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THE
CENTRAL EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL CUP |
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The
Central European International Cup was an international football competition
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by
national teams from Central Europe between 1927 and 1960. included
Austria, |
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Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Poland & Romania. |
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Played
as a league on a home and away basis, it was contested six times and each
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tournament
usually took more than two years to complete. The last two tournaments
lasted |
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five
years. It was discontinued in 1960, when the European Football Championship
started. |
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Winners
of the competition included the Austrian Wunderteam of the early 1930s, the
Italy |
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team
that also won two World Cups in the 1930s, the legendary Mighty Magyars
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Hungary
and the Czechoslovakia team that later finished as World Cup runners up in
1962. |
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