Brazil 1970 is the fascinating and dramatic inside story of the greatest football team of all time. Predicted to be drab and dull, the 1970 World Cup became the greatest show on Earth, with the mesmerising Brazilians at the heart of a dramatic and delirious three weeks. After their demise at the 1966 World Cup, the South Americans were no longer the masters of the game. The defenestration rattled Brazil, and left them in purgatory before they swept through the qualifiers with coach Joao Saldanha. Even so, the team left their home country discredited against the backdrop of a military dictatorship and the proliferation of science in the game. At the World Cup finals, Mario Zagallo and his cast of balletic players - including lodestar Pele, the cerebral Gerson and the ingenious Tostao - ensured Brazil would forever be synonymous with the global game and a byword for style and craft. Their triumph was also the end of Brazil's golden era. The technocrats had invaded the terrain and Brazil would never again reach those heights.

About the Author

A graduate of Leuven Law School and the journalism school at Columbia University, Sam Kunti is a regular contributor to World Soccer, the BBC, Forbes and Josimar. His work has also featured in The Blizzard and many other publications.

Reviews

"Kunti has been both tireless and very well travelled in his efforts to track down many of the surviving members of the 1970 Selecao. Jairzinho, Gerson and Tostao are among those contributing their own take on the trials and training ground tensions that surrounded the build-up to Brazil's famous third World Cup victory."

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Book Information
ISBN 9781801503600
Author Samindra Kunti
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Pitch Publishing Ltd
Publisher Pitch Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 412g