This is the fourth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before ... This time, it’s the turn of an exciting West Germany team. Conventional wisdom suggests ...

Evgeni Rudakov (USSR) Rudakov travelled to the 1972 UEFA European Championship as ... Chivadze with the Georgian national team. Paul Breitner (West Germany) This tournament first brought the ...

The team worked, so did the coach and ... who later became runners-up. At the 1972 European Championship, where West Germany would finally lift the long-awaited trophy, the tournament's best ...

EURO 2024) 1972 14/06/1972: Belgium 1-2 West Germany (semi-finals, Deurne) 18/06/1972: West Germany 3-0 Soviet Union (final, Brussels) 1976 17/06/1976: Yugoslavia 2-4 West Germany aet (semi-finals ...

A Rolls Royce of a sweeper in an equally majestic West Germany side, Franz Beckenbauer has died aged 78. In 2012, 40 years on, he looked back on the team he captained to 1972 UEFA European ...

On a rainy night at Wembley he was part of the team which defeated England 3-1 in the 1972 European Championship quarter-final first leg. He went on to play in the final when West Germany beat the ...

Euro 1980 is possibly the least-fabled ... the elegant No 10 from West Germany's Euros winning team of 1972. Strangely, while Cologne were playing Schuster as a sweeper and Cullmann in midfield ...

West Germany became the first team in history to ... the final two matches of the 1972 Euros as his side beat Belgium and the Soviet Union to win their first European title. The striker then ...