RIP Carlos Alberto

[rowan]

What destroyed Brazilian football? Obviously the exodus of top players to Europe. They were one of the last Latin American nations to allow this, in fact. Even back in the early 80s they used to say the Brazilians just weren't able to made the adjustment, But in reality it had more to do with the dictatorship, which lasted from the 1964 coup until the mid-1980s and forbade its players from moving abroad. Of all the World Cup champions, Carlos Alberto's Brazil in 1970 might just have been the greatest.

Brazil’s victorious 1970 World Cup winning captain, Carlos Alberto, has died at the age of 72 after suffering a heart attack.

The defender played for his country 53 times when they were the uncontested finest side on the planet. He scored the fourth goal in the 1970 final, a goal that has gone down in legend as one of the greatest ever, a nine-man move crowned with a thumping drive from the captain, sealing Brazil’s third win in the competition, and giving them ownership of the Jules Rimet trophy outright.

In club football he played for Fluminense, Santos, Flamengo and New York Cosmos.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/25/braz ... berto-dies