(The New York Times) – Mário Zagallo, who as both a player and coach helped lead Brazil to four World Cup soccer championships, becoming a national hero and one of only three people to lift the tournament’s trophy in both roles, died on Friday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 92.
His death was confirmed by his family on his social media channels. Barra D’Or Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, where he had been a patient several times in recent months, said the cause was multiple organ failure.
An attack-minded wing as a player and a tactically minded coach known as “the Professor,” Zagallo was part of the Brazil teams that won consecutive World Cup championships in 1958 and 1962 and the head coach of Brazil’s 1970 champions.
His 1970 triumph made Zagallo the first person to win the World Cup as both a player and a coach, a feat that has since been matched only by Franz Beckenbauer of Germany and Didier Deschamps of France. But it may have been that team’s style of play as much as its success that cemented a recurring role for Zagallo in Brazilian soccer history.
Led by stars like his former teammate Pelé, Jairzinho and Carlos Alberto, Brazil’s 1970 squad is widely considered one of the best soccer teams ever assembled. It was forged in crisis after his popular predecessor fell out with the country’s military government: Zagallo was appointed as head coach less than two months before the tournament’s opening game. Zagallo found himself having to act as the coach of many players who had only recently been his teammates.
“It was easy to command, because the players saw and felt that I had the strength of personality to make the changes that I thought were necessary,” Zagallo recalled in a 2011 interview with The Blizzard, a quarterly soccer magazine. “I imposed myself — and this kind of leadership in front of the group is fundamental, even if you’ve participated in this group before as a player.”
The team adjusted to Zagallo’s tactical alterations and then danced and shimmied its way into the hearts and minds of fans not only in Brazil but around the globe.
Ant and Dec sang their 2002 Fifa World Cup England song We’re on the Ball at the now closed sandwiches galore cafe on Beeston Road, Leeds.
Location:
253 Beeston Road, Beeston, Leeds
Google Maps Co-ordinates: 53.775638, -1.561968
Official music video
Release Date: 2002
Vangelis eventually reached the point many of his peers in the other genres did thanks to his incredible work in the 80's and the 70's as we've noticed. Yes, he became an elder statesman with all the status entails. Thus, the final part of his career consisted of his latest work being celebrated for being his regardless of the quality. I'm harsh, I agree, though I assume the organizers of the 2002 World Cup probably didn't call him to do something in the vein of Blade Runner, they wished for a riff on Chariots Of Fire. Of course, he gave them what they ordered, though I should tone down my criticism. Vangelis didn't spend the last part of his discography resting on his laurels. He still cared, but he pointed out to his previous successes on the piece for the event more than usual.
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