this 1958 World Cup played in sweden although the previous one was played in Europe, especially Switzerland.
The tournament left a few minutes in history: It is Brazil’s first World Cup, also the first team to win the tournament on another continent.
It also marked the emergence of Pelé, who won his first World Cup (he is the only player in history to win three titles) and became the youngest player to score in a major national team tournament. He was 17 years 249 days old when he scored in the quarter-finals against Wales on 19 June 1958.
Sweden’58 would also drop another apt name for history, the name of the Frenchman Just Fontaine. He scored 13 goals in the tournament, which remains a World Cup record. (Pelé, for example, scored 12 points and spanned three World Cups).
Fontaine has three to Paraguay (7-3), two to Yugoslavia (2-3), one to Scotland (2-1), two to Northern Ireland (4-0), one to Brazil (2- 5) and scored four goals. The current champion German team (6-3) is in the third place match.
But if it was One choice that monopolized all the spotlight was Brazilian: eight years after ‘Maracanazo’He pulled out the Brazilian thorn, a real national trauma.
Brazil is a team full of talent
He won his first World Cup with a convincing game, The attack of a talented young man named Pelé and Vavá’s goalsHe would sign for Atletico de Madrid shortly after the World Cup.
Garrincha also highlighted one of the best dribbling players in football history: the Brazilian team’s psychologist had recommended that Garrincha not have minutes before the tournament “due to his low IQ”.
His teammates met with coach Vicente Italo Feola. “Garrincha knows how to play football, he should get a head start”they told.
Brazil beat Sweden in the final, home team (5-2). Pelé and Vavá scored, and so did Zagallo, who years later would go down in history as the first person to win a World Cup as a player and coach.