{"id":41857,"date":"2018-05-20T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/20\/world-cup-stunning-moments-patrick-battiston-loses-his-teeth\/"},"modified":"2018-05-20T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:23:37","slug":"world-cup-stunning-moments-patrick-battiston-loses-his-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41857","title":{"rendered":"World Cup stunning moments: Patrick Battiston loses his teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest World Cup games has been largely overshadowed by the West German keeper\u2019s dastardly actThe semi-final stage of the World Cup has, on balance, not been particularly kind to France. In 1958, the free-scoring team of Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa were more than holding their own against Brazil until Vav\u00e1 clattered into the captain Robert Jonquet; as the defender\u2019s leg sailed in an arc across the Stockholm sky, France\u2019s hopes and dreams, in those days before substitutes, departed with it. In 1986, Les Bleus faced West Germany with star man Michel Platini only half-fit; the rest of the team failed to turn up until the last 10 minutes or so, by which time it was far too late. Even when the French finally won a semi, against Croatia in 1998, the popular defensive lynchpin Laurent Blanc got himself suspended for the final \u2013 unluckily and yet foolishly \u2013 by needlessly waving his arms near the face of Slaven Bilic, asking for the trouble that would soon be delivered to him in spades.But nothing comes close to 1982. Nothing will ever come close to 1982. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2014\/may\/27\/world-cup-25-stunning-moments-patrick-battiston\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup stunning moments: Patrick Battiston loses his teeth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest World Cup games has been largely overshadowed by the West German keeper\u2019s dastardly actThe semi-final stage of the World Cup has, on balance, not been particularly kind to France. In 1958, the free-scoring team of Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa were more than holding their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}