Calls to the efficiency of Netzer and GDR

The second day of the World Cup in Germany, the intervention of the Germans. And that is with two groups. The Federal Republic play in Berlin in entrance of an official crowd of 83,168 within the Olympic Stadium, making the match towards Chile the perfect attendance of your complete World Cup. Chile began the qualifiers as a democracy and ended as a navy dictatorship, a political drama that can even be current throughout the sport in Berlin.

Nevertheless, the banners exhibiting Chilean exiles and pupil teams towards the murderous regime of Normal Pinochet are barely seen on tv. The activists did higher in Chile’s final sport towards Australia, once they unfold a big Chilean flag on the pitch initially of the second half with the inscription “Chile Sí, Junta No!” The tv footage go everywhere in the world, together with Chile.

Breitner had already packed his issues

Paul Breitner, a fan of Che Guevara and Mao Tse-tung, who already has the contract with Actual Madrid in his pocket, doesn’t dispute this. He scored the one aim after 16 minutes with a strong long-range shot. When the nationwide gamers hung earlier than the event for prize cash increased than the 30,000 marks supplied by the DFB (1 / 4 of what was promised to the Italians) and at last acquired 70,000, the nationwide coach Helmut Schön insulted Breitner as “ring chief” and he did. then packed his issues. Nevertheless, Franz Beckenbauer urged him to remain. Now that is a good suggestion.

Jürgen Sparwasser and the GDR defeated Australia in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion.picture-alliance / dpa

He’s the one certainly one of many on this open sport – by which the spectators in some unspecified time in the future begin to whistle at Wolfgang Overath and name Günter Netzer, who’s sitting on the bench as a result of unhealthy type and is within the TV image extra as a rule. one other viewers. It would not make it fairly, much more so than ever, after Carlos Caszely, an opponent of the junta in his residence nation, acquired the primary pink card in World Cup historical past for soiled revenge on Berti Vogts. The Chilean coach, Luis Álamos, is powerless; he’s in hospital in Berlin as a result of a diabetic assault.

The GDR crew, which landed in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel three days earlier on a particular Interflug aircraft, additionally gained the duel between the 2 fronts of the World Cup towards Australia 2-0 with an personal aim and a aim from Joachim Streich. Among the many solely 17,000 spectators within the Volksparkstadion are 1,500 completely happy “vacationers” from the GDR. It appears they wish to come again.