1982: For the first time since 1934, 24 teams featured in the World Cup hosted by Spain in 1982. Cameroon, Algeria, Honduras, New Zealand and Kuwait made their debut in the tournament. The teams were divided into six groups of four, with the top two teams in each group advancing to th...
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Waldir Peres, the goalkeeper of Brazil's feted 1982 World Cup team, died on Sunday, his former club Sao Paulo said. Peres, who was 66, suffered a heart attack after eating lunch with his family in the southeastern Brazilian city of Mogi Mirim. "We...
WARSAW, April 14 (Xinhua) -- 1982 world cup winner Francesco Graziani believed that SSC Napoli should sell Polish striker Arkadiusz Milik as "it would be easy to replace him." Milik's representatives have held talks with Napoli to renew the player's contract but are yet to reach an agreeme...
Set against the backdrop of a generational saga, the six-parter focuses on such an exchange taking place during the 1982 football World Cup but tells the story of characters from three generations – one who fought during World War Two, one... See full article at Deadline Film + TV 5/...
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A Swiss court last month granted an order to freeze Guerrero's 14-month ban during the World Cup in Russia, which began on Thursday. The tournament marks Peru's first appearance in football's biggest event since 1982. Gareca told a news conference that he had yet to decide if the 34-ye...
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That has been the case since 1986 after the 1982 World Cup game that became known as the "Disgrace of Gijon" when West Germany and Austria conspired to knock out Algeria. A German win by one or two goals was needed for them and Austria to go through - and they played tepidly for a ...
Warren Hoge, former New York Times London bureau chief and foreign correspondent (now with the International Peace Institute), tells me, "I still haven’t gotten over the Brazilian dream team’s loss to Italy in the 1982 cup in Spain, when Paolo Rossi broke free for a full field counter ...
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