Algeria eye revenge in first match against Austria since ‘shame of Gijón’

Group J game recalls the 1982 World Cup, when Austria and West Germany played out a mutually beneficial result How long do football grudges last? It has long been argued that Brazil never truly recovered from the Maracanazo , or, if they did, it took decades. The same might be said of the English football community and Diego’ Maradona’s “Hand of God” . In Algeria, the national wound was inflicted at the 1982 World Cup and has been universally referred to as “ the Shame of Gijón ”. Almost exactly 44 years later, a potential reckoning for that arrives when Algeria play Austria in their final gro

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