FIFA World Cup: Italy, 1990

The 1990 World Cup was won by West Germany, the third time they won the tournament.

Qualifiers

At the qualifier between Nigeria and Angola in 1989, a crowd of 80,000 attended the match in the 60,000-capacity stadium in Lagos on 12 August 1989. Tragically, 13 fans and a Nigerian player were affected by the stifling conditions and died.
Mexico was banned from participating in the 1990 World Cup as it had deliberately fielded three overaged players in a FIFA international youth tournament.
Costa Rica, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates made their first appearances in the finals

In the 1990 Semi-Final between Italy and Argentina, absent-minded referee referee Michael Vautrot from France added 8 minutes of injury time to the first half of extra-time as he forgot about the time. Fortunately no goal was scored during the 40 minutes of extra-time. Argentina won 4-3 on penalty shoot-out.
The goal scored the latest during a game was by David Platt of England, in their second round match against Belgium in 1990 - he scored after 119 minutes.
The coach of the winning German team was Franz Beckenbauer, who became the first person to win the World Cup as Captain (1974) and then as coach.

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