The former defender converted the penalty that gave West Germany the third Cup in its history, after an alleged infringement by Roberto Sensini on Rudi Völler that the Mexican referee Edgardo Codesal charged.
- Brehme, one of the two secrets behind the penalty that soured Argentina on its admiration for Maradona
German football mourns the death of Andreas Brehme, the executioner of the Argentine National Team in the final of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The scorer of the goal, from a penalty, that gave his country the third Cup, left unexpectedly at the age of 63 in Munich , product of a heart attack.
Susanne Schaefe, Brehme’s wife, with an enviable technique, confirmed the sad news in a statement: “We ask in these difficult times that our private sphere be respected.”
The former Bayern Munich, Inter, Kaiserslautern and Real Zaragoza player played 86 games for Germany and scored eight goals, one at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, where the Mexican referee Edgardo Codesal charged an alleged infringement by Roberto Sensini on Rudi Völler that Sergio Goycochea could not contain.
Brehme was also very important in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, participating in another final, also against Argentina, and scoring, from a free kick, a key goal in the semifinal against France.
Last January, after the death of Franz Beckenbauer, who had been his coach in the national team, the former defender said that he believed that the Kaiser “will form a magical triangle in heaven with Pelé and Maradona.”
Andreas Brehme, executioner of the Argentine National Team in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, died
Brehme also tried his hand as a coach, but he was far from even approaching the successes he had achieved as a player.
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Brehme usually played as a left back – at the end of his career he also played as a libero – and his free kicks with his left foot were fearsome, but, in the 1990 penalty, he decided to shoot with his right foot and it was a goal.
The decision was due to the fact that Brehme – who was ambidextrous – had received a blow to his left foot, despite which he took the shot that Lothar Matthäus did not want to throw, claiming that he did not feel safe because he had had to change his boots. and that he was wearing ones that he usually wore only in training.
The second thrower was Rudi Völler, who was the one who had received the alleged foul that caused the penalty, and the coach Franz Beckenbauer considered that whoever had received the foul should never throw from the 12 steps.
The most curious thing is that, many years later, Codesal was interviewed by Infobae, and maintained that today he would have sanctioned the same thing. “The defender does not touch the ball, although he tries to play it, and with his thigh he contacts it forward and with his forearm on the waist, making it fall,” he declared in 2020. Meanwhile, Sensini himself and even Lothar Matthäus confessed that it was not to collect it .
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At club level, Brehme was German champion with Bayern Munich in 1987 and with Kaiserslautern in 1998. In addition, he won the German Cup with Kaiserslautern in 1996 and the UEFA Cup with Inter in 1961.
The title of German champion with Kaiserslautern is especially valuable since the team achieved it, led by Otto Rehagel, after having spent a season in the Second Division when they lost the category just in the year in which they had won the German Cup.
On the day of relegation, Brehme was asked if he would go with Kaiserslautern to the Second Division and he gave an answer that marked the decision of many other of his teammates and that was key to achieving direct promotion again: “Together we have put the car in the mud and together we are going to get it out.
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