World Cup Fever
World Cup Wonders # 3: Brazil 1982
The greatest losers ever?
At a World Cup pretty much anything can happen, just ask the various members of the great Brazil team from 1982 – a stunningly good football XI, who crashed out after losing 3-2 to Italy in one of the greatest World Cup matches of them all.
A match still known as the “Sarrias Disaster” – named after the stadium where it all took place.
Before that, they’d still managed to produce some brilliant football (above), which, in the years since, has possibly left a more lasting smudge on the brain than the eventual World Cup victory for Italy that year.
Brazil 1982, The Spoiler salutes you.
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Bokolis // January 27, 2010 at 4:12 pm
The jogo bonito died that day, and it took the Brazilians 20 years (they were still learning in ’94, that was down to a hurt R. Baggio) to perfect continental football.
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