Ireland v Argentina

[kid_b]

I heard Jimmy Magee talking about a friendly match we played against Argentina in Dublin one time. He said that Maradona played and that the FAI wouldn't recognise it as a full international for some reason. Apparantly no caps were awarded.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this? Know when it was? Why it was deemed illigit?

Thanks
derek

[elroy]

I remember the friendly when they kicked our ass 3-0, think it was 1995 and Ortega was class but cant recall any other in recent times

[gspain]

Game was in 1979 in aid of UNICEF. We drew 0-0. We also met them in 1980 and Maradona played and we lost 1-0. 79 is not recognized as an official International - don't know why.

Game mentione dby a previous poster wa sprobably 98 where we lost 2-0 at home. We also played them in 1951 and lost 1-0 at home. An LoI side went to Argentina and lost 3-1 v the then world champs circa 1980.

[Ozymandias]

I remember as a young fella hearing my da talk about Diego Maradona playing against Ireland I think it was an Irish X1 as opposed to an official irish team .....it was very early 80's I think and we were away ...all I remember about the game was Maradona (a young fella saying davy Langan should be banned from football.....dowtcha davy langan boy...he kicked lumps out of Diego aparently. I'll suss it out with a buddy of mine