1986 FIFA World Cup Final

The 1986 FIFA World Cup Final was the final and deciding game of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, held in Mexico. The match was held at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on 29 June 1986 and had an attendance of 114,600. It was contested by Argentina and West Germany. Argentina won the match 3–2 in normal time.[1][2]

1986 FIFA World Cup Final
The teams enter the field at the Estadio Azteca
Event1986 FIFA World Cup
Argentina West Germany
3 2
Date29 June 1986
VenueEstadio Azteca, Mexico City
RefereeRomualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil)
Attendance114,600

Route to the final
Argentina Round West Germany
Opponent Result First round Opponent Result
 South Korea 3–1 Match 1  Uruguay 1–1
 Italy 1–1 Match 2  Scotland 2–1
 Bulgaria 2–0 Match 3  Denmark 0–2
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Argentina 321062+45
 Italy 312054+14
 Bulgaria 302124−22
 South Korea 301247−31
 Final standing
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Denmark 330091+86
 West Germany 311134−13
 Uruguay 302127−52
 Scotland 301213−21
Opponent Result Knockout stage Opponent Result
 Uruguay 1–0 Round of 16  Morocco 1–0
 England 2–1 Quarter-finals  Mexico 0–0 (aet) (4–1 pen.)
 Belgium 2–0 Semifinals  France 2–0

Match

Summary
Jorge Burruchaga scoring the third goal for the Argentine win

José Luis Brown opened the scoring for Argentina in the 23rd minute with a header after a free-kick from the right and it stayed at 1–0 until half-time. 10 minutes into the second half, Jorge Valdano doubled Argentina's lead with a low side foot finish after cutting in from the left past the advancing goalkeeper. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge pulled a goal back in the 74th minute from close range for West Germany, his first goal in the tournament. West Germany then equalised in the 83rd minute, with Rudi Völler scoring with a header from close range to seemingly salvage the game. Although Diego Maradona was heavily marked by Lothar Matthäus the entire game, his superb pass to Jorge Burruchaga in the 86th minute allowed Argentina to regain the lead at 3–2 when he slid the ball past the advancing goalkeeper from the right and into the corner of the net.[3][4]

Six yellow cards were issued in this match, which was a record number until the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. Two of them were issued because of time wasting from Argentine players. As the clock expired, Argentina celebrated their second World Cup victory in three tournaments after having won the 1978 World Cup on home soil.

Details
Argentina 3–2 West Germany
Brown  23'
Valdano  56'
Burruchaga  86'		 Report Rummenigge  74'
Völler  83'
Attendance: 114,600

Argentina
West Germany
GK18Nery Pumpido 85'
SW5José Luis Brown
CB9José Luis Cuciuffo
CB19Oscar Ruggeri
RWB14Ricardo Giusti
LWB16Julio Olarticoechea 77'
DM2Sergio Batista
CM7Jorge Burruchaga 90'
CM12Héctor Enrique 81'
SS10Diego Maradona (c) 17'
CF11Jorge Valdano
Substitutes:
GK15Luis Islas
DF8Néstor Clausen
DF13Oscar Garré
MF21Marcelo Trobbiani 90'
FW17Pedro Pasculli
Manager:
Carlos Bilardo
GK1Harald Schumacher
SW17Ditmar Jakobs
CB4Karlheinz Förster
CB2Hans-Peter Briegel 62'
RWB14Thomas Berthold
LWB3Andreas Brehme
CM6Norbert Eder
CM8Lothar Matthäus 21'
AM10Felix Magath 62'
CF11Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (c)
CF19Klaus Allofs 46'
Substitutes:
GK22Eike Immel
MF21Wolfgang Rolff
FW7Pierre Littbarski
FW9Rudi Völler 46'
FW20Dieter Hoeneß 62'
Manager:
Franz Beckenbauer

Assistant referees:
Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
Berny Ulloa Morera (Costa Rica)

Match rules:

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Five substitutes named, of which two may be used

Aftermath
Diego Maradona (with the World Cup) and other players celebrating the title

The second World Cup won by Argentina is regarded by many as the most important victory for an Argentine side.[5] Four years after Argentina's victory over West Germany, both teams met again in the final of the subsequent World Cup, with West Germany winning the match 1–0 via a penalty kick. This marked the first time two World Cup finalists met twice, a record shared with Brazil and Italy, the latter two having met in the 1970 and 1994 World Cup finals. Argentina and Germany met again in the 2014 final for a record-breaking third time in which Germany won their fourth championship.

With the 1986 defeat, German manager Franz Beckenbauer (who had played in West Germany's defeat in 1966) gained the rather unwanted distinction of having lost a World Cup final as both a player and a manager. However, he led Germany to the said 1990 victory and became a winner of the World Cup as player and as manager, as he also won as the former in 1974.

The games are won by the players on the field, but behind it there must be a machinery that works. There I include players, coaching staff and leaders. If you throw all in the same direction, you can think of titles. That's what happened in Mexico '86.[6]

— Carlos Bilardo, manager of Argentina

References
  1. 1986 Final on Planet World Cup
  2. 1986 FIFA World Cup Final Archived 13 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine on shubhayan.com
  3. En la cima del mundo by Pablo Ibaldi on Diario Publicable, 29 Jun 2016
  4. México 1986: Dios y diez más levantaron la segunda y última Copa by Federico Cristofanelli, Infobae, 30 Apr 2014
  5. Mundial ´86: a 30 años de la mayor hazaña del fútbol argentino by Augusto Dorado, 29 Jun 2016
  6. Argentina 86 on El Gráfico
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