Showing posts with label England national team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England national team. Show all posts

Cosas locas: Dog interrupts play, England vs Brazil, 1962 World Cup



10 June 1962: Brazil were playing against England in the quarter final of the 1962 World Cup in the Sausalito stadium, Viña del Mar, Chile when a dog got on the pitch. Jimmy Greaves eventually got hold of the dog by pretending to make friends with it. The game resumed and England were beaten 3-1 by Brazil who went on to beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final.

For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.

René Higuita scorpion kick



Eccentric Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita wowed the English crowd and commentators with his scorpion kick at Wembley in 1995.