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VIII FIFA World Cup 1966: With England National Football Team, Soviet Union National Football Team, Bobby Moore, Gordon Banks. The world's best footballing nations compete to win the Jules Rimet trophy in the only World Cup ever to have been held in the country which launched the professional game, England.
While the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ has not yet arrived, the tournament continues to take shape – not least when it comes to mascots. On Thursday 11 February 2016, the three designs that made it into the preliminary vote were unveiled.
Wolfgang Weber deprived the hosts of the Trophy in normal time, scoring in the last minute to make it 2-2. A goalscorer in the regulation 90 minutes, Geoff Hurst struck twice more in extra time, the first of those two goals the most controversial in World Cup Final history: a powerful drive that hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced on ...
That made the nation's joy at hosting - and ultimately winning - the eighth FIFA World Cup™ 103 years later all the greater. In order to mark the 50th anniversary of that spectacular tournament, we take a closer look at the exhibits and stories in the 1966 World Cup gallery housed in the FIFA World Football Museum, which opened its doors in Zurich for the first time six months ago.
Wolfgang Weber deprived the hosts of the Trophy in normal time, scoring in the last minute to make it 2-2. A goalscorer in the regulation 90 minutes, Geoff Hurst struck twice more in extra time, the first of those two goals the most controversial in World Cup Final history: a powerful drive that hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced on the goal-line – according to the Germans – or ...
Wolfgang Weber deprived the hosts of the Trophy in normal time, scoring in the last minute to make it 2-2. A goalscorer in the regulation 90 minutes, Geoff Hurst struck twice more in extra time, the first of those two goals the most controversial in World Cup Final history: a powerful drive that hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced on ...
