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UEFA Euro 1988 Final

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Date
  
25 June 1988

Venue
  
Olympic Stadium Munich

Attendance
  
72,308

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Champion
  
Netherlands national football team

Referee
  
Michel Vautrot (French Football Federation)

Similar
  
UEFA Euro 1972 Final, UEFA Euro 1992 Final, UEFA Euro 1984 Final, UEFA Euro 1996 Final, UEFA Euro 1976 Final

The UEFA Euro 1988 Final was a football match played on 25 June 1988 to determine the winner of UEFA Euro 1988. The match was contested by the Soviet Union, playing in what would turn out to be the nation's last European Championship, and the Netherlands at the Olympiastadion in Munich. The Dutch won the match 2–0, with goals coming from captain Ruud Gullit, a header in the first half and tournament top scorer Marco van Basten. At 2-0, Hans van Breukelen saved a penalty from Igor Belanov, a penalty that he had given away for bringing down Sergey Gotsmanov.

Van Basten's goal, in which he volleyed right-footed over Rinat Dasayev from the tightest of angles on the right of the penalty area from Arnold Muhren's looping ball from the left, would later be described as one of the greatest goals in the history of the European Championships.

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UEFA Euro 1988 Final Wikipedia