Video | Andreas Brehme: this was the goal that immortalized the German who died this Tuesday

The German footballer Andreas Brehme, who scored the winning goal against Argentina with a penalty in the 1990 World Cup final in Italy (1-0), died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 63, reported his former club, the Bayern Munich.

“FC Bayern is deeply shocked by the sudden death of Andreas
Brehme,” the club said in a statement. “We will always carry Andreas Brehme in our hearts. As a world champion and as a very special person,” added the Bavarian entity, in which Brehme played two seasons in the mid-1980s (1986-1988).
(Andreas Brehme, German world champion dies at 63, the cause)(Global scandal: two unusual own goals go viral due to possible fixing, there was a sanction)

The cause

The German press reported that Brehme died as a result of cardiac arrest early Tuesday morning in Munich.

Brehme entered the history of German football by scoring the only goal in the World Cup final against Argentina in Diego Maradona, disputed on July 8, 1990 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

A chapter in the history of German football, as it had previously featured Gerd Müller in the final of the 1974 World Cup in Germany (2-1 against the Netherlands) or more recently Mario Götze in Brazil-2014also against Argentina (1-0).

“No matter where I am, at an airport or shopping, they always ask me about it,” Brehme recalled in an interview with the German agency SID, an AFP affiliate.

The 1990 World Cup also had another meaning, since it was the last title of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) before the reunification of the country.

Brehme scored eight goals in 86 international matches for the Mannschaft between 1984 and 1994, but the one in the 1990 World Cup final was the most important. (The League, in full controversy: they remove VAR referees for being 'incompetent')