1980 Mundialito
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The 1980 Mundialito (Spanish for "little World Cup"), or Copa de Oro de Campeones Mundiales ("World Champions' Gold Cup"), was a friendly international football tournament held in Montevideo, Uruguay from December 30, 1980 to January 10, 1981, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup tournament, which was disputed in 1930, also in the Uruguayan capital. 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 –, who were replacing England.
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[edit] Format
For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1980 Mundialito squads.
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Group stage
[edit] Group A
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Dif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Uruguay |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 |
 Netherlands |
1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 |
 Italy |
1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 |
[edit] Results
| December 30, 1980 |
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| Uruguay |
2–0 | Netherlands |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Enrique Labó (Peru) |
| Venancio Ramos 31' Waldemar Victorino 45' |
| January 3, 1981 |
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| Uruguay |
2–0 | Italy |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Emilio Guruceta (Spain) |
| Julio César Morales 67(p)' Waldemar Victorino 81' |
| January 6, 1981 |
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| Italy |
1–1 | Netherlands |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria) |
| Carlo Ancelotti 7' | Jan Peters 15' |
[edit] Group B
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Dif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brazil |
3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 |
 Argentina |
3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 |
 West Germany |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 |
[edit] Results
| January 1, 1981 |
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| Argentina |
2–1 | West Germany |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Augusto Lamo Castilla (Spain) |
| Manfred Kaltz 84' (og) Ramón Angel Díaz 88' |
Horst Hrubesch 41' |
| January 4, 1981 |
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| Brazil |
1–1 | Argentina |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria) |
| Edevaldo Freitas 47' | Diego Maradona 30' |
| January 7, 1981 |
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| Brazil |
4–1 | West Germany |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: ? Referee: Juan Silvagno (Chile) |
| Júnior 56' Toninho Cerezo 61' Serginho 76' Zé Sergio 82' |
Klaus Allofs 54' |
[edit] Final
| January 10, 1981 |
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| Uruguay |
2–1 | Brazil |
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: ? Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria) |
| Jorge Walter Barrios 50' Waldemar Victorino 80' |
Sócrates 62' |
[edit] Awards
| Copa D'Oro Mundialito Winners |
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 Uruguay |
