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The The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ...football tournament at the The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union. ...1980 Summer Olympics started on July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ...July 20 and ended on August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ...August 2. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 16 teams were divided into 4 groups:
Group A ( First International Cuba 3 - 1 Jamaica (Cuba; March 16, 1930) Largest win Cuba 9 - 0 Puerto Rico (Santo Domingo, Dom. ...Cuba, First International Estonia 2 - 4 USSR (Tallinn, Estonia; 18 September 1923) Last International Cyprus 0 - 3 USSR (Larnaca, Cyprus; 13 November 1991) Largest win USSR 11 - 1 India (Moscow, USSR; 16 September 1955) Finland 0 - 10 USSR (Helsinki, Finland; 15 August 1957) Worst defeat England 5 - 0 USSR (London, England...USSR, First International Panama 3 - 1 Venezuela (Panama City, Panama; 12 February 1938) Largest win Venezuela 6 - 0 Puerto Rico (Barranquilla, Colombia; 26 December 1946) Worst defeat Argentina 11 - 0 Venezuela (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 10 August 1975) World Cup Appearances none (First in -) Best result - Copa América Appearances 13 (First...Venezuela, First International Zambia 1 - 0 Tanzania (Malawi; 3 July 1964) Largest win Zambia 9 - 0 Kenya (Malawi; 13 November 1978) Worst defeat Congo DR 10 - 1 Zambia (Congo-Kinshasa; 22 November 1969) Belgium 9 - 0 Zambia (Brussels, Belgium; 3 June 1994) World Cup Appearances none (First in -) Best result - African...Zambia)
Group B ( First International Mexico 3 - 1 Colombia (Panama City, Panama; 10 February 1938) Largest win Argentina 0 - 5 Colombia (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5 September 1993) Worst defeat Argentina 9 - 1 Colombia (Santiago, Chile; 7 February 1945) World Cup Appearances 4 (First in 1962) Best result Round 2, 1990 Copa América...Colombia, First International Kuwait 2 - 2 Libya (Morocco; September 3, 1961) Largest win Kuwait 20 - 0 Bhutan (Kuwait City, Kuwait; February 14, 2000) Worst defeat Egypt 8 - 0 Kuwait (Morocco; September 4, 1961) Portugal 8 - 0 Kuwait (Leiria, Portugal; November 19, 2003) World Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1982) Best result...Kuwait, First International Ghana 1 - 0 Nigeria (Accra, Ghana; 28 May 1950) Largest win Nigeria 8 - 1 Uganda (Ismailia, Egypt; 23 September 1991) Worst defeat Ghana 7 - 0 Nigeria (Accra, Ghana; 1 June 1955) World Cup Appearances 3 (First in 1994) Best result Round 2, 1994 and 1998 African Nations Cup...Nigeria, First International Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Last International Belgium 0 - 0 Czechoslovakia (Brussels, Belgium; 17 November 1993) Largest win Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925) Worst defeat Hungary 8 - 3 Czechoslovakia (Budapest, Hungary...Czechoslovakia)
Group C ( First International Tunisia 2 - 1 Algeria (Tunisia; 25 June 1957) Largest win Algeria 15 - 1 South Yemen (Libya; 17 August 1973) Worst defeat East Germany 5 - 0 Algeria (Cottbus, East Germany; 21 April 1976) World Cup Appearances 2 (First in 1982) Best result Round 1, 1982 and 1986 African Nations...Algeria, First International Spain 2 - 0 Belgium (Bilbao, Spain; 7 October 1921) Largest win Spain 13 - 0 Bulgaria (Madrid, Spain; 21 May 1933) Worst defeat Italy 7 - 1 Spain (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4 June 1928) England 7 - 1 Spain (London, England; 9 December 1931) World Cup Appearances 11 (First in 1934) Best...Spain, First International Poland 3 - 0 East Germany (Warsaw, Poland; 21 September 1952) Last International Belgium 0 - 2 East Germany (Brussels, Belgium; 12 September 1990) Largest win Ceylon 1 - 12 East Germany (Colombo, Ceylon; 12 January 1964) Worst defeat 0 - 3, 12 times; 1 - 4, three times World Cup Appearances 1...GDR, First International Turkey 7 - 0 Syria (Ankara, Turkey; November 20, 1949) Largest win Syria 12 - 0 Maldives (Damascus, Syria; June 4, 1997) Syria 12 - 0 Maldives (Tehran, Iran; June 9, 1997) Syria 12 - 0 Philippines (Aleppo, Syria; April 30, 2001) Worst defeat Greece 8 - 0 Syria (Athens, Greece; November 25...Syria)
Group D ( First International Costa Rica 7 - 0 El Salvador (Guatemala City, Guatemala; Sept 14, 1921) Largest win Costa Rica 12 - 0 Puerto Rico (Barranquilla, Colombia; December 10, 1946) Worst defeat Mexico 7 - 0 Costa Rica (Mexico City, Mexico; August 17, 1975) Mexico 7 - 0 Costa Rica (Mexico City, Mexico; October 23...Costa Rica, First International Finland 2 - 5 Sweden (Helsinki, Finland; October 22, 1911) Largest win Finland 10 - 2 Estonia (Helsinki, Finland; August 11, 1922) Worst defeat Germany 13 - 0 Finland (Leipzig, Germany; September 1, 1940) World Cup Appearances (First in -) Best result - European Championship Appearances none (First in -) Best result - The Finland...Finland, First International Morocco 3 - 3 Iraq (Lebanon; October 19, 1957) Largest win Iraq 10 - 1 Bahrain (Baghdad, Iraq; April 5, 1966) Worst defeat Turkey 7 - 1 Iraq (Turkey; December 6, 1959) World Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1986) Best result Round 1, 1986 AFC Asian Cup Appearances 5 (First in...Iraq, First International Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Last International Netherlands 2 - 0 Yugoslavia (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 25 March 1992) Largest win Yugoslavia 10 - 1 India (Helsinki, Finland; 15 July 1952) Yugoslavia 9 - 0 Zaire (Gelsenkirchen, Germany; 18 June 1974) Worst defeat Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium...Yugoslavia)
Two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
The football tournament was held in five venues:
The Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium ( Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...Moscow)
The Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium ( Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...Moscow)
Kirov Stadium ( Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. ...Leningrad)
Republican Stadium ( Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. ...Kiev)
Dynamo Stadium ( For things named after Minsk, see Minsk (disambiguation) The Mariinsky Cathedral, 1732 Minsk (Belarusian: Менск, Мінск; Russian: Минск) (population 1. ...Minsk)
The final was held at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium and the match for the 3rd place was held at the Grand Arena of the Dynamo Stadium. The football tournament was the most attended event on these Olympics: 1,821,624 spectators watched 32 matches of it at the stadiums.
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Stanislav Seman, Ludek Macela, Josef Mazura, Libor Radimec, Zdenek Rugel, Petr Nemec, Ladislav Vizek, Jan Berger, Jindrich Svoboda, Lubos Pokluda, Werner Licka, Rotislav Vaclavicek, Jaroslav Netolicka, Oldrich Rott, Frantisek Stambacher, Frantisek Kunzo
First International Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Last International Belgium 0 - 0 Czechoslovakia (Brussels, Belgium; 17 November 1993) Largest win Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925) Worst defeat Hungary 8 - 3 Czechoslovakia (Budapest, Hungary...Czechoslovakia
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Bodo Rudwaleit, Arthur Ullrich, Lothar Hause, Frank Uhlig, Frank Baum, Rudiger Schnuphase, Frank Terletzki, Wolfgang Steinbach, Jurgen Bahringer, Werner Peter, Dieter Kuhn, Norbert Trieloff, Matthias Muller, Matthias Liebers, Bernd Jakubowski, Wolf-Rudiger Netz
First International Poland 3 - 0 East Germany (Warsaw, Poland; 21 September 1952) Last International Belgium 0 - 2 East Germany (Brussels, Belgium; 12 September 1990) Largest win Ceylon 1 - 12 East Germany (Colombo, Ceylon; 12 January 1964) Worst defeat 0 - 3, 12 times; 1 - 4, three times World Cup Appearances 1...GDR
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Rinat Dasaev Rinat Dasaev (Ри́нат Даса́ев; born June 13, 1957 in Astrakhan, Soviet Union) was a Russian football goalkeeper. ...Rinat Dasaev, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Alexandr Chivadze, Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Oleg Romantsev, Sergey Shavlo, Sergey Andreev, Vladimir Bessonov, Yuri Gavrilov, Fyodor Cherenkov, Valeri Gazzaev, Vladimir Pilguj, Sergej Baltacha, Sergej Nikulin, Khoren Oganesyan, Alexandr Prokopenko
First International Estonia 2 - 4 USSR (Tallinn, Estonia; 18 September 1923) Last International Cyprus 0 - 3 USSR (Larnaca, Cyprus; 13 November 1991) Largest win USSR 11 - 1 India (Moscow, USSR; 16 September 1955) Finland 0 - 10 USSR (Helsinki, Finland; 15 August 1957) Worst defeat England 5 - 0 USSR (London, England...USSR
Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the Alternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation) The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. ...IOC in 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...1980.
A mens football tournament has been held at every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932. ...Football at the Summer Olympics
1896 | At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a football tournament was contested for the first time. ...1900 | At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a demonstration football event was contested. ...1904 | At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, an unofficial football event was contested. ...1906 | At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England, an official football tournament was contested for the first time. ...1908 | The football tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, attracted a record 11 entries, all of them from Europe. ...1912 | In the football tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp, Belgium won the gold medal while Spain won the silver. ...1920 | At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, Uruguay dominated the Football tournament winning the Gold. ...1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | The football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the 20th official Olympic Games football tournament. ...2000 | The football (soccer) tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics started on August 11, (two days before the opening ceremony), and ended on August 28. ...2004
Events at the The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union. ...1980 Summer Olympics ( Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...Moscow)
Archery at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held at the archery range, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). ...Archery | Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events. ...Athletics (track and field) | Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held at the Indoor Stadium of the Olimpiski Sports Complex and at the Sports Palace of the Central Sports Club of the Army, both located in Moscow. ...Basketball | Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place in the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow. ...Boxing | Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). ...Canoeing | Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics was split into two categories: Road and Track. ...Cycling | At the 1980 Summer Olympics, four diving events were contested. ...Diving | Equestrian at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 6 events. ...Equestrian | At the 1980 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested. ...Fencing | Football (soccer) | Gymnastics | Handball | Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics: Mens Tournament Womens Tournament In 1980, for the first time, an womens Olympic Games hockey tournament was organised. ...Hockey | The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, as the country joined the boycott of the games because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ...Judo | Modern Pentathlon | Rowing | Shooting | Swimming | Volleyball | Water Polo | Weightlifting | Wrestling | Yachting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by six events. ...Yachting
The 1936 SummerOlympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
The Olympic Flame was used for the second time at these games, but they marked the first time it was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria 4-2 in extra-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist ideology.
For the first time the Olympic Flame was brought to the Olympic Town by a torch relay, with the starting point in Olympia, Greece.
In the quarter-finals of the football tournament, Peru beat Austria by 4 to 2 in over-time, but a replay was ordered as Peruvian fans stormed the pitch during the match.
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