Andreas “Andi” Brehme wasn’t supposed to be the hero of the 1990 World Cup final.

Striker Rudi Voller was down to take penalties but didn’t want to because he had been the man brought down in the box; in the eyes of referee Edgardo Codesal at least. German football superstition had it that the









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Player fouled should never take the ensuing spot kick. The second in line, Lothar Matthaus, too, refused. The Nationalmannschaft’s captain had changed his boots at half-time and didn’t feel comfortable.

It thus fell to Inter Milan wing-back Brehme, 29, to step up in the 85th minute against Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico. “If you score, we’ll be world champions,” Voller told his
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