#2 Carlos Alberto Torres
The ancestor of ravaging right-backs, Nilton Santos created the job, while Carlos Alberto reevaluated it and laid the layout for future full-backs to trail his eye-getting exhibitions in Brazil’s 1970 World Cup triumph was engendered to millions everywhere throughout the world because of an expanded worldwide gathering of people.
‘O Capitão do Tri’ or ‘The Third Captain’ in reference to his job as the third Brazilian chief to lift the World Cup is viewed as one of the best safeguards ever and became well known because of his incredible handling, perusing of the diversion, spilling and playmaking (which were very uncommon around then for a protector) in the Brazilian group with Fluminense with whom he won 4 trophies somewhere in the range of 1963 and 1966, preceding collaborating with Pele at Santos.
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At Santos, the popularity of Pele had pushed the club into universal noticeable quality and Carlos Alberto profited from this as he turned into a backbone of the national group amid this period and was given the skipper’s armband heading into the 1970 World Cup. His time at Santos yielded six trophies.
With Brazil, Torres earned 58 caps scoring 8 goals and those figures would without a doubt have been higher yet for knee damage that hampered him from 1973 on. He captained Brazil to its third World Cup in Mexico 1970 and scored an excellent group goal in the last against Italy which is considered by numerous individuals to be one of the best goals in World Cup history.
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A genuine legend of the sport, Carlos Alberto was a piece of the 1970 World Cup All-Star Team and, the World Team of the twentieth Century in 1998, he was additionally incorporated into Pele’s FIFA 100 rundown in 2004 and is an individual from the Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame.
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