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England were just crazy when their team, which had not won anything in 55 years, won something

Ahead of Sunday’s European Anglo-Italian soccer final, all the newspapers in the world (including us) wrote that England had not won anything since the 1966 World Cup. It’s so true that it’s not really about the World Cup and the World Cup. Node is present at the 1997 Tournoi de France, also known as the World Mini-Championship, which the England national team won against the Brazilians, the French and the Italians. It is true that everyone has forgotten this tournament by now, but now that England have truly reached the finals of a world event, it is worth remembering.

Poor English, the bill really is on them: they won the World Championship in 1966 (we know Hearst’s shot, the cut to the goal line, the dialogue between referees Denst and Behramov) at home, with strong refereeing, and since then they’ve failed in all European Championships and the World Cup already what they got It is of course. Because it happened more than once in 55 years that football educators watched the current world competition on TV. And if the English manage to qualify, they won’t be able to play in the finals either.

Germany’s Siegfried Held complained of a brawl as Gottfried Denst and Tovik Bahramov discussed whether Hearst’s cross-shot was a goal in the 1966 World Cup final between England and France.Forrás: dpa Picture-Alliance / AFP / Usage worldwide / Karl Schnoerrer

But it was there in 1997 when the French Football Federation brought under its roof a four-person tournament called the Tournoi de France, to which Brazilian, Italian and English teams were invited – along with the French host.For convenience, the organizers called the event the “World Mini Championship” because at that time, the invitees had a total of 8 world championship titles. The English won once so far, the Brazilians four times and the Italians three times. France never once, but they were able to rejoice with the gold of the 1998 World Cup. Therefore, this field was really strong. Why the English was chosen is a good question, because the team played a semi-final at the 1996 European Championship, a year earlier. In comparison, the invitation of the Germans would have made the championship field even stronger, since in 1996 they won the European Championship.

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Paul Gascoigne at the 1997 Mini World CupSource: Agence France-Presse / Eric Weverberg

I don’t waste much time, the England national team won the mini-World Cup in France in 1997, although it also falls into the category of bad luck. When this tournament is mentioned, no one is talking about England. It is about the free kick and goal scored by Roberto Carlos which goes down in history as one of the greatest goals of all time. We’ll show you this quickly.

But let’s go back to the championship now, especially since the England-Italy match was played in Nantes on June 4, 1997, the same as Sunday night’s European Championship final. This match was won by the English 2-0 with a goal from Ian Wright and Scholes.

France 2. nap

England and Italy 2-0 (2-0)
Nantes, 30 thousand spectators. Led by Kuhu (Finnish)
Gulzerzo: Ian Wright, Paul Scholes
Anglia: Flowers – Southgate – P. Neville, Keon, Lou Sau (J. Neville, 46.), Pierce – Beckham, Scholes, Ince – Wright (Cole, 76.), Sheringham (Gascoigne, 77.).
Olaszország: Peruzzi – Ferrara (Nesta, 46.), Costacurta, Cannavaro – Di Livio (Maini, 46.), Di Matteo (Fuser, 17.), Albertini, D. Bagglo – Casiraghi, Zola.

In the English team, we see the name of Gareth Southgate in the line of defence. He is the federal captain of the current England team.The English press treated this result with a victory because in February 1997, in the World Cup qualifiers for the two teams in London, the Italians won 1-0 at Wembley.

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A vengeful England may march to Rome at the Victory Gate in October after Hoddle conjured an eclectic feast on Nantes’ lawn rug from leftovers in the kitchen.”
– shouted (in a somewhat incomprehensible way) to the Associated Press after this match. In this regard, the opinion of the French sports newspaper L’Equipe, which is about to say something like this, was interesting: A friendly match is a match for the English even if they are not at stake, but it will never be important for the Italians because it is a friendly.”

From this it can be seen that this victory was very important for the English. Three days later, on June 7, 1997, the English and French teams met in Montpellier. The French played 1-1 at home in the opening match with the Brazilians who participated in the tournament as the gold medalists of the 1994 World Cup. Well, the England team was also able to win this match, with Shearer scoring in the 86th minute.

France 3. nap

France – England 0-1 (0-0)
Montpellier, 20,000 spectators. Led by Belkoula (Morocco).
Gulzerzo: Shearer (86).
Anglia: Seaman – Southgate – B Neville, Campbell, J Neville, Lou Sau – Beckham (Lee, 76.), Gascoigne, Patty (Innes, 46.) – Shearer, Wright (Sheringham, 79).
France: Barthez – Thuram, Blanc, Ngoti, Laigle (Lizarazu, 82) – Deschamps, Vieira, Keller – Djurkayev-Odek (Loco, 63), Dugarry (Zidane, 76).

The English victory was preceded by a fatal goalkeeper error Anyway, it’s worth watching Shearer’s goal.

The English stood six points after two games, but lost their third game to the Brazilians. However, those six points were enough to win the tournament because the Italian, Brazilian and French-Italian matches ended in a draw. When the fourth match of the tournament, the Italian-Brazilian confrontation, ended in a 3-3 draw, it was also decided that regardless of the outcome of the last round, England would win the World Cup mini. The English trade press was very surprised after winning the mini World Cup. However, England at the time were not sure that he would reach the 1998 World Cup. But they eventually succeeded, thanks to the 0-0 final in the Italian-English World Cup qualifiers in the fall of 1997 in Rome. Moreover, the English took first place in the qualifying group because they scored 19 points and were one point ahead of the Italians.

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The great encounter between David Beckham and Diego Simenoni in the 1998 FIFA World Cup FinalObverse: AFP/Gerard Searles

Thus, the English were the first to reach the finals of the World Cup in France, relegating to the Argentine national team in the eighth final. In Saint-Étienne, the irresponsible movement of David Beckham became the fate of the Three Lions. After the eighth Anglo-Argentinian final with a score of 2-2 after the impressive first half, Beckham kicked to the ground in the 47th minute unnoticeably behind Diego Simeone, and the current coach of Atletico Madrid spread amazingly and sent the Danish referee Kim Milton Nielsen. His off the field icon of English football later.

The English Daily Mirror delivered a relentless verdict after Beckham’s release صدورSource: Daily Mirrorمير

Argentina, who had been in the lead for more than an hour, eventually made it to the top eight on penalties, and the next day the Daily Mirror didn’t excuse Beckham: “10 heroic lions, stupid boy” flourished on the cover.

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