Brazil 70, one of the best ever

Julio Muñoz

Hanging by the Football presents one of the best teams in football history: the Brazil 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”.

Brazil 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 laterares rights history) Pele. 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. Plus, all with their own style.

Carlos Alberto was the engine of Brazil 1970.

And is that the Brazil World 70 had warned before coming to Mexico what their 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, MAN OF THE GOLDEN GUN led Brazil to that world

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 walk with freedom of movement and alternating positions, without 9 pure and offensive side that reached up very easily. They were the hallmarks of this perfect selection. The ball, speed and touch were conjoined in one to make a game a work of art.

But nevertheless, 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.

Brazil 70 we performed a total football.

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 Pele for posterity and a pitch half the field casíentra 10 Brazil already announced what was to come in the championship.

A VERY POWERFUL TEAM LEFT FOR THE ROAD

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 “King” marking a doublet.

Pele put the great climax to his career with the World 1970.

In the quarterfinals, Peru was the Great Teofilo Cubillas, which it fell by a rambunctious 4-2 and the semifinals Uruguay, which play Brazil suffered another memorable display of jogo bonito just 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 game, Brazil show the world how to play football. Speed ball, insuperable technical, and dream plays as the fourth goal of Carlos Alberto, the “perfect goal”, in which almost the entire team participated, They marked before and after the football.