Brazil of 70, one of the best ever

Last update 4 December, 2023 by Alberto Llopis

Hanging by the Football presents one of the best teams in football history: the Brazil of 70. The powerful Brazilian team led by Pelé to conquer Mexico in the World Cup that year his third world championship with a spectacular game full of talent and creativity, he has used to be considered one of the paradigms “Beautiful game“.

The Brazil of 70, a total team

A unique selection composed of men Rivellino (extraordinary southpaw with a capacity for huge pass), Gershon (competitive and talented at once), Tostao (the technician and the ball wizard), Jairzinho (the arrival on the second line par excellence), Charles Albert (possibly one of the best right-backs in history) o Skin. All of them, directed on the bench for Mario “Lobo” Zagallo who have passed into history as the only country to win every game both qualifying and the finals of a World Cup. And also, all with their own style.

And it is that he Brazil World 70 I had already warned before arriving at World Mexico 1970 what were your intentions. An impeccable group stage in South America with six wins in as many games, y 23 goals for and two against and gave imagine what was to come in the global showpiece.

Joao Saldanha, the man who started the Brazil of 70

The origin of this spectacular approach however be attributed to the coach Joao Saldanha, that legendary journalist-coach of Botafogo creator of this primoroso football coach during the qualifying. A man disputes with Havelange and Pele (who came to accuse myopic) They deprived him of going to Mexico as a coach of one of the largest selections of all time.

frolic, with five midfielders playing the role of the '10’ walking with freedom of movement and alternating positions, without a 9 pure and offensive side that reached up very easily. They were the hallmarks of this perfect selection. The ball, speed and touch were combined into one to make a match a work of art with the Brazil t-shirt 70.

However, if spectacular was the pre-World, not least would be the appointment in the Aztec country. With the present color television for the first time in a World Cup and a ball created for the occasion (the famous Adidas Telstar), Brazil dazzled.

Fitted in the first round in group C, the “canarinha” He had no trouble dispatching Czechoslovakia in the first game by a convincing 4-1. A volley goal from Pelé for posterity and a midfield shot that almost came in from the 10 Brazil already announced what was to come in the championship.

They left many powerful teams along the way

England Sir Bobby Charlton Defending champion and then, was the victim in the second game to fall 1-0. Romania completed the full of victories against falling Brazilian Pele and company for 3-2, another big party or “Rei” marking a doublet.

In the quarterfinals, Peru was the Great Teofilo Cubillas, which it fell by a rambunctious 4-2 and the semifinals Uruguay, the one that the game of Brazil suffered in another memorable exhibition of Beautiful game that ends with a 3-1 Brazilian. This game, go down in history for that prodigious feinting Pelé dribble the goalkeeper without the ball finally did not enter but was christened “the goal of Pele”.

But the best, definitely, come in the final, where Brazil would win his third World (and hence, the cup in property) by defeating Italy by Mazzola and Riva 4-1. In that match, Brazil show the world how to play football. Speed ​​ball, insuperable technical, and dream plays like the fourth of both Charles Albert, he “perfect goal”, in which almost the entire team participated, They marked before and after the football.

Who made up that Brazil of the 70? What players did you have??

1		ARQ	Félix†	32 years	Fluminense
2		DEF	Brito	30 years	Flemish
3		WITH	Piazza	26 years	cruise
4		DEF	Charles Albert†	25 years	Santos
5		WITH	Clodoaldo	20 years	Santos
6		DEF	Marco Antonio	19 years	Fluminense
7		WITH	Jairzinho	25 years	Botafogo
8		WITH	Gershon	29 years	Sao Paulo
9		OF THE	penny	23 years	cruise
10		OF THE	Skin†	29 years	Santos
11		WITH	Rivellino	24 years	Corinthians
12		ARQ	Ado	23 years	Corinthians
13		OF THE	Roberto	25 years	Botafogo
14		DEF	Baldocchi	24 years	Palm trees
15		DEF	Fontana†	29 years	cruise
16		DEF	Everaldo†	25 years	Grêmio
17		DEF	Joel†	23 years	Santos
18		WITH	Paulo Cezar	20 years	Botafogo
19		OF THE	Edu	20 years	Santos
20		OF THE	Dario	24 years	Atlético Mineiro
21		DEF	Ze Maria	21 years	Portuguese
22		ARQ	Lion	20 years	Palm trees