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White, Blue and White

  • Episode aired Jul 1, 2014
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A look at the public response of Tottenham Hotspurs' Argentine players and 1981 FA Cup winners Ricardo Villa and Ossie Ardiles before, during, and after the Falklands War.A look at the public response of Tottenham Hotspurs' Argentine players and 1981 FA Cup winners Ricardo Villa and Ossie Ardiles before, during, and after the Falklands War.A look at the public response of Tottenham Hotspurs' Argentine players and 1981 FA Cup winners Ricardo Villa and Ossie Ardiles before, during, and after the Falklands War.
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      • Camilo Antolini
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      • Osvaldo Ardiles
      • Patrick Barclay
      • Keith Burkinshaw
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      Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa and Carlos Marcellan were involved in a road side collision involving a sheep in which their vehicle overturned. They were airlifted 57 miles to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley. Ardiles required 20 stitches in his head, Marcellan sustained a neck injury and Villa was discharged from hospital with no serious injuries.
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      Features 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain (1982)

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    Ossie Ardiles football hero and anti-war hero
    "White, Blue & White" (2014 release; 52 min.) is a documentary about Argentine football (a/k/a soccer) player Osvaldo Ardiles. As the documentary opens, we are at the 1978 World Cup , hosted by Argentina, then in the midst of a military dictatorship and its infamous campaign of "the disappeared". For Osvaldo Ardiles, then 25 yrs. Old, and his teammates, only 1 thing mattered: win the WC, period. They managed to do so, and shortly thereafter, Ardiles is approached by Tottenham, one of England's top football clubs. Ardiles agrees to join them, but insists that they also sign his good friend Ricardo Villa in a package deal. All is well, as Tottenham fans welcome Ossie and Ricky with open arms and European football glory waits in the wings. Then comes April 2, 1982, when Argentina invades the nearby British territory known as the Falkland Islands (Malvinas for Argentines). It is the beginning of a life-changing chain of events for Ardiles...

    Couple of comments: I grew up in Belgium, and vividly remember Ardiles and Villa joining Tottenham, I mean, that was a BIG deal (the first soccer players from South America to join a British team). The 1982 Falklands war was as stupid as it was unnecessary: the Argentine military dictatorship did it to rouse up Argentine nationalism while it desperately hung on to power (only to be ousted just a year later). The British response was equally unneeded and out of proportion. But the war affected many personal lives, and Ossie Ardiles was just one of them. The documentary does a great laying out the tormented feelings of Ardiles who was put in an impossible position. "He was emotionally distraught", comments a British sports reporter. We see Ardiles and Villa visiting the Falkland Islands all those years later (in 2014), and then even more unexpected things happen... Just watch!

    "White, Blue and White" originally aired in 2014 as part of the then-new ESPN series "30 For 30". I caught it the other day on demand from ESPN+. It was like a trip down memory lane for me (I moved to the US from Belgium in 1983). You don't have to be a soccer fan to appreciate the human aspects of this story (but it certainly doesn't hurt if you are). I'd readily suggest you check it out for yourself, and draw your own conclusion.
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