wilkos_perm
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Dramatic last round of qualifying games
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...rld-cup-1994-qualifying-ireland-b1723754.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...rld-cup-1994-qualifying-ireland-b1723754.html
And they combined to score the winner....France should still have had enough to get a draw against Bulgaria, who shouldn’t have even had their full team. The Bulgarian federation had somehow forgotten to apply for visas for Emil Kostadinov and Luboslav Penev. A creative – and illegal – solution was required.
“The story sounds like a legend now but it’s true,” teammate Zlatko Yankov revealed a few years ago. “They needed help from our keeper Borislav Mihaylov and midfielder Georgi Georgiev, who were playing for the French club Mulhouse at that time.
“They deliberately chose a border-post with low security. Kostadinov and Penev sneaked across the border between Germany and France in a car driven by Georgiev.”