Curated category
1962 FIFA World Cup players
- Djalma SantosDjalma Santos did not play a single minute of the 1958 World Cup until the final itself. Brazil's coach had dropped him in favour of a player named De Sordi.
- Dražan JerkovićDražan Jerković was born in Šibenik on the 6th of August 1936, when the town still sat inside the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Leonel SánchezLeonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros was born on the 25th of April 1936 in Chile, the son of a professional boxer. That detail matters.
- Lev YashinLev Yashin won the Ballon d'Or in 1963 as a goalkeeper. That sentence alone deserves a pause. In the entire history of that award, given annually to the…
- PeléEdson Arantes do Nascimento was born on the 23rd of October 1940 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and he died on the 29th of December 2022 at the age…
- GarrinchaGarrincha was born with one leg six centimetres shorter than the other, with his left leg turning outwards and his right turning inwards.
- Mário ZagalloMário Zagallo was standing on the pitch at the Maracanã Stadium as a young soldier in 1950, watching Uruguay defeat Brazil in one of the most painful moments…
- Flórián AlbertFlórián Albert stood on a pitch in England in 1966, and made a crowd forget about Pelé. That is not a small claim. Hungary were facing Brazil in a must-win…
- Antonio CarbajalAntonio Félix Carbajal Rodríguez walked onto the pitch at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th of June 1950, a 21-year-old goalkeeper from…
- VaváVavá scored in two consecutive World Cup finals, a feat no other footballer managed for sixty years. Born Edvaldo Izidio Neto on the 12th of November 1934…