It has been five decades since Pak Du Ik scored the winning goal in North Korea's shocking upset of Italy to reach the quarterfinals at the 1966 World Cup, a match that remains the country's most memorable in football folklore. ''Now, 50 years later, if I think of that time, I was really young ... and although Italy was a very strong team, we beat them, the strong team,'' Pak said in a recent interview with Associated Press Television News to commemorate the anniversary. North Korea ended Italy's run at the tournament with the 1-0 win at Middlesbrough, England, on July 19, 1966, then lost to Portugal in the quarterfinals.
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