Germany and the Netherlands, members of pot 2, are the rivals that Argentina faced the most in World Cups with five each.
Here is a brief profile of the possible rivals in their 18th participation in the World Cup:
Pot 2
Mexico
It will be his 17th World Cup
DT: Gerardo Martino
Three antecedents with Argentina: 1930 (V), 2006 (V) and 2010 (V).
Netherlands
It will be his 22nd World Cup
DT: Louis Van Gaal
Five antecedents with Argentina 1974 (D), 1978 (V), 1998 (D), 2006 (E) and 2014 (E and V).
Denmark
It will be his 6th world
DT: Kasper Hjulmand
No history with Argentina.
Germany
It will be his 20th world
Champion in 1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014
DT: Hans-Dieter Flick
Five antecedents with Argentina: 1958 (D), 1966 (E), 1986 (V), 1990 (D), 2006 (E and D), 2010 (D), 2014 (D).
Switzerland
It will be his 12th World Cup
DT: Murat Yakin
Two antecedents with Argentina: 1966 (V) and 2014 (V).
United States
It will be his 11th World Cup
DT: Gregg Berhalter
A precedent with Argentina: 1930 (V).
Croatia
It will be his 6th world
DT: Zlatko Dali
Two antecedents with Argentina: 1998 (V) and 2018 (D).
Pot 3
Senegal
It will be the 3rd world
DT: Aliou Cisse
No history with Argentina.
Iran
It will be the 6th world
DT: Dragan Skocic
A precedent with Argentina: 2014 (V).
Japan
It will be the 7th world
DT: Hajime Moriyasu
A precedent with Argentina: 1998 (V).
Morocco
It will be the 6th world
DT: Vahid Halilhodzic
No history with Argentina.
Serbian
It will be the 13th World Cup and the 3rd as an independent.
DT: Dragan Stojkovi
Two antecedents with Argentina: 1990 as Yugoslavia (E and V) and 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro (V).
Poland
It will be the 9th world
DT: Czeslaw Michniewicz
Two antecedents with Argentina: 1974 (D) and 1978 (V).
South Korea
It will be the 11th world
DT: Paulo Bento
Two antecedents with Argentina: 1986 (V) and 2010 (V).
Tunisia
It will be the 6th world
DT: Jalel Kadri
No history with Argentina
Pot 4
Cameroon
It will be the 8th world
DT: Rigobert Song
A precedent with Argentina: 1990 (D)
Canada
It will be the 2nd world
DT: John Herdman
No history with Argentina
Saudi Arabia
It will be the 6th world
DT: Hervé Renard
No history with Argentina
Ghana
It will be the 4th world
DT: Otto Addo
No history with Argentina
unconfirmed
Australia
It would be the 6th world
DT: Graham Arnold
No history with Argentina
Arab Emirates
It would be the 2nd world
DT: Rodolfo Arruabarrena
No history with Argentina
Costa Rica
It would be the 6th world
DT: Luis Fernando Suarez
No history with Argentina
New Zealand
It would be the 3rd world
DT: Danny Hay
No history with Argentina
Welsh
It would be the 2nd world
DT: Robert Page
No history with Argentina
Scotland
It would be the 9th world
DT: Steve Clarke
No history with Argentina
Ukraine
It would be the 2nd world
DT: Oleksandr Petrakov
No history with Argentina.
Source: Ambito
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