Not to mention the great polish team of 74, the semi was basically played on a swimming pool...
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Paul Breitner, part of West Germany’s World Cup winning team, would reflect years later: “I can remember one game where I’ve always maintained we beat a team which was fundamentally better than us. In fact, it was definitely the best team in the competition and still didn’t win the World Cup. I mean Poland in 1974.”
None other than Franz Beckenbauer agreed, noting afterwards, “Under normal circumstances we probably wouldn’t have stood a chance.” But on the day the circumstances were far from normal.
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