This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE A tournament that has largely struggled to come to terms with its expansion to an eight-nation event, the 1980 European Championship can at least now…
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This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It was not the final that either General Tito or the nation had anticipated when Yugoslavia was chosen to host the finals of the 1976…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Football fans know the even years provide an international tournament to fill the gap between domestic seasons. But the game was no longer a pleasant…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The football gods smiled benignly on Dieter Kaster when his stepfather legally adopted him. Already a schoolboy international. he took the name Müller. To be…
So sure of victory were West Germany over Algeria at the 1982 World Cup that they refused to prepare and suggested they’d score eight
They had defeated England and the Netherlands against the odds, and when Czechoslovakia faced West Germany in the Euro 76 final, few gave them a chance
Roughly translated from German, ‘ein kampf zwischen brüdern’ means ‘a struggle between brothers’ and has been used to describe the game that took place as part of the initial group stages of the World…
WHEN THE QUALIFICATION ROUND was drawn for the 1954 World Cup, French and German diplomats looked worriedly at each other. At a time when Europe was trying to move on from the calamities…
When the full-time whistle was blown was blown on the 2014 World Cup final at the Maracanã in Rio, more Polish-born players collected winner’s medals than East German-born players did, as part of a…