The rivalry emerged across several games during the latter half of the 20th century, even though as of 2008 the teams have played each other on only 14 occasions in full internationals. Numerous songs have been released about the England national football team. See main article: List of England national football team songs. England is regarded in Argentina as one of the major rivals of the national football team, matched only by Brazil and Uruguay. The first ball he received was a short one that he sought to hook, but succeeded only in top edging into his face. Wales returned to the Racecourse in October 1946 for the side’s first official post-war international.