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  "name": "UEFA EURO 1964 (champions - Spain)",
  "summary": "Spain beat holders the Soviet Union 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu on 21 June 1964 for the first major trophy in their history, Pereda opening after six minutes - still the earliest goal in a EURO final - and Marcelino heading the late winner. UEFA's own pages disagree on both that winner's minute and on who refereed the match.",
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    "tournaments",
    "finals",
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      "target": "euro-titles-by-country"
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      "rel": "preceded",
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  "questions": [
    "Who won Euro 1964?",
    "When did Spain win their first major trophy?",
    "Who scored in the 1964 European Championship final?"
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  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "Spain beat reigning champions the Soviet Union 2-1 in the EURO 1964 final at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu on 21 June 1964, the first major trophy in Spain's history, in front of a crowd that included General Franco.",
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      "text": "Jesus Maria Pereda gave Spain a sixth-minute lead, which UEFA calls the earliest goal in a EURO final to date: Luis Suarez delivered from the right, Eduard Mudrik missed it and Pereda thumped it in from close range. Galimzyan Khusainov levelled swiftly for the Soviet Union.",
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    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "The winner came when Suarez sent another pass out to the right, Pereda crossed and Marcelino Martinez met it with a stooping header that went low inside the near post, beyond Lev Yashin, still superb at 34. All four of Spain's goals at the tournament came from crosses from the right.",
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    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "UEFA's tournament guide dates that winner two ways: its main account gives the 84th minute, while its facts section, noting that Marcelino scored another winner for Real Zaragoza four days later, says that second goal came \"also in the 83rd minute\".",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "text": "UEFA also names two different English referees around this match. The match report gives the final's referee as Arthur Ellis of England; the tournament guide lists the four referees used at the finals as Arthur Blavier of Belgium, Concetto Lo Bello of Italy, Daniel Mellet of Switzerland and Arthur Holland of England, with Ellis absent from the list.",
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    {
      "id": "c6",
      "text": "A third inconsistency, though an ambiguous one, sits inside the match report: its narrative attributes the Soviet Union's lack of creative support for Valery Voronin to the absence of an extra defensive midfielder, Alexey Korneyev, while the line-up printed on the same page starts Korneyev.",
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      "confidence": 0.85
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    {
      "id": "c7",
      "text": "Four teams contested the finals in Spain from 17 to 21 June 1964. Spain needed extra time to beat Hungary 2-1 in the Bernabeu semi-final, the Soviet Union beat Denmark 3-0 at the Camp Nou, and Hungary beat Denmark 3-1 after extra time in the third-place play-off in Barcelona on 20 June. Twenty-nine nations entered the qualifying draw - Greece withdrawing for political reasons after being paired with Albania - and the early editions were straight two-legged knockouts.",
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      "confidence": 0.94
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    {
      "id": "c8",
      "text": "Coach Jose Villalonga had won the 1956 and 1957 European Cups with Real Madrid. Pereda recalled his team talk before the final: he mapped out a pitch in the sand, used stones for Spain and pine cones for the Soviet Union, and convinced the players that stones were stronger. Luis Suarez became the first player to win the European Cup and the EURO in the same summer, Inter having beaten Real Madrid 3-1 in Vienna; Denmark's Ole Madsen scored 11 in qualifying, a record until Davor Suker's 12 for EURO '96, without scoring at the finals.",
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      "confidence": 0.93
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  "winning_edge": "Spain's first major title is usually reported as a bare 2-1 with two scorers. UEFA's pages give the sequence, the earliest-goal record for Pereda's opener, and the detail that every Spanish goal in the tournament came from a cross from the right. They also disagree with themselves twice over - on the minute of the winner and on who refereed the final - which is stated here and folded into this corpus's standing record of UEFA's documentary inconsistencies rather than quietly resolved.",
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