Football
Men's Team Competition:
- West Germany - Eliminated in Second Round
- First round: 3-0-0
- Defeat Morocco 3-0
- Defeat Malaysia 3-0
- Defeat the United States 7-0
- Second Round: 0-1-2 (Did not advance)
- Drew with Mexico 1-1
- Lost to Hungary 1-4
- Lost to East Germany 2-3
- Roster - Heiner Baltes, Hermann Bitz, Hartwig Bleidick, Hans-Jürgen Bradler, Friedhelm Haebermann, Ewald Hammes, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Uli Hoeneß, Reiner Hollmann, Jürgen Kalb, Manfred Kaltz, Dieter Mietz, Bernd Nickel, Egon Schmitt, Hans-Dieter Seelmann, Rudi Seliger, Günter Wienhold, Ronald Worm, and Klaus Wunder
Read more about this topic: West Germany At The 1972 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)