharing the ball.
How stacked was this quartet at Germany 2006? Of the six matches contested by Argentina, Ivory Coast, the Netherlands and Serbia and Montenegro within the dreaded “Group of Loss of life,” 5 have been determined by one objective.
The outlier was Argentina-Serbia. One of many World Cup favorites that 12 months, the two-time former champion Albiceleste hung essentially the most lopsided defeat of the event on the Serbians, who competed as one workforce for the primary and final time with Montenegro. (The latter had declared its independence as a sovereign state simply earlier than the competitors kicked off.)
The 6-0 scoreline got here out of nowhere. Serbia and Montenegro suffered a slender 1-0 loss to the Dutch of their opener, however they’d no solutions for Argentina. Maxi Rodríguez scored twice, and an 18-year-old named Lionel Messi accomplished the rout within the 88th minute.
However the Albiceleste’s utter domination was encapsulated by Esteban Cambiasso’s first half strike, which got here on the finish of a sequence involving 25 passes. It stays one of many nice workforce objectives of all time.
La Albiceleste run circles round Serbia
Esteban Cambiasso was the beneficiary of Argentina’s unbelievable passing.
One of many main soccer journalists in North America, Doug McIntyre has lined United States males’s and girls’s nationwide groups at a number of FIFA World Cups. Earlier than becoming a member of FOX Sports activities in 2021, he was a workers author with ESPN and Yahoo Sports activities. Comply with him on Twitter @ByDougMcIntyre.
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