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1934 Italy 1950 Uruguay 1954 West Germany 1966 Soviet Union The first World Cup final hosted in Europe featured the The Brazilian hosts of the 1950 World Cup came in as the West Germany entered the 1954 World Cup unseeded, A juggernaut of a team, the Soviet Union breezed through first of two consecutive Italian victories at the tournament. heavy favorites. They had more preparation time for the final with low expectations and facing the favored Hungarian qualifications and a group stage that featured a The Italian side played five South Americans, including pool than Uruguay, who only faced Bolivia in group play. But side. Having survived a group playoff match against shockingly good North Korean side. After a semifinal with one previous World Cup winner. Italy came in and won as the strong Uruguayan side silenced the Brazilian team and Turkey, the Germans sailed through to the final and West Germany seeped in historical bitterness, the USSR the favorites. the Maracaña to win their second World Cup. shocked Hungary and the world in The Miracle of Berne. barely missed the podium in favor of Portugal.

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MONZEGLIO Eraldo GONZALEZ Matias POSIPAL Jupp SHESTERNYOV Albert ROSETTA Viri VILCHES Hector KOHLMEYER Werner PONOMARYOV Vladimir ALLEMANDI Luigi TEJERA Eusebio LIEBRICH Werner DANILOV Vasiliy CALIGARIS Umberto MARTINEZ William LABAND Fritz AFONIN Valentin ORSI Raimundo PEREZ Julio BAUER Hans GETMANOV Viktor SCHIAVIO Angelo MIGUEZ Oscar ERHARDT Ertl KORNEYEV Aleksey GUAITA Enrique GHIGGIA Alcides MORLOCK Max OSTROVSKIS Leonids GUARISI Filo SCHIAFFINO Pepe WALTER Ottmar METREVELI Slava BOREL II Farfallino VIDAL Ernesto RAHN Helmut BANISHEVSKIY Anatoliy DEMARIA Attilio BRITOS Julio SCHAFER Hans MALOFEYEV Eduard ARCARI Pietro MORAN Ruben HERRMANN Richard CHISLENKO Igor MONTI Luis BURGUENO Juan KLODT Berni KHUSAINOV Galimzyan MEAZZA Peppino RIJO Luis PFAFF Alfred SEREBRYANIKOV Viktor BERTOLINI Luigi ANDRADE Victor BIESINGER Uli PORKUYAN Valeriy FERRARI Giovanni VARELA Obdulio WALTER Fritz MARKAROV Eduard PIZZIOLO Mario GONZALEZ Juan ECKEL Horst VORONIN Valery FERRARIS Attilio GAMBETTA Schubert MAI Charly SABO Yozhef CASTELLAZZI Armando PINI Rodolfo METZNER Karl-Heinz KHURTSILAVA Murtaz VARGLIEN I Mario ROMERO Carlos MEBUS Paul SICHINAVA Georgi COMBI Gianpiero ORTUNO Washington TUREK Toni YASHIN Lev CAVANNA Giuseppe MASPOLI Roque KUBSCH Heinz KAVAZASHVILI Anzor MASETTI Guido PAZ Anibal KWIATKOWSKI Heinz BANNIKOV Viktor

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1970 Brazil 1974 Netherlands 1982 France 1990 Italy Having been forced to qualify for the first time in twelve Barely surviving qualifications, the 1974 Dutch side set out After a slow start, and a strange group stage match The first Europeans to host the World Cup Finals twice, years, the 1970 Brazilian squad featured the first man to to prove they belonged in the Finals. After the group stage, against Kuwait, France fought their way through to the Italy entered into the lowest scoring and highest carded win the World Cup as both player and manager. The team many questioned the assumption of West Germany as the 1982 semifinals. And what a semifinal that was. France Finals with positive expectations. But the Italian side had presented what is arguably the best forward line in World favorites due to Dutch domination. The two teams met in the and West Germany squared off in the first World Cup trouble scoring, a curse which led them to a semifinal Cup history and won out as clearly the best team in the final where Holland just couldn't match the German team Finals match to head to a shootout. France would lose, shootout with Argentina. They would then go on to defeat tournament. spirit. but would later take home the bronze. England to claim third on home ground.

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2006 Argentina 2014 Germany Drawn into the tournament's supposed group of death as the In a Brazil-hosted tournament in which Brazil were the top seed, Argentina would top their group, introduce Messi heavy favorites, the 2014 German side became the first to the world and make it through to the quartes in an European team to win in South America. And they won overtime win, but would fall in a shootout with Germany, with no singular superstar, but instead a team full of the earning an unused sub a red card on their way off the pitch. famous united German spirit.

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