Stadium: Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Final: Argentina - West-germany, 0-1
Attendance: 73603
Stadium: Rose Bowl, Pasadena
Final: Brazil - Italy, 0-0, Penalties 3-2
Attendance: 94194
Stadium: Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Final: Brazil - France, 0-3
Attendance: 80000
Stadium: International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama
Final: Germany – Brazil, 0-2
Attendance: 69029
Stadium: Olympiastadion, Berlin
Final: Italy - France, 1-1, Penalties 5-3
Attendance: 69000
Stadium: Soccer City, Johannesburg
Final:
Attendance:
Click here for Part 1 and Part 2
Tags Info • News • World Championships • Permalink
Stadium: Wembley Stadium, London
Final: England - West-Germany, 4-2
Attendance: 98000
Stadium: Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
Final: Brazil - Italy, 4-1
Attendance: 107412
Stadium: Olympiastadion, Munich
Final: Netherlands - West-Germany, 1-2
Attendance: 75200
Stadium: Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires
Final: Netherlands - Argentina, 1 - 3
Attendance: 71483
Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid
Final: Italy - West-Germany, 3-1
Attendance: 90000
Stadium: Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
Final: Argentina - West-Germany, 3-2
Attendance: 114600
Click here for Part 1 and Part 3
Tags Info • World Championships • Permalink
This could come in handy in trivia games.
Here’s a list of all the Stadiums that hosted a FIFA World Cup Final.
Stadium: Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Final: Uruguay - Argentina, 4-2
Attendance:93000
Stadium: Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome
Final: Italy - Czechoslovakia, 2-1
Attendance:45000
Stadium: Stade Olympique de Colombes, Paris
Final: Hungary - Italy, 2-4
Attendance: 60000
Stadium: Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Final: Uruguay - Brasil, 2-1
Attendance: 199954
Stadium: Wankdorf Stadium, Berne
Final: Hungary - West-Germany, 2-3
Attendance: 60000
Stadium: Ullevi, Gothenburg
Final: Soviet Union - England, 1-0
Attendance: 23182
Stadium: Estadio Nacional, Santiago
Final: Brasil – Czechoslovakia, 3-1
Attendance: 68679
Click here for Part 2 and Part 3
Tags Info • World Championships • Permalink
What was rumored for a few weeks now, just became official, Diego Armando Maradona, one of the best (in my eyes the very best) players in the world ever, is appointed as the new coach of the Argentinean national soccer team.
To many soccer experts this is a controversial choice, as Maradona doesn’t have much coaching experience like other trainers in Argentina certainly have, but there won’t be many other coaches who can show the skills Maradona had in his glory years.
Maradona who will celebrate his 48th birthday in a few days (30 October), had a very rich, fulfilling and controversial career.
He started out in the first team with Argentinos Juniors only 10 days before his 16th birthday. He played for Azrgentinos Juniors from ’76 till ’81, scoring 116 goals in 166 appearances. Boca Juniors immediately recognized the talent of the young Maradona and offered him a contract to play at the best club of Argentina. In the season ’81-’82, he made 40 appearances, scoring 28 goals.
But the next season, Boca Juniors couldn’t enjoy the fantastic skills of Maradona anymore. One of the top clubs of Europe, FC Barcelona scouted Maradona at the 1982 World Cup in Spain and bought him from Boca Juniors for a world record £5m. In the 2 seasons he played at Barca, he managed to win the Copa del Rey. At one time he almost came close to an end of his career after a brutal tackle. But 14 weeks later he was once again shining on the pitch. In 58 appearances he managed to score 38 times.
Due to frequent disputes with Barcelona’s board members, he demanded a transfer to leave Barcelona.
SSC Napoli came with the best papers in ‘84 and bought him for a new record fee of £6,9m. At Napoli, the real quality of Mardona came to the surface. With Maradona in the team, Napoli entered their best seasons in their existence. Napoli won their only Italian Championships (‘86/’87 and ‘89/’90), a Coppa Italia (‘87), a UEFA Cup (‘89) and an Italian Supercup (‘90). Napoli were also runners-up in the Italian Championship twice, in ‘87/’88 and ‘88/’89, as well as being runners-up in the Coppa Italia in ‘88/’89. Maradona was the top scorer in Serie A in ‘87/’88. In 188 games he scored 81 goals.
After he had to flee Italy due to cocaine and camorra scandals he moved to Sevilla in Spain to try and get to his best play once again. But he wasn’t the Maradona he was before.
When Sevilla wasn’t a success for him he moved back to his home country Argentina to play for the Newell’s Old Boys and the Boca Juniors where he finished his active soccer career in October 30,1997, on his 31st birthday.
To most of the people Maradona became famous due to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. As the captain of the Argentina squad he played every minute of the game, scored 5 goals and made 5 assists.
The game against England gave him the nickname “Hand of God”, where he scored the first goal with his left hand.
The second goal against England still is one of the best goals I’ve ever seen, he managed to outplay almost half of the England squad on his own including the keeper, Peter Shilton. Later this goal was awarded with the title of the ‘Greatest goal in the history of the World Cup’ and ‘Goal of the Century’.
I was only 10 years old back then, but if there’s one player that did get mine and others attention, it has to be Maradona. It seems like he was out of this world with the soccer he was playing then. And until now I didn’t see any other player who did manage to play like this so far.
What if he didn’t play back then? Maybe Belgium, my home country went through to the final. Belgium lost 2-0 against Argentina in the Semi-Final with again 2 goals from Maradona, once again showing his dribbling skills with his second goal.
In the final against West-Germany he managed to give the deciding pass to Jorge Burruchaga to score the winning goal.
The 1990 World Cup final was a replay of the Mexico final 4 years before, only the winner was different this time. West-Germany clinched the title by a penalty in the 85th minute of the game.
Maradona didn’t manage to set his mark on the games due to an ankle injury, which affected his overall form off playing.
In the 1994 World Cup in the USA, Maradona made his comeback in the National squad playing 2 games and scoring his last goal in his World Cup career against Greece. The day after he tested positive on ephedrine and was send back home. A goodbye from the World Cup scene a man of his status didn’t deserve. He should have gone in glory, but history turned out the other way.
There are many video’s of Maradona I can show you, but one of the best to show his extraordinary skills is not the goal against England or Belgium in ’86, or any other action on the pitch during a game, but his warming up in the UEFA Cup Semi-Final against Bayern Munich, at the time he played for Napoli.
The video shows exactly what a superstar he is, every other player is following the normal way of warming-up, but only Maradona can afford to entertain the audience with his juggling skills to do his warm-up.
Enjoy!
Tags Info • News • Trainers • Attackers • Midfielders • Tricks • Argentina • World Championships • Permalink
Subscribe in a reader