Top Ten World Cup Teams

“I watched the "aging Pele" score 4 goals and added 5 assists (he *MADE* Jairzinho a World Class Striker with his playmaking...Jairzinho scored 7 goals in 1970). With Gerson in midfield and Carlos Alberto on defense, this was a truly great team. To be fair to Italy, they must have been exhausted after a close extra-time win over a tough West German team that had Gerd Muller on it, but I think that even with extra rest (a week intead of 4 days) they might not have done much better.”

Relayer1971

“The final four teams were:Brazil(host country and big favorite), Uruguay(who only needed to win one match to access the final round, squashing Bolivia 8-0), Spain (who had left behind England in its group), andSweden (who won the pass over the defending world champion, Italy)

Alcides Ghiggia - Brazil 1 URUGUAY 2, World Cup final match, 1950. Brazil the host was runaway favourite to win the World Cup for the first time, in front of at least 199,000 in the Maracana, but outside-right Ghiggia scored the key goal ten minutes from time and Uruguay won the world cup for second time.The incident, known ever since as the Maracanazo, gave the stadium a legendary status only a month after its inauguration.”

“Uruguay beat, against all odds, their Brazilian counterpart at theMaracana stadium, and as a result, the term Maracanazo , roughly translated as "The Maracana Blow") has come to be used in reference to this game.”

“Uruguay 1950 World Cup Final top.

The ’final’ of the 1950 World Cup if there was one was what all finals should have. A massive crowd; wonderful football, intrigue and suspense. Even today the victory by the Celestes (sky blues) over Brazil ranks as one of the great upsets in football; a ceremonial talk by the Governor of Rio celebrating the Brazilian victory before the game upsetting the Uruguayan contingent to the degree that when Brazil did score the Uruguayan captain, Obdulio Varela, strode manfully and ruefully to George Reader, the referee, argued pointlessly about the goal and still the crowd before announcing to his team mates ’Now it’s time to win!’ And win they did; the defeat silencing the quarter of a million massed in the Maracana.
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“Having won 2 consecutive Olympic GOLD Medals and with 2-time COPA AMERICA MVP Jose Nasazzi leading the team, they’d have given any team trouble and they had a variety of strikers as well as 2 of the best defenders of all-time (Andrade also a great defender). A tough nut to crack for even the greatest modern teams, a true powerhouse for many years, better than Argentina (1930’s World Cup finalist with the great Stabile as a striker). Thay came back after being down at half-time to win convincingly.”

Relayer1971

“Hector Castro - URUGUAY 4 Argentina 2, World Cup final, 1930. The centre-forward scored in the last minute in Montevideo to confirm the hosts as the first-ever world champions.”

“Surrendered only two goals during the entire World Cup; one in the final game and an own goal in group play.”

“so classy. 11 gentlemen on the pitch. sad about alan ball though RIP”

“i luv england! they will be nothing without Beckham who is now moved to LA Galaxy!!!! luv yall the guy named birchall is hot
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“Argentina
is the best”

“they were great
Beckenbauer was the best coach”

richie4life

“These guys were awsessome ( especially Kewell and cahill),they put Aussie back on the map in the world game”

“They played the most entertaining games in the tournament. Gunes was a smart coach...”