Goals

There were 16 teams who participated in the tournament. Again, the teams got segregated into four groups. According to rules, among the groups, the top two teams would face each other in quarterfinals. The finale was celebrated on July 30 at Wembley Stadium with the finalists England and West Germany that was cheered by 97,000 viewers. It was Germany who scored the first goal with Helmut Haller kicking the ball past Gordon Banks, English Goalkeeper. Six minutes post the first goal, in the eighteenth minute, Bobby Moore, English captain, directed the ball into the penalty area where Geoff Hurst turned the ball in. From there on the struggle of teams to score continued till the arrival of the 78th minute. Alan Ball struck the third goal of the game by making a corner kick. England failed to have its another goal when Hurst’s shot could not reach the box however, Martin Peters compensated for it by scoring another goal. The game had finally reached the moment when it was going to be even more dramatic.