Match summary
After the ignominious first-round exit at the hands of Romania's UT Arad in the European Cup Feyenoord Rotterdam flew out to Buenos Aires with mixed emotions for the first leg. Dutch fears were confirmed when Juan Miguel Echecopar and Juan Ramón Verón fired Estudiantes de la Plata into an early lead in the cauldron-like atmosphere of "La Bombonera". Willem van Hanegem capitalised on the Argentinians' apparent complacency to give his team a foothold in the game at 1-2. And Feyenoord's efforts were rewarded in full when Ove Kindvall claimed a second-half equaliser to give the Rotterdam club a perfect starting point for the return leg in "De Kuip".

The second leg on 9 September proved to be a match of high tension. After a protracted 0-0 stalemate after 45 minutes, Feyenoord coach Ernst Happel displayed a Midas touch when he replaced Coen Moulijn with Joop van Daele in the second half . Van Daele scored the game's only goal to secure a 1-0 victory and the trophy. Bizarrely, the goal cost the Dutchman his glasses, Estudiantes player Oscar Miguel Malbernat ripping them off in rage and trampling them before offering the explanation that the wearing of glasses was not permitted in South America.

Key player
Sweden's Ove Kindvall scored the winner in Feyenoord's 2-1 victory over Glasgow Celtic in the European Cup final in Milan to secure the Rotterdam team's place in the Intercontinental Cup. And it was Kindvall who fired home the crucial equaliser for 2-2 in Buenos Aires, laying the foundations for his team's 1-0 victory in the return leg. Kindvall spent five years with Feyenoord and represented Sweden at the 1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico TM and 4 years later in Germany. He scored 16 goals in 43 international appearances.

Coach
Austrian coach Ernst Happel, who died in 1992, will be remembered as one of the game's great characters. Besides his inimitable style and idiosyncratic sense of humour, the strong disciplinarian also developed a unique football philosophy. As a player, he represented his nation 51 times, claiming third place in the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland with Austria. Happel's coaching career began in the Hague before he switched to Feyenoord Rotterdam. Whether with FC Brugges, SV Hamburg, FC Tirol Innsbruck or the Dutch national team, Happel, whose economy with words earned him the moniker "the silent one", enjoyed success everywhere he coached. He led the Netherlands to a FIFA World Cup Final in 1978 before leading Hamburg to the European Champions Cup in 1983. The Praterstadion in Vienna was renamed the Ernst Happel Stadium in his memory.


First leg
Estudiantes de la Plata -FeyenoordRotterdam 2-2
Goals: Echecopar, Verón / van Hanegem, Kindvall.
Location: Buenos Aires.
Stadium: Boca Juniors ("La Bombonera")
26 August 1970.
Estudiantes: Néstor Martín Errea - Rubén Oscar Pagnanini, Hugo Spadaro, Néstor Togneri, Oscar Miguel Malbernat - Carlos Salvador Bilardo (Jorge Raúl Solari), Carlos Oscar Pachamé, Juan Miguel Echecopar (Christian Rudzki) - Marcos Norberto Conigliaro, Eduardo Raúl Flores, Juan Ramón Verón.
Feyenoord: Eddy Treytel - Piet Romeijn, Rinus Israël, Theo Laseroms, Theo van Duivenbode, Franz Hasil, Wim Jansen, Willem van Hanegem (Jan Boskamp), Henk Wery, Ove Kindvall, Coen Moulijn.
Second leg
Feyenoord Rotterdam - Estudiantes de la Plata 1-0
Goals: Van Daele.
Location: Rotterdam.
Stadium: De Kuip.
9 September 1970.
Feyenoord: Eddy Treytel - Piet Romeijn, Rinus Israël, Theo Laseroms, Theo van Duivenbode, Franz Hasil (Jan Boskamp), Wim Jansen, Willem van Hanegem, Henk Wery, Ove Kindvall, Coen Moulijn (Joop van Daele).
Estudiantes: Oscar Pezzano - Oscar Miguel Malbernat, Hugo Spadaro, Néstor Togneri, José Hugo Medina - Carlos Salvador Bilardo, Carlos Oscar Pachamé, Daniel Romero (Rubén Oscar Pagnanini) - Marcos Norberto Conigliaro, (Christian Rudzki), Eduardo Raúl Flores, Juan Ramón Verón.