Football World Cup 1970 / Brazil

This article covers the Brazilian national football team at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico .

qualification

Brazil easily won the Second South American Qualifying Group and qualified for the World Cup in Mexico. Group opponents were Paraguay , Colombia and Venezuela .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	23: 2	12: 0
2	Paraguay	6: 5	8: 4
3	Colombia	7:12	3: 9
4th	Venezuela	1:18	1:11

6th August 1969	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Brazil	0: 2 (0: 2)	Tostão (37th), (44th)
August 10, 1969	Caracas	Venezuela	-	Brazil	0: 5 (0: 0)	Tostão (3 goals), Pelé (2 goals)
17th August 1969	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Brazil	0: 3 (0: 0)	Edu (1 goal), Jairzinho (1 goal), Mendoza (1 own goal)
August 21, 1969	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Colombia	6: 2 (2: 1)	Edu (1 goal), Jairzinho (1 goal), Pelé (1 goal), Rivelino (1 goal), Tostão (2 goals)
August 24, 1969	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Venezuela	6: 0 (5: 0)	Tostão (3rd), (22nd), (24th), Jairzinho (30th), Pelé (45th), (69th)
August 31, 1969	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (0: 0)	Pelé (78.)

Tostão scored ten of the 23 Brazilian goals in qualifying, and Pelé (six goals), Jairzinho (three goals), Edu (two goals), Rivelino (one goal) and Paraguayan Mendoza scored by own goal.

Brazilian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Félix	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	12/24/1937	6th	0	0	0
12	Ado	Corinthians São Paulo	07/04/1946	0	0	0	0
22nd	Émerson Leão	Palmeiras São Paulo	07/11/1949	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Brito	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	08/09/1939	6th	0	0	0
3	piazza	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	02/25/1943	6th	0	0	0
4th	Carlos Alberto	FC Santos	07/17/1944	6th	1	1	0
6th	Marco Antônio	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	02/06/1951	2	0	0	0
14th	José Baldocchi	Palmeiras São Paulo	March 14, 1946	0	0	0	0
15th	Fontana	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	December 31, 1940	2	0	0	0
16	Everaldo	Gremio Porto Alegre	09/11/1944	5	0	0	0
21st	Zé Maria	Portuguesa São Paulo	May 18, 1949	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Clodoaldo	FC Santos	09/26/1949	6th	1	0	0
8th	Gerson	Sao Paulo FC	01/11/1941	4th	1	1	0
11	Roberto Rivelino	Corinthians São Paulo	01/01/1946	5	3	0	0
17th	Joel Camargo	FC Santos	September 18, 1946	0	0	0	0
18th	Paulo César	Botafogo FR	06/16/1949	4th	0	0	0
striker
7th	Jairzinho	Botafogo FR	December 25, 1944	6th	7th	0	0
9	Tostao	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	01/25/1947	6th	2	1	0
10	Pelé	FC Santos	10/23/1940	6th	4th	0	0
13	Roberto	Botafogo FR	07/31/1944	2	0	0	0
19th	Edu	FC Santos	08/06/1949	1	0	0	0
20th	Dario	Atlético Mineiro	03/04/1946	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Mario Zagallo		08/09/1931

The games of Brazil at the 1970 World Cup

After the disappointing Soccer World Cup in 1966 , Brazil was drawn into a group with defending champions England of all places. Brazil's games in group 3:

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	8: 3	6th
2	England	2: 1	4th
3	Romania	4: 5	2
4th	Czechoslovakia	2: 7	0

• Brazil 4-1 Czechoslovakia - goals: 0-1 Petráš (11th min.), 1: 1 Rivelino (24th min.), 2-1 Pelé (59th min.), 3-1 Jairzinho (61st min.) .), 4: 1 Jairzinho (81st min.)
• Brazil 1-0 England - Goal: Jairzinho (59th min.)
• Brazil 3-2 Romania - Goals: 1-0 Pelé (19th min.), 2-0 Jairzinho (22nd min.), 2-1 Dumitrache (34th min.), 3-1 Pelé (67th min.) .), 3: 2 Dembrovszki (84th min.)

As group winners before England, Brazil qualified for the quarter-finals:

• Quarter-finals: Brazil 4-2 Peru - Goals: 1-0 Rivelino (11th min.), 2-0 Tostão (15th min.), 2-1 Gallardo (28th min.), 3-1 Tostão (52nd min.) . Min.), 3: 2 Cubillas (70. Min.), 4: 2 Jairzinho (75. Min.)
• Semi-finals: Brazil 3-1 Uruguay - goals: 0-1 Cubilla (19th min.), 1-1 Clodaldo (44th min.), 2-1 Jairzinho (76th min.), 3-1 Rivelino (89th min.) . Min.)
• Final: Brazil 4-1 Italy - Goals: 1-0 Pelé (18th min.), 1: 1 Boninsegna (37th min.), 2-1 Gerson (66th min.), 3-1 Jairzinho (71th min.) . Min.), 4: 1 Carlos Alberto (86. Min.)

Brazil became world champion for the third time and was allowed to keep the Coupe Jules Rimet forever.