hrubesch is also famous for having scored the winning penalty which defeated france in the 1982 fifa world cup semi-final, after an epic game which was tied 3–3 after extra-time. minutes earlier, in the second extra-time period with france leading 3-2, it was hrubesch who headed a cross from the left wing to klaus fischer, enabling his spectacular overhead kick equalizer. irish television commentator jimmy magee during the shoot-out coined the nickname that made hrubesch best known in the english-speaking world: "the man they call 'the monster'."