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World Cup Trivia Question

CallumcafcCallumcafc
edited July 2018 in Other Football and Sports
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?

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    C_A_F_CC_A_F_C
    Brazil vs Turkey - 2002
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Italy v Poland I think in 82

    Hungary v W Germany in 54 but that's more than 40 years
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    shirty5shirty5
    Italy v Poland 1982
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    CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Two down, one to get.

    Brazil Turkey 2002
    Italy Poland 1982

    both correct.
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    ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    edited July 2018
    Brazil and Czechoslovakia? - Couldnt tell you the year though
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    CallumcafcCallumcafc
    edited July 2018
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Brazil and Czechoslovakia? - Couldnt tell you the year though

    Happened in 1962 so 56 years ago. Also in 1938.
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    CallumcafcCallumcafc
    edited July 2018
    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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    CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Still one more to get. It happened in the 90s.
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    North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    A guess, but Brazil v Sweden 94?
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    CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Got it! That's all of them.

    Italy Poland 1982
    Brazil Sweden 1994
    Brazil Turkey 2002
    England Belgium 2018
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    North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    First time neither game has really mattered?
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    MrOneLungMrOneLung
    Of course the first game mattered. It set us on the easy path to the final....
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    guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    MrOneLung said:

    Of course the first game mattered. It set us on the easy path to the final....

    Which neither team reached, perhaps if the result in the first game was reversed, one of them might have reached the final.
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