Re the Brazil team of 1970, it seems generally accepted now that they were the greatest, but if I remember correctly a lot of (older) Brazilian critics rated the 1958 and 1962 teams as even better, particularly in defence. I sometimes wonder if the deification of the 1970 team compared with the other two is more to do with the relative TV coverage than anything else.

I saw Just Fontaine (who should know) saying about the two teams (1958/1970) in a documentary recently: "If you compare the two teams, in attack they were both great. But in defence, there's no comparison."

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