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The '1970 FIFA World Cup', the ninth staging of the World Cup, was held in Mexico, from May 31 to June 21. Mexico was chosen as hosts by FIFA in October 1964. The 1970 tournament was the first World Cup hosted in North America, and the first held outside South America and Europe. In a match-up of teams that had won the World Cup twice, the final was won by Brazil, who beat Italy 4-1. This means Brazil were the first three-time champion and were allowed to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. The Brazilian team, which included Pelé (who was in his fourth and final World Cup), Carlos Alberto, Clodoaldo, Gérson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, and Tostão, is commonly regarded as the greatest attacking World Cup team ever. This tournament also saw the return of free-flowing, attacking play after the physical battles of 1962 and 1966, and is still considered by many fans to be the finest World Cup in history.
| Contents |
| Qualification |
| Summary |
| Mascot |
| Venues |
| Match officials |
| Squads |
| Results |
| First round |
| Group 1 |
| Group 2 |
| Group 3 |
| Group 4 |
| Knockout stage |
| Quarter-finals |
| Semi-finals |
| Third place match |
| Final |
| Awards |
| Scorers |
| External links |
Qualification
Main articles: 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification
Summary
The format of the competition stayed the same as 1966: 16 teams qualified, divided into four groups of four playing each other once in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals. However, for the first time in the World Cup finals, teams level on points at the end of the group stage were separated by goal difference (replacing play-offs and goal average) and where two or more teams had equal goal difference, by the drawing of lots. If a quarter-final or semi-final match resulted in a draw after extra time the referee would have drawn the name of the team to progress to the next round out of a hat.
For the first time, substitutions were allowed in World Cup play. Each team were allowed to make two substitutions during a match. The Soviet Union were the first team to make a substitution in World Cup history against Mexico in the opening match. Viktor Serebryanikov was the first player to be replaced, by Anatoly Puzach after 45 minutes.
This World Cup also featured the first ever use of yellow and red cards for cautions and expulsions respectively. (Note that cautions and expulsions already existed prior to 1970.) Five yellow cards were shown in the opening Mexico vs USSR match, while no red cards were given throughout the whole tournament.
This World Cup was also the first one to be televised in colour. However, to fit into the European viewing schedules, some matches kicked off at noon. This was an unpopular decision with many players and managers because of the intense heat in Mexico at that time of day.
In Group 1, hosts Mexico lived up to the expectations of an entire nation by advancing along with the Soviet Union, though the home side's 1-0 victory over Belgium on the last day resulted from a questionable penalty.
Group 2 saw Uruguay, reigning South America champions, and the reigning European champions,Italy, prevail over Sweden and surprise qualifier Israel after a series of dull, uninspired games. Italy would, however, show the true measure of its talent in the knock-out phase.
The official 1970 FIFA World Cup poster.
The first great moments of this memorable World Cup happened in Group 3, where two-time World Cup winner Brazil were pooled with defending champions England and solid European sides Czechoslovakia and Romania. In Brazil's opening match against Czechoslovakia, Pelé audaciously attempted to lob a shot over Czechoslovak goalkeeper Ivo Viktor from the halfway line, missing the goal by a whisker. The "Clash of the Champions" between Brazil and England lived up to all expectations, with Brazil winning 1-0 after a high-quality game in which England goalkeeper Gordon Banks made arguably the greatest save ever from a Pelé header on the six-yard line.
In Group 4, Peru and its attacking style created a sensation by beating established side Bulgaria 3-2 after trailing 0-2 at halftime. Peru eventually advanced along with 1966 runners-up West Germany.
The quarter-finals saw a transformed Italy prevail 4-1 over host Mexico after trailing 0-1. Brazil beat Peru 4-2 after an entertaining match between two equally attacking teams. Uruguay defeated a superior Soviet Union side after extra time. The last quarter-final, a rematch of the 1966 final between England and West Germany, produced one of the great matches of World Cup history. After fifty minutes, England had a 2-0 lead and seemed to have West Germany firmly in its grasp. England coach Alf Ramsey, sensing that victory was in hand, decided then to substitute playmaker Bobby Charlton "to spare him for the rest of the tournament." Without Charlton, England lost its ability to set its own pace on the game and could not contain the relentless German attacks. After Franz Beckenbauer made it 2-1 with a fine shot, West Germany equalized eight minutes from time with an Uwe Seeler header and a fateful hesitation by second-choice goalkeeper Peter Bonetti, who stood in for the food-poisoned Gordon Banks. Momentum had irrevocably shifted and West Germany avenged the 1966 final loss with Gerd Müller's winning goal in extra time after another Bonetti error.
The semi-finals feautured an exciting all-former champion final four: Brazil vs Uruguay and Italy vs West Germany. In the all-South American match, Brazil managed to defeat Uruguay 3-1 despite falling behind 20 minutes into the match. The game was evenly match for 70 minutes but the Uruguayans found Brazil's attacking game to much to holoff. This match also featured another bright moment by Pelé: upon holding possession near the box, he managed to rush all alone up to Uruguayan goalkeeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz and, tipping the ball through his left side, the Brazilian ran through the right side, catching the ball on the run and then taking a shot to the empty goal. Unfortunately, Pelé missed by a sliver again. The other, all-European semi-final was regarded by many as the greatest World Cup game ever. Italy took a 1-0 lead through Roberto Boninsegna on 8 minutes after an excellent "one-two" combination with Luigi Riva. West Germany pressed to equalize for the rest of the game, until the very end when sweeper Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, then with Italy's AC Milan, scored in injury time. In extra time, Gerd Müller brought Germany the lead on 94 minutes before Italy defender Tarcisio Burgnich leveled the score with a rare international goal. On 104 minutes, Riva made it 3-2 past goalkeeper Sepp Maier, only for Müller to equalize six minutes later. Television cameras were still replaying this goal when Italy midfielder Gianni Rivera, left unmarked near the penalty spot, volleyed a fine Boninsegna cross past Maier for the winning goal in the 111th minute. Franz Beckenbauer sustained a broken clavicle after trying to gain a foul by diving during extra time. As Helmut Schön, the West German manager, had already used the two permitted substitutes, Beckenbauer stayed on with his arm in a sling. This match is regarded as the "Game of the Century", also known as the ''Partita del Secolo'' in Italy and ''Jahrhundertspiel'' in Germany. A monument at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City commemorates it.
In the final, Brazil struck first, with Pelé heading in a cross by Revelino at the 18th minute. Roberto Boninsegna equalized for Italy after a blunder in the Brazilian defence. In the second half, Brazil's firepower and creativity was too much for an Italian side that clung to their cautious defensive system. Gérson fired in a powerful shot for the second goal, and then helped provide the third, with a long free kick to Pelé who headed down into the path of the onrushing Jairzinho. Pele capped his superb performance by drawing the Italian defence in the center and feeding captain Carlos Alberto on the right flank for the final score. Carlos Alberto's goal, after a series of moves by the Brazilian team from the left to the center, is considered one of the greatest goals ever scored in the history of the tournament. This victory consecrated the first ''tri-campeão'' (three-time champions) in football history.
With this third win after 1958 and 1962, Brazil earned the right to retain the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. (Ironically, it was stolen in 1983 while on display in Rio de Janeiro and never recovered.) Brazilian coach Mário Zagallo was the first footballer to become World Cup champion as a player (1958, 1962) and a coach, and Pelé ended his World Cup playing career as the first (and so far only) three-time winner.
Brazilian right winger Jairzinho scored at least one goal in each of the six games that Brazil played (in the first game, against Czechoslovakia, he scored two), a feat which has never been repeated. However, the top scorer of the tournament was West Germany's Gerd Müller, with an impressive 10 goals in the competition. Müller incredibly scored hat-tricks in two consecutive games, against Bulgaria and Peru in the group stage. He did not score in Germany's last game (the 3rd place match) against Uruguay (1-0), however.
Mascot
''Juanito''.
The official mascot of this World Cup was ''Juanito'', a boy wearing Mexico's uniform and a sombrero.
Venues
Five cities hosted the tournament:
★ Guadalajara, Estadio Jalisco
★ León, Estadio Nou Camp
★ Mexico City, Estadio Azteca
★ Puebla, Estadio Cuauhtémoc
★ Toluca, Estadio Luis Dosal
Match officials
; Argentina
★ Angel Norberto Coerezza
; Austria
★ Ferdinand Marschall
; Belgium
★ Vital Loraux
; Brazil
★ Antônio de Moraês
; Chile
★ Rafael Hormázabal
; East Germany
★ Rudi Glöckner
; Egypt
★ Ali Kandil
; England
★ Jack Taylor
; Ethiopia
★ Seyoum Tarekegn
; France
★ Roger Machin
; Israel
★ Abraham Klein
; Italy
★ Antonio Sbardella
; Mexico
★ Abel Aguilar Elizalde
★ Diego De Leo
; Netherlands
★ Laurens van Ravens
; Peru
★ Arturo Yamasaki
; Portugal
★ Antonio Ribeiro Saldanha
; Romania
★ Andrei Rǎdulescu
; Scotland
★ Bob Davidson
; Spain
★ Ortíz de Mendibil
; Soviet Union
★ Tofik Bakhramov
; Switzerland
★ Rudolf Scheurer
; Uruguay
★ Ramon Barreto
; United States of America
★ Henry Landauer
; West Germany
★ Kurt Tschenscher
Squads
For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see ''1970 FIFA World Cup squads''.
Results
First round
Group 1
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| '5' | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| '5' | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| '2' | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | |
| '0' | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -9 |
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Group 2
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| '4' | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| '3' | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| '3' | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| '2' | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 |
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Group 3
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| '6' | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| '4' | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| '2' | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | |
| '0' | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 |
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Group 4
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| '6' | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | |
| '4' | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | |
| '1' | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -4 | |
| '1' | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 |
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Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Third place match
Final
Awards
| 1970 World Cup Winners |
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 Brazil 'Brazil' 'Third title' |
Scorers
External links
★ FIFA report on the 1970 World Cup Final
★ Details at RSSSF
★ History of the World Cup-1970
★ Planet World Cup - Mexico 1970
★ Brazil's heroes of 1970 relive their days of glory
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