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World Cup 2006 - Team Profile: Argentina | Reuters.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Pekerman, a triple world champion at under-20s level, is working under the added pressure of having to prove himself with the senior team, no small task after Argentina's first-round elimination in 2002 in Japan, their worst finals in 40 years. |
 | | Added to that is his awareness, as he remarked shortly after taking charge, that Argentina, World Cup winners in 1978 and 1986, have gone 13 years without a major trophy since their last Copa America victory in Ecuador in 1993. |
 | | A good World Cup will also help him to banish the nightmare of his last-minute penalty miss against Arsenal in the semi-finals of the Champions League at the end of April. |
| worldcup.reuters.com /argentina/profile (656 words) |
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