Communism, Nasa and a place for Pelé: how Brazil prepared for the 1970 World Cup

I n January 1969, João Saldanha was appointed as Brazil’s coach. Saldanha was barely a coach – he had had a brief spell in charge of Botafogo more than a decade earlier. He was an immensely popular football journalist, who with typewriter or microphone had the fluent gift of communication, talking a...

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