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"Mundialito" redirects here. For other uses, see Little World Cup (disambiguation).
1980 World Champions' Gold Cup Copa de Oro de Campeones Mundiales
Uruguay '80Tournament details Host country Uruguay
Dates December 30, 1980 –
January 10, 1981Teams 6 (from 2 confederations) Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city) Final positions Champions Uruguay
Runners-up Brazil
Tournament statistics Matches played 7 Goals scored 19 (2.71 per match) Attendance 255,000 (36,429 per match) Top scorer(s) Victorino (3 goals)
The 1980 Mundialito (Spanish for "little World Cup"), or Copa de Oro de Campeones Mundiales ("World Champions' Gold Cup"), was an international football tournament held in Montevideo, Uruguay from December 30, 1980 to January 10, 1981, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup tournament, which had been celebrated in 1930 at the same venue. The national teams invited were Uruguay, Italy, West Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, and Argentina, at the time the six former World Cup winning nations except for the Netherlands – 1974 and 1978 World Cup runners-up – replacing England, who declined the invitation.
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Participating teams
Team Notes Uruguay
Hosts, 1930 and 1950 FIFA World Cup Champions Italy
1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cup Champions West Germany
1954 and 1974 FIFA World Cup Champions Brazil
1958, 1962 and 1970 FIFA World Cup Champions Netherlands
1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cup Runners-up, replacing England
Argentina
1978 FIFA World Cup Champions England, the 1966 FIFA World Cup champions, declined to participate.
Format
The six teams were distributed in two groups of three: Group "A" was composed of Netherlands, Italy, and Uruguay; Group B, of Argentina, Brazil, and West Germany. The winners of each group faced each other to decide the tournament winner.
Squads
For a list of all the rosters of the tournament, read 1980 Mundialito squads.
Outcome
Uruguay and Brazil won their respective groups and played the final, with Uruguay defeating Brazil 2-1 with a late goal, the same result that had occurred 30 years earlier between the two teams in the deciding match of the 1950 World Cup. Uruguay's coach during the Mundialito, Roque Máspoli, had also been Uruguay's goalkeeper in the 1950 match.
Group stage
Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Uruguay
2 2 0 0 4 0 +4 4 Netherlands
2 0 1 1 1 3 −2 1 Italy
2 0 1 1 1 3 −2 1 30 December 1980 Uruguay 2 – 0 Netherlands
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Enrique Labo (Peru)Venancio Ramos 31'
Victorino45'
3 January 1981 Uruguay 2 – 0 Italy
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta (Spain)Morales 67' (pen.)
Victorino81'
6 January 1981 Italy 1 – 1 Netherlands
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)Ancelotti 7'
Jan Peters 15'
Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Brazil
2 1 1 0 5 2 +3 3 Argentina
2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 3 West Germany
2 0 0 2 2 6 −4 0 1 January 1981 Argentina 2 – 1 West Germany
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)Kaltz 84' (o.g.)
Ramón Díaz88'
Hrubesch 41'
4 January 1981 Brazil 1 – 1 Argentina
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)Edevaldo 47'
Maradona 30'
7 January 1981 Brazil 4 – 1 West Germany
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Juan Silvagno (Chile)Júnior 56'
Toninho Cerezo61'
Serginho76'
Zé Sérgio82'
Allofs 54'
Final
10 January 1981 Uruguay 2 – 1 Brazil
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Attendance: 71,250
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)Barrios 50'
Victorino80'
Sócrates 62' (pen.)
Scorers
- 3 goals
- 1 goal
Ramón Díaz
Diego Maradona
Edevaldo
Junior
Serginho
Sócrates
Toninho Cerezo
Zé Sérgio
Klaus Allofs
Horst Hrubesch
Jan Peters
Carlo Ancelotti
Jorge Barrios
Julio Morales
Venancio Ramos
- Own goals
Manfred Kaltz (for Argentina)
See also
External links
Categories:- 1980 in association football
- 1981 in association football
- International football (soccer) competitions hosted by Uruguay
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