Brazil World Cup Preview with Ossie Ardiles, Fernando Duarte & Eoin McDevitt + Argentina Campeones: (1 Viewer)

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Con Artist Brazil 2014 World Cup Preview
Featuring:
Ossie Ardiles [WC Winner - Argentina]
Fernando Duarte [The Guardian - Brazil]
with host Eoin McDevitt [Second Captains]

+ Screening of Argentina Campeones: 1978 FIFA World Cup Official Film

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Doors at 18.00 Talk /Q&A begins at 19.00 with two halves of 45 mins and will be followed by the screening.

Con Artist returns after the sold-out Guardian Football Weekly evening in Griffith College, with our next event - a timely Brazil 2014 World Cup Preview Special.

We’ve got a cracking line up including World Cup winner, UEFA Cup Winner, FA Cup Winner, former Spurs Manager & footballing legend Ossie Ardiles from Argentina. Ossie won 63 caps for Argentina, the only Argentinian to be included in the Football League 100 Legends list.won the FA Cup & UEFA Cup with Spurs while as a manager gained promotions for Swindon Town & West Bromich Albion. He works regularly as a pundit for Sky Sports & RTE.

Representing the hosts & most succesful World Cup nation, Brazil, we have author and journalist Fernado Duarte. Duarte writes extensively for the Guardian, ESPN, World Soccer, Football 24/7, and offers regular punditry for CNN, BT Sport, Talksport, National Geographic, the Today programme at Radio 4 and the Guardian Football Weekly podcast. He has covered the Brazilian national team since 2003, following them all around the world, and has reported from the 2006, 2010 and 2014 World Cups as well as the Sydney and London Olympics. His book, A Shocking Brazil, looks at six crucial World Cup campaigns that radically altered the face of Brazilian football and which had repercussions far beyond the sport. Behind the ignominy lurk narratives of racism, corruption, authoritarianism, corporate power and greed.

Eoin McDevitt (@EoinMcDevitt) is broadcaster & presenter with Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) now both a television programme on RTE as well as a bi-weekly podcast featured on The Irish Times.

Screening: Argentina Campeones: 1978 FIFA World Cup Official Film

If the first World Cup of the 1970′s was the most beautiful, and the second the most revolutionary, then the third and final one was the most controversial of the three.

Organised in Argentina, which at the time was ruled by a military junta, the World Cup found itself abused as a giant propaganda campaign to boost the prestige of Argentina’s regime, both abroad and among the population of Argentina. The football team sent out to defend the home nation’s honour had only one option then: to win this World Cup. A tough task if looked at from a historical perspective. By 1978, the glories of Argentine football in the first half of the 20th century had become a distant memory. Since the Second World War. Argentina had never achieved anything in a World Cup. In 1970, they had failed to even qualify. Four years later, they were humiliated by Cruyff’s Holland.

But now they had a fine crop of players again. While 17-year-old supertalent Diego Maradona was controversially left out of the squad by coach Cesar Luis Menotti, the presence of excellent players like Mario Kempes, Oswaldo Ardiles and Daniel Passarrella meant that for the first time in several decades, Argentina were true contendors again. Especially because the giants of 1974, West-Germany and Holland, were not as strong this time around. The absence of Cruyff and Van Hanegem left the Dutch without their two most influential players from four years before, while the defending champions Germany had to do without titans like Beckenbauer, Breitner, Overath and Muller.

Perhaps the prospected decline of the ’74 finalists could open the way for other European nations. Francefeatured a strong midfield starring a young Michel Platini. Italy had an excellent squad, filled with Juventus players: Zoff, Gentile, Scirea, Antogini, Cabribini, Tardelli and Rossi. Expectations in Scotland were high too, because, after all, why would they have to fear anyone when they had Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Archie Gemmil in the team? Lastly, Poland, who had suprised in the 1974 World Cup, featured Deyna, Lato and Boniek.

But perhaps Argentina’s biggest challenger would be their arch-rivals: Brazil. 1974 had been a disappointment for them, and Rivelino was now the sole survivor of the 1970 golden generation. But Brazil could count on new stars: Zico and Reinaldo.

Group 1

Italy

Argentina

France

Hungary

Group 2

West-Germany

Poland

Tunisia

Mexico
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