He was also captain of the Brazil team at the 1982 World Cup, long before cable television and streaming made every football match and player compilation readily available. National teams and ...

It was at that pub, such an unusual setting and so far from his comfort zone, that Socrates made a striking admission: he had never watched back Brazil's 3-2 defeat by Italy in the 1982 World Cup ...

One of them took place almost exactly 40 years ago, on July 5th 1982, when Italy bundled Brazil out of the World Cup with a 3-2 win which will stay long in the memory of anyone lucky enough to see it.

Italy won their third World Cup title, and first since 1938 ... he hit a hat-trick in a famous 3-2 group-stage victory over Brazil. The red-hot Rossi then bagged a brace as Italy saw off Poland ...