World Cup 1958 Final - Sweden 2:5 Brazil

1:0 Nils Liedholm (4.)
1:1 Vava (9.)
1:2 Vava (30.)
1:3 Pelé (55.)
1:4 Mario Zagallo (68.)
2:4 Agne Simonsson (80.)
2:5 Pelé (89.)

The 1958 World Cup Final took place in Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden. Brazil won the World Cup against Sweden. This was Brazil's first victory in the history of the World Cup. Newsreel footage shows Robert F. Kennedy in attendance at the game.

Sweden took the lead after only 4 minutes after an excellent finish by captain Liedholm. The lead didn't last long however as Vavá equalised just 5 minutes later. On 32 minutes, Vavá scored a similar goal to his first to give Brazil a lead 21 at the break. 10 minutes into the second half, Brazil went further in front thanks to a brilliant goal scored by Pelé. He took control of the ball inside the penalty area, chipped the ball over the defender then smashed it past a helpless Kalle Svensson. Halfway through the second half Brazil went 4-1 up with a goal scored by Mário Zagallo. Simonsson pulled one back for Sweden with 10 minutes remaining but it was far too late. Pelé sealed the 52 win with a header in injury time and Brazil were able to celebrate their first World Cup title.

The World Cup Final in 1958 is the Goal Richest final in the history of the World Cup. There haven't been any other World Cups where it has been over 7 goals (except for 1994 and 2006 where it was penalty shoot out). The final is also the biggest victory in a World Cup final (together with the 1970 final and 1998 final) with a victory with over 3 goals.

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[Guigo Barros Filho]

As of July 2011.

4 out of the 11 Brazilians that played that 1958 final game have left: Orlando, Didi, Garrincha, Vavá. Other 2 are passing through serious health difficulties: Gilmar (GK) and Nilton Santos.

Djalma Santos, now 82, is in great shape playing week-end football games with friends.

Pelé, the youngest, approaching 71, still works.

[Julius Danielsson]

Yesterday was the last game ever on Råsunda stadion, RIP Råsunda, you will live in our hearts for ever!

[učka ri]

1.pele-2.messi-3.garincha-4.ma­radonna-5.šekularac ex yugoslavia

[BlackCrowNavajo]

at last I found a quite reasonable dispute over who's better, Pele or Maradona? these two are indeed two of the same league... in contrast w/ histeric screams "Messi is the best player in our galaxy!" every time he scores a goal against semi-amateur Levante or Tenerife..

[BlackCrowNavajo]

it's just a matter of taste and perception... they think it's quite relevant, that's all..

[sagnyc]

I will never, NEVER understand why people taint sport footage with irrelevant cheesy music.

[Mindux518]

1:43 why so sad? :DDD

[Sujit Biswas]

Pele is better than Sweden

[stivsham]

But Maradona is the greatest player of all times. Because Maradona by himself can change a team, Maradona by himself won the 1986 world cup, Napoli was one of the worst team clubs in Italy, but when Maradona played there, he made it the best team club in Italy and in all Europe. Maradona changed Napoli. If you go search Napoli on wikipedia, you will see that many of Napoli's times when they won trophies and cups were during Maradona's times. And many Italians in Napoli love Maradona so much.

[Jim Burrows]

Stivsham, pleeeeeeeease don´t contunue making a fool of yourself when you say that Pele relied on other strikers to make him strong. The Pele of 1958, the one on this clip, is not even the best Pele. Try the 1963 Pele, when he was 23, and there´s enough of it, on youtube to leave your mouth open.

[Jim Burrows]

When I was your age I´d already seen Pele play, live, more than 50 times, and there´s nothing Diego Maradona did, in his first seven years, to outshine Pele´s tallies in his first seven. Nothing.