| This practice has been installed since the | BBC Sport British Broadcasting Corporation |
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| Ivan, Tom October 30, 2013 |
BBC Sport British Broadcasting Corporation.
14| Rusu, Dragos 24 January 2014 | In some cases during previous tournaments, for example, Argentina 6—0 Peru in and in , teams that played the latter match were perceived to gain an unfair advantage by knowing the score of the earlier match, and subsequently |
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| Previously, due to there being fewer finals places and a bigger ratio of European finalists, there had been several occasions where three European teams were in a single group, for example, 1986 West Germany, Scotland, and Denmark , 1990 Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Austria , and 1994 Italy, Republic of Ireland, and Norway | 2014 FIFA World Cup: World Cup Final |
Shanahan, Mark; Goldstein, Meredith 10 July 2010.
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