Cordoba 1978
As Córdoba 1978 (in Austria only Cordoba or Miracle of Cordoba , in Germany shame of Cordoba or shame of Cordoba ), the football designated countries play that on 21 June 1978 as part of the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Cordoba , Argentina , was held . In the last game of the intermediate round, the German national soccer team, as the reigning world champion, lost 3-2 to the Austrian national team . Both teams were eliminated from the tournament.
Table situation before the game
| rank | country | Gates | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Netherlands
|
7: 3 | 3: 1 |
| 2 |
 Italy
|
1-0 | 3: 1 |
| 3 |
 BR Germany
|
2: 2 | 2: 2 |
| 4th |
 Austria
|
1: 6 | 0: 4 |
The 1978 World Cup was played in four preliminary round groups, each with four national teams, in which everyone played against everyone. The two best in the group (including Austria as group winners ahead of Brazil) advanced to the second final round, in which group matches were played again. As four years before, the German team had only reached the second final round as runners-up in the group, avoiding host Argentina. There were now two groups with four teams each. The two group winners contested the final, the runners-up the game for third place.
The German team was in third place in the second final round after a 0-0 win against Italy and a 2-2 win against the Netherlands before the last game against Austria with 2-2 points and an equally balanced goal difference. Austria had lost twice, against the Netherlands with 1: 5 and against Italy 0: 1, so there was no chance of advancing.
Italy and the Netherlands with 3: 1 points each played for a place in the final on their own. In the event of a tie between these teams, Germany could have won the group with a clear win (at least four goals difference to equalize or exceed the good goal difference of the Dutch) against Austria. If there hadn't been a draw between Italy and the Netherlands, Germany would still have had a good chance of playing second place. A German victory would have made this possible in any case and even a third draw could have been enough if Italy lost (which actually happened). Until shortly before the end, when the score was 2: 2, Germany was in second place with a tie in points and goal difference, ahead of Italy, as their goal account was only 2: 2 compared to a 4: 4 for the Germans.
The game
Course of the game
Rummenigge scored the early opening goal for Germany in the 19th minute. In the game taking place at the same time in Buenos Aires it was 1: 1 up to the 75th minute, while Germany was 1-0 up until the 59th minute, but was still far from the victory that is necessary for a group victory. Within a few minutes they fell back with an own goal by Vogts and a goal by Krankl, but 2-1. Hölzenbein was able to create a 2-2 tie in the 68th minute before Arie Haan scored the Dutch winner to make it 2-1 in the parallel game. The DFB -Elf would have made it into the game for third place. However, as the German team lost their game in the 87th minute due to the 2: 3 of the Austrians von Krankl, they missed the second place in the group and thus the " small final ".
Group best and finalist was the team from the Netherlands, second and participant in the game for third place Italy. Germany finished third due to the better goal difference compared to Austria, but dropped out just like the bottom group Austria.
Edi Finger: "I am foolish"
The game from Córdoba was preserved for posterity in particular due to the spectacular radio broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation by its reporter Edi Finger sen. (while Robert Seeger commented on the TV broadcast ).
“ And now Sara can catch a ball that seems hopeless, pass over to the left, there is applause for him, there comes Krankl , this time past his […] guard, is in the penalty area - shot… goal, goal, goal, goal , Tooor, Tooor! I am foolish! Krankl shoots - 3-2 for Austria! Ladies and gentlemen, we fall around our necks; the colleague Riepl, the graduate engineer Posch - we piss off. 3: 2 for Austria with a great goal from our Krankl. He covered it all over, ladies and gentlemen. And wait a little longer, wait a little longer; then maybe we can have a fourth. So that, that must have been there. Now I got up, all South Americans with their toros (?). I think hammas gschlagn now! Attack by the Germans, watch out, again head defense. The leather comes over to the left to Pezzey - Pezzey, but fellows now don't fool around behind, stay upright. Two more minutes, the leather back to Austria, we don't want to scream anything yet. Now the flank comes into our penalty area and the cross is blocked again!
The Germans have ordered everything forward. A possibility for the Germans! And!? Besides! So the Abraaaamczik - I want to obbusseln the Abramczik for it. Now he's g'hooolfn us. Standing alone in front of the gate. The braaave Abramczik hot shot next to it. The Orme will annoy you. 30 seconds left. 3-2 for Austria. After 47 years, ladies and gentlemen, there is an Austrian national team, but what for ane, a world-class team that plays there today, 3-2 lead against the Federal Republic of Germany. And now I dare not look any more. Outshot into the out. Referee Klein from Israel, a very good referee, he didn't have it easy today, but has whistled class so far. 45th minute: Germany on the ball again and Prohaska knocks the ball out. "
Game dates
| Austria | BR Germany | ||||||
        |
|
    |
|||||
Friedrich Koncilia - Robert Sara , Bruno Pezzey , Erich Obermayer , Heinrich Strasser - Josef Hickersberger , Eduard Krieger , Herbert Prohaska , Wilhelm Kreuz - Hans Krankl , Walter Schachner (71st Franz Oberacher ) Trainer: Helmut Senekowitsch |
Sepp Maier - Berti Vogts , Rolf Rüssmann , Bernard Dietz , Manfred Kaltz - Rainer Bonhof , Erich Beer (46th Hansi Müller ), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , Rüdiger Abramczik - Bernd Hölzenbein , Dieter Müller (61st Klaus Fischer ) Trainer: Helmut Schön |
||||||
 1: 1 Berti Vogts (59th, own goal) 2: 1 Hans Krankl (66th) 3: 2 Hans Krankl (88th)
|
0: 1 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (19th) 2: 2 Bernd Hölzenbein (68.)
|
||||||
 Herbert Prohaska, Robert Sara
|
Rüdiger Abramczik
|
||||||
.svg){kind=small}
Table situation after the game
| rank | country | Gates | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Netherlands
|
9: 4 | 5: 1 |
| 2 |
Italy
|
2: 2 | 3: 3 |
| 3 |
BR Germany |
4: 5 | 2: 4 |
| 4th |
Austria |
4: 8 | 2: 4 |
aftermath
Since their departure was already certain, the Austrians had already booked the flight home to Europe; the German team decided to fly on the same plane. The game itself left no animosity in the personal relationship of the players involved - apart from minor taunts.
In Germany, the unexpected defeat (“shame”) was reacted to with a mixture of disbelief, disappointment and horror. Nevertheless, Krankl's goal was voted 2: 1 goal of the month in Germany.
In Austria the victory was soon considered to be one of the greatest team sport successes of the last decades (“miracle”), comparable at most with the hardly comparable, as individual triumphs of the skiers Toni Sailer and Franz Klammer . The Austrian national players involved are referred to in Austria as the “Heroes of Córdoba” - although a week earlier they had lost 5-1 to the old and new vice world champions Netherlands in Córdoba. The next day, the Kronenzeitung declared the game the “greatest victory of all time”.
The Austrian Post issued a stamp with Krankl's crucial goal. In 2009 the Cordobaplatz in Vienna - Floridsdorf (21st district) was named in memory of the "Miracle of Cordoba". It borders on Edi-Finger-Straße .
For Helmut Schön it was the last game as national coach that he would quit after the World Cup, but it was already clear beforehand. For captain Berti Vogts , Erich Beer , Bernd Hölzenbein and Dieter Müller , the defeat against Austria was the last international match. It was the last international match for Josef Hickersberger and Eduard Krieger with the Austrians .
Gijón 1982
Four years after the game in Cordoba, the two national teams met again, both in qualifying for the 1982 World Cup and during the 1982 World Cup itself. At the 1982 World Cup, Germany and Austria played against each other at the end of the preliminary round. This game was later referred to as the " Gijón Non-Aggression Pact ". The German team had previously lost the opening game against Algeria, but both teams still had the chance to advance, as the previously scheduled game of the Algerian team against the winless Chileans had already ended. Just eleven minutes after the start of the game, Germany's 1-0 score was reached that allowed both teams to advance. From now on, no eleven showed any interest in risking their own elimination just to throw their direct opponent out of the tournament. From this point on, both teams played a purely defensive game without any aggressiveness, which meant the end of the World Cup for the uninvolved Algerian team despite two wins.
Representation in art
On May 16, 2008, exactly one month before the European Championship group game Austria - Germany , the performance artist Massimo Furlan staged the miracle of Cordoba in the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium in the Hütteldorf district of Vienna . In this 90-minute performance as part of the Wiener Festwochen , in front of 3,000 spectators, he imitated the walks and gestures of Hans Krankl during the game from 1978, accompanied by the original reportage tone.
See also
Literature and radio plays
- Michael Wassermair, Lukas Wieselberg: 3-2 Austria – Germany. 20 years of Cordoba . Döcker, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85115-260-3 .
- Ror Wolf : Cordoba June 13:45 . Director: Ror Wolf; Production: Hessischer Rundfunk , 1979 (wh. On June 7, 2008 in Ö1 ).
Web links
-
Austrian Media Library : The Acoustic Chronicle of the 20th Century: 1977–1978. In it section Soccer World Cup in Argentina with:
- Match Austria: Germany. The first goals (03:12 min.) From June 21, 1978 in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library .
- Match Austria: Germany. The final point [excerpt] (01:07 min.) From June 21, 1978 in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek .
- Christian Eichler: 25 years after Cordoba: When Hans Krankl made Edi Finger very “foolish”. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine - Fußball, June 20, 2003.
- EM 2008: "I wer 'narrisch". Edi Finger's famous radio report from Cordoba. Transcript starting with "Hans Krankl [.] And now Sara can still get a ball that seems hopeless" until the end of the game (slightly shortened). In: Die Welt, June 15, 2008.
- 1978 World Cup: The Shame of Cordoba. In: DFB portal, April 20, 2018.
- Cordoba 1978 - Austrian fansite.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Mirbach: WM 1978: The double shame of Córdoba , in FOCUS.de of June 10, 2010, 06:10.
- ↑ Video clip for Cordoba 1978 - Hans Krankl forever , Edi Finger, 1:41 to 2:28 on Youtube .
- ^ Front page of the Kronenzeitung dated June 22, 1978, according to the 26/2014 issue of ZEIT .
- ^ Klaus Zeyringer: Football: Eine Kulturgeschichte , S. Fischer Verlag, 2014.
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: Cordoba production. And again they got foolish . In: faz.net , May 19, 2008.
- ^ Ö1 - Die Hörspiel-Galerie: Cordoba June 1:45 p.m. ( Memento from June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).