West Germany were on top of the world in 1976. The European champions and World Cup winners had good reason to assume that they were the best team on the planet and there were no signs that anything ...

Netherlands 3-2 Yugoslavia (aet) The Dutch crop of 1976 earned third place thanks to Ruud Geels' extra-time winner. Whether the 1976 UEFA European Championship was the best yet was up for debate – ...

The 1976 European Championship saw not only a new winner of the trophy, with Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, lifting their first European silverware, but also a new word being born, after ...

Post-World War II Yugoslavia threaded a Cold War needle between the Soviet Union’s Communist hardliners and the West’s hedonistic capitalists. This national schizophrenia perhaps explains the ...

Yugoslavia had one foot in the 1976 UEFA European Championship final when West Germany coach Helmut Schön made one of the most inspired substitutions of all time. Trailing 2-1 with eleven minutes left ...

The Germans, who won the World Cup in 1974, were brought back down to earth in 1976 when the European Championships saw their first shock triumph. Czechoslovakia gave a taster of their ambitions by ...