Maradona in 86
Pele in 70
ZZ in 06
When you out-Brazil the Seleceo by yourself,..Top 10 all-time wc performance by Zizou, tbh..
Maradona vs England in '86
That random dude that scored 5 or 6 goals in a game in '94
Messi vs Nigeria in the last WC
Messi vs Nigeria in 2010
Embarrassing, tbh
He had a rating of 10 for both games. It's difficult to think of many great individual perfomances in WC, tbh.
Nigeria
Just look at the other giants in his group, Iran and Bosnia Mentioning games like that, does not help.
But ok, some people do it against Nigeria (), others against Brazil in the knockout stage at a WC...
Over the whole compe ion
no particular order
70 Pele
86 Maradona
Cruyf 74
Beckenbauer 74
Ronaldo 02
Zidane 06
Garrincha 62
Rossi 82
wdyt ?
Leonidas 38, Kempes 78
vs Nigeria
on kempes 78
in WC Maradona and Kempes > Missi tbh
Before 60 I have not a lot of clue tbh... I guess 58 Pele could be in there too.
when you realize Messi has truly no legacy/mark left on WC
Nice call on 62 Garrincha. Totally underrated. He was a 1-man team after Pele's injury.
Brasil never lost a single match with Pele and Garrincha playing together. 40 matches, 36 wins and 4 draws and with 55 goals by both. Greatest duo of all-time tbh
scored every goal for Brazil until the coach decided to rest him in SF because he thought he would win anyways They were beaten by Italy and had to play the 3rd place match.
I'm a fan of Botafogo and a fan of Garrincha, I swore to a dude in Rio to root for them after having drunk at least 15 caipi on ipanema beach during my first trip in Brazil... Did you read the book A Estrela Solitaria of Ruy Castro ? amazing book.
I didn't, but thanks for the indication.
15 caipirinhas ? holly you can drink son
Boto o has a nice history. They're the smallest fanbase among the greats in RJ, but easily the most loyal fans. They've suffered so much in the past 20 years and still kept it going.
I'm a rugby guy from south west of France I can take some caipi also and to be fair I started at 11 am till 8/9 pm that day. I was so drunk I paid for most of the dinks of the rogerio (the botafogo fan) "barraca"... at the end of the day dude was as much drunk as me, we discussed Botafogo / Garrincha the whole day, him in portugues and I in portunhol. He offered to me to erase half of my bill that was pretty huge if I started to root for Botafogo... I went with a king posture and said: "not only I will be botafogo for life but I pay for all and add 200 reais because you are a great guy". One of my best Brazilian memory tbh
you gonna love this book.
A local magazine once named Botafogo one of the "jinx" teams in the world.
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