Talk:1982 FIFA World Cup final

I find this page fairly biased. The entirety of it illustrates the italians as lucky morons, never mentioning the objective superiority that the azzurri had, both team and individual players-wise. The game was one not for swag or non fitness of the germans, it was an all out victory that this article completely fails to describe.

This article focuses more on the fact that the Germans were fatigued, than Italy deserving the victory. Italy's rise to victory over the course of the '82WC is lengendary in the soccer world. After a very lackluster first round, Italy's second round grouping might have been the most difficult grouping in tournament history. Italy was to face not only the formitable Brazilians (who were by all accounts as strong as ever), but also feared defending champions Argentina. Italy victories over both Argentina and Brazil were legendary. Meanwhile Germany's quality was in question given their difficulty in the semi-finals against a competent, but hardly unbeatable, French squad. Germany's decisive loss in the finals was not the result of fatigue (having play a mere 30 min more than Italy the prior week). Germany was beat by a far superior team, who faced far more challenging competition along the way.

NPOV tag
I have removed the NPOV tag as the dispute has grown stagnant, and the section in question appears to be neutral. If the dispute arises again, contact me before re-adding the NPOV tag. Moreover it reads like a magazine article and should be checked for copyvio's.  D   rew   S    mith 05:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Penalty kicks?
According to the article Penalty shootout (association football), the 1982 final would not have gone to penalties, had it been drawn after extra-time, but rather having been replayed. What is correct? Fomalhaut76 (talk) 22:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The current version of Penalty shoot-out (association football) says, "If the 1982 final had been drawn, penalties would not have applied unless the replay was also drawn", citing one source I don't have access to and one inactive link I can't view even with Wayback Machine. It says nothing about the final of 1978, the year that penalty shoot-outs were introduced to the World Cup. The current version of this article simply says that after the extra time there would have been "Replay on 13 July if scores still level". --Theurgist (talk) 16:58, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

German starting XI
There seems to be some confusion between the graphic which contains Matthaus in midfield and the line-up, which lists Breitner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.23.67 (talk) 09:34, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:1930 FIFA World Cup Final which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 14:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)