July
Date:
July 15, 1981
Date:
July 22, 1981
Date:
July 24, 1981
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July 26, 1981
Date:
July 26, 1981
Date:
July 26, 1981
Date:
July 29, 1981
Date:
July 29, 1981
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Photo
from: Onze, Hors Serie 12
(Wlodzimierz Smolarek, July 22, 1981, VfB
Stuttgart 1-Poland 4) |
August
The
Asian Zone continued its qualifiers with Australia in action.
Date:
August 1, 1981
Date:
August 1, 1981
Date:
August 4, 1981
Date:
August 5, 1981
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August 6, 1981
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August 8, 1981
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August 8, 1981
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August 9, 1981
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August 10, 1981
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August 12, 1981
Date:
August 12, 1981
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August 12, 1981
Date:
August 12, 1981
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August 13, 1981
Date:
August 14, 1981
Date:
August 14, 1981
Date:
August 14, 1981
Date:
August 14, 1981
Date:
August 16, 1981
Date:
August 16, 1981
Date:
August 18, 1981
Date:
August 18, 1981
Date:
August 19, 1981
Date:
August 22, 1981
Date:
August 22, 1981
Date:
August 22, 1981
Date:
August 22, 1981
Date:
August 23, 1981
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August 25, 1981
Date:
August 25, 1981
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August 26, 1981
Date:
August 26, 1981
Date:
August 26, 1981
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August 28, 1981
Date:
August 29, 1981
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August 30, 1981
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(William
Hartwig and Zdenek Nehoda, August 12, 1981, SV Hamburg 0-Czechoslovakia 0)
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Photo
From: Foot
Magazine, Issue 11, March 1982
(Johann
Boskamp, August 14, 1981, RWD Molenbeek 2-Czechoslovakia 2)
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Photo From : Mondial, new series, issue
18, September 1981
(Gunther
Schafer and Didier Six, August 18, 1981, France 1-VfB Stuttgart 3)
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Photo From : Foot Magazine, Issue 9, January 198
(Frankie Vercauteren, August 22, 1981, Belgium
5-Independiente 1) |
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Photo
From: Mondial, new series, issue 20, November 1981
(August 23, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Uruguay
1-Peru 2) |
September
The
final phase of Qualification from the European zone started this month. Ruud
Gullit and Frank Rijkaard made their debuts for the Dutch national team in a
friendly vs. Switzerland (Gullit replaced Rijkaard for the second half).
In
the days leading up to the match, Ajax Amsterdam officials complained that
Frank Rijkaard, Wim Kieft and Keje Molenaar were too young to be selected for
the national team.
The
Bernd Schuster rift with the German National team continued, when in a
newspaper interview, he accused
Breitner and Rummenigge of running the team and maninpulating Juup Derwall.
Derwall
tried in vain to get in contact with Schuster for an explanation but could not.
He
indefinitely suspended Schuster from the team.
Bernd
Dietz also questioned the inclusion of Breitner, claiming that he would bring
disharmony within the squad.
Derwall
dropped Dietz from the Poland match (that the Germans won) as well, effectively
ending his international career.
Poland
was able to lineup the reprieved suspended players from the previous season:
Zbigniew Boniek, Jozef Mlynarczyk and Wladyslaw Zmuda.
Peru
tied Uruguay at home to still maintain the upper hand in qualification.
Czechoslovakia
defeated Wales in a key matchup. This was wales’ first defeat in the
qualifiers. Czechoslovakia’s Zdenek Nehoda earned his record 78th
cap in this match.
USSR
for its part defeated Turkey at home in only its third match of the
qualifications. Wales lead the group, though they had played more matches than
USSR and Czechoslovakia.
Belgium
became the first nation to qualify from Europe by defeating France at home, in
a match where Michel Platini’s deployment as a striker was criticized.
While
in the same group, Holland lost ground by only tying Republic of Ireland at
home.
Yugoslavia
continued its march towards the Finals by defeating Denmark away.
Norway
inflicted on England one of its most humiliating defeats at Oslo that could
have cost England qualification.
England
still lead the group but only had one match remaining, while Romania and
Hungary had 3 and 4 more matches respectively.
At
the end of the month, West Germany maintained its one hundred percent record by
defeating Finland 7 to 1, with Rummenigge scoring a hat trick and the returning
Paul Breitner chipped in with two.
Scotland
got closer with a key win vs. Sweden and led the group by 4 points over
Northern Ireland with two matches remianing.
The
final phase of Asian qualification began with a scoreless tie between China and
New Zealand.
Date:
September 1, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Barcelona-Estadio Nou Camp
FC Barcelona (Spain) 1-Argentina 0 (Allan
Simonsen)
Date:
September 1, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Zurich - Hardturm Stadium
Switzerland 2-Holland 1 (Lucien
Favre 60, Angelo Elia 70 / Johnny
Metgod 77)
Date:
September 2, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Hong Kong
Caroline Hill (Hong Kong) 0-Australia 6 (Dennis Colusso, Peter Raskopoulos, David Mitchell 2, Mark
Koussas, John Little)
Date:
September 2, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kotka- Sport Centre
Finland 2-Albania 1 (Leo
Houtsonen 61 , Keijo Kousa 85 / Targaj Muhedin 47pen)
Date: September 2, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Chorzów, Silesian Stadium
Poland 0-West Germany 2 (Klaus
Fischer 60, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 71)
Date:
September 6, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan 0-Australia 0
Date:
September 6, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Lima- Estadio Nacional
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Prague (Strahov)
Czechoslovakia 2-Wales 0 (William
Stevenson (own goal) 26, Werner Licka 68)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Bucuresti -Stadionul 23 August
Romania 1-Bulgaria 2 (Ilie
Balaci 43pen / Tzevetan Yoncev 57, Kostadin Kostadinov 73)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Brussels- Heizelstadion
Belgium 2-France 0 (Alex
Czerniatynski 24, Erwin Vandenbergh 83)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Copenhagen -Idrætsparken
Denmark 1-Yugoslavia 2 (Preben
Elkjaer 71 / Zlatko Vujovic 48, Vladimir Petrovic 62)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Oslo- Ullevaal Stadion
Norway 2-England 1 (Roger Albertsen 35, Hallvar
Thoresen 41 / Bryan Robson 15)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Rotterdam-De Kuip
Holland 2-Republic of Ireland 2 (Frans
Thijssen 11, Arnold Muhren 65pen /
Michael Robinson 40, Frank Stapleton 71)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Reykjavik -Laugardalsvöllur
Iceland 2-Turkey 0 (Larus Guðmundsson 20, Atli
Eðvaldsson 66)
Date:
September 9, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Glasgow- Hampden Park
Scotland 2-Sweden 0 (Joe Jordan
21, John Robertson 80pen)
Date:
September 13, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bogotá- El Campín
Colombia 1-Uruguay 1 (Hernan
Dario Herrera 12pen- Waldemar Victorino 42)
Date:
September 20, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Venezuela 1-Cuba 0 (Castillo)
Date:
September 22, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Luxembourg
Luxembourg 0-West Germany ‘B’ 1 (Ronald
Worm 7)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Vienna-Praterstadion
Austria 0-Spain 0
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Venue:
Maceió - Estádio Rei Pelé (Trapichão)
Brazil 6-Republic of Ireland XI 0 (Éder
5, Roberto Dinamite 20 , Zico 70, 71 pen, 77,
83)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Bologna-Stadio Comunale
Italy 3-Bulgaria 2 (Francesco Graziani 39, 58, Giuseppe Dossena 75 / Stoicho Mladenov 84,
Giuseppe Dossena (own goal) 89)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bogotá- El Campín
Iceland 1-Czechoslovakia 1 (Petur
Ormslev 6 / Jan Kozak 72)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Copenhagen -Idrætsparken
Denmark 2-Norway 1 (Preben
Elkjær 19, Frank Arnesen 67 pen /
Terje Køjedal 62)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bochum- RuhrStadion
West Germany 7-Finland 1 (Klaus
Fischer 11, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 42, 60, 72, Paul Breitner 54, 67, Wolfgang
Dremmler 83 / Hannu Turunen 41)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Thessaloniki-Charilaou (Aris)
Greece 2-Sweden 1 (Nikos Anastopoulos 16,
Constantinos Kouis 72 / Thomas Larsson 78)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bucuresti -Stadionul 23 August
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Lisbon -Estadio Jose de Alvalade (Sporting)
Portugal 2-Poland 0 (Nené 48, Shéu Han 53)
Date:
September 23, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Moscow-The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium
USSR 4-Turkey 0 (Aleksandr Chivadze 4, Anatoli
Demianenko 20, Oleg Blokhin 26, Ramaz Chengelia 49)
Date:
September 24, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Beijing
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Photo From : Mondial, new series, issue
23, February 1982
(Diego
Maradona , September 1, 1981, Barcelona 1-Argentina 0)
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 13, 1982
(French goalkeeper Pierrick Hiard, Alex
Czerniatinksi, Phillipe Mahut and Erwin vandenbergh , September 9, 1981, World
Cup Qualifier, Belgium 2-France 0) |
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Photo
From: Start 1981 №39
(September
9, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Czechoslovakia 2-Wales 0)
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Photo
From: France Football, Issue 1849, September 15, 1981
(Liam Brady , September 9, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, Holland 2-Republic of Ireland 2) |
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Photo From : World Soccer , October 1981
(Tom
Lund and Bryan Robson, September 9, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Norway 2-England
1)
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Photo From : Mondial, new series, issue
23, February 1982
(Hans-Peter
Briegel and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , September 23, 1981, World Cup Qualifier,
West Germany 7-Finland 1)
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Photo
From: Mondial, new series, issue 20, November 1981
(Anghel
Iordanescu, Rdion Camataru, Laszlo Sallai and Imre Garaba , September 23, 1981,
World Cup Qualifier, Romania 0-Hungary 0)
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Photo
From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, Issue 39, September 27, 1981
(Aleksandr Chivadze , September 23, 1981, World
Cup Qualifier, USSR 4-Turkey 0) |
October
The
final phase of Asian qualification continued with New Zealand getting a key win
vs. China, but losing to Kuwait.
Poland
qualified for its third straight World Cup by defeating rivals East Germany
away.
Algeria
qualified for its first ever World Cup by eliminating Nigeria in the final
round playoff for the African zone.
Koln’s
young star Pierre Littbarski celebrated his international debut by scoring
twice vs. Austria in Vienna as West Germany maintained its perfect
qualification record and qualified for the finals.
Republic
of Ireland defeated France in Dublin to maintain some hope. Young AS Monaco
winger Bruno Bellone celebrated his debut with a goal.
France
were missing Dominique Rocheteau and Jean Tigana through injuries.
In
the same group, Holland defeated already neighbors Belgium (3-0) to also
maintain some hope. Holland had recalled Johann Neeskesns from NY Cosmos after
three years away.
Belgium
and Republic of Ireland completed all their qualification matches, Holland was
left with one match and France with two.
These
two results made it imperative for France to defeat Holland the next month to
have any chance of qualifying and step ahead of the current group runner-up
Ireland.
Hungary
defeated Switzerland and Norway at the end of the month to lead the group with
matches remainig. The battle for the second spot was now between England and
Romania.
Romania
was defeated at home by Switzerland and dented its qualification hopes. After
the match, Romania’s coaching triumvirate led by Valentin Stanescu was dismissed.
Mircea
Lucescu was appointed as the new coach of Romania.
Wales
lost an important point by tying Iceland at home, with one match remaining in
their schedule they still lead, however, the stronger teams of USSR and
Czechoslovakia appeared the likely qualifiers from the group with more matches
still in their schedule.
USSR
defeated Czechsolovakia at the end of the month in a key match.
Italy
gained a key point at Yugoslavia with Roberto Bettega netting his last goal for
Italy. Italy goalkeeper and Captain Dino Zoff earned his record equaling 94th
cap for Italy.
Portugal
were surprisingly beaten by Sweden at home and were eliminated. Israel
compounded on their misery by defeating them heavily (1-4).
At
this stage Sweden was the runner-up behind Scotland in the group, however, they
had completed their matches and Northern Ireland had a chance with one match
remaining.
World
Cup hosts Spain played Luxembourg for the first time ever in a friendly.
Argentina
lost at home for the first time in three years in a friendly to Poland, though
the focus was on the absence of Diego Maradona.
For
more detail:
Date:
October 3, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Auckland
New Zealand 1-China 0 (Ricki
Herbert 45 )
Date:
October 5, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Balzers
Liechtenstein 1-Malyasia 0 (L.
Sklarski)
Date:
October 6, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Tel Aviv- Ramat Gan
Israel 0-Eintracht Frankfurt (West Germany) 3 ( )
Date:
October 6, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Date:
October 7, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
İzmır -Kemal Atatürk Stadyumu
Turkey 0-USSR 3 (Ramaz Chengelia 17, Oleg
Blokhin 33, 54)
Date:
October 6, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Zurich
Swizterland 2-Switzerland U-21 3
(Andy Egli 35, Georges Bregy 37 / Kundert 8,
Koller 18, Luthi 32 )
Date:
October 10, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Vienna
Austria 6-VfB Modling (Austria) 1
(Max Hagmayr 3 goals, Hans Krankl, Kurt Jara,
Bernd Krauss / ??)
Date:
October 10, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Leipzig, Zentralstadion
East Germany 2-Poland 3 (Rudiger
Schnuphase 57 pen, Joachim Streich 67 / Andrzej Szarmach 2, Wlodzimierz
Smolarek 5, 61)
Date:
October 10, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Auckland
New Zealand 1-Kuwait 2 (Steve
Wooddin 23 / Al Dakheel 47 pen, J.Yacoub 82)
Date:
October 10, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bucuresti -Stadionul 23 August
Romania 1-Switzerland 2 (Ilie
Balaci 56 / Giampietro Zappa 68, Robert Lüthi 75)
Date:
October 10, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Lagos
Nigeria 0-Algeria 2 (Djamel
Zidane 44 Lakhdar Belloumi 34)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Rotterdam-De Kuip
Holland 3-Belgium 0 (Johnny Metgod 5, Kees Van Kooten 26, Ruud Geels 54)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tirana- Qemal Stafa
Albania 0-Bulgaria 2 (Georgi Slavkov 50,
Stoicho Mladenov 83)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Vienna-Praterstadion
Austria 1-West Germany 3 (Walter Schachner 15 / Pierre Littbarski 17, 78, Felix Magath 20)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Thessaloniki- Kaftantzoglio (Iraklis)
Greece 2-Denmark 3 (Nikos Anastopoulos 57,
Constantinos Kouis 85 / Soren Lerby 6, Frank Arnesen 28, Preben Elkjaer
62)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Dublin- Lansdowne Road
Republic of Ireland 3-France 2 (Phillipe Mahut (own goal) 3, Frank
Stapleton 23, Michael Robinson 40 / Bruno Bellone
9, Michel Platini 83)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Budapest- Nepstaditon
Hungary 3-Switzerland 0 (Tibor Nyilasi 23, 50, Laszlo Fazekas 59)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Swansea, Vetch Field
Wales 2-Iceland 2 (Robert James 24, Alan Curtis 54 / Asgeir
Sigurvinsson 41, 61)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Valencia -Estadio Luis Casanova
Spain 3-Luxembourg 0 (Luis Lopez Ufarte 68,82, Enrique Saura 75)
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Belfast -Windsor Park
Northern Ireland 0-Scotland 0
Date:
October 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Lisbon- Estadio da Luz
Portugal 1-Sweden 2 (Minervino Pietra 65 / Thomas Larsson 38, Tony Persson 90)
Date:
October 17, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Belgrade, Stadion Crvene Zvezde (Red Star)
Yugoslavia 1-Italy 1 (Zlatko Vujovic 9 / Roberto Bettega 33)
Date:
October 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Beijing
China 3-Kuwait 0 (Rong Zhihang 24, Gu
Guanming 28, Shen Xiangfu 59)
Date:
October 24, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Tunis -Zouiten
Tunisia 0-Malta 1 (Simon Tortell 62)
Date:
October 28, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tbilisi –Dinamo Stadion
USSR 2-Czechoslovakia 0 (Ramaz Shengelia 28, 46)
Date:
October 28, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Buenos Aires -Antonio Vespuci Alberti (El Monumental)
Argentina 1-Poland 2 (Daniel Passarella 42 / Andrzej Buncol 55, Zbigniew Boniek 70)
Date:
October 28, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Porto Alegre - Estádio Olímpico Monumental
Brazil 3-Bulgaria 0 (Roberto Dinamite 29, Zico 55 pen, Leandro 72)
Date:
October 28, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tel Aviv- Ramat Gan
Israel 4-Portugal 1 (Beni Tabak 6, 18, 30, Gidi Damti 14 / Rui Jordao 8)
Date:
October 28, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia 1-Sweden 2 (??? / Thomas Larsson 23, 83)
Date:
October 30, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Constantine
Algeria 2-Nigeria 1 (Lakhdar Belloumi 9, Rabah Madjer 85 / Owolou 40)
Date:
October 31, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Budapest- Nepstaditon
Hungary 4-Norway 1 (Laszlo
Balint 12, Laszlo Kiss 60, 85, Laszlo Fazekas 79 / Tom Lund 35)
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Photo
From: Mondial, New series, issue 21,
December 1981
(October
3, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, New Zealand 1-China 0)
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Photo : from Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Duncan Cole, October
10, 1981, World cup Qualifier, New Zealand 1-Kuwait 2) |
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Photo From : Onze, Issue 71, November
1981
(Frank Baum and Wlodzimierz Smolarek, October 10,
1981, World Cup Qualifier, East Germany 2-Poland 3)
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Photo From : Onze, Issue 71, November
1981
(Rene Botteron, October 10, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, Romania 1-Switzerland 2)
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Photo From : Mondial, new series, issue
23, February 1982
(Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , October 14, 1981, World
Cup Qualifier, Austria 1-West Germany 3) |
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 73, January 1982
(Maxime
Bossis and Liam Brady, October 14, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Republic of
Ireland 3-France 2)
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Photo
From: Mondial, New series, issue 21,
December 1981
(Gordon Strachan and Sammy McIllroy, October 14,
1981, World Cup Qualifier, Northern Ireland 0-Scotland 0) |
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Photo
From: de Internationals, de Historie van Oranje, Authors Matty Verkamman, Henri
van der Steen, John Volkers
(Ruud
Geels, October 14, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Holland 3-Belgium 0)
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Photo From : Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Marco Tardelli and
Edhem Sljivo, October 17, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Yugopslavia 1-Italy 1) |
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Photo From : Onze, Issue 72, December
1981
(Waldemar Matysik and Alberto Tarantini, October
28, 1981, Argentian 1-Poland 2)
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Photo From : Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(October 30, 1981, World
Cup Qualifier, Algeria 2-Nigeria 1) |
November
The
final phase of the CONCACAF zone were played in Honduras within the month. At
the end Mexico were surprisingly eliminated in a group that saw the hosts
Honduras and El Salvador qualify. The format of having the final phase in one
nation was later criticized by many.
Cameroon
qualified as the second African representative by eliminating Morocco.
In
Asia/Oceania, Kuwait gained the upper hand by defeating Saudi Arabia and China.
Austria
got the point it needed in Bulgaria to qualify, though its Manager Karl Stotz
was sacked .
Neighbors
West Germany won all eight of their qualifying matches by destroying Albania (8-0) and Bulgaria
(4-0). Karl-Heinz Rummenigge scored a hat trick vs. Albania and few days later
scored twice vs. Bulgaria. These Performances surely helped him to be elected
France Football’s Ballon d’Or for the second consecutive year.
Italy
tied Greece at home and acquired the point it needed to qualify. Italy were
missing Roberto Bettega through a serious injury that would sideline for the
rest of the season including the World Cup.
Italy
goalkeeper and Captain Dino Zofff earned his record breaking 95th
appearance.
On
November 22nd, Genoa Goalkeeper Silvano Martina struck Fiorentina’s
Giancarlo Antognoni right on the head. It left Giancarlo with a double fracture
of the skull. The collision caused internal bleeding and also caused
Antognoni’s heart to stop beating for almost half a minute. He would miss much
of thes eason because of this injury.
Greece
Manager Alketas Panagoulias quit his post at the end of the qualification
matches.
Poland
rounded out its qualifiers and once hundred percent record by defeating Malta
(6-0) at home.
Georg
Buschner managed East Germany for the last time in its qualifier vs. Malta.
England
qualified for its first World Cup since 1970 by defeating Hungary at Wembley.
A
week prior, Switzerland and Romania had played in a scoreless tie that had
helped England’s cause.
France
defeated Holland at Paris, with Platini scoring the first with one of his most
famous free kicks. They virtually qualified as all they had to do now was to
defeat Cyprus the following month. This was the end of the great Holland squad
that had reached two World Cup Finals in 1974 and 1978.
Northern
Ireland defeated Israel and qualified with British neighbors Scotland.
England
and Northern Ireland qualified with the worst record of any of the qualifiers,
total of 9 points each.
The
already qualified Scotland experimented in its final qualifier vs. Portugal in
an inconsequential losing effort. This was Scotland’s first loss in the
qualifiers.
USSR
defeated Wales at home to qualify along with Czechoslovakia.
Yugoslavia
rounded out its qualifiers by defeating Luxembourg and Greece away. They only
dropped points vs. Italy in their qualifying campaign.
Poland
goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski played his last match for his nation in the friendly
vs. Spain.
Date:
November 1, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Mexico 4-Cuba 0 (Ricardo Castro 18, Hugo Sánchez 42, 51,
Manuel Manzo 53)
Date:
November 2, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Canada 1-El Salvador 0 (Stojanovic
90)
Date:
November 3, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Honduras 4-Haiti 0 (David Buezo
35, Jorge Urquia 40, Tony Laing 64, Roberto Figueroa 75)
Date:
November 4, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia 0-Kuwait 1 (Al-Anbari)
Date:
November 6, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Haiti 1-Canada 1 (Romulus 34 / Stojanović 50)
Date:
November 6, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Mexico 0-El Salvador 1 (Francisco Ever Hernández 80)
Date:
November 8, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Honduras 2-Cuba 0 (David Buezo 36, Anthony Costly 69)
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
El Salvador 0-Cuba 0
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Mexico 1-Haiti 1 (Hugo
Sánchez 87 / Goebels Cadet 47)
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Buenos Aires -Antonio Vespuci Alberti (El Monumental)
Argentina 1-Czechoslovakia 1 (Americo Gallego 71 / Zdenek
Valek 14)
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Sofia- Vassil Levski Stadion
Bulgaria 0-Austria 0
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Sportsground
East Germany 5-Malta 1 (Andreas Krause 11, Joachim Streich 35, 75, Jurgen
Heun 71, John Holland (own goal) 90 / Ernest Spitteri-Gonzi 41)
Date:
November 11, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Berne- Wankdorf Stadion
Date:
November 12, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Honduras 2-Canada 1 (Carlos Orlando Caballero 12, Roberto Figueroa 40 /
Bridge 19)
Date:
November 12, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kuala Lumpur
China 4-Saudi Arabia 2 (Zuo Shisheng 62, Chen Jingiang 63, Gu Guanming 76,
Chi Shang 88 / Al-Nefayyia 10, Majed Abdullah 11)
Date:
November 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Torino -Stadio Comunale
Italy 1-Greece 1 (Bruno Conti 61 /
Constantinos Kouis 87)
Date:
November 15, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kenitra
Morocco 0-Cameroon 2 (Roger Milla 15 pen, Jean-Pierre Tokoto 40)
Date:
November 15, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Haiti 0-Cuba 2 (Mathieu (own goal) 55, Nuñez 90)
Date:
November 15, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Mexico 1-Canada 1 (Ricardo
Castro 29 / Ian Bridge 57)
Date:
November 15, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Wrocław, Stadion Olimpijski
Poland 6-Malta 0 (Andrzej Buncol 6, Wlodzimierz Smolarek 47, 64, Stefan Majewski 48,
Dariusz Dziekanowski 80, Zbigniew Boniek 88)
Date:
November 16, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Honduras 0-El Salvadaor 0
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Dortmund- Westfalen Stadion
West Germany 8-Albania 0 (Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 5,19,43, Klaus Fischer 32,72,
Manfred Kaltz 36, Pierre Littbarski 52, Paul Breitner 67 pen)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
London - Wembley
England 1-Hungary 0 (Paul Mariner 14)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Paris- Parc des Princes
France 2-Holland 0 (Michel Platini 52, Didier Six
82)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Belfast -Windsor Park
Northern Ireland 1-Israel 0 (Gerry Armstrong 27)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Łódź, stadion ŁKS
Poland 2-Spain 3 (Andrzej Pałasz 56, Zbigniew Boniek 74 / Luis López Ufarte 10 , Jose
Ramon Alesanco 80, Pericho Alonso 88)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Lisbon- Estadio da Luz
Portugal 2-Scotland 1 (Manuel Fernandes 33, 56 / Paul Sturrock 9)
Date:
November 18, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tbilisi –Dinamo Stadion
USSR 3-Wales 0 (Vitali Daraselia 13, Oleg Blokhin 18, Yuri Gavrilov 64)
Date:
November 19, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Haiti 0-El Salvador 1 (Norberto Huezo )
Date:
November 19, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kuala Lumpur
China 2-Saudi Arabia 0 (Huang Xiangdong 24, Cai
Jubiao 27)
Date:
November 21, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías, Honduras
Cuba 2-Canada 2 (Rodriguez, Nuñez / McLeod
48, Larusci 84 )
Date:
November 21, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Novi Sad, Stadion Vojvodine
Yugoslavia 5-Luxembourg 0 (Vahid Halilhodzic 1, 45' , Ivica Surjak 68, Pedrag
Pasic 72, Zlatko Vujovic 76)
Date:
November 22, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Düsseldorf- Rhein Stadion
West Germany 4-Bulgaria 0 (Klaus Fischer 4, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 49, 82, Manfred
Kaltz 63 pen)
Date:
November 22, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Tegucigalpa,
Tiburcio Carías
Honduras 0-Mexico 0
Date:
November 25, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Cadiz
Cadiz CF (Spain) 0-USSR 4 (Oleg Blokhin 2 goals, Ramaz Shengelia, ????)
Date:
November 28, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Auckland
New Zealand 2-Saudi Arabia 2 (Billy McClure, Ricki Herbert / Majed Abdullah (2))
Date:
November 29, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Bratislava -Tehelne Pole Stadion
Czechoslovakia 1-USSR 1 (Rotislav Vojacek 34 / Oleg Blokhin 14)
Date:
November 29, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Pireaus- Georgios Karaiskaki Stadion (Olympiakos)
Greece 1-Yugoslavia 2 (Thomas Mavros 6 / Ivica Surjak 23, Jure Jerkovic
39)
Date:
November 29, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Yaounde
Cameroon 2-Morocco 1 (Ibrahim Aoudou pen, Roger Milla 47 / Yagha)
Date:
November 30, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kuwait
Kuwait 1-China 0 (Abdulaziz Al-Anberi 7)
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Orlando Caballero, November 8, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, Honduras 2-Cuba 0) |
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Mauricio Alfaro, November 11, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, El Salvador 0-Cuba 0) |
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Photo
From: FUWO, Issue 46, November 17, 1981
(Andreas
Krause and Raymond Xuereb, November 11, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, East Germany
5-Malta 1)
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Photo
From: El Grafico, Issue 3241, 1981
(November 11, 1981, Argentina 1-Czechoslovakia
1) |
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Photo
From: Azzurri, Storia della Nazionale di calcio tre volte campioni del Mondo,
1910-1983
(Francesco
Graziani, November 14, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Italy 1-Greece 1)
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Gregoire
M’Bida, November 15, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Morocco 0-Cameroon 2)
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 73, January 1982
(November
15, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Haiti 0-Cuba 2)
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 73, January 1982
(November
15, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Mexico 1-Canada 1)
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Photo
From: Mondial, New series, issue 21,
December 1981
(Bernard
Lacombe watching Platini’s free kick go in, November 18, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, France 2-Holland 0)
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Photo
From: World
Soccer , January 1982
(Kevin Keegan, November 18, 1981, World Cup
Qualifier, England 1-Hungary 0) |
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Photo
From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005
(Manfred
Kaltz, November 18, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, West Germany 8-Albania 0)
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Photo
From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, Issue 47, November 22, 1981
(Oleg
Blokhin , November 18, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, USSR 3-Wales 0)
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Photo
From: Fussball Magazin, March april 1982
(Horst
Hrubesch, November 22, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, West Germany 4-Bulgaria 0)
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 72, December 1981
(November
29, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Cameroon 2-Morocco 1)
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Photo From : Mondial, New Series, Hors Serie
13, 1982
(Ramaz
Shengelia, November 29, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Czechoslovakia 1-USSR 1)
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 73, January 1982
(November 30, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Kuwait
1-China 0) |
December
France
booked its place by defeating Cyprus as expected at Paris. The match was interrupted for more than 10
minutes in first half due to floodlight failure.
Italy
were roundly criticized in their slim home win vs. minnows Luxembourg. The
press were fiercely critical of Enzo Bearzot, who brushed aside the result and
explained the poor display due to injuries and lack of motivation, since they
had already qualified. Italy were missing long term injury victim Roberto
Bettega and Giancarlo Antognoni.
Kuwait
qualified from Asia/Oceania, while New Zealand was left to fight for another
day as they had to contend with a playoff vs. China in the new year.
For
Spain’s friendly vs. Belgium the new World Cup ball Tango-Espana made its
debut.
Date:
December 5, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Paris- Parc des Princes
France 4-Cyprus 0 (Dominique Rocheteau 25, Bernard Lacombe 29, 82, Bernard
Genghini 86)
Date:
December 5, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Napoli -Stadio San Paolo
Italy 1-Luxembourg 0 (Fulvio Collovati 6)
Date:
December 7, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kuwait
Kuwait 2-Saudi Arabia 0 (Al-Dakheel 36, 56)
Date:
December 14, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Kuwait
Kuwait 2-New Zealand 2 (Kameel, Al-Hashash / Grant Turner, Wynton Rufer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPYx_wt3jk
Date:
December 16, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Dimitar Kanev , Haskovo
Bulgaria 5-Portugal 2 (Tzetevan Yonchev 23, 48, Radoslav
Zdravkov 16 pen, 74, Manuel Bento (own goal) 21 / Antonio Oliveira 71,88)
Date:
December 16, 1981
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Valencia -Estadio Luis Casanova
Spain 2-Belgium 0 (Jesus Satrustegui 7, 87)
Date:
December 19, 1981
Competition:
World Cup Qualifier
Venue:
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia 0-New Zealand 5 (Wynton Rufer (2), Brian Turner (2), Steev Woodin)
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Photo
From: Onze, Hors Serie 13, 1982
(Bernard Lacombe and Didier Six, December 5,
1981, World Cup Qualifier, France 4-Cyprus 0) |
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Photo
from: Federation Luxembourgeoise de Football , 75 and de football au
Grand-Duche de Luxembourg 1908-1983
(December
5, 1981, World Cup Qualifier, Italy 1-Luxembourg 0)
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Photo From : Onze, Hors Serie 12, 1982
(Pericho Alonso and Rene
vandereycken, December 16, 1981, Spain 2-Belgium 0) |
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