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The most famous actual war caused by a sporting contest although it was brewing up anyway, was The Honduras V El Salvador border clash in 1969, which followed on from a tense soccer world cup qualifying game between those 2 countries and became known as the 'Soccer war'.
A prominent Croat soccer player hit a Serb police officer a couple of clatters during a major football game in the old Yougoslavia just prior to the break up and subsequently became a Croat hero.
Also 0ne likely contest which could have led to a war replay was the infamous 1956 olympic blood in the pool water polo game between Hungary and the Soviet Union.
Are there any more that could have led to all out war?
Possibly Mussolini's Italy defeating Nazi Germany in 1934, leading to a conflict in relation to Austria?
Football is war by another means!
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