By: Kevin Kennedy
Javier Mascherano said that a team does not stay at the top for years through casualty. You can pull to your side in football, and anyone can find a reason to doubt a specific result on a specific night. But over six years, across a Copa América, a World Cup, and a run that broke record after record, Argentina has not been at the front of global football by accident. That is not a theory. That is a pattern. The 2014 team reached the final on desire, on sacrifice, and on the quality of specific individuals who covered the gaps …










