Watched the 1970 World Cup for the 1st time
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 2:30 pm
In homage to Pele the BBC showed a documentary of the1970 World, Group stages, Q-Finals, Semis and finals.
(If you are in the UK)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... ilm-6-1970
It was very interesting to watch.
I guess it was the temperature, altitude and player fitness but the matches were quite slow paced compared to what we are used to now. Very few teams seem to apply any kind of press.
Some solid Teams USSR, Germany, Peru, Italy and obviously Brazil.
Sweden were a bunch of muscular agricutural farmers masquerading as footballers.
Tostao (Brazil) was legit. The guy was balletic on the ball. Brazil was loaded and if you watched this with no fore knowledge of any of the players I am not sure you would pick out Pele as the top man. He was good but that Brazil team was serioulsy loaded.
Morocco team that went were decent. They should have nicked a point from Germany game but for the legendary Gerd Muller. For a German the guy was short, he actually reminded me of Diego Maradonna (stature-wise).
Just shows the Zaire 74 was an abberation because Morocco 70, Tunisia 78, Algeria / Cameroon 82, etc were all decent teams .
The Goalies were generally baskets especially the Mexican goalkeeper
I don't know it if it was a combination of Mexcian altitute and summer temperature but the games were slow paced.
It was the first World Cup with Yellow cards. I don't know if the referees were not clear on how to use them as many of the tackles were just psychotic.
The Teams were generally unruly and referee harrassment was mental. Especailly El Salavador. In the Brazil England match, Brazil randomly took an extra 5 minutes at half time before showing up.
Even the crowds were unruly, every victory was followed by a pitch invasion especially after Brazil had won the whole thing
(If you are in the UK)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... ilm-6-1970
It was very interesting to watch.
I guess it was the temperature, altitude and player fitness but the matches were quite slow paced compared to what we are used to now. Very few teams seem to apply any kind of press.
Some solid Teams USSR, Germany, Peru, Italy and obviously Brazil.
Sweden were a bunch of muscular agricutural farmers masquerading as footballers.
Tostao (Brazil) was legit. The guy was balletic on the ball. Brazil was loaded and if you watched this with no fore knowledge of any of the players I am not sure you would pick out Pele as the top man. He was good but that Brazil team was serioulsy loaded.
Morocco team that went were decent. They should have nicked a point from Germany game but for the legendary Gerd Muller. For a German the guy was short, he actually reminded me of Diego Maradonna (stature-wise).
Just shows the Zaire 74 was an abberation because Morocco 70, Tunisia 78, Algeria / Cameroon 82, etc were all decent teams .
The Goalies were generally baskets especially the Mexican goalkeeper
I don't know it if it was a combination of Mexcian altitute and summer temperature but the games were slow paced.
It was the first World Cup with Yellow cards. I don't know if the referees were not clear on how to use them as many of the tackles were just psychotic.
The Teams were generally unruly and referee harrassment was mental. Especailly El Salavador. In the Brazil England match, Brazil randomly took an extra 5 minutes at half time before showing up.
Even the crowds were unruly, every victory was followed by a pitch invasion especially after Brazil had won the whole thing
) Even during the mundial itself, he had by his standard a relatively indifferent performance until the latter stages if the WC when he truly kicked into gear. 