1978 Italy v Brazil

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Brazil took third place from an enterprising Italian side with Nelinho scoring a memorable goal, and were dubbed "moral champions" by coach Cláudio Coutinho, because they did not win the tournament, but did not lose a single match.
Worth watching just to see the spectacular goal by Nelinho!

1978 Italy v Holland

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It was pretty clear the winner of this would get to the final.
Paolo Rossi was playing but it was the Dutch who scored two stunning goals.
Both of them were absolute Exocets from a long way out.
Ernie Brandts had scored an own goal before equalising for Holland and Arie Haan's hit the post and went in at such a rate.
Goalkeeper Dino Zoff didn't see either of them.
The Dutch manager Ernst Happel made a half-time change and put Johan Neeskens in midfield and it was a match-winning decision.
Holland could have gone on to win the Cup.

1978 West Germany v Mexico

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West Germany give the hapless Mexicans an absolute thrashing!

1970 Italy v West Germany

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The Match of the Century.
That’s how many labeled this 1970 World Cup confrontation between Italy and West-Germany.
Why this game was seen as perhaps the best ever in football, can only be fully appreciated by watching the match yourself.
Italy came into this match with a slight advantage in fitness.
In the quarter-finals they had sailed past the hosts Mexico (4-1), whereas the Germans had to play the full 120 minutes to beat England.
But ultimately, football is about quality.
And with Schnellinger, Beckenbauer, Seeler and Müller, Germany had absolute world class players in every line on the pitch.
Italy had its own stars, particularly the midfield maestro’s Sandro Mazzola and Gianni Rivera.
However, the Italian coach Ferruccio Valgareggi decided that since his tactical formation didn’t allow for two playmakers, he would give both players 45 minutes.
Would this remarkable choice prove to be a stroke of genius, a fatal error, or ultimately irrelevant in this grand match?

1970 Brazil v Italy

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On the one side there’s a Brazil filled with brilliant footballers. Tostão. Gerson. Rivelino. Jairzinho.
A team built on intelligence, creativity, technique and skill.
And then there’s the greatest genius of them all: Pelé.
Together they represent perhaps the best team ever assembled.
On the other side there’s an Italy still very much influenced by the spirit of Catenaccio.
An Italy that is blessed with two playmakers in Mazzola and Rivera, but cursed by a way of thinking that causes coach Valcareggi to use only one of them.
Yes, this is an oversimplification, but yes, the god of the Beautiful Game is cheering for Brazil.

1970 Brazil V Uruguay

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The match is perhaps best remembered for a goal that wasn’t, and is perhaps considered one of Pelé biggest misses: on a one-on-one with Mazurkiewicz,
Pelé totally confused the Uruguayan goalkeeper by letting the ball pass to the left of the goalkeeper while he himself runs around his right.
Alone with goal, Pelé nevertheless miscalculates his shot, that goas wide of the goal.

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1978 Argentina v France

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Against France, Argentina struggled to stifle Michel Platini’s creativity and were pegged back in their own half.
The notoriously combustible Buenos Aires crowd booed the team incessantly until shortly before half-time. Recent allegations by members of the French team have suggested that this game was rigged.
After winger Didier Six was denied what appeared to be a certain penalty in the first half, an unnamed French player claimed the referee informed Daniel Passarella, who’d bundled over Six, “Don’t do that again please, or I might have to actually give it next time.”
In the second half Six was bundled over by Luque in the opposition box and TV pictures appeared to show the referee winking at Luque afterwards. “That never happened – no way,” claimed Luque.
Just to add to French fury, Daniel Passarella scored from the spot to put the hosts 1–0 ahead after Marius Tresor slipped over and brushed against the ball – a clear case of ball to hand.

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1982 Argentina v Hungary

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This was Argentina's opening match and they walked out to a magnificent ticker-tape welcome in the River Plate stadium.

Hungary scored first but Argentina were allowed to get back into the game with some pretty robust play. Hungary had two sent off which kick-started the conspiracy theories about how much would be done to make Argentina win that tournament.
That said, they had some fine players in Kempes, Ossie Ardiles (who came to Spurs straight after) and Daniel Passarella, a real hard-man leader.
You did feel though that the whole country and the government were determined to see them win.

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1982 Brazil v USSR

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This was Brazil's first match of the 1982 World Cup.
Coached by the prophet of attacking football, Tele Santana, Brazil set out to show the world that spectacular, risky and adventurous football cán lead to victory.
The match became a memorable encounter in which Brazil put both its strengths and weaknesses on display, as they mixed beautiful plays with horrid defending.
But after the wonderful finale of this match, who could not help but fall in love with this team?

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