"On the pitch, much was amateurish: penalty spots were painted in the wrong place, some games finished ahead of time, and the identity of some of the goalscorers remains unknown. Argentina’s captain, Manuel Ferreira, left halfway through to sit his law exams, and the US midfielder Andy Auld was temporarily blinded when a physio spilled a bottle of chloroform while treating his split lip. Some teams played in an assortment of colours, and Juan Evaristo, Argentina’s right-half, in a beret. The threshold for disciplinary action would encourage those who think the game has gone soft: Plácido Galindo of Peru became the first player in World Cup history to be sent off, for breaking the Romanian Adalbert Steiner’s leg. One match had an attendance of 300, the lowest to date, though by the time Trump’s border agents and ICE are done that record might be in peril. The Uruguay-Argentina final was already the 111th rioplatense derby. The teams couldn’t agree on the match ball, so the first half…
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