Football - Scotland v Sweden 1990 World Cup - Sierra Leone stamp

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• Picture / Image:  Scotland 2, Sweden 1 on 16th June 1990 in the World Cup
• Publisher: The World Cup Collection
• Postally used: yes? / (CTO)
• Stamp:  Sierra Leone Italia 1990 Scotland team stamp 
• Postmark(s): Freetwown Sierra Leone 1990 on front
• Sent to:  n/a
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The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event twice (the first being Mexico in 1986). Teams representing 116 national football associations entered and qualification began in April 1988. 22 teams qualified from this process, along with host nation Italy and defending champions Argentina.

The tournament was won by West Germany, their third World Cup title. They beat Argentina 1–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, a rematch of the previous final four years earlier. Italy finished third and England fourth, after both lost their semi-finals in penalty shootouts. This was the last tournament to feature a team from West Germany, with the country being reunified with East Germany a few months later in October, as well as teams from the Eastern Bloc prior to the end of the Cold War in 1991, as the Soviet Union, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia teams made appearances. Costa Rica, Ireland and the UAE made their first appearances in the finals. As of 2018, this was the last time the UAE qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals. The official match ball was the Adidas Etrusco Unico.

The 1990 World Cup is widely regarded as one of the poorest World Cups in terms of the games.^[1][2][3][4] It generated an average 2.2 goals per game – a record low that still stands^[5] – and a then-record 16 red cards, including the first ever dismissal in a final. Regarded as being the World Cup that has had perhaps the most lasting influence on the game as a whole,^[6] it saw the introduction of the pre-match Fair Play Flag (then inscribed with "Fair Play Please") to encourage fair play. Defensive tactics led to the introduction of the back-pass rule in 1992 and three points for a win instead of two at future World Cups. The tournament also produced some of the World Cup’s best remembered moments and stories, including the emergence of African nations, in addition to what has become the World Cup soundtrack: “Nessun dorma”.^[6]

The 1990 World Cup stands as one of the most watched events in television history, garnering an estimated 26.69 billion non-unique viewers over the course of the tournament.^[7] This was the first World Cup to be officially recorded and transmitted in HDTV by the Italian broadcaster RAI in association with Japan's NHK.^[8] The huge success of the broadcasting model has also had a lasting impact on the sport.^[6] At the time it was the most watched World Cup in history in non-unique viewers, but was bettered by the 1994 and 2002 World Cups.^[9]

Group C

Main article: 1990 FIFA World Cup Group C

Costa Rica beat Scotland 1–0 in their first match, lost 1–0 to Brazil in their second, then saw off Sweden 2–1 to claim a place in the second round. Brazil took maximum points from the group. They began with a 2–1 win over Sweden, then beat both Costa Rica and Scotland 1–0. Scotland's 2–1 win over Sweden was not enough to save them from an early return home as one of the two lowest-ranked third-placed teams.

Pos	Team[  v t e  ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Costa Rica	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Scotland	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	2
4	Sweden	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

10 June 1990
Brazil	2–1	Sweden	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
11 June 1990
Costa Rica	1–0	Scotland	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
16 June 1990
Brazil	1–0	Costa Rica	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
Sweden	1–2	Scotland	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
20 June 1990
Brazil	1–0	Scotland	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
Sweden	1–2	Costa Rica	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa