Saturday, June 09, 2018

The Greatest World Cup matches 1930-2014

Four years ago, for the 2010 World Cup, I did a series of the 50 greatest world cup matches of all time. I updated the list with three matches in 2014, and now it is time to update it with two matches from the 2016 World Cup, with a total of the 55 greatest matches in World Cup History (in chronological order!):
  1. France-Mexico, 1930
  2. Uruguay-Argentina, 1930
  3. Italy-Czechoslovakia, 1934
  4. Brazil-Italy, 1938
  5. Italy-Hungary, 1938
  6. USA-England, 1950
  7. Brazil-Uruguay, 1950
  8. Hungary-Uruguay, 1954
  9. Hungary-West Germany, 1954
  10. Sweden-Brazil, 1958
  11. Brazil-Czechoslovakia, 1962
  12. Italy-North Corea, 1966
  13. England-Argentina, 1966
  14. Portugal-North Corea, 1966
  15. England-West Germany, 1966
  16. West Germany-Italy, 1970
  17. Brazil-Uruguay, 1970
  18. Italy-Brazil, 1970
  19. West Germany-East Germany, 1974
  20. Yugoslavia-Zaire, 1974
  21. Netherlands-Brazil, 1974
  22. West Germany-Netherlands, 1974
  23. Argentina-Netherlands, 1978
  24. Hungary-El Salvador, 1982
  25. Algeria-West Germany, 1982
  26. Italy-Brazil, 1982
  27. France-West Germany, 1982
  28. Italy-West Germany, 1982
  29. Morocco-Portugal, 1986
  30. Brazil-France, 1986
  31. Argentina-England, 1986
  32. West Germany-Argentina 1986
  33. Cameroon-Argentina, 1990
  34. West Germany-England, 1990
  35. Italy-Argentina, 1990
  36. West Germany-Argentina, 1990
  37. Russia-Cameroon, 1994
  38. Italy-Spain, 1994
  39. Bulgaria-Germany, 1994
  40. Italy-Brazil, 1994
  41. USA-Iran, 1998
  42. Croatia-Germany 1998
  43. Argentina-England 1998
  44. France-Brazil 1998
  45. USA-Mexico, 2002
  46. South Corea-Spain, 2002
  47. Germany-Brazil, 2002
  48. Italy-Australia, 2006
  49. France-Brazil, 2006
  50. France-Italy, 2006
  51. Ghana-Uruguay, 2010
  52. Germany-Spain, 2010
  53. Spain-Netherlands, 2010
  54. Brazil-Germany, 2014
  55. Germany-Argentina, 2014
Cheers, and hope we will have more history in the making for Russia 2018.

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