This might be my favorite post with skillful goals. It explains why Brazil got that stereotyping of skills, beauty and dancing samba in football.These goals are from the old Brazilian generation, scored in local leagues, so most of them not famous at all outside Brazil. However, the players themselves are mostly most famous Brazilian players from the 70s and early 80s.
Let's start by Jairzinho, who starred in 1970 and 1974 WCs
Next is Nelinho who scored one of best goals in 1978 WC
Falcao, who was a superstar in 1982 WC scored this wonderful goal in 1976 in Brazilian semi-final in last second
Everyone knows Zico, a nice peice of skills in 1982 with Flamengo
What about Rivelino? He is the first one to invent the flip-falp, not Ronaldinho
Reinaldo played 1978 WC, but was out of shape. He supposed to be the new Pele but a bad knee injury ended his career early
I don't know this player, but it is from 1989 season, worth enjoying
You can't talk about Brazilian football with mentioning freekicks
this goal is from Eder in 1981 game (watch at second 50). For me he was better in free kicks than Roberto Carlos
Finally, Dr. Socrates who started his football career at 26 and was famous by his back heel skills. This video shows some of his heel skills and much more.
Great goals , but we need to keep in mind that the Brazilian league isn't that strong compared to the Spanish or the English league , and part of those amazing goals was due to the weak defending techniques there
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree, i wanted to write (and brazilian stereotyping of weak defence)
Brazilian league is weak compared to Europe. Sometimes u even feel u r watching our league.
but these players were big shots that did great in WCs and some in europe
like Falcao (the 3rd goal in this collection) played in AS Roma in 1980s and was their star and got the Italian league with them, and played the final European Cup vs. Liverpool and lost by penalty kicks only
adding to ur point i remember romario in his last days, he could not perform in qatari league, but survived for a while with flamengo in brazil
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