East Meets West at the 1974 World Cup!

The 1974 World Cup was staged in West Germany and as luck would have it,
their neighbours, East Germany, had qualified for the finals and were drawn together
in the same group. They were scheduled to meet on Saturday 22nd of June 1974.

This would be their first encounter in the days of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain.

The West Germans were well fancied to win the cup and few gave their neighbours
any chance of upsetting Helmut Schoen's apple cart, with the likes of Beckenbauer and
Muller onboard.

However, Jurgen Sparwasser and his East German team mates had not read the script.
By clicking on the link below, you can read an interesting article relating to this
historical encounter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47456049

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