Apparently when you over-dub foreign languages with English, you crank up the foreign originals as loud as possible and make the English translation almost inaudible. The person who mixed the sound for this clip was a rare genius.

Battiston is no longer angry himself, he forgives Schumacher , but the world never forgive

That is the worst talk-over i've ever heard...

Schumacher saying the game against France cost W.Germany the cup! No, some sort of justice was done with a team that should never have been in the final. Where was Schumacher's concern for Battiston after his assault? He still smiles at the thought of the penalty shoot out.

"I knew Battiston was hurt and i had to play with that thought in my mind.."....Yeah, poor Shumacher, you were the victim here.....

THE VALUE OF JUSTICE - If the Dutch referee Corver had red-carded Schumacher, granted a penalty kick to France, and Platini scored again, the game would have ended 2-1 after 90 minutes. The aggression by Schumacher would still be remembered, but with much less anger and condemnation. Because of the inaction of the referee, the sense of injustice and frustration has prevailed and still enrages both, French and neutral fans who love the game. I am not justifying Schumacher. Just pondering how much the value of justice can heal - or otherwise.

It still hurts to see this in 2018.

Schumacher took the coward's way out and checked him leading with his elbow and hip towards the head instead of putting his own body on the line and diving at Battiston's feet. He knew exactly what he was doing. It was a penalty, a red card, probably a 3 month suspension and the Spanish Police should have investigated it for assault. Terrible foul and arguably the worst refereeing decision in the history of Football.

And Schumacher still continues to lie and smile about this assault...? Pathetic and cruel. Battiston may have forgiven his agression, but the world will never forgive and forget him. Never.

Amazing how Schumacher got away with the foul like this one. "In the process Schumacher's hip hit the Frenchman's face. Battiston, clattered, fell to the ground unconscious, with damaged vertebrae and teeth knocked out, later slipping into a coma. Emergency medics had to administer oxygen on the pitch. Michel Platini later said that he thought that Battiston was dead, because "he had no pulse and looked pale".

Battiston and Platini are french people with Italian origin and We knew how to show the bill at the final to Schumi and its team .❤️🇮🇹

They should have taken statements and prosecuted.

I try not to think about it. Over 30 years later I still get angry thinking about it, or the aftermath.

Schumcher, shame of you

How was that not a straight red card?

Excelente pequeño documental !!!! Gracias !!!!

Straight red card and penalty for sure in my opinion for Schumasher .

Unforgivable

"i'm happy that we put the " incident" behind us ", he could have been prosecuted for the "incident".

Same kind of accident than me beating you up in a baseball game in a bat. He went straight for the french player and didn't try to avoid the collision..

WHY is this one of the greatest World Cup games ever? 6 reasons: QUALITY - CRESCENDO - ROLLERCOASTER - CONTRAST - DRAMA - TRAGEDY - QUALITY: Six goals. Great saves by GKs. Most of the game played in the final third of each team due to rapid counter-offensives. Great passing sequences (mostly France). Dribbling (Littbarski, Tigana, Amoros, Briegel). - CRESCENDO: Very good 90 minutes with two goals, even better 30 minutes of extra time with 4 great goals. - ROLLERCOASTER: Germany scored first. France tied, went ahead. Germany tied again during extra-time. - DRAMA: Penalty shootout with a rollercoaster of its own, as Germany came back once more, after Stielike had missed. - TRAGEDY: Had Schumacher fouled Battiston outside of the Seville stadium, he would have been arrested and charged for assault crime. Worst, Dutch referee inaction (no red card for Schumacher, no free kick for France). - CONTRAST: The artistic and creative France vs the physical and disciplined Germany, with a painful historic past (Napoleon’s occupation of Germany, Nazi occupation of France).

the total disregard for battiston and arrogance of the keeper.......typical

How was that knock out and accident?! he even friking jumps after the ball its out of his reach, it made me sick.

It wasn't a collision, it was an agression by the german goalkeeper... Nowadays with a decent referee or a VAR : red card and many months of banishment...

After cheating to get Algeria out, this...

France of 1982-1986 had more attacking talent with Platini, Six, Fernandez, Giresse, Tigana, Rocheteau...The difference was that the 1998-2006 was more solid in defence with blanc, desailly, thuram... and had a stronger midfield strategy with players like deschamps, vieira and djorkaeff

LOL he didn't care, he purposely took out Battiston!

What a mad dog was Schumacher as a goalkeeper. He basically got away with the "collision"...

Being born quite some years after 1982, I had not really seen any footage of this match before, only knew Germany went through to the final. I absolutely agree that Schumacher deserved to be sent off for the foul, but I don't think it was in any way a malicious attempt to injure Battiston. He even said it himself in this documentary, he was concerned about him but couldn't do anything at the time. When he was finally able to apologise to Battiston, the Frenchman forgave him, and everyone else should do the same. The fact that 40 years (!) on some people are still salty about one foul says more about them than Toni Schumacher.

Here's what Coerver, the ref, said in 2010. I remember thinking at the time that maybe he had been watching the ball. “It was the best semi-final ever played during any final tournament on any continent. I never saw the incident, as everyone’s eyes in the stadium followed the ball. The moment I saw Battiston prone on the pitch, I went over to my assistant Robert Valentine from Scotland, who told me it was not intentional. Even Dutch television commentator Evert ten Napel admitted that he too followed the ball’s course, which went just wide. Throughout the rest of the match the players never gave me grief for the decision either. Yes, in retrospect, I should have sent Schumacher off, of course, for using excessive force.”

Schumacher never worried about Battiston.

"I turned my body, to get full kinetic impact, as I'm a sadistic nutter"

what an ugly foul that was, and everybody knows it...

I remember this game vividly as a great game. So many goals after the first 90 and in such dramatic fashion. Klaus fisher, Karl Heinz Rummenigge.....legendary players whom came through in brilliant fashion. I vaguely remember this incident though. I don't think I ever realized how serious his injury was. Probably with today's HD technology, we might be able to scrutinize that hit a bit more. It certainly appeared intentional.

Vi esse jogo inteiro. É um dos mais emocionantes jogos de futebol que já vi, e sem dúvida alguma uma das mais sinistras e criminosas atuações de um jogador de futebol. Refiro-me ao goleiro Schumacher. Ele cometeu um crime! A expulsão de campo não bastaria para puni-lo. Ele foi covarde e agiu intencionalmente para atingir Battiston. Infelizmente não recebeu a punição que merecia. Para o bem do futebol a Itália vingou a França e foi campeã sobre os alemães.

Grande Italia!

Karma is real... the fact Schumacher doesn't have a winner's medal despite making 2 WC finals goes back to his shameless attack in this one game

Shame on FIFA for not having taken the sanctions at the time and then daring to make this video by giving the floor to a criminal !!!!!

*Germany vs France (3-3 a.e.t 5-4 a.p.k)* 1-0 Pierre Littbarski (17 min) 1-1 Michel Platini (26 min (PK)) 1-2 Marius Trésor (92 min) 1-3 Alain Giresse (98 min) 2-3 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (102 min) 3-3 Klaus Fischer (108 min) *The Shootout:* 0-1 Alain Giresse 1-1 Manfred Kaltz 1-2 Manuel Amoros 2-2 Paul Breitner 2-3 Dominique Rocheteau X Uli Stielike missed X Didier Six missed 3-3 Pierre Littbarski 3-4 Michel Platini 4-4 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge X Maxime Bossis missed 5-4 Horst Hrubesch

Schumacher should have been arrested and the referee should have never been allowed to referee again...What planet was he on?

Even a rugbyman would be sent off for this

quand je pense que cet arbitre a fini sa carriere a la FIFA , pathétique

Whose music is played at the beginning of this video?

Jamás podrá kitarse esto de su mente y d su alma

Toni Du warst der Beste!!!!!

Thanks Italia to win the world cup

Clearly Straight red car

Battiston revenged today.

Schumacher should never have been on the pitch after what he did, it was a blatant foul and ridiculous that the ref saw no foul. The ball was long gone when Schumacher charged into batiste.

My friend and I often had debate whether some fouls are deliberate to hurt/injure. He, being naive at its best, refused to accept that players (sometimes) intended to hurt their opponents. Of course it's hard to prove the intention but we can clearly see if the tackle is late or not meant to get the ball at all. Thanks to youtube it's all clear now.

That over head kick by Fischer was clean tho

This doorkeeper should had red card and banned from football games forever

It took me 7 years to comment, ha ha. Charles Korver was incompetent. Schumacher should have been sent off, no question about that. There are many more controversies. IF VAR and Goal-line Technology would have been in place in 1966, imagine what could have happened? Some examples:1966: 3 - 2 , England-West Germany. The ball didn't cross the line in full! 1974: penalty for West-Germany was a 'Schwalbe' by Holzenbein. 1986: The infamous 'hand of god', Maradona; 2002: Brazil-Belgium, a perfect good goal by Belgium was disallowed; 2006: Penalty for Italy against Australia was a joke! 2010: Lampard's shot vs. Germany was 30 cm over the line, but not given.

Le scandale, ce n'est pas que Schumacher ait commis cette agression sur Battiston. On apprend ici qu'ils se sont revus et réconciliés et c'est très bien. Le scandale, c'est que cette action méritait l'expulsion immédiate du gardien allemand, ce qui aurait évidemment changé l'issue du match, et peut-être celle du tournoi;

Rematch today... May the best team win.

This was the 80s guys where players who committed horrible fouls were hardly ever red carded.

i see plenty of peoples, in the comments here, that never played football and especially never in the 80's..

That night we were all Frenchmen.

Is it just me or do the French goalkeeper (is it Bats?) and Schumacher look insanely alike😂 Also, who else sees the similarities between Schumacher's assault and Neuer's collision with Higuain, even with the caveat that Neuer did get the ball?

Come on, FIFA TV. Smarten Up. Lower the original audio and turn up the translation. Amazed that you have to be told this.

Ich kann mich noch daran erinnern. Das war eine ganz miese Nummer von Schuhmacher. Wäre es nur ein unglücklicher Zusammenprall gewesen, jeder mit ein wenig Menschlichkeit würde sich um Battiston kümmern. Selbst Jahre danach spielt er alles runter und stellt sich sogar als Opfer dar, schrecklich!

What?? France was fantastic in the 1980s! Platini, Trésor, Girese! Euro 1984, and World Cup semifinals in 1982 and 1986. And let's not forget the fantastic squad in 1958, with Just Fontaine scoring 13 goals in the tournament, a record. It's a very biased view that you hold, France *was* really good several times before Zidane; maybe not as good, but incredible nonetheless

Three days later?!!! Did I hear that right? Did they play the World Cup's final three days later? Seriously?

In an interview Schumacher said that he apologized to Battiston and he accepted it saying that this episode was closed.

To this day I swear that if I ever meet Schumacher he'll be crawling on the floor looking for his teeth.

THE BEST OF THE BEST ... BRAZIL.. in Benito Villamarin Stadium .. in Seville /Spain !!!

1982 was probably the best world cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany were incredibly good teams. Then there were the likes of Spain and England who were pretty strong.

Sort the sound out ffs

Headlights :34

Germany didnt even deserve going through the group stage back then

I remembered that game vividly. If you're not blind, Schumacher was not aiming at the ball but the player. Why he did that?

This was the best game I've ever seen.

It was a foul for body checking a player in possession so a yellow or red card, but in the penalty area so a penalty, and blatantly fouling an attacker as last defender in front of goal another red, and reckless play so another red - summary instead of 2 or 3 reds he gets a goal kick.

Schumacher never apologize...that's the saddest part. Accidents can happen in a world cup game with a big stake but not being capable to say sorry after is shameful.

A goal-keeper has to make a decision. Otherwise, he is too late. And sometimes, he is too late. Completely normal. France was the better team and should have played the final against Brazil. PS Germany refused to nominate Bernd Schuster, who was the best german midfielder between 1980 and 1990.

i'm from Kuwait !

Schumacher had doping in his body(I was 15 years That time).It was and still is nog normale what hė did.Totally crazy

the voice levels are off, the natural sound should have been much softer, the narration much louder......

I'm glad for the happy ending in this story. Schumacher seems genuinely sorry, and Battiston seems to have put the whole incident behind him, with no grudges against anyone!

That Schumacher assault cost France its World Cup......They have the best midfield in their France history but its just not enought

Das war eine klare rote Karte für Schumacher da gibt es keine zweite Meinung, und eine lange Sperre obendrauf, eine Frechheit diese Aktion. Hirnlos und Respektlos

Schumacher didn't regret anything, in later interview he said he would "proceed" in the same way again. Dangerous people should be behind bars , not at the pitch.

I dont think I am ever playing soccer again :(

0:35 :)

He was one of my top favorite goalkeepers at the time... but the foul was vicious and terrible....

this is so true

Why stop at 0:36?

straight red

I dont believe a word of yours :) you showed us during WW2 your true face,Hans ;) Poles will never forget it.

golie didnt give two Fs after the hit,, guy just wanted to continue playing with no regards for the unconscious player....

Mejor olvidar y tampoco hay que maltratar a Schumacher. No creo que tampoco quisiera hacer ese daño, aunque salió con desmesura. Pero lo importante es que Battiston sobrevivió. No hay que lanzar mensajes de odio.

any french team with zidane is the best.

pre fair play hype times

Direct red card and penalty, Shumacher should it be suspended for the rest of the world cup...

I thought that Didier Six's Penalty had never been filmed. 😁

Schumacher was a goon.

stop at 0:36

The most disgraceful moment in the World Cup history. Schumacher is the reason why Germany don’t get well deserved support from the fans around the world. Compare number of people wearing Argentina and Brazil jerseys with those in Germany jerseys.

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Thoni Schumacher legend