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After a heroic qualification for the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a shootout win over Colombia, England will take up the challenge of breaking a long taboo at the World Cup. The English fell in the quarterfinals in six of the 14 editions of the World Cup that they played (1954, 1962, 1970, 1986, 2002 and 2006).
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2002 (South Korea-Japan), produced for the Brazilian team with a 2-1 defeat of turn. Rivaldo and Ronaldinho Gaúcho scored goals for Brazil, who would reach the world championship after beating Germany in the final.
The English team did not reach the semi-finals of the World Cup 28 years ago – the last time in 1990, in Italy, when he was defeated by the l '[[[[[[[[393939Germanyalsoonthepenalties
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The generation of Harry Kane, Lingard, Delle Ali and Sterling have yet another negative mark to extinguish. At the 2014 World Cup, the English were eliminated in the group stage.
Now, against the Swedes, next Saturday at 11 am (Brasília time), they will play in the second round of the World Cup. In Samara, coach Gareth Southgate will have the opportunity to bring the country back to the ranks of one of the best nations in the world of football, a sport invented by the English themselves in the late nineteenth. century.
England finished second in Group G. The team defeated Tunisia (2-1) and Panama (6-1) but lost to Belgium (1-0) in the match that defined the key positions. In this match, the Belgians and the English have spared most headlines.
1938: He did not participate
1934: He did not participate
1938: He did not participate
1970: Quarter-finals
1958:
1990: Semifinal
1994: He did not participate
1998: 2nd stage
1986: Quarter-final
2014: Group stage
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2002: Quarter-finals
2006: Quarter-finals
2010: Round of 16. from Colombia to England
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