Brazil 4 -- 1 Italy Final 1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico 70

Final
In the final, Brazil struck first, with Pelé heading in a cross by Rivelino at the 18th minute. Roberto Boninsegna equalized for Italy after a blunder in the Brazilian defence. In the second half, Brazil's firepower and creativity was too much for an Italian side that clung to their cautious defensive system. Gérson fired in a powerful shot for the second goal, and then helped provide the third, with a long free kick to Pelé who headed down into the path of the onrushing Jairzinho. Pelé capped his superb performance by drawing the Italian defence in the center and feeding captain Carlos Alberto on the right flank for the final score. Carlos Alberto's goal, after a series of moves by the Brazilian team from the left to the center, is considered one of the greatest goals ever scored in the history of the tournament.

A total of 8 outfield players from Brazil passed the ball until Captain Carlos Alberto hammered the ball into the corner of the Italian goal following an inch perfect pass across the Italian 18 yard box from Pelé, prompted by the intelligent Tostão, who, with his back to the goal, told Pelé that Alberto was steaming in on the right flank. Tostão started the move 5 yards from the left of the Brazilian 18 yard box, then ran the length of the field to the Italian box without touching the ball again to tell Pelé to lay it off for Alberto. The players involved in the passes in order were Tostão, Brito, Clodoaldo, Pelé, Gérson, defender Clodoaldo beat 4 Italian players in his own half before passing to Rivelino who hit a perfect pass down the wing to Jairzinho. Jairzinho crossed from the wing to the centre of the box to Pelé who held the ball up to play a pass for Alberto to smash it home. The only outfield players not involved in the move were Everaldo and Piazza. The full team was Carlos Alberto, Felix, Piazza, Brito, Clodoaldo, Everaldo Antonio, Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Pelé and Rivelino. Brazil won the World Cup with 19 goals scored by 7 players, all of whom featured in the Carlos Alberto goal. Before the finals in Mexico, Brazil had to play the qualifying rounds against Colombia, Venezuela and Paraguay. Brazil was far superior winning all 6 games, scoring 23 goals and conceding only 2. In the last match of the qualifying rounds Brazil beat Paraguay 1 - 0 and had the largest official audience ever recorded for a football match, with 183,341 spectators in Brazil's Maracanã Stadium. In total the Brazilian team won all 12 games , scoring 42 goals and conceding only 8.

This victory consecrated the first tri-campeão (three-time champions) in football history.

With this third win after 1958 and 1962, Brazil earned the right to retain the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. (Ironically, it was stolen in 1983 while on display in Rio de Janeiro and never recovered.) Brazilian coach Mário Zagallo was the first footballer to become World Cup champion as a player (1958, 1962) and a coach, and Pelé ended his World Cup playing career as the first (and so far only) three-time winner.

Brazilian right winger Jairzinho scored at least one goal in each of the six games that Brazil played (in the first game, against Czechoslovakia, he scored two), a feat which has never been repeated. However, the top scorer of the tournament was West Germany's Gerd Müller, with an impressive 10 goals in the competition. Müller incredibly scored hat-tricks in two consecutive

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[hector69ize]

Simple y sencillamente el Deporte mas bello del planeta. No existe otro deporte que se le pueda comparar. Y Mexico 70 fue y sera uno de los mejores recuerdos.

[norsunny]

@truvianni UR GETTING RIDICULOUS, TIRED AND EMBARASSED URSELF CONSTANTLY. WASN'T PELE INJURED ?? RU KIDDING ?? I THINK IT'S ME WHO IS WAISTING MY TIME HERE..UR AN IDIOT WHO JUST JEALOUS OF PELE. THE PROOF THAT HE WAS INJURED IT'S THE FACT THAT HE CATCHED THE LAST HOUR TO PLAY AT THE 1962 3RD LIBERTADORES FINAL, IN WHICH BY THE WAY, HE SCORED TWICE AND WON SINGLEHANDED PENAROL MONTEVIDEO (THE GREATEST PENAROL OF ALL TIMES). THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO SAY. UR LYING ALL THE TIME. STOP IT & JUST LEAVE

[pxrcx]

@norsunny aaaa strip the player of all time when he played for Santos won everything that could gain from a global team won 3 of 70 guaaaauuuu brazil the best team of all time that's real football

[THEWARDSTER]

@norsunny I also looked at Maradonas career in Europe from playerdatabase.eu which analyses his teams performance.

Considering he is supposedly the one an team of the two, he adds just 8% to team performance. Seville and Barcelona benefitted nothing, and Napoli suffered in only 1 year. They actually lost just 2 out of the last 22 matches that he missed.

[THEWARDSTER]

@norsunny The Italian is just jealous that Pele gave his team a whipping. I have actually analysed all Santos games from rsssf.brazil and took out the games Pele missed using his autobiography. It seems over 10 years (59-69) for all their dominance, in the 45 games he missed in the national and intercontinental Leagues they lost 20 games. Overall performances were better 67% with him in the side.

[yorugua1622]

Que jugador era Rivellino. Haciendo el elastico en una final de copa del mundo que crack.

[miguelencielo]

@norsunny santos was by no means small, there was at some point 8 santos players in the national team. It had the best 5 attacking players, and the best goalkeeper who also played in the national team. But Pele was the best and most influential player for sure, just like Messi is for barcelona.

[bellacaroabdourazak]

@daleee10 esta loco amigo

[soyantizurdos]

pele homosexual and drugged

[norsunny]

@invino334 yes my friend. it's just like you've said that. people keep turning the blind eye and they want to be told what they want to hear...also, very few people mention (the others keep silence..) that santos was an ordinary (small) team untill pele came around. pele made santos famous and the best club in the world. i'm telling you, truth is a good thing and good things never die

[truvianni]

@invino334 Of course you are free to be wrong and talk nonsense. This is your right which I do not wish to take away from you. Are you English by the way? The English who clearly are failures in the sport of football despite all their money seem to always praise Pele who was nothing but an overrated product of FIFA and please do not feel the need to confirm your ignorance any further you have given ample proof of it already.