The most intense matches in the history of the World Cup

The FIFA World Cup witnessed many violent confrontations and controversial events that became famous and their events remained present in the minds for a long time in some versions of the previous World Cup. Critics and experts of the game called them "controversial battles or confrontations."

The first of these matches took place between Italy and Spain, and was held in Florence during the quarter-finals of the second edition of the World Cup hosted by Italy in 1934. semi final.

Violent Italy

Despite the Spanish national team’s control of the match from the start and its lead in the 30th minute with a goal by striker Luis Rogueiro from a free kick, the decisions of Belgian referee Louis Pierrett changed the course of the confrontation, by ignoring the expulsion of any Italian player, especially midfielder Luisito Monti, until the equalizing goal he scored The Italian team, one minute before the end of the first half, by Giovanni Ferrari, was illegal after his colleague Angelo Schiavio used his "elbow" to stop the Spanish goalkeeper Zamora in a joint air ball, and then fell over him restricting his movement and causing two of his ribs to be broken, to wobble the ball in front of Ferrari A few centimeters from the goal line.

In the 79th minute, the referee canceled a goal for Spain's La Fuente, and 6 of his players were injured as a result of excessive Italian roughness, and goalkeeper Zamora, who deserved appreciation after blocking 5 difficult balls during the second half and the two extra times that witnessed the crossbar's response to the shots of the Spaniards Lafuente and Rogueiro, in turn, the Italian was exposed Mario Pizzolo for a broken leg.

The match was stopped after some time as a result of the collision of the Italian Alemandi and the Spaniard Iraraguri, and after the two extra times ended in a tie, there was a proposal to complete the match to end when one of the two teams scored the winning goal, but then-Hungarian Vice President Maurice Fischer decided to repeat it in The following day, in compliance with the tournament regulations, Italy won 1-0, and then managed to bypass Austria by the same score in the semi-finals, and won the title by defeating Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the final.

The most violent match in the history of the World Cup

In the 1954 World Cup that took place in Switzerland, the confrontation between Brazil and Hungary (the last two runners-up), which was preceded by heavy rain, and the match began with a pressing attack by the Hungarian team, who opened the scoring in the fourth minute by Hidikouti, and his colleague Sandor Kochis added the second goal in the seventh minute, Before the end of the first half, the Brazilians Pinheiro and Nilton Santos interfered with Hungarian Joseph Toth to leave him seriously injured and absent until the end of the tournament.

The Brazilian team had a penalty kick in the 18th minute, of which Djalma Santos scored Brazil's first goal, and 15 minutes after the whistle of the beginning of the second half, the Hungarian Chibor hit a ball that hit the Brazilian Pinheiro's hand, and the referee awarded a penalty kick by Lantos strongly, scoring the third goal, amid the Brazilians' objection to the validity of the kick.

5 minutes later Julinho reduced the score to Brazil, so that the Brazilian Power attacked Bojek, who left for treatment, and as soon as he returned in the 71st minute, the Brazilian Nilton Santos violently interfered with him to exchange kicks and punches, the referee tried to end the controversy between them, and for their refusal to shake hands with each other decided to expel them together, with the intervention of The police, and the Brazilian Humberto kicked the leg of his opponent Giola Laurent in the 79th minute, and the Brazilian player kneeling in front of the referee, begging to prevent him from being expelled from the match, did not work.

Some fans tried to storm the pitch to watch the clash, and this match was ranked the most violent in the World Cup, during which 42 mistakes were made, half of which were violent interventions, and included two penalties, 4 warnings, and 3 expulsions, and despite the violent incidents, neither the International Football Association nor the two Hungarian federations took action. The Brazilian will not take any punitive measures against transgressors.

Bulk injuries and clashes after the match

In the third edition of the World Cup hosted by France in 1938, the confrontation of Brazil and Czechoslovakia was a lot of controversy, and the match coincided with the opening of the Parc de L’Escor stadium in Bordeaux, forcing the two teams to travel long distances by train, as the Czech team traveled 521 kilometers over a period of 7 hours. From Le Havre, the Brazilian traveled 758 kilometers from Strasbourg in 12 hours, causing fatigue for the two teams.

The Brazilian national team wants to qualify for the first time for the role of the top four at the expense of the runner-up of the previous tournament, and despite receiving 5 goals in the previous match, coach Ademar Pimenta kept his entire defense line, relying only on goalkeeper Walter instead of Batatis. A special confrontation was between the Czech Nijdeli, the top scorer in the previous tournament in 1934, and the Brazilian Leonidas, who was crowned the top scorer of this tournament, and both scored in this match.

The confrontation also witnessed many scenes; The most prominent of them is the expulsion of Brazilian Zizi Procopio in the 12th minute after a violent intervention that caused a fracture of the ankle of the player Nijedli, who was prejudiced against his injury and refused to leave. He injured his ankle and was taken to hospital.

Czech goalkeeper Blanica played most of the extra two games with a dislocated collarbone in the right shoulder after a double collision with his colleague Nijdelli and the Brazilian Berachio. On the other hand, the Brazilian Leonidas suffered many injuries (including a head injury) that forced him not to complete the match, and his colleague Berraso injured his foot, and Machado broke his foot before he was sent off. All the injured were taken to the hospital after the end of the match, and it was found that the Brazilian Walter is the only player in the match who did not suffer any fractures, bruises or bruises.

FIFA then issued a decision banning the reserve players from sitting behind the stadium lines after the reserves of the two teams participated in the riots that followed the match, which forced the security men to intervene to separate them, and this decision remained in effect for only one week during the period between 12 and 19 June 1938.