UEFA Euro 1988 final
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Event | UEFA Euro 1988 | ||||||
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Date | 25 June 1988 | ||||||
Venue | Olympiastadion, Munich | ||||||
Referee | Michel Vautrot (France)[1] | ||||||
Attendance | 62,770[2] | ||||||
The UEFA Euro 1988 Final was a football match played on 25 June 1988 to determine the winner of UEFA Euro 1988. The match was contested by the Soviet Union, playing in what would turn out to be the nation's last European Championship, and the Netherlands at the Olympiastadion in Munich. The Dutch won the match 2–0, with goals coming from captain Ruud Gullit and tournament top scorer Marco van Basten; Gullit scored the opening goal with a header in the first half, from a Van Basten assist. At 2–0, Hans van Breukelen saved a penalty from Igor Belanov, a penalty that he had given away for bringing down Sergey Gotsmanov.[3][4]
Van Basten's goal, in which he volleyed right-footed over Rinat Dasayev from the tightest of angles on the right of the penalty area from Arnold Muhren's looping ball from the left, would later be described as one of the greatest goals in the history of the European Championships.[5][6][7][8]
Despite appearing in the FIFA World Cup Finals of 1974 and 1978, this was the first international tournament won by the Netherlands, and the only time the Netherlands have ever reached the final of UEFA Euro. For Russia, this is still the country's latest attempt to win the second European trophy, and the latest time they reached the final of the competition.
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References
- ^ a b "Netherlands - USSR 2:0 (EURO 1988 Germany, Final)". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ a b "European Football Championship 1988 FINAL". euro2000.org. Union of European Football Associations. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ "European Championships 1988". ESPN. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Van Basten ends Dutch wait". UEFA.com. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Humphrey, Jake. "Which is the best Euro Goal Ever?". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
- ^ "10 Greatest Goals in the European Championships". FourFourTwo. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
- ^ "Holland 2 USSR 0". Goal.com. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Van Basten, a Dutch goal machine". FIFA.com. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
External links
- UEFA Euro 1988
- UEFA European Championship finals
- Netherlands national football team matches
- Soviet Union national football team matches
- Sports competitions in Munich
- Netherlands at UEFA Euro 1988
- Soviet Union at UEFA Euro 1988
- Netherlands–Soviet Union relations
- 1980s in Munich
- June 1988 sports events in Europe
- Association football matches in Germany