Europe wins soccer

Press, 9 August 1982, Page 40

Europe wins soccer

NZPA-ReuterEast Ruther-. ford. New Jersey' A goal by Italy’s Giancarlo Antognbni in the . eightyeighty minute gave Europe a 3-2 victory over the Rest of the World in a F.I.F.A. World All Star soccer match bn Saturday night. . Antognoni slammed in a high ball from 20 metres which the Rest of the World’s goalkeeper, Thomas N’Kono, of • Cameroun, caught ' but dropped backwards between the posts. • A midfielder, Antognoni was also involved, in Europe’s equaliser in the seventv-ninth minute when his free kick from the left went to Austria’s Bruno Pezzey, who drove it in behind N’Kono .'

The Rest of . the World All Stars used a swift, Brazilianstyle passing game to lead, 2-0, at half-time, dominating the first half. The Rest of the World went ahead in the twentyninth minute. when .Zico, of Brazil, tapped in a rebound off an 18 metre shot by Mexico’s Hugo Sanchez. • Six minutes later Algeria’s Lakhdar Belloumi caught up with a cross from Brazil’s Socrates and edged it past Dino Zoff, of Italy, the harassed European goalkeeper. . ' • . Europe surged back in the second half, tightening up its tackling . to stifle the freewheeling Brazilian stars who spearheaded the Rest of the World's first half

onslaught. Turning on the pressure, the Europeans took territorial control and forced • N’Kono into several errors. Within minutes of the restart Italy’s World Cup hero. Paolo Rossi, beat N’Kono only to hit the inside of the post, but in the fifty-eighth, minute England’s Kevin Keegan scored with a right-' footed back-heel from a Rossi pass. Pezzey equalised for the Europeans in the seventyninth minute, and nine minutes later Antognoni slammed in the winner.

The match, sponsored by F.I-.F.A., soccer’s ruling body, was organised for the benefit of the United Nations Children’s Fund (U.N.1.C.E.F.).