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Brazil - Italy

Brazil - Italy

Date: 21 June 1970
Stadium: Azteca Stadium
The fitting culmination to what was, in the eyes of most observers, the quintessential FIFA World Cup TM tournament. This match had all the ingredients of a great final - goals, end-to-end football and star players. In the end, Pele, Jairzinho and Carlos Alberto got the better of Facchetti, Rivera and Riva in a match which, for over an hour, was much closer than the final score-line suggests.
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I Was There…

"It was vital we got the opening goal in order to calm the lads' nerves. A World Cup Final is charged with so much electricity."
Pele, Brazil

Did You Know?

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  • Carlos Alberto became the seventh Brazilian player to score during the 1970 FIFA World Cup when he got the fabulous fourth in the Final.
  • A repeat of the 1970 classic beckoned when the teams met in the 1994 Final but a goalless draw was settled on penalties in Brazil’s favour.
  • With his goal in the final match, Jairzinho set a FIFA World Cup record by scoring in each of Brazil’s games at the 1970 finals.
  • The Italians had to make do with a loser’s medal and among them only substitute goalkeeper Dino Zoff became a world champion, in 1982.
  • The shirt won by Pele during the 1970 FIFA World Cup™ Final was sold at an auction in London for more than 300,000 US Dollars in 2002.

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