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The Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. [95] [96] The 32-panel configuration had been introduced in 1962 by Select Sport, [97] [98] and was also used in the official logo for the 1970 World Cup. [99]
The 1970 FIFA World Cup final was held on Sunday, 21 June, in the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, to determine the winner of the 1970 FIFA World Cup.This final, between Brazil and Italy, marked the first time that two former world champions met in a final; Italy had previously won the World Cup in 1934 and 1938, while Brazil won in 1958 and 1962.
A total of 42 players have been selected to play for El Salvador at the FIFA World Cup, of which, 33 have played in at least one match and 30 of which have started at least one match. A total of 17 players are tied for having the most appearances at the FIFA World Cup (8 from 1970 and 9 from 1980), appearing in three matches each.
The 2011 final between Brazil and Russia was the highest ever scoring final with 20 goals in all. The lowest scoring final was in 1998 , when Brazil beat Uruguay by just 3 goals to nil. In the fifteen world cups, only one has ever gone past normal time being the first FIFA controlled world cup, the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup , when France ...
The 1970 FIFA World Cup Final was contested by Brazil and Italy on 21 June 1970 in the Estadio Azteca in Mexico, to determine the winner of the 1970 FIFA World Cup. This final marked the first time that two former world champions met in a final; Italy had previously won the World Cup in 1934 and 1938 , while Brazil won in 1958 and 1962 .
Brazil holds the record for most consecutive wins in the world cup and most umbeaten runs, having finished the tournament without a defeat a record 7 times (including during their 5 title runs) and is the only national team to have won all its matches in a world cup since 1950, having achieved this feat twice in 1970 and 2002; they have ...
If the final was still level after 120 minutes then the match would be replayed at a later date. The stage began on 14 June with the quarter-finals, and ended one week later with the final match of the tournament held at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, in which Brazil defeated Italy 4–1 to claim a then-record third World Cup triumph.
Below are the squads for the 1970 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Mexico. Sweden (7), West Germany (2) and Czechoslovakia (1) had players representing foreign clubs. Sweden (7), West Germany (2) and Czechoslovakia (1) had players representing foreign clubs.