Thank you all for watching! This was a huge project so I'd appreciate it if you shared it with other football enthutiasts! Link to watch all the games on FIFATV: www.plus.fifa.com/en/showcase/53ea2534-eb36-4335-bc48-8e9c70cb1cad?gl=ar

A documentary on Ernst Happel would be amazing. His life, oh man, oh man. And his achievements as a manager are unique in the annals of the game. Rest in peace.

This is the most comprehensive review and analysis of the 1978 World Cup I've seen. Your research was very thorough and unbiased and I think your conclusions are 100% correct. Spectacular work!

The 1966, 1974 and 1978 world cups were all "won" by the host nations. That is all the proof of rigging I need.

I still loved this WC

Very good material. Thanks for your work.

Excellent documentary. 1978 was one of the truly great FIFA World Cup tournaments and a real "seventies-feel" event. The painstaking effort put into the detailed analysis is commendable.

Ah so this is where Maradona got the idea for his ‘hand of god’ goal 😂

GG, bro THIS IS SO GOOD well deserved sub

If I had a time machine to travel back in time, I would go back to the year 1978, exactly at the time of the World Cup championship in Argentina... I think that the 1978 tournament is the best and most beautiful tournament held so far... A lot of talk and doubts are raised whenever Argentina wins an important tournament!!! I do not know why !!! Argentina won many tournaments, but the 1978 World Cup was the most important.... I loved the matches of this tournament and considered that it was the highest level of competition, and no team deserved the tournament like the Argentine team deserved it.... You are the best, and this video contains a great analysis of what happened in the 1978 World Cup... I don’t know why you don’t have more followers???!!!

Good point about Alonso, in fact Menotti gave him very little time on the field!!! It could be said that his second half introduction against Hungary changed the course of the match, injecting much needed guile into the midfield. There were many strange decisions by Menotti during the tournament, his persistence in deploying Bertoni who was often on the edge of a meltdown!!! The lack of minutes for Houseman was a scandal and plunged him into depression. I suspect that Menotti’s under utilisation of Alonso was his way of spiting the Junta as its common knowledge that “Beto” was never his preferred choice for the squad. In the end Argentina triumphed and it may be best not too ask to many questions as to the manner that this was achieved. This was a tragic period in modern Argentine history and no one comes out of this with reputations intact.

WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE OVER A MILLION SUBS!!! THIS WAS TOOO GOOD! KEEP IT UP!

good post. Actually the fix was in earlier as it was important for Argentina that Peru lost against Poland, so that Poland would have something to play for against Brazil. Velasquez claimed that the manager Calderon made a series of strange substitutions against Argentina and that the training camp had been visited frequently by a press circus including Pele and Ramon Mifflin working for US television, and that these intrusions had unsettled key players. It is also speculated that the two players Velasquez alluided to were Chumpitaz and Cubillas, two legends of Peruvian football.Without any question Rodolfo Manzo was deeply implicated and the jury is out on Chumpitaz and Cubillas. Anti-semitism reared it's ungly head when Argentina protested about the proposed referee for the final, Abraham Klein, an israeli citizen and he was shamefully replaced by FIFA with the Italian Sergio Gonella.

Amazing video!

The real question is, though: who smoked more cigarettes in the Final - Happel or Menotti? I reckon Menotti, but it must have been close.

Crazy good video 🔥

Finally I was able to watch your video. I can't comment much on what happened at the 1978 World Cup because I never checked out any footage of that World Cup. But to me it sounds like you were investigating this matter as objectively as possible. Props for that. 👍

Thank you Renk that was a very fair minded and detailed look at a most controversial World Cup. I happen to be of the view that the Argentina team won on merit and that not only did they win but they won with a certain flair and verve that distinguished them from all other teams in that tournament. I would describe the 1978 selección as a near great football team and Mario Kempes as the defining star of that World Cup.

FIFA and Argentina had a bad relationship from the get-go. Argentina sought in vain to host the World Cup for years and were finally (allegedly and unofficially?) promised the 1962 World Cup, only for it to go to Chile, not a footballing power, who had mediocre stadiums. Chile won 32 votes to Argentina's 10. 14 members abstained from voting. Then in 1966, Argentina got shafted by referees, as did Uruguay in their matches against England. Argentina were given the 1978 World Cup in 1966, but then amazingly failed to qualify in 1970, allowing Peru to shine, then performed poorly in 1974. Peru won the 1975 Copa, they were a very good side, Cubillas was an amazing player, but in 1978, Argentina had a great side, they were so tough, so skilful: Passarella, Ardilles, Luque and of course, Kempes were amazing world-class players. Peru have never been a physical side and Argentina are masters of that style. Was the match rigged? Possibly. But Argentina were, one way or another, destined to win that World Cup. Which Dutch player was it who said, _"My feeling in extra time was that if we won that match, we wouldn't get out of the stadium alive."_ I think it was Johnny Rep. Here is the full match of the 1978 Final with the original Argentinian TV commentary: footballia.net/matches/netherlands-argentina-world-cup-1978 Great match, no nonsense tackling, skill, bravery, craziness, cigarettes. Rest in peace, Dick Nanninga, Rob Rensenbrink and many other Dutch players.

Vamos vamos ⭐⭐⭐

The first pic of Ardiles is from 1982 - le coq sportif kit. Adidas was 1978

How am i just watching this? This is a really well made video Renk. I learned a lot more about this world cup than before. Thank you, and i agree, '78 world cup was probably rigged 😅

What is also often overlooked is the manner in which Boca Juniors and their players were excluded from the 1978 World Cup, the club were denied grants to undertake refurbishments to their stadium and their players who were the current South American club champions had no representation in Menotti's squad. It would seem that the club's history of being aligned with Peronism did them no favours in this respect. When Menotti announced his final squad of 22, the focus was on the exclusion of Maradona and the absence of Boca players was lost in the controversy. Velez Sarsfield and others however received generous grants for refurbishments through a system that was not at all transparent.

1934 still beats it for rigging

si tomamos en cuenta ese conflicto en el vestuario peruano que mencionaste en relacion a Cristal y A. Lima entonces es posible que las acusaciones de Velazquez hayan sido mas desde el rencor y el querer embarrar la cancha que por honestidad e integridad, a modo de retribucion quiza por aquellos conflictos algo que igual pone en duda la cuestion del doping es que quienes como Ardiles o Kempes jugaron por muchos años mas sin problema, lo cual bajo cualquier estandar logico habria sido imposible si ellos consumian aquellas ingentes cantidades de las que se los acusa, ya que o habrian muerto de intoxicacion por sobredosis O sus cuerpos habrian cedido mucho antes, forzando un retiro temprano cualquiera sea el caso, es un mundial confuso de dislumbrar y siempre va a tener al falcon verde como sombra, pero al ser que todo han sido acusaciones y nadie ha sido capaz de probar su ilegitimidad entonces prefiero en lo personal inclinarme por la opcion de aceptarlo como nuestro sin mas ademas si vamos al caso, la FIFA hasta ese punto nos habia tratado para la mierda (habiendonos arrebatado el mundial del 38 para darselo a los franceses debido a Jules Rimet, chorearnos en el 66 para que inglaterra gane su mundial y presuntamente negarnos el mundial de 62 tambien) asi que un mundial de local era lo minimo que nos podian dar los muy ratas de todas formas el video esta buenardo he visto otros donde siempre se nos embarra y acusa sin dar pie a la historia completa, y el ver un video en ingles (de parte de un argentino) exponiendo todos los pros, contras y matices del mundial es cuanto menos refrescante si recomendaria practicar la fluidez con el ingles porque el acento argentino aveces se superpone demasiado kajskaks mas alla de eso esta God el video, merecido like por lo bien redactado, editado e investigado que esta

It’s a forgotten and lost fact that Peru had nothing to play for against Argentina. When a team has nothing to play for, players levels drop and of course the manager will make changes to give other players game time and substitutions. Argentina deserved the win, played with attacking flair, and scored the most goals, end of debate imo 🤷🏻‍♂️

This cup was bought.

1978 was a fix

S __t.

Truth: Argentina cheated their way to the World Cup in 1978. Lies: Claiming anything else.

The world cups in Italy 1934 and in Argentina 1978 were manipulated in favour of the host countries.

Les digo a todos los que vienen acá: lee de la Wikipedia en inglés.

La única verdad es la realidad. Y la realidad se ve en la cancha. Estoy muy agradecido a nuestro🇦🇷 plantel por ganar nuestro primer título en nuestro País PD: y gracias Videla por haber hecho lo tuyo. Lo hiciste bien. Era acabar con la subversión.