Ben Knight
Contributor
InsideSoccer Magazine
writes and publishes Onward!
Argentine aftermath
They’re so fast – relentless. They leap on mistakes like pumas on a wounded bratwurst.
In a packed park in Buenos Aires, World Cup-bound Argentina laid a 5-0 sledgehammering on a game but exposed Canada, in their final tune-up game before next month’s World Cup in South Africa.
Canada didn’t play all that badly overall, I thought. But any margin they’d usually have – that half second before the tackle, that yard of space you’d normally have to work with – was simply gone.
Relentless Argentine ball-hawking and layered, almost rugby-style fast breaks rendered Canadian intention and strategy irrelevant. The lads in red did what they could. What was done to them could not be reasonably withstood.
So – a disaster? An embarrassment? Honorary mention at the world avalanche-eating championship?
I’m going to take the minority position – that this was actually a useful exercise.
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