{"name": "FIFA World Cup qualification 1953",
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    "team1": "Yugoslavia",
    "team2": "Greece",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Frane Matošić", "minute": "71"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Belgrade, Yugoslavia"},
   {"date": "1953-05-25",
    "team1": "Finland",
    "team2": "Belgium",
    "score": [2, 4],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Kalevi Lehtovirta", "minute": "49"},
      {"name": "Kalevi Lehtovirta", "minute": "75"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Henri Coppens", "minute": "4"},
      {"name": "Léopold Anoul", "minute": "9"},
      {"name": "Henri Coppens", "minute": "26"},
      {"name": "Henri Coppens", "minute": "83"}],
    "ground": "Helsinki, Finland"},
   {"date": "1953-05-28",
    "team1": "Sweden",
    "team2": "Belgium",
    "score": [2, 3],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Bengt Berndtsson", "minute": "20"},
      {"name": "Arne Selmosson", "minute": "26"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Léopold Anoul", "minute": "28"},
      {"name": "Jean-Louis Straetmans", "minute": "37"},
      {"name": "Victor Lemberechts", "minute": "40"}],
    "ground": "Solna, Sweden"},
   {"date": "1953-06-14",
    "team1": "Czechoslovakia",
    "team2": "Romania",
    "score": [2, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Emil Pažický", "minute": "54"},
      {"name": "František Vlk", "minute": "63"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Prague, Czechoslovakia"},
   {"date": "1953-06-24",
    "team1": "Norway",
    "team2": "Saarland",
    "score": [2, 3],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Gunnar Thoresen", "minute": "3"},
      {"name": "Knut Dahlen", "minute": "15"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Herbert Binkert", "minute": "16"},
      {"name": "Werner Otto", "minute": "30"},
      {"name": "Gerhard Siedl", "minute": "55"}],
    "ground": "Oslo, Norway"},
   {"date": "1953-06-28",
    "team1": "Romania",
    "team2": "Bulgaria",
    "score": [3, 1],
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     [{"name": "József Pecsovszky", "minute": "20"},
      {"name": "József Pecsovszky", "minute": "30"},
      {"name": "Alexandru Ene", "minute": "82"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Dobromir Tashkov", "minute": "53"}],
    "ground": "Bucharest, Romania"},
   {"date": "1953-07-19",
    "team1": "Mexico",
    "team2": "Haiti",
    "score": [8, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Tomás Balcázar", "minute": "23"},
      {"name": "Tomás Balcázar", "minute": "26"},
      {"name": "Gregorio Gómez", "minute": "27"},
      {"name": "Nicolás Tellez", "minute": "34"},
      {"name": "Pedro Arnauda", "minute": "38"},
      {"name": "Pedro Arnauda", "minute": "69"},
      {"name": "Tomás Balcázar", "minute": "76"},
      {"name": "Pedro Arnauda", "minute": "85"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Mexico City, Mexico"},
   {"date": "1953-08-05",
    "team1": "Finland",
    "team2": "Sweden",
    "score": [3, 3],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Kalevi Lehtovirta", "minute": "63"},
      {"name": "Olavi Lahtinen", "minute": "67"},
      {"name": "Nils Rikberg", "minute": "70"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Nils-Åke Sandell", "minute": "9"},
      {"name": "Hans Persson", "minute": "23"},
      {"name": "Nils-Åke Sandell", "minute": "71"}],
    "ground": "Helsinki, Finland"},
   {"date": "1953-08-16",
    "team1": "Sweden",
    "team2": "Finland",
    "score": [4, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Gösta Sandberg", "minute": "22"},
      {"name": "Nils-Åke Sandell", "minute": "24"},
      {"name": "Herbert Sandin", "minute": "56"},
      {"name": "Nils-Åke Sandell", "minute": "61"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Solna, Sweden"},
   {"date": "1953-08-19",
    "team1": "Norway",
    "team2": "Germany",
    "score": [1, 1],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Harald Hennum", "minute": "41"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Fritz Walter", "minute": "44"}],
    "ground": "Oslo, Norway"},
   {"date": "1953-09-06",
    "team1": "Bulgaria",
    "team2": "Czechoslovakia",
    "score": [1, 2],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Stefan Bozhkov", "minute": "55", "penalty": true}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "František Vlk", "minute": "5"},
      {"name": "František Vlk", "minute": "40"}],
    "ground": "Sofia, Bulgaria"},
   {"date": "1953-09-20",
    "team1": "Luxembourg",
    "team2": "France",
    "score": [1, 6],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Antoine Kohn", "minute": "6"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Roger Piantoni", "minute": "5"},
      {"name": "Raymond Kopa", "minute": "10"},
      {"name": "Raymond Cicci", "minute": "41"},
      {"name": "Léon Glovacki", "minute": "44"},
      {"name": "Édouard Kargu", "minute": "73"},
      {"name": "Pierre Flamion", "minute": "88"}],
    "ground": "Luxembourg, Luxembourg"},
   {"date": "1953-09-23",
    "team1": "Belgium",
    "team2": "Finland",
    "score": [2, 2],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Mathieu Bollen", "minute": "25"},
      {"name": "Mathieu Bollen", "minute": "75"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Olavi Lahtinen", "minute": "83"},
      {"name": "Jorma Vaihela", "minute": "90"}],
    "ground": "Brussels, Belgium"},
   {"date": "1953-09-27",
    "team1": "Austria",
    "team2": "Portugal",
    "score": [9, 1],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Ernst Ocwirk", "minute": "13"},
      {"name": "Erich Probst", "minute": "14"},
      {"name": "Erich Probst", "minute": "19"},
      {"name": "Erich Probst", "minute": "31"},
      {"name": "Erich Probst", "minute": "59"},
      {"name": "Ernst Happel", "minute": "68", "penalty": true},
      {"name": "Erich Probst", "minute": "70"},
      {"name": "Theodor Wagner", "minute": "83"},
      {"name": "Robert Dienst", "minute": "87"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "José Águas", "minute": "60"}],
    "ground": "Vienna, Austria"},
   {"date": "1953-10-04",
    "team1": "Republic of Ireland",
    "team2": "France",
    "score": [3, 5],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Reg Ryan", "minute": "58", "penalty": true},
      {"name": "Davy Walsh", "minute": "83"},
      {"name": "Frank O'Farrell", "minute": "88"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Léon Glovacki", "minute": "23"},
      {"name": "Armand Penverne", "minute": "40"},
      {"name": "Joseph Ujlaki", "minute": "50"},
      {"name": "Joseph Ujlaki", "minute": "69"},
      {"name": "Pierre Flamion", "minute": "72"}],
    "ground": "Dublin, Republic of Ireland"},
   {"date": "1953-10-08",
    "team1": "Belgium",
    "team2": "Sweden",
    "score": [2, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Henri Coppens", "minute": "23"},
      {"name": "Victor Mees", "minute": "49"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Brussels, Belgium"},
   {"date": "1953-10-11",
    "team1": "Bulgaria",
    "team2": "Romania",
    "score": [1, 2],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Ivan Kolev", "minute": "28"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Gavril Serfözö", "minute": "27"},
      {"name": "Valeriu Călinoiu", "minute": "52"}],
    "ground": "Sofia, Bulgaria"},
   {"date": "1953-10-11",
    "team1": "Germany",
    "team2": "Saarland",
    "score": [3, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Max Morlock", "minute": "13"},
      {"name": "Max Morlock", "minute": "50"},
      {"name": "Horst Schade", "minute": "70"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Stuttgart, Germany"},
   {"date": "1953-10-25",
    "team1": "Romania",
    "team2": "Czechoslovakia",
    "score": [0, 1],
    "goals1": [],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "František Šafránek", "minute": "38", "penalty": true}],
    "ground": "Bucharest, Romania"},
   {"date": "1953-10-28",
    "team1": "Republic of Ireland",
    "team2": "Luxembourg",
    "score": [4, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Arthur Fitzsimons", "minute": "14"},
      {"name": "Reg Ryan", "minute": "48", "penalty": true},
      {"name": "Tommy Eglington", "minute": "59"},
      {"name": "Arthur Fitzsimons", "minute": "83"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Dublin, Republic of Ireland"},
   {"date": "1953-11-01",
    "team1": "Greece",
    "team2": "Israel",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Thanasis Bembis", "minute": "52"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Athens, Greece"},
   {"date": "1953-11-08",
    "team1": "Czechoslovakia",
    "team2": "Bulgaria",
    "score": [0, 0],
    "ground": "Bratislava, Czechoslovakia"},
   {"date": "1953-11-08",
    "team1": "Saarland",
    "team2": "Norway",
    "score": [0, 0],
    "ground": "Saarbrücken, Saarland"},
   {"date": "1953-11-08",
    "team1": "Yugoslavia",
    "team2": "Israel",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Miloš Milutinović", "minute": "3"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Skopje, Yugoslavia"},
   {"date": "1953-11-13",
    "team1": "Egypt",
    "team2": "Italy",
    "score": [1, 2],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Ad-Diba", "minute": "33"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Amleto Frignani", "minute": "62"},
      {"name": "Ermes Muccinelli", "minute": "79"}],
    "ground": "Cairo, Egypt"},
   {"date": "1953-11-22",
    "team1": "Germany",
    "team2": "Norway",
    "score": [5, 1],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Max Morlock", "minute": "27"},
      {"name": "Max Morlock", "minute": "63"},
      {"name": "Ottmar Walter", "minute": "69"},
      {"name": "Fritz Walter", "minute": "80"},
      {"name": "Helmut Rahn", "minute": "88"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Hans Nordahl", "minute": "26"}],
    "ground": "Hamburg, Germany"},
   {"date": "1953-11-25",
    "team1": "France",
    "team2": "Republic of Ireland",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Roger Piantoni", "minute": "73"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Paris, France"},
   {"date": "1953-11-29",
    "team1": "Portugal",
    "team2": "Austria",
    "score": [0, 0],
    "ground": "Oeiras, Portugal"},
   {"date": "1953-12-17",
    "team1": "France",
    "team2": "Luxembourg",
    "score": [8, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Jean Desgranges", "minute": "2"},
      {"name": "Jean Vincent", "minute": "6"},
      {"name": "Jean Vincent", "minute": "10"},
      {"name": "Just Fontaine", "minute": "21"},
      {"name": "Jacques Foix", "minute": "57"},
      {"name": "Just Fontaine", "minute": "75"},
      {"name": "Just Fontaine", "minute": "80"},
      {"name": "Jean Desgranges", "minute": "88"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Paris, France"},
   {"date": "1953-12-27",
    "team1": "Haiti",
    "team2": "Mexico",
    "score": [0, 4],
    "goals1": [],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Rafael Ávalos", "minute": "6"},
      {"name": "José Luis Lamadrid", "minute": "15"},
      {"name": "José Luis Lamadrid", "minute": "59"},
      {"name": "Tomás Balcázar", "minute": "65"}],
    "ground": "Port-au-Prince, Haiti"}]}