Argentina and England will renew one of football’s fiercest international rivalries in Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal, battling on the field while a decades-long territorial dispute gains fresh fervor off of it.
The sixth-ever World Cup match between Argentina and the Three Lions is perhaps the most anticipated since 1986, when Diego Maradona’s “hand of God” goal eliminated England four years after a brief but brutal war over the Falkland Islands claimed 900 lives.