Four years later, after Paraguay stunned Germany, the buyer offered it back, turning a World Cup upset into a parable of sacrifice, memory, and regional pride. Gill stopped two German shots, Paraguay won the shootout 4-3, and a 26-year-old making his first World Cup run became a national hero. “We had nothing,” she wrote in Spanish, recalling how Gill sold club clothing to cover expenses while their baby fought to survive. It was the country’s deepest World Cup appearance since 2010. Argentina’s victory over England at the 1986 World Cup became inseparable in public memory from a war lost four years earlier.