Countdown to Brazil: Part 1 – FIFA World Cup 1978

Gaurang Manjrekar

2nd June 2014 | 8:41 PM

“With what I know now, I can’t say I’m proud of my victory. But I didn’t realise; most of us didn’t. We just played football.

In hindsight, we should never have played that World Cup. I strongly believe that.”

– Leopoldo Luque

1978.

Chairman of the World Cup organising committee, General Omar Actis, was assassinated before the competition had begun. Bright start, eh?

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