🌎 World Cup Moments: Capping off 1970 in Samba style 🇧🇷 | OneFootball

For fans of a certain vintage and football history buffs, one side stands above all others when discussing the greatest team ever.

In recent years, Pep Guardiola's all-conquering Barcelona and Manchester City teams have staked their claim, along with Carlo Ancelotti's relentless Real Madrid winning machine and others.

But for some, the best of them all was Brazil's 1970 World Cup winners.

Their wingers Rivellino and Jairzinho were devastating dribblers as good as any who ever laced up a pair of boots and between them they had the man who many consider to be the best ever to play the game - Pelé.

The team of legends was led by captain Carlos Alberto, who scored the goal that the side are best remembered for - the one which put the cherry on top of their 1970 World Cup final win.

A scintillating Seleçao performance already had them 3-1 up against an outstanding Italy outfit who they made look considerably average in the suffocating Mexico heat.

They added a fourth in style with one of the great World Cup goals - building up from the back, featuring some mesmerising footwork in midfield from Clodoaldo to lose a pack of blue jerseys, with an excellent team goal which resulted in Pelé laying off for an overlapping Carlos Alberto to slam home.

It was a goal that would not have looked out of place in the modern game and was something that teams of that vintage rarely attempted.

"We’d worked on the move in training. [Mario] Zagallo had said that if we dragged the Italians to the left wing, then I should get forward down the right. He would send his assistant coach to watch opposition matches and take photos with a telephoto lens," he told the Guardian years later.

"He’d come back and give us a slide show on his projector. It worked. The Italians were obviously too good defensively not to track back but we noticed that, probably because of the heat, they dropped off later in the game. This was the 85th minute and they were already beat, so I just took off."

Took off he did, and history was made.