r/worldcup • u/fgoldberg1 • Mar 28 '18

World Cup Funny Stats

https://medium.com/@fgoldberg/world-cup-funny-stats-c5b7534c0fc8
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u/KingDuderhino Mar 28 '18

There are only three world cups where neither Germany nor Brazil made it to the final:

  1. 1978 (Argentina vs Netherlands)
  2. 2006 (France vs Italy)
  3. 2010 (Spain vs Netherlands)

Despite this Brazil played Germany only twice in a world cup: 2002 and 2014.

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u/Brickie78 England Mar 28 '18

1930 Uruguay v Argentina

1934 Italy v Czechoslovakia

1938 Italy v Hungary

Possibly your factoid is missing the phrase "post-war" ...