What a team Peru in the 80s; Man Bo Park had created a perfect toy around the talent of Rosa Garcia; all small players but explosive as dynamite (I think of Fajardo, Torrealva, Pimentel, Malaga etc), they defended like the orientals and attacked like the Europeans thanks above all to the two phenomena Tait and Perez-Del Solar, they deserved to win in Seoul against the USSR, but at 2-0 13-6 for Peru the devil put his hand in it and we all know how that match ended together with the dream of Peru; then since Italy was still far from the elite, I was rooting for them and I hope they can still return to great level!
Japan avenged their defeat against Peru in the WC 1982 tournament, and a kinda bittersweet moment for the Peruvians who also fell against the USA team in the semifinals, a team that was beaten by Peru in a very surprising match that no one saw coming in the same 82 WC....4 years later the base of this Peruvian team would beat Japan in the SEUL Olympic Games, in a very very tense and emotional semifinal, that gave the south Americans their first and only time in an Olympic Final against the mighty Soviet Union.
![Perú vs. Japón- Semifinal Juegos Olímpicos Seúl 1988 [Full Match]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RBgqTvUtaqA/mqdefault.jpg)
What a team Peru in the 80s; Man Bo Park had created a perfect toy around the talent of Rosa Garcia; all small players but explosive as dynamite (I think of Fajardo, Torrealva, Pimentel, Malaga etc), they defended like the orientals and attacked like the Europeans thanks above all to the two phenomena Tait and Perez-Del Solar, they deserved to win in Seoul against the USSR, but at 2-0 13-6 for Peru the devil put his hand in it and we all know how that match ended together with the dream of Peru; then since Italy was still far from the elite, I was rooting for them and I hope they can still return to great level!
Que dramáticos eran, esos partidos.
Japan avenged their defeat against Peru in the WC 1982 tournament, and a kinda bittersweet moment for the Peruvians who also fell against the USA team in the semifinals, a team that was beaten by Peru in a very surprising match that no one saw coming in the same 82 WC....4 years later the base of this Peruvian team would beat Japan in the SEUL Olympic Games, in a very very tense and emotional semifinal, that gave the south Americans their first and only time in an Olympic Final against the mighty Soviet Union.
Japanese really dominate the whole match