{"id":120814,"date":"2024-07-17T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/romania-at-the-olympic-games-football-tokyo-1964-120814.html"},"modified":"2024-07-16T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:31:55","slug":"romania-at-the-olympic-games-football-tokyo-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/romania-at-the-olympic-games-football-tokyo-1964-id120814.html","title":{"rendered":"Romania at the Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Sixty years ago, Romania\u2019s national football side recorded their best ever result at the Olympic Games. This was back in 1964, in Tokyo, when Japan hosted the Games for the first time. Romania\u2019s qualification was full of suspense. Two qualifying<\/span> rounds <span lang=\"en-US\">were held<\/span>. In the first <span lang=\"en-US\">round,<\/span> Romania <span lang=\"en-US\">played<\/span> Denmark, <span lang=\"en-US\">winning <\/span>3-2 away<span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">In the return match in Bucharest, however, the Danes <\/span>got the upper hand and scored three goals in the first half of the <span lang=\"en-US\">match<\/span>. <span lang=\"en-US\">Romania also went on to score two goals, which meant the two sides were tied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">So they had to meet again in a decisive match, which was held on neutral ground, in Turin. <\/span>At the end of the 90 minutes <span lang=\"en-US\">of regular time<\/span>, the <span lang=\"en-US\">two sides were tied at <\/span>one-all, <span lang=\"en-US\">so the match went into extra time. <\/span>27 minutes <span lang=\"en-US\">into the <\/span>extra time, <span lang=\"en-US\">Romania\u2019s<\/span> Mircea Sasu, <span lang=\"en-US\">from the second-tier club <\/span>Minerul Baia Mare, scored the <span lang=\"en-US\">goal that won Romania the match<\/span>.\u00a0<span lang=\"en-US\">In the second qualifying round, Romania played <\/span>Bulgaria, <span lang=\"en-US\">winning both legs, <\/span> 2-1 at home and 1-0 away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the Olympics, Romania was in Group A <span lang=\"en-US\">alongside<\/span> included Mexico, Iran and the <span lang=\"en-US\">United Team<\/span> of Germany, <span lang=\"en-US\">in effect East Germany. <\/span> On October 11th, <span lang=\"en-US\">Romania won <\/span>3-1 against Mexico and two days later <span lang=\"en-US\">drew <\/span>one-all against <span lang=\"en-US\">the German side<\/span>. Romania <span lang=\"en-US\">won their following match against<\/span> Iran 1-0, two <span lang=\"en-US\">more <\/span>days later, and qualified for the quarter-finals <span lang=\"en-US\">owing to coming in second in their <\/span>group after <span lang=\"en-US\">the German side<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Romania <span lang=\"en-US\">then took<\/span> on Hungary, <span lang=\"en-US\">one of the strongest sides of the day, for a place in <\/span>the semifinals. The match took place on October 18th 1964 in Yokohama. Tibor Csernai put the Hungarians in the lead in the second minute of the game. The Romanians had a chance to <span lang=\"en-US\">equalise<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">with <\/span>six minutes <span lang=\"en-US\">to go before the end of the match, <\/span>but <span lang=\"en-US\">the team captain<\/span> Gheorghe Constantin failed to <span lang=\"en-US\">score from <\/span>a penalty <span lang=\"en-US\">kick<\/span>. <span lang=\"en-US\">Hungary <\/span>also <span lang=\"en-US\">got a <\/span>penalty shot, <span lang=\"en-US\">and <\/span>Tibor Csernai <span lang=\"en-US\">scored again to win his side a place in the semis<\/span>. Hungary next thrashed Egypt 6-0 and won the finals 2-1 against Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanias football side has qualified for the Olympic Games after an absence of 56 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":118169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[147469,29134],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-120814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-1964-tokyo-games","tag-football"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Romania at the Olympic Games - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/romania-at-the-olympic-games-football-tokyo-1964-id120814.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Romania at the Olympic Games - 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