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Olympic Football Tournament Moscow 1980

  • Teams: 16
  • When: 20 July 1980 to 02 August 1980
  • Final: 02 August 1980
  • Matches: 32
  • Goals Scored: 82 (average 2.6 per match)
  • Attendance: 765000 (average 23906)
      • Winner: Czechoslovakia
      • Runners-Up: German Democratic Republic
      • Third: Soviet Union
      • Fourth: Yugoslavia

    Overview

    Moscow, 1980
    The Communist countries held their own private Eastern bloc party in 1980 because a number of nations boycotted the Olympics. U.S. President Jimmy Carter refused to send American teams to Moscow after the Soviets' Afghanistan invasion. Six other countries that had qualified for the football tournament followed suit -- Argentina, Egypt, Ghana, Iran, Malaysia and Norway.

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