Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 10th World Cup, hosted and won by West Germany.
Emmanuel Sanon. Losses to Canada and Mexico ended the USA’s World Cup qualification hopes while Haiti stunned the Mexicans to represent Concacaf in Germany. After a promising start, taking a 1-0 lead over Italy on an Emmanuel Sanon goal, the Haitians fell 3-1, then got routed by Poland, 7-0, and lost to Argentina (4-1, with Sanon scoring again). Sanon earned a contract with Belgium’s Beerschot and finished his career with the American Soccer League’s Miami Americans and the NASL’s San Diego Sockers. He then embarked on a long coaching career in the United States, working in California, Texas and Florida, where he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 in 2008.
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