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Argentina. Dangerous at corners. And pretty much everywhere else.

Fired up by firepower and not a lot of brains. Argentina is the Ferrari F40.

Football is essentially a very simple game.  Retain the ball, keep moving and do some damage. Cars are the same. Their beauty lies in their unpredictabilty and National teams/car makers that insist on adhering to a certain style  add to this heady cocktail of randomness.  Not many car manufacturers have the sheer cajones to make something so undeniably theirs, so viscerally bold as the side Diego Maradona chose for the 2010 World Cup. But Ferrari did it with the spartanesque projectile they called the F40.

For Maradona, full-backs were a luxury he couldn’t afford.  In the same way the F40 eschewed commonly held truths about how expensively assembled cars should be. It was gloriously stripped down and ready to attack. Ferrari -like Argentina- believe more in their ability to be frighteningly visceral and entertaining above any accepted norms.  ”We have 3 of the best strikers in the world and one on the bench, let’s unleash them all at the same time”.  The F40 was as daftly exciting as Maradona’s Argentina this World Cup.  But as the Albiceleste found out, it didn’t take long for a good team from Germany to figure them out and surpass them.  Red blooded passion and unpredictabilty only get you so far. But God how we loved them.