THE WORLD CUP 1982 IN SPAIN.

The host country for the 1982 world cup was Spain.
The world cup was held from june 13 to july 11.
There were a total of 24 teams from 6 confedrations.
The total attendance for the entire tournament was a total of 2,109,732 at 40,572per match.
The number of goals scored was 146 goals. At2.81 per match.
There were a total of 52 matches played.
The top goal scorer was Paulo Rossi of Italy with 6 goals.
Italy were the new champions for the third time. They won the world cup earlier in 1934 and in 1938.
First came Italy.
The second place went to West Germany.
The third place went to Poland.
And France came fourth.
There were a few shocks on the way Holland the team that came second in1978 world cup failed to qualify.Holland was beaten by Belgium.Mexico was knocked out by El Salvador. Sweeden was knocked out by Scotland.
England and Belgium were back after a period of twelve years.Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia were also back. The new teams were Cameroon, Kuwait,Algeria and honduras played in their first world cup.
The matches between Brazil and Argentina was an unforgetable game as was the game between France and West Germany.
The West Germans scored through Pierre Littberski but the French equaled through Michel Platini with a penalty.
TheFrench defender Patrick Battiston ran the entire field to the German goal, and the German goalkeeper Harold Schumacher, and knocked him down cold as well as his two teeth, he was knocked unconcious but strangely the dutch referee Charles Corver did not give a penalty.The match was held up for twenty odd minutes.The defender Amaros scored a thunderous drive from 25metre. Alan Giuesse made it 3-1. But Germans have habit of scoring late goals so Karl Heinze Rummenigge and the Klaus Fischer made it 3-3. But Germany won the penalty shootout.5-4.This was the first time in the world cup , the game was decided by pnalty shootout.
In the third place match Poland defeated France 3-2.
In the final between Italy and Germany , the goal score was 3-1.

Paulo Rossi won both The golden boot as the golden ball for the best player . Which was given for the first time that year.Dino Zoff the captain of Italy won the world cup , he as the oldest footballer to win the world cup at fourty years.