The 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 6 contained Spain and Turkey.
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Matches
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Spain and Turkey finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.
Turkey qualified after drawing lots. Since the
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...
finals, goal difference has been used as a tiebreaker for future qualifying rounds. Had those rules been in place, Spain would have qualified, and Turkey would have been eliminated. A 14-year-old local (i.e. Roman) boy whose father worked at the stadium, Luigi Franco Gemma, picked Turkey's name from the lots with his eyes blindfolded.
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Team stats
Head coach: Sandro Puppo
Sandro Puppo (; 28 January 1918 – 16 October 1986) was an Italian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Club career
During his playing days, Puppo played for Italian clubs Piacenza, Ambrosiana, Venezia and A.S. Roma in ...
Head coach: Luis Iribarren
References
External links
FIFA official pageAllworldcup
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1953–54 in Spanish football