The British government has asked FIFA to investigate the Argentine team after several players displayed a banner with the message "Las Malvinas son argentinas" at the end of the World Cup semi-final against England. The tournament regulations prohibit political demonstrations on the pitch. The banner appeared during the celebration of the Argentine victory 2-1 against England. Several players from the combined team sky blue they held it over the grass of the Atlanta stadium. Argentina continues to claim the archipelago, under British sovereignty, and which the English call the Falkland Islands.

Hours before England and Norway played on Saturday in Miami in the World Cup quarterfinals, and that Argentina and Switzerland faced each other in Kansas a little later, the Foreign Minister of Javier Milei's government, Pablo Quirno, published a long article in the newspaper La Nación titled "Malvinas: the strength of a just cause". The memory of the 1982 war in which Margaret Thatcher's United Kingdom defeated the Argentine military junta, which wanted to regain sovereignty of the archipelago, remains alive in the imagination of the South American country.