The '86 World Cup was Football at its peak in my opinion. Fast, athletic, and littered with players of fabulous flair and technique. Then came the era of the "pressing" game, with players concentrated in a small area of the pitch and the classic "Playmaker" throttled out of existence. Then there was "Tika-Taka", technically and tactically dazzling, but so bloody tedious to watch - with one team hogging possession for 75% of the match. Top level football is purely a money making industry today - rather like Hollywood. It has lost its soul.
And if; Russia is not the Soviet Union. Russia and the Soviet Union are different, culturally and religiously, it is clear that they would be different
And they had Ukrainian players of course.. the 86 and 88 side were primarily made up from the Dynamo Kyev team with Litovchenko playing for Dnepr and Aleinikov from Minsk...Dasaev played for Spartak Moskva
Помню етот ЧМ жалко что судди засудили Марадона говорил «если СССР не остановят сейчас их никто не остановит уже в финале « золотая команда и Золотой Тренер Царство Ему Небесное
Me too! It was an action packed world cup featuring Maradona at his very best, and I was turning five years old when it happened. I clearly wasn't old enough to be interested in football at the time because I remember nothing of it, I only knew that Maradona had robbed us (I'm English) and I bought a video featuring all the goals of the tournament three or four years later.
The soviet Union was one of the best teams technically and physically but the lacked the italian pair so they would have gone far in the 1986 World cup in Mexico this has been the problème of the russians for a long Time they do not play warmly
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