The Greatest Team | Brazil at 1970 FIFA World Cup | Narrated by Arsene Wenger
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That Brazil team is so legendary, they should put them on the next FIFA game instead of the usual Classic XI team!
The Brazilians of 1970, in all their spellbinding, technical glory.
Individual artists working in unison, creating a masterpiece that teams would be compared to for the next 50 years.
If a single moment ever defined a football team, this was it.
Three minutes to go.
Arriving in Mexico with a 100% record in qualifying.
Two times champions, Brazil were once again considered the team to be.
There were question marks over the defense, but the array of attacking talent on show proved irresistible.
Coach Mario Zagallo, a player when Brazil had ruled the World Cup in 1958 and 1962, ensured his squad were all in peak physical condition come their 3rd June opening.
Czechoslovakia had the temerity to score first, but that just angered Brazil, who promptly pulled the Europeans apart.
They weren't the last to suffer that fate.
It wasn't just the goals.
19 in all 6 games from 7 players.
One in every game for Jairzinho.
Fleeing here to the great Garinchas Grove.
They scored with powerful shots, clever finishing, headers, free kicks.
But it was more about how they got there, the way they went about it, the swagger, the style, the synchronicity.
A team perfectly in tune with each other.
An irrepressible force of nature.
They attempted things no one had ever tried before.
And to stop them, you had to defy logic itself.
Just ask Gordon Banks and Bobby Moore.
But still, they found their way through.
Wearing his country's most iconic shirt in a team of number 10.
The chosen one.
The king barely cemented his own place in history.
Brazil's crowning glory came on that sublime afternoon at Estadio Azteca.
Italy were put to the sword like could have been anyone.
The beautiful game had arrived.
Football would never be the same again.