World Cup of Masters

IMFA after consultation with FIFA's general secretary Sepp Blatter took initiative to organise the tournaments for legendary veteran players in an attempt to bring back a glimpse of the previous glorious World Cups. Julio Mazzei as a president of IMFA played a major part, while assisted by vice-president and England representative Sandra Roberts and German Werner Treimetten.

Legends of the game participated in the tournaments reviving somehow the FIFA World Cups of the previous years. Pelé was a starter for Brazil in the opening game of the 1987 tournament, while Zico played a key role in Brazil's winning performance in 1990. Other players played in the World Cups of Masters were Mario Kempes, Klaus Allofs, Gerd Müller, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Horst Hrubesch .

Paolo Rossi and Alessandro Altobelli were crowned World Champions for the second time in their career in 1993 after having already won the 1982 FIFA World Cup. This time it was not West Germany in the final but Austria who co-hosted the tournament with Italy. The latter presented some great players in the tournaments like Hans Krankl, Herbert Prohaska and Walter Schachner. Other big names of the world football fielded in the tournament were Paul Breitner, José João Altafini, Bruno Conti, Harald Schumacher, Hans-Peter Briegel, Klaus Augenthaler, Jairzinho, Enrico Albertosi, Sócrates, Rivelino, Bobby Moore, Frank Worthington and René van de Kerkhof.

Luciano do Valle won 4 trophies with Brazil but Enzo Bearzot proved to be the only coach won a FIFA World Cup as well.

Most successful team was Brazil with 4 trophies, while Argentina won only 1 Cup and lost the 1995 one to Brazil in penalties. Italy's squad of 1982 repeated the 1982 in 1993 beating Austria by 2-0 in the final.

Team	Winners	Runners-up
Brazil	4 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995	1 1987
Argentina	1 1987	2 1991, 1995
Italy	1 1993	0
Austria	0	1 1993
Netherlands	0	1 1990
Uruguay	0	1 1989

Brazil and Argentina participated in the 6 tournaments facing each other in the final twice, in 1989 which was the inaugural year and in 1995, the very last year of the Masters tournaments. Italy also had 6 participations winning the trophy once in the 1993 edition.

Team	1987	1989	1990	1991	1993	1995	Total
Argentina	W	2nd	4th	3rd	G	2nd	6
Austria	–	–	–	–	2nd	G	2
Brazil	2nd	W	W	W	4th	W	6
England	–	–	–	–	G	G	2
France	–	–	–	–	–	G	2
Germany	G	G	–	G	3rd	3rd	5
Great Britain	–	G	–	–	–	–	1
Italy	G	G	G	3rd	W	4th	6
Netherlands	–	–	2nd	–	G	G	3
Poland	–	–	G	–	–	–	1
Portugal	–	–	G	–	–	–	1
Uruguay	G	2nd	–	4th	G	–	4

W: winner.
G: eliminated in group stage.

Zico was the top scorer in 1990 and 1991 scoring a total of 6 goals in the Cups. But the Austrian Walter Schachner was the overall goalscorer with 8 goals, all scored in 1993. Mario Kempes and Paolo Rossi scored 2 goals each with Rivelino having a total of 3 goals. Legendary Pele, at the age of 47, didn't manage to score though he played for 90 minutes in the opening 1987 match.

Year	Tournament	Golden Boot	Goals
1987 Details	Brazil	Rivelino	2
1989 Details	Brazil	Cláudio Adão	7
1990 Details	Brazil	Ćmikiewicz & Johnny Rep	4
1991 Details	USA	Zico	3
1993 Details	Austria &  Italy	Walter Schachner	8
1995 Details	Austria

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