Mondiali 1962 · Maschile

Campionato del Mondo
World Cup
CHILE 1962

Rimet Cup

Vincitore / Winner:
BRASIL

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La spedizione in Cile ha un prologo giornalistico che scatenerà le reazioni dei cileni. Antonio Ghirelli sul "Corriere della Sera" e Corrado Pizzinelli sulla "Nazione" scrivono dei reportage sulle miserie e povertà di un paese con gravi problemi economici e non adeguato per ospitare un mondiale. Sarà un involontario assist per la stampa cilena che attizzerà le reazioni negative degli spettatori nei confronti degli azzurri.

Il 15 aprile, alla fine del campionato, viene diramata dai due CT, Giovanni Ferrari e il presidente della SPAL Paolo Mazza, la lista dei 31 convocati per il raduno di San Pellegrino dai quali usciranno i 22 definitivi. Oltre alle due amichevoli con Francia e Belgio sopra riportate, vengono disputate altre due partite, classificate come Italia "B", contro la Francia "B" e la nazionale maggiore dell'Ungheria. La prima si chiudeva sul pari e eliminava dalla lista nomi come Lojacono (non in splendide condizioni di forma), Pestrin e il portiere Negri.

La seconda si risolveva con un successo per 3-1 ma portava all'esclusione di Mariolino Corso, autore di una prestazione grigia culminata con la sostituzione con Pascutti. Alle 0,40 del 18 maggio decolla da Malpensa il jet che ci porta a Santiago a giocare nel gruppo 2 con Germania Ovest, Svizzera e Cile.

The format of the competition stayed the same as 1958: 16 teams qualified, divided into four groups of four. Four teams were seeded in the draw taking place in Santiago de Chile, on 18-01-1962: Brazil, England, Italy and Uruguay.The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals. In May 1960, as the preparations were well under way, Chile suffered the largest earthquake (9.5 magnitude) of the twentieth century, which caused enormous damage to the national infrastructure.

In face of this, Carlos Dittborn, the president of the Organization Committee, coined the phrase "Because we don't have anything, we will do everything in our power to rebuild," which became the unofficial slogan of the tournament. Stadia and other infrastructure were rebuilt at record speed and the tournament occurred on schedule with no major organizational flaw. Sadly, Dittborn would not live to see the success of his tireless efforts, as he died one month before the start of the tournament.

The World Cup venue at Arica was named Estadio Carlos Dittborn in his honor and bears his name to this day. Many famous players did not live up to their reputations in this tournament. Brazil's Pelé, the hero of 1958, was injured in the first group match against Czechoslovakia. The USSR's goalkeeper Lev Yashin, arguably the world's best at the time, was in poor form and cost his team the elimination by Chile (1-2) in the quarter-finals.

Bright spots such as the emergence of the young Brazilians Amarildo (standing in for Pelé) and Garrincha, the heroics of Czechoslovakia goalkeeper Viliam Schrojf against Hungary and Yugoslavia, and the inspired performance of the host nation Chile, who unexpectedly took third place with a squad of relatively unknown players, thanks to an outstanding team spirit. The competition was marred by overly defensive and often violent tactics. This poisonous atmosphere culminated in the infamous first-round match between host Chile and Italy (2-0), known as the Battle of Santiago.

Two Italian journalists had written unflattering articles about the host country. Although only two players (both of them Italian) were sent off by the English referee Ken Aston, the match saw repeated, deliberate attempts from players on both sides to harm opponents, and the Italian team needed police protection to leave the field in safety. In the first round, Brazil topped their group with Czechoslovakia finishing second, above Mexico and Spain. USSR and Yugoslavia finished above Uruguay and Colombia. Hungary, along with England progressed through to the quarter-finals, while Argentina and Bulgaria were eliminated.

England had the same number of points as Argentina but progressed due to a superior goal average; the first time such a requirement had been necessary in a World Cup finals tournament. Switzerland lost all three games while West Germany and Chile both went through over Italy. Surprisingly, Chile defeated European champions USSR to land themselves a semi-final game against the winner of the England – Brazil game. A brilliant performance from Garrincha, which included two goals in a 3-1 win, saw the South Americans triumph against England.

Meanwhile 1-0 wins for Yugoslavia against West Germany -- and Czechoslovakia against Hungary -- saw the two Slavic states meet in the semi-finals. Viña del Mar was the originial venue for the first semi-final. But due to Chile's surprise qualification, the organizers prompted FIFA to a switch to. A little under 6,000 spectators turned out to watch Czechoslovakia beat Yugoslavia 3-1, whereas a capacity crowd of 76,600 in Santiago watched Brazil beat the hosts 4-2. This game saw Garrincha sent off for Brazil and Honorino Landa sent off for Chile.

Chile eventually went on to take third place in a 1-0 victory over Yugoslavia with the very last play of the match. The same player, Eladio Rojas, had also scored the winning goal in Chile's game against USSR. Santiago's Estadio Nacional served as the venue for the final itself, and after 15 minutes, Brazil again found themselves a goal behind in the World Cup final, as a long ball from Adolf Scherer was latched onto by Josef Masopust: 1-0 Czechoslovakia.

However, just like the previous final four years earlier, Brazil soon hit back, equalising two minutes later through Amarildo after an error by the hitherto flawless Czechoslovak goalkeeper Schroijf. The Brazilians did not stop there and with goals from Zito and Vavá (another Schrojf error) mid-way through the second half, the Czechoslovaks just couldn't get back into the game. The match ended 3-1 to Brazil, a successful defence of the title for only the second time in the history of the competition in spite of the absence of their star player of 1958, Pelé.

ITALIA 1962
C.T.: Giovanni Ferrari

• Portieri / Goalkeepers: Lorenzo Buffon (Inter) , Carlo Mattrel (Palermo), Enrico Albertosi (Fiorentina)
• Difensori / Defenders: Giacomo Losi (Roma), Mario David (Milan), Cesare Maldini (Milan), Giovanni Trapattoni (Milan), Luigi Radice (Milan), Sandro Salvadore (Milan), Enzo Robotti (Fiorentina)
• Centrocampisti / Midfielders: Paride Tumburus (Bologna), Bruno Mora (Juventus) (C nella sola gara con il Cile), Giacomo Bulgarelli (Bologna), Franco Janich (Bologna), Gianni Rivera (Milan), Giorgio Ferrini (Torino)
• Attaccanti / Forwards: Omar Sivori (Juventus), Ezio Pascutti (Bologna), Humberto Maschio (Atalanta), Angelo Sormani (Mantova), Josè Altafini (Milan), Gianpaolo Menichelli (Roma)

MULTIMEDIA:

• Video: Sintesi di Italia - Cile 0-2, Girone Eliminatorio [598Mb] *divx

1° Turno / 1st Round GRUPPO/GROUP 1 30-05-1962, Arica
Uruguay-Colombia 2-1
28’ Zuluaga (C) rig., 57’ Pérez (U), 73’ Cubilla (U)
31-05-1962, Arica
URSS-Jugoslavia 2-0
60’ Ivanov, 85’ Ponedelnik
02-06-1962, Arica
Jugoslavia-Uruguay 3-1
18’ Cabrera (U), 27’ Skoblar (J) rig., 38’ Galic (J), 47’ Jerkovic (J)
03-06-1962, Arica
URSS-Colombia 4-4
9’ Ivanov (U), 11’ Cislenko (U), 14’ Ivanov (U), 20’ Aceros (C), 51’ Ponedelnik (U), 67’ Coll (C), 71’ Rada (C), 77’ Klinger (C)
06-06-1962, Arica
URSS-Uruguay 2-1
37’ Mamykin (Urs), 53’ Sacia (Uru), 89’ Ivanov (Urs)
07-06-1962, Arica
Jugoslavia-Colombia 5-0
20’ Galic, 25’ Jerkovic, 52’ Galic, 73’ Melic, 87’ Jerkovic
GRUPPO/GROUP 2 30-05-1962, Santiago
Cile-Svizzera 3-1
8’ Wütrich (S), 43’ L. Sanchez (C), 51’ Ramírez (C), 56’ L. Sanchez (C)
31-05-1962, Santiago
Italia-Germania Ovest 0-0
02-06-1962, Santiago
Cile-Italia 2-0
74’ Ramírez, 87’ Toro
03-06-1962, Santiago
Germania Ovest-Svizzera 2-1
44’ Brülls (GO), 61’ Seeler (GO), 75’ Antenen (S)
06-06-1962, Santiago
Germania Ovest-Cile 2-0
22’ Szymaniak rig., 82’ Seeler
07-06-1962, Santiago
Italia-Svizzera 3-0
3’ Mora, 65’ e 68’ Bulgarelli GRUPPO/GROUP 3 30-05-1962, Viña del Mar
Brasile-Messico 2-0
56’ Zagallo, 72’ Pelé
31-05-1962, Viña del Mar
Cecoslovacchia-Spagna 1-0
78’ Stibranyi
02-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Brasile-Cecoslovacchia 0-0
03-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Spagna-Messico 1-0
88’ Peiró
06-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Brasile-Spagna 2-1
34’ Adelardo (S), 71’ e 89’ Amarildo (B)
07-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Messico-Cecoslovacchia 3-1
1’ Masek (C), 10’ Díaz (M), 29’ Del Aguila (M), 89’ H. Hernández (M) rig. GRUPPO/GROUP 4 30-05-1962, Rancagua
Argentina-Bulgaria 1-0
4’ Facundo
31-05-1962, Rancagua
Ungheria-Inghilterra 2-1
15’ Tichy (U), 60’ Flowers (I) rig., 75’ Albert (U)
02-06-1962, Rancagua
Inghilterra-Argentina 3-1
14’ Flowers (I) rig., 42’ Charlton (I), 57’ Greaves (I), 83’ Sanfilippo (A)
03-06-1962, Rancagua
Ungheria-Bulgaria 6-1
1’ e 6’ Albert (U), 8’ Tichy (U), 12’ Solymosi (U), 53’ Albert (U), 64’ Sokolov (B), 70’ Tichy (U)
06-06-1962, Rancagua
Ungheria-Argentina 0-0
07-06-1962, Rancagua
Bulgaria-Inghilterra 0-0

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Quarti di Finale / 1/4 of Final 10-06-1962, Arica
Cile-URSS 2-1
10’ L. Sánchez (C), 72’ Cislenko (U), 73’ Rojas (C)

10-06-1962, Santiago
Jugoslavia-Germania Ovest 1-0
87’ Radakovic

10-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Brasile-Inghilterra 3-1
29’ Garrincha (B), 38’ Hitchens (I), 53’ Vavá (B), 59’ Garrincha (B)

10-06-1962, Rancagua
Cecoslovacchia-Ungheria 1-0
13’ Scherer

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Semifinale / 1/2 of Final

13-06-1962, Santiago
Brasile-Cile 4-2
9’ e 31’ Garrincha (B), 41’ Toro (C), 48’ Vavá (B), 61’ L. Sánchez (C) rig., 77’ Vavá (B)

13-06-1962, Viña del Mar
Cecoslovacchia-Jugoslavia 3-1
49’ Kadraba (C), 69’ Jerkovic (J), 81’ e 89’ Scherer (C)

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Finale 3° posto / Final 3rd place 16-06-1962, Santiago
(Stadio Hardturm)
Cile-Jugoslavia 1-0
Rete: 90’ Rojas
Cile: Godoy, Eyzaguirre, Rodriguez, Cruz, R. Sanchez, Rojas, Ramirez, Toro, Campos, Tobar, L. Sanchez
Jugoslavia: Soskic, Durkovic, Svinijarevic, Radakovic, Markovic, Popovic, Kovacevic, Sekularac, Jerkovic, Galic, Skoblar
Arbitro: Gardeazabal (Spagna)

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Finale / Final 17-06-1962, Santiago
(Stadio Hardturm)
Brasile-Cecoslovacchia 3-1
goal: 15’ Masopust, 17’ Amarildo, 68’ Zito, 77’ Vavá
Brasile: Gilmar, D. Santos, N. Santos, Zito, Mauro, Zozimo, Garrincha, Didí, Vavá, Amarildo, Zagallo
Cecoslovacchia: Schroiff, Tichy, Novak, Pluskal, Popluhar, Masopust, Pospichal, Scherer, Kvasnak, Kadraba, Jelinek
Arbitro: Latishev (URSS)

MARCATORI / TOP SCORER 4 goal: Garrincha e Vavá (Brasile), L. Sanchez (Cile), Jerkovic (Jugoslavia), Albert (Ungheria), V.

Ivanov (Urss); 3 goal: Amarildo (Brasile), Scherer (Cecoslovacchia, 1 rigore), Galic (Jugoslavia), Tichy (Ungheria); 2 goal: Ramirez, Rojas e Toro (Cile), Seeler (Germania Ovest), Bulgarelli (Italia), Flowers (Inghilterra, 2), Cislenko e Ponedelnik (Urss); 1 goal: Facundo e Sanfilippo (Argentina), Zagallo, Pelé e Zito (Brasile), Sokolov (Bulgaria), Kadraba, Masek, Masopust e Stibrany (Cecoslovacchia), Aceros, Koll, Klinger, Rada e Zuluaga (1) (Cile), Brülls e Szymaniak (1) (Germania Ovest), Charlton, Greaves e Hitchens (Inghilterra), Mora (Italia), Skoblar (1), Radakovic e Melic (Jugoslavia), Diaz, Del Aguila e Hernandez (Messico), Adelardo e Peiró (Spagna), Antenen e Wüthrich (Svi), Solymosi (Ungheria), Cubilla, Cabrera e Perez (Uruguay), Mamykin (Urss)