March 31,
1988
Olympiastadion
(Olympic Stadium)
West Berlin
17.000
spectators
Referee:
Joel Quiniou (France)
Argentina: Nery Pumpido, Oscar Ruggeri, Jose Brown (53`Oscar Garre), Jose Cuciuffo, Roberto Sensini, Hernan Diaz, Ricardo Giusti, Julio Olarticoechea (46` Nestor Clausen), Claudio Caniggia, Pedro Troglio, Diego Maradona. Coach : Carlos Bilardo.
USSR: Rinat Dasaev, Tengiz Sulakvelidze (74` Pavel Yakovenko ), Sergei Baltacha, Vladimir Bessonov, Oleg Kuznetsov, Anatoly Demianenko, Gennady Litovchenko (83`Sergei Gotsmanov), Vasily Rats, Alexander Zavarov, Oleg Protasov, Igor Belanov (75`Victor Pasulko). Coach: Yuri Morozov (standing for Valery Lobanovsky).
USSR: Rinat Dasaev, Tengiz Sulakvelidze (74` Pavel Yakovenko ), Sergei Baltacha, Vladimir Bessonov, Oleg Kuznetsov, Anatoly Demianenko, Gennady Litovchenko (83`Sergei Gotsmanov), Vasily Rats, Alexander Zavarov, Oleg Protasov, Igor Belanov (75`Victor Pasulko). Coach: Yuri Morozov (standing for Valery Lobanovsky).
The USSR national team won qualifying group on Euro-88, in which also played an current Champions of Europe - the French national team. On the eve of Euro-88 in Germany was a friendly tournament held in West Berlin. The USSR national team tried their hand in the confrontation with the current World Champions - the national team of Argentina.The Four Nations Tournament (German: Vier-Länder-Turnier) was an invitational association football competition between four national teams, organized by the German Football Association (DFB). The teams of West Germany, Soviet Union, Argentina and Sweden competed against one another at Berlin Olympic Stadium, West Berlin from 31 March to 2 April 1988.
West Germany had been elected host country of the 1988 European Football Championship finals, but because of the ongoing division of Germany, the tournament organizers the DFB had decided against using West Berlin as a venue for any of the matches at the finals. This was a compromise taken at the insistence of the Soviet Union and East Germany. The German Football Association, led by Hermann Neuberger, accepted and thus West Germany secured the right to host the Championship.
As compensation to West Berlin, whose Olympic Stadium would no longer be used at that tournament, a Four Nations Tournament was staged there over Easter 1988.
