They have only moved from the changing room to stand just inside the touchline but sweat already pools around the chests of their golden jerseys. Sócrates powers on and blasts it past Zoff at the near post. At the other end, the best chance falls, regrettably, to Serginho. I’m never going to get over it because it’s a moment that happened that defines your life. The 1982 Brazil team did have flaws and they were of a magnitude glaring even to a seven-and-three-quarters-year-old. It made no sense: how can you clearly be the best and still lose? Upfront, Serginho was a blunt instrument in a team of scalpels. Either way, the system was anchored by two meia-armador, or holding playmakers: Cerezo and Falcão. Sócrates picks up the ball in his own half and surges forward. In the Intercontinental Cup in December, six months before the World Cup, Liverpool, the champions of Europe, played their counterparts from South America, Brazil’s Flamengo. Coutinho’s fate was sealed not by results, which were decent, but by a near-universal rejection of what he stood for: winning ugly. 1982 FIFA World Cup™ Brazil shine but Rossi strikes Spanish gold for Italy “The military are losing energy; they want to go,” Goldblatt explains. 11 July 1982 Goals scored * Paolo ROSSI (ITA) 57, * Marco TARDELLI (ITA) 69, * Alessandro ALTOBELLI (ITA) 81, * Paul BREITNER (FRG) 83 But four years earlier, they retained the mythological status of folk heroes. In May 1981, the Seleção beat England, France and West Germany, away from home, all in less than a week.

Concentração, however, was not applied at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and the squad had a relaxed, family feel. Football may have died on that afternoon in July, but re-watching the 1982 match now, it’s clear the cause of death was natural causes not murder. His replacement in 1980, Telê Santana, was everything he wasn’t. I wasn’t autistic, but, like many boys, it must have been a borderline classification. Falcão dummies right and then takes the ball the other way and blasts it left-footed past Zoff from the edge of the box.

That afternoon in Barcelona was not a simple question of athleticism trumping creativity, but the realisation that from here on the best teams would combine both. Brazil-Italy did, however, represent a tipping point for the sport. Four days later, Brazil played Scotland, facing up once more to the Liverpool trio of Souness, Hansen and Dalglish. At the same time that England were engaged in soul-searching over whether it could include one luxury player – Glenn Hoddle – Brazil was accommodating five fantasistas. After 25 minutes, Cerezo knocks a lazy pass across his goal area, Rossi nips in and smashes the ball through Peres’s fingers from the edge of the area: 2-1. This is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome series from FIFA.com in which we review some of the words and phrases used to describe this wonderful match, … As Stand By Me's Gordie Lachance might have said: nothing is as real, vital and gut-churningly essential as those most formative experiences when you’re a child. Éder smashes an absurd free-kick from a full 40 yards. Even now you could hand me Donkey Kong JR on a hand-held Nintendo and, though my reflexes are blown, I could complete it on muscle memory alone. By 41 minutes, Liverpool were 3-0 down, all created by Zico, and that was that. At the final whistle, it is both the loudest rumpus you have ever heard and an epic, stunned silence. It thrashes a couple of times like a fish on the deck of a boat, before resting limply on the grass. It was the final second round group stage match for Group C in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.The match was won by Italy 3–2, with Italian striker Paolo Rossi scoring a hat-trick.The result eliminated Brazil from the tournament while Italy would go on to win it. He scuffs his shot horribly, missing by half a goal again. The fantasistas become rattled and mistakes creep in. Brazilian coaches, meanwhile, became fond of spouting the statistic that the chances of a goal are reduced if the move contains more than seven passes. Éder was allowed to roam, playing as a false-nine, a deep-lying centre forward mostly on the left, behind Serginho. The players are a handsome, swarthy bunch, but rather generic compared to the Brazilian mix of short and tall, hirsute and balding, black and white. Zico was patched up from a long-term knee injury to play in the classic quarter-final against France but missed a second-half penalty and Brazil were eventually eliminated in a shoot-out. They help explain why a succession of Brazil sides have caught the eye for explosive breaks down the flanks rather than for the succession of midfield triangles that enraptured Cappa and everyone else in 1982. Esquire participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.

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