Greatest World Cup matches: Italy-Czechoslovakia (1934)

The scourge of Fascism had descended on a Europe in crisis, and in Italy Benito Mussolini had wanted to promote his regime by staging the second World Cup in 1934. A major propaganda campaign was launched before the tournament and everything was done for Italy to win, including sending coach Vittorio Pozzo sent to England to study football tactics, and players were retrieved from the outside