The 17th European Football Cup will start on June 14 in the…
The 17th edition of the European Football Cup, which will begin on June 14, saw a special occasion in the 1968 final draw ceremony.
France’s Michel Platini’s hat-trick in 1984, Dutchman Marco van Basten’s spectacular goal in the 1988 final and the Italians’ tears in the 2000 edition were seen in the 1992 upsets over Denmark and Greece. and 2004 editions.
The draw will determine the identity of the final candidate in 1968.
In another era and a different set of rules, the 1968 semi-final in the southern city of Naples saw neither the Italian hosts nor their Soviet rivals find the back of the net after 90 minutes. In two more halves (0-0).
At that time, penalty kicks were not included in the rules of the competition, so the two teams would draw lots and determine the identity of the final fighter by the referee tossing a coin in the air. In the year Italy captain Giacinto Facchetti, who died in 2006, chose the opposite of the coin and was right in his choice.
There were no cell phones or modern communications in those days, and Facchetti’s identity was unknown until he ran out of the locker room and ran onto the field with his teammates. Their team will play in the finals and others will have two matches.
The law then forced the two sides to draw the final, which is exactly what happened between Italy and Yugoslavia (1-1 after extra time). Two days later, the second leg was played and Italy won 2-1 to become the first continental champion.
Platini’s two great trios in 1984
A goal scored with his right foot, another with his left and the third with his head: In this way, the Frenchman Michel Platini scored a wonderful hat-trick in the 1984 group stage match between France and Yugoslavia (3-2). Blatos finished as the top scorer with 9 goals, reaching the number that no one else could match in one copy.
His hat-trick against Yugoslavia was not Platini’s first, as his country had achieved the same result in their previous final against Belgium (5-0), making him the first player to score two hat-tricks in a European Cup final.
The French number 10 lives on in the mind of Spanish goalkeeper Luis Arconada. After his country won 2-0.
Van Basten and Dream Goal in 1988
In the match that ultimately decided the 1988 champions, the dream goal was far from the camera’s attention because the coverage was not as good as it is today.
He was on the right side of the Soviet area, when Arnold Moran’s perfect cross reached him, he caught it directly and hit it from a tight and difficult angle on the right side to “explode” the giant. Goalkeeper Rinat Dasayev.
The manner in which this spectacular goal was scored became Van Basten’s trademark, and similar goals have been compared to those scored on the night of 25 July 1988 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich (2-0 to the Netherlands).
The French turned the tables on their Italian neighbors in 2000
Italy were preparing to celebrate their second championship since 1968 thanks to Marco Delvecchio’s goal, but Silvan Wiltord’s goal surprised them and sent the hero into extra time. David Trezeguet after the Italian league.
Trezegate scored the last-ever golden goal at the continental championships, as the French won the trophy for the second time since they were crowned world champions on home soil in 1998.
Italians cried a lot and mourned the loss of a title that was so close to them that it became a worldwide joke: “Do you know how to put the cap back on the bottle of champagne?” Is it open now?” Ask the Italians!
But the Azzurri’s men got their revenge in 2006 after beating the Roosters on penalties in the World Cup final in Germany.
The tragic events of 2004 and 2008
There are other moments in the history of the European Cup final, some funny and some sad, for example Alexander Frei, one of the best strikers in the history of Switzerland, because this player in the European Cup.
In the year In the 2004 final in Portugal, Free committed a stupid act when he spat at England midfielder Steven Gerrard, so the European Union decided to ban him, preventing him from continuing his journey with the national team in 2004. He missed the rest of the country’s campaign in the opening match of the 2008 edition, which his country hosted in partnership with Austria.
They surprised Denmark and Greece in 1992 and 2004
The Danes were preparing to watch the 1992 European Championship hosted by Sweden in front of the television screens, but they were fortunate enough to be asked to participate because of the war in Yugoslavia, as their team failed to qualify for the finals. The latter caused the exclusion of the group.
It was just the beginning of the story for giants goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel and his team-mates as they qualified for the semi-finals of Group A alongside hosts Sweden and the French and English giants.
Then the surprise came when Schmeichel brilliantly blocked a shot from 1988 champions Marco van Van Wester in a penalty shoot-out (2-2 in regular and extra time) as they reached the final at the expense of the previous champions’ Dutch team. Bastion.
Denmark’s surprise came to an end when the red and white team beat the other champion, the German team “Manshaft”, who won the World Cup in Italy 2 years ago, 2-0.
In the year It is true that the Danes surprised everyone in 1992, but their team at least included the likes of Schmeichel and Brian Laudrup, while the 2004 edition champions Greece did not feature any big stars in their ranks and the most famous players were Angelos Charestes and Yorgos Karagonis.
However, this did not stop the team coached by German Otto Rehgel from surprising everyone and finishing with Portugal in the quarter-finals due to his defensive play and defeating France with goals from Spain and Russia. Before Charstias faced the Czechs in four rounds and won by one goal after extra time.
All of Greece’s success was thought to end in the final as they face hosts Portugal in the final, but Rehhägel knew how to deal with the Portuguese onslaught, hoping to drag the hosts into extra time and penalties. In the 57th minute, he scored against the Portuguese in the net, which was enough to make his country the first and last champion.
