1980 Mundialito

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1980 World Champions' Gold Cup Copa de Oro de Campeones Mundiales Uruguay '80

Tournament details
Host country	Uruguay
Dates	December 30, 1980 – January 10, 1981
Teams	6 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	19 (2.71 per match)
Attendance	255,000 (36,429 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Victorino (3 goals)

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 held in 1930 at the same venue. 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 replaced England who declined the invitation.

1 Participating teams
2 Format
3 Squads
4 Outcome
5 Group stage
- 5.1 Group A
  - 5.1.1 Results
- 5.2 Group B
  - 5.2.1 Results
6 Final
7 Awards
8 Scorers
9 See also
10 External links

[edit] Participating teams

Uruguay - hosts; 1930 and 1950 FIFA World Cup champions
Brazil - 1958, 1962, and 1970 FIFA World Cup champions
West Germany - 1954 and 1974 FIFA World Cup champions
Italy - 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cup champions
Argentina - 1978 FIFA World Cup champions
Netherlands - 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cup runner-ups, "replacing" England*

England, 1966 FIFA World Cup champions, declined to participate.

[edit] Format

The three FIFA World Cup trophies on an Uruguayan stamp

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] Squads

To have a list of all the rosters of the tournament, read 1980 Mundialito squads.

[edit] Outcome

Uruguayan captain Rodolfo Rodríguez lifting the Mundialito trophy.

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	Uruguay	2–0	Netherlands	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Enrique Labo (Peru)
	Venancio Ramos 31' Victorino 45'

January 3, 1981	Uruguay	2–0	Italy	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Emilio Guruceta (Spain)
	Morales 67(p)' Victorino 81'

January 6, 1981	Italy	1–1	Netherlands	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)
	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	Argentina	2–1	West Germany	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
	Kaltz 84' (og) Ramón Díaz 88'		Hrubesch 41'

January 4, 1981	Brazil	1–1	Argentina	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Edevaldo 47'		Maradona 30'

January 7, 1981	Brazil	4–1	West Germany	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: ? Referee: Juan Silvagno (Chile)
	Júnior 56' Toninho Cerezo 61' Serginho 76' Zé Sérgio 82'		Allofs 54'

[edit] Final

January 10, 1981	Uruguay	2–1	Brazil	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 71,250 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Barrios 50' Victorino 80'		Sócrates 62'