History of the Argentina national football team Cup champion, and Argentina's biggest loss since their 6-1 loss to Bolivia in 2009, and also tied the record for Argentina's biggest loss overall, by a margin of five goals. On 14 May 2018, Sampaoli announced a 35 man preliminary squad for the 2018 World Cup, and the final squad list was released on 21 May 2018. When the World Cup in Russia came around, the tournament was a disaster for the "Albiceleste". Argentina competed in Group D. Argentina drew 1–1 with Iceland during their opening World Cup group match, with one goal scored by Sergio Agüero, and the other
2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held. The Oceania Football Confederation nominated the Solomon Islands as their representative in the World Cup, based on their results over the past two years, which showed that they were by far the strongest team in the confederation. France qualified automatically as the hosts. These are the teams that qualified to the World Cup: Asian zone: African zone: European zone: North, Central American and Caribbean zone: Oceanian zone: South American zone: A stadium on the Plage du Prado in southern Marseille was used known as the "Stade du Prado" or the "Stadium of the Beach" in English. The stadium hosted