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World Cup Trivia Question
Callumcafc
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England and Belgium will play each other for the second time at this World Cup. It's only the fourth time this has happened in the last 10 World Cups.
Can anyone name the three previous instances of this occuring (without using Google) in the last 40 years?
Can anyone name the three previous instances of this occuring (without using Google) in the last 40 years?
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Brazil vs Turkey - 2002
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Italy v Poland I think in 82
Hungary v W Germany in 54 but that's more than 40 years1 -
Italy v Poland 19821
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Two down, one to get.
Brazil Turkey 2002
Italy Poland 1982
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Brazil and Czechoslovakia? - Couldnt tell you the year though1
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Happened in 1962 so 56 years ago. Also in 1938.ForeverAddickted said:Brazil and Czechoslovakia? - Couldnt tell you the year though
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It was a bit more common with replays and fewer teams in the earlier tournaments so I chose 40 years as the cut off point. Here are a list of instances before then...
1934:
Italy v Spain
1938:
Switzerland v Germany,
Cuba v Romania,
Brazil v Czechoslovakia
1954:
W Germany v Turkey
Switzerland v Italy
Hungary v W Germany
1958:
N Ireland v Czechoslovakia
Hungary v Wales
Soviet Union v England
1962:
Brazil v Czechoslovakia
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Still one more to get. It happened in the 90s.0
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A guess, but Brazil v Sweden 94?2
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Got it! That's all of them.
Italy Poland 1982
Brazil Sweden 1994
Brazil Turkey 2002
England Belgium 20182 - Sponsored links:
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First time neither game has really mattered?2
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Of course the first game mattered. It set us on the easy path to the final....0
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Which neither team reached, perhaps if the result in the first game was reversed, one of them might have reached the final.MrOneLung said:Of course the first game mattered. It set us on the easy path to the final....
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