Brazil employed a conventional back four, and even had two midfield screens in front of that – Clodoaldo and Gerson. “It was a team assembled two years earlier, in 1968, on a tour of Europe and the Americas,” Gerson said earlier this month. “What made that team special was the chemistry we had, as well as our technical, physical and tactical qualities. Brazil had effectively been rough-housed out of the 1966 World Cup in England, having won their first two titles in 1958 and 1962. Gerson says he always expected it would be West Germany, rather than Italy, who his team would line up against in the 1970 final.

Source: Express June 20, 2020 21:00 UTC