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- All fifteen entered African nations boycotted the tournament to protest a 1964 FIFA ruling that required the three second-round winners from the African zone to enter a play-off round against the winners of the Asian zone in order to qualify for the World Cup: they felt winning their zone was enough in itself to merit qualification.
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Jul 30, 2017 · After England was granted the next World Cup in Rome in 1960, the preparations were inevitably overshadowed by politics. This was nothing new; already the 1942 and 1946 incarnations had been cancelled by the more pressing issue of World War Two and the 1938 tournament had featured a German side full of stolen Austrian players after Hitler’s ...
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Jul 11, 2016 · The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.
CAF subsequently informed FIFA that they would refuse to participate in World Cup qualifying for 1970 unless at least one African team had an automatic place assured in the World Cup: this was put in place for the 1970 FIFA World Cup, and all subsequent World Cup finals.
Jul 23, 2016 · England's victory in the 1966 World Cup is now a part of the national legend - an almost mythical time when the nation's footballers could rightly claim to be the world's best. But the...
- The Germans weren’t England’s bogey team (yet) Losing to Germany (and their fore-runners West Germany) has become a habit for the England national team in the ‘50 years of hurt’ since 1966, as German sides have knocked them out of 4 World Cups in that time.
- They think it’s all over… it will be on Tuesday! Another typical feature of English failures at major tournaments over the past 50 years has been losing on penalties, but this was never going to happen in 1966.
- The national anthem was sung for only the second time in the tournament. England’s players may have come under criticism in recent years for not joining in with the national anthem, but the 1966 team couldn’t have been blamed if they’d forgotten the words.
- West Germany almost had to play without ‘Der Kaiser’ 20-year-old Franz Beckenbauer was one of the breakout stars of the 1966 tournament, scoring 4 goals and impressing with his link-up play, but he very nearly missed the final.
Jul 30, 2016 · Saturday 30 July 2016 13:37, UK. England captain Bobby Moore holds the World Cup aloft in 1966. They delivered English football's greatest moment but what happened to the 1966 World Cup winners ...
England’s victory in the 1966 football World Cup is one of the most celebrated events in 20th century British sport. Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick, the disputed third goal, the commentator’s line ‘They think it’s all over!’ have become legends. But at the time, during the tournament itself and in the weeks afterwards, England was the ...
