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The triumphant national team of WEST GERMANY line-up for the traditional team photograph just prior to the start of the 1980 UEFA European Championships Final against neighboring Belgium at the venerable Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.
back row (left to right) —— 15 – U. STIELIKE, 1 – H. SCHUMACHER, 2 – H.P. BRIEGEL, 8 – K.H. RUMMENIGGE, 4 – K.H. FOERSTER, 9 – H. HRUBESCH
front row (left to right) —— 11 – K. ALLOFS, 6 – B. SCHUSTER, 5 – B. DIETZ (capt), 20 – M. KALTZ, 10 – H. MUELLER
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GK —- 1 – Harald SCHUMACHER ———— 1.FC Koeln (76 caps, 0 go)
West Germany punched its ticket to the Final of the 1980 UEFA European Championships by finishing two points clear in a Group A at the final tournament held in Italy. This, of course, with a side completely rebuilt from the previous decade’s glory days featuring the superstar duo of sweeper FRANZ BECKENBAUER and goal-machine GERD MUELLER. Bayern Munich’s newest star striker, KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE, scored the only goal of the game to enable the West Germans to extract revenge on Czechoslovakia for the 1976 Final lost on penalty kicks and Fortuna Duesseldorf forward KLAUS ALLOFS powered trainer JUPP DERWALL’s side over Holland with a hat trick before the goalless draw with Greece.
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West Germany midfielder BERND SCHUSTER of 1.FC Koeln, who finished second in the voting for the prestigous Ballon d’Or representing Europe’s best player in 1980 but later entered into a career-long, self-imposed exile from the national team at age 24, races for the ball with Belgium midfielder WILFRIED VAN MOER of SK Beveren during the 1980 UEFA European Championships Final at the venerable Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.
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Die Nationalmannschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland steht gerade vor dem Anfang der 1972 Europameisterschaft Finale am Heysel Stadion in Bruessel, Belgien….the national team of the Federal Republic of Germany stands just prior to the beginning of the 1972 European Championships Final at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
Links zum rechts…left to right ————— F. Beckenbauer (capt), S. Maier, G. Schwarzenbeck, J.Heynckes, G. Netzer, H. Wimmer, G. Mueller, H.D. Hoettges, E. Kremers, P. Breitner, D. Hoeness
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1972 Europameisterschaft Finale / European Championships Final
gegen Sowjet Union (UdSSR) / against Soviet Union (USSR)
Vor der Bank / off the bench
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Mit einem Bayern Muenchen Spieler auf seinem links (GEORG SCHAWARZENBECK) und recht (FRANZ BECKENBAUER), zeigt Bayern Muenchen Supertorjaeger GERD MUELLER (mittel) die Weise fuer die deutsche Mannschaft auf die 1972 Europameisterschaft in Belgien. Mueller, der die meisten Tore auf den 1970 Weltmeisterschaft in Mexiko schoss, war noch ein Mal Turnierfuehrer mit vier Treffer in Belgien. Der Bomber lieferte ein Doppelpack im Halbfinale gegen Belgien und auch wieder im Finale gegen der UdSSR…With a Bayern Munich player on both his left (Georg Schwarzenbeck) and right (Franz Beckenbauer), Bayern Munich superstar goalhunter Gerd Mueller (middle) shows the way for the German team at the 1972 European Championships in Belgium. Mueller, who shot the most goals at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, was still one more time tournament leader with four goals in Belgium. The Bomber delivered a double in the semifinal against Belgium and also again in the final against the USSR.
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As Germany goalkeeper MANUEL NEUER (1) of Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen surveys the situation, Spain defender SERGIO RAMOS of Real Madrid suddenly realizes that ESPANA still have a long, long way to go in terms of equaling the historical track record of DEUTSCHLAND in international football. (Matt Dunham/AP)
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The international friendly against visiting ITALY in Dortmund will be the 843rd contest, all-time, for the national team of GERMANY.
Germany’s current record stands at 485 wins, 186 losses and 171 draws while the Germans have scored 1,877 goals and conceded 998 along the way.
Germany have won the FIFA World Cup on three occasions — 1954, 1974, 1990 — and have captured the UEFA European Championships title three times — 1972, 1980, 1996 — as well.
Deutschland have also been vizemeister (2nd) at the FIFA World Cup four times — 1966, 1982, 1986, 2002 — and have finished second at the UEFA European Championships in three more — 1976, 1992, 2008 — tournaments, too.
Germany have also ended in 3rd place at the FIFA World Cup no fewer than four times, including at this past summer’s tournament in South Africa.
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Portugal international winger PAOLO FUTRE (10) watches as Algeria international striker RABAH MADJER (center) levels the 1987 European Cup Final for FC Porto with a spectacular backheel against Bayern Munich at the Praterstadion in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.
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For those with a sharp eye for detail, it must be hard to note the spectacular backheel goal scored by Algeria international striker RABAH MADJER for Portuguese side FC Porto against West German side Bayern Munich at the Praterstadion in the capital city of Austria and not recall the so-called Anschluss at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
It was Madjer, of course, who scored the first goal for the North Africans in Algeria’s landmark 2-1 upset victory over West Germany in the opening match for both sides at Espana ’82. The West Germans, winners of the 1980 European Champinoships, compiled a 16-4 advantage with corner kicks for the match but all for naught. Reigning African Footballer of the Year LAKHDAR BELLOUMI of GC Mascara registered the winning goal for Algeria just one minute after West Germany striker KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE of Bayern Munich, the current European Footballer of the Year for a second consecutive season, had equalized.
Algeria could not follow up its famous victory, though, and succumbed to Austria on goals by former FC Barcelona striker HANS KRANKL and WALTER SCHACHNER of Italian Serie A side AC Cesena in its next match. West Germany, meanwhile, clobbered Chile (4-1), who had fallen to the Austrians in their first game. After Algeria defeated Chile 3-2, the die was cast and an agreement unannounced to the public was reached for the final Group II match the next day.
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Algeria striker RABAH MADJER (11) of Nasr Athletique de Hussein Dey is confronted by West Germany defender HANS-PETER BRIEGEL (2) of 1.FC Kaiserslautern in full view of match referee ENRIQUE LABO REVOREDO of Peru during the 1982 World Cup Group II game at the Estadio El Molinon in Gijon, Spain.
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An early goal by SV Hamburg striker HORST HRUBESCH allowed both West Germany and Austria to advance to the second round of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain at the expense of Algeria. All three teams had finished tied with four points from three games and so goal-differential was used to determine the top two places in the group. The manager of France, MICHEL HIDALGO, publically recommended that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded.
Algeria protested but to no avail and were forced to go home.
Later, Hrubesch had a statement of his own for Hidalgo — the 31-year-old striker converted the winning penalty in the historic shootout at Sevilla as West Germany rallied for a sensational victory after falling behind France two goals in extra time.
As for Madjer, who began his European professional career in the land of Algeria’s former colonial masters with FC Racing Paris in 1983 before transferring to FC Porto two seasons later, his opportunity to express himself would have to wait for another time and place.
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Algeria two-time World Cup striker RABAH MADJER of FC Porto, who scored the game-tying goal and immediately set up the match-winner for the Portuguese side in the 1987 Final against West German club Bayern Munich, lifts the coveted and prestigous European Cup of Champions at the Praterstadion in Vienna, Austria.
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Watched by match referee Senor Ramon Barretto Ruiz of Uruguay (center), the two team captains, West Germany’s FRANZ BECKENBAUER (5) and East Germany’s BERND BRANSCH, shake hands and pose for photographs prior to the start of the first-ever All-Deutschland Derby at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg during the 1974 World Cup final tournament.
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June 22, 1974
Volksparkstadion
Hamburg, West Germany
1974 World Cup final tournament
Round Robin Stage, Group One
1 – EAST GERMANY ———— Sparwasser 77′
0 – WEST GERMANY
Attendance — 60,200
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The top goal-scorer at the 1970 World Cup final tournament held in Mexico, West Germany striker GERD MUELLER (13) of Bayern Munich, looks to shake the mark of East Germany defender KONRAD WEISE (4) of FC Carl Zeiss Jena at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. (Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
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DF —- # 2 — Lothar KURBJUWEIT ——– 23 – FC Carl Zeiss Jena
DF —- # 3 — Bernd BRANSCH —————- 29 – FC Carl Zeiss Jena
DF —- # 4 — Konrad WEISE ——————- 22 – FC Carl Zeiss Jena
DF – # 12 — Siegmar WAETZLICH ——— 26 – Dynamo Dresden
MF – # 13 — Reinhard LAUCK —————- 27 – Dynamo Berlin
MF – # 16 — Harald IRMSCHER ————- 28 – FC Carl Zeiss Jena
MF – # 18 — Gerd KISCHE ———————- 22 – Hansa Rostock
FW – # 14 — Juergen SPARWASSER —— 26 – FC Magdeburg
FW – # 10 — Hans Juergen KREISCHE —- 26 – Dynamo Dresden
FW – # 20 — Martin HOFFMANN ———— 19 – FC Magdeburg
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MF – # 17 — Erich HAMANN ——————– 29 – FC Vorwaerts Frankfurt (Oder)
for Irmscher – 68th min
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During the only All-Deutschland Derby match ever played, Der Bomber, West Germany’s GERD MUELLER of Bayern Munich, fires in a shot at goal as East Germany defender KONRAD WEISE of FC Carl Zeiss Jena sticks out a boot to block at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. (Werner Baum/DPA/Corbis)
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Two midfielders from the West German national squad that won the 1974 World Cup final in Munich, PAUL BREITNER (left) and GUENTER NETZER (right), turn out for training with the traditional titans of Spanish football, CF Real Madrid. (corazonblanco.com photo)
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The transfer of Germany World Cup midfielder SAMI KHEDIRA from Bundesliga club Vfb Stuttgart to Spanish juggernaut Real Madrid really should come as no great surprise to someone with a sense of history.
For decades now, REAL MADRID CLUB DE FOOTBALL have sought to strengthen their side with the acquisition of (WEST) GERMAN NATIONAL TEAM stars :
The transfer of Khedira breaks no new ground for the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu but, rather, simply extends a long-standing tradition in the on-going pursuit of excellence at CF Real Madrid.
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Socks around the ankles, having discarded the shinguards, German winger PIERRE LITTBARSKI (7) of 1.FC Koeln sprints with French defender MANUEL AMOROS (2) of AS Monaco, who has also shed his protection, during the epic 1982 World Cup semi-final at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan in Sevilla, Spain. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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And so, after a pulsating 120 minutes of soccer in the pounding summer heat of Sevilla, both France and West Germany still stood deadlocked at 3-3. This following a frantic, extra half an hour in which no fewer than four goals were scored by the two sides. Thus, for the very first time in the history of the World Cup tournament, penalty kicks would be used to determine the outcome of a match.
Both France and West Germany were to send five players each to the spot. Whomever’s kickers converted more penalties after five rounds would punch their ticket to the 1982 Final in Madrid. Should the teams remain tied after the five rounds, the penalties would continue on a single round, sudden-death basis.
The French would shoot first.
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(Bob Thomas/Getty Images) — West Germany sweeper ULI STIELIKE (15) of Spanish club Real Madrid hides his face in his hands after having his penalty-shot saved by the not-pictured French goalkeeper JEAN-LUC ETTORI of AS Monaco in the 3rd round of the famous 1982 World Cup semi-final shootout.
Stielike, who earned 42 caps (three goals) for West Germany, signed to play for Real Madrid in the summer of 1977 and, in all, would play eight seasons with 215 league appearances (41 goals) for the Spanish capital club.
Watching with his hands on his hips is West German goalkeeper TONI SCHUMACHER of 1.FC Koeln. Many feel Schumacher should have been sent off long before this stage by the man standing next to him, match referee CHARLES CORVER of Holland.
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The controversial Schumacher consoles the distraught Stielike just before France’s turn to take the next shot. Schumacher would soon bail Stielike out with a fine save from French winger DIDIER SIX in the 4th round. At the time of the historic Shoot-out In Sevilla, Six was playing his club football with Vfb Stuttgart in the German Bundesliga. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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West German legendary striker KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE (11) of Bayern Munich gives the thumbs-up signal just after netting his spot kick in the 5th round. Rummenigge, who accounted for West Germany’s first goal in extra-time against the French in Sevilla, scored 45 goals in 98 games for his country over the course of his outstanding international career. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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In the sixth round of penalty kicks — which opened the sudden-death portion of the proceedings — TONI SCHUMACHER dives to his right to block the blast of French defender MAXIME BOSSIS (4) of FC Nantes in the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
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MAXIME BOSSIS, who would set his country’s record in 1985 for international appearances and ultimately finish with 76 caps (1 goal) for France, surveys the situation from a low altitude after having his penalty in Sevilla saved by the West German goalkeeper Schumacher (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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The French defender Bossis, who could not have been happy about Schumacher’s infamous collision with AS St. Etienne midfielder PATRICK BATTISTON fifteen minutes into the second half, has a look back at the notorious West German goalkeeper after having failed with his penalty kick in the 1982 World Cup semi-final.
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With an opportunity to end the epic 1982 World Cup semi-final struggle, West Germany substitute striker HORST HRUBESCH (9) of SV Hamburg has his chance against France from the penalty spot in Sevilla. Hrubesch had been brought on in the 73rd minute by West German manager JUPP DERWALL in exchange for midfielder FELIX MAGATH, also of Bundesliga club SV Hamburg. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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Hrubesch, who netted 27 goals in 32 Bundesliga games for SV Hamburg during the 1981-82 season, leaps into the air after slotting home his historic penalty to finish off France and send West Germany to the Final of the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Hrubesch appeared 21 times for West Germany and scored six goals, none of which, however, had the significance of his spot kick in Sevilla. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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Little winger PIERRE LITTBARSKI (7) of 1.FC Koeln was clearly the Man of the Match for West Germany that famous — as well as fateful — night in Madrid at the 1982 World Cup from Spain. (Bob Thomas/ Getty Images)
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It was a night in which the World Cup expectations of a futbol-mad nation hosting the sport’s greatest spectacle were smashed to smithereens in front of 90,089 spectators at the famous Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, traditional home to Spanish professional football giant Real Madrid.
PIERRE LITTBARSKI, just 22 years old and standing just five foot six inches, had been in the West German national team for less than one year when West Germany line-up against Spain for a pivotal Second Round, Group B match with the host nation in the hot summer that was 1982.
West Germany had already had a goalless draw with England in Group B. The home-standing Spainards had yet to play a second round match. Meanwhile, the youthful Littbarski was about to make a name for himself on the Game’s grandest stage:
Littbarski, oddly enough, opens the highlight footage after receiving a nice back-heel pass from the legendary KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE (11) of Bayern Munich, who had been played a precision ball in the box by his Bundesliga teammate PAUL BREITNER (3).
Breitner, the 30-year-old who had quit international football and moved to Spain to join Real Madrid for three seasons after West Germany won the 1974 World Cup on home soil, had been enticed to return to the national team fold by manager JUPP DERWALL in 1981.
West German goalkeeper HARALD “Toni” SCHUMACHER, the Bundesliga teammate of Littbarski with 1.FC Koeln, pulls off the save of the game in the scoreless first half. Spanish danger man SANTILLANA (19), the 30-year-old veteran goal-scoring star for hometown Real Madrid, storms in after handling the header from midfielder MIGUEL ALONSO (4) of Real Sociedad. But Schumacher bravely comes off his line to save from Santillana with his right foot.
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The West Germans celebrate the game’s first goal at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid as the Spanish goalkeeper LUIS ARCONADA of Real Sociedad can only stare at his two defenders, RAFAEL GALLEGO (3) of Real Betis and SANTIAGO URQUIAGA (12) of Athletic Bilbao, with his hands on his hips at the 1982 World Cup. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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The key moment in the match comes just after the break. West Germany midfielder WOLFGANG DREMMLER (6) of Bayern Munich unloads a shot from outside the penalty box that the Spanish goalkeeper can only parry into the path of the oncoming Littbarski, who takes the opportunity to pot his third international goal.
Littbarski, a member of three West Germany World Cup squads who appeared in the grand finale at both the 1982 and 1990 tournaments, went on to earn 73 caps (18 goals) for West Germany over the course of his outstanding career.
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West German striker KLAUS FISCHER (8) approaches the Spanish goal in the critical 1982 World Cup Second Round, Group B match at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid. (Bob Thomas/Getty Images)
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A third 1.FC Koeln player featuring prominently in the match, striker KLAUS FISCHER, effectively puts an end to the affair in the 75th minute with a second West German goal.
It is the former Real Madrid man, Breitner, who prompts the moment with the pass to Littbarski in the box. But it is little winger, with a calm that concealed his age, who makes it all happen, first with a clever turn on the Spanish defender SANTIAGO URQUIAGA (12) of Athletic Bilbao. Littbarski then unselfishly slides the ball square to his Bundesliga buddy Fischer with the Spanish keeper advancing off his line.
The 32-year-old veteran striker, still the all-time leading goal-scorer for the legendary Bundesliga club, FC Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen, had little to do but walk the ball into the net and finished off the hopes of the host nation.
Spain did pull a goal back thru midfielder JESUS ZAMORA (10) of Real Sociedad, but it was too little, too late.
The West German defense, directed by sweeper ULI STIELIKE (15) of none other than Spanish club Real Madrid, held firm to the finish.
West Germany moved to the top of Group B with three points while Spain, with just one match against England left to contest, were left with absolutely no hope of advancement on home soil and crashed out of the 1982 World Cup final tournament.
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Looking like a man with something up his sleeve, East German captain BERND BRANSCH (3) shakes hands with the unsuspecting West German skipper, FRANZ BECKENBAUER, just prior to the historic, first-ever full international match between the two Deutschlands at the Volksparkstadion in the northern port city of Hamburg.
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And so East Germany, having qualified for a major tournament for the first time ever, were drawn into the same first-round group, as if pre-ordained by politicians somewhere seeking fuel for propaganda fires, as the host nation, West Germany, conquerors of the 1972 European Championships, for the 1974 World Cup finals.
By the time the two sides met for the historic match on June 22, 1974, in the third and final round of the first stage of the tournament, both teams had already assured themselves of passage to the next round. The game would, however, determine first place in Group One. West Germany would go top of the table with a win or a draw while the East Germans required an outright victory.
In the end, perhaps as a result of the unavoidable political considerations looming over the event, on the field the affair became a football match, above all else, neither side wanted to lose.
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West Germany defender BERTI VOGTS (2) of Borussia Moenchengladbach races for the ball with East Germany striker MARTIN HOFFMAN (20) of FC Magdeburg at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. At left is the West German captain, sweeper FRANZ BECKENBAUER (5) of Bayern Munich, playing in his third and final World Cup in 1974. (ADN-ZB photo)
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Nerves may have accounted for why the historic match produced no goals in the first half. For, as the footage referenced here will confirm, the clean sheets turned in were not indicative of a lack of chances at either end of the pitch :
West Germany midfielder HEINZ FLOHE (15) of 1.FC Koeln opens the highlight clip with a drive from just outside the penalty area that the East German goalkeeper, JUERGEN CROY of Sachsenring Zwickau, appears to get a piece of, but, no corner is given despite appeals from Flohe.
Next, after a fine run from the great GERD “der Bomber” MUELLER (13) of Bayern Munich, West German striker JUERGEN GRABOWSKI (9) of Eintract Frankfurt completely flubs his effort from less than six yards out that the DDR keeper definitely and, significantly, deflected slightly.
“The Maoist”, West Germany’s politically incorrect midfielder PAUL BREITNER (3) of Bayern Munich, might have won a penalty after beating East German midfielder HARALD IRMSCHER (16) of FC Carl Zeiss Jena at the top of the box, but match referee RAMON BARRETO RUIZ of Uruguay turned a blind eye.
The visiting side left a glorious chance escape when striker HANS-JUERGEN KREISCHE (10) of Dynamo Dresden, the three-time Oberliga goal-scoring champion and official 1973 Player of the Year in East Germany, missed a sitter from six yards by blasting over the bar following an inch-perfect cross from midfielder REINHARD LAUCK (13) of Dynamo Berlin.
Der Bomber, the leading goal-scorer at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, came closest to breaking the deadlock in the opening forty-five minutes with a delightful ball played into the box by Breitner. But Mueller, with a brillant first touch to set up his turn, volleyed his left-footer of the goalpost and, thus, the game remained scoreless.
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JUERGEN SPARWASSER, who is officially credited with 48 full international caps (14 goals) for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik by FIFA, also earned a bronze medal for East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany. (dfb.de photo)
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And so, up to the forefront of the world stage stepped JUERGEN SPARWASSER, a 26-year-old forward from FC Magdeburg, the surprise winners of the 1974 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup for the 1973-74 European season.
It was the second half substitute then, midfielder ERICH HAMANN (17) of FC Vorwaerts Frankfurt/Oder, that provided the pivotal pass. Ironically enough, the 29-year-old veteran only ever made three appearances with the East German national team in his career. And, Hamann had been on the field for less than ten minutes when he lifted a hopeful ball towards the top of the West German box.
Surrounded by a trio of West German defenders — including the world-class Beckenbauer — Sparwasser used an excellent first touch to create the space he would need to write his name in history books.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to see how the loss actually worked out to West Germany’s advantage.
East Germany, by virtue of finishing first in the group, were cruelly sent on to the second stage “Group of Death” including Argentina, Brazil and Holland.
The West Germans, on the other hand, moved on to face, collectively, less-formidable opponents in Poland, Sweden and Yugoslavia.
The surprise loss by the 1972 European champions to their cousins from the East also provided the host nation of the 1974 World Cup a wake-up call, as the West German captain Beckenbauer later described it.
West Germany’s manager HELMUT SCHOEN, who actually began his coaching career in the Soviet-occupied state of Saxony before fleeing East Germany in 1950, would make two key changes to his starting line-up, as well.
West Germany, of course, defeated Holland 2-1 in the championship match to win the 1974 World Cup final tournament on home ground.
The German Democratic Republic, meanwhile, remains forever unbeaten at the highest level of international football against the three-time World Cup champions from the Federal Republic of Germany.
