May
All
the qualified antiosn spent the month in preparation and played many frienlies,
specially many vs. club sides. At the end of the month, Italy and Bulagria
kicked off the 1986 World Cup.
Valery
Lobanovsky took charge of the USSR.
Date:
May 1, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
9,944
Venue:
Malmö -Malmö Stadion
Sweden 0-Greece 0
Date:
May 4, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
30,000
Venue:
Tel Aviv- Ramat-Gan -National Stadium
Israel 2-Argentina 7 (Moshe Sinai 32, Uri Malmilian 49 / Sergio Almirón 4,57,62, Diego Maradona 21,75, Claudio Borghi 58, Carlos Tapia
90) |
Photo
From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3477 (27-05-1986)
(Claudio Borghi, May 4, 1986, Israel
2-Argentina 7) |
Date:
May 4, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
20,000
Venue:
Asuncion
Paraguay
3-Independiente (Argentina) 2 (Alfredo Damian Mendoza 27,29, Faustino Alonso 89 / Rios 33, Reynoso 64)
Date:
May 6, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
6,300
Venue:
Genève – Le Stade des Charmilles
Switzerland
2-Algeria 0 (Heinz Hermann 8,14)
Date:
May 7, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
65,000
Venue:
Curitiba - Estádio Centro
Poliesportivo Pinheiro (Pinheirão)
Brazil
1-Chile 1 (Walter Casagrande 81 / Mariano Puyol 26 )
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Photo From: Placar, Issue 834, May 19, 1986
(May 7, 1986, Brazil 1-Chile 1)
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Photo From: Placar, Issue 835, May 26, 1986
(May 7, 1986, Brazil 1-Chile 1)
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Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer
(Chile squad, May 7, 1986, Brazil 1-Chile 1)
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Date:
May 7, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
35,000
Venue:
Moscow- The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium
USSR
0-Finland 0
Date:
May 8, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
4,000
Venue:
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern
(West Germany) 2-Bulgaria
0 (Mohr 37, Loechelt 78)
Date:
May 8, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
1,000
Venue:
Vienna
SV
Spittal (Austria) 0- Hungary 2 (???)
Date:
May 8, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
4,000
Venue:
Nuremberg
Nuremberg
(West Germany) 0-Poland 1 (Zbigniew Boniek 35)
Date:
May 8, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
12,000
Venue:
Bogota- Estadio Nemesio Camacho 'El Campín'
CD
Los Millonarios (Colombia) 0-Uruguay 1
(Victor Diogo 63)
Date:
May 10, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
1,600
Venue:
Stuttgart
VfB
Stuttagrt (West Germany) 2-Bulgaria 5
(Jurgen Klinsmann 18, Peter Reichert 41 / Kostadin Kostadinov 5, Bojidar
Iskrenov 11, Nasko Sirakov 32, Stoicho Mladenov 62,79)
Date:
May 10, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
20,000
Venue:
Asuncion
Paraguay
1-Huracan (Argentina) 1 (Roberto Cabaňas
38 / C. Garcia 62)
Date:
May 10, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
13,142
Venue:
Toronto
Canada
2-Wales 0 (Vrablic
34, Jones (own goal) 44)
Date:
May 11, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
500
Venue:
Aschaffenburg
Viktoria
Aschaffenburg (West Germany) 1-Bulgaria 2
(Lindenauer 84 / Plamen
Markov 67, Boicho
Velitchkov 74)
Date:
May 11, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
30,000
Venue:
Bochum –Ruhrstadion
West Germany 1-Yugoslavia 1 (Rudi Voeller 61
/ Haris Skoro 6) |
Photo
From: Fussball Magazin, Issue 6, June 1986
(May 11, 1986, West Germany 1-Yugoslavia 1) |
Date:
May 11, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
60,000
Venue:
Napoli -Stadio San Paolo
Italy2 –China 0 (Antonio Di Gennaro 23,
Alessandro Altobelli 33) |
Photo
From: Mondial, new series, issue 74, June 1986
(May 11, 1986, Italy 2-China 0) |
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 126, June 1986
(Italy squad, May 11, 1986, Italy 2-China 0) |
Date:
May 11, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
8,500
Venue:
Barranquila- Estadio Metropolitano
Atletico Junior Barranquila (Colombia) 1-Uruguay
2 (Valderrama / Enzo Francescolli 61,
Jorge Da Silva 71)
Date:
May 13, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
8,000
Venue:
Toluca
Toluca
(Mexico) 1-Brazil 3 (Walter Casagrande 24, Socrates 78, Elzo 87 /
Valentines 65)
Date:
May 13, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
11,730
Venue:
Oslo –Ullevaal Stadion
Norway 1-Denmark 0 (Hallvar Thoresen 52 pen)
Date:
May 13, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
4,500
Venue:
Morfelden
Eintracht
Frankfurt (West Germany) 1-Poland 5 (Sarrocca 77 / Zbigniew Boniek 12, Andrzej
Zgutczyński 52, Waldemar Prusik 75,
Ryszard
Tarasiewicz 82,88)
Date:
May 14, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
15,000
Venue:
Salzburg, Lehner Stadion
Austria
1-Sweden 0 (Reinhard
Kienast 51)
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Photo From: Österreichs Fußball Länderspiele Chronik 1902 – 1993, Author: Anton Egger
(Austria squad, May 14, 1986, Austria 1-Sweden 0)
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Date:
May 14, 1986
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Attendance:
63,770
Venue:
Denver - Fountain Valley School Field, Colorado,USA
South
Korea 1-England 4 (Deouk-Soo Kang 83 / Mark Hateley 37, Bryan Robson 41, Kerry
Dixon 61, 88)
Date:
May 14, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
36,000
Venue:
Dortmund - Westfalen Stadium
West Germany 3-Holland 1 (Rudi Voeller 39, 42, MatthiasHerget’90 / John van't
Schip 80) |
Photo
From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005
(Ronald Koeman and Klaus Allofs, May 14, 1986,
West Germany 3-Holland 1) |
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Photo
From: Het Nederlands Elftal, De Histoire van Oranje, 1905-1989
(both squads, May 14, 1986, West Germany
3-Holland 1) |
Date:
May 14, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
12,000
Venue:
Medellín, Estadio Atanasio Girardot
CDCA
Nacional Medellin (Colombia) 0-Uruguay 1 (Carlos Aguilera 78)
Date:
May 15, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
3,000
Venue:
Barranquila
Atletico
Junior Barranquila (Colombia) 0-Argentina 0
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Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3476 (20-05-1986)
(Sergio Batista, May 15, 1986, Atletico Junior Barranquila (Colombia) 0-Argentina 0)
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Date:
May 16, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 44,300
Venue:
Copenhagen -Idrætsparken
Denmark 1-Poland 0 (Preben Elkjaer 62)
Date:
May 17, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 63,770
Venue:
Los Angeles-Memorial Coliseum, California, USA
Mexico 0-England 3 (Mark Hateley 22,31, Peter
Beardsley 38) |
Photo
From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer
(England
squad, May 17, 1986, Mexico 0-England 3)
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Date:
May 17, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 6,000
Venue:
Los Angeles- California, USA
South
Korea 2-Peru 0 (Cha 52, Choi 83)
Date:
May 17, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 4,000
Venue:
Moscow
USSR
1-Torpedo Moscow (USSR) 0 (???)
Date:
May 18, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 10,000
Venue:
Mexico City
Atlante
(Mexico) 1-Brazil 2 (Casanova 39 / Walter Casagrande 43, Socrates 72)
Date:
May 19, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 15,000
Venue:
Brussels- Heizelstadion
Belgium
1-Yugoslavia 3 (Nico
Claesen 60 /
Haris Skoro 7, Nenad Gracan 23 , Zlatko Vujovic 35)
Date:
May 20, 1986
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Attendance: 1,500
Venue:
Bogota, Colombia
Paraguay
2-Denmark 1 (Roberto
Cabanas 41, 67
/ Henrik
Andersen 73)
Date:
May 20, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance: 9,007
Venue:
Vancouver
Canada
0-Wales 3 (Dean Saunders 11,49, Malcolm Allen 81)
Date:
May 21, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
2,000
Venue:
Mexico City
Club
America (Youth XI) (Mexico) 1-Argentina 5 (??? / Jorge B urruchaga (2 goals),
Diego Maradona, Claudio Borghi, Oscar Garre)
Date:
May 21, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Mexico City
Club
America (Mexico) 1-Brazil 4 (??? /
Falcao, Luis Muller, Junior, Valdo)
Date:
May 21, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
18,000
Venue:
Guadalajara
Atlas
(Mexico) 1-Spain 2 (Guttierez / Julio Salinas , Ramon Calderé )
Date:
May 22, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
7,200
Venue:
Mexico City
Cruz
Azul (Mexico) 1-Bulgaria 1 (Ambris 60 / Plamen Markov 89)
Date:
May 22, 1986
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Attendance:
3,000
Venue:
Tlaxcala,Mexico
France 8-Guatemala 1 (Jean-Pierre Papin 11, 22,
Michel Platini 20, Dominque Rocheteau 45, Alain Giresse 51, Phillipe Vercruysse
89, Yannick Stopyra 90+2 pen, Jean-Marc Ferreri 90+4 / Castro 17 )
Date:
May 23, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
11,000
Venue:
Mexico City
UNAM
(Mexico) 0-Brazil 2 (Zico 65, Junior 80)
Date:
May 23, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Manizales,Colombia
Cristal
Caldas (Colombia) 2-Denmark 5 (Valdez 11, 23 / Jan Molby 28, Preben Elkjaer 51,
83, Jesper Olsen 60, Michael Laudrup 65)
Date:
May 23, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Pereira
Deportivo
Pereira (Colombia) 4-Paraguay 3 (??? /Vladimiro Schetina (2 goal), Roberto Cabanas)
Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
2,000
Venue:
Mexico City
Atlante
(Mexico) 0-Argentina 3 (Jorge Burruchaga, Diego Maradona, Sergio Almiron)
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Photo From: EL GRAFICO Nº 3477 (27-05-1986)
(Julio Olarticoechea, May 24, 1986, Atlante (Mexico) 0-Argentina 3)
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Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
8,150
Venue:
Burnaby -Swanguard Stadium
Canada
0-England 1 (Mark Hateley 58)
Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
15,000
Venue:
Morelia
Atletico Morelia (Mexico) 1-West Germany 2 (Juarez 44 / Hans-Peter
Briegel 4, Klaus Allofs 65)
Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
1,500
Venue:
Leon
Tepatitian (Mexico) 0-Hungary 4 (????)
Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
8,000
Venue:
Villavicencio, Colombia
Deportivo
Cali (Colombia) 0-Paraguay 0
Date:
May 24, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
7,500
Venue:
Puebla
Angeles de Puebla (Mexico) 1-Spain 3 (Rangel 75 pen / Ramon Calderé 6, Julio Salinas 19, Michel 31)
Date:
May 25, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
18,000
Venue:
Puebla
Guadalajara
(Mexico) 1-Brazil 3 (Davalos 25 / Careca 4, 40. Walter Casagrande 47)
Date:
May 25, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
4,246
Venue:
Reykjavík-Laugardalsvöllur
Iceland 1-Republic of Ireland 2 (Arnor Gudjohnsen 40
/ Paul McGrath, Gerry Daly) |
Photo
From: Onze, Issue 129, September 1986
(May 25, 1986 , Iceland 1-Republic of Ireland 2) |
Date:
May 25, 1986
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Mexico City -Estadio Atlante, Mexico
Italy 4-Guatemala 0 (Alessandro Altobelli 22,
65, 85, Giuseppe Galderisi 71)
Date:
May 26, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Nezahuatcoyotl
Neza
(Mexico) 1-Argentina 3 ( ??????)
Date:
May 26, 1986
Competition:
Unofficial Friendly
Attendance:
2,000
Venue:
Mexico City , Mexico
Bulgaria
4-Uruguay 1 (Rusi getov 11 pen, Bojidar Iskrenov 30, Kostadin Kostadinov 80,
Batista (own goal) 119 / Enzo Francescolli 66 pen)
Note:
The match was 120 minutes long in 3 phases.
Date:
May 26, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
5,000
Venue:
Barranquila- Estadio Metropolitano
Atletico
Junior Barranquila (Colombia) 2-Denmark 2 (?????)
Date:
May 26, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
1,500
Venue:
Leon
Leon
(Mexico) 1-Hungary 6 ( ??????)
Date:
May 26, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
6,000
Venue:
Toluca
Mexico
Youth 2-Spain 4 ( Limon 1, Huerta 50
pen / Eloy 29,31, Juan Senor 34, Hipolito Rincon 53)
Date:
May 27, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
1,000
Venue:
Reykjavík-Laugardalsvöllur, Iceland
Republic
of Ireland 1-Czechoslovakia 0 (Frank Stapleton 83)
Date:
May 27, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
2,500
Venue:
Morelia
Atletico
Morelia (Mexico) 1- USSR 4 ( ??????)
Date:
May 29, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
2,500
Venue:
Reykjavík-Laugardalsvöllur
Iceland
1-Czechoslovakia 2 (Gudmundur Steinsson 84 / Karel Kula 54, Jozef Chovanec 61)
Date:
May 29, 1986
Competition:
Friendly
Attendance:
Venue:
Toluca, Estadio Toluca
Toluca
(Mexico) 0- Uruguay 1 ( Enzo Francescoli)
Date:
May 31, 1986
Competition:
World Cup-Group A
Attendance:
95,000
Venue:
Mexico City –Estadio Azteca, Mexico
Italy 1-Bulgaria 1 (Alessandro Altobelli 43 /
Nasko Sirakov 85) |
Photo
From: Onze, Hors serie 28, 1986
(May 31, 1986, World Cup, Italy 1-Bulgaria 1) |
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Photo
From: Onze, Issue 139, July 1987
(Bulgaria squad, May 31, 1986, World Cup, Italy
1-Bulgaria 1) |
