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France and Germany met in Seville on July 8, 1982, as part of the semi-finals of the World Cup in Spain, a match that will mark the goalkeeper's life for life. Teutonic team, Harald Schumacher, and a defender of the Gauls, Patrick Battiston.
With the score equal to one, both players ran for a filtered ball. Battiston came first to the meeting and gave the ball a light touch, enough so that the goalkeeper could not stay with him. However, the ball seemed to be the last thing that went through Schumacher's mind at the time
The goalkeeper was applying the maxim "man pbades or pbades the ball, but never both" . The goalkeeper brutally crushed the French, while the ball was diverted from the goal. The Gauls claimed responsibility for the offense, but the referee neither charged nor deported the German.
Battiston, however, was unable to continue, victim of a concussion and loss of several teeth.
The match ended on three and Schumacher was the hero of the penalty shoot-out, where he stopped the accusations of Didier Six and Maxime Bossis, with whom Germany reached the final.
However, the goalkeeper could never get rid of the stigma of being a violent player
Salvador López I Pachuca
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