(Former Tottenham striker Teddy Sheringham being taunted by Sol Campbell, August 10, 1997, Tottenham 0-Manchester United 2)
Photo From: Goal, November 1995
(Manchester United’s Dennis Law)
Photo From: Goal, May 1998
(Gordon Strachan between Bobby Charlton and Ron Atkinson after signing for Manchester United in August 1984 from Aberdeen, watching a pre-season friendly in August 1984 Dublin between Shamrock Rovers and Manchester United)
Photo From: Goal, May 1997
(Ian Wright vs. Peter Schmeichel incident, February 19, 1997, Arsenal 1-Manchester United 2)
Photo From: Goal, June 1997
(Current Argentina manager, Alejandro Sabella in his days as a Leeds United player)
Photo From: Goal, June 1996
(Roberto Baggio and Paul Ince, March 10, 1996, AC Milan 0-Internazionale 1)
Photo From: Goal, December 1995
(Manchester City’s Niall Quinn taunted by Manchester United fans after missing a very easy chance, October 14, 1995, Manchester United 1-Manchester City 0
Photo From: Goal, August 1996
(Thomas Haessler consoling Gianfranco Zola after Italy’s elimination, European Championships, June 19, 1996 , Germany 0-Italy 0)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, February March 1978
(Paul Breitner in action for Eintracht Braunschweig vs. Stuttgart, 1977/78 season)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, September October 1984
(Stuttgart Manager Helmut Benthaus with Icelandic Asgeir Sigurvinsson and new Belgian signing Nico Claesen )
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, March April 1985
(Bayern Munich’s Norbert Eder and Schalke’s Dieter Schatzschneider, October 27, 1984, Schalke 1-Bayern Munich 1)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, January 1988
(September 2, 1987, Werder Bremen 5-Stuttgart 1)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, April 1982
(SV Hamburg’s Horst Hrubesch after scoring a goal vs. Bayern Munich, October 31, 1981, Hamburg 4-Bayern Munich 1)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, June 1986
(Bayern Munich’s Dieter Hoeness in Bayern’ title winning match vs. Gladbach, April 26, 1986, Bayern Munich 6-Borussia Moenchengladbach 0)
Photo From: Fussball Magazin, April May 1977
(Uli Stielieke and Berti Vogts walking in Paris, prior to West Germany’s friendly vs. France in February 1977)
Photo From: Football Italia, April 1997
(Andrei Kanchelskis with Fiorentina 1996/97 season)
(Belgian Patrick Vervoort upon signing for Bordeaux with Belgian Manager Raymond Goethals)
Photo From: Foot Magazine, October 1990
(Igor Belanov in action for Borussia Moenchengladbach)
Photo From: Foot Magazine, November 1983
(Anderlecht defender Georges Grun, 1983/84)
Photo From: Foot Magazine, April 1990
(Zlatko Vujovic and Marc Millecamps, UEFA Cup, March 5, 1986, Hajduk Split 1-Waregem 0)
Photo From: Don Balon, November 15-21, 1994
(Raul as a youth player for Atletico Madrid)
Photo From: Don Balon, July 10-16, 1995
(Oscar Ruggeri in action for San Lorenzo vs. Boca Juniors)
Photo From: Don Balon, January 23-29, 1995
(Deportivo La Coruna’s Fran)
Photo From: Don Balon, April 12-18, 1994
(Barcelona’s Guillermo Amor in an advertisemt for Reebok)
Photo From: Calcio 2000, February 2000
(Frank Rijkaard, The man of the Match, 1990 Intercontinental Cup, December 8, 1990, AC Milan 3-Olimpia Asuncion 0)
Photo From: Calcio 2000, August 1998
(Pele and Giovanni Trappatoni after a Italy-Brazil friendly, May 12, 1963, Italy 3-Brazil 0)
Photo From: Calcio 2000, April 2000
(AS Roma’s Damiano Tommasi and Juventus’ Edgar Davids, 1999/2000 season)
1-At the end of 1990/91 season, Internazionale Coach Giovanni Trappatoni wanted to rejoin his former club Juventus after 5 years away managing Inter.
Inter President Ernesto Pellegrini also felt the time was right for a change and did not object, even though Trappatoni was still under contract.
He approached then Benfica Manager, the Swede, Sven –Goran Eriksson as replacement.
Benfica were willing, however, they demanded payment since Eriksson was also under contract.
Therefore, Pellegrini used the same tactic on Juventus. First he demanded Luigi De Agostini as compensation, which Juventus categorically refused.
So he demanded the loan for one season of the recently acquired Dino Baggio, in addition to a joint purchase of another player in the future.
Photo from : Onze-Mondial, January 1992
(Dino Baggio during his one season loan at Inter, 1991/92)
Photo from : Guerin Sportivo, June 17-23, 1987
(Luigi De Agostini upon joining Juventus in summer of 1987 from Verona)
Photo from : Guerin Sportivo, April 26-May 2, 1989
(Giovanni Trappatoni)
2- French defender Lilian Thuram who joined Juventus in 2001, was initially approached by them in 1996, while at AS Monaco.
He was offended when he was given a deadline to join them and told that “the Thuram option” would not exist beyond the deadline.
As a result he refused and joined rivals Parma instead.
He did eventually join Juventus in 2001 for a very large fee.
Photo From: L'Equipe Magazine, July 8, 2000, Issue 949
(Lilian Thuram, June 28, 2000, European Championships, France 2-Portugal 1)
3- In the early 1990s, Englishman Paul Gascoigne was praised for being a technically gifted player, especially rare for a British player.
Comparisons were frequently made with Maradona, mostly when he joined Serie A’s Lazio in 1992.
Andrea Carnevalle, a former Napoli teammate of Maradona, who was now playing for city rivals AS Roma, complained that he was sick and tired of people comparing Gascoigne to Maradona.
According to Carnevalle, Gazza was not worth Maradona’s boot.
Photo from : Guerin Sportivo, September 24-30, 1986
(Andrea Carnevalle, September 17, 1986, UEFA Cup, Napoli 1-Toulouse 0)
(Paul Gascoigne, 1991 FA Cup Semi Finals, April 14, 1991, Tottenham 3-Arsenal 1)
4- For the ill-fated Champions Cup Final of 1985, Juventus had requested to wear their away strips of yellow instead of the customary black and white stripes.
The reason was because they were superstitious, since for their two previous losing finals in 1973 (vs. Ajax) and 1983 (vs. SV Hamburg), they had worn their usual black and white colors.
For their victories in the UEFA Cup in 1977 (vs., Athletic Bilbao) and Cup Winners Cup in 1984 (vs. Porto), they had worn their away strips of Blue (1977) and yellow (1984).
Incidentally, for that match Liverpool debuted for the first time their new Adidas strip, after so many years with Umbro.
Photo from : Mondial, June 1985
(Platini and John Wark, May 29, 1985, Champions Cup, Juventus 1-Liverpool 0)
5- During the summer of 1988, Controversial Atletico Madrid President Jesus Gil dismissed three players for bizarre reasons.
He fired his Captain Jesus Arteche for smoking too much and spending a lot of time in his shoe selling business.
Quique Ramos was fired for insubordination.
Quique Setien was fired for being single. Jesus Gil said that Setien needed to get married to have a wife to settle him down and organize his life.
Gil eventually took back Arteche, though he was stripped of the captaincy.
Team Captain: Ronald Kreer, Kirsten assumed captaincy 75th
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform Colors: Blue Shirts, White Shorts , Blue Socks
Notes:
-Match number 512 for Austria and number 286 for East Germany.
-This was the 6th and final meeting between the nations, as Germany would be re-unified by the following year.
All 6 matches have taken place in Vienna and Leipzig and all have been World Cup Qualifiers.
-The previous match between the nations was the first leg of this qualifier, played in Leipzig on May 20, 1989, that ended in a one-one tie.
Austria players: Lindenberger, Pecl, Pfeffer, Artner, Zsak, Herzog, Ogris and Polster and East Germany Players: Stahmann, Lindner, Doll, Stübner, Sammer, Weidemann, Steinmann, Kreer, Kirsten and Thom also took part in that match.
Polster scored in both matches a total of 4 goals.
Ulf Kirsten scored East Germany’s goal.
East Germany’s Doll and Weidemann were substituted on in both matches. Weidemann replaced Sammer in both matches.
-This was Austria’s first and only victory over East Germany.
-The previous match between the nations in the same stadium was also a World Cup Qualifier on September 24, 1977 that ended in a one-one tie.
Austria’s Manager Josef Hickersberger played in that match.
-East Germany’s only win was a World Cup Qualifier in Leipzig on October 31, 1965 that they won 1-0.
-Unified Germany played Austria in a friendly to scoreless tie on November 18, 1992 in Nürnberg.
Former East Germans Doll and Kirsten played in that match, as did Austria’s
Zsak, Polster, Artner, Pfeifenberger, Herzog and Ogris.
Photo Frrom: Onze-Mondial, Issue 16, May 1990
(Toni Polster scoring from the spot)
-Unified Germany defeated Austria 1-5 in a friendly on June 2, 1994 in Vienna.
Polster scored for Austria on a penalty kick. Sammer scored one of Germany’s goals.
-Austria qualified for the World Cup Finals from this group along with group winner USSR. This group also contained East Germany, Turkey and Iceland.
-This was Austria’s first ever qualification for the World Cup Finals, as well as its first qualification of any kind, since the 1982 World Cup.
-This was East Germany’s first match since the fall of the Berlin wall, just a week before.
East Germany had a chance of qualifying had they won, but obviously had other things in their mind.
This was also East Germany’s last ever competitive International before re-unification.
-Stahmann fouled Keglevits in the box for Austria’s penalty kick in the 21st minute.
-On July 17, 1989, Eduard Geyer was appointed as East Germany manager, after the dismissal of Manfred Zapf.
-This World Cup Qualification campaign was one of East Germany’s poorest in years. They lost 4 matches, including twice to Turkey.
-This was East German Captain, Ronald Kreer last cap and he was sent off.
Dirk Stahmann and Matthias Döschner also played their last matches for East Germany.
-Thomas Doll subbed in before halftime as East Germany was already 0-2 down and in disarray.
Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Hors Serie 3, 1990
(Andreas Ogris)
-Austria’s Andreas Herzog was substituted off, 3 minutes after coming on as a substitute, after he was fouled when he took a shot.
-Rico Steinman and Toni Polster were teammates at German Bundesliga’s FC Koln in the 1990s.
Polster also played at Bundesliga’s Borussia Moenchengladbach.
-Toni Polster was the only foreign-based player in either team. He played in Spain’s Sevilla. He became the second highest goalscorer in Spain that season.
-Andreas Herzog and Heimo Pfeiffenberger both played in German Bundesliga’s Werder Bremen. Herzog also played one season at Bayern Munich (1995/96).
Herzog won the Bundesliga title with Werder in 1992/93 season.
Photo from: Onze-Mondial, Hors Serie 3, 1990
(Hat Trick hero Toni Polster in action)
-Austria’s previous captain Heribert Weber had been recently cut from the team after he had refused a positional switch.
Herbert Prohaska had retired at the end of the previous season. They were the last two survivors of the 1978 and 1982 World Cup squads.
-Austria’s Zsak had been appointed as Captain for this match following the axing of Heribert Weber. By next year, Toni Polster was appointed as Austria’s Captain.
-Austria’s other high scoring forward Gerhard Rodax did not play in this match.
Regulars Kurt Russ and Michael Streiter also were not included.
-Austria’s Klaus Lindenberger, Manfred Linzmaier and Alfred Hörtnagel won the League title with Swarovski Tirol of Innsbruck that season.
-In the second half of the season Andreas Thom joined West Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen. Ulf Kirsten joined him the following season and stayed there until the end of his career in 2003.
-Matthias Sammer also joined Bundesliga’s VfB Stuttgart in the following season and joined Borussia Dortmund in 1993. He won Bundesliga titles with Stuttgart and Dortmund and managed Dortmund to a Bundesliga title in 2002.
He is the current Sport Director of Bayern Munich.
-Sammer, Kirsten, Doll and Thom were integrated in the unified German National team by the following year.
-East Germany’s Detlef Schössler, Matthias Döschner, Matthias Sammer, Jörg Stübner and Ulf Kirsten were East German champions with Dynamo Dresden that season. The previous season they had reached the semi-Finals of the UEFA Cup.
-Austria’s Toni Polster (Torino) and East Germany’s Sammer (Internazionale Milano), Doll (Lazio) played in Italy’s Serie A.
