Some things in life, and football, just have to be accepted, and this is one of them. This result meant that they finished the tournament in fifth place for the second time in history. France and Brazil in 1986 were two of the best teams ever never to win a world championship, but still gave the world a wonderful match in their quarterfinal. 1982 Brazil were a very good team and probably the most entertaining in that world cup, which proved to be their undoing against Italy. But Brazil in 1982 did something more than record a glorious failure. But when I saw the Brazil 82 team I almost cried again, this time with delight and excitement at the football they could play, a football which has never been equalled. Nope. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The 1982 Brazil World Cup Team Was The Best Ever Pep Guardiola said "titles aren't all that matter, the 1982 Brazil team was the most wonderful team of all-time." World Cup winning efforts in 1994 and 2002 also packed a … ( Log Out /  All eyes were on Brazil in Group 6. ... Italy-Brazil The best game of football I have ever seen. This team didn't have the same quality throughout as that team but it did boast one of the greatest midfields of all time. Brazil 1970. Italy v Brazil was a football match that took place between Brazil and Italy at Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona on 5 July 1982. Brazil played until the Second Group Round, where they were defeated by Italy. This was a team of superhumans playing mere mortals. try getting a copy of “a tragedia o sarria” book the story of the 1982 brazil team. Several players, including Sócrates and Zico, from 1982 returned to play at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Brazil 1970: The greatest Brazilian national team of all-time The 1970 Brazil national team has been called the best Brazilian side of all-time. In the opener, the Azzurri prevailed 2-1 over Diego Maradona's side in an ill-tempered game in which Italy defenders Gaetano Scirea and Claudio Gentile proved to be able to stop the Argentinian attack. Good. This was the Gods of Olympus playing on Earth, but like the Greek gods they had a fatal flaw born of their own strength, and the beautiful team went out to a cynical but skilled Italy side 3-2, with Paolo Rossi coming back to form at the wrong time, scoring a hat-trick and sending by far the best team on the planet home early. The 1970-73 Brazil team probably was the best team of all time, but going on your scoring system, surely the 58-62 team is better? ... Rather than extolling the virtues of this team in words it is better that you get hold of a DVD or youtube clip and watch this team in action. And then I … This result meant that they finished the tournament in fifth place for the second time in history (1954 was the previous instance). [1], Learn how and when to remove this template message, 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL Group 1), "The cult World Cup teams we loved: Brazil 1982", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brazil_at_the_1982_FIFA_World_Cup&oldid=1012780792, Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2009, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2009, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 March 2021, at 08:26. After that, Brazil scored twice, and Maradona was sent off after he kicked a rival in a moment of unsportsmanship. Although it wasn't the samba, smooth playing side of 1982, the 1970 World Cup winning team was still a stylish team full of iconic players. Brazil 1982 . The Scottish player Gordon Strachan wrote of how the Brazil team were putting their famous yellow shirts on in the tunnel when he quipped “They had muscles in places where we didn’t even have places !”. Brazil won all the four matches home and away. Vaughn K on June 12, 2019: Your super team couldn't consistently score goals--2010 World Cup--almost every win was 1-0; only game where it mattered was when they they won 4-0 against Italy--2012 --1970 Brazil team , 2002,1958(even 1982 team which lost 3-2 to Italy)--better teams than Spain