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Every Dutch player wore three Adidas stripes. Except Cruyff, who had a Puma deal. He wore two stripes while his teammates wore three. Haiti's Emmanuel Sanon ended Dino Zoff's world record clean sheet streak. Scotland wen
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Italy led West Germany one-nil for eighty-nine minutes. Then came five goals in extra time. Beckenbauer played the last thirty minutes with a dislocated shoulder, his arm in a sling. Then Brazil played Italy in the final
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Pelé headed the ball goalward from six yards. He was already saying "goal." Gordon Banks somehow got down to it and scooped it over the crossbar. Pelé said it was the greatest save he ever saw. Banks said he didn't think
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Geoff Hurst shot. The ball hit the crossbar, bounced down, and was cleared. The referee consulted his linesman. The linesman was Azerbaijani. His name was Tofiq Bahramov. He nodded. The goal was given. Studies later sugg
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North Korea were three goals up inside twenty-two minutes. The Portuguese team was losing in a World Cup quarter-final to a country most people in the stadium couldn't place on a map. Then Eusébio scored four goals. At t
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Pelé was kicked in the knee in the first match and the spine in the second. He left the tournament on a stretcher and vowed never to play in another World Cup. Meanwhile, a team from North Korea — a country most of the w
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Colombia qualified for their first World Cup in nineteen sixty-two and drew four-four with the Soviet Union. They did not qualify again for twenty-eight years. In nineteen ninety-three they beat Argentina five-nil in Bue
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He was born with a deformed spine, one leg six centimetres shorter than the other, both legs bent in opposite directions. Doctors said he would never walk properly. In the quarter-final against England a dog invaded the
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The first foul came after twelve seconds. The first sending-off after four minutes. The Italian players had handed flowers to Chilean women in the crowd before kickoff. The flowers were thrown back. The referee later sai
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In the final, Sweden scored first. Then a seventeen-year-old from a Brazilian railroad town controlled a high ball on his chest, flicked it over a defender, and volleyed it into the net before it touched the ground. Ther
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Brazil's squad psychologist tested the players and declared Pelé "too infantile" to participate. The manager replied: you may be right, but you know nothing about football. Just Fontaine damaged his boots in training and
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Hungary led two goals to nil after eight minutes. They had not lost in thirty-one matches. Their opponents had lost to them eight goals to three three weeks earlier. West Germany's captain could only perform at his best
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In the tunnel before the match at Wembley, an England player pointed at the stocky Hungarian captain and said: look at that little fat chap — we'll murder this lot. Hungary won six goals to three. It was the first time E
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On the morning of July sixteenth, nineteen fifty, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper printed the photograph of the world champions. The match had not yet been played. Two hundred thousand people were inside the Maracanã by noon
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England arrived at their first World Cup as heavy favourites. Their opponents, the United States, included a Haitian dishwasher studying accounting who was not yet an American citizen. England had not lost to a non-Briti
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On May fourth, nineteen forty-nine, a plane carrying the entire Torino squad flew into a hillside above Turin in thick fog. There were no survivors. Eight of the dead were Italy's national team. Twelve months later, Ital
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On the eve of the 1938 World Cup final, Italy's players received a telegram from Rome. It read: "Win or die." Italy's captain scored the winning penalty with one hand holding up his shorts. Brazil left out their best pla
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Austria qualified for the 1938 World Cup and then ceased to exist as a nation. Their players were conscripted into the German squad — except one, who refused. Spain withdrew because of a civil war. A Brazilian forward tr
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Austria's Wunderteam were probably the best side in the world in 1934. Their forward Matthias Sindelar — Der Papierene, the Paper Man — played football like a diagram of where a footballer should be. The semi-final refer
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Mussolini told his football federation chief: "You don't understand. I said Italy must win the World Cup." The 1934 tournament was the first to be used as state propaganda — referees selected, opponents targeted, a goalk
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