Mario Alberto Kempes was without a doubt the Argentine symbol

of a World Cup that the side coached by Cesar Luis Menotti won at
home in 1978. However, 36 years later the tournament is still
largely marked by the dictatorship of General Jorge Videla.
"There were always comments, there continue to be and there will
continue to be. Whenever one talked about the Argentina World
Cup, one talked about the military, about the match against Peru,
and it’s always the same topics. But the truth is that the team was
very good,” Kempes said.
The striker nicknamed "Matador" admitted to dpa that players
were "very isolated" in their headquarters and that for this reason
they were unaware of everything that was going on under a
military regime believed to have killed more than 30,000 people.
Kempes, the top scorer of that tournament with six goals and now
aged 59, remains convinced that Argentina’s first World Cup was
won in good faith, based on the hosts’ “hunger for victory.”