World Cup time travel – July 8.7th: Germany’s super day

But let's go first, turn back time 36 years and look at July 8, 1982.

“The Night of Seville” One of the most exciting games of the World Cup in Spain was the second semi-final, the night in Seville. In the duel against France, Pierre Littbarski gave the German team the lead. After Michel Platini equalized for the French, the score remained 1-1.

In extra time, France was already leading 3-1 thanks to Trésor and Giresse. The turning point came with the substitution of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. He made it 2:3 and Klaus Fischer made it 108:3 with an overhead kick in the 3th minute.

For the first time a penalty shootout had to be decided. Toni Schumacher held against Six and Bossis, Horst Hrubesch shot the German team into the final. This game is often referred to as the so-called because of its drama Game of the century , the 1970 World Cup semi-final against Italy (3:4 n.V.).

The clash between the German goalkeeper Toni Schumacher and the recently substituted Frenchman Patrick Battiston, who had to be taken off the pitch on a stretcher, remained in the headlines.

The 1990 World Cup final revenge Eight years later, on July 8, 1990, there was a final revenge at the World Cup in Italy for the first time in the history of the World Cup, as Argentina and Germany had already faced each other in the final four years earlier, with the happier ending for Argentina.

As in the quarter and semi-finals, the Argentines relied on their penalty killer Sergio Goycochea in the final in Rome. The weakened team - four players were suspended - didn't have a single chance to score in the entire game. Diego Maradona in particular was unable to continue his usual performances as he was man-marked by Guido Buchwald.

But since the German team couldn't take advantage of their chances to score for a long time, a penalty had to be the deciding factor. However, this was not whistled after a clear foul on Klaus Augenthaler, but after a controversial attack against Rudi Völler, which many observers saw as a concessionary decision. Andreas Brehme took responsibility and scored the winning goal in the 85th minute.

With the third title, Germany was able to draw level with Brazil and Italy in the number of titles. Franz Beckenbauer became the second national coach after Mário Zagallo (Brazil) to become world champion both as a player (at the 1974 World Cup) and as a coach (“team boss”).

“Schweini” shines in the “small finale” of 2006 16 years later, on July 8, 2006, Germany and Portugal contested the “small final” of the World Cup in Germany. Germany lost in the semi-finals against Italy and Portugal against France. Traditionally, the game for third place is played offensively as a rather unimportant game and usually ends with a lot of goals.

At first, this tradition seemed to be broken, as goals failed to materialize despite a few chances, including saves from Oliver Kahn, who took precedence over Jens Lehmann in this game and thus played his 86th and final international match.

It wasn't until the 56th minute that Bastian Schweinsteiger broke the spell and scored 1-0 for Germany with a "fluttering" long-range shot. Just four minutes later, the Munich player was involved in another goal when Petit deflected his free kick to make it 2-0. After a lively game, Schweinsteiger scored 78-3 for the German national team shortly before his substitution in the 0th minute. With that the game was decided. The late goal by Nuno Gomes could no longer prevent the German national team from taking third place.

The legendary 7:1 against Brazil Another eight years later, on July 8, 2014, football history was written in the first semi-final of the World Cup in Brazil: Germany took the lead against Brazil in the 11th minute through Thomas Müller after a corner from Toni Kroos. Between the 23rd and 29th minutes, the German team scored four more goals against a now desolate Brazilian defense.

After the half-time break, Brazil became more dangerous on offense, but were repeatedly thwarted by the German defense with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. After André Schürrle scored two more goals for Germany, Brazil only overcame the German defense in the 90th minute with Oscar's consolation goal.

The final score of 1:7 is the highest result ever in the last four of a World Cup, together with Brazil's 7:1 against Sweden in the 1950 World Cup, which was not a semi-final but a final round game was. It is also the heaviest defeat by a host and, together with the 0:6 against Uruguay in 1920, Brazil's heaviest defeat ever.

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World Cup time travel – July 8.7th: Germany’s super day

As always during the World Cup, SportNews is looking back today at highlights that happened on the same day at one of the previous World Cups. However, there are no fewer than four stories to tell from July 8th – about four German triumphs.

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