Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...
...plot, afterall, called for morning-line favorites, Brazil and West Germany, to make the second round unscathed, having survived the grueling, two-week round-robin competition with stamina intact and muscle pulls at a minimum. The professionals who make up these national teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany...
Down in Seville, Brazil's fans did the carioca. Hours before the country's three-time cup holders (1958, 1962 and 1970) met and beat a tough Soviet Union in the opening round, more than a thousand supporters danced to drums and maracas in the hot streets around the stadium. Draped in green-and-yellow national flags (or nothing much at all), they celebrated Brazil's best team since Pelé anchored the thunderous 1970 squad...
Inside the stadium, where the usual phalanx of police with dogs and automatic weapons ringed the field before the game, the Soviet Union's hard-working Andrei Bal shocked the crowd of 70,000 when his shot was mishandled by Brazil's Goalie Waldir Peres Arruda. Then came a dazzling display of attacking, creative soccer. A player named Dr. Socrates B. Oliveira, 28, Brazil's physician-turned-forward and the squad's field general, came to life against the Soviets, who had trained near Moscow and were unprepared for the 86° heat of Seville. Socrates...
Thatcher still hopes to ensure the security of the Falklands with a multinational military force that might include troops from the U.S., Jamaica and Brazil. As an additional guarantee of the islands' security, she may even invite certain countries to station diplomatic representatives in Port Stanley. Though Thatcher refuses to budge on the issue of British sovereignty, Whitehall hopes that at some future date the Falklands will become a de facto multinational protectorate. But if Thatcher is unsuccessful in obtaining international guarantees for the islands' status, she is prepared to defend them by leaving 3,000 troops...