Lev Yashin provided the defiance and Viktor Ponedelnik the extra-time winner in Paris as the Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in Paris to become the first team to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup. Appearing in the inaugural final courtesy of a dramatic 5-4 comeback victory over hosts France in the last four, Yugoslavia came to the fore once more in the showpiece.
Milan Galić put them ahead in scrappy fashion and thereafter it was only Yashin s goalkeeping heroics that denied them. Slava Metreveli eventually levelled the scores before Ponedelnik wrote his name into Soviet folklore with the decisive second. That 113th-minute winner was the most important of my whole career, he later reflected.
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