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2 <i: Page OHAN CRUYFF is reckoned to be the best Dutch forward
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Dresden enjoy success
Brian Glanville 4
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a lad and was introduced into the League side by the club's then
f eo River Plate are top . . Eric W eil 7 manager Vic Buckingham in the 1965-66 season against GVAV
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Ali set for 1972 Ken Oultram 9
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A dever, quick moving dribbler with a fine finishing shot,
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Foulkes' Benefit Season . . Eric Thornton 11 possession. He made rapid progress and the following season at
Sparta Prague . . . heading for the top Fraser E/der 12 the age of 19 won his first cap for Holland against Hungary.
Las Palmas scoop Rial . Norman Cutler 13
But his second international appearance against Czechoslovakia
Danish news . Arne Jensen 14
• in November 1966 was something of a traumatic experience•.

u• Mystery Cruyff injury furore .

Football's most incredible man
Müller to the rescue
Speaking Personally
Hans Molenaar 15
Norman Cutler 16
. Arthur Rotmil 18
. Leslie Vernon 19
Following a protest over the referee's decision·, Cruyff was
alleged to have struck the official and been sent off. Film later
showed that it was more a gesture than intentional but he was
suspended for six months from the national side.
The Last of the Mohicans . Arthur Rotmil 20
LI. Russian players not autocrats Gavril Katchalin 21
He finished top scorer in the Dutch First Division. that season
with 33 goals and eventually won back a place in the intcer-
Club Focus on Bayern Munich Jack Rollin 22 national side. ln the past four seasons he has hit 105 goals in
World Diary . Roger Macdonald 24 League games.

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Appearances record for Cardiff
Whose finger on the trigger? .
. Andrew Dettre 26
. Peter Jackson 27
. Arthur Rotmil 28
His marksmanship also helped Ajax to their flrst European
Cup Final in 1969 where they were beaten 4-11 by AC M'ilan.

...1 Spasov takes over . . 29

T!lat was Cruyff's 18th appearance in European Cup matches
and he had scored 10 goals during that time.

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...1 Esnaola sets new record .
Brazil and the use of wingers
. Norman Cutler 31
Eric Batty 32
ln January 1970 just after being voted joint fourth in the Eur~
pean Footballer of the Year poll, he made his 10th appearance for
the national side against England at Wembley. Last summer
Rocha joins Sao Paulo . . Eric Weil 34 Barcelona, under his former boss Vic Buckingham, 'tried to sign

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Kindvall to move? .
Herrera on the road to recovery .
Hungarian news
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Hans Molenaar 36
. Norman Cutler 37
. Leslie Vernon 38
him but the ban on foreign players stayed in Spain and Cruyff
remains in Holland for the present at least.

GDR plans improvement . Klaus Schlegel 39

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LOOHIN6 AT SOCCER 1vith BRIAN 6LANVILLE

Centre-halves,
right or left,
where are they?
W HATEVER has happened to the
centre-halves? Not very long ago,
it was considered by the purists that
centre-half was the easiest position on
the field to fill; all you had to be was cannot rely, as you can with newspaper Leeds goalkeeper Gary Sprake and gift.ed Frcnch film director, to hear him
big, strong and good in the air. Walter reporters, on the interviewer's good sense to centre-half Jack Charlton (centre), say, "But that's ridiculous! They migbt as
protect you. When what you have said has comb ine to prevent Albion striker well limit it to cities which have a
Winterbottom, a Manchester United Jeff Astle from scoring.
been .filmed or taped, as opposed merely to bordello!"
centre-half long before he became the being noted down with a vii:w to ultimate Jndeed they might, for since the Fairs
England team manager, disagreed, publication , everybody tends to be a Cup was enlarged to a gigantic 64 teams,
painting a picture of a centre-half prisoner of the situation. Heaven knows demonstrated the 4-2-4 formatíon to us in any pretence at abiding by its original con-
which resembled that of a harassed how many searing confidences have been 1958, in Sweden, the stopper has been lonely cept has gone to the winds. What sort of an
businessman - "Decisions, decisions!" hea rd, but not betrayed, by newspaper men; no Jonger. He has a friend and an assistant, industrial affair has Guimaraes (if there is a
-trying eternally to make up bis mind confidences far more explosive and damag- as Bellini had Orlando, Mauro had Zozimo Guimaraes ?) Or Chorzow? Or, for that
whether to stay here or go there. But ing in their potential impact than anything and Jackie Charlton, luckily for him and matter, Plovdiv ? I know the competition
still the policeman, the stopper, the Char lton said, when a funny thing happened Leeds, has Norman Hunte.r. has always been the apple of Sir Stanley
third back appeared - unlike the to him on bis way to the studio; or, should ln Italy, it is, or should be, easier still, Rous 's eye, ancl Sir Stanley Rous has always
one say, inside it. for catenaccio provides the stopper not only had my admiration as an administrator, but
policeman in Gilbert and Sullivan - But to return to the matter of centre- with a man alongsíde him, but with some- r jrn;t won't swallow the Fairs Cup, any
to have a lot that was a very happy halves. This season, Charlton, now 35, has one else, the libero or sweeper, behind. more than I will swallow the Cup Winners
one. palpably been struggling; and why, at that Cup. ln far too many countries, Italy very
age·, shouldn't he? ln due course., he will much among them, the national cup com-
Numerical make a splendid manager. Brian Labone, Maligned petition is of the most marginal irnportance.
who has never really been persona grata
Today, centre-halves are so thin on the with Everton's manager, Harry Catterick, Brian Labone, one of the most intelligent
gro und in any but the most numerical sense who likes them harder, has been dropped as well as one of the most talented of recent Dubious results
that one imminently awaits a preservation into Everton's reserves, while the best of the centre-halves, probably put his finger on it
order in their favour. England has simply younger generation, Derby County's Roy when he said to me, some while ago, that Competitions! Goodness, how many of
none at ali. A co uple of years ago, Sir Alf McFarland, has been injured. Not that I the problem .was that there was no longer them we seem to be spawning, and how
Ramsey, sensing the shortage, persuaded consider McFarland, at this stage, inter- a centre-half, as such ; there were right unpleasant and unnecessary most of them
Brian Labone to postpone his retirement, national material. centre-halves and left centre-halves. Thus it are! I have little time even for the European
and was proved, not for the first or last is that the poor centre-half, much maligned Championship, which condemns England to
time, absolutely right. Labone, till he tired Real stature for his negativity ever since Herbert Chap- throw Wembley open to the likes of Malta,
in the heat of Leon, had an excellent World man's Arsenal launched him on the world and ends in a five-day holocaust of bad
Cup. Jackie Charlton, so dominant and Larry Lloyd, the big Liverpool centre- in 1925, is passing through that fashionable temper and dubious results. But at least it
reliable in the 1966 World Cup, had one half, signed to succeed Ron Y eats, from phenomenon, an identity crisis. Figuratively has some raison d' être.
perfectly awful game against the Czechs, Bristol Rovers, apparently had bis difficul- speaking, he seems to be lying on the The proliferation of fatuous encounters
and may feel a little relieved that the FA's ties on the floor when he played against psychiatrist's couch, piteously demanding, between English and Italian clubs has none
hasti ly and rather impetuously applied ban West Gerrnany Under-23, at Leicester, and "Who am I?" And answer comes there at ali; indeed, after the various brutalities
on his representative appearances now certainly bad them in the air, when I none; or rather, it comes in the distressing and excesses of last summer's Anglo-Italian
seems to exclude him, rather than his own watched him play at The Hawthorns against form, "You're a right centre-half," or, alter- tournament, let us hope that at lea.st will be
indifferent form . Jeff Astle and West Bromwich Albion. The natívely, "You're a left centre-half." laid to rest forever . There was little to be
ln passing, Jet me say that I took a par- only centre-halves in Britain of any real " But l want to be a whole centre-half," said, moreover, for the two meetings 9f
ticular interest in the television interview stature today are Billy McNeill of Rangers the hapless wretch replies. ln vain. The Manchester City and Bologna this season,
Charlton gave to Tyne Tees, since I myself and Mike England of Wales and Spurs, who demand is simply no Jonger there. which resulteà in a couple of thoroughly
bad turned down an invitation to interview has returned to his old, authoritative form. My views on that bybrid, and ever more displeasing, bad tcimpered games, which
him one Sunday, presumably for the same lt ali seems terribly mysterious, the more hybrid, affair, the European Fairs Cup, were certainly n0t enjoyed by the City
programme. The trouble with radio and so, first, because the shortage is an inter- which even the Russians planto enter now, players. Not to mention the fiasco of the
television, as Peter Eustace of West Ham national one, second, because on the face are well enough knowu. So I was most Amateur (amateur?) Cup winners' meeting
Jackie Charlton in Mexico. has also found out to his cost, is that you of it, the life of a stopper centre-half should amused, on explaining its weird (original) between Enfield and some Italian side I had
never have been easier. Ever sínce Brazil basis of qualification to Louis Malle, the never heard of.

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LTHOUGH changed River Plate are,
in patches, showing the "jogo bonito"
E RI C W E I L in Argentina
under Didi which has been the Brazilian
coach's trade-mark, the football in general regular First Division members. Estudiantes the Mexican FA gave Didi for the World
being played in the current natfonal cham- de La Plata are second, three points behind. Cup finais, all to no avail so far.
pionship has been poor with more emphasis The South American Cup holders, for the It seems that Didi will now take a coach-
on stop1>ing the opposition. This is usually last three years, are on the way back after ing course at the Argentine FA to obtain
blamed on the provincial semi-professional only just scraping into the national cham- the necessary credentials. This is bureau-
teams which qualified for the championship pionship via a play-off. This is a popular cracy gone mad.
via regional tournaments, but Metropolitan " come-back" , specially because they are Another r idiculous situation - Buenos
league teams are not blameless either. doing it with more football and goals (15 Aires is the city wi th most soccer stadiums
Dynamo Dresden FC. Back row left to right: Nippert (assistant trainer) K • h G
Dorner, Haustein, Fritsch (chief trainer). _Front: Hemp, Sachse, WatzÍic1t•~~e:~1,
He1dler, Sammer and Gayer.
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not have the know-how to stop First Divi-
in the wor!d, it is said, but a Mexican
T he return of defenders, Manera and offi.cial who was in charge of the World Cup
sion professionals by any other methods, Aguirre Suarez, after their lengthy suspen- organisation at Mexico, thought, during a
but it m ust be said that they are doing sions, has obviously made a difference. recent visit here, that none of them are good
O UTSIDE East Germany, Dynamo Dres- better than ever this season, speaially in Many others, who were already in the team enough to stage important World Cup

Dresden enjoy
den are a little known force bnt one section "A" where Gimnasia y Esgrima, during their most successful season, 1967, games.
which promises to make a big impact on from Mendoza, are sharing the lead with have come back t-o top form, as well as Meanwhile most provincial capitais have
Europe, if not this season then in the very River Plate, while another of the provin- some newcomers from the lower divisions, sent formal requests to the FA to be con-
near future. ciais, Talleres (Cordoba), are not far behind. notably forward Romeo. Estudiantes have sidered as World Cup venues ap.d their
Before events of the last 12 months the tSee Soccertistics.) been in the doldrums long enough, except stadiums are nowhere near those in Buenos
town of Dresden was better known for its Section "B" is topped by Rosario Central, for South American Cup games, but with Aires. The only project for a new stadium
arts and sciences but during this period the another up-country team who are, however, the type of soccer they played they deserved at the moment is one to be built at La
standards of the football club which bears

lengthy run
no better. Plata, to be shared by the city's two First
its name have risen sharply. Division clubs, Estudiantes and Gimnasia y
Under the rnanagership of 50-year-old Esgrima.
Walter Fritsch, Dynarno not only became Ridiculous Situation
Second Division Champions in 1968-69 but Last year's national champions, Boca
followed up with a creditable third place in Juniors, who are half-way down section
the top flight in 1969-70. It was this which
gained them entry into this season's Fairs
"B" , have been much below strength in the
championship so far dueto suspensions and
FIRSTI
of success F IRST
Cup where they have acquitted themselves injuries. None of their key men seem to with the news! Weeks ago,
admirably. have escaped either one or the other and in an int erview with Lev Yashin,
This season, in fact, looks li ke being their even their sporting Peruvian defender, theidol of Russia, we told of his
imminent retirement. The official
most successful ever. They have dominated Melendez, back after a lengthy absence due announcement carne on October 23
the ear!y weeks of the DDR Charnpionship to a knee operation, was sent off recently, . . . exactly a month after "World
and at the time of writing led last year's but got off with only a caution thanks to Soccer" appeared on t he bookstalls.
Champions, Carl Zeiss Jena, by three clear bis previous good conduct. Tile sarne with Ferenc Puskas. We
points. While in section "A ", San Lorenzo and announced his appointment to the

Strength
by KLAUS SCHLEGEL Newell's Old Boys are surprisingly low fol-
lowing good performances in the Metro-
politan Championship earlier this season.
managerial chair of the Greek cham-
pions, Panathinaikos . . . three weeks
before it reached the daily newspapers.
Velez Sarsfield, the 1968 champions, are Now here's a point for discussion.
Undoubtedly the strength of the side is returning to power in section "B" with that What are the odds that Helenio
the defence centred on two fine centre- controversial figure, Daniel Willington, Herrera will eventually become
halves, Klaus Sammer and Joachim Kern. making the wheels go round. "Supremo" of the ltalian National
Both are tall, commanding players especially to bring the best out of two fast, raiding 1964-65: Tenth place, First Division. side?
wingers, Rainer Sachse and Frank Richter. The most ridiculous of ridiculous situa-
in the air and seem set to double up for 1965-{í6: Fifth place, First Division. tions here is that River .Plate coach, Waldir
their country in the immediate future.
Sammer, thoúgh his priority is stopping
Richter is probably the discovery of the
season and surprisingly is still at secondary
school.
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Fourth place, First Division.
Thirteenth place, First Division.
Pereira "Didi", is not allowed togo on the
field at any time with his team because the
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has already begun in, Spain. Domingo
goals, isn't afraid to break suddenly from 1968-69: First place, Second Division. Argentine F A does not re.,cognise bim as a Balmanya has succeeded Jose Maria
defence and often surprises opponents with I:Ie is just one of many promising young- 1969-70: Third place, First Division. coach. Martin as manage r of Zaragoza . . .
his upfield surges. sters in the Dynamo set-up. For in all, the Reason is that he does not have a coach- and the popular Hector Rial has be-
He is, consequently, high up in the goal- club has 16 teams and boasts that they have Assistant manager Harry Nippert, aged
ing certificate. The River Plate club has sent come manager of Las Palmas (their
scoring charts and in one game scored a around 192 p!ayers below the age of 23 on 37; captain !Ians Jurgen Kreische (23), t hird change in six months).
full details to the FA on the previous record
hat-trick against Jena! their books. A fact which should ensure capped 12 times ; Fran~ Ganzerra (23), Last season only fi ve of the 16
of the Brazilian who has successfully
Their supporters, too, have played a lead- them of a very profitable time ahead. D~eter Rau (21), Uwe Z1egler (28), Frank First Division managers retained their
coachcd Peruvian club, Sporting Cristal, for
ing part in helping their team, especially Here is a run-down on the club's recent R1chter (18), Hans Jurgen J?oerner (19), posts throughout the campaign. •
severa! years and then took the Peruvian
at home in their 30,000 capacity Rudolf- reoord in the League and its present first- capped once; Wolfgang Haustem (28); team- 1 was at the airport when Hector
national team to the quarter-finals of the
Harbig Stadium which could be filled twice team squad. manager Walter Fritsch (50); Meinhard Rial left for Las Palmas and asked if
World Cup for the first time in Mexico.
over for the bigger attractions. Hemp (28), Rainer Sachse (20), Siegmar he wasn't sticking his neck out and
1960: Third place, Second Division. River Plate even sent the credentials which walking into trouble. "Norman," he
ln attack Dynamo rely heavily on the Waetzlich (24), Dieter Riedel (23), Peter
l 961-{í2: First place, Second Division. Mayer (28), Manfred_ Kallenbach (28), said " I like trouble." And h-e's right.
clever promptings of midfield star Hans 1962-{í3 : Thirteenth place, Second Division. Daniel Willington, the controversial player
Jurgen Kreische, whose skills enable him Eduard ~eyer (26), D1eter Urbanek (20), who makes the wheels go round at Velez NORMAN CUTLER
1963-64: First p!ace, Second Divison. Gert He1dler (22). Sarsfield.
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WORLD SO CCER , Dl'cc111ber, 1970

Pele-the Ad King
BRAZIL'S most 11opuhir soccer rcl'using to acce11t the ma11y temt>ling hroughl substa ntial prolits for lhe
· stars are enjoying a unique posi- offers to move abroad. His financial olhcr World C'1111 herocs invol ved in
tion in that country's commercial adviser explained recently: "Maybe TV adnrtising, lho ugh thcir fces do
television programmes. Since they there is someonc who could have not approach th ose commanded by
Jack well-k.J1owu film stars, pop idols enticed Pelé with a !100,000 signing- Pelé. Gerson, a chain-smoker, praises
or any other noteworthy entertainers, 011 bonus, plus a dream contract, to a brami of cigarettes. ln this sphcrc
the only major attraction are their play outside Brazil. But in this hc needn' t fear com1>elilion from Pelé
beloved footballers whose image can country no club can ever afford to who doesn't smoke and is teetotal. Hc
successfully be propelled on to the pay him that much." even belougs to a milHaut anti-
small screen. That is why advertising alcoholics society. "1 would never
sponsors are falling over themselves recommend any spirits or tobacco, it's
in Brazil to acquire the services of the Compensate against my principies" - says the
world's greatest players. "Black Prince" of socccr. ln fact he
The busicst performer is, of course, But even the most profitable soccer
contract would not compensate Pelé has rcjected many lucrative off.crs
the "Black Pearl No. l"-Pelé. He from lcading tobacco- and wines and
praises in various "breaks" a multi- for his current rewards. Ali income
from advcrtising, commissions, etc., spirits manufacturcrs. A firm making
tude of products like coffee, musical whisky tricd to tcmpt him recently
instruments, electric shavers, cos- would be lost and Brazilians might
eventually even forget him. Worse with as much money for a brief com-
metics, sports equipment, clothing, mercial as he can earn from playing
soft drinks and even financial invest- still, they would never forgive him for
emigrating. A man for whom thou- football for six months! Ali in vain.
ments. A Brazilian TV critic has On thc other hand he found it easy to
actually taken the trouble to count sands of cash registers are clicking
daily in Brazil will always be better refuse praising alcohol. For a soft
Pelé's appearances on various chan- drink combine dug decp into their
nels. ln one day, these reached the off than one who might earn more
from football overseas-and for how pockets to reward Pelé for recom-
staggering total of 54! ln these lucra- mending their own harmless beverage.
tive perks which form the principal long?-but who would tose so much
more at home. Yes, Pelé swims in money. And he
earnings of this fabulous footballer swims, with the help o[ cunning
lies the secret of why Pelé has bcen Thc Mexico triumph has ,also advisers, remarkably well ....

EAST GERMANS T HE football nalions com11etfog in lhe

Report by KEN ~OULTRAM
four information bu.reaux. Whi le over!ook- exhibitions, gardening - and 383 million

RELISH TRIP
1972 Olympic Games will travei out ing the entire complex is the 957 ft. high cubic feet of the city's bomb rubble.
from the compctitors' "village" in Munich televisi•o n tower with a viewing area and a "Fortunately," a staff member at the
for their first and second round matcbcs in revolving restaurant for 216 visitors which Olympics administration block told me,
five centres. These are at Augsburg (60 can rota.te at threc difl'erent speeds. Com- "this area was not developed over the years
kilomctres from Munich, stadium capacity pleted two years ago, this is the highest and it proved to be the ideal location when

TO ENGLAND
37,000); lngolstadt (65 kilometres, 20,000); ferro-concrete structure in central Europe. we knew we had secured the Olympics in
Regensburg (120 kilomctres, 20,000); Passau The Olympic Stadium , with seating for April 1966." The Oberwiesenfeld is only 2½
(160 kilometres, 20,000) and Nuremberg 48,000, will be 50 per cent covered by a miles from Munich's centre and will be
(190 kilometres, 53,000). fantastic, ingenious " tent roof" of acryl served by suburban and underground rail-
The players will trave[ in special trains glass; the showpiece of Mun ich's Olympic way links.
provided by the German Federal Railway skyline. This material resembles spectacle
FOR many years. East Germany has Goalkeepers: Juergen Crou (Sachsenring and meals will be served in the dining cars glass, bas a greyish-brown tint and is trans-
striven arduously to gain accep- Zwickau) aged 24 , 15 caps; Wolfgang Bloch- reserved for their exclusive use. As in the lucent enough to ensure shadow-free colour Spectators
tance as an international force and so witz (Carl Zeiss Jena) 29 (li). Olympic "village" , a choice of dishes will T V photography.
when the chance to meet England at Full-backs: Lothar Kurbjuweit (Carl Zeiss be available and special items can be pre- The event promises to be within the
Wembley arose the Germans eagerly Jena) 20 (3) ; Michael Strempel (Carl Ziess pared at the request of individual teams. Approach pocket of all spectators and compares
agreed. Jena) 26 (3); Wolfgang Wruck (Union Ber- This is just a fragment of the lavish favourably with prices fo r Europe' s last
"This invitation of the English association lin) 26 (5) ; Joachim Kem (Dynamo Dres- operation which promises to make this The substance is non-intlammable, and is Olympiad which I attended in Rome in
is regarded by us as a token of honour and den) 26 (O); Klaus Sammer (Dynamo XXth Olyrnpiad the greatest ever. sufficiently strong to carry a fall of snow! 1960. Tickets will cost from 5 D-marks
recognition," ~áid Georg Buschner, coach to Dresden) 28 (O) ; Otto Fraessdorf (Vorwaerts The final itself will. be played in the Sl'lme 800,000 square feet of "tent roof" will (about l ls . 6d.) with a maximum price of
the national team. Berlin) 28 (32) ; Bernd Bransch (Cbemie 80,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, slap bang shelter half the Olympic Stadium, two other 30 D-marks in the intermediate football
Herr Buschner ha.s long a.dmired the Halle) 26 (20). in the centre of the Olympic area which stadiums and a number of the approach rounds and 60 D-marks in the final itself.
methods of Sir Alf Ramsey and thinks along " houses" other stadia, courts, fields , tracks, roads and it will be supported on pylons, A total of 4.5 million -tickets are being
Half-backs: Helmut Stei-n (Carl Zeiss printed ; approximately one-third of those
similar lines to the• England team manager. and swimming pool ; accommodation centres some nearly 270 ft. in height. The Stadiurn
Jena) 28 (12); Harald Irmscher (Carl Zeiss for the Munich events being offered to
Before the Engla.nd ma.tch the Germans for all the athletcs, their trainers and offi- will also be equipped with 550 tl.oodlights
Jena) 24 (16); Hans Juergen Kreische visitors from abroad.
faced two important Europea.n Champion- cials; a press city; open-air theatre ; artificial ensuring an illumination equivalent to th at
(Dynamo Dresden) 23 (] 1); Rainer Schlutter Fina!ly, the dates. T he Games are to bê
ship matches, yet even so Buschner stressed: lake for beach and boa t-hire ; alpine gardens of 245,000 60-watt bulbs. And the turf itself
(Carl Zeiss Jena) 24 (2). held from August 26 to September I O with
"I sha.11 rely 0 11 the sarne players in whom and a car park for 10,000 vehicles. will be heated via 62,000 ft. of steel and
I placed my confidence for the EC pre- Fonvards: Eberhard Vogel (Carl Zeiss Also on this remarkable site will be 5,000 synthetic piping. Nothing, it seems, has the football being staged on August 28, 29,
liminaries." Jena) 27 (32); Peter Ducke (Carl Zeiss Jena) trees and 180,000 bushes and shrubs ; 750 been overlooked. 30 and 31 and September 1, 2, 5, 7 and 10.
These matches present the best chance the 29 (28) ; Juergen Sparwasser (Magdeburg) street !amps; 21 rniles of roads and foot- The Olympic area, approximately one The competitors will contest 365 gold, 365
DDR has ever had of finally being accepted 22 (7) ; Henning Frenzel (Lokomotiv Leip- paths; 32 bridges; two marnrnoth restaurants square mile in size, is known as the Ober- silver and 382 bronze medals.
in the international sphere and these are zig) 28 (42); Wolfram Loewe (Lokomotiv seating a total of J0,000; three genuine wiesenfeld and, until 1945, was the site of And my only advice is book early-or
Peter Ducke of Carl Zei ss Jena and East
tbe players wbo beld ali their hopes : Leipzig) 25 (15). Germany. M uni ch beer gardens to hold 5,000; and Munich's airport. Later it was used for you may kick yourself!
TEN WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 197Q ELEVEN

NORMAN CUTLER reports

N Estadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari, during the
Ichampions,
European Cup match with tho ltalian
Atlctico l\,fadrid, Spain's rcpre-
sentativcs, joined tbat infamous roll of clubs
... Estudiantes, Ccltic, River Plate ... who
put success before honour and brouglit dis-
Heads hung FOULKES'
BENEFIT
crcdit to club and country.

in, shame
Never before have I seen such dangerous,
degrading football from a Spanish team.
Atletico's first 45 minutes was a ghastly
business, killer football with a vengeance
that made us bow our heads in shame .

SEASON
Marcel Domingo, Atletico Madrid's "all-
talking" French-bom rnanager, said when ordinary. This was not unexpected, for speedy trio Gori, Domenghini-Nenc who
the season opened, " .. . there is little doubt Atletico were the most famous-ever foreign form the amazou of the sidc .. . and natur-
that the European Cup will return to visitors .. . and they were treated as such. ally Riva, their most dangerous player ...
Madrid." When they were drawn against but we have a plan workcd out."
Cagliari he added " .. . I have no reason to At breakfast-time on the morning of the
change my mind." . game Atletico launched the finest of "public Yes . . . Don Marcel, or Monsieur
Then he went on a spying mission. The relations" stunts. The streets of Cagliari, Domingo, certainly had a plan worked out.
Italian club directors met him at the air- sunlit between rainstorms, were flooded Fifty thousand expectant fans packed the
with magnificently printed booklets giving new Estadio Sant'Elia ... in spite of inter-
by ERIC THORNTQN
port, honoured him and throughout his ~tay
gave him top VIP treatment. Domingo re- Atletico's history, biographies, coloured mittent storms that fell throughout the day
photos of the players and directors, auto- ... and in less than three minutes saw the meant a tremendous daily schedule of extra travei, fatigue, and less
turned home a little less confident, having sleep. I wonder how many of today's youngsters would maintain
realised that Cagliari were no push-over. graphs and scenes from the club's previous shape of things to come. Domenghini fell
matches . It was a first-class idea . , , and writhing to the ground, brought down by this itinerary: 5.30 a.m.-rise; 7 a.m.-working down the pit; 2.30
Few papers published his statement, "The p.m.-leaving for dinner; 3.45 p.m.-boarding train at St. Helens
European Cup is not everything .. . to win 10,000 copies which arrived with the Calleja with the most violent of tackles.
Madrid party, were distributed to the Any English or Spanish referee would have railway station; 6.30 p.rn.-commence night training at Old Traf-
the League is our chief objective." A ford; 8.30 p.m.-Ieave for train home; 10.15 p.m.-arrive back in
strange change of heart? football-crazy public of Cagliari. Not sur- instantly sent off the Madrid full-back. Two
prisingly it sent up Madrid's stock , , . and minutes !ater Nene suffered the sarne fate St. Helens; 11.15 p.m.-bed . .
When the Atletico players left Barrnjas
Airport for Sardinia they were "optimistic" as the players took their pre-lunch stroll from Overejo, and within eight minutes each That is how he gradually edged into the professional side of the
but edgy and nervous. Domingo, restless they were greeted everywhere with smiles of the speedy trio Atletico most feared were garhe, and is just one of hundreds of big reasons why the club have
and unusually silent, said "I'm a realist" .. . and compliments. . limping from tackles more suited to water- made this his benefit season-the winter of acknowledgement, the
and left it at that. • A few hours bcfore the kick-off Marcel front brawls or commando fighting. ultimate reward for loyalty, performance and achievement.
The atmosphere and expectation on Domingo, in an interview, said: "Cagliari Looking back at the early times with Whiston Boys' Club, when
arrival in the Sardinian capital was extra- are a great side. Our chief worry is their inside-forwards used to bounce off him, this star of two decades is
Retaliation probably amazed at bis own long, unbroken service in the top
lt was ghastly ... wc hung our hcads in HEprofessional.
used to say at one time that it wouldn't pay him to turn
flight.
' .,•. ...~ •:1 shame. • Of course, that was way back in the old days, long before Mr. There were many in his teenage days who said the tougher Rugby
The most remarkable thing was the Wilson's gimmick about the pound in your pocket, and when Spurs League code· might be the best, but a majority backed a soccer
arnount of brutality the Cagliari players had just made sensational news by paying Southampton f21,000 for career, and time has proved them right. For since leaving the
took, philosophically and bravely, without an up-and-coming full-back by the narne of Alf Ramsey. amateur ranks for the world-famous outfit in the Bo-rough of Stret-
the slightest hint of retaliation. The fantastic period when Manchester City chairman Alan ford , Foulkes has worn the England shirt, played in more than a
Douglas dramatically offered Denis Law f!O0 a week to turn his dozen different countries, and won European, FA Cup and cham-
.,1 For 40 minutes and 16 fo uls that made pionship medals. The lot.
our blood run cold, they kept their tempers back on Italian lira was merely in the distant realms of
and patiently tried to play football. But irnprobability.
after Riva-he had just scored the first goal Life was tougher. Wage packets were srnaller. William Foulkes Graduated
' - was badly hurt by a crunching hip-high
tackle by Jayo .. . the explosion carne. An
knew how many shillings made ten bob, and needed some coaxing
to change a set and fairly pleasant way of life. The year 1952 rnarked the start for this forthright no-nonsense
Italian straight right (worthy of Cassius After ali , this long-Iimbed fellow lived among his own friendly defender who graduated at full-back before stepping up into the
' ~• Clay) knocked a Madrid defender for six folk in the glass-blowing town of St. Helens, where he was on a No. 5 spot, and has now played in 563 league games. Altogether,
..,,. -> including European and FA Cup-ties and tours, he has made over
·,t. 1
... and we had quite a spectacular battle on
our hands . More followed after the game
reasonably good number as an assistant to the manager of a local
colliery. 650 first-team appearances! What a record!
\ {.. ' restarted . .. the referee held up play and That was the position when Manchester United got him in their Here's how he built up the league fixtures: 1952-53 2, 1953-54 32,
lectured captains, managers and directors on sights . It was the early '50s, and this six-footer of brawn, agility 1954- 55 41, 1955-56 26, 1956- 57 39, 1957-58 42, 1958-59 32, 1959-
the touchline ... and extended the first half and a rnatching brain looked particularly promising. So they 60 42, 1960-6 1 40, 196Hí2 40, 1962-63 41, 1963-64 41 , 1964-65 42,
by 12 minutes, during which Gori scored decided to recruit him. But that was easier said than accomplished. 1965-66 33, 1966-67 33, 1967-68 24, 1968-69 10, 1969-70 3.
Cagliari's second goal. Mister Foulkes was no easy capture. He carne into his own at centre-half shortly after Allenby Chilton
stepped down and moved over to the East Co_ast as manager of
Referee Krnevek (Czechos!ovakia), asked
afterwards why he never sent off at least Well-balanced Grirnsby Town. Around that time the internatiortals in the camp
included Johnny Aston, Johnny Carey, Henry Cockburn, Stan
three players, said: "Disturbances during
these matches are normal due to an excess He loved the game, and often wondered how far he might go Pearson and Jack Rowley.
of nerves ." Nerves didn't account for what yet, in the sarne moment, a well-balanced judgement always checked One by one, they gradually faded from the park, and he became
happened on that ground that evening. I those young sporting ambitions. surrounded by such new caps as Roger Byrne, Tomrny Taylor,
can't help thinking that the referee could There were cold facts to be considered . He was picking up 15 Duncan Edwards, Dennis Viollet, Jackie Blanchflower and Wilf
have stopped it had he shown the least quid a week at the pit, which was a considerable salary just then , McGuinness, then carne Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles, Denis Law,
authority instead of making a decision, then whereas pa:rt-time professionals were only being handed six in the Pat Crerand, George Best and Brian Kidd.
walking away. summer, and an extra one in the winter, with occasional bonuses as He was in the championship line-ups of 1956, 1957, 1965, and
softeners. 1967, the FA Cup finais of 1957, 1958, and 1963, and, of course, the
He even seemed to be making excuses for They talked it over, Matt Busby, the manager of only a few European battle with Benfica, at Wembley, in May, 1968, when
Atletico .. . but there are no extenuating years, and the collier who Iiked the weekday job and football in United became the first English club to carry off the coveted trophy.
circumstances whatsoever for what Riva and his spare time. Even then, this knight of the British game had
Domenghini experienced. At the end tbe It's been a long, long trai! for William Fonlkes, master footballer,
wonderful persuasive powers. golfer extraordinary, survivor of Munich, and a fine sporting
Lazio's Giorgio Chinaglia is tackled by Nene of Cagliari in an ltalian league legs of both looked as if they had been in
match. a tank of hungry sharks. Bill astonished his close friends by deciding to give it a try. It example to ali . ...
TWELVE THIRTEEN
WORLD SOCCER, Dcce111bcr, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970

FRASER ELDER
just baak f rom a
trip to Czechoslovakia
SPARTA PRAGUE FUTURE
OF NASL
O NE of the most iuterestíug sports com-
plexes in Europe at this time must
certainly be the Sparta Prague set-up in
Czechoslovakia. With 18 sports operating
under the banner of Sparta, every effort is
... HEADING FOR REMAINS
being made to establish the club as the fore-
most organisation in the city.
From the football point of view, the
stadium is classed as the, finest in the coun-
try and after viewing the ground myself
during Dundee United's Fairs Cup visit last
THE·TOP! CLOUDY
by COLIN JOSE
ESPITE continuing efforts by Phil
month, I would not dispute this rating.
The football club itself rates more than a
it went over 500 trophies and the entire
history of the club .
"We hope to bave the best facilities in
Czechoslovakia very soon ," says club secre- D Woosnam, the executive director of
the North American Soccer League
Today, the new Sparta football museum tary Dr. Lubomir Bednar. "ln the past
mention as it is fast becoming quite a power spotlights 1,069 tropbies plus a symbolic (NASL), to expand and ~onsolida~e ~e
domestica!ly and the aim is to get back to things have been difficult for us and as a league, the future of th1s organ1sat1~n
showcase showing the charred remains of a result Sparta has dropped out of thc head- which is vital to the future of soccer 1n
the sumrnit as soon as possible. few of thc cups which were salvaged from lines. the United States remains cloudy.
But while the Sparta side is firing on all the 1934 blaze.
cylinders, much of the credit for the Prague "But with a fine new stadium behind us Activities in recent weeks have centred
Visitors to the "Hall of Fame" are around renewed attempts to set up fran•
club's return to the big time must be given warned they are treading on sacred soil and we are hoping to return to the top of the
to a tape-recording! ladder and regain our former glories." chises in Toronto, Chicago and New York.
for a visiting team, on Fairs Cup business, Ali three cities had franchises in the
Tucked away under the stand is one of the whole production is awe-inspiring . The "battle" of Prague between NASL in 1968 and are regarded as key
the most remarkable football museums in The stadium itself is a maste-rpiece of Sparta, Dukla and Slavia has the look of Helmut Haller of Juventus scores against Barcelona in a Fairs Cup match. cities in the promotion of soccer in the
the world and visitors, no matter what planning and architecture . Low leve! stands being one of the most intriguing football United States and Canada.
nationality, are given a full commentary jig-saw i,n with cantilever erections and the dramas on the Continent in the future. But Woosnam along with Lamar Hunt, a

LAS PALMAS
about the fea ts and aims of the club. capacity is arnund the 42,000 mark. Outside with such a marveHous tradition ... and of member of the league's expansion com-
Back in l 934, the Sparta club was hit by the ground work is going on feve-r ishly to course that impressivc tape recording, one mittee have spent a considerable amount
a severe body blow when the main grand- complete training grounds and accommoda- would be tempted to put crowns on Sparta's of time in Toronto recently talking to
stand was destroyed _by fire and along with tion for athletes. revival. Steve Stavro the owner of Toronto City
Soccer Club. Earlier in the year another
Toronto group headed by Mr. Sid Banks
had applied for an . NASL franchise based

SCOOP RIAL
on certain conditions but this fell through.

Ericsson appoi nted

lndications are that Stavro, despite an
earlier decision to reduce his soccer
operations, is at the present time seriously
considering entering a team in the NASL
in 1971. However a great many details
remain to be ironed out before the NASL
T HEsuccessor
Swedish FA have named the
to Ovar Bergmark, who by FRANK SJOMAN fo urth 1>lace, which would havc been thc
pin11acle of their histo1·y to date.
I N 1965-6. 6, 24 hours after qualifying as a national team manager, ~ial was calle~ to
Real Mallorca struggling to retain their First Division status. He faded by a decimal
can add Toronto to their map.
resigned bis post and managed the Their run provoked such enthusiasm,
Swedish team for the last time against however, that they won over the support
point. The follow'ing season he went to Pontevedra and in three years built the weakest Reverse
Eire. He is Georg Ericsson, a wcll-known of the public on a scale never k11ow11
side in the league into one of great potential.
His only scrious challengcr for the
and much respected figure in Swedish tJOst was the curre11t manager of Atvida- before. Sudde11ly this unknown club Desperate Zaragoza (1968-69) lured him from Pontevedra (who without him were Should the well regarded Toronto City
soccer. berg, Be11gt Gustavsson, an ex-profes- became the envy of Sweden. Their sup- immediately relegated). He not only put them on their feet but took them _to the <=:up organisation decide to enter it could have
He was outsidc-left for IFK Norr- sional with Atalanta. He was instead put porters adopted a British-type style, semi-final. Now Las Palmas, without a win in their first seven games, are relymg on R1al. the effect of inducing other groups in
koping during their triumphant period in in charge of the Under-23 team. singing and cha11ting throughout a other cities to join and possibly reverse
Incidentally, in my showpiece cabinet is a telegram that Hector Ria! sent me from the decisions of some clubs who are con-
thc early 40s and joined them as mana- The League season ended in this coun- match, ever encouraging their team. Evcn Wembley after the England-Argentine rumpus in the 1966 World Cup. (He was the South
ger in 1955. Success quickly followed and sidering dropping out of the professional
try with Malmo FF once again annexi11g more so if they happened to be losing. American country's assistant manager.) It reads: soccer picture.
during eight co11secutive seasons led them the title. But the tcam of the moment are
to five champio11ships and i11 the other l've just discovered. There are only three gentlemen in England • . • At the present time, of the six clubs
surely Hammarby. Thc club, which dr.iws Results who made up the NASL this past summer
three years they were run11ers-up. its support almost entirely from the Winston Churchill, Bobby Charlton and Norman Cutler. Regards to <:11.
Hector R1al. only two - St. Louis and Dallas - would
southern part of Stockholm, have always This had never been known in thesc appear to be certainties for 1971, while
Technical been know11 as thc yo-yo team going up parts beforc and evoked cxcellcnt results of the four other clubs Atlanta and
and down between the First and Second from the players. Finally the atmosphere Barcelona century Rochester are experiencing some financial
It was this impressive record which Division like clockwork. difflculties, and Washington and Kansas
created reached breaking point a11d Ham- City are still extremely doubtful.
made the FA engage him as technical They !).ave always e11d.ea:voured to play marby had to move from their 15,000- Barcelona's second Jeg Fairs Cup game with Juventus was their 100th in European
adviser in the beginning. He becamc e11tertaining soccer but Juck hasn't always competitions. Following that stormy meeting in Phila-
capacity ground to the Rasunda Stadium, delphia in September at which the
Bergmark's right-hand ma11 as well as bee11 kind to them. And this season just which holds 50,000, to accommodate ali Overseas games have taken them to France, Holland, England, Italy, Portugal, De_n- American Soccer League collapsed, efforts
manager of the Swedish U11der-23 team. ended looked like ending much the same the fans who were now flocking from ali mark, Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, ~elgiu~, Czechoslovak~a, are still being made to introduce com-
So when he took over from Bergmark way. At one stage they were bottom of parts of Stockholm to see them. Hungary, Scotland, Poland and Switzerland. Triurnphs? Three times wmners of the_ Fa1rs pletely new teams into the organisation.
nobody was really surprised. the table with a bare six points from Hammarby, it must hc said, rely Cup (1956, 1960 and 1966) and runners-up of the European Cup (1961) and Cup Wmners One such club that is definitely interested
Ericsson's methods are a complelc eight games before the transformation. heavily on locally produced 1>layers and Cup (1969). ln an ASL franchise is the newly formed
contrast to those of his predecessor. He ln the autu11111 they re-signed their old therefore thcir performance is even more The club's biggest win was a 6-0 home victor;: over a ~ondon XI i~ 1957-:58, but the Syracuse Sons who are not to be confused
achieved bis successes with Norrkoping star Tom Turesson back from Bruges in meritorious. Also, without them the most unusual was undoubtedly against Chelsea m the Fa1rs Cup serru-fina! m 1965-66. with the Syracuse Scorpions who operated
through playing attacking soccer and is Belgium a11d soou the tide began to ttirn. season would have just been another in the league during the past two seasons.
Toe score after the home and away games was 2-2, and Barcelona won the third encounter
very outspoke11. Because of this he has With him they steadily improved and ordinary, dull term but now attendances 5-0. Nine goals .. . all of which were scored by Barcelona. (Chelsea's 2-0 win at Stamford Various clubs in the states of Virginia,
often been compared to l\1alcolm Allison, fi11ished unbeaten in their last 11 games are 011 the up and up again a11d interest New Jersey, New York and Connecticut
Bridge was by two own-goals.) have expressed an interest in joining
the coach of Manchester City. and failed by 011ly one point to clinch is high.
For the record the Catalan club have played 100, won 52, drawn 25 and lost 23. along with a team from Baltimore.
* NORMAN CUTLER
FOURTEEN WORLD SOCCER , December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER , December, 1970 FIFTEEN

MagHI steers B1909 Mystery from HANS MOLENAAR in Holland

into the top grade Cruyff

G OOD news from Denmark for Arsenal

i•njury
fans. The former Arsenal and Irish
From ARNE JENSEN in Denmark
international full-back Jim Magill is a suc- Magill is in better training than most of "Our next aim is to win the· Danish Cup
cessful trainer in Denmark. He has just his first team players. Explains Magill: "I tournament. Our confidence is great at the
steered the second division team B1909 of like to be able to show my players exactly moment and I am sure we will do well in
Odense to a first division place. what they have to do. The only way is to a knock-out tournament as well."
B1909 is one of the Danish yo-yo teams. be the best trained person in the club. That Magill, 31, does a bit of drawing in his

furore
Last season they dropped out of the first is why I train every day with my four-year- spare time. He says: "I find it very relaxing.
division, but this season Magill, who had a old son Michael. It is a hard job being a trainer, and the best
spell with Viborg, a third division club, "J have done regular training for 15 years way to come away from the problems is to
took over. and I keep it up because I feel well when take a penei! in your hand. There are many
There is still one round to go in the my stamina is good. beautiful motives in the Danish landscape. "
second division, but B 1909 are already sure "I have a wonderful bunch of players and
of a place in the top rank. The other teams I am sure we will do well in the first divi- Vanlõse is relegated from the second
ENSA TION followcd scnsation in Dutch
who fight for a first division place are AGF
of Aarhus and Koege.
sion. I will see to it that we do not drop out
again next year.
division and Holbaek, Fremad Amager and
Ikast are still hoping to avoid the drop. S football in the autumn. Aftcr winning
New teams in the second division are Silke- the European Cup against Ccltic and the
borg and Slagelse, who both dropped out Inter-Continental Cup versus Estudiantcs,
last season. Feyenoord of Rotterdam werc eliminated by
thc unknown Rumanian teain UT, from the
texme town of Arad in Western Rumania,

BOTEV from this year's European Cup.

But that was far from ali! The blow Arad
delivered was so severe that the team lost ali
VRATZA confidence and conceded four points in the
first nine League games. Coach Ernst Happel
said after the first defeat in the League
Feyenoord's Ove Kindvall watches as two Volendam defenders get into a tangle.

TRAIL CSKA (against Telstar lying 14th in the tab_Ie):

"We have technique, power and tact1cal
know-how, this black period is ali psycho-
The inclusion of these two brought an
immediate improvement, giving the team
years ago when they were nine points
behind FC Twente and still managed to win
T TNFASHIONABLE Botev Vratza won logical." far more confidence especially in front of the Championship.
U their first five games in a row with goal. ln fact, ADO's Lex Schoenmaker was One of those two reverses funnily enough
The surprise of the season so far is the sharing first place in the goalscorers' list
a goals tally of 11 to 1 and despite a shat- form of ADO of Toe Hague, who remain carne from FC Twcnte and the goal from
tering 0-4 defeat against Levski in Sofia are after nine games with Groenendijk, a J8-year-old Rene van de Kerkhof, who only
unbeaten after nine games. The team, who player of the newly formed team of FC
still tncked in, in second place, behind the are coached by the former Sparta Prague stepped into the big time this season from
Army club CSKA Sofia. Utrecht, which is an amalgamation between the amateur ranks. He was a former
chief Vaclav Jezek, dropped only one point DOD Utrecht, Elinkwijk and Velox, clubs
and that to Feyenoord in Rotterdam. They amateur international.
Lev~ki are hanging on, too, a clear five from the First, Second and Third Divisions
points behind the Jeaders. Without Asparou- are especially strong in the "Zuiderpark", ln view of the leeway between ADO and
respcctively. And second is Wietse Couperus.
khov, Levski went down 1-0 to neighbours the region of The Hague which gave them the rest of the field Feyenoord and Ajax
the name for their 26,000-capacity stadium. Holland's most valuable and gifted player, are seeking new talent in order to catch up.
Akademik and then beat Spartak Pleven by John Cruyff, was the centre of another sen-
a nose. ln this match both sides were sation. Cruyff missed a couple of games at
awarded penalties - Kotkov scoring for
the start of the season with groin trouble Retired
Levski , but Spartak seeing their attempt but was declared fit after a few weeks' rest
rebound into play off a post. Change
and treatment. He played in Ajax's first
Etar Tirnovo, in their second season in eleven again but walked off with a new Feyenoord are trying their hardest to per-
the top füght, appear to have adjusted them- ln their first five games no opposing side injury. suade West Germany's Jurgen Grabowski
selves. After a 1-1 draw with Slavia in Sofia managed a goal at the Zuiderpark. What to join them from Eintracht Frankfurt,
(Simeonov & Co.), Etar share third place, has caused this change in the club, though ? while great rivais Ajax has sent their former
levei on points with Levski and Trakia, the Last summer the club signed two forwards
Furious international Hcnl Groot, who has now
latter being champions not long ago when and they seemed to have made ali the retired, to Scandinavia and "Germany to find
known as Botev Plovdiv. The two tearns After examination, however, the Ajax fresh goal-scorers. ln Holland clubs can sign
difference . medical unit insisted that there was nothing
new to the top class this season, Yambol foreigners in the second half of December
and Gabrovo, appear to have an even ADO's Norwegian international Harald wrong with him. This brought a furious although internai transfers are not allowed
chance of survival. Berg recommended to the club's manager, retort from him: "I am accused of inventing at the moment . . . except of those players
Eddy Hartman, that he buy a completely injury, why should I? It only costs me who were on the summer transfer lists but
Petar Jekov, a regular 30-goal-a-year man unknown Norwegian Second Division player money.''
for CSKA, appears to be out of touch just were not sold.
named Harry Hestad, of whom no one· had The row raged throughout the country
now. Fortunately Dimitr Yakimov, playing heard. At the foot of the league table are AZ '67
up alongside Jekov instead of in midfield for days before finally Cruyff was cleared of Alkmaar, a town famous for its cheese~
as he has in the past, is in scintillating forro. Hartman and coach Jezek travelled to Nor- and his injury diagnosed. But in the mean- certainly not for its football team, who after
ln addition to 13 league goals in nine way, signed him on the spot and he's been time Ajax's fortuncs had slumped. Two nine games have only two points (both
games, Yakimov also hit five in the 9-0 there ever since. defeats and three draws left them six points draws) to their credit. The side is managed
European Cup Winners Cup game v. Val- His second signing was Wietse Couperus behind ADO. by the former coach of th e Luxembourg
Jimmy Magill, one-time Arsenal full-back, now the manager of Danish club keakosken Haka and two more in the from Haarlem in exchange for two ADO This doesn't perturb them, though. They National XI, Robert Heinz, but even at this
B 1909 Odense. second leg. reserves. eagerly remember a similar situation two earl y stage looked booked for relegati on.
SIXTEEN WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 SEVENTEEN

FOOT LL' S MOST

INCR IBLE MAN
Ria!. It was Bernabeu who whisked sure he hasn't a home. Agustin Domin-
Gento from under the nose of Bárcelona. guez (general secretary) ... they don't
It was Bemabeu who . sent manager come any better.
Osterreicher to Italy in search of the "Ali these remarkable men work inde-
missing Ferenc Puskas . . . and found fatigably behind the scenes. They've ali
him. It was Bemábeu who advised the played, and are still playing, a vital part
signing of Miguel Munoz as manager in the building of our beloved club."
aften ten years as a Real player. It was Criticism? "I don't care what anyone
indeed Bernabeu who directed and dic- says about me personally. But when they understanding won't put right. We will
tated the remarkable rise of Real Madrid attack the club and players, I fight .. . recover . .. " was his attitude .
. . . slowly at first, then accelerating into fight hard," says Bernabeu. One incident (I've written this before)
incredible triumphs which made them, And how he fought last season when aptly sums up Santiago Bernabeu's wis-
from the middle-50s, the greatest side Real, through unprecedented injuries, dom and understanding. When managér
Europe has ever seen. had their worst league season for years. Miguel Munoz was the centre of abuse,
And it was Bernabeu who bought the The Madrid press tumed the period of and faced with widespread press demands
land and built the club's great stadium ... struggle into almost a national crisis. to resign, he talked to the president.
and the Real Madrid Sports City ... and Their attacks ranged from disappoint- Only 12 words were spoken.
the gigantic indoer sports arena! ment to bitterness and viciousness which "Do you want to leave?"
One of the most important factors in in the end became just plain stupidity. "No," said Munoz.
Real's success and the key policy of This was Santiago Bemabeu's finest "Then what are you arguing about?"
ln 1909-the family was by now back Bemabeu's reign as president, is his hour. Weekly he met the newspapermen said Bemabeu ... and next day extended
Valdes of Gijon outjumps Real's Sanchis (3) to score his side's goal during in Madrid-Santiago joíned Real Madrid devotion and regard for the players and and faced their concerted attacks. Munoz's contract.
their 1-1 draw in Madrid. (only seven years old) as a 14-year-old the insistence that they are human beings "There is nothing wrong with Real Yes ... he really is football's most
juvenile player. Four years !ater he has with different characters, temperaments Madrid that patience and reasonable remarkable character.
REAL MADRID is accepted as the Today he spends a lot of his time with and outlook and each should be treated
most distinguished football club in his wife, Dona Maria, at Santa Pola, a his début for the senior side ... became
captain . . . and played regularly until as such.
the world, gaining, in the last 20 years, little fishing village a few miles south of Real have 25 registered league players
every top playing honour, not once, but Alicante. His modest chalet - there's nearing his 30s. When he gave up play-
ing, instead of following his career as a and by presidential order no one is
severa) times. Success has brought finan- nothing ostentatious about Bemabeu- looked upon as a reserve . . . all are
cial reward, honour, respect and admira- houses his football treasures and price- lawyer, Bemabeu decided to stay with
the club. He became assistant manager members of the first team squad.
tion to both club and players. They have less archives of which the section devoted
become a legend, ao example that so to Real Madrid weighs nearly a ton. It .. . manager ... then a director (as well
many clubs strive to emulate. • is also the base for frequent fishing as general secretary) until the outbreak Loyal ty
But all this just didn't happen. It carne expeditions with local fishermen and vil- of the Civil War.
about through devotion and dedication lagers . . . his only interest other than On September 15, 1943, Santiago Ber- "Yes . .. I played a small part in build-
. .. the life's work of one man, Santiago Real. nabeu, having been with the club 34 ing the club," he modestly admits. "But
Bemabeu, the club's president for the . He speaks French fluently, English, years and serving in every capacity, was most credit must go to the players ...
last 27 years. German and Italian sufficiently . . . and elected president. ln lcss than a year the ali of them, down through the years.
Toe Grand Old Man of Madrid . . . because of the countless joumeys with human personality and dignity of the They are always my first consideration
he's 75 now-goes into a flaming rage the team to foreign countries, the word new president had changed the character . . . they are the club ... without them
when one insists that he was the creator "Thank you" in over 50 languages . of the club. It became elegant, exclusive, and their loyalty success would have
and architect of Real Madrid's universal somewhat "snooty", yet, quite contradic- been impossible.
fame. Rage or not, it's true, and time tory, a family club, with a remarkably "There is another important section,
Meetings friendly and "we're ali in this together" vitally important, one that is often for-
someone told the world a little about
him. Don Santi, although not so active as he atmosphere. The president's enthusiasm, gotten," he says. " ... I mean the wonder-
Don Santiago has played an active was, is still very much the working shrewd judgement, inspiration and drive ful other team, the one we have behind
part with Real Madrid (founded 68 years president. He attends ali board meetings began to bring results as well. the scenes ... the real heart of the club.
ago) fo~ 61 years. Stop and think about . . . sees most home matches and occa- Raimundo Saporta (vice-president) ...
The successes of Real Madrid during
that! Sixty-one years with the sarne club. sional away games . . . and only ou rare his loyalty and love of the club is un-
the succeeding years are legion, they
No man, anywhere, has given so many occasions does the team travei abroad believable. Francisco Lusaretta (vice-
literally won everything . . . and asso-
years of his life, and achieved so much, without its presldent. president) . . . he's prepared to fight for
ciated with those triumphs are famous
for one club. But let us go back . . . a long way ever and his intelligent advice cannot be
names like Di Stefano, Ria!, Gento,
He has scored goals for Real ... cap- back. Bemabeu was bom on June 8, measured. Pedro Mendez (who directed
Puskas and Santamaria. But how many
tained the side ... managed the team .. . 1895, in Almansa, near Albacete. He the building of the Stadium and Sports
link the name of Santiago Bernabeu with
directed the day to day business .. . missed being a Madrilenian (one of his City) . . . he's terribly modest but I
the club's glory . . . at least, how many
signed players . . . made decisions .. . few regrets) only bccause hís Cuban always say 'Close the door, don't let him
outside Spain?
found and moulded ideal collaborators mother (his father carne from Valencia) escape: Jose Velazquez (president of
Yet it was Bernabeu who brought the
.. . and has become a great father .figure. was advised by her doctors to move to Sports City) . . . I have no words to
then unknown Di Stefano from "the
It would just not be Real Madrid without the warmer south a few weeks before he. praise him sufficiently. Antonio Calderon
Argentine . . . and signed the French
him. was bom. (general manager) ... he never stops Velazquez in the customary all-white of Real Madrid tackles Valdes of newly
star Kopa, then Luís Hon and Hector
working, he just lives for the club. I'm promoted Real Gijon.
EIGHTEEN WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WURLD SUCCER, December, 1970 NINETEEN

WEST GERMAN
NEWSLETTER from
MULLER TO Speaking PersonallJ LEsuE vERNDN
ARTHUR ROTMIL
ONEneverof theunderestimate
golden rnles of sport is to
your opponents.
THE RESCUE!
Teams and individuais who forget this often barely a rnonth ago, except tha t Overath narrow escapes and are certainly less con-
FREEDOM of speech is the right
of every citizen in a democratic
societyp This basic, vital principie
applies to lunatics, peers and even
professional footballers. On the other
hand, hypocrisy is part of our way of
thing about it. Charlton's other
remark concerning deliberate fouling
was another matter. A 35-year-old
international footballer with a World
Cup gold meda! in his cupboard
should not advocate such deplorable
his footballing ability-and not for
bis intellectual prowess. He should be
free to speak, but must have bis
priorities right first before he opens
bis mouth again.
Martin Peters is not quite in the
pay dearly for complacency and over- returned after injury, replacing the retired vincing than during their great run last life. An ancient philosopher once said tactics. sarne category. ln his book, no doubt
confidence when facing adversaries of a Seeler. season. The rnain challenge will probably that ali virtucs have small blemishes Many of my colleagues condoned written by a gbost-writer, he says that
modest status and poor record past or A full house of 53,000 a t the Müngersdorf come frorn Bayern Munich, who are- also and ali sins have redeeming features. his remarks by writing that it is Ronetti should bavc saved the first
present. stadiurn watched in stunned disbelief as the well placed in the Fairs Cup,' but who so Thc excuse for a certain amount of tacitly agreed by ali pros that this is West German goal in the World Cup.
great Gerd Müller-Europe's most prolific nearly pulled out of this competition. hypocrisy is that if we ali preached a common, accepted practice. They About SOO million peoplc watching
West Germany's national side, reared on what we practise, the current social
recent successes, embarked on their second goal-getter with 38 league goals last season, added tbat it is wrong to punish a the game 011 TV thought exactly the
After a rough game against Glasgow Ran- structure would be in chaotic dis- sarne, but it is not for one of Bonetti's
venture in the European Championship plus the World Cup's top scorer with ten gers they suffered four casualties and man for saying it and not to repri-
0rder. mand those who are actually doing it. tcam-mates to reflect on bis mistake.
having ignored the bitter lesson of the first. into the bargain- managed only one direct prornptly lost their first league match of
shot at goal through the 90 minutes. Once this. truism is accepted, it
Three years ago they only managed a goal- the season to newly prornoted Arminia at becomes obvious where the recent
less draw in Albania, whom they expected A tremendous roru· from the 8,000 Bielefeld 0-1. The club lost rnoney on the vicfüns, Jackie Charlton, Peter Eus-

Wrong for
to beat in a canter, and were pipped by the Turkish guest workers in the crowd heralded tie with Rangers whilst the players, incensed tace and Martin Peters, went wrong.
Yugoslavs for a quarter-final place. Now their first goal by Karnarun (16 minutes) over their experiences in Glasgow, asked the They have offended the unwritten
they irnagined Turkey to be a rnere push- after a dreadful mistake by Weber. Only -a management to withdraw from the Fairs code of hypocrisy and will never be
over and dropped a vital home point when penalty by Müller, who was brought down Cup. completely exonerated. I have no
drawing 1-1 at Cologne on October 17. by Muzzafer (37 minutes), levelled the Following severa! Jengtby discussions with sympathy with these offenders-not
It would be futile to advance any excuses, scores. Any further cornment on this affair becansc I am on the sidc of the hypo-

f ootballers to
lhe board it was decided to continue in
for the harsh truth is that the Gerrnans can be safely left to the jubilant Turks. orde1· to "preserve tbe prestige of Bayern in crites, but because it is unforgivable
p!ayed badly and the fact that they had ln the Bundesliga, defcnding charnpions Europe". It will be remembered that Ham- for a footballer to "knock tbe game"
enough chances to win this encounter Borussia Mõnchen-Gladbach took advan- burger SV rctircd from the 1968--69 Fairs which gives him a great deal of
rnerely serves to ernphasise their lamentable tage of the inconsistency of their nearest Cup, after reacbing tbe quarter-finals, pleasure and an even greater deal of
failure in attack. Yet this was the sarne side foes to establish thernselves arnong the lead- because tbey regarded the domestic Cup and money.
1
rock the boat'
which played so w«:_11 against Hungary (3-1) ing contenders. Borussia have survived sorne League fixtures as more important than a Therc must be "honour amongst
minor tournament, in wbich their players thieves" in every profession. A book-
were running the risk of U11Decessary maker would never say publicly that
injuries. Well, Bayern certainly improved some bookmakers are crooks, a
their image, for after disposing of Rangers butcber would not criticise other
they slammed Coventry in the next round butchers, and tbe solidarity amongst
by 6-1 at home. doctors, solicitors, etc., is proverbial. I cannot see the connection at ali.
Tactical fouling is certainly a menace,
and it is the job of the referees and
Utterances disciplinary committecs to stamp it
Consequently, "freedom of speech" out. But by sanctioning it, Jackie in
Devast ating must be tempered with sound judgc- fact told hundreds of thousands of
ment, public utterances must be care- amateurs, including schoolboys, that
fully thought out. I don't believe it is a "clever" tbing to do.
Gerd Müller, who is of course the most Jackie Charlton had done this before
marked forward i11 German football, has bis ill-fated TV interview. A likeable To my mind this is criminal and
not been quite as clevastating as last season definitely against the intcrests of foot-
extrovert, he just said the first thing
and allowed Fran7. Roth to get most of the which carne into bis head, not realis- ball, or as they say in St. Annes-011-
Bayern goals at the start of the league carn- ing that the press and public are Sea, is "likely to bring the game into
paign. But now he also faces a forrnidable disrepute". The FA quite properly
always eager to pounce on anything
challenge frorn 25-year-old Karl-Heinz Vogt hanned Charlton from playing in
slightly controversial.
of Kaiserslautern, who hammered four represcntative football. This is, of
Jackie's reference to bis "black
goals against Kickers Offenbach (4-0) and course, a moral conde.nmation only,
book" and lhe one or two names in
followed up with a brilliant hat-trick in the because it is highly unlikely tbat be
it was nothing more than an unfunny
4-1 win over Rotweiss Oberhau.sen. would have been selected anyway.
joke. A few weeks ago, after the
A remarkable run of success has lifted Liverpool v. Ferencvaros Fairs Cnt> But it is a pity that a player witb _
Schalke 04 up to the leading group. Since tie, the Hungarian players told me in such a distinguished record should
they dismissed rnanager Rudi Gutendorf, the coach taking us back to the hotel make such defamatory remarks at the
the "Knappen"-as they are ca!led here- lhat I should warn Alun Evans not to twilight of his career. So the
surprised even their most ardent fans . But go to Budapest, because he will be "spcakcr" has been duly dealt with,
except for a new-found spirit, the current "done". now I bope the "doers" will be
fine displays are clearly the fruits of Guten- I didn't notice Evans doing any- singled out just as mercilessly. Peter
dorf's labours . After 52 home games with- thing particularly vicious during the Eustace bas also made some uncalled-
out defeat-·since January 18, 1968 (!)- game, but players have a different for re1narks. Something could be
Rotweiss Essen crashed at last to Eintracht point of view regarding opponents. I rotten in the state of Sheffield Wed-
Brunswick by 0-1. But manager Herbert forgot the incident instantly and nesday, but there is no need for an
Burdenski has fewer worries than, for Evans played against Ferencvaros in ex-player of theirs to focos the pub-
exarnple, Klaus Ochs of Hamburger SV. lhe second leg without anything un- lic's attention on it.
This farnous club has slumped so alarmingly pleasant ha11peni11g to him. This is
that Uwe Seeler was asked to play as a just one example of the countless Eustace earned a lot of money at
"sweeper" (!) against Schalke, but despite number o[ "black books" footballers Sheffield and is getting a fair whack
reasonably good efforts in this unaccus- carry around without ever doing any- at West Ham. He is getting paid for
Gerd, Müller of Bayern Munich wins this aerial challenge against Berti Vogts of tomed position, Uwe returned to the attack
Monchengladbach. a week !ater.
T WEN TY WORLD SOCCER , December, 1970 WORLD SO CCER, December, 1970 T WEN TY -ONE

Russian
THE LAST OF pl~yers are
THE MOHICANS not automats
D URING the Iast teu years or so many people liave accepted the idea that

IN ITALY
Soviet players are skilful but unimaginative; and will respond like robots in
particular situations. ln fact, bowever, nothing could he further from the truth.
Like most European countries we have a sprinkling of players who are strong
rather than skilful and, at the other end of the scale, we have some very gifted 1
but individualistic players.
We .do set very high standards in terms of discipline and sportsmanship and
ND then there were 16. ln Italy, this maybe some observers have been misled into acceptance of this myth by mis-
A favourite hunting ground of soccer
mercenaries, the number of foreign-bom
.already written off by AC Milan, now at the
age of 36 has begun his 15th league cam- interpreting these points . It is also true, but ]ess widespread now that some teams
are given strict and over-cautious tactical instructions and this too can be m1s-
paign for Napoli. His nearest seniors are
players has shrunk to 16. Most of them, Cinesinho (Vicenza), Suarez (Sampdoria) understood. ln my term-eight years altogether in charge of the nat10nal team
Iured by financial prospects undreamed of and Del Sol (Roma), ali 35-year-olds, who and also at club levei my objectives have been to develop better understandmg
at home, but now ageing gracefully (some arrived here in 196 l or 1962. But even the amongst the players by simple but essential basics like one-two's and crosses mto
more than others!) can look back on youngest of the lot, Nené (Cagliari), is the penalty area.
exciting and rewarding careers. already 28. Of the last 16, there are seven Of our players in Mexico for Asatiani of Russia being cautioned
For many, Italian parentage or grand- from Brazil (Altafini, Cinesinho, Amarildo, the World Cup the best "team- Some Soviet clubs also train be quite difficult at times, parti- in Mexico.
parentage was conveniently discovered to Clerici, Nené, Sormani and Jair), three players" were in my opinion for about an hour on the evening cularly with naturally gifted
accommodate them, speed their citizenship Argentinians (Combin, Merighi and Mor- Schesternev in defence and 1-iefore each game but with players like Bychewecz and -----------
applications-to permit the clubs the en- rone), two each from Germany (Haller, Muntjan in midfield. But four oi I'bilisi we never did it. The Jevruchkin.
gagement of additional foreigners - and Schnellinger), Spain (Suarez, Del Sol); one the squad were very well known Georgian temperament is very On the one hand we would the results we achieved were per-
some even turned out for Italy in full inter- from Sweden (Hamrin), and one a Chilean to me-Asatiani, Dzodzuaschwili, relaxed and easy and the players like to develop greater under- haps disappointing but I believe
nationals, including the World Cup. But (Toro). Fourteen are playing in the First Churtsilava and N o d i j a all settle without difficulties. But standing and co-operation be- it should be emphasised that no
with the ban on imported foreign stars, this Division and only two (Merighi and Toro) played for Dynamo Tbilisi while other clubs feel they have to tween them and their team-mates, fewer than eight of our squad
one-way traffic into the land of lire has with Modena in the Second. I was manager there. Certainly build up their players to a high but we must do this without were playing in the World Cup
come to an abrupt halt. At the start to the For some of these stars, astronomical my work there was never directed peak immediately before the destroying their individual flair. for the first time. Amongst these
1964---65 season, the last mercenary crossed sums of money had changed hands, as towards automatic responses but game. On one basic point I feel I am were M u n t j a n, Bychewecz,
the Italian border. He was the Franco- indeed the Italians hold several world rather that the abilities of the Knowing the way each player in a minority and possibly this Nodija, Dzodzuaschwili, Jevruch-
Argentinian Nestor Combin, who carne records for transfer of players in various individual be used in the team's kin and Logofet. I am quite sure
from Olympique Lyon. Then the barriers team positions. One they lost recently con- interest for maximum effect. -----------------------• that many of them will be there
carne down and a new era of "Calcio made cerned the goalkeeping spot: Holland's At national team levei there again in 1974 and their experi-
in Italy" had begun. international custodian Jan Van Beveren
(22), moved from Sparta Rotterdam to PSV
are different problems, of course.
To begin with the players of
GAVRIL KATCHALIN . ences in Mexico will then be of
great val ue.
Fashioned Eindhoven for a record f120,000 last sum- Tbilisi were nearly all typical

There have, of course, always been some

mer. The previous world record was "held"
by Pier-Luigi Pizzaballa, for whom Roma
Georgians and certainly less phy-
sical in their approach than
talks to Eric Batty Sporting
foreigners in this country, probably drawn 'paid Atalanta f:104,000 in 1966. Soviet players bom in the colder ,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~

in the past by the geographical shape of ARTHUR ROTMIL anti harsher regions to the north. Looking back it is clear to me
Italy which suggests the game of football: But the big problems in national trains with his club creates many ,stcms from the widely differing that heat, which troubled ali the
The peninsula is fashioned like a boot, teams are generally the sarne difficulties at national levei bec climatic conditions and regional European teams, was a criticai
while the island of Sicily can be taken for everywhere. cause in varying degrees we have characteristics. At ali events it factor. Overall the series was
a ball.
Among the first sports-minded visitors lnvasion Training
to attempt to build up a training appears that most technicians
programme for players as indivi- consider the players available
more sporting than in 1966 and
also more interesting and more
were the English, who founded the Genoa
Cricket and Athletic Club in 1883, the first
club in Italy. From then on, overseas
in Sweden To begin with we get very duals. Again I can easily find and then decide what tactical
little chance to work with ali the myself in a situation where I formation to adopt.
exciting. More teams were wi!l-
ing to attack, too, compared with
players carne and went before the massive -.WLICE dogs had to be used to clear the players together for lengthy want to use a player in midfield, But for me the emphasis has 1966, but unfortunately for us,
invasion of the "oriundi"- South Americans r pitch when about 500 angry soccer fans periods. Most of their training is but his club want him to play a always been the other way round. W'!; met one that didn 't in the

done at club levei and if all the different role, say, in a more First decide what kind of game quarter-finals.
of allegedly Italian origin-had descended ran on to the field and held up play for
on these shores. Statisticians estimate their nearly an hour during the Swedish First top clubs do concentrate on phy- advanced position. Neither I nor you want the team to play; then ln retrospect I would take the
total at something like 500. Today there are Division match between IFK Goteborg and sical and technical qualities har- the S o v i e t Federation have go looking for the players that sarne squad of players but with
only 16 left. The latest to give up were Oerebro in Stockholm. nessed through technical under- authority over club managers. will fit in naturally. vital experience of playing in
Peiro and Benitez; Cané is waiting for a The invasion carne nine minutes from standing one club may place Fortunately I have come to Dynamo Kiev, for example, extremely hot conditions I would
last fling with Bari, whilst the fate of Jair time when IFK had an equalising goal dis- greater emphasis on one of these realise that players like Nodija have been champions three times alter my basic approach. We
aspects than do other clubs. and Metreveli are really adap- in a row and for the final 22 in
is not yet decided, although he is supposed allowed for offside. Fans clashed with changed our team in Mexico
table and can play anywhere in
to have signed again for Inter. officials, players and police during the 55 Two examples will serve to attack. Afonin and Logofet are Mexico five of their players were according to the opposition, their
demonstrate this point. Dynamo also very flexible defenders. in our squad. None, however, strengths and weaknesses and, ~f
The veteran among the "Last of the minutes of pandemonium before the police
Kiev train very intensively, put- were defenders, for in Kiev they course, their tactics. This I now
Mohicans" is the Swede Kurt Hamrin, who, dogs werc brought in.
ting in a great <leal of hard work But on the whole we have in- play in zones and I have a believe was a mistake, and if I
The scenes were unprecedented in Swedish
soccer history. IFK, last year's champions, in a relatively short time. ZSKA sufficient time at national levei to preference for a collective, organ- had the opportunity to do it all
Helmut Haller, one of the German born players Moscow, however, get through work together and therefore I ised defence which I feel pro- again I would stick to a flexible
were beaten 1-0, a defeat which meant them
still appearing in the ltalian league.
being relegated to the Second Division.
more physical training but spread concentrate on the tactical and vides greater flexibility. 3-3-4 with two wingers and two
it over a longer period. psychological problems. This can • From the Russian standpoint centre-forwards.
 WORLD SOCCER, Dece111ber, 1970 TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-TWO WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970

Lattek Roth, at 26, is a full international, too, and

has been with the club four years. His
~ Beckenbauer is one of
former clubs were TSV Bertoldshofen and
SpVgg Kauf~eren. Zobel is only 22 and is

to another new signing this term from Han-

nover 96. He is a former amateur inter-
national.
For away games the middle line is
strêngthened by a 4-3-3 operation and the
dropping back from the front four of Karl-
those rare movers who
seem to spring ~ffortlessly
Heinz Mrosko in hi s second season and at

prove over the turf '

24 previously associated with SpVgg Lindau
and Stuttgarter Kickers.
Jn support of Müller up front the flank
strikers are Edgar Schneider and Dieter
Brenninger. Schnei°der is yet another new- another Yugoslav, Zlatko Cajkovsky, who
having been added this term from Eintracht
comer this term from VfR Pforzheim and Braunschweig. !ed Bayern in tpeir initial Bundesliga
is a former amateur international. He is seasons.
Three other newcomers this term are mid-
only 21. Brenninger is five years older and a Lattek at 35 is a young man whose

himself
field players Paul Breitner (19) from ESV
full international who has been on the Freilassing, and Ulli Hoeness (18) from influence on youth has been responsible for
books for ten years and began his career the influx of "babes" into the club. His
TSG Ulm, plus forward Jurgen Ey (24) from
with a junior club, SpVgg Alterding. He has Werder Bremen. These are among the sevenreputation has not been made with clubs
hit over 50 Bundesliga goals. new captures which havc infused new lifebut as a coach with several German F A
into the club after no fewer tban nine appointments and often acting under the
players were released at the end of !astdirection of Helmut Schõn. If Lattek can
Newcomer season. take Bayern Munich to the title again then

'70-'7 I
his reputation and prestige will be consider-
Injuries bave bampcred Bayern's progress ably enhanced.
this terin, otherwise thcy migbt well have Experienced He has built a new team round bis three
been sailing away at the top of the table. star players, goalkeeper J.\,laier (26 caps),
Tbis is why Austrian international Petet Dayern's first team squad is completed by Beckenbauer (45) and MUiier (27), and three
Franz Beckenbauer, Bayern's world class player. Pumm, who normally occupies the left-back goalkeeper Manfred Seifert (21 ), a reliable of tbe new signings bave won regnlar places
berth, has been absent in recent weeks. deputy for Maier and in bis second season in the side. If thc present injury spell is
from the 1966 World Cup after he had
BAYERN MUNICH bave really only
been a force in West German football grown up with Bayern during their rise
one so small, succeeds in getting up well
in the air. He also has the happy knack of
Pumm is in bis tbird season with Bayern with the club, and the experienced defender only a passing one, then Bayern look a good
and developed in his native country witb Peter Kupferschmidt (28), who has been. a., bet for tbe title of Bundeslig<;1 cbampions
for five years but tbis band span of existence from out of the Regional League. Müller being in the right position at tbe right time Wacker Innsbruck. loyal servant these 14 years!,. of 1971;
in tbe top ecbelon bas not been witbout its carne into the side the year they won their when the bali drops about in front of goal, For their largely unknown manager, Udó •
way out of the regional league. Erich Maas, at 29 the oldest player on
successes. And in tbe current campaign tbey too. the books of this largely young club, is an Lattek, this is the season in which he can Néxt : month .
are making every effort to recapture tbe title Müller's scoring reputation was such with Not that Bayern is a twci-man team by experienced winger who had played in 202 put himself on the map. Taking over in
tbey lost to Borussia Moencbengladbacb last TSV Nordlingen that he was reputed to any means. They are well served in most
season. have scored 198 goals for them. This made positions. Starting in goal there is Sepp
Leaguc games at the start of this season in May from Branko Zebec, he has to live up
five seasons. But he is a new signing, too, to the reputations of both Zebec and CELTIC
Their first venture into Europe was him something like a whitewashed version Maier, who kept goal for West Germany in
crowned with triumph when they carried of Pelé in the fourth dimension. But once the last World Cup. At 26 he has won more
off the Cup Winners Cup and they went as he joined Bayern for the 1964-65 season he than a score of caps for his country and first
far as the semi-final the following year in carried on in similar scoring vein . joined Bayern as a 14-year-old. ln Bundes-
defence of their title. That was in 1967 liga matches Maier has made more than 150
when most of the team were beginning to appearances.
make a name for themselves in the Achieve A! right-back this season is a newcomer
Bundes liga. in Johnny Hansen, the 27-year-old Danish
And on this domestic front they won the MUiler has been a scoring sensation in international with 21 caps. Making his name
West German Super-League title in 1969 the Bundesliga. He has hit 130 goals in five with BK Odense in his native Denmark,
and took the Cup in 1966, 1967 and again full seasons and though he has made a Hansen first carne to Germany with !FC
in 1969. Bayern had won only two major quieter start to the present season, should Nurnberg and is a smart capture for Bayern.
honours previously becoming overall Ger- achieve between 25-30 goals by the end of His partner on the left flank is Herwarth
man League champions in 1932 and Cup this term, too. Koppenhofer, who is 24 and is in his
winners in 1957. Critics of Bayern say that Beckenbauer is second season with the club, having been
But 1969 was Bayern's bonanza year. too good a player to waste playing tbe role with SV Weidenthal and !FC Kaiserslautern
They led the League race from the first day of sweeper that he does for the club. But before .
of the season until the last. There was never would tbey bave acbieved any more success Promising Under-23 international Georg
any danger of them losing their lead. Then if be bad been used in midfield at tbe Schwarzenbeck (22) is the player who acts
they capped this performance by taking the expense of the rearguard? And it would as stopper centre-back for the club. Four
Cup for a fine double. probably be too costly an experiment to years with Bayern, he was discovered play-
White ali good teams have outstanding put him in midfield for any length of time ing for a local junior side. And he, at least,
individuais, Bayern have been fortunate to and risk conceding goals at the back. can claim to be benefiting from the vast
have had the services of two players of the Beckenbauer and Müller are as different experience shown by the presence of
calibre of Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd as chalk from cheese. Beckenbauer is one of Beckenbauer, who provides him with great
Müller. Beckenbauer, their captain, won his those rare movers who seem to spring confidence.
earliest recognition for West Germany as a effortlessly over the turf. Müller looks like For home matches, Bayern invariably use Back row, left to right: Gerd Müller, Sepp Maier, Karl-Heinz Mrosko, Rainer Zobel: Paul Breitner, Edgar Schneide_r, Georg
midfield schemer; a player of rare elegance a muscle-bound wrestler with short legs. But a 4-2-4 system with Franz Roth and Rainer Schwarzenbeck, Erich Maas, Franz Beckenbauer, Dieter Brenninger, Udo Lattek (trainer). Front: Pet~r Kupferschm1dt, John
and ability. He was a star who emerged he has immense power in his limbs and, for Zobel occupying the midfield positions, Hansen, Manfred Seifert, Jurgen Ey, Herwarth Ko ppenhofer, Peter Pumm, Franz Roth, Ulh Hoeness.
TWENTY-FOUR WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, .December, 1970 TWENTY-FJV E

at attacks
referee !
ACK in September the Yugoslav referee
Boycott threat
B Ristic collapsed dramatically during a
match between H3'(1uk Split and OFK
Belgrade, crying "I'm hit! I'm hit! " He was
taken to hospital unconscious, and the game,
then in its 53rd minute, was abandoned.
The Yugoslav FA awarded the match to
by Hertha Berlin THE continuing slory of World Cup con-
OFK (the 'actual score had been 2-2) when
the referee reported that he had been hit by BApete
YERN MUNICH'S reluctance to com-
in the Fairs Cup (Coventry must sequences produced a new chapter when
a missile thrown from the terraces. wish they had proved more reluctant) was Russia;s team manager, Gavril Katchalin,
But ilie Split club, finding that the official followed by another threat to boycott, this was replaced by Valentin Nikolaev, follow-
observer at the match, Mr. Sestic, had been time by the West Berlin club, Hertha. ln
their case the dispute concerned visas for ing widespread criticism of Russia's per-
unable to find any trace of a stone, lined
their trip to Czcchoslovakia for the second formance in Mexico.
up some expert witnesses for an appeal. The
cl ub doctor said the reíeree was higbly leg against Spartak Trnava.
Nikolaev is a former international with
strung and had probably fallen on bis own
f whistle (explaining away the injury to bis
forehead) while an electrician claimed to
'fhe players and officials received their
visas on the Friday before the match, but
the Red Army side, whose players form the
basis of the present Russian side. He is
the seven journalists who sent in their appli- Russia's fourth coach in four years.
have seen a bat (the game was played under cations at the same time were told to
fl oodligbts) swoop down on tbe referee. The inquire at the Czech Military Mission in But that wily old bird, Katchalin, is sure
Yugoslav FA were so staggered by this Berlin at the precise time Hertha's charter to come back, if his past record is anything
explanation that they declared the game a plane was scheduled to take off. to go by. For he has been forced to resign
draw. twice before- following the 1952 Olympics
But Hertha's vice-president, Wolfgang in Helsinki, and the 1958 World Cup with
Holst, issued what amounted to an ultima- Sweden. But it is a pity that Russian mana-
tum. "If the journalists in our travelling gers spend so much time on political
Penalty-taking can come almost as second nature to some players, Rinus Israel, for example, demonstrates the perfect spot-kick
by sending Yugoslavia's goalkeeper Curkovic the wrong way and scoring in the opposite corner for Holland in their recent
European Championship m~tch.
WORlD DIARY group don't receive their visas, the trip is
off," he said. The Czcchs capitulated a few
hours later, but still had the last laugh.
manreuvres that they are too busy to devote
much energy to improving the national
BY Spartak Trnava won the second leg 3-1 to
team.

PENALTY DRAM
go through on aggregate.

r ROGIR MACDONAlD
Sbardella, understandably in such circum- N Brazil's national championships, the
THEpenaltypsychological problems of the
kick provided a vivid contrast
Playing in Hungary in a European Fairs
tie against Pecsi Dozsa, they were beaten
ln the European Cup Winners Cup
Benfica had the misfortune to take on
stances, decided that discretion was the
better part of valour.
I Robertao Cup, two of the favourites, Sao
for a Swedish cartoonist a few years back, 2-0 for a 2-2 tie on aggregate. While Pecsi's Vorwaerts in East Berlin without the Paulo and Vasco da Gama, are struggling
Gordon Banks, watching the reco-rding on at the foot of the table. Yet only a month
when he drew two pictures, one from the first three kickers, Konrad, Daka and injured Eusebi o, not •only their outstanding television, said: "There's no doubt Andy
goalkeeper's point of view, the other from Tuske, ali sent the Newcastle 'keeper player, but also their only reliable penalty- ago they were considered the outstanding
moved long before the kick was taken. But teams in Brazil.
the eye of the kicker. ln the first, the McFaul the wrong way, Robson hit the bar taker. Benfica Iost a two-goal lead from the I don't biame him. If the kicker hits it right
penalty-taker Joomed enormous, preparing and both Mitchell's and Gibb's shots were first Ieg, and after extra time did not pro- The Robertao Cup consists of two groups
- as Muller did- then a goalkeeper has no
to launch his leather missile at some saved by the Pecsi goalkeeper, Rapp. The duce any further goals; this tie, too, was of eight teams, from which the winners and
chance with a penalty unless he moves."
frightening velocity from some ludicrously referee promptly ended the sequence of decided on penalty shots. runners-up form a final group. ln Group
The sheer theatrical excitement of it ali
short distance into a vast receptacle; any penalties ahead of schedule for, whatever Vorwaerts' tive kickers, Dietzch (a substi- tends to obscure the fact that the new regu- "A " Sao Paulo, winners of the Sao Paulo
effort by the 'keeper to protect his charge happened, Newcastle's position was irre- tute), Koerner, Noeldner, Fraessdorf and state Cup, • were bottom on goal average
lations (and an infringement of them at
seemed hopeless indeed. ln the second, the· trievable. Struebing, each scored easily. Benfica con- that) devalue the European competitions, by with just two points from tive matches . ..
goalkeeper had somehow swollen to cover Some English newspapers published a verted their first three kicks through Jorge, in spite of acquiring Uruguay's outstanding
hinging the result of some static shooting
practicaJly the whole area between his posts, harsh indictment of the Newcastle players Toni and Aguas (another substitute), but forward , Pedro Rocha, now fully recovered
gallery. lf we are to endure the hideous
groping with octopus arms from a net that the following day, claiming it was inex- then Zulkowski produced a superb save, from the injuries that kept him out of most
anomalies of the away goal rule, by which
appea1·ed a mere speck in the distance. This cusable for a professional to make such flinging himself to the right, to tum of the Mexico World Cup.
victory can be achieved without actually
time it was the kicker who seemed at a gross errors. But the failure, surely, was at Martin's shot round the post- leavi ng winning (and the European champions, Rocha's arrival has been offset ·by injuries
ho1>eless disadvantage. management levei, for Newcastle had made Fraessdorf to give Vorwaerts a 5-3 winning Feyenoonl, eliminated without actually to Gerson (aggravated by his appearance for
Amusing, perhaps; but through the wis- little preparation for a potential deadlock- lead. losing), surely we can afford a play-off- Brazil in their first game since winning the
dom of UEFA, the penalty kick has the players were not even sure who had But the most dramatic sequence occurred tossing if need be, for choice of ground. world championshipJ and their centre-for-
assumed a new significance in international been designated to take the kicks. in the European Cup proper, in which 1 Some of the more perverse writers among ward Toninho.
competitipn- soccer's answer to the tie- Everton eliminated Borussia Monchenglad- us have suggested that the penalty system
breaker system in tennis. With it has come Pinpointing bach with Iiterally the Iast kick. Everton should be replaced by some calculation
ln Group "B" Vasco da Gama, winners
a new extreme in psychological pressure, actually missed their first penalty, Borussia's of the Carioca Cup, made an even worse
fn contrast, Pecsi had spent two o-r three based on actual match-play-with the team
for a penalty taken during the course of a 'keeper Klebb crowning a magnificent match start. They lost their opening five matches
hours during the previous weekend in winning the most corners going through.
match pales to insignificance beside the by stopping Royle's shot. But Laumen shot and were firmly at the bottom of the table.
penalty practice, with Rapp pinpointing But if corners, why not free-kicks, goal-
sudden-death sequence innovated this season wide with Borussia's second kick to level the According to one Brazilian newspaper, they
McFaul's weaknesses, based on his observa- kicks and throw-ins, with three throw-ins
in European competitions. score, and at 4-3 to Everton Rankin Ieaped "haven't got the slightest chance of beating
tions from the first leg. Pecsi were even worth a comer, three corners worth a name
meticulous énough to arrange that their to his right to save Muller's penalty and anybody" .
For Newcastle, above ali, failure to come taken? The referee could be attached to
to grips with the new system proved disas- steadiest kicker, Mate, would take the fifth put the English champions through. some mobile computer, programmed to This sort of criticism has so upset some
trous, and in terms of gate receipts lost, and presumably most crucial penalty. As it The Italian referee, Sbardella, refused to give the winner the ·instant the match ended. players that the whole team have decided
could cost them as much as f:60,000 this happened, Mate's services were not needed, listen to Borussia's protests that Rankin had Again, I see no relevance to the real game not to read the newspapers or listen to the
season. They were not the first team to lose though ironically enough, his penalty eight moved before the kick was taken--a view of football, in which the winning team is radio until December 12, when the com-
on penalty kicks, but they were certainly minutes from the end of the actual match shared by most of the neutrais at the match, supposed to score more goals than their petition finishes . A case perhaps of hear no Tommy Gibb of N'ewcastle, one of the
the first to miss three in succession. started Newcastle on the road to disaster. but not by the local supporters. Signor opponents. evil, play no evil? penalty offenders against Pecsi Dozsa.
TWENTY -SIX WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 TWENTY-SEVEN

Victory in PETER JACKSON

in Wales Appearances
Caledonia! O NE ~sgow Rangers record has left
lbrox-and gone south to Wales. For
Cardiff City have now made more appear-
ances in the European Cup Winners Cup
than auy · other club in the tournament's record fo r
By intheprint,
time this monthly pensum appears
the globe-trotting Australian
AN DREW DETTRE tcn-year history.
Cardiff, habitual qualifiers for the com-
team will have completed more than half of in Australia

Card iff City

petition by their monopoly of the Welsh
its scheduled tour. ln the troe spirit of Cup, took the record in the first leg of their
Anzac, they would have dared the cholera second round tie against FC Nantes-their
epidemie of Turkey, the Middle East flare- successor but some rumours say they are
after a big fish for 1971-former Hungarian 26th tie in Europe.
ups in Iran and Israel and possibly even the That beat l<.angers' total of Cup V✓ inners
inclement autumn weather of Britain, with national coach Rudolf Illovszky, presently
in Greeee. Well, we will see; Illovszky Cup appearances and the nearest Continen-
possibly one skyjack thrown in. tal cha!lenger is Atletico Madrid with 23
The tour started recently, with two wouldn't come out for peanuts.
St. George-Budapest have also made a appearances in the competition. Three of those defeats have been at appear to be the main threat. Promoted with
matches in the tiny French island of New Swansea from Division IV last season, they
change, with Frank Arok being replaced by It seemed only a matter of time before Ninian Park-against Real Zaragoza in
Caledonia where Australia won 3-1 and 1-0 Cardiff would outstrip everyone else. This have adjusted more successfully to the Third
Zvonimir Rasic. Arok returned to Yugo- 1965, Standard Liege in 1966 and SV Ham-
on rock-hard grounds, in 85 deg. heat and Division than their southern rivais.
slavia recently with a handful of second season is their fourth consecutive term in burg in 1968,
in spite of reportedly hair-raising refereeing. Europe and since 1964 the Second Division
placings; both in 1969 2.nd this year his Their most recen t home success, against Certainly the Cup Winners Cup has
A fairly high cost had to be paid for club has failed only once to come up with
team narrowly missed all the big prizes. Nantes, earned an enthusiastic description become almost an accepted part of Cardiff's
these early morale-building successes: four
Pan Hellen ic, only recently the best sup- the necessary Cup Winners Cup credentials. from Scoular-"Our best performance in fixture list that to be denied it next season
Aussies continued from Noumea to Hong
Kong with injuries. ported club in Sydney, are hoping to sort Europe". or any other season would have an effect.
One dangerous aspect of this tour is that out their mess in the summer months. A few Success
Australia took only 19 players to play their weeks ago the club all but admitted com- Jackpot
16 matches in ten countries. This, in the plete bankruptcy, to the tune of $72,000, Nor lias it been a case of Cardiff com-
end, may prove to be inadequate and force much of it squandered away on use!ess yet peting without success. Their dismissal of Now that Cardiff join an all-star cast for
national coach Zvonimir Rasic to field some expensive British imports and even • more Nantes means a quarter-final booking is the last eight it's odds-on they will strike
very patched-up side; in the closing stages useless overseas trips by some club officials. St. George and Australian striker Adrian theirs for the third time in only five years. the cash jackpot just as they did in the
of the trip. Now a group of Greek businessmen have Alston ( right) menacing the Ryde goalkeeper. Just as incredible as their march to the 1965 quarter-final against Real Zaragoza
Amazingly, last year Australia travelled formed a committee and want to straighten Alston was once with Preston and Fleetwood. semi-finais three seasons ago is the fact that and again three years later when the Ham-
to Korea with 22 players-and their com- out the club's muddled finances. They have the draw has offered them such a variety of burg match drew an aggregate crowd of
mitments numbered only four matches. already appointed former national coach countries. almost 110,000-65,000 at the Volkspark.
Now, for 16 matches, we took 19; a mathe- Joe Vlasits for the new season and also This past season their average home "We've been playing in Europe now since There is no disputing that a draw against
matical riddle of sorts. hope to set aside a tidy sum for new attendance was about 500, often less. Fortu- 1964 and in all the time since then we've Manchester City or Chelsea, Benfica or Real
Meanwhile, on the domestic front, the players. And by Jove, they need them; from nately, they don't rely on the tumstile for only ever had to re-trace our steps once- Madrid, would be magnetic enough to lure
long summer recess has set in. This usually their present contingent no more than three their crust: Wests are backed by a flourish- to Portugal," said manager Jimmy Scoular. a near full-house of 50,000,
sfarts with most clubs going into a deep or four reach even the modest Sydney ing social club with most of the revenue Only two players survive from the club's Whatever happens it's fairly safe to argue
coma, with oflicials trying to regenerate standard, coming from the bars and poker machines. very first European expedition against the that whoever overtakes Cardiff's appearance
their spent energies and nervous reserves, The 1971 season will also see some fresh It will be ioteresting to see if next tenn Danish club Esbjerg- front-man Peter Kin_g record will have to play a lot of matches in
before snapping back into action. colour in the First Division in recently pro- thcir attendance figures show a great im- and centre-half Don Murray. the Cup Winners Cup.
However, some movements have already moted Western Suburbs. Often described as provement; many believe that of their 5,000 They more than any other players have By early New Year, Cardiff will have
been recorded. Sydney's champions, Hakoah, the "millionaires", Wests have spent an registered club members 98 per cent are not been associated with Cardiff's playing record started their attempt to win the Welsh Cup,
have, surpri'singly, eased out their coach, estimated $100,000 over three years on their the slightest bit intcrested in socce_r, . onlY. in in Europe which deserves a little more than their plank to Europe, for the fifth time in
Mick fones, who was once with Doncaster team which, after two abortive attempts, cheap, subsidised meals and gambling. Per- passing reference. succession. And there doesn't look anybody
Rovers. ' So far they have not appointed his finally won the Second Division. haps 1971 will tel1. The statistics of the matter are that of 26 good enough to stop them doing that.
matches, Cardiff have won 11, drawn eight \Vrexham, the only club to have won the
and lost seven. thc Welsh Cup more often than Cardiff,
EWLY promoted Apollon got off to Almost as soon as he was installed,
N
Apollon
a fine sfart, picking up 19 points Puskas began to complain "I have no
from a péissible •21 from their first seven forwards." Having eliminated Slovan
games and bé"ating one • of the crack~
(Olympiakos) ·1-0 •in the process. EPA
Larnax, pushed up as champions of
Bratislava (3-Ó and 1-2) from the Euro-
pean Cup and, with two games in hand
holding maximum points from five
Liverpool sign Tashack
Cyprus, appear to be ·seftling and híive à • league matches and a goal tally of 10-1,
better chance of staying up than any of thc formcr Hungarian star's assessment L IVERPOOL swooped into the transfer market early in November to sign
John Toshack from Cardiff City for a fee of fll0,000. Cardiff, contenders

start
thcir predecessor.s, despite their crushing ap1Jears a shade pessimistic. for a place in the English First Division and still actively involved in the
defeats against Buridesliga champions For Pctropoulos, however, the cam- European Cup Winners Cup, were naturally reluctant to part with Toshack
Borussia Monchengladbach in the Euro- paign started tragically with a 1-1 draw and left the final decision with the player.
pean Cup. away to Malta which counts for the
Europcan Championship. This was fol- Although somewhat sad to leave his homcland, Toshack (pictured right)
Lakis Petropoulos, manager of cham-
lowed by a 2-1 defeat against Spain in readily agreed to Liverpool's lucrative terms. The Anfield club were forced into
pions Panathinaikos and also in charge
Zaragoza, fortunately only a friendly, but the transfer market after a succession o( injuries had deprived them of lan
of the national teain which did extremcly
Callaghan, Bobby Graham and Alun Evans.

well
well in the World Cup qualifying rounds, against relatively young and inexperi-
was forccd by thc F A to choose between cnced opposition hardly the kind of show Toshack, a Welsh international and a strong, goal-scoring centre-forward,
his two jobs. Hesitating, Panathinaikos to increasc the confidence of his players, signed for Liverpool on the day his country played Rumania in the European
madc up bis mind for him by appointing his masters or the Greek public. Championship. Injury kept him out of the Welsh team and there is no doubt
Ferenc Puskas to be their team-chief. ERIC BA'ITY Wales missed his goal punch in the 0-0 draw.
 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 TWENTY-NJNE
TWENTY-EIGHT

WHOSE FI NGER ON SPASOV TAKES OVER

HE most recent recommendations of
EVEN six months after the event be carrying Bulgarian hopes in the near
T
THE TRIGGER?
UEFA's executive committee designed Bulgarians still haven't forgotten the future.
Dimiter Penev of CSKA Sofia and poor performances of their team in As the first EC matches approached,
to maintain peace, order and security during ~
Bulgaria. Mexico. Spasov arranged three matches against
international matches, open with this signi- St. Bojkov, who was released from his strong club opposition to test his new
ficant paragraph: position in control of the national team, charges. He is in favour of an attacking
"A harmonious and sustained relationship has been replaced by Vasil Spasov whose style of play and admires England, West
with the purveyors of information-mean- cause less trouble than experienced in the firmest intention, he said, was to bring Germany, Brazil and Uruguay above ali
ing the press, radio and TV reporters- 1s But do these incidents prove that the back the spirit and fight into the team others.
European club tournaments are not worth vast majority of European (including the which had given the country a good name . And perhaps after ai( this Bulgarians
absolutely essential. This co-operation must British) domcstic competitions. •
not, however, lead to one-sided, falsifying while? They certainly do not. There are prior to the Mexican fiasco. will at last begin to forget Mexico. Let
and chauvinistic tendencies, but should re-
sult in impartial and, when necessary, eve~
facts and figures which confound the oft-
advanced theory that European football
'fwo further questions also spring to mind
after reading the UEFA statistics: If the
Spasov has been coach of Trakia Plovdiv
and of Spartak Sofia (now Levski-Spartak).
:~:y!~~ ::~c!~n!~~ !F~~e~h:
0
.::,!::~1!~:
the biame on their superiors. They state
criticai comments and reports. Therefore 1t brings violence and disgraceful conduct on majority of foreign footballers ~hyays He also has experience· of coaching abroad that they carried out their instructions at
is imperative for the clubs t? provid~ the the pitchcs. bchaved as badly as some of our reporters and played for Levski from l940-l 9Sl. He all times to the letter but felt that they
mass-medias with comprehens1ve and t1mely From the archives of the European Foot- would have us believe thcn why werc there won 17 caps and was known as Valiaka could have been provided with a better
advance information. Any prejudiced views ball Union it appears that in 212 inter- only two dismissals in 127 matches? On the (steam-roller). standard of opposition befor,e the Finais
or suppressed animosity which are subse- national matches played under their auspices other hand, are these foreign brotes only Recently he got off the selection mark to act as bigger tests.
quently aired and publicised may have a last season, there was not a single serious behaving contemptuously toward the by naming the following squad of players They also gave a new dimeMion of
definite bearing on the atmosphere among incident! ln 127 games covering the Cham- British? If so, why"! whom he thought would form the main thought as to why they faded during their
spectators." pions Cup and the Cup Winners Cup com- The principal duty of every journalist nucleus of Bulgaria's forthcoming Euro- matches. They reckon this was due to
petitions-that is to say during 194 hours pean Championship matches: Filipov, the fact that the trainers in charge made
It is already painfully obvious that these shonld be to report facts first and personal Kamenski, Zafirov, Velichkov, Penev, little of the immense heat and dry atmos-
sound proposals have not been heeded. At of top-class football with 3,048 players opinions afterwards. Unfortunately some of
taking part only two men were sent ofj. Jetchev, Aladjov, Ge~ov, Todoro~, Davidov, phere in Mexico and underestimated the
the start to the new season in the various our colleagues seem to delight in antici- Bonev, Panov, Yak1mov, Veseh~ov,. Der- amount of liquid they ought to have been
European Cup competitions, British soccer pating disasters. Occasionally their fore- mendjiev, Asparoukhov, . N1kod_imov, given to help them in the heat.
fans were once again being prepared for the bodings find confirmation . But it is quite Atanasov, Denev, Haralamp1ev, M1tkov, This, they say is why they appeared
imminent eruptions of violence which are Spectators irresponsible to present a couple of inci- Yotov, Markov, Marinov, Raikov, Stankov, to run out of steam towards the end of
supposedly characteristic of these touma- dents as material proof that all European Kirilov, Apostolov, Jekov, Mikhailov. matches after playing well in the early
ments. Before the first bali was kicked in When one reflects that these matches were tournaments are infested with bad sports- One of his prior concerns is to reduce stages. And, if that's not all, they didn't
some of the ties, we heard the familiar staged before a total of 2,300,000 spectators, manship and violent conduct. Perhaps if the average age of the squad, giving a think that the squad chosen was the best
stories of punching, • spitting, hair- and in an atmosphere charged with drama and some of them would take the trouble to chance to the younger players who will one available.
jersey-pulling, pinching and other similarly excitement; when one considers the high examine the overall facts about inter-
outrageous activities our players were about stakes involved - financial rewards, club national football, they would spare us the
to endure at the hands (and feet) of the prestige, individual fame, etc. - then the repeated inaccuracies and generalisations.

Dynamo Moscow ~g~ WITH

foreign villains (writes ARTHUR ROTMIL). assertion that European football is notori- Also if they were less concerned with find -

Calculated
ously violent is clearly ludicrous. These
statistics prove conclusively that European
ing "stories", but instead concentrated on
factual events it would bring them more in
TO
tournaments produce far less violence and line with impartial European observers.
Perhaps these hoary tales of "the Con-
tinentais not playing the game" still make
good reading in certain parts of the country.
They are hardly calculated to promote good
will and understanding between the teams or
countries concerned. Of course, it would be
easy to dismiss a spit in the face as a mere
act of vulgarity, whilst condemning the typi-
lead Tbilisi PENALTIES
TI THILE the penalty system persists in
l'l' the three European competitions, the
cally British tackle from behind which could
cause a broken leg. No, the real differences
A T the half-way mark, Lev Yachin in hls
20th season with Dynamo Moscow had
ln the goal-scorers' competition, Kozlov
of Dynamo Moscow tops the list with 14
question remains of how best to cope with
them. Willie Evan , who set a record by
helped the club into top place, one point goals, while Fedotov (CSKA) has 11 and scoring 11 out of 11 for Spurs back in their
lie, I fear, far deeper than just in some ahead of the Dynamo teams of Tbilisi and Giwi Nodija (Dynamo Tbilisi), who played palmy promotion days of 1933, said bis
basic attitudes to playing soccer. There have Kiev. in the World Cup, has 10. penalties were "always the sarne; hard and
and probably always will be those clashes Berador Abduraimov, the leading Divi- low to the goalkeeper's right and about a
of temperament, not least because some Three points behind the leaders were
three other Moscow sides, Spartak, Torpedo sion I goal-getter in the 1968 campaign who foot inside the post. Goalkeepers knew this,
British footballers still appear to have an was transferred to CSKA Moscow a year but I still beat them by sheer power and
almost pathological contempt for the Con- and CSKA. Spartak, the champions, started
slowly and after a good run in mid-season ago, has discovered that life in the big city accuracy."
tinentais, especially those from Southern is not what he expected it to be. With
fell away again towards the end after con- In modem times, Eusebfo showed how to
Europe. special FA approval he rejoined his old
vincing performances against Torpedo (2-0), put this theory into practice when he scored
Maybe it has ~omething to do with Italy·s CSKA (2-1), Dynamo Kiev a 1-0 away win club, Pachtakor Taschkent, in mid-season.
rol.: in the last war. Historians will most With only 11 matches left, Zenith Lenin- nine out of ten against Gordon Banks for
and a goalless draw with Moscow Dynamo. the benefit of television cameras in London.
likely confirm that while the Germans were grad were once more in relegation trouble
hated-the Italians were despised. Thus, I Later, however, they dropped points like and while the experts speculated on whether Time after time he beat Banks's dive with a
was not particularly surprised to learn of confetti and allowed CSKA and Dynamo to or not the FA would intervene once more shot to the sarne spot in the sarne comer.
the post-banquet brawl betwecn Arsenal and move clear at the top and with two games and save them from Division II, they began Perhaps the most amusing consequence of
Lazio players in Rome. But I was very left Spartak are out of the running. to pull away. Newcastle's fiasco and Everton's precarious
disappointed that Inter-Milan's goalkeeper, Dynamo Kiev have also slipped up some- Toe most improved team of the season, progress was an interview with Tefry
Lido Vieri, had lost control and was alleged what, largely it seems due to the loss of however, is Zaria Voroshilovgrad. Promoted Venables in the Daily Mirrar, in which he
to have punched the referee at Newcastle- form and confidence of their young striker as Zaria Lugansk, they changed their name explained how to take penalties successfully.
even if he was, as he claims, pressurised by Anatoli Bychewecz. Beaten at home by and their fortune with the engagement of The following day, having scored with 18
a baying crowd behind his goal. Remember three Moscow clubs, Torpedo, Spartak and the Hungarian-born former Dynamo Kiev out of 18 for Queen's Park Rangers, he
that another Italian custodian, Cudicini of Dynamo, their fading chances were shat- star, Josef Szabo, who hit a hat-trick on his missed one against Cardiff City. That was
AC Milan, was knocked out by a stone at Gianni Rivera of ltaly evades tackles by Austria's Schmidradner (left) and Parits tered after a 2-3 defeat at Ordshonikidse. début-the 4-1 win over Torpedo Moscow. decidedly a case. of tempting the gods.
Manchester· last year. in Vienna.
THIRTY WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, · December, 1970 T HIRTY -ONE

RIVA TRAGEDY
PHILIP EVANS
reports 1 Esnaola of Real Sociedad
sets new record
and Mazzola were named, not surprisingly
in view of a famous interview in which both

HITS CAGLIARI
players indulged in a long session of mutual
admiration and carne out strongly against
lhe ideal of the stafjetta-·the system used
i.n Mexico by which each played one half
of a game. Jn fact, against Austria both
played well. But so did De Sisti, who has
JOSE ESNAOLA, Real Sociedad's goalkeeper, set up a new Spanisb record when
Sabadell, Elcbe, Espanol, Real Madrid, Valencia and Seville all failed to find the net
during the season's first six games .

. . . AND ITALY
had so few poor games since he first carne
into the side a few seasons ago. Little At that point unbeaten Real Sociedad's record was eight points from 12 with a goal
wonder that Valcareggi has been faithful to average of two goals for and none against. Then Vicente, of struggling Granada, banged
him, has never wanted to sacrifice hi.m in in two .. . and ended the remarkable run. (ln 1968- 69 Esnaola was beaten only once in
the atmosphere of abuse that has so clouded the first six games.) This is a new Spanish ali-time record . .. but how does it compare
in world football?
it is worth remembering that the present the famous struggle over the two Milanese
N OTHING that has come out of Italy
in recenl months can compare with the injury has more serious medical overtones.
Riva is notoriously a left-footed player; the
players.
The person wbo may suffer most from
Real Madrid's "evergreen" outside-left, Francisco Genta, celebrated three landmarks in
October .. . his 37th birthday, 17 years with Real ... and his I 1th season as captain.
woe that the ltalians must feel concerning
Luigi Riva. Playing for Italy against Austria right leg is the one that takes the weight Riva's injury is Domenghini. We all know There was generous publicity which conveniently drew a smoke-screen over persistent
in the first game of his country's involve- when he indulges himself in the scoring of Domenghini and bis limitations, bis Jack of questions being asked about his future .
ment in lhe European Championship Cup, goals, and it may be that we have seen the genuine challenge and insight compensated Paco Gento's contract ends on June 30 . . and everyone is wondering whether his
Riva broke a leg. Specifically, hc broke the last of him for the season, albeit that it for by bis ubiquity and bis long-range playing contract will be renewed. Personally I'm sure it w1ll ... but public opinion says
fibula of bis right leg and wrenched thc lasts through until May. shooting. But be is not to be relied upon "No" because they believe Gento's indiffe·rence and diminishing participation in games
ligaments that co\'er the bone dose to the Riva 's injmy, however, could not mask for goals nowadays, and too often it is said (he shows his usual brilliant bursts, then fades out of the picture for a ten-minute re$!) is
ankle. He will be out of football for at least the unease with which ltaly have strugg!ed of Domenghini-as it is said of De Sisti- partly responsible for the impotencia of Real's attack. They also notice that Genta has
three months, possibly much longer, and if through their first two i.nternationals of the that he is one of the best full-backs in the been missing for severa! matches, injured at first but now . .. dropped.
for the generality of Italians the event is a season. Against Switzerland on October 17, game. If the fault is a national one, that The player himself says: "My ambition is to serve the club for 20 years" .. . which, of
minor mishap, for tbe people of Sardinia it Riva was not alont: in having an absolutely Italianate need to keep the defence con- course, will be no problem. When Genta hangs up his boots there will always be a
must be scen as a national tragedy. wretched match. God knows that Switzer- gested, the fact remains that a substitute for technical or administrative post for him .. .
land have provided Italy with generous Uiva must be found, and it may be that two

1-•"''NOãM",itl ê~JiE~""'I'
Scopigno was quite firrn. "He is 50 per if he can spare time from looking after the ---.-MIi-~ b
cent of Cagliari , and it is ridiculous to results in the past. This time it needed a will be needed.
expect anything withóut him. Goodbye to face-saving goal in the last few minutes ;~~~~-f::o~• r!i:~~ft8es, etc. • • he has
the European Cup, goodbye to the cham- from Mazzola, to bring about a reasonable
pionship. " And he should know. He and a result. Demanding
few million Sardinians will not be disposed Rivera did not play in that match, "ete~~:f y~~th~~hgen~~yis t~:P~~;~t t:fhah:= -• ' " " " " ' " " " ' ' ' " ' " " ~ " ' " ' '
It may be that by December-when the said "I've never never married." How
to think of Riva 's rnisfortune in the sarne stricken with some vague vírus. And since
ltalians have to meet Eire-some goal- opposite are our :views Paco .. . marriage Carlos seems to have been forgotten by
terms as the medics, who dismissed the Rosato was also unwell, it was not unnatural
scoring luminary will be at the height of his is the reason for my "eternal youth" . clubs, particularl y his own Zaragoza, strug-
injury as being "not too serious". to suppose that the two injuries were more
powers. Toe game should not be too Talking of farms . . . briugs me to my gling to stay out of the Second Division and
lt is the second time that Riva has suf- than mildly diplomatic ones, enough to
demanding for the Italians. An Italian recent meeting with anotber great Spanish badly in need of experience.
fered this fate. Jn March 1967 he had a suggest that the campaign against players
crowd is worth a goal's start t9 the players, star, Carlos Lapetra ... one of Zaragoza's
break in his left leg, and if he was back in from AC Milan was well under way again . and Eire have precious few people to worry "I would gladly sigo and play for a First
football within six months on that occasion, For the gamb against Austria both Rivera famous forward line "The Five Magnificos", Division club without payment, to demon-
a competent defence . But who to score the whicb captured the imagination of Europe
Italian goals? There is Prati, but a Prati strate that I still have my talent and could
four or five years ago. be of value to the game. Football is a part
far from his best. There is Anastasi, still far
from his best. There is Boninsegna, but of me and my life ... I miss it terribly."
Boninsegna-like Gori- appears to operate lt was an extraordinary statement in these
best when alongside another striker. Perhaps Operations days of grasp and grab and fight for money.
the answer is to play Chiarugi, despite his And it was sincere ... a sort of pathetic call
infuriating selfishness, with bis ability to "Emperor Carlos•·, as they used to call from the wilds of Northern Spain.
smack the bali so very hard, his invalua- him, was badl y injured in Zaragoza's Euro- Jose· Esnaola, goalkeeper of Real Sociedad,
bility whenever free-kicks are given close to pean Cup Winners Cup game with Everton created a new Spanish record recently.
goal. at Goodison Park ... a clash with Brian Desperate
And there remain questions with regard Labone that splintered a shin bone ... and
to the defence. Burgnich can command a after two operations was forced into prema- I didn 't keep Lapetra's longing secret
regular place for little longer, and I wonder
whether there is a better genuine full-back
ture retirement.
I met him during the Spain-Greece inter•
when I returned to Madrid. Next day there
were telephone calls between Lapetra and
TOYO WIN
in ltaly than Anquilletti, now that Poletti
has been tried and found wanting. And is
Albertosi really a more accomplished goal-
national match in Zaragoza. He had jour-
neyed from 1-luesca, where he owns and
runs a large cattle-breeding farm-his herd
Atletico Madrid, who since winning the
Championship have been desperate to sign
an experienced outside-left.
T OYO KOGYO ha.ve won the
Japanese league for the fifth
time in six years. The players of Toyo
keeper than Zoff? Many would say not, even of Jerseys is one of the best in Spain ... But alas Marcel Domingo, "ali talk- Kogjo are ai) employees of a large car
away from Fuorigrotta and those mad that stretches towards the foot of the fac:tory; they work six days a week and
ing" manager of Atletico (Malcolm Allison doing their training when they have
Neapolitan crowds. Pyrenees. Now 32, tough, strong and com- and Helenio Herrera are speechless in com- finished work. Last ye .. r's winners,
I have to admit also, that l'm still far pletely recovered from his injury, he still parison), pompously said : "The pressures of Mitsubishi, finished second.
from convinced by Bertini. Ferrante is such dreams of returning to football. football change each year ... and four years
The Mitsubishi team made a tour
a good sweeper, that it seems a sbame- to "Had I not received that unfortunate out of the game is a long time. There was of South America last spring and some.
]eave him out. And if Cera's attempts at tackle from Labone I would have been a lot more gush, but in one word, the sarne of their players were sent to Europe
playing in midfield have not been successful playing tonight (v. Greece). It cut my career, word that has shattered the hopes of many last summer to brush up their football
this season, who can wonder when he has which would now be at its peak, by four youngsters and "old-timers" at Manzanares skills with West German and English
been played so regularly behind, rather than years ... but I'm still capable of returning this season ... "No". clubs. Ali expenses were paid by their
in front, of the defence. He'll come right in and holding my own in First Division foot- Carlos Lapetra resignedly returned to his companies.
time, too good a player to let loss of form ball, " he told me. stock-breeding with at least one comforting S. USHIKI.
Riva of Italy and Bossi of Switzerland during a recent international in Berne. affect him more tban momentarily. Memories are notoriously short ... and thought ... bis cattle hadn't forgotten him.
THIRTY-TWO WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 W ORLD SOCCER; December, 1970 TH1RTY -THREE

Tactical Feature
BRAZIL AND THE
DIMRAM ,IL
) by
\
~
ERIC
. BATTY \
.\
\
\
\

USE OF WINGERS ' ,~

that Gerson bad played the ball and he \
(Jairzinho) was therefore on-side. f±J 001
If, on the other hand, the defending
stopper (5) declined to follow Tostao, then ~ h,
--'º 9'
---- 7

Gerson would sometimes slip a short pass ~

for Tostao. 6.
T ha-. been said of Brazil that in the 1970 Tostao and Pelé tbe central strikers, Jair- courage, running off the ball and ·above ali,
I World Cup they showed us nothing new. zinbo bad long been the accepted "right-
winger" in the national team. Had Joao
his centre-forward's nose that so often took
him into tbe middle to find shooting
If Tostao's shadow a ttempted to dose on
his man while the ball was en route to him,
But if their wing-play was not exactly new, then Tostao would sprint to mcet Gerson's l'I
they did at least highlight the fact that Saldanha retained control until after the positions. pass and play it back, first time. From there /
wingers and wing play have not been World Cup proper there is little doubt in Withdrawn from the left-wing, Rivelino Gerson would look up and chip the ball li i
invalidated by modem defensive methods. my mind that Brazil would not have won spent tbe bulk of his energies in midfield, away for Jairziriho. i"'
Of course, Jairzinho and Rivelino were the trophy. Saldanha himself gloomily pre- where he challenged opponents and often Although Rivelino was a withdrawn
not the orthodox, touchline-hugging bali dicted a "disaster similar to that of 1966" won possession of the bali. He also put in winger rather than the Jairzinho striker-
artists lihi Matthews and Finney, to which shortly before his dismissal. Such a disaster
was precisely what I myself had expected
a great deal of hard running to cover his tyi,e, he repeatedly moved forward on the
'1 have no hesit àt ion
we were all accustomed 20 years ago, but
tbere can be no doubt tbat in Mexico tbey and I have no besitation in applauding
Jorge Lobo Zagalo, who made a!l the right
colleagues in defence and additionally
sprinted up in support of his team-mates up
left when a team-mate in possession was
under pressure. Jairzinho, Tostao, Pelé-
.
were to be seen demonstrating modem wing
play.
With tbe passing of Julinho and Garrin-
cba, tbe best of the old scbool ball-playing
decisions in the few weeks a!lotted to him.
front-Jairzinho, Tostao and Pelé. Troe,
Rivelino had o)l}y one foot, but with a left
leg likc Rivelino's who needs another?
To examine the role of Jairzinho first, he
almost anyone who made an off-the-ball
run from right to left-could expect to find
Rivelino in support should the runner
receive a pass.
1 n applaud ing Zagalo '
wingmen in Brazil were probably Natal Experiments was certainly more orthodox than Rivelino . n:i-ust . hav~ looked ~p quickly to sec tbe guard and when the bali dropped at tbe feet
(Cruzeiro FC) and Edu (Santos). Both these Operating "from" an advanced position and s1tu~tion m t~ Itah~~ penalty area and, of Pelé he bad only one opponent in his
players were in Brazil's European touring Exactly what experiments Zagalo attempted out wide on the right flank he looked the Marked havmg made h1s dec1S1on, he stepped for- direct path to goal. Controlling the bali and
squad of 1968 and both bad advantages in during tbe ten weeks be bad bis squad in part. Without even kicking a ball, therefore, ward to mcet the ball and pop it over the sbaping up to go in alone, Pelé suddenly
addition to tbeir own particular skills. Natal camp, no outsider will ever know. Bút he Jairzinho was belping to make the central Time after time during the competition in defence. There was Pelé going in on the slipped the bali out into space on the right
was playing in the sarne attack (Cruzeiro carne up witb a combination that bit tbe passage easier for Pelé and Tostao. This is Mexico, Rivelino popped balls laid back to gallop, and jumping to head Brazil's opening where Carlos Alberto was sprinting from
FC) as Tostao, which gave him an obvious jackpot rigbt on the nose. Pushing Wilson an automatic advantage which is gained by him . .. into the middle first time. Diagram goal. right-back to overlap Pelé.
"edge", while Edu had spent the past four Piazza into the back four; replacing bim in any team fielding a winger because it keeps II outlines · one such move that was seen in Later, with Brazil winning 3-1 and only a Pelé judged his pass just right and as
years as Pelé's left-wing partner for Sant06. midfield with the 20-year-old Cl(,)(ioaldo and, at least one defender out wide to keep an Mexico with Clodoaldo taking a throw-in few minutes left to play, a combination of Carlos Alberto closed on the ball be bit a
In a!l the World Cup qualifying matches above ali, scbooling Rivelino to play the eye on him. Field two wingers, both playing and dropping tbe ball at the feet of Pelé. the moves outlined in Diagrams II and III superb ground shot, first time, aimed just
Edu was a regular and it was not until the withdrawn left-wing role that be himself from wide positions, and the central areas Tigbtly marked Pelé laid the ball back to led to tbe superb fourtb goal for Brazil inside the far post that left Albertosi belp-
final six weeks before the big kick-off in bad played in 1958 : 4-3-3 with the emphasis are still more likely to be penetrated for the Rivelino, who crossed it first time ... with which put the result bcyond doubt. less.
Mexico that Rivelino and Clodoaldo seemed on attack whenever Brazil bad possession of defenders have to divide tbeir for~ and are his left foot, of course. . Clodoaldo sparked this move off with a Clearly tbese moves and slight variations
to come into tbe reckoning. Rivelino had tbe ba!l. thus unable to concentrate in the middle. This type of cross offers two great advan- spectacular run (with the bali) from right to around the basic moves were displayed too
been capped before, of course-more than On the right wing then, playing what tages. First because it is played in as quickly left, square across the pitch. ln the space of often by Brazil for them to be explained
20 times-but always as an orthodox inside- most people would accept as a normal as possible and thus denies the defenders thc about 20 yards Clodoaldo beat four oppo- away.
left. Neither man played any part in Brazil's winger's game was Jairzinho. Strong, quick time they would like to look .around and see hents, wbile Rivelino moved further and It is now abundantly clear tbat there are
six qualifying matcbes in 1969. and aggressive he lacked tbe skills of his Determination tbat everyone is marked. further left to maintain his support role. at least a handful of European-type coaches
For his club Botafogo, Jairzinho has predecessors Julinho and Garrincha but Secondly, because as in the cxample in Finally, Clodoaldo touched the bali back to at work in Brazil but though this must be
always been a centrc-forward but with more than atoned for this through bis Jairzinbo's greatest assets were undoubt-
edly speed and detennination and repeatedly Diagram II, both Jairzinho and Tostao Rivelino. As · Clodoaldo had made his move considered to be a tremendous step forward
tbe Brazilians could be seen making full use would come to meet this ball looking for a witb the bali, both Tostao and Jairzinho when allied to the basic skills of the typi-
of both. touch (with head or foot) and while the had edged towards tbe left. Toe first-time cally Brazilian player, they still have a great
goalkeeper rnust pay attention to the bali, cross from Rivelino caugbt the Italians off deal of lecway to make up for in defencc.
ln Diagram I we see a basic move with both strikers are making their approach
two altematives often used as a preliminary runs from the goalkeeper's blind side.
Diagram III illustrates a move utilising .l>IM~AM lTI
by the Brazilians in Mexico. Seven is, of
course, J airzinho, nine is Tostao and eight
~ is Gerson. On occasions both Clodoaldo both wingers in their respective roles. Jair-
\ and Carlos Alberto were to be seen in the zinho here is a striker looking for the bali,
while Rivelino moves up the left flank to
position given to Gerson, but the ability of
@ \ [fil the last named to "drop" his long passes support attacking players and, receiving a
r - - - - - - - - - - - - l - - - ( ' 1 -- - - + - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - ' -- - - 4 exactly where he wished gave the move an pass, he pops it back across the field first
/ 7 extra element of danger when it began with time. Toe extra twist hcre is given through
I J airzinho running across the pitch, taking
him in possession.
V,,.. his opponent with him and leaving vital
Witb Gerson on the bali in midfield and space behind which is utilised by Gerson,
Jairzinbo out wide on the rigbt, Tostao Carlos Alberto or Clodoaldo.
drops a little deeper and veers slightly away
These three basic moves were observed
t
, -,rn '
from tbe Brazilian right wing. What happens
repeatedly during the World Cup and in fact
now depends upon the reaction of the
moves II and III each brought a goal for
.... ____
enemy defenders. lf the stopper (5) makes
any move towards the retreating Tostao then
the uncovered gap between 5 and 3 is made
Brazil in the 4-1 final victory over Italy.
Brazil's opening goal, scored by Pelé,
. . . - - 1\
even wider. ln this situation Gerson would carne directly from a throw-in jl_imaj into I

g
. plant a long ball for J airzinho to chase and
if the winger broke at precisely the right
moment be would catch his shadow by sur-
prise and by leaving it late enough to ensure
space in front of Tostao as the centre-for-
ward carne to meet tbe bali and touch it
back first time to Rivelino. Before Tostao
played the bali off to Rivelino, the latter
4
/
/
 SWISS CELEBRA
TH lR TY-FOVR WORLD SOCCER , December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER , •December, 1970

T EHJRTY-FIVE

s WITZERLAND'S national side missed

WITH A DRAW
one oC. their grcafost soccer triumphs
by a matter of four minutes. This was the
time left for play at thc Wankdorf sladium
in Bcrne, when wiCh the Swiss leading 1-0,
Sandro Mazzola grabbed a dramatic, face-
saving equaliser for Italy. The visitors, who
are the reigning European champions and
who confirmed this status by finishing pcnalty box he juggled with the bali lifting Ilussian cha mpions, Spa rtak Moscow, is
second in the World Cup only to Brazil, it si x times(!) without touching the ground ratcd the greatest in th eir bistory.
were rather fortunate in squaring matters so and then sbot suddenly on the turn into th e So far , 11 Swiss tea ms have taken part in
late in the game. comer of the net to mak.e it 1-1. thc three international tourn aments. They
Especially as a few minutes before Maz- played a total of 157 games, winning 41
zola's score, the·· Swiss so nearly made it Festivities whilst losing 91. The most successful club
2-0 when Blattler hit the bar and Künzli's has proved to be FC Zürich, although they
diving header off the rebound, was cleared participated in only six contests, as com-
off the line by Niccolai. With thousands of A total of 26 out of the 33 countries pared wi th Basle (13), La usanne (12) or
ltalian guest workers, armed witb flags, ban- affiliated to lhe Europcan Football Union Servette (8).
ners, noisy instruments of all kinds, etc., were represented at lhe feslivities and the Three team5 managed to reach the semi-
).:iirzinho of B.razil continues to score vital goals at home and abroad. game. The distinguished guests were headed
among the crowd of 42,000, it was for ltaly finais: F irst La usanne in the Fairs Cup of
practically a home fixture. by FIF A's president, Sir Stanley Rous . I 955-58 (when the competition was spread
HE best Brazilia n clubs from seven
T
ROCHA JOINS ·T his result, so heartening for the gallant Teams-Switzerland: Kunz; Boffi, Chapui- over three seasons); Young Boys of Berne
provinces are currently engaged in the sat, Weibel, Perroud; Odermatt, Knhn;
"Torneo Gomes Pedrosa" which wa~ Swiss and their new manager Louis Maurer in the Champions Cu p 1958- 59 and lastl y
is ali the more incredible when one con- Balmer (then Jeandupeux and !ater Vuille- Zürich in 1963-64, also in the Cha mpions
scheduled to eml on December 6 and is a umier), Bllittler, Künzli, Wenger. ltaly:
real marathon with severa! games per week. siders the respective backgrounds of these tourney. Zürich also had a fine run in the
teams. On one side, professional players Albertosi (Zoff); Polet"ti, Niccolai, Cera Fairs Cup 1968-69, when they ente red the
The top two clubs will represent Brazil in

SAO PAULO
drafted from one of Europe's- most powerful (Ferrante), Facchetti; Juliano (Cera), De quarter-final stage after eliminating Barce-
the South American Club Championship, Sisti ; Domenghini, Mazzola, Gori, Riva.
the "Libertadores" Cup, to which this coun- leagues, bristling with the Mexico-gained lona, N ottingham Forest and Sporting Lis-
try will make a welcome return next ycar. confidence, experienced and redoubtable. Swiss clubs are al so enjoying some glory bon. In the Cup Winners Cup only one
What makes thi s tournament speciall y in the two major European Cup competi- Swiss tea m a ppeared in the last eight,
tiring are the long journeys ali over this tions. For the first time since 1964 both namel y Lausanne, in l 964-6 5.
vast country by air, road and rai l between this versatile player which , by European Part-timers clubs-Basle and Zurich-<jualified for the
games without a break just after the clubs standards, was cheap.
ERIC WEIL second round. Basle's triumph over th e ARTHUR ROTMIL
Neighbours Santos, not to be outdone, got
have fini shed their own provincial cham- On the other, a bunch of part-timers,
pi onships. Yet sports commentators and
fans in general are clamouring for this
Argentine international goalkeeper, Maria
Cejas, from Racing Club of Buenos Aires reviews the most of whom have to wo-rk for a living,
and with severa! men who had just been
tourn a mcnt to replace thc provincial cham-
pionsbips.
at Pelé's insistence. "With Cejas we can't
lose," he said. The 120,000 dollars Santos scene in called up for one of the periodical military
service stints which are probably unique in
Sao Paulo and Guanaba (Rio), the
strongest provinces, each have their top five
had to pay was the highest ever paid to an
Argentine club, but Cejas, an outstanding South America the world. Still, it would be foolish to over-
goalkeeper and point saver for Racing, was rate this scoreline, for the fact is, that most
clubs in the competition. Minas Gerais and of the Italians treated this game for what it
a)so cbeap in comparison, but Racing, in (d) Argentine players can earn more in
Rio Grande have two clubs, while Bahia, was : a strictly friendly encounter with
fin ancial difficulties, were grateful for what Brazil and rely on getting their pay more
Perna mbuco and Parana qualify one each . nothing at stake and staged to celebrate the
they got. regularly than at home, so that most are
Clubs from all parts of Brazil, where the only too keen to go. 75th anniversary of the Swiss FA.
Sensation best soccer in the world is played, continue WORLD SoccER readers will I'm sure be
to send ernissaries after Argentine players, It could turn into an exodus . . . except interested to hear that at the Jast jubilee of
As the tournament started, with the added many of them goalkeepers. This may seem that Brazilian clubs, on the whole, haven't this governing body in 1945, commemorat-
incentive tbis year of entry to the "Liber- strange, but: got ali that much money to spend either. ing 50 years of existence, Switzerland beat
tadores" Cup, th e richer clubs searcbed fo-r (a) Transfer values for Argentine players Brazil broke the international inactivity England 3-1 also at Berne. The English team
reinforcements. Sao Paulo caused a sensa- are cheap in comparison and Argentine clubs in South America after the World Cup with incidentally was: Swift; Scott, Hardwick;
tion by going after Uruguayan international are not too hard to <leal with at the moment, a couple of games versus Mexico, at Rio, Soo, Franklin, Mercer ; F inney, Brown ,
half, Pedro Rocha, wbo had played ali bis because they are willing to Jet even their and Chile at Santiago . Against Mexico they Lawton, Hunt and Smith. Before a crowd of
First Division soccer with Peiíarol and was best players go in exchange for much won far more easily than the 2-1 score 41,000, Fink, Friedllinder and Amado scored
one of his country's most popular players. needed ready cash. suggests with exhibition soccer. Against for the Swiss, while Brown replied for Eng-
Sao Paulo had ,to pay 175,000 dollars for Chile the 5-1 win tells its own story. Two land. This victory ranks together with the
Training fine performances by the World Cup holders 4-2 World Cup win in France over Germany
(then calling itself Great Germany, after
(b) There are many good goalkeepers in against admittedly weak opposition, but
HAPPENING OF THE MONTH 1N now, according to Joao Havelange, Presi- the annexation of Austria) in 1938, as one
Argentina. ln Brazil there are not. One of
of the finest in Swiss soccer history.
SOUTH AMERICA the reasons being put forward for this is dent of the Brazilian Sports Confederation,
Rio de Janeiro club, Flamengo's that as clubs play so often, they do very it appears that is the last we will see of For the meeting with Italy new coach
goalkeeper, Ubirajara, hit the head- little training . The players get the required them until the middle of 1972 when the Louis Maurer picked only one débutant anct
lines in September by scoring a goal training in matches, but not the goalkeepers. "little world tournament" is due to be he was entrusted with looking after the
in his team's 2-0 win over Portuguesa (c) There are many excellent bali artists, played in Brazil. great Riva! Pierangelo Boffi (24) from
in a league game. It was a noteworthy especially forwards, in the Argentine, who There are rumblings of discontent over Lugano took his chance with both hands
feat even though the bali was helped find little scope for their skills in the type this, however. Pelé is one who has gone on and rarely allowed one of Europe's most
along by a strong wind and rival of soccer and tough marking in the Argen- record as saying that Brazil needs a per- feared strikers to show his paces. Blattler
Basle's victory over Spartak M<Hcow in the European Cup might have been their
goalkeeper, Paulo Roberto, was tying tine at present, but they show up well in manent national team playing at regular shot the home side into a 16th-minute lead,
best ever resul_t . but they found their next round opponents, Ajax of Amsterdam,
his bootlaces at the time. Brazil where there is less marking and more intervals and a junior team to prepare for then Mazzola thrilled the crowd with bis tough~~ oppos1t1on: Here Basle defenders are helpless as they watch Dick Van
scope for the artist. the future. sensati.onal solo effort. Just outside the D1Jk ( out of p1eture ) score the Dutch club's second goal in a 3-0 victory.
THIRTY-SIX WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 W ORLD SOCCER., Dece111ber, 1970 THllffY-S EV EN

NORMAN CUTLER-on the mari who cannot keep out of the news
KINDVALL THE ir~epr~ssiblc H_elenio Hcrre~a, thc

011
world s h1ghest pa1d managcr, 1s wcll
thc way to recovery after his near-dcath
crash on the Autopista dei Sol, just outsidc
HERRERA-
TO MOVE?
F!orencc.
He iSpback with "La Roma", more genial
than he has been for some time, although

Q VE KINDVALL, the Swedish intemational who had a glorious

1969/70 season, has told hls employers, Feyenoord of Rotter-
furious at still not being able to take a
really active part in the daily training.
The accident, and H .H.'s Iatest revelation,
are just further episodes-perhaps more
hair-raising and romantic this time-in bis
ON ROAD TO
headline catching life. Italian newsmen
dam, that he wants to retum home after the current Dutch football
season.
If Feyenoord consent, then Kindvall is almost certain to rejoin
his old club, Norrkoping, who finished sixth in Sweden in the
championship which has just ended.
shrug their shoulders and say : "H.H . just
cannot keep out of the news, even when he
wants to. "
Herrera w~s on his way to view samples
of: a new "synthetic grass for football
RECOVERY
pitches" wben the accident occurred at ment about his friendship with the beautiful There is no doubt that soon after the
Kindvall announced that he had been offered a job in Sweden in ltaly's b.lackest road spot, the dangerous ltalian journalist, Fiora Gandolfi. It put into season started· President Marchi ni , whose
public relations and he thought the time had come to start thinking curve of La Pinetta, south of Florence. perspective what everyone had been talking opinion of bis manager cannot be higher,
more carefully about his future. He has a wife and two children, all Driving his cream Mercedes, he ove-rtook a about for a ve,r y long time. urged H.H. to make a public statement
of thern living rnodestly in the sarne street where Feyenoord coach lorry, crashed into road works, careered about his private alfairs, which he did.
Fiora, who is 32 and for severa! years Afterwards Signor Marchini said: "I prefer
Ernst Happel is living. across the opposite traffic line and plunged legally separated from her husband, a Milan a manager publicly in !ove to one agitated
olf the autopista. He walked from the wreck engineer, first met Helenio when she edited and on edge with press and photographers,
Last season was Kindvall's best ever. He not only scored the - the Mercedes was a total loss-released his biography and book on Italian football. as Herrera was last season."
decisive goal that brought the European Cup to Holland for the his companion , Fio-ra Gandolfi, then sank The business association developed into a
first time but in between Dutch League down into semi-collapse. H.H. is now back on top of the· wor ld,
friendship which they tried to-and did-
games and European Cup games he was
The pair, the girl was only slightly hurt, keep secret. But secrets cannot be kept for- still confidently and loudly maintaining that
freed by Feyenoord for the important
were rusbed to the Clinica Ulivella and ever, especially in ltaly. Their rare visits to although Cagliari , Fiorentina , Milan and
Swedish World Cup qualifying matches and
semi-public places crept into the gossip Inter are joint favourites ("The League is
the Swedes owed it mainly to him that they ~ within an hour H.H. was in the, care of
eminent ltalian surge·on, Dr. Ugo Scaglietti. columns .. . and soon the whole thing began very equal this year" ). "La Roma" will be
qualified for Mexíco.
ln Mexico, however, Kindvall, very tired When he does not His injuries were diagnosed as fractured ribs
and a damaged spine; the surgeon's opinion :
to snowball. at the top when the season ends.
"The Mago" really ha5 rccovered from
(The friendship was said lo be the reason dangerous curves and cupid.
after that hectic season, could not inspire " . . . had Signor Herrera not been perfectly
his team-mates.
Since those games Kindvall's rate of goal-
score goals he can fit and strong as becomes a footballer, he
would have broken his back."
why H.H. last season. , for the first time in
his life, was so distant and anxious to avoid
press reporters . . . a situatio,r which caused
scoring has steadily dropped. Happel has
return home
'
the directors of "La Roma" considerable
done ali he could to recharge him. He restcd Charming private concern.)
him for a few games and deliberately never
let him play for a full 90 minutes, using His son and daughter, journalist- Helenio
the young Van Daele as substitute on many junior and the charming Rocio, advised by Acknowledged
occasions. telephone, immediately flew to his bedside
But it remains clear that Kindvall, who one less than his partner, and shared third severa! lucrative offers from the Bundesliga from their home in Madrid. On arrival they Once on thc surface the story reached the
has scored over 100 goals for his adopted place in the goal-scoring charts. had influenced Ove into holding out and found him "pretty sick . .. in pain . . . and proportions, not of a scandal as is usual in
club since he carne to Holland in 1966, has • Bild went home then and Kindvall pro- getting better terms which he achieved. on tbe danger list" . .. but talking to Rome's ltaly, but a Royal Romance. 1t was written
lost confidence and this is probably the main nounced that: "The time had come to take This season has seen his luck tum sour, millionairc president, Signor Marchini, and about with affection ... and with a "good
influence behind his desire to go home and over." with shots that would normally have hit the directing the Rome team's training through for you, H.H." attitude. Pictures replaced
get a job besides playing football. How right he was. The 1967-68 season back of the net striking posts and crossbars general secretary, Vincenza Biacone, and gossip items . . . they were seen together
saw him end as top goalscorer throughout with startling regularity and this probably club captain , Luís dei Sol. more . .. until the romance was unofficially
Holland with 28 goals, and the following accounts for his loss of confidence. Evidently nothing can keep this mau acknowledged when Piora accompanied
lnterest down. H.H. to Mexico for the World Cup.
year was even more productive with 30 The fact that he has scored eight times in
He very likely feels that his best years are goals coming from those lethal feet. the first ten matches would seem good Once out of danger H.H. , his ribs and
behind him and he must make the break Once the story was in the open, "El
However, he had to be content with enough for most but for a perfectionist spine encased in plaster, left Florence for Mago" (The Magician) as he is popularly
before it is too late. That, of course, ex• his home in Rome calling, en route, at the
sharing the top spot and the club won the like Kindvall it's just not good enough known, lost his nervousness and became his
plains why Feyenoord have been showing a League Championship. and ought to have been more. Like in club ground to greet his players . After that
more than passing interest in the West old self. He regained his joviality, became
the European Cup clashes with UT Arad he retired behind the high walls of bis old agreeable to everybody . . . and the Rome
German international Jurgen Grabowski of of Rumania. Feyenoord ought to have Roman palace·-mansion in the exclusive Stadium took on a difterent atmosphere .
Eintracht Frankfurt. Triumphed beaten them instead of falling to an residential district of San Alesio, to
Though Kindvall left Sweden half-way The 1969-70 season was a tremendous unknown team but couldn't hit goals. " recuperate". He was in constant contact Six days before the accident H.H . made
through their 1966 season he had already one. Feyenoord triumphed in both the Euro-- If and when Kindvall returns home he is with the club by telephone . . . but two days his public statement about the romance,
scored so many goals in his native land that pean Cup and the Inter-Continental Cup assured of a hero's welcome. Even now was the most he could endure. "Sitting spoke of a perfect friendship with a won-
he was still the country's top goalscorer and became World Club Champions. The around the house and garden was worse derful person and said: "Being popular and
Swedish journalists make frequent trips to
when the season ended despite the fact that fact that they relinquished the Champion- see him play and seek his views afterwards. than hospital. 1 recovered far quicker once in the public eye I prefer it to be known
be had been playing for Feyenoord for some ship to old rivais Ajax didn't matter. Kind- One paper even telephones him every Sun- . 1 began visiting tbe stadium," he told me. that we care for each other very much and
months. vall notched 23 goals, sharing second place day night for his personal comment. lncidentally a number of motor car com- are living togetber." (W hen legal difficulties
Toe club gave him a free weekend to fly in the charts with Johan Cruyff of Ajax. panies have been duelling for the "honour" are solved they intend to m.arry.)
The club were not shaken by his of replacing the destroyed Mercedes . . . as a
back to receive the Golden Bali as top Top scorer was Willy van der Kuylen of announcement. Manager Brox only said: That did it. For six hectic days, until the
scorer and the f800 which was donated to PSV Eindhoven, who scored 26. gift to H.H. almost disastrous accident, Fiora now
"When he does not score goals he can
the winner. First hints that Kindvall was unhappy return home . . . when his shooting power Just before the accident Herrera was the witbout her dark "disguise" glasses .. . was
Then his first full season of Dutch foot- came even as far back as May, when he returns we'll offer him a new contract and centre of another kind of sensation. Beneath Italy's most newsworthy and pbotographed
ball began. Playing alongside fellow Swede made it known that he was reluctant to then we'll see what he does. We only worry headlines like "Flowers for a Manager in girl. Then carne the crash . . . H .H . was back
Harry Bild he scored 23 goals in 34 games, re-sign. But one wondered how much when the time comes, not now." Love", newspapers published an H .H. state- . .. in the headlines.
THIR1.Y-EIGHT WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER,. December, 1970 THlRTY-NlNE

English must learn

"JF the English 1>laycrs would learn how to play football, they Listening to this poor fellow, one is aJmost forced to imagine that
by Klaus Schlegel
Chief Editor of the
would be unbeatable," said Ferenc Berczesi, the Pecsi Dozsa it was a team of sportswriters who lost 4-1 at Marseille and 4-0 at "Neue Fussball-Woche"
outside-right, to me after his club's first-leg tie at Newcastle. "They
are fantastically fit, fast and bravc," he added.
Belgrade. All the three entrants from Budapest have been kicked out
in double quick time from the European competitions-but, of ..
I pointed out to him that it is precisely the speed of the British
game which obscures the players' individual talents. They could be
course, this was also the fault of the press!
The answer is that if one goes to a restaurant three or four times T HEthe German Football Association of
German Democratic Republic,
and finds the meals terrible and the service bad, one will not go wHh 430,000 members tbe biggest sports
almost as dever on the bali as the Continentais or the South association of the country, held its IVth
Americans, if the tempo of their football would be less hectic. the fifth time.
The Hungarian clubs have been serving up "unpalatable food" to congress in April 1970. Apart from elect-
Berczesi's remark is typical of the misconception that still exists their loyal patrons for years, and now the fans have de.cided that ing a presidium in conformity with the
in Hungary. Don Howe, tbe Arsenal ooach, summed it up they don't care for it. The moment the standard of football association's constitution, one of the
admirably in a recent TV interview with Brian Moore. improves and reaches a reasonable leve!, I am sure that the faithfuls main points 011 the agenda was a discus-
"Continental footballers lack physical determination. I do not will return t<:J their favourite shrines in their thousands. But until sion about the unsatisfactory standards
mean that they should be over-tough, but that they should have the then, gate-figures will make depressing reading. of performance in GDR soccer. After
urgency to fight for the bali as soon as they lose it. Modem football analysing the situation, the delegates
is 33-½'% skill, 33f% method and 33-!-% physical determination." ado))ted measures to overcome the stag-
I might not quite agree with Howe on the division of percentages, Final reckoning nation of recent years.
but he is basically right. We also know that "physical determina- Hcrr Helmut Riedel, prcsident of the
tion" can become excessive, but it is my sincere belief that with the Despite the overall gloom, I am glad to record that the oncc GDR foothall association, stated quite
help of strong refereeing, this cou]d be easily remedied, and then famous Hungarians are still good enough to beat the amateurs of frankly in bis speech: "ln its develop-
the endeavour would be wholly beneficial. Nonvay. A 3-1 victory in the opening European Championship Cup ment soccer is lagging far behind other
game at Oslo was very welcome, because these two points might be sports in the GDR. The bronze meda!
bandy at the final reckoning. won at the Tokyo Games in 1964 was a
Over-sensitive ln front of 15,000 people, Bene opened the scoring in the sixth flukc; we failed in ali other major com-
minute when he cleverly beat goalkeeper Karlsen following a petitions thereafter, which alone are a
Besides this traditional affection for "nice football", Hungarian Fazekas-Muller move. This was the Vasas player Muller's first full
players have recently become over-sensitive regarding the press . determining factor. ln order to Iive up
cap, and the other débutant, Laszlo Nagy (Ujpesti Dozsa), scored to future requirements it is necessary- to
They think that the communication media (newspapers, TV and the second goaJ in the 23rd minute,.
radio) are harsb and unnecessarily critica!. "The journalists bave make a ncw departure. This will not be
Iversen (now with Malines in Belgium) reduced the gap in the easy, but it is indispensable so as to
brainwashed the public to such an extent, that they will not come 49th minute, but 20 minutes !ater the unfortunate Karlsen palmed East German goalkeeper Juergen Croy.
to see us," one well-known international said. "And the hard core keep abreast of developments in world
an innocent-looking Kocsis cross into bis own net. soccer. A higher quality in our work
of supporters who do attend the League matches are in the babit This puny victory does not make up for the countless disappoint- with up-and-coming talent and a better

GDR PLANS
of making sarcastic remarks, and their behaviour undermines our rnents, and when one considers that on the sarne day the Under-23
confidence." levei of top-class training should pave
side lost 1-0 to Norway, the future. does not look too bright either. thc way for more efficient work at ali
The list of the top-scorers include the greatest names of Central leveis of our association."
European football: Dr. Gyorgy Sarosi leads the list with 50 goals,
followed by Meazza of Ambrosiana (now Inter) and Geza Toldi
'WORLD SOCCER is the Development

IMPROVEMENT
with 28. Toe imrnortal Sindelar of Austria Vienna and my boyhood
ido!, Gyula Zsengeller, are on 24, and further down the list one Witb only six months gone after tbis
mo$t informative single finds Avar, NejedJy, Bican, Binder, Turai, Orsi and ·Puskas. This discussion, it is too early to strike a final
season's competition is tbe 30th in its history, but although the balance. However, it should be noted
item I have ever seen name is the sarne, its importance· is now minimal. that a favourablc and encouraging
And Gcorg Buschner, who was ap- headway and is the closest rival of Jena
regarding soccer on an development is taking place both in the
national team and in the best club teams. pointed manager of the national team in for the leading position in the GDR's
lnexplicable setbacks April, added: "Only the elimination First Division.
international level' The junior tcam of the GDR reached
the finais of the UEFA junior tourna- games for the European championships This sporting rivalry is an indication
Despite a couple of painful and inexplicable setbacks (1-2 v. will disclose what we are capable of of the fact that every effort is being made
ment in the last two years, taking second
says RAY MEDEIROS of Califorriia, USA. Videoton, 1-2 v. Raba), Ujpesti Dozsa are four points ahead of the
place in 1969 after a drawn match doing. We shall be judged by the results to attain greater fitness. Generally speak-
field in the League title race. Vasas were in the hunt for some time in our qualification matches against the ing one may say that the standard of
against Bulgaria and coming out winners
Mr. Medeiros has a subscription to but a sudden slump increas4õd the gap. They have 21 points after 12
in 1970 after a draw with the Nether- Netherlands in Dresden on November 11, JJerformance in the present national
matches-one fewer than Honved, MTK and Ferencvaros. against Luxembourg in Luxembourg on championship is higher than it was in
WORLD SOCCER. These four clubs will be fighting hard for the silver medals and a lands. ln both cases lots had to be drawn
to determine the winners. November 5 and, of course, in our recent years. It shonld be mentioned in
place in next year's Fairs Cup. Szeged are still firmJy entrenched at friendly meeting with England in Lon- this connection, that the GDR football
You can have one too by completing the foot of the table, but Raba are battling their way out of tbe The Spartakiad movement, which in
don on November 25. I am quite association is trying hard to improve the
relegation zone. soccer, too, proves to be a successful
the form below. New coach Agoston Domonkos has revitaJised the team, and now method in . developing up-and-coming
optimistic, since we have worked very levei of coaching. A special course for
talent, has becn enhanced both in quality hard." ali managers of First Division teams was
it is Dunaujvaros who are in dire trouble. held at the DHfK sports university in
------■----------- There is a separate race between the provincial clubs for the and quantity in the current year.
Leipzig making available the latest
Subscriptions Manager, WORLD SOCCER, 84-87 1 ln its three official international Skeleton
1 Temple Chambers, London, E.C.4, please enter a
highest League placing, which is also worth a place in the Fairs
Cup. Pecsi are the current leaders, but their goal-shy forward line matches this year, the national team As a matter of fact the players have
knowledge in soccer coaching.
The standards of soccer in the GDR
1 12 months subscription, commencing with issue 1 might not be good enough to keep them there. remained unbeaten, holding Poland to a done their best so far. The FC Carl Zeiss do not yet compare with those in top-
1 dated .. ...... .. .... .... enclosed herewith f.2.1.0. 1 Incidentally, participation in the Fairs Cup for a Hungarian
provincial club is not a viable financial proposition-in fact so far
1-1 draw at Krakow, beating Iraq com-
fortab]y 5-0 at Jena and thrashing Poland
Jena, which provided the skeleton of the class soccer elsewhere. But the points
1 (Inclusive Post UK/Europe) (U.S.A. $6-Airmail 1 Pecsi have lost money on their European adventure (v. Univ. 5-0 at Rostock.
national team, can be credited with
a1>plying scientific methods in training
have been shifted in order to make up
for lost ground and to attain the sarne
1 $9) other countries on application.
1 Craiova and Newcastle).
But they consider the money well spent because of the enormous
"This is only a beginning, of course,"
said Herr Helmut Riedel, president of
for many years.
This comes as a result of the close
standards as other GDR sports hold,
such as athletics, rowing, swimming, .
1 NAME: ........ .. .... .. ....... ..... .... ........ ...... ........ 1 international publicity they have received. Millions of people had thc GDR's FA, in October. "Howevcr, co-operation betwcen the local Friedrich volleyball, to quote just a few. The
1 ADDRESS: ... ........ ................. ......... ........... 1
I
never heard of Pecsi until their name was put in the hat for the
Fairs Cup draw. I can't see any immediate tangible advantages, but
these beginnings prove that you can
achieve more than before if you concen-
Schiller University and the Carl Zeiss
club, which is also coached by national
future will tel1 us if GDR soccer does
only claim the crown of popularity or is
1 I suppose the old saying that a good football club improves a town's trate on some major ))Oints in your team manager Georg Buschner. Dynamo also capable of wielding the sceptre in
1 ................... ......................... ... .................. 1
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image must still be true. progrnmme." Dresden, too, has made considerable terrns of superior performance.
* LESLIE VERNON
FUJU'Y WURLD SU CCER, Dec:ember, 1970 WORLD SOC'CER. D('re mb('r, 7970

TOVilla,
the list of new luminaries in the Italian League can he added the name of Silvano
of AC Milan. Three years ago a hilherto unknown player headed the goal-
scoring lisls and was highly instrumental in thc winning of the Italian cham1>ionship by
Milan-Pierino Prati. Jt is too early to say whelher Villa is likely to emulate· this feat,
hut he has come into the life of Rocco like an angel from 011 high.
Yilla is 19, was bought by Milan from a local team for fZ,000 , lent last season to
Alessandria- for whom he scored more than a few goals-and now seems destined to David Webb scores the only goal of the game in Chelsea's home encounter with CSKA Sofia.
receive all the ballyhoo that the Jtalian publicity machine manufactures for creatures such
as himself.

Amazing Best
For months Rocco had worried . Worried about the feeble -form of Prati, the inability
of Combin to do the sim.pie things effectively, the essential Jack of class of Rognoni. Now
Villa has appeared, scored three very good goals in two and a half matches and seems
well 011 the way to establishing himself as a11 importa11t part of the Milan team. With
someone to score their goals, to capitalise 011 their excellent midfield, Mila11 must seem
optimistic of the future.
Cagliari have confirmed pre-seaso11 expectation and remain the team to beat. They have
an unhappy penchant for interspersing the brilliant with the mediocre. Against Lazio they
scored four spectacular goals, with Gori more than merely a foil for Riva, a player who SINC::E_ wri~ng last· monlh I su~pose_ most of you know tJiat we have been
has 110w added skill to his courage and ehmrnat~~ by Manchester Umted !rom the very lucrative Foothall League
looks a possible international on merit, not Cup comp~tttton. However, although ali oi' us werc obviously depressed after
merely a shield-bearef for his more illus- our 2-1 defcat, wc were proud to witncss one of t'hc greatest individual goals we
trious comrade. Against T11ter again , Cagliari h~d ever seen. George Best's winner was a goal worth going lilerally hundreds of
looked unbeatable. 1111l~s to sce. And thcre is no douht in my mind that his all-round i>erformance
But their performances against Sampdoria durt~~ the game must have put him 011 a par with any one of the fabulous
and Yarese were pure jell y; against St. Braz1ha11 forwards. Certainly if it wasn't for the magic of "Besly" we would have
Etienne they played a horribly defensive approacbing his former Sicilian form. Tbey reached lhe quarter-finals without too much trouble. '
game, placing a11 inordinate amount of depend for so much 011 Yieri, not the best The only goal I have seen to better George's effort was the one Peter Osgood
pressure upon Niccolai and Tomasini . H of makeshift policies from a club with such scored aga mst Burnley at Turf Moor during the 1965-66 season. "Ossie", then
was as well that lhose two were in form . an illustrious near-past. age~ only 18, ran t~e whole length of the field, beating man after rnan before
Perhaps things will begin to ru11 more As a pseudo-Tuscan J feel asbamed about placmg the bali deltcatel y past the goalkeeper. In fact it was the sort of goal
smoothly with the European Cup commit- Fiorentina. Of course they have the players, unhkely to be repcated for a very long time.
ment removed. Jf they manage to run up a they have the money, they have thei.r share
good lead by the New Year, they may be of the limeligbt. But the defence remains But o_ur defeat_in the l.eague Cup could weH be a blessing in disguise. After ali
home,, since they do have the tendency to despe.rately dependent upon the admirable we are 1~vol~ed 111 as many competitions as rt 1s possible to enter, and Jet's face it
keep their noses out in front when ali hell attributes of Ferrante, lhe forwards seem in you can ·t w,n 'em ali!
is bei11g loosed off behind them. acute need of a comprehensive course in Last season Leeds United were caught up have been in Bulgaria
communications. Yitali scored a bagful of 011 lhat day. As for the _second leg of our European Fairs Cup
in so many competitions that tbey finished CSKA, there is 110 doubting their tremen- semi-final at Stamford Bridge. We were two
goals last season and will do well to get the season with nothing to show for ali tbeir dous skills.
Graceful half that total this year. He is a lumbering
goals down, and although we made the
hard work, after at one time. it looked as if aggregate score 2-2, we could so easily have
figure in a team of small men , of players they could capture a magnificent treble of As I have said, it was altogether a most
Bologna are a slylish team this terrn, with like Chiarugi who like to dart abou t on won tbe tie if we had not been so tense and
Bulgarelli as graceful as ever, and a new- their own instead of pushing lhe bali into European Cup, FA Cup an d League cham- satisfying displa y. We seem to rise to the over-anxious.
comer-Liguori-to give added bite to the the danger arcas. It needs another dose of pionship. We certainly don't want this to occasion for these presiige European
Giacinto Facchetti, captain of ltaly and lnter- happen to us this season.
midfield. matches, and our performance in both
Superchitis-a worrying disease which fre- Milan.
Salonika and Sofia was in my opinion as Minnows
Against Inter they played some wonderful quently paralyses lhe Fiorentina goalkeeper
football , only to give away two silly goals. - for the club to slart falling into thd puinl , ond i11 Salvi th ey have a winger wlw good as any ~e have produced. My aim is
It would be nice to see Bologna do well , a
Advantage obv1ously to hft the coveted Cup W.inners
depths. has slww11. some good form in. tliese early Then , of course, you h:cive got to be so
team that has pr-oduced a fair amount of garn.es. trophy, and victory would be even sweeter careful of the "away goals counting double "
local talent, nevér given over to ridiculous How 1011g Napoli will be able to remain I think our best performance of the if we could win the Cup witbout losing a rule. Those rninnows from Northern Ireland
spending in the transfer market. And if the lgnorant in the running they only know. season so far was in Sofia when we defeated match. Linfield, suffered from this comparatively
ground is a pretty hideous sight, the crowd What Chi appell a has succeeded in doing and essentially outplayed, the very talented new ruling only last September. They Iost
is friendly and faithful. Goud u ld Sampdoriu. Or rnlher, Suarez, CSKA Sofia outfit. You should bave read 1-0 to European Cup Winners Cup holders
is to weld together a clutch of not par- Tension
Inter are a mess. Talking to Facchetti playing as we/1 f or lhe G enoese club as he what the Bulgarian press wrote a bout us Manchester City at Maine Road in the first
ticularly talented regulars with bis more
after that game he admitted as much-"We has d ane for J111er in 1/,e paSI' t wo or lhree after tbe match . Many of their most le~, . won tbe second leg 2-1 , but were
experie11ced players. Zoff in goal , Jul.iano
haven·t yet managed to work out a syslem seasuns. The '"Suarez Case" must renwi11 as respected soccer writers called us the "best Basically thére is much more than just ehnunated from the competition. ln tbe old
in midfie ld, Altafini an d Sormani up front club side ever seen i11 Bulgari a·•.
of play ... He, of course, remains a superb a11 !tistorical example of how fundamenlally are the men around whom the squad is pnde at stake in this. If yo u draw or win days t~ere would have been a play-off,
player with that wonderful physique a11d silly club direclors can be in matters of based. Toe s urprise is that the defence has Everything went well for us in Sofia and away fr?m home in the first leg, much of sometbmg wh1ch many people argue is still
that calm, laconic approach to the game . which lhey are ignorwtl . Samp, of course, yet to concede a goal, surprising because in retrospect I think we could have bettered the _tenswn which exists in European com- the fa1rest way of deciding a drawn Euro-
Mazzola is still there and as good as ever. are a leam of also-rans, with precious f ew Napoli have no famous names in tbeir rear- our one goal advantage. Peter Osgood in petit1ve matches disappears . I can assure pean tie.
But Burgnich is slowing, Corso is slowing, players who can understand whar Suarez is guard. Of course tbat hysterical and enor- particular was in outstanding form, and you that if you are trying to pull back a
Boninsegna has to do bis own grafting. up to , fel a/one d o a11y1hing about it. But mous crowd deserves a successful first frankly I don't think I have ever seen him two-goal deficit, the tension can become Next month I hope to be able to write
Frustalupi remains staggeringly i11effectual, 1hey f ought we/1 ai Cagliari, were desper- division squad . But injury remains the great play better. The pundits who in the past almost unbearable. about ~ur second-leg defeat of CSKA, plus
Pellizzaro unable to play to any thing ately unlucky not lo rake awa.y at least one enerny as old limbs fi nd the going hard. have accused "Ossfo" of being selfish should somethmg about our opponents in the
T remember when we played Barcelon a in quarter-finals of the Cup W1nners Cu.p .
 WORLD SOCC ER, December, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970 FORTY-THREE
FORTY-TWO

~~ SCANDINAVIAN. REVIEW Grave error

~
• by Eric Batty by Hauss
R EI~NING
MALMO WIN LEAGUE
champions and current league leaders RFC Standard-
L1ege manager, Rene Hauss, made a monumental error during
an away match against newly promoted RFC Antwerp. Two-nil up
and coasting home, Kostedde, the German striker, got a knock and
was taken off after scoring both goals.
clubs in the city facing an almost con- siderable pressure to lift the ban on foreign-
SWEDEN tinuous battle against each other and based Danish players playing for the
national team, amateur or not. This rnove-
Hauss sent on his new Yugoslav forward Petrovic as substitute.
The former Partizan player made little contribution to the game but
TVIDABERG, 1969 FA Cup Winners relegation.
A and Division I leaders at thc 1970 half- When it was all over, Orgryte had escaped,
way mark, proved a grcat disappointment to saving themselves in the penultimate match
ment gathered considerable strength after
the 0-5 defeat against Poland in Warsaw-
could have a decisive bearing on the championship race. With
Standard and Ander!echt locked together at the top, each club
the Danes' biggest hamrnering since the 8-0 hav\ng 15 points from eight matches and FC Bruges only one point
their coach, Bengt Gustafsson, the former when they beat Norrkoping 2-0 and leaving beating they took from Germany back in behmd, every step is critica!.
Norrkoping international sto11per. neighbours GAIS and IFK Goteborg to face 1937 at Breslau. By comparison, tbe 1-0
Knocked out of the European Cup Win- the drop to Division II. Relegation is par- defeat a few weeks later in Copenhagen- ln normal circumstances the destination of the title would be
ners Cup by Albania's Partizani, tbey ticularly unpleasant for IFK Goteborg- a European Championship game against determined in the round of games between the top three clubs but
fougbt a running battle with Malmo FF, champions 1969 and now second class. Portugal-was almost a success. it appears a near certainty that M. Hauss and Standard will pay
only to be pipped at the post for the league dearly for sending on Petrovic for Kostedde.
title. On tbe last day Malmo were one pomt Hvidovre, who carne frorn nowhere to win
better off and accounted for Orgryte 2-0 and
DENMARK the championship in 1966 under another According to Belgian rules not more than three foreign players
tbough Atvidaberg won away, 3-2 against The principies of the last "true-blue" Austrian, Ernst Netuka, slipped into top can play for any team in one match and in Antwerp, Standard
relegated GAIS, it wasn't enough. amateurs are coming under increasing pres- p!ace only two steps from home. Then started with Kostedde, the Czech Cvetler and the Yugoslav Takac.
Key man in Malmo's success was inside- sure. Bronshoj were ali set to sign the. young beaten at home by reigning champions When Petrovic went on for Kostedde he was the fourth foreigner
forward Bo Larsson; back during tbe sum- Danish inside-forward Finn Laudrup (from B.1903 Copenhagen (0-2), Ve jle beat them and it seems unlike!y that the FA can misinterpret their own regula-
mer after service in tbe Bundesliga with Wiener Sportklub) before the FA intervened 3-1 in the last match to al!ow B.1903 to tions, even assuming that they wanted to . The penalty is a fine of
VfB Stuttgart. to point out that amateur clubs cannot pay keep the title they won in 1969 with 200 francs (a mere trifie) and a technical 0-5 defeat.
After being Sweden's leading football .ES,000 transfer fees as had b~en agreed. Akademisk BK behind them only on goal
average . The following week Erwin Kostedde was again in shooting form, Raoul Lambert of FC Bruges is one of the le'ading goalscorers in
centre for some years, Gothenburg experi- The FA themselves are comrng under con- snatching three more goals away to FC Diest in a 4-0 win. Mean- Belgium.
enced a disastrous campaign witb all three while Anderlecht were beating La Gantoise

Skeid relegated
3-0 in Ghent and RFC Liege lifted them-
selves clear of bottom place with a 1-0 win
away to Beerschot in Antwerp. Three more
goals puts Kostedde clear of his rivais with
nine goals. Behind him are the Dane
Christian Andersen (Union St. Gilloise) with
TOUGH GOING
after long battle six and the two Belgian caps Van Himst
(Anderlecht) and Lambert (FC Bruges) with
five each.

F
FOR SPRINGER
ORMER Stunn Graz boss Gerdi from the penalty spot!

NORWAY
games gane (and two to play) they were top
of the table with a goals tally of 12 for and
3 against!
CRUYFF Springer is probably not so happy
with the bright lights of Viemia as he
thought he would be. Certainly the
Two of the big Vienna derbies have
already been staged-Rapid beating First
Vienna 2-1 and the following weekend
HROUGHOUT the 1970 cam1mign Rapid squad, whose talents are undeni- Admira being held to 1-1 by Vienna on
T Oslo's only Division I club, Skeid, has
struggled vaiuly to avoid relegation-a fate
One point behind were Stromgodset, who
play in Drammen, south-west of Oslo, and
IMPROVES able, present a formidable problem for
anyone.
their own ground at Sud-Stadt.
Czech coach of Austria's national
at the 17th hurdle they entertained Rosen-
which befell Ski-Og-Lyn who also use the borg and won 2-0. The last day had two At home to Austria Salzburg before a team, Leopold Stastny, felt the pressure
U lleval stadium in Oslo, who went down in dramatic fixtures, Stromgodset v. Skeid and crowd of 11,000 (good by current stan- lifted from bis back just a little follow-
1969 only 12 months after taking the cham- SHORTLY before Ajax played their dards) Rapid trailed 1-3 down in the ing the 1-0 win over France. Only his
Rosenborg (2nd) at home to newly pro-
pionship. second leg European Cup tie against second half. Only a late penalty enabled fourth victory in his IS•game spell in
moted Hamarkameratene, who occupied
At the tum Skeid beat Sarpsborg away third place. Playing an attacking game for FC Basle, the team produced a fine per- Bjerregard to make it three each and command (Malta and Cyprus are
3-0 to lift themse!ves from the bottom. the first time in a year, Rosenborg won 3-0, formance against PSV. gain a point. The following week Austria amongst the other three victims), Stastny
Plagued by ill-luck and injuries, Skeid but Skeid, losing 1-0 to a penalty goal, Salzburg crashed 0-4 at home to the needs greater penetration in attack as
Suddenly Johan Cruyff was back in the league leaders, Admira-Energie, and after was amply demonstrated ia the Nations
might have saved themselves even on the meant the league title for Stromgodset,
last day away to Stromgodset and dane relegation for Skeid and second place for team and although he did not produce his ten rounds it's still Admira with 15 Cup game at the Prater Stadium, where
1969 champions Rosenborg a favour into Rosenborg. fui! repertoire of tricks he inspired Ajax to points, followed by Sturm Graz, Rapid 60,000 paid to see ltaly beat Austria 2-1.
the bargain. a 1-0 win. Leaders ADO also produced and Anstria Salzburg ali two points Right-winger Parits (formerly FK
A week later Stromgodset ad ded the FA behind.
something of a shock by dropping a point Austria and now with 1st FC Koln in.
Rosenborg (Trondheim), and their English Cup to the jr honours list-their first ever
against bottom club AZ'67 . Fortunately for Centre-forward Willi Kreuz (Admira) West Germany) levelled the scores after
coach, George Curtis, made a valiant effort championship tumed into a double-when
ADO second placed Sparta could also only tops the goal-scorers' Iist with ten goals De Sisti had put Italy in front but
to retain the league trophy despite their they beat Lyn (Oslo) 4-2. Skeid's term in
--enough to earn him a place in the Mazzola soou restored Italy's advantage
losing the two goa!-scoring forwards of Division II is unlikely to be a lengthy one manage a draw, against FC Utrecht. national team-with the Dane Bjerregard before Rivi went off on a stretcher (a
1969, Odd Iversen and Harold Sunde (both and meanwhile for Oslo fans, two of the Feyenoord, however, won to move ahead of and Kuppers (Wattens) both on nine. broken leg) resulting from a collision
now in Belgium). city's big guns l.yn and Frigg have won Five of Bjerregard's goals were scored
Sparta, two points behind ADO. Ajax are with Norbert Hof.
Unable to score goals, Rosenborg had to promotion, while Ski-Og-Lyn play next year
Bo L.arsson, back with Malmo after playing concentrate on stopping them and with 16 in the Cup Winners Cup. five points behind the leaders .
in West Germany with VfB Stuttgart.
 WORLD SOCCER, Dece111ber, 1970 WORLD SOCCER, . December, 1970
FORTY-FOUR

Eu ropean ChampionshiPVE
Cagliari go out OCTOBER 7
C:zechoslovakia ( 1) 1 (Albrecht)
finland ( 1) 1 ( Paatalainen)
Czechoslovakia: Schumacker· Vecerek
5,000
Bomba
Not available at the time of going to press.
Holland (O) 1 ( Israel , pen.)
Yugoslavia ( 1) 1 ( Djazic)
60,000
Po_land: Cza~a; Sta_churski, Wyrobek , Gorgon,
~auJ~~l~ .Szoltys1k, DeJna, Bula; Marks , Lubanski ,
3

Not available at the time of going to press.

to a penalty
Pt~iti~ag~~ rH~~olk~~t~~;1~l, r,~ir~ii,,; Bartovic; Holla":d: van Beveren; Israel; Strik, Laseroms ,
Finland: Heinon~n ; Makipaa, ' Kilponen , • Rajantie, va1_1_ _Du1venbode; Rijnders, Jansen, van Hanegem ; OCTOBER 18
Kautonen ; Suomalainen Heikkila Toivanen· Toivola 1 Kh1n1an , van de Kuylen , Veenstra.
Limanen , Paatalainen. • ' ' Yugo~lavia: Cur~ovic; Tesvan , Stephanovic, Holcer, West Germany (1) 1 (Gerd Muller, pen .)
(Ref. : O'Neill/ Northern Ireland). Pauno~1c; ~a~lov1c, Petkovic , Musemic ; Ebjavic , Turkey ( 1) 1 ( Kamarun) 53,000
Jerkov1c, D1az1c. West Germany: Maier; Vogts, Sielolf (Heynckes) ,
Norway (O) 1 (lversen) 18,000 (Ref.: Mullan/Scotland).
t:'~~â~. J~,\~gr~s;Gr~::~~tauer, Fich tel , Overath;
Hungary (2) 3 (Bene, Fazekas, Kocsis)
_N o~ay: Karlsen; Pettersen, Thorsen . Spydevold, OCTOBER 14 _Turkey: . Ali; Ismail , Muzzafer. Ercan Ergun ;
player, Brugnera. De Petri, at 24, had first-
T HE decline and fali of the Italian
champions, Cagliari, began just tive
days before thcy went out of the European
team experience but was barely recovered
from a knee injury received at the start of
Report from ~i~e'::~gfu~n(Êe~~~~•)'. Kvia ; lversen (Hasung) , E.
Hungary: Rothermel: Nosko , Meszoly, Vidats,
Denmark (O) O
Portugal ( 1) 1 (Joao Jacinto)
18,000
21
fRe1~ª~~ne~ti~;,~~i. Metin , Cemil (Sarni), Ender.

~:~~~1cs; Muller, Kocs1s, Halmosi ; Fazekas, Bene , OCTOBER 28

Cup to Atletico Madrid. A thousand miles the season. So it was Brugnera, wearing
away in Vienna, Italy were playing Austria Riva's Number 11 shirt, who took the field ROGER (Ref. : Boogae rts / Holland). Sa~;:a°J~rkF1!~~~~~ ; i~J~~s~n~ie~:~•se·~ .red(J:1~!:~ :
Andersen ; Praest, Markussen , Keld Pedersen
Sweden (O)
Eire (O) O
1 (Tu resson) 12,000
in the European championship, and leading at Manzanares. OCTOBER 10 (Thygesen).
Sweden: Hellstrom ; Sel2nder. Nordqvist .
Atletice had sold the live television rights _Portugal: Damas; Gomes, Humberto , Jose Carlos ,
comfortably, 2-0. But at 22 minutes to tive
Norbert Hof, a determined Austrian not for a big sum, gambling that they would MACDONALD R_umania ( 2) 3 ( Dumitrache· 2, Nunweiller)
Finland . (O) O 50,000
H1lano ; Peres. Jose Ma ria (Marine)
(Graca) ; Artur Jorge , Eusebio·, Joao JacintÓ.
(Ref.: Callaghan / Wales).
Simoes
Knstensson, Grip (~ronqvist); Svensson. Bo Larsson ,
0is~on; Grahn , Enksson, Brzokoupil (Turesson}.
. E1re: Kelly; Brennan, Dempsey, Dunning ,
noted for bis subtlety, came in hard as Riva still get a big crowd-and they were pleased _Rumama:_ Raducanu;_ Satmareanu , Lupescu , Dinu , 1
~ ;i~h~,~e~- Dunphy , Conroy, Byrne; Lawlor, Treacy,

t>icked up a bali in midtield. Riva caught a enough with 55,000, not a full house but
glimpse of Hof, tried tu turn away from the near enough to give them the support they
in Madrid V1gu ; Dum1tru . Nunwe11ler; Neagu (Tataru) Dobrin
DF1I'nii~:d~e ,H~i·n:?o~1:i1/t~~kipaa, Kilponen 1 °Rajantie~
Eire (1) 1 (Carrol!, pen .)
Sweden (O) 1 (Brzokoupil)
30,000 (Ref.: Kazakov / Ru ssia).
Kautonen ; Suoma_lainen (Makela), Heikkila Eire: Kelly; Carroll (Kinnear). Dempsey, Byrne,
tackle, but collapsed in agony as Hof's boot needed. On the previous Sunday Atletico (l1tma~en) , Savo1maa ; To 1vola, Toivanen , Dunne; L_awlor, Dunphy, Mulligan; Heighway , NOVEMBER
caught him just above the ankle. Within had received a rude shock frorn their neigh- Paatelainen. Conroy, G,vens (Treacy).
Sweden: Sven-Gunna r larsson· Selander
Austria ( 1 ) 1 ( Parits) 60,000
scconds he was writhing in pain 011 the bours, Real, who had led 2-0 at Manzanares OCTOBER 11 Kr_i stensson , Nordqvist, Grip ; Sven;son , Olssan: ltaly ( 2) 2 ( De Sisti, Mazzola)
Austria: Koncilia (Rettensteiner): Schmidradner.
ground, surrounded by anxious players and until the last five minutes. But in those the away goals rule, Atletice had their noses Malta ( O) 1 ( Vassallo) 15,000 ~r/:,~~~n; Bo Larsson , Danielsson (Brzokoupi l) ,
Sturmberçe r, N . Hof. Pumm; Starek, Ettmayer;
trainers. Hof got up, protesting his inno- minutes first Irureta and then Garate had in front. Cagliari were under no il!usions Greece (O) 1 ( Papaioannou) (Ref.: R. Helies / Francc). Pants. H1ckersberge r, Kreuz, Redl.
cence; and Riva was carried off on a scored to give Atletice a draw they scarcely about the situation, and reacted sharply. MaUa: . Mizzi ; Grima. Mallia, Theobald , ltaly: . Albertosi ; . . Cera; . . Bur~nich , Rosato ,
Domenghini broke clear, beat Rodri, but ~~~-lhen ; VassalJo , Calles, Del ia ; Cocks, Borg, Poland ( 1) 3 ( Gadocha , Lubanski, Szoltysik) r;~~~1t!'. ; R?v~m(G~~ir' · Bert111 1, Rivera, De Sisti ;
stretcher and taken to hospital. ltaly went deserved. Albania (O) O 15 ,CCO
hit his shot into the side netting; the crowd (Ref.: Van Ravens / Holl•nd).
l"hrough the motions for lhe remaindcr of
the match, winning, 2-1 Jargcly through expelled air in one concerted sigh of relief.
Austria's incompetence in front of goal.
Fully extended Then Nene took on two men and got his
Even as a victory, it was a total disaster. shot in, but only straight to Rodri 's grate-
After this, there was little dangec of
Back in Sardinia , the newspapers ran a Atletico being complacent, and they put the ful arms .
special edition, with the big black type pressure on Cagliari almost immediately.
usually reserved for a state funeral. Some Albertosi, on his day one of the best goal-
hard words were said in the Cagliari camp keepers in the world, was fully extended by
about risking their great investment in petty two blistcring shots from Ufarte within a
internationals abroad. Jt took a personal minute of each other. He also took a dan-
Gesticulati'ng
With just over J5 minutes rernaining, it
statement by Manlio Scopigno, Cagliari's gerous centre from Calleja and a tentative seemed that Cagliari might yet save the tie,
manager, to calm things down when he shot from Adelardo without the slightest for Atletice were beginning tQ give ground
Classified Results
SEPTEMBER 6 SEPTEMBER 27
returned from Vienna after having the rnor- hesitation, for ali lhe world like a man in midtield, trying to hold their technical Hungary ( 1) 1 ( Vidats) 30 000
OCTOBER 18
advantage. But in the 73rd minute Adelardo France ( 3) 3 (Gon det, Loubet, Bosquier) Switzerland ( 1) 1 ( Blattler) 42,000
tifying experience of seeing the serni-deity spiking litter in the park. Austria ( 1) 1 (Redl) '
bisected two defenders with a marvellous Czechoslovakia (O) O 13 000 ltaly (O) 1 (Mazzcla)
of bis club collapse in front of him. Y et the pattern of the match had already pass which Ufarte took on the run. Alber-
been set. Cagliari left Gori up front, a lone tosi carne out, Tomasini and Nancin con-
R:-~:~r M~~~rs ;Me~j~r~:~et , NG~!{detBºi.6~i~t
(Blanchet), Bereta. '
(M~:z:1~);' M~~~~i;rG~~oc~º{,~â;ts
Fazekas , Bene, Dunai II. '
pi't.Sj~!i
(~c~i:)d
'
Switzerland: Kunz ; Chapuisat; Boffi, Weibel,
Perroud; 0dermatt, Kuhn , Blattler ;
(Jeandupeux) (Vu.illeumier), Kunzli. Wenger.
Balmer
sentinel outtlanked and heavily outnum- verged on Ufarte, and the Spaniard and his Austria: Koncilia ; Oement , Sturmberger (Krieger),
Total disaster Czechoslovakia: Victor (Vencei); Dobias, Migas,
Hagara ,. Novak ; Geleta , Kuna; Vesely, Hrdlicka Schm1dradner, . Fak ; Geyer, N. Hof, Starek
Haly:_ Albertosi (Zoff); Cera (Ferrante) ; Poletti,
N1ccola1 , Facchetti: Juliano (Cera) Mazzola De
bered, whose only task was to hold and pursuers went down in a heap inside the (Jurkamn). Sz,kora , Petras (Albrecht). (Ettmayer); H,ckersberger, Kreuz, Redl. Sisti ; Domenghini. Gori. Riva. ' '
(Ref.: Canak/ Yugoslavia).
On the Tuesday Cagliari arrived in wait, in the hope that Domenghini or Nene penalty area. (Ref.: Scheurer/ Switzerland). (Ref.: Tschenscher/ West Germany).
Madrid for the second leg of their European • would come racing over the halfway line ln that instant there was pandemonium . SEPTEMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 30 OCTOBER 25
tie against Atletice, put back to Thursday for a quick one-two. Atletico, a little casual Toe referee blew his whistle without giving West Germany (2) 3 (Sieloff, Muller 2) Brazil (1) 2 (Tostao, Jairzinho) 155,000 Czechoslovakia (O) 2 (Stratil 2) 3,000
by prior arrangement. Their captain, Cera, in these wide open spaces, tended to play any decision, dodged gesticulating players Hungary ( 1) 1 ( Fazekas) 67,000 Mexico (O) 1 (Valdivia) Poland (2) 2 ( Kozierski, Blaut)
giving an interview at the airport, said that too square, and twice Cagliari rnanaged a from both teams, and ran over to his lines- West Germany: Maier; Vogts, Sieloff, Weber,
BraziJ: Felix (Ado) ; Carlos A lberto Brito Wilson
Piazza , Ev~raldo; Rivelino, Oodoaldo,' Gersdn (Paulo
Czechoslovaki_a: Kram~rius; Vecerek, Maiern ik .
Riva's injury was a "total disaster. He gave shot on the· break, but from too great a man on the far side. After muttered con- ll~\\!~~; L:~~Lii~~';,'í• Fichtel ; Grabowski , Seeler, Cesar); Jam.mho , Tostao, Pele. ~~~~~ - S~~t\tovic; Petrov1c, Bartovic , Vrana; Strunc .
a new dirnension to our ambitions in distance to trouble Rodri. sultations he awarded a penalty and Cagliari Hungary: Roth_ermel; _Nosko, Pancsics (Meszoly), Mexico: Mota (Castellon); Vantolra ,
Montes, ~armrez; Gonzalez, Herrada , Valdivia;
Pena, Poland: . T rotynski ; Stachursk1 Wmkler,
Europe and in the Italian charnpionship. Ali went mad. It took severa! minutes to clear ~~~esK·a~!(r~iafD~~ài)~onrad , Karsai ; Fazekas. Lopez, Pad11la (Clamian), Gomez. i~\'::~nC~it'i'ew~;rcf.°.\'Jch~laut , Koz1ersk1 , Jan,k ;
we can hope is that our team can lift them- the Italian defenders out of the penalty (Ref.: Coerezza/ Argentina). (Ref.: Kunz / East Germ?ny).
Flowing movement (Ref,: Marschall / Austria).
selves in the face of such rnisfortune. " area, and one of them, I believe it was OCT,OBER 4
Scopigno, talking privately ]ater, was Then, just as Atletico's storm seerned to Nancin, kicked the bali into the crowd. The OCTOP.ER 28
Chile (O) 1 (Messen) 75,000
Spain (1) 2 (Luis, Quini) • 20,000
more explicit. "It means we must alter our have blown itself out, and Scopigno• had referee grabbed him and pointed to the Brazil (2) 5 ( Roberto 2, Pele, Jairzinho,
Gree~e (O) 1 ( Papaioannou)
tactics," he said. "Riva could be relied stopped twitching nervously on the touch- dressing-roorns, and after further uproar, Paulo Cesar)
upon so rnuch as a one-man army that we line, the Spaniards scored. Luis Aragones, Luis replaced the bali on the spot. Albertosi Chile: Olivares; Laube, Rodriguez, Quintano. Diaz;
Valdez, Hod~e: Fouilloux, Messen, Castro , Veliz.
8
Ads:i::d~: 1&:'s~~~- ~;,';~cio ckod~1~tgt>uis,
(Qum1) , Marc,al, Rexach.
Vai: ~~~
could play the Italian system of one or two showing the dynamism and inspired deter- crouched and dived, but in a second thei Braz,1: Fel1x; Carlos Alberto. Joel. Brito , Greece: Ikonomopo1;1los: Skerekis, Kamaras,
men up and still score goals in rapid mination that had kept Atletice in the fore- netting was stretching behind him ; the Everaldo ; Dosantes, Ney Paulo Cesar· Jairzinbo Stathopoulos. Eleftherak,s; Toskas (Aganian). Kudas ,
Roberto, Pele. ' ' '
counter-attacks. But there is no one else front of things ali season, moved casually crowd's reaction was like a thunderclap. (Ref.: Pestarino / Argentina). ~ri~k~~ulos (~L:~~~~akis). Papaioannou , Joutsos ,
capable of fulfilling his role, so I must into the penalty area. Calleja centred, the Back in Florence, Luigi Riva slept peace- (Ref.: Vigliani / France).
OCTOBER 7 Russia (2) 4 (Schevtschenko, Fedotov,
change our style. Don't ask me, though, if bali bobbed between two or three defenders, fully in his hospital bed, having declined to
Austria ( O) J (Kreuz) 25 ,000 Kolotov, Nodija) 40,000
J can risk changing it for so vital a match and there was Luis, pouncing and striking watch the rnatch on television- as though France ( O) O Yugoslavia (O) O
as this one." with the sarne flowing movement. He hit the he feared the worst. When a nurse handed Austria: Koncilia· Oement (Demantke). Russia: ~~nnikov (Pschenitschniko v): htornin
Scopigno had two choices for his replace- bali with the outside of his foot and it him the newspapers the next morning, he Schmidradner . Sturmberi,er Fak· H1ckersberger (Dsoduaschv1h}, Shesternev, Afonin. Kaoitschni ·
~1fger), Hóf, Starek (EtÍmayer);' Pants , Kreuz,
ment for Riva. He could bring in a full- curled in a wicked parabola beyond the looked at the headlines, and nodded sadly. }:'J~i~~'. S~~:~~~hen~~~att,;:!(~iic~~pekin (Nodija);
back, De Petri , and play unasharnedly for defenders and past the helpless, unsighted, Cagliari had fought until they dropped in Franc~: Carnus; Djorkaeff, Bosquier, Novi,
RostaR~•; Herbet (Larque) , Michel, Mezy; Loubet D~~~je~fc~iPau~~i~ti(~~j~:inovli}~Jiolce~:ei~f;~:\~.
a draw, hoping to hold the 2-1 lead from Albertosi. Madrid ; but there are no substitutes for (Revelh). Gondet (Floch} Bereta.
the first leg ; or he could bring in a midfield Two-all on a.ggregate; and, by virtue of gods. (Ref.: Biversi/ West Ge;R1any}. Ba/R;L <i~~~~~{)p!i~:~'i. Jerkovic, Dzajic.
FORTY-SIX
WORLD SOCCER, December, 1970

EURO-PEAN
FORTY-SEVEN

EUROPEAN CUP
Preliminary Round
Spartak Moscow (1) 3; (Osyanin 2, Papayev)
Basle (O) 2 (Odermatt, Benthaus) Vorwaerts (O) O
Bologna (O) O
DETAILS
Group Three Group Six
• •
Basle (O) 2 (Siegenthaler, Balmer) SC Barreirense ( 1) 2 (Serafim , Campora)
Levski Spartak ( 1) 3 (Mitkov, Asparoukhov 2) Spartak Moscow (O) 1 (Chussainov) Bologna (9) 1 (Savoldi) Trakia Plovdiv (O) 1 (Radkov)
Dínamo Zagreb (O) O
Austria Wien (O) 1 (Redl) Vorwaerts (O) 1 (Bergerad) Coventry City (2) 4 (O'Rourke 3, Martin)
Sporting (4) S (Lourenco 3, Peres, Marinho) (Vorwaerts win on goals away count double Dinamo Zagreb (O) 6 (Novak 4, Lalic 2)
Austria Wien (2) 3 (Redl, Hickersberger 2) Floriana (O) O rule) SC Barreirense (1) 1 (Campora) Coventry City (2) 2 (Joicey, Blockley)
Levski Spartak (O) O Trakia Plovdiv (O) O
Floriana (O) O .. Wacker Innsbruck (1) 3 (Ettmayer, pen,
0 Spartak Trnava (1) 2 (Dobias, pen , Masrna)
First Round Sporting (1) 4 (Nelson 2, Dinis, Tome) Obert, Francescin) Olympic Marseille (O) O Coleraine (O) 1 (Mullan)
Partizan Tirana (2) 2 (Panu, Janku) _Kilmarnock (O) 1 (Mathie)
Atletico Madrid (1) 2 (Aragones, Garate)
Austria Wien (O) O ;;::;::af~!! (1) 2 (Kostedde, Depireux) Partizan Tirana (1) 1 (Panu)
Wacker Innsbruck (1) 2 (Grausam 2)
Olympic Marseille (1) 2 (Couecou, Skoblar)
Spartak Trnava (O) O (Spartak qualified 4-3
on penalty kicks)
Kilmarnock (2) 2 (Mclean, Morrison)
Standard Liege (3) S (Pi lot 2, Cvetler 2, Coleraine (O) 3 (Dickson 3)
Austria Wien (1) 1 (Krieger, pen)
Atletico Madrid (1) 2 (Luis, Garate) Depireux) Offenbach Kickérs (O) 2 (Kremer 2, 1 a pen) Liverpool (1) 1 (Graham)
Rosenborg (O) O Universitatea Craiova (O) 2(Taralunga,
FC Bruges (1) 1 (Lambert) Ferencvaros (O) O Strimbeano)
Cagliari (2) 3 (Riva 2, Nene)
St Etienne (O) O Ujpest Dozsa (O) 2 (Nagy, Dunai) FC Bruges (1) l°(Marnenout, Hinderickx) Ferencvaros (O) 1 (Mucha) Pecsi Dozsa (O) 1 (Mate)
Red Star (O) O Offenbach Kickers (O) O Liverpool (O) 1 (Hughes)
St Etienne (1) 1 (Larque) Pecsi Dozsa (3) 3 (Kocsis 2, Mate)
Cagliari (O) O Red Star (3) 4 (Filipovic 2, Dzai ic, Osto jjic) Akureyri (O) 1 (Arnasson) Nykoebing Falster ( 1) 2 (Olsen, Hansen) Universitatea Craiova (O) O
Ujpest Dozsa (O) O Zurich (3) 7 (Volkert 3, Kunzli 2, Pirmin Hertha Berlin (2) 4 (Brungs 2, Gayer, Steffen-
Celtic (6) 9 (Hood 3, Wilson 2, Dav idson, Stierli, Martinelli) hagen) Katowice (O) O
Johnston.e, McNeil, Hughes) Glentoran (1) 1 (O'Neil) FC Barcelona (O) 1 (Rexach)
KPV Kokkola (O) O Waterford (1) 3 (Hall, Bryan , Casey ) Zurich (4) 7 (Kunzli 3, Volkert 2, Heer, Hertha Berlin (1) 4 (Horr, Brungs 2, Gherghe-
Grunig) li) Barcelona (O) 3 (Pujo!, Filosia, Rexach)
KPV Kokkola (O) O . Waterford (O) 1 (Casey) Akureyri (O) O Nykoebing Falster (1) 1 (Rasmussen) Katowice (2) 2 (Rotmer, Gluck)
Celtic (2) S (Callaghan, Wallace 2, Davidson, Glentoran (O) O
Lennox) EUROPEAN FAIRS CUP
EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS CUP Group Four Group Seven
Bor. Monchen. (3) 6 (Laumen 2, Koppel 2, Group One
Netzer, Heynckes) Preliminary Round Hibernian (2) 6 (Blair, McBride 3, Duncan 2) Juventus (5) 7 (Anastasi 4, Bettega 3)
EPA Larnax (O) O Akademisk Copenhagen (2) 7 (F. Hansen 2, US Rumelange (O) O
Carlsen 2, Nielsen 2, Petersen) Malmo (O) O
Atvidaberg (O) 1 (Franzen)
EPA Larnax (O) O ' Partizan Tirana (1) 1 (Johansson og) Sliema Wanderers (O) O Mal mo (O) 2 (Larsson, Joensson) US Rumelange (O) O
Bor. Monchen. (S) 10 (Heynckes, Vogts , Hibernian (1) 3 (Duncan, McEwan , Stanton) Juventus (3) 4 (Novellini 3, Landini)
Netzer, Wimmer, Koppel 2, Dietrich, Sieloff Partizan (1) 2 (Vuno, Ragami) Sliema Wanderers (1) 2 (Jensen og, Cini)
pen, Laumen 2) Atvidaberg (O) O Akademisk Copenhagen (2) 3 (A Hansen pen , tives Kissat (2) 4 (Lundberg, Nupponen 2, Zeleznica Sarajevo (1) 3 (Osim , Spreco,
B Neilsen 2) Nouranen) Mujkic)
Everton (2) 6 (Bali 2, Royle 2, Kendall , Wright) Bohemians (1) 1 (Swan pen) Sturm Graz (1) 2 (Laine og, Kaiser) Anderlecht (1) 4 (Puis 2, Mulder 2)
Gottwaldov (1) 2 (Urban, Nehoda) Inter Milan (O) 1 (Cella)
Keflavik (1) 2 (West og, Ragnarsson) Newcastle United (1) 1 (Davies) Sturm Graz (2) 3 (Murlsits, Albrecht, Kaiser) Anderlecht (2) 5 (Ej de rstedt 3, Van Himst,
Gottwaldov (2) 2 (Hojsik, Jencik) Puis)
~:~:;~~ ~g~ ~ (Whittle, Royle 2,
tives Kissat (O) O
Bohemians (1) 2 (O'Connell , Dunne) The white shirted Reymaecker of Beveren- Newcastle United (1) 2 (Moncur, Davies) Zeleznica Sarajevo (3) 4 (Bukal 2, Spreco 2)
1 pen) Inter Mi lan (O) O
Waas scores the only goal of their game with Akranes (O) O
Fenerbahce (O) O First Round Valencia in Spain. • Spartak Rotterdam (3) 6 (Venneker, Kowalik, 1st FC Koln (2) 5 (Parits, Thielen, Rupp 2, Lek)
Lausanne Sports (O) O Paris-Sedan (O) 1 (Pierron)
Carl Zeiss Jena (1) 4 (Kraus, Ducke 2, Vogel) Aalborg (O) O Vito ria Setubal (O) 2 (Jacinto Joao, Batista)
Kouditzer, Haijerman 2, Walveek)
Gornik ( 1) 1 (Lubanski) Paris-Sedan (O) 1 (Dellamore pen)
Carl Zeiss Jena ( 1) 1 (Vogel ) Cardiff City (5) 8 (Toshack 2, Clark 2, Wood - Spartak Rotterdam (5) 9 (Klijnjan 3, Kristen-
Vitoria Setubal (2) 2 (Arcanjo, Guerreiro) 1st FC Koln (O) O
Fenerbahce (O) O Gornik (3) 8 (Szarynski , Olek 2, Wilim 2, ruff, Gibson , Sutton, King) Lausanne Sports ( 1) 1 (Du Four) sen, Kowalik 3, Van der Veen, Venneker)
Lubanski 2, Szoltysik) Pesoporikos (O) O Akranes (O) O
Feyenoord (1) 1 (Jansen) Dinamo Bucharest (1) 5
Aalborg (1) 1 (Andersen) Partizan Belgrade (O) O PAOK Salonika (O) O
UT Arad (1) 1 (Dumitrescu) Pesoporikos (O) O Dynamo Dresden (O) O Sarpsbourg (O) O
Aberdeen (2) 3 (Graham, Harper, Murray) Cardiff City (O) O Leeds United (O) 1 (Lorimer)
UT Arad (O) O Dynamo Dresden (4) 6 (Kreische 4, Sammer, PAOK Salonika (1) 1 (Koutas)
Honved (1) 1 (Pusztai) Hibernians (Valetta) (O) O
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rule)
on away goals count double Honved (1) 3 (Kocsis 2, Kozma) Real Madrid (O) O
Sachse)
Partizan Belgrade (O) O
Leeds United (1) 5 (Charlton 2, Bremner 2,
Lorimer)
Sarpsbourg (O) O
Dinamo Bucharest (O) O

Aberdeen (O) 1 (S. Murray) Real Madrid (2) 5 (Pirri, Manon , Planelles 3)
(Honved qualified on penalties) Hibernians (Valetta) (O) O Group Two Group Eight
IFK Goteborg (O) O
Legia (1) 4 (Stachursky 2, Gadocha, Pieszko) Aris Salonika (O) 1 (Alexiadis) Bayern Munich (1) 1 (Beckenbauer) Group Five
Goeztepe lzmir (3) S (Ertan 3, Nevzat, Hajduk Split (2) 3 (Jerkovic, Pavlica, Jovanic)
Chelsea (O) 1 (Hutchinson) Nielsen) Rangers (O) O Slavia Sofia (O) O
Legia (2) 2 (Deyna, Gadocha) Vittoria Guimaraes (O) 3 (Da Velha 2, Peres)
IFK Goteborg (1) 1 (Almqvist) Chelsea (3) S (Hutchinson 2, Hollins 2, Hinton) Union Luxembourg (O) O Rangers (O) 1 (Stein) AS Angouleme (O) O
Slavia Sofia (O) 1
Aris Salonika (O) 1 (Alexiadis) Union Luxembourg (1) 1 Bayern Munich (O) 1 (Muller) AS Angouleme (2) 3 (Castellan 2, Gallice) Hajduk Split (O) O
Nendori Tirana (O) 2 (Kazanxhi 2, Hega)
Ajax (1) 2 (Suurbier 2) Olimpija (O) 1 (Pejovic) Goeztepe lzmir (O) O Vittoria Guimaraes (1) 1 (Ademir)
AEK Athens (O) O
Benfica ( 1) 1 (Eusebio) Twente Enchede (O) 1 Cork Hibernians (O) O
Ajax (1) 2 (Keize;, Swart) Manchester City (O) 1 (Bell) La Gantoise (O) O
Linfield (O) O Valencia (2) 3 (Claramont 2, Barrachina)
Nendori Tirana (O) O Benfica (3) 8 (Eusebio 5, Zeca, Artur Jorge, Hamburg (1) 1 (Nogly)
Twente Enchede (2) 3 (Pahlplatz 2, Van der
Graca) Linfield (1) 2 (Millen 2) Kerkhof) Valencia (2) 3 (Jara, Sergio 2)
Jeunesse Esch (1) 1 (Digenova) Hamburg (3) 7 (Dorfel 4, Zaczyk, Honig, Cork Hibernians (1) 1 (Wigginton)
Olimpija (O) 1 (Amersek) Manchester City (1) 1 (Lee) AEK Athens (O) O Volkert)
Panathinaikos (2) 2 (Antoniadis, Domazos)
CSKA Sofia (5) 9 (Yakimov 5, Nikodimov, Karpaty Lvov (O) O Sparta Prague (1) 2 (Migas, pen, Gogh) La Gantoise (O) 1 (Bene) Dundee United (O) 3 (1 Reid , Markland, A
Panathinaikos (4) S (Antoniadis 4, Elfther- Zherov 2, Marashkev) Steaua Bucharest (O) 1 (Tataru) Atletico Bilbao (O) O Reid)
akis) Ruch Chorzow (O) 1 (Faber)
Haka Valkeakoski (O) O Grasshoppers (1) 2 (Grahn, Meier)
Steaua Bucharest (2) 3 Atleti co Bilbao (O) 1 (Uriarte) Fiorentina (O) 1 (Vitali)
~~~;:~s~~:~i~,i~aO (1) 2 (Jan Capkovic,L. Haka Valkeakoski (O) 1 (Malm) Karpaty Lvov (2) 3 Sparta Prague (O) 1 (Travacni) Grasshoppers (O) O
Fiorentina (1) 2 (Chiarugi, Mariani)
Zlocha) CSKA Sofia (O) 2 (Yakimov 2) Dundee United (O) O
W iener Sportklub (O) O Ruch Chorzow (O) O
Stromgodset (O) O
B1903 Kopenhagen (1) I (Johansen) Gottwaldov (1) 2 (Urban, Nehoda) Beveren-wass (O) 2 (Rogiers, Janssen)
Nantes (2) 5 (Gondeli, Levavasseur 2, Arribas, Seville se (O) 1 (Acosta) Lazio (O) 2 (Chinaglia 2, 1 pen)
PSV Eindhoven (O) 1 (Devrindt) Michel) Arsenal (O) 2 (Radford 2)
Beveren-wass (1) 3 (Rogiers, Vanderlinden, Eskisehirspor (O) O
81903 Kopenhagen (O) 2 (Thygesen pen, PSV Eindhoven (O) 1 (Veenstra)
Nantes (O) 2 (Levavasseur, Blanchet) Jansse n) Eskisehirspor (O) 3 (Fethi 3)
~~~~~s~n~ratislava (1) 2 (Josef Capkovic 2) Gottwaldov (O) O Str'omgodset (O) 3 (Pettersen I; Pettersen _S, 2) Wiener Sportklub (O) O Arsenal (1) 2 (Radford, Armstrong)
Seville (O) 1 (Acosta) Lazio (O) O