🔙 1994 to 2026: Argentina return to Diego's cursed city 🇦🇷

🔙 1994 to 2026: Argentina return to Diego's cursed city 🇦🇷Argentina returns to Dallas this Monday to face Austria.

Although the match will be played at the modern Cowboys Stadium, the Albiceleste’s return to Texas soil inevitably revives the ghosts of the 1994 World Cup, one of the most painful chapters in South American football history.

>It was at the historic Cotton Bowl in Dallas that Diego Armando Maradona played his final match for the national team. That June afternoon, after the win over Nigeria, a nurse dressed in white stepped onto the pitch to lead the No. 10 away by the hand for a doping test, leaving behind an iconic and tragic image.

Days later, the positive test for ephedrine was confirmed, news that, in Diego’s own words, "they cut off my legs". That medical intervention right there on the field marked the beginning of the end for a generation that had dreamed of eternal glory in the United States.

Open wounds that must healToday, the reigning champion returns to the city where the myth was shattered. Although the setting and the protagonists are completely different, the memory of Maradona’s final performance still lingers in the Texas air like an old curse waiting to be lifted.

>The clash with Austria is not just another sporting fixture. For Argentina’s demanding fans, setting foot in Dallas again means closing a wound that has remained open for more than three decades, turning the old ghosts of the past into a new opportunity for triumph.

>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.