Saturday, June 28, 2008

Empty Cup

"'We won! We won!' the lockup's notorious chief of intelligence, Jorge 'El Tigre' (The Tiger) Acosta, shouted over and over, recalled Graciela Daleo, a survivor. 'When he said, "We won," I was certain that we had lost,' Daleo said in a seminal documentary film made here examining the 'parallel history' of the 1978 championship. 'And we did lose.'"

In the Los Angeles Times, Patrick J. McDonnell looks back to Argentina and the 1978 World Cup.

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